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Although I don't fear That Day I do fear another. The current world consumption of oil is something like 25 to 30 Billion barrels per year. If the current expansion rates of world population and economic development continues, the world's projected oil needs before the end of the current...

†. Gen 8:20a . .Then Noah built an altar to the Lord This is the very first mention of an altar in the Bible. I don't really know if anyone else constructed one before this. Abel and some of the others may have, but it's very difficult to be certain. At any rate, Noah's altar was dedicated to...

†. Gen 8:15-16 . . God spoke to Noah, saying: Come out of the ark, together with your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives. It began to rain on the 17th day of the second month of the 600th year of Noah's life. The Earth was dry on the 27th day of the second month of his 601st year. So...

†. Gen 8:6-7a . . At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made and sent out the raven; Although the Raven is listed in Moses' covenanted law as an unclean bird, sometimes it's an excellent choice for assisting in a Divinely appointed task; for example 1Kgs...

†. Gen 8:1a . . God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark, Does that mean God forgot all about the ark's passengers until He realized why there was a string tied around His finger? (chuckle) No; it reaffirms that they were always on God's mind. He...

†. Gen 7:16b . . And the Lord shut him in. Whump! Can't you just feel the concussion from that big ol' hatch battening down? I wonder if any of Noah's neighbors saw that happen? All by itself, the big hatch creaked shut with a powerful thud, muting all the chirps and the tweets and the snorts...

†. Gen 7:10 . . And on the seventh day the waters of the Flood came upon the earth. Back in verse 4, God gave Noah seven days to get moved into the ark. The water came right on time, just exactly when God said it would. God's word carries different force in different circumstances. Sometimes He...

†. Gen 7:1 . .Then The Lord said to Noah: Go into the ark, with all your household; for you alone have I found righteous before Me in this generation. What besides piety might qualify as "righteous" in Noah's day? Answer: belief that the Flood was coming. Here's an example of righteousness...

†. Gen 6:21-22 . . For your part, take of everything that is eaten and store it away, to serve as food for you and for them. Noah did so; just as God commanded him, so he did. Noah was every supervisor's dream. He did just what he was told and all without nary an argument; nor a single protest...

†. Gen 6:17 . . For My part, I am about to bring the Flood-- waters upon the earth-- to destroy all flesh under the sky in which there is breath of life; everything on earth shall perish. Some think the Flood was merely a local even rather than a worldwide deluge. But that's not the way Genesis...

†. Gen 6:15a . .This is how you shall make it: Some have objected that since paper and writing were not yet invented in Noah's day, then God couldn't possible have provided Noah with plans to the ark. But any pictograph, even one on a clay tablet or a rock face, qualifies as a drawing. That...

†. Gen 6:11b . . the earth was filled with lawlessness. Crime is pretty much the inevitable outcome in a world of sinful beings sans law and order. Nobody was accountable for a single thing in those days. The only rules that may have existed were those among clans or in towns. But those rules...

†. Gen 6:8 . . But Noah found favor with The Lord. The word for "favor" is from chen (khane) and means: graciousness. Translators sometimes render chen as grace. It can be either grace or favor; but the important thing is that The Lord didn't find chen with Noah. No, just the opposite-- Noah...

†. Gen 6:5 . .Yhvh saw how great was man's wickedness on earth, and how every plan devised by his mind was nothing but evil all the time. It's one thing to be guilty of an evil act. It's quite another to be infected with an evil mind. There are some who believe that the Bible's God weighs only...

. †. Gen 6:3a . . And the Lord said: My Spirit shall not strive with man forever Some translations have "abide" instead of strive. But the Hebrew word is diyn (deen) which means: to rule; by implication: to judge (as umpire); also to strive (as at law). It can also mean to plead the cause of...

†. Gen 6:1-2 . . Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were good; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. The Hebrew word for "good" in that passage is towb...

†. Gen 5:28-29 . .When Lamech had lived 182 years, he begot a son. And he named him Noah, saying, “This one will provide us relief from our work and from the toil of our hands, out of the very soil which the Lord placed under a curse.” The word for "Noah" is from nuwach (noo'-akh) and means...

†. Gen 5:10 . . After the birth of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and begot sons and daughters. You know, some of these guys really didn't accomplish very much. All they seemed to do was reproduce. But the important thing is: they made a line to Messiah and, as is the duty of patriarchs...

. †. Gen 4:23-24 . . And Lamech said to his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice! O wives of Lamech, give ear to my speech! I have slain a man for wounding me, and a lad for bruising me. If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold. Brag, Brag, Brag-- boy, I tell you some men...

†. Gen 4:20 . . Adah bore Jabal; he was the ancestor of those who dwell in tents and amidst herds. This is the Bible's very first mention of man-made portable shelters. Tents, teepees, wigwams, etc; make it possible to roam long distances in relative comfort while searching for foods and...