Good morning brothers and sisters! Are you ready for some spiritual food today? Well good! I have an appointment with sister single and lonely all day tomarrow, so I'm glad you all agreed to attend today.Lets all stand and sing song # 777 "Noah ain't heavy, he's my brother"
*passes collection plate around *
Today we will learn of some events surrounding a man who was the most rightous man alive in his day......Noah.
A long long time ago in Noahs day, the earth was a mess. Not only did gods sons start breeding women, they had kids who became hero's of old and men of fame and were renown... and were giants. Were not sure how they became hero's since they took everyones wifes and beat people up and stuff and were soon destroyed by god.....but they were hero's for sure and were real popular....and renown!
-Mans days numbered and a guy named Billy-
Aside from Noah getting so drunk and sleeping naked....he found favor in gods eyes but nobody else did. God got so mad he said instead of letting man live to 900 years old...he was going to cut their days to 120.
Were not sure, but we've heard from reliable sources that there was some medicine man named Billy who thwarted gods plan. This guy was selling some herbal stuff that overpowered gods age plan and nearly everyone after Noah lived well past 120. Noah himself lived to be 950, Shem made it to 500, Honest Abe's dad made it to 205, Isaac to 180 and Honest Abe himself made it to 175. His beautiful bride made it to be 127. Billy's herbal age medicine company finally died out by the time Moses came along and gods plan was back in effect as Moses died at 120 and recorded his own obituary before he passed away.
-Even the animals were wicked-
In Genesis 6:7, we learn that even the animals must have been evil and wicked because god said he was going to kill them all cuz he made a mistake and regretted making a mistake. Satan prolly corrupted the animals too, but god didn't feel the need to record it. God said man was evil since birth so he's gonna drown everyone, but later realises that's just the way it is and promises not to drown everyone anymore cuz he now knows for sure man is bad from youth up. Gen 8:21
-The indestructable olive tree-
Soon after god drowns everyone except Noah, his nameless wife, and his rightous sons and their nameless wives, Noah desires to know if he can get off the boat yet. He finally gets a bird (prolly a homing pigeon), to bring back some kinda life. Low and behold his bird finds an olive tree that survived being submerged in water for well over 150 days! God must have miraculously provided photosynthesis for his beloved olive tree to keep it alive all that time.
-How the extintion of many species began-
Shortly after the water subsided enough to where it was feasable to walk around and stuff.....Noah decides to sacrafice some of the clean animals he brought onto the ark. Since Noah took only two of each kind onto the ark, it must be assumed when he sacrificed them after getting off the ark, this would explain why there aren't more species on earth.
It's a good thing god was thinking ahead though and told him to take seven of some types.....or there wouldn't be zoo's on the earth today with a variety of animals cuz Noah woulda killed em all by giving Jehovah burnt animals.
Just as we humans like the smell of a New York steak....Jehovah loved the smell of burnt animals. In verse 21 of Genesis chapter 8, it tells us god was so pleased with the smell, he promised Noah he's never drown people again. Aren't we glad we have a merciful god?
This concludes our study of Noah for today and we thank each and every one of you for being here.
Lets all stand and sing from our hearts, song number #40 " Raindrops keep fallin on my
head", then brother suckup will conclude with prayer.
Reverend Gumby