The passage starts with the announcement that ‘The Lord Remembered Noah.’ God hadn’t forgotten… but he was about to act in saving Noah and re-creating the earth. But although the world was reset- it wasn’t ‘Eden Restored.’ This was post the Fall- and sadly the cleansing didn’t go deep enough. Challenges, encouragements and a hint…
The world is a terrible mess, and it’s because ‘the thoughts of people are only evil all of the time.’ God’s remedy- a worldwide flood with only the righteous Noah and his family saved. A well known story but with some valuable lessons. Genesis 6:1-22 Geneses 7:1-24
Cain has killed Abel, but Adam and Eve have another son, a son through whom God’s promised redemption will one day come. It’s a family line marked both by blessing and the by the effects of the fall. It’s the family line we are born into- so there’s much to learn here. Genesis 4:25-26 Genesis…