2023

What is covered

Genesis 6:

• Sons of God and daughters of men mingling

• The Lord is not having it

• Wickedness causes God to be grieved

• Noah finds grace in God’s eye

• Noah’s genealogy

• Noah prepares the ark

• Noah brings two of every creature on board

Genesis 7:

• The flood

• Noah is told to bring seven of every clean animal, and two of every unclean animal

• Noah was 600 years old at the time

• Forty days of rain and one hundred and fifty days on the water

Genesis 8:

• God sent wind and the waters subsided

• After forty days Noah sent the raven & dove

• Seven days later he released the dove again

• It returned with an olive leaf and seven days later when released she didn’t return

• Noah was 601 when he saw dry ground

• God sends Noah and the animals out

• God made a covenant with Noah to not bring a second flood

• God declares the seasons and daily cycle will continue as long as the earth remains

Luke 3

• The fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar is noted

• John the Baptist is called into ministry

• John gives counsel to people

• He declares that he is not the messiah

• John baptizes Jesus

• The genealogy of Jesus

Scripture

And the Lord smelled a soothing aroma. 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.

Genesis 8:21

Observation

I’d never noticed that God declares that he will never again curse the ground for man’s sake. I don’t know the significance of that - but it was news to me.

Application

I’m simply struck again by reading the scriptures over at different times of life that you notice different details. There’s always something to discover. The Word of God always provides something new. Just like a recent descussion about how we’ll be learning something new from Jesus through out the ages of eternity.

Prayer

Father in heaven, thank you for knowing our curious natures and having things in store for us to satisfy that deep longing. You are truly the provider. Amen

Tomorrow’s Reading Genesis 9-11; Luke 4