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Noah's Ark  Dreamstime 2024 Read the Bible in a Year January 3, 2024 Readings for Today: Genesis 6:1 - 9:17 Day 3 - Flood and Noah Prayer: Creator God, Thanks for the rainbows and promises, Waters and lands, And creatures in the water and on the land. Wake us up to our responsibility for the care of this earth before we lose it to our neglect. As you have blessed us so may we bless this small island we call home and earth. In the name of Jesus, Amen Background: The story today has many themes. Some are creation, God, humanity, behavior of humanity, consequences, family, promises, second chances, making things new, etc. Humanity has blown it in the eyes of God’ post-garden of Eden. It has gotten so bad that God will wipe it out but not entirely. Noah is a righteous man and will be spared from this judgment with his family. The story's details are like any great saga…destruction is coming, Noah is spared, a large boat is built, a cubit is 18 inches (45 cm), and pairs of animals...

https://cowgernation.com/2015/07/04/rainbow-a-promise-of-god-not-a-symbol-of-pride/ My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 1/3/2019 Day 3 Genesis 6:1 - 9:17 Reflection Humanity increasingly becomes wicked and God is ashamed at them and decides to start all over but finds one man Noah who is faithful and worthy of saving. God talks to Noah about the Lord’s plan and gives instructions to build an Ark for those who will survive the Flood. Noah is 600 years and the flood of the Earth last 40 days. The water recesses and they find dry land; God makes a promise never to let it happen again that God would destroy humanity because of their sin. Rainbow. J writes the first part and at vs 22 P begins Meditation: I will never destroy humanity. Prayer: God, I acknowledge my common condition of willfulness; I do understand the inclination in me toward that which does not match  your intention...

Opening Sentence From the rising of the sun to its setting my Name shall be great among the nations, and in every place incense shall be offered to my Name, and a pure offering; for my Name shall be great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts. + Malachi 1:11 Animals Entering the Ark - Leandro Bassano [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Read | Sunday | 17 January 2016 | Second Sunday after Epiphany Ps. 148 149 150; Ps. 114 115; Gen. 7:1–10 17–23; Eph. 4:1–16; Mark 3:7–19 Reflection | Psalm 148  -  Literary type | Hymn  |  click here Praise the Lord - from the heavens, planets, waters, mountains, earth, sea monsters, wind, trees, beasts, cattle, rulers, and young and old. Genesis 7 - And the Flood came and cleansed the earth; all were kill that had breath of air except Noah, his family, and all of the creatures God called to be safe in the Ark. Ephesians  4 -  I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead...

Read |  Genesis 9:1 - 10:32 | 1 Chronicles 1:8-23 Background | To understand the reading of the Pentateuch or the first five books of the Bible, scholars for many years have claimed a "Documentary hypothesis" to explain the seemly strains of differing work within the text. Wikipedia explains... The  documentary hypothesis  ( DH ), sometimes called the  Wellhausen hypothesis , proposes that the  Pentateuch  (the first five books of the  Bible ) was derived from originally independent, parallel and complete narratives, which were subsequently combined into the current form by a series of redactors (editors). The number of these narratives is usually set at four, but the precise number is not an essential part of the hypothesis. The hypothesis was developed in the 18th and 19th centuries from the attempt to reconcile perceived inconsistencies in the biblical text. By the end of the 19th century it was generally agreed that there wer...