The End is Near!!! (right??) Episode 11

Sorry, I was on vacation.  I am going to post the rest of these fairly quickly.  Then it will all mesh perfectly in your head, and you will completely understand.  Really.  No I am serious….

Remember,

“Dispensationalism views the world as a household run by God.  In His household-world God is dispensing or administering its affairs according to His own will and in various stages of revelation in the passage of time.  These various stages mark off the distinguishably different economies in the outworking of His total purpose, and these different economies constitute the dispensations.  The understanding of God’s differing economies is essential to a proper interpretation of His revelation within those various economies.”

Definition:
     A dispensation is a distinguishable economy in the out-working of God's purpose.  A dispensation will normally contain a (1) distinctive revelation from God to man, (2) testing, (3) failure, and (4) judgment.

The fourth Dispensation is Israel Under Promise

   This dispensation begins with the Abrahamic Covenant:

Note: A covenant is an agreement between two parties. There are two types of covenants: conditional and unconditional. A conditional or bilateral covenant is an agreement that is binding on both parties for its fulfillment. Both parties agree to fulfill certain conditions. If either party fails to meet their responsibilities, the covenant is broken and neither party has to fulfill the expectations of the covenant. An unconditional or unilateral covenant is an agreement between two parties, but only one of the two parties has to do something. Nothing is required of the other party.  The Abrahamic Covenant is an unconditional covenant. God made promises to Abraham that required nothing of Abraham.

Genesis 12:1-3 (NIV)   The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.  “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.  I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

Genesis 13:14-17 (NIV)  The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west.  All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever.   I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.”

Genesis 15:18-21 (NIV)  On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates—the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,  Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,  Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”

Promise was reiterated to Isaac (Abraham’s heir)

Genesis 26:2-4 (NIV) The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live.  Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham. I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,

And to Jacob (Isaac’s heir)

Genesis 28:12-16 (NIV)   He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.  There above it stood the Lord, and he said: “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.  Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.  I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”   When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.”

Man’s responsibility (specifically Abraham and his descendants) during this dispensation was just to believe God. Their failure is listed below.

·         Abraham- Abraham fathered Ishmael through Hagar, because he failed to believe God’s promise to give him a son through Sarah, his wife. Twice he lied concerning his wife. Isaac lied concerning Rebekah, his wife

·         Isaac-Before Esau and Jacob were born God promised that Jacob ("the younger") would be the child who would receive God's blessing (Genesis 25:21-23). But Isaac favored his other son Esau (Genesis 25:28). Isaac contradicted God's Word and said, "I will bless Esau" Instead of taking God at His Word, Isaac was contradicting God's Word. As things turned out Isaac was tricked and be actually blessed Jacob without knowing it! Finally when Isaac found out what really had happened he decided to stop contradicting God and he started agreeing with God.

·         Jacob-Again and again God had promised to bless Jacob (see Genesis 28:13-15; 32:24-29; 35:9-12). But there were times when Jacob had difficulty believing that God's blessing was really upon him. Read Genesis 42:36. Jacob was now an old man. He thought that his beloved son Joseph was dead (compare Genesis 37:31-35). He thought that he might also lose his son Benjamin and he thought that he would never again see his son Simeon. Jacob cried out in despair. Instead of believing that God's blessing was upon him, he was acting as if God's curse were upon him.

·         Jacob’s Sons (Israel)- Throughout their history, the children of Israel have failed to take God at His Word and have failed to believe God's promises.

Exodus 14:10-14 (NIV)  As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the Lord. They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!” Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again.  The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

Exodus 15:23-26 (NIV) When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah.) So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”  Then Moses cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the Lord made a decree and a law for them, and there he tested them.  He said, “If you listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you.”

Exodus 16:1-8 (NIV)   The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt. In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.   The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”

Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions.  On the sixth day they are to prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days.”

So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “In the evening you will know that it was the Lord who brought you out of Egypt,  and in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we, that you should grumble against us?” Moses also said, “You will know that it was the Lord when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the Lord.”

Exodus 17:1-7 (NIV)  The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.”

Moses replied, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to the test?”

 But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”

Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

The Lord answered Moses, “Walk on ahead of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the Lord saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

God had promised to bless them and meet every need that they had, but the children of Israel would not believe this.

Failure in this dispensation resulted in the giving of the Law:

Galatians 3:19 (NIV)  What, then, was the purpose of the law?  It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was put into effect through angels by a mediator.

The End is Near!! (right??) Part Ten

Remember,

“Dispensationalism views the world as a household run by God.  In His household-world God is dispensing or administering its affairs according to His own will and in various stages of revelation in the passage of time.  These various stages mark off the distinguishably different economies in the outworking of His total purpose, and these different economies constitute the dispensations.  The understanding of God’s differing economies is essential to a proper interpretation of His revelation within those various economies.”

Definition:

     A dispensation is a distinguishable economy in the out-working of God's purpose.  A dispensation will normally contain a (1) distinctive revelation from God to man, (2) testing, (3) failure, and (4) judgment.

The third Dispensation is Civil (or Human) Government

   As mentioned previously, the next dispensation begins with the Noahic Covenant:

Genesis 8:20-9:17 (NIV)  Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.  The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.  “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”

Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands.  Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man.  “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man.   As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”

Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him:  “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you  and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth.  I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:  I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.  Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”

 So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.”

The Noahic Covenant has the following highlights:

·  Man's responsibility to populate the earth is reaffirmed.

·  The subjection of the animal kingdom to man is reaffirmed, but now it will be administered under a new relationship. Whereas previously man and animal coexisted in peace and animals most likely fully cooperated with man’s care and maintenance, now the animal kingdom would fear man and be dominated by him.

·  Man is permitted to eat the flesh of every "moving creature" outside the realm of man. It is suggested that initially man was a vegetarian but after the curse of the Flood, man's allowable diet was expanded to include the animal kingdom (meat) -- which involved killing an animal. The only exception, which is in fact carried over into the New Covenant, is that man is to refrain from eating blood, the "life of the flesh".

·  The sacredness of human life is established. Since man is made in the image of God, one who commits murder shows not only contempt for man but also contempt for God.

·  Whatever sheds man's blood, whether man or beast, must be put to death. This is seen as the institution of human self-government..

·  The covenant is confirmed with Noah, his sons, their descendants, all the animals on the ark and their descendants.

·  The earth will never again be destroyed by a universal flood. The next time God destroys the earth, the means will be fire (2 Peter 3:10).

·  The rainbow is established as a sign of the Noahic Covenant to both God and man signifying that God will never again destroy the earth by a universal flood.

Note from Dr. Renald Showers:

“The second dispensation of God’s rule demonstrated that man- kind would not obey God on the basis of the human conscience and the restraint of lawlessness by the Holy Spirit. Thus, once the Noahic Flood ended God started a new dispensation by instituting a new ruling factor.

Since the fountainhead of all human corruption prior to the flood was the continued existence of the first murderer, Cain, God determined that never again would He allow murderers to infect the rest of mankind with their rebellious attitudes.  Shortly after Noah and his family left the ark, God ordained capital punishment for murderers (Genesis 9:5-6).

Capital punishment requires a human government agency to investigate the murder, and  then apprehend and try the murderer, and administer the sentence of execution. God commanded that the murderer’s blood be shed by mankind.  Thus, when God ordained capital punishment, He thereby instituted human government as a further restraint against the lawless rebellion of mankind.  In Romans 13:1-7 the Apostle Paul indicated that human governmental authority derives its existence from God, that it was ordained for the purpose of restraining evil, and that it functions as the minister of God when it administers capital punishment.

Human government, then, with its authority to administer capital punishment, was the new ruling factor that God instituted for the third dispensation.  The human conscience and the restraint of lawlessness by the Holy Spirit continued on as ruling factors in this new dispensation. In fact, Romans 2:14-15 and 2 Thessalonians 2:7, together with other pas- sages, indicate that they continue as ruling factors even into today’s dispensation. Thus, the third dispensation had three ruling factors which God used to administer His rule over mankind: human conscience, restraint of lawlessness by the Holy Spirit, plus human government. Dispensational theologians have named the third dispensation after the new ruling factor, since that is the factor which made the third dispensation distinct from the second.”

  Man was given the authority for ultimate punishment, life for life.  Man given instructions to "fill" the whole earth.  Instead of dispersing and inhabiting the whole earth, man banded together in one spot to build a tower so that they could reach the heavens.  There is thought that Nimrod (Gen 10:8-12; 11:1-9) was the first world dictator and founded the world's first false religion based on astrology, which is why they would build a tower or observatory.  Their unity of language and system of government had done away with their need of fellowship with God.

Genesis 11:5-9 (NIV) But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.  That is why it was called Babel—because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

For all of the ramifications and a little bit of history, please go to one of my favorite websites:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v24/i3/babel.asp

Summation:    1. Distinctive Revelation – Noahic Covenant

2.  Testing – Man to multiply and scatter

3.  Failure – Disobedience and Conceit

4.  Judgment – Babel and Scattering

Note:  I know that by now you are wondering what any of this has to do with the last days.  I beg your indulgence a little longer.  We are almost there.  If we don’t fill in the earlier the later will make no sense, whereas if we do fill it in, you will understand and see the flow.  I promise you, it will all make sense.  Really………….would I lie to you?

The End is Near!!!! (right??) - Number Nine

Again,

“Dispensationalism views the world as a household run by God.  In His household-world God is dispensing or administering its affairs according to His own will and in various stages of revelation in the passage of time.  These various stages mark off the distinguishably different economies in the outworking of His total purpose, and these different economies constitute the dispensations.  The understanding of God’s differing economies is essential to a proper interpretation of His revelation within those various economies.”

Definition:
     A dispensation is a distinguishable economy in the out-working of God's purpose.  A dispensation will normally contain a (1) distinctive revelation from God to man, (2) testing, (3) failure, and (4) judgment.

The second Dispensation is Conscience or Self-Determination

   As mentioned previously, the next dispensation begins with the Adamic Covenant:

Genesis 3:16-19 (NIV) To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.  It will produce thorns and thistles for you and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

The Adamic Covenant as the result of Adam’s sin has the following highlights:

·         Enmity between Satan, Eve, and her descendants.

·         Painful childbirth for women.

·         Marital strife.

·         The soil cursed.

·         Introduction of thorns and thistles.

·         Survival to be a struggle.

·         Death introduced.

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There were also a couple of more revelations

Genesis 3:21 (NIV)   The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.

Genesis 4:4 (NIV)   But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,

Note from Clarke’s Commentary on Genesis 3:21:

“God made coats of skins - It is very likely that the skins out of which their clothing was made were taken off animals whose blood had been poured out as a sin-offering to God; for as we find Cain and Abel offering sacrifices to God, we may fairly presume that God had given them instructions on this head; nor is it likely that the notion of a sacrifice could have ever occurred to the mind of man without an express revelation from God. Hence we may safely infer 1. That as Adam and Eve needed this clothing as soon as they fell, and death had not as yet made any ravages in the animal world, it is most likely that the skins were taken off victims offered under the direction of God himself, and in faith of Him who, in the fullness of time, was to make an atonement by his death. And it seems reasonable also that this matter should be brought about in such a way that Satan and death should have no triumph, when the very first death that took place in the world was an emblem and type of that death which should conquer Satan, destroy his empire, reconcile God to man, convert man to God, sanctify human nature, and prepare it for heaven.”

So immediately Adam and Eve see the consequences of their sin; death of the innocent for the guilty sinner.  God provides the sacrifice to replace the clothing they had manufactured themselves with their “good works”.  The Bible says:

Hebrews 9:22 (NIV)   In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Why? Because,

Deuteronomy 12:23 (NIV)   But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

Because the blood is what gives life to the flesh, a blood sacrifice is a picture of putting off of the flesh, embracing the spirit.

During this particular age, man’s conscience is all that governs his actions, therefore:

Genesis 4:3-7 (NIV)   In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?  If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.”

Note in the above passage “if you do, if you do not”. Cain was to listen to his conscience and respond to it properly, like his brother Abel did.  Abel sacrificed the first of his flocks in an appropriate blood sacrifice.  Cain brought God some vegetables.  So instead of doing the right thing:

Genesis 4:8 (NIV)   Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

Cain was merely the first murderer, there were plenty of others leading God to conclude:

Genesis 6:5-7 (NIV) The Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.  The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.  So the Lord said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”

After this comes the judgment of this particular dispensation:

Genesis 6:8-8:19 (NIV) But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.  This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.  Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.  God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.  So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.  I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.  You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.  You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”  Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”  And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.

Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.  And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.  And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.  They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings. Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.

For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.  The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet.   Every living thing that moved on the earth perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.  Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left and those with him in the ark.  The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.  Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.  But the dove could find no place to set its feet because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.

Then God said to Noah,  “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.  Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number upon it.”

 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on the earth—came out of the ark, one kind after another.

Summation:    1. Distinctive Revelation – Adamic Covenant, Sacrifice System

2.  Testing – Man’s Conscience

3.  Failure – Utter corruption of mankind

4.  Judgment – Flood