Dale Partridge - Genesis 6_9–17 ~ In the Ark or Under the Wrath？

00:00:00.000 well it's good to be back in genesis um by god's grace we will be starting the journey to the

00:00:12.320 famous flood narrative i've never taught through the flood narrative before and so it's a great

00:00:17.680 privilege to study this text deeply um since we've taken a few weeks off i just want to remind you

00:00:24.320 of the context of how we got here where are we at in chapter six

00:00:29.840 during the fall and humanity's expulsion from the garden in genesis chapter three we saw the

00:00:39.240 initiation of god's promise and there was a promise that there would be enmity between the

00:00:44.420 seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman and cain represented that seed of the serpent and he

00:00:51.020 murdered the righteous seed, which is Abel. But God raised up in his grace, Seth as a replacement

00:00:58.580 for Abel. And he became that promised line. Now, Cain was cursed and he was driven out from his 0.64

00:01:06.160 people and he was caused to create a civilization apart from God. Whereas Seth and his descendants,

00:01:14.160 in contrast, called upon the name of the Lord. And so there's this division that's happening

00:01:18.380 between Cain and his people and Seth and his people,

00:01:22.420 the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman.

00:01:26.300 Now, evil spreads across the earth.

00:01:29.540 It proliferates, it magnifies,

00:01:31.760 even though God preserves this godly line

00:01:35.560 between Adam to Noah, 10 generations.

00:01:38.660 And we read about that in the genealogy in chapter five.

00:01:41.880 In Genesis chapter six, we encountered the Nephilim

00:01:46.400 And the Nephilim, whom we understood to be some form of angel-human hybrids where demons came down from their abode and their home,

00:01:56.860 and they had relations with the women of the earth, creating these demonic-human hybrids that were also giants.

00:02:07.100 And that was part of Satan's attempt to corrupt and extinguish the seed. 0.61

00:02:13.960 It's all about the seed. It's about the war between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman. 0.75

00:02:19.820 And if you can pervert or distort or extinguish the seed through biological perversion,

00:02:26.840 then it's a great effort to get rid of that serpent crusher that's coming down to the line of Seth, the preserved Messiah.

00:02:37.900 And this was that effort. This is that war of those seeds. 0.71

00:02:41.000 and all of those events during these events the world became increasingly corrupt not just morally

00:02:48.780 but also biologically you had giants you had demon human people you had um violence you had

00:02:56.960 this wicked wicked place here on the earth and it was setting the stage for global judgment

00:03:05.560 And so all of this is kind of working towards this global judgment of the flood.

00:03:12.360 And that brings us to our text today.

00:03:16.020 Now, our passage, we're not only going to see God's faithfulness in preserving that seed of the woman, the messianic line,

00:03:23.980 but we're also going to see how the ark serves as a type of Christ.

00:03:29.660 And what I mean by a type of Christ, it is typological.

00:03:32.500 It is a pre-parallel.

00:03:35.980 It is a kind of a hint, a vision of what Christ does for us.

00:03:41.940 But we see this in this physical arc.

00:03:44.240 It is a parallel that I want you to see in the fact that it preserves Noah from the wrath of God

00:03:50.040 in the same way that Christ preserves us from the wrath of God.

00:03:53.920 So we'll make these connections as we get through the text.

00:03:56.500 Let's look at verse 9 together.

00:03:57.760 it says these are the generations of noah noah was a righteous man blameless in his generation

00:04:07.680 noah walked with god and noah had three sons shem ham and japheth all right first if you remember

00:04:16.960 uh genesis is literally the book of beginnings that's what it means it is the book of beginnings

00:04:24.420 Now, 12 times we see this phrase, this is the generations.

00:04:29.420 And each one of those times is a distinct section in the book of Genesis.

00:04:34.540 And it divides the book into these covenantal movements.

00:04:38.420 They're almost like if you had a table of contents, those would be the key areas when

00:04:43.220 you see these are the generations of the heavens and the earth.

00:04:46.420 These are the generations of Adam, or these are the generations of Noah.

00:04:52.000 So this verse tells us that we're entering into a significant portion,

00:04:57.340 a new portion in this chapter, the sixth chapter of Genesis.

00:05:02.220 Second, this verse is intended to be a statement of contrast.

00:05:06.920 If you, again, you want to read in context,

00:05:09.180 we're not these people who just don't know how to interpret our Bibles,

00:05:12.500 even though we're 10 years in.

00:05:13.720 So you're going to look back to chapter, or verse six, chapter,

00:05:17.340 sorry, chapter six, verse five,

00:05:19.800 and you're going to see the context that was said right before this.

00:05:23.560 It was the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth

00:05:26.480 and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continuously.

00:05:31.600 So you hear that and then boom, Noah was a righteous man walking with God,

00:05:37.560 blameless and everything.

00:05:39.000 And you go, oh, this is a contrast here.

00:05:41.360 The whole world is dark and wicked,

00:05:44.220 yet you have this beautiful, righteous, blameless man in Noah.

00:05:49.800 And so, this is not meant to show that Noah had no sin.

00:05:57.340 We know that Noah is a sinner. 0.72

00:05:58.860 He's a fallen Adam.

00:06:00.320 It meant that Noah was a man of faith.

00:06:03.200 Noah had faith.

00:06:04.480 And how do we know this?

00:06:05.240 Well, because Genesis chapter 15, verse 6 says of Abraham, it says,

00:06:09.700 And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.

00:06:14.080 So if Noah's righteous, how does God impute righteousness to a sinner?

00:06:21.320 This is a very important, fundamental theological question.

00:06:25.040 How does God take an unrighteous person and make them righteous?

00:06:29.580 Well, he imputes the righteousness of God to him by faith.

00:06:35.540 And we see this in Genesis chapter 15, verse 6.

00:06:38.120 It says, and he believed the Lord, faith, and he counted it to him as righteousness.

00:06:43.760 That is that belief, not works, not being better, not being good, but works or faith is the means

00:06:52.300 by which God views a man as being righteous and blameless, not because he is righteous and

00:06:58.060 blameless in and of himself, but because he has the righteous and blameless character of Christ

00:07:03.520 imputed to him by faith. That's what you need. You need someone else's record on judgment day.

00:07:10.640 I need the record of Christ, the perfect law keeper, the perfect righteous man.

00:07:15.880 His righteousness comes to me by faith.

00:07:19.660 That's what we're seeing here.

00:07:22.220 Philippians 3.9, Paul says,

00:07:25.300 Not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, that comes from works,

00:07:29.680 but that which comes through faith.

00:07:33.700 Do you have a righteousness that comes from faith?

00:07:36.660 because I'll tell you what,

00:07:39.580 just your good works are not sufficient.

00:07:43.680 The question every person needs to ask themselves is

00:07:46.140 not am I good,

00:07:47.920 but am I righteous because I have faith in Christ?

00:07:51.140 That is the key fundamental question

00:07:53.400 that every person must ask.

00:07:55.440 You will need a righteous verdict on judgment day

00:07:58.540 and it's not going to come on your sinful record.

00:08:01.820 The only way you make it in

00:08:03.380 is by the perfect righteous record of Christ.

00:08:08.080 Hebrews 11.7 confirms all of this.

00:08:10.600 It says,

00:08:12.840 By Noah being warned by God about things not yet seen,

00:08:18.460 speaking of rain,

00:08:19.780 in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household.

00:08:24.220 God saves households right there, a little Presbyterian plug. 0.62

00:08:27.460 By which he condemned the world 0.90

00:08:29.820 and became an heir of the righteousness

00:08:33.820 which is according to faith.

00:08:36.140 So again, you have the New Testament confirming

00:08:38.380 that he has the same righteousness

00:08:40.120 that you would have in the new covenant

00:08:41.420 in the old covenant.

00:08:42.720 He has the righteousness according to faith.

00:08:46.760 Then the text also says that Noah walked with God.

00:08:53.600 I think I said this in the last sermon

00:08:55.680 that talked about Enoch walking with God.

00:08:58.340 I hope that on my gravestone, it says, walked with God. What a great phrase to be remembered

00:09:06.400 by. Do you walk with God? The word actually means that your proximity to the godliness

00:09:13.220 of his ways is marked upon you. Is that your life? Do you walk with God or are you kind of like,

00:09:21.420 I walk about 150 yards away from God. No, you want to be walking shoulder to shoulder with

00:09:29.460 the Lord. Is that true of your own life? Next, we are introduced to Noah's three sons. We see

00:09:39.120 Shem, Ham, and Japheth. But interestingly, the order of age, according to Genesis 9, 24, 10,

00:09:45.520 21, 6, 18, 7, 13, tells us that Japheth is actually the oldest. But why do we have this

00:09:51.140 order where you have Shem, Ham, and Japheth. What's the order there? Now, the reason Shem is

00:09:57.620 always listed first every time you see these three boys is that he has the most prominence

00:10:04.680 of redemptive history. Shem is, as I mentioned last week, Shem is the Shemites or where we get 0.88

00:10:14.020 the Semites, right? In the phrase we often hear today is the anti-Semites, right? Well, no,

00:10:21.020 Shem is the father of those peoples, and it's the people of the Middle East and the people

00:10:27.740 of Jerusalem and Israel. And he is listed first because of the prominence that Christ would come

00:10:34.000 through his line. Now, Ham, the second in this list, of the three boys, is not actually blessed.

00:10:44.160 Himself is not blessed. Cain and his son is actually specifically cursed. We'll see that

00:10:49.000 in Genesis chapter 9. But Ham's descendants go on to form many of the nations that interact

00:10:54.920 specifically with Shem. And so they form the Philistines, they form Egypt, they form the 0.94

00:11:01.060 Amorites. And so in terms of the redemptive narrative, you have Shem, you have Ham, and then 0.87

00:11:07.700 you have Japheth. And so the reason you have this connection where you have Ham, who's the youngest,

00:11:13.380 is actually put second here is because of the order of relationship to the redemptive history

00:11:19.400 of the Bible. And then Japheth, who's last in this list, is blessed and is said to dwell in

00:11:26.100 the tents of Shem. And this is really a prophecy we'll talk about when we get to Genesis chapter

00:11:31.360 nine, but it's a prophecy. Japheth is the father of the Greco-Roman European arm of humanity.

00:11:43.060 And so it's really a prophecy about the Greco-Roman European Gentiles receiving Christ, 0.77

00:11:49.120 that we will dwell in the tents of Shem. There's a connection there. So when you see 0.69

00:11:53.460 how the faith has gone through Rome and Greece and Western civilization to Europe and to the

00:11:58.740 Americas, that's actually a fulfillment of this prophecy that we're going to be talking about

00:12:03.880 here in Genesis. And so Moses continues in verse 11 and 12 with another contrast. So follow along

00:12:12.180 if you want, if you look at your Bibles, it says, now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the

00:12:17.400 earth was filled with violence and God saw the earth and behold, it was corrupt for all flesh

00:12:25.040 had corrupted their way on the earth. Now, in comparison to Noah's righteousness and

00:12:31.360 blamelessness, he looks, God looks back at the world and he's like, okay, first it's like

00:12:36.160 everybody's evil. Noah's righteous. Everybody's evil, right? That's kind of the trend that we're

00:12:42.320 seeing there. It's trying to highlight this contrast that's being demonstrated here. And

00:12:47.740 the entire world was corrupt. It means a ruin beyond repair. It means falling apart. It was

00:12:57.140 characterized by wickedness and unbelief. And Moses says in verse 12, he says, all flesh was

00:13:06.400 corrupt. Now, this certainly refers to the moral reality of the flesh, but it's also referring,

00:13:14.940 I believe, to the corruption biologically. You have the Nephilim coming in, you have these weird 0.94

00:13:20.280 demon-angel hybrids. The world was wild before Noah, right? And you see this corruption. 1.00

00:13:27.980 And so when all flesh is corrupt, you can certainly mean morally, certainly mean spiritually. 0.99

00:13:35.240 I think it also means, could mean biologically with these Nephilim involved. 0.88

00:13:41.980 And what's also great is you get this picture that Noah's family is like this last preserved 0.81

00:13:50.940 purity of humanity. You know, this last hope. And unfortunately, many retellings,

00:13:58.200 you might've heard this as a child, many retellings of Noah's Ark portray Noah,

00:14:05.020 like pleading with the crowds because scripture says that he was a preacher of righteousness.

00:14:10.640 But you never see in the scriptures, Noah pleading with the crowds and inviting anybody

00:14:17.160 onto the ark. Okay. There was never one invitation, come, please repent and come sit on the ark. That

00:14:24.280 is totally extra biblical. There's nothing in the text that says that. The world was thoroughly

00:14:29.920 corrupt. And Noah's household stood as this final preserved line. And it was guarded by God from

00:14:36.840 this total corruption. And nobody was going to be saved except Noah and his family. If they were to

00:14:43.560 be saved, they would have been saved. And so nobody was to be saved. And so from a narrative

00:14:49.000 standpoint, it's kind of like a scene out of the Lord of the Rings, right? It's like this army,

00:14:53.580 You have like this handful of people against this like massive army of orcs and evil people

00:15:00.300 that are out there.

00:15:01.760 And the story, however, is never about the size of the army.

00:15:06.720 It's always about the king.

00:15:08.300 It's always about God and that somehow God's will cannot be, his sovereign purposes cannot

00:15:15.200 be thwarted.

00:15:16.340 And that the most bleak situation that you could possibly imagine, all of humanity, millions

00:15:22.280 upon millions upon millions of people are corrupted and evil. And all you have is Noah

00:15:28.260 and his family sitting right there. And you got to be thinking, how is this going to work?

00:15:39.580 And even when things in our own lives appear just utterly corrupt,

00:15:46.400 you know, they're dark, they're chaotic, they're frustrating, they're completely overtaking.

00:15:52.280 When you see crime, when you see division in our world, when you see the wars, the moral decay, and you're tempted to believe that it can only get worse, that God has just let this place go, remember that Noah stood and stared at a circumstance that was far more complex, far more wicked than anything you have ever seen.

00:16:19.760 and God turned that extremely wicked situation into good. God causes all things to work together

00:16:27.900 for good for those who are called according to his purposes. It's an amazing promise.

00:16:33.960 And so whatever your circumstances are, they were not as bleak as Noah's. And the next verse,

00:16:41.020 God says in verse 13

00:16:43.740 and God said to Noah

00:16:46.240 I have determined

00:16:48.360 to make an end

00:16:49.760 of all flesh

00:16:51.280 for the earth is filled

00:16:54.260 with violence through them 1.00

00:16:56.500 behold I will destroy them 1.00

00:17:00.240 with the earth 1.00

00:17:01.280 so a couple things

00:17:04.340 you want to know this theologically

00:17:05.380 is that you cannot separate

00:17:06.640 the condition of the earth

00:17:08.360 from the condition of humanity

00:17:10.280 This is a great science fact for you kids that are in science class with Mr. Johnson.

00:17:16.520 You cannot separate the condition of the earth from the condition of humanity.

00:17:21.380 Adam was formed from what? The Adamah. Adam was formed from the Adamah. 0.79

00:17:27.840 And when he fell, creation fell with him. 0.95

00:17:32.180 And if you remember Genesis 3.17, God does not merely curse Adam personally.

00:17:35.640 It says, cursed is the ground because of you.

00:17:39.560 curses the ground because of you. And it shows that the earth is covenantally bound to its federal

00:17:45.000 head, which is Adam. So when Adam falls, not only does all humanity fall, but creation falls with

00:17:52.560 him. And so when man, as God's image bearer and vice regent on the earth, when man rebels,

00:18:01.340 the earth under his dominion also inherits the consequences of that fall.

00:18:06.780 so paul actually confirms this in romans 8 i did one of my favorite sermons and i only said that

00:18:12.740 because the text is so wonderful but one of my favorite sermons is in romans 8 20 through 22

00:18:18.060 it says the creation was subjected to futility and has been groaning together in pains of childbirth

00:18:27.060 until now in other words it's it's really easy to look at creation and think like you look out

00:18:34.320 and you go, oh, it's so pretty. Or you go stand in front of a waterfall and you go, oh, it's so

00:18:37.920 wonderful. And you think to some degree that humanity is evil and creation is good. And you

00:18:47.760 go, no, the reality is humanity is broken and creation is broken. When you look to the Grand

00:18:54.340 Canyon and you go, oh, how beautiful is this? And then you got to realize, wait, this is actually

00:18:59.080 a scar from God's wrath upon the earth. You have to remember that, wait, this isn't supposed to

00:19:05.240 look like this. You see a tree fallen over and it's a beautiful bridge over a river. And you

00:19:11.940 think, wow, how wonderful. And you're like, no, that's actually a dead tree that has fallen and

00:19:16.600 we walk over it and it's actually not supposed to be this way. And so the earth that we have,

00:19:22.420 as beautiful as it is, it is actually corrupt and fallen. And when God restores the earth,

00:19:28.100 it's going to be a completely different thing. Beautiful. I think it's going to be the same

00:19:33.720 earth restored, but it's going to be restored in a way that is so much more beautiful than it is

00:19:40.900 today. Therefore, the flood, God's judgment upon the physical earth, he's not just killing all

00:19:48.660 flesh. It actually says that he's killing the earth. It's not arbitrary that he's doing that.

00:19:53.560 He's actually punishing humanity and the earth judicially.

00:19:59.520 And so it's also why God redeems man.

00:20:03.000 When he redeems man, he redeems the earth.

00:20:06.180 We are connected to one another.

00:20:08.340 When humanity is redeemed, the earth will be redeemed as well.

00:20:12.900 And it'll be a wonderful thing.

00:20:14.720 These broken bodies will work normal again.

00:20:16.860 And this broken earth will work normal again.

00:20:20.240 now

00:20:22.260 in the next verse

00:20:24.360 next three verses

00:20:25.200 we're going to see

00:20:26.420 God's instructions

00:20:28.480 for how the ark

00:20:29.780 was built

00:20:31.680 it says

00:20:34.720 make yourself an ark of gopher wood

00:20:40.220 make rooms in the ark

00:20:42.980 and cover it inside and out with pitch

00:20:46.120 this is how you are to make it

00:20:48.880 the length of the ark 300 cubits its breadth 50 cubits its height 30 cubits make a roof

00:20:59.120 for the ark and finish it to a cubit above and set the door of the ark in its side

00:21:06.740 make it with lower second and third decks

00:21:10.800 i love that god didn't use fractions there so helpful um okay there are two words for the word

00:21:21.320 ark in hebrew teva and eron and teva is it actually means vessel like a floating vessel

00:21:31.480 it's the same word you actually see when moses is put into a basket he's put into a teva

00:21:37.800 an ark, and he is floated and pushed among the reeds. Same word that we see there.

00:21:45.020 Iran refers to a container. So they're both containers at some sense, but Iran is a different 0.95

00:21:52.000 expression. And it's the container as we see like in the ark of the covenant, it's the container 0.87

00:21:56.920 of God's word. And so God tells Noah to make a vessel of gopher wood. And gopher wood was a type

00:22:04.920 of cypress or cedar. It naturally contains particular resins that make it more water

00:22:10.980 resistant. Some scholars believe that gopher wood was some sort of ancient lamination process where

00:22:19.380 they would take the wood and they would put pitch between it and mold them together to make some

00:22:24.680 strength there. So there's lots of arguments about how it happened. We don't know exactly,

00:22:28.600 But the ark was to be massive. I mean, absolutely massive. The Hebrews had two cubit lengths.

00:22:37.320 There was a long cubit and a short cubit. The long cubit was 20 inches and the short cubit

00:22:42.060 was 17 and a half inches. And so one commentator said, on the basis of even the shorter cubit,

00:22:49.800 The site of the ark was 437 feet long, 72 feet wide, 43 feet high.

00:22:59.440 Since it had three decks, it had a total deck area of approximately 95,770 square feet,

00:23:06.460 equivalent to slightly more than the area of 20 standard college basketball courts,

00:23:12.580 and its total volume was 1.4 million cubic feet.

00:23:16.560 The gross tonnage was about 14,000 tons, which would place it well within the category of large modern metal ocean vessels that we see today, end quote.

00:23:28.700 This is a massive, massive project.

00:23:32.720 Now, the Bible does not explicitly state how long it took to build the ark, but we do know that when Noah is first mentioned in the narrative, he's 500 years old.

00:23:44.240 and that's in Genesis 5.32.

00:23:47.540 And when the ark is, and the flood comes,

00:23:51.300 he is 600 years old.

00:23:52.480 So we can imply that about 100 years

00:23:56.400 it took to build this ark.

00:23:58.940 Now, the ark was a massive undertaking.

00:24:01.600 It would have seemed extremely absurd

00:24:04.020 to everybody watching

00:24:05.780 because there was no such thing as floodwaters

00:24:08.600 or rain at this point in time,

00:24:11.220 which brings us to the next verse.

00:24:14.720 It says in verse 17,

00:24:17.560 for behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth

00:24:21.980 to destroy all flesh and which the breath of life under heaven.

00:24:29.140 And which is the breath of life under heaven. 0.83

00:24:31.140 Everything that is on the earth shall die.

00:24:35.200 Now, again, until this point,

00:24:36.340 humanity had never experienced a flood or rain.

00:24:41.220 and we know this because genesis 5 6 2 5 through 6 tells us the lord had yet not caused it to rain

00:24:46.820 upon the earth but a mist or a spring went up from the land to water the whole face of the ground

00:24:53.460 and so we don't have rain at this particular point rain as we know it today began after the flood

00:25:00.420 and we see that in genesis chapter 8 22 while the earth remains seed time and harvest cold and heat

00:25:07.620 summer and winter, day and night, shall not seize.

00:25:11.000 That pattern out there,

00:25:12.360 when you see that those trees don't have leaves on them,

00:25:14.780 that pattern is a pattern of a post-flood world.

00:25:19.260 Okay, there was no,

00:25:20.580 everything was blooming all the time in a pre-flood world.

00:25:24.660 And so this is different.

00:25:27.220 And so God established a new

00:25:29.560 and stable order of creation after the flood.

00:25:32.760 And he promises these patterns of seasons and climate

00:25:36.700 that will continue to govern until the final judgment

00:25:39.780 and the return of the second wrath of God

00:25:43.020 that we are seeing paralleled here.

00:25:45.980 Now, again, why does this matter?

00:25:48.380 Because the announcement of a global flood

00:25:50.400 would not only have sounded extreme as a judgment.

00:25:53.560 Everybody's going to die.

00:25:55.000 Okay, not even talking about water yet, okay?

00:25:57.160 When you just say, all of you, you 150 million people 0.81

00:26:01.540 or however many people were there, you're all gonna die. 0.86

00:26:04.480 That sounds insane by itself.

00:26:06.700 you add to that, you're going to die by a supernatural phenomenon that you've never

00:26:12.500 seen before. Water is going to fall from the sky. Water's going to come up from the earth.

00:26:16.420 And now you have a double reality of going, the first one's unbelievable. The second one's also

00:26:22.660 unbelievable. And so if God told us he was going to send a massive flood to a particular region,

00:26:31.040 we would believe him. We'd go, yeah, I saw the tsunamis of 2003. I know what storms and rain

00:26:38.040 and rising waters look like. You have no problem comprehending that as a reality. But for Noah,

00:26:43.880 imagine the kind of faith you need. Everybody's going to die but you. Okay, that's heavy as it is.

00:26:49.560 And it's going to happen from something you've never ever seen before. And I want you to build

00:26:53.880 a boat to survive something you've never seen before. Just think about the degree of faith

00:27:00.760 that is required in that circumstance.

00:27:05.140 It says the waters came from both below and above.

00:27:11.520 In Genesis 7, 4, the text says that God sent rain,

00:27:14.820 but in 7, 11, it says the fountains

00:27:17.820 of the great deep burst forth.

00:27:20.460 And I can't wait to get there

00:27:21.300 because I want to talk about the oceans

00:27:22.380 that are under the earth

00:27:23.120 because it's really fascinating.

00:27:25.380 And it says, and the windows of heavens were opened.

00:27:28.760 Essentially, it was speaking of a degree of a flood and water and rain that would be catastrophic,

00:27:35.440 like just absolutely catastrophic. Now, if we assume the flood rose to say 10,000 feet,

00:27:43.720 I know it covers the mountains, but I don't believe that there were mountains that were

00:27:46.980 higher, much higher than that. I think the mountains that created the tectonic plates

00:27:51.320 were a result of the flood, meaning that we are seeing the mountains that you see today,

00:27:56.840 the jagged tops of erosion. I don't think that's how the world was prior to the flood. I think it

00:28:02.120 was rolling hilltops with topsoil and beautiful things all across the mountains. What you look

00:28:07.500 as beautiful from these jagged mountains is actually scars on the earth. Now, let's just say

00:28:13.920 for mathematical reasons that the flood rose to 10,000 feet. And let's just say that only 20%

00:28:22.300 of the waters came from rain while the rest came from the ground. I think that's maybe realistic

00:28:28.280 from what I've studied a bit in this topic. That would mean that 2,000 feet of rainfall

00:28:35.880 over 40 days occurred, about 25 feet per day at roughly 12 inches every hour without stopping.

00:28:45.620 All right, it's a massive amount of rain. Now, to give you some context for how much rain that is,

00:28:52.300 the heaviest hurricanes today drop about three inches of rain in heavy bursts and so this would

00:28:59.900 have been four times that rate sustained for weeks and this is not like a heavy storm coming

00:29:08.460 it was it was god's wrath made visible through nature with rising waters

00:29:17.020 and falling waters at a rate that's almost impossible to comprehend

00:29:23.140 And it's why God says at the very end of verse 17,

00:29:27.200 everything that is on the earth shall die.

00:29:31.160 Nothing will survive.

00:29:33.060 Nothing will survive.

00:29:34.400 So how do we understand this?

00:29:36.460 I'll close with this.

00:29:37.200 How do we understand this?

00:29:38.460 The flood is not ultimately about water.

00:29:41.520 It's about wrath.

00:29:43.180 That is a very key point.

00:29:45.600 The flood is not about water.

00:29:47.440 It's not about a boat.

00:29:49.120 It's about wrath.

00:29:50.580 when god judges when god's judgment comes down everything outside of his provision dies

00:30:00.640 okay everything outside of god's provision dies and this is a sobering picture of what awaits

00:30:08.520 for every person who does not have faith in christ this is what will happen to you it may

00:30:14.540 not be water, but everybody will die who are outside of Jesus Christ. No one can withstand

00:30:23.020 the wrath of God. So just as the ark bore the storm of God's judgment, the ark is bearing the

00:30:31.200 storm of God's judgment, Christ, who is the true and greater ark, who has borne the wrath of God

00:30:37.900 on our behalf and for everybody who has faith in Jesus. So the question is, again, it's not,

00:30:44.420 am I a good person? The question is, are you in Christ? Do you have the protection from the wrath

00:30:52.480 of God? Are you in the ark? Because outside of Christ, there is only a flood of wrath.

00:30:59.200 There is only a flood of wrath if you are outside of Christ. Inside of Christ, there is life and

00:31:05.520 peace. Inside of the ark, there was only life and peace. There was literally this beautiful

00:31:13.560 transfer. If you see, it's the old world and it's being transferred to the new world. We will have

00:31:18.580 the exact same thing, except we will not be in a wooden ark. We will be in Christ and he will

00:31:24.240 transfer us from an old sinful world into a new world. And although that Noah did not go out 0.94

00:31:35.120 pleading with the people to enter the ark, Christ now goes and he calls

00:31:39.160 all men from every tribe, every nation, every tongue

00:31:43.420 to enter into the ark of Christ by faith.

00:31:49.560 And so the judgment of God is coming.

00:31:54.300 And

00:31:54.860 we know it says God appoints

00:31:57.600 it for every man to die once and then the judgment.

00:32:02.220 and I don't know when you're gonna die. 0.95

00:32:04.900 I don't know if you're gonna die today. 0.97

00:32:08.280 I don't know if you're gonna die in 10 years. 0.97

00:32:10.480 I don't know if you're gonna die 0.94

00:32:14.420 driving. 0.74

00:32:15.180 I don't know if you're going to die sleeping.

00:32:16.300 I don't know if you're going to die from cancer. 0.91

00:32:19.460 I do know that you're gonna die 0.98

00:32:21.980 and that we're all going to die 0.99

00:32:23.760 and every one of us are going to stand before the court

00:32:28.000 and the judge room of God.

00:32:32.220 The question you have to ask yourself is,

00:32:34.580 are you in the ark?

00:32:36.920 Do you have the righteousness of Christ?

00:32:39.940 If you died today, are you at peace?

00:32:44.720 If you had a terminal cancer diagnosis,

00:32:47.360 are you at peace?

00:32:49.340 Are you in the ark of Christ?

00:32:52.160 This is the most important question

00:32:54.180 for every man, woman, and child.

00:32:57.640 Let's pray.

00:33:00.120 Father, we thank you

00:33:02.220 Lord, for the blessing of your word

00:33:06.100 and the blessing of your gospel.

00:33:09.180 Lord, we ask that you would

00:33:10.220 give us the peace inside the ark.

00:33:18.660 Lord, for those that are outside

00:33:20.560 who are being washed away by your wrath.

00:33:27.820 Lord, we thank you for saving

00:33:30.380 those who have come to you by faith.

00:33:35.120 Lord, we ask that you would give us

00:33:36.340 greater understanding of this text

00:33:37.840 that we might apply it to our own hearts

00:33:39.740 and minds and souls.

00:33:42.240 Lord, we thank you for the gospel

00:33:43.600 in Jesus' name.

00:33:45.140 Amen.

Dale Partridge - March 04, 2026

Genesis 6_9–17 ~ In the Ark or Under the Wrath？

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