Along with their tremendous standard of living and their technology; morally and spiritually as the Bible said, they became so corrupt. They became so wicked. They became so violent. Murder was just running rampant and God said, I am going to have to bring it to an end. So, let's pick that up in verse 13.


Genesis 6:13

"And God said unto Noah, the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth."


Now, watch that last prepositional phrase! He's not just going to destroy man. In other words, it isn't just a matter of killing the life, but He's going to destroy the planet! The whole surface of the earth is going to be totally; I like to use the expression, turned inside out. It's going to be totally destroyed. We will see that in just a little bit. Now verse 14. The instruction to Noah is:


Genesis 6:14

"Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch."


I never like to just hurry through these verses in the Old Testament because Paul says in Romans 15 that "all these things were written for our learning." I always maintain that you do not get doctrine back here but we get the learning. We get the foundation. I like to make the analogy between Bible Study or becoming a Bible student and our secular education. How many computer scientists would ever become a computer scientist without third and fourth grade arithmetic? Impossible! So no matter what professional discipline someone ends up in, he had to get his basics of education back there in grade school.
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