00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:23 Purposes of the Podcast

01:45 Genesis 8-11 Overview

02:25 The Flood Subsides

03:46 God's Covenant with Noah

08:04 Noah's Descendants and the Curse of Canaan

10:26 Table of Nations and Teaser for Job

11:22 Conclusion and Prayer

Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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So genesis chapter eight

through 11, you've got four

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chapters to cover here today.

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And then we're going to take a pause

in Genesis and we're going to move

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over to the book of Job tomorrow.

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In fact, chapters one through 11 in

Genesis is often called primeval history.

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This is the period of

time that is ancient.

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This is the, what

happened in the beginning.

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What we're going to look at from

Genesis chapter 12 to the end of the

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book is called patriarchal history.

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This is where you see God in his

covenant with the patriarchs and how

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he works through Abraham, Isaac, and

Jacob to build his covenant people.

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We'll get to that soon enough after

a brief stint, and I say brief, and I

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mean a couple weeks in the book of Job.

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But before we get there, let's

finish Genesis 8 through 11.

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Genesis chapter 8 is where we

have the flood start to subside.

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Yesterday we talked about the

nature of the flood being universal.

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This affected the whole globe, and

it had ramifications for every single

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human being that lived at that time.

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God preserved a small remnant,

Noah and his sons and their wives.

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And so they spent a long time on the boat.

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In fact, in Genesis chapter eight,

if you did all the math, along with

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chapters seven and six, you're looking

at about 370 days, you're looking at

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just a little over a year of time.

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Imagine that.

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You go on a cruise ship, Caribbean cruise,

and you're there for a whole year.

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I'm sure you'd get pretty

anxious to see land right away.

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Well, in any case, even though he

might have been anxious, Noah is

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okay waiting for God to do his thing.

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In fact, Noah doesn't even leave

the arc until God gives him the

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go ahead in verses 13 through 16.

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Let me just quickly read it here for you.

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In the 601st year, in the first

month, the first day of the month, the

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waters are dried from the whole earth.

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And so Noah sees that the land is

ready to receive him and Noah removed

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the covering of the ark and looked and

behold, the face of the ground was dry.

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In the second month on the 27th day

of the month, the earth had dried out.

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Verse 15 is key here.

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Then God said to Noah, go out from

the ark, you and your wife and your

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sons and your son's wives with you.

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And so finally, after receiving

the word from God, Noah is able

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and willing to depart from the Ark.

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It was a great act of humility on

his part to wait for God's command.

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You'll notice that what God says

as soon as he leaves the Ark is a

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reiteration of what we read in Genesis 1.

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He tells them, in verse 17, to be

fruitful and multiply on the earth.

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In fact, he's going to say this three

separate times after they depart the Ark.

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It's almost like he really

wants them to understand this.

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Be fruitful, multiply.

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And so they, they depart from the ark and

then all the animals and beasts and the

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creepy things, they also depart from the

ark and they begin to make their way back

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to wherever God intended for them to go.

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Well, after this occasion, Noah

builds an altar to the Lord.

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This is the first time you

see a sacrifice take place.

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That is not from the hand of God.

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We assume that God sacrificed animals to

clothe Adam and Eve, but here you have

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an explicit detailing of Noah doing this.

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So Noah offers some of the animals

to the Lord and notice it's

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a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

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And he says in his heart, I'll never

again curse the ground because of man

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for the intention of man's heart is evil.

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Evil from his youth.

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So God's acknowledging the reality

that mankind has fallen and he's

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evil, but he's not going to destroy

the earth in this way again.

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In fact, second Peter tells

us that God's not going to

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destroy the world with a flood.

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He's going to destroy the world with

fire the next time that he does this,

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but it's not going to be a flood.

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In Genesis chapter 9, we continue

to pick up with where he's at.

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He tells him again, be

fruitful and multiply.

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Again, this is important because the whole

lot of humanity had just been wiped out.

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And so it's important that

they hear this and heed this.

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Humanity needs to be repopulated.

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Then God also adds this new dimension

of what they're able to receive in

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verse three says every moving thing

that lives shall be food for you.

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So now, in addition to the

plants, mankind can eat meat.

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Praise God for that, because

we still enjoy that today.

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In fact, we enjoy meat even more

than how Israel understood it,

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because to this point, remember,

they don't have the mosaic law yet.

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There are no restrictions about clean

and unclean animals as they know it.

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Now, there's still an idea

about this because Noah.

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Understands the category that God

gave him of clean and unclean, but

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there's not laws that define what

they can or cannot eat, just yet.

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And so God gives him a blank check.

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The animals that I've given

you, you can eat them.

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And I'm sure Noah fist pumped.

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I'm not sure the animals did

probably didn't like that as much.

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Nevertheless, they move on.

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He still says, you have the green plants.

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I give you those things as well.

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But one caveat here in verse four,

you can't eat something with its blood

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inside, which doesn't mean you can't

have something rare or medium rare.

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He's saying, look, you're not going

to be like the nations around you,

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which are going to come eventually.

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We're not talking about

anyone in particular at this

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point, at least not right now.

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Again, they all perished.

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You don't want to become

like a pagan nation.

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You're not going to be eating blood.

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You're not going to be

practicing these pagan rituals.

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And then he says something fascinating

that we all still benefit from today.

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He talks about the sanctity of human life.

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This is one of the biggest and

most important areas in the Bible

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that defines and defends what we

understand as the sanctity of life.

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He says this in verse six, whoever sheds

the blood of man by man shall his blood

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be shed for God made man in his own image.

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And so here you have

God defining for Noah.

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What it means that man is unique.

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He is made in God's image.

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In fact, because he possesses the image

of God, he now has this uniqueness

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and this dignity that should not be

violated by anybody else, man or beast.

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And if that were to happen,

he says, this is the first

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thing that's going to happen.

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That person is going to

forfeit their own lives.

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The reason why, because

man possesses God's image.

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We said a few podcasts ago that the image

of God is not necessarily a practice.

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It's not something that we do as

much as it is something that we are.

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We are ontologically the image of God.

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It's just not something that can be get

more or less of in the terms of, one

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person having more intellect or one person

having more emotion or will that mankind

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by his very nature is the image of God.

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It is the position God has granted him.

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That position possesses practices.

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And so as an image bearer, you're going

to do things in alignment with that image.

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You're going to act like God.

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And of course, the only people who can

truly do this are those who have been

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regenerated and renewed by God to act

like not only the image of God, but

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the renewed image of God in Christ.

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Verse seven, God.

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Commands again for the third time, and

you be fruitful and multiply, increase

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greatly on the earth and multiply in it.

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God's concern that they spread and that

they grow all over the face of the planet.

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He also says, look, I'm no, I'm

going to make my covenant with you.

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This is called the Noahic covenants.

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I'm never going to destroy the

world by the floodwaters again.

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Now, today we still see

floods in a variety of places.

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We see floods that take out a lot

of important structures and people

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and places, et cetera, et cetera.

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So here though, you can see, God

does not say that there'll never be

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floods again, but that there will

never be a global flood to destroy

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mankind as it did beforehand.

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The second half of chapter nine, you

have a really interesting incident.

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That's hard to wrap your mind around

because there's a few pieces here that

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don't seem to quite add up, but let's

take a look here in verses 18 and

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following you have Noah's descendants.

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And one of the things that happens here,

Ham, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, you'll

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notice here, Ham was the father of Canaan.

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That's an important detail.

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So the line of Ham is going to produce

the Canaanites and all the people

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that you and I are going to confront

in the coming chapters of scripture,

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where you see the enemies of Israel.

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working against them.

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It's the Canaanites.

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It's the people of Ham.

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What happens here?

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And the short answer is, Noah gets

a little tipsy, shall we say, and

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whether he intended for that or

not, we don't know, but it happens.

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Verse 22 says Ham, the father of

Canaan, again, scripture is pointing

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your attention to this reality.

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He saw the nakedness of his father

and told his two brothers outside.

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And the traditional interpretation

is that what's happening is that

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he's making fun of this situation.

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He's mocking his father.

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This is a, a bad scenario, obviously,

and in a culture where honor and shame

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are such a big deal, this would have been

tremendously offensive and uncouth for

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someone like Ham, one of the sons of Noah.

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So, Well, when Noah awakens, he

finds out what, what Ham did to him.

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And he says in verse 25, cursed be Canaan.

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Now this is interesting, isn't it?

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Because you would expect

it to say cursed be Ham.

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And yet what you have is cursed

be Canaan, a servant of servants

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shall he be to his brothers.

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Now one of two possibilities.

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The first possibility.

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Is that what's happening here is

actually more than what we're reading

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and that we're reading something

that's , it's meant to talk about

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something that happened without being

explicit and unnecessarily offensive.

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And so that's a possibility

and I'll just leave it at that.

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The second possibility is that

Canaan, , represented by Ham, canaan

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represents Ham's offspring, and

they're going to suffer because

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of their father's bad decision.

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Now that's probably the

more likely situation here.

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It's just, it's discomforting because

we're not expecting this, the family

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line to suffer because of Ham's actions.

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And yet that is what happens.

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In fact, that's what happens with Adam.

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Adam is cursed, but so is everybody

else who comes from his line.

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And so I think that's,

what's happening here.

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Doesn't quite answer all the

questions for us, but it does

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leave us something to work with.

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Noah at the same time, blesses

the Lord, the God of Shem.

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And he says, let Canaan be a servant.

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May God enlarge Japheth and let

him dwell in the tents of Shem

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and let Canaan be a servant.

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So even as he's cursing Canaan,

he's blessing Shem and Japheth.

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Shem will be the line

that carries on for us.

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In fact, Shem is going to be the

line that we're going to pay close

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attention to as the weeks progress.

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In chapter 10 of Genesis, you have

what is called the table of nations.

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You have all the people that

are descended from Noah.

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And of course you have this one

interesting line here in verse

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25 to Eber were born two sons.

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The name of the one was Peleg for

in his days, the earth was divided.

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Okay.

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So this is interesting because

this is out of place here.

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What we understand this to be as a

reference to chapter 11, where you have

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the tower of Babel or Tower of Babel,

that Everyone divides and scatters from

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we'll talk about that tomorrow, but just

know that this little nugget here is

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slightly out of place chronologically.

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It's in the right place thematically.

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This is what Moses is trying to do.

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He's setting up the next chapter

of Genesis as it were by saying,

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okay, here's where we're at.

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Here are the table of nations.

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Here's all the people, the

progenitors that come from this line.

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And here's what you can expect.

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It's a teaser into tomorrow's reading.

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Actually, I take that back.

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Cause we're not looking at this tomorrow.

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We're going to look at

this in a couple of weeks.

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So keep your bookmark in your

Bible here at Genesis chapter 11.

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We'll pick up here in a few weeks

after we jump into the book of Job.

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If you made it this far, Hey, thank

you so much for joining me today.

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I know we have a lot of stuff

that we didn't cover here.

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As always, if you have questions

that are pertaining to the texts that

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Let's pray before we depart.

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Lord, we do thank you for the

privilege of seeing how your hand is

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operated throughout human history.

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And we are grateful that we are,

for those of us listening who have

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responded to Christ, we are blessed

and protected in the ark of Christ.

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It is in him that we can

alone find salvation.

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It is in his protective covering that we

know we'll never suffer under your wrath.

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And we pray, Lord, that we would be so

compelled and convicted by this truth

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that we would long for our neighbors,

our kids, our husbands, our wives,

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people that are unbelievers in our lives.

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You would help us to feel a great

gravity of love for them and

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a great desire to pray and to

reach out to them with the truth.

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Thank you again for our salvation.

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We pray that you would bless us

greatly with it and that you would

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help us to make progress in our faith

this year as we uncover your word and

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seek to see you through its pages.

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We love you.

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We pray all these things in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Thank you so much for

spending time with me.

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I look forward to spending time

with you tomorrow and the next

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several days without pastor PJ.

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I hope you'll join me.

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Otherwise it's going to

be really lonely here.

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So please, I'll see you tomorrow.

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God willing.