APRIL 24, 2020 Genesis 9:24-27 So, Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him. Then he said: “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants he shall be to his brethren.” And he said: “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant. May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in […]
APRIL 23, 2020 Genesis 9:21-23 “Then he drank of the wine and was drunk and became uncovered in his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their […]
APRIL 22, 2020 Genesis 9:20 “And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.” In Hebrew, the word for “farmer” (or “husbandman” depending on version of Bible) is ish ha’adamah – “man of the ground.” This is interesting for a couple of reasons; first of all, the first thing that God did […]
April 20, 2020 Genesis 9:16-17 “The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me […]
April 19, 2020 Genesis 9:8-9, 12-13 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying: “And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you….And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature […]
April 18, 2020 Genesis 8:22 “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease.” There are several issues we could address based on what is revealed in this verse but today, we’ll start with this — God’s purposes are forever. In fact, we could […]
Genesis 8:21 Then the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.” God made mankind a promise: no matter how wicked he might be, He […]
Genesis 8:15-17 Then God spoke to Noah, saying, “Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, […]
Genesis 8:10-11 “And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark. Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.” Having sent the dove out […]
Genesis 8:8-9 “He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground. But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. […]