genesis 6 commentary spurgeon
And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. It is evident that, as soon as he felt that he must fall, he grasped the other Man with a kind of death-grip, and would not let him go. Beyond the Bible, there is rich historical evidence for the reality of Noahs Ark. But when He turns in grace to man He is called Jehovah. No tempest of wrath was to break out of it upon him. He was stationed in southern Russia near the Turkish border and Mount Ararat. He was commanded to go and we read, So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him.. ix. Gen 8:2. It may seem a small thing; but it meant a great deal. Whose branches run over the wall: He does more than he is expected to do; nothing seems to content him, his branches run over the wall., Gen 49:23-24. Luke Gen 32:9-10. If you deny his truth, trample on the doctrine of atonement, and reject his love, you will rouse him up. After each days work, God looks upon it, and it is well for us every night to review our days work. Spurgeon, Charles Haddon: Genesis 6:3: A Family Sermon: Spurgeon, Charles Haddon: Genesis 7:1-3: The Ark Open for All: Spurgeon, Charles Haddon: Genesis 7:5: Shut In, or Shut Out: Spurgeon, Charles Haddon: Genesis 7:16: The Dove's Return to the Ark: Spurgeon, Charles Haddon: Genesis 8:9-12: The Best of the Best: Charles Haddon Spurgeon . That is, in the days before the sons of God took the daughters of men for wives, in such a general manner as before declared, or before the declension and apostasy became so universal; even in the times of Jared, as the Arabic writers . If thou darest to plead his righteousness, his infallible justice, thou pleadest most powerfully. Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noahs wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; These eight persons are very carefully mentioned. Is it not written, concerning the man whose delight is in the law of the Lord, his leaf also shall not wither? No good comes of prying into unrevealed truth. Gen 7:10-11. Happy man that can say that, who has a blessing everywhere! Gen 32:32. Oh, that at any time when we have sinned, God would ask each one of us the question, What is it that thou hast done?, Still, you see, there is no confession of guilt, but only the attempt to push the blame off upon somebody else. The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my fathers house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence. And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. In a.d. 180, Theophilus of Antioch wrote: the remains [of the ark] are to this day to be seen in the mountains.. And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. Here was the first proclamation of the gospel. Lamentations And this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. Those that swear too readily they know not what, will ere long swear till they care not what. That Book of Proverbs is placed not far from the Song of Solomon, which treats of high spiritual communion, as if to teach us that the next-door neighbour to the wisdom that cometh from above which walks with God, is that prudence which God gives to his servants for their dealings with men. And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man: He does not appear to have raised any objection to what she proposed on moral grounds, but only on the ground of the difficulty of it and the likelihood of being discovered. He believed that though he might be compelled to say his son, God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure. Abraham bade the young men stay where they were, they must not see all that he was to do before the Lord. We must never judge anything before it is complete. And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way. Gen 1:9-13. This blessing is very suggestive Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for a haven of ships. If God puts you by the mind that you are a haven for ships, the Lord, in his providence, fixes your position. He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Send out a dove rather than a raven; come to the house of God with quiet, gentle, holy expectation, and your dove will come back to you. So a man may have great opportunities, and yet lose them. God moves his servants to pray in a certain case, and they do pray with great liberty and manifest power. They were all there, yet he could remember the time when he had said, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away. Ah! And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. There are many curious points on which we should like to have information, but God has not revealed it, and when he has not revealed anything, we had better not try to unravel the mystery. We may request cookies to be set on your device. Poor little Lot, what a poor little prayer his was! Until the waters were dried up from of the earth. And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place. So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company. Then pray to God to make it into a blessing. And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. 2 Corinthians They who would serve God aright must serve him faithfully in little things as well as in great ones. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. The same effect is often produced on us; when the flood of affliction is deep, then we begin to rise. And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. Abraham always gives the same answer to the Lords call, Here am I.. Noah was not told when he should be released, and the Lord does not tell you when your trouble will come to an end. vi. And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. What can Jacob do now that the main bone of his leg is put out of joint? For example we read in Genesis 7:16, after Noah entered the ark: ".. As God had commanded him.And Jehovah shut him in.". Gen 32:31. And God spoke unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, Noah must wait till God speaks to him. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. One who exercised both the kingship and the priesthood, the only person that we know of who did this, and who, therefore, is a wonderful type of that marvelous King-Priest of whom we read in the 110th Psalm, and in the Epistle to the Hebrews. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. And Abraham rose up early in the morning,-, Obedience should be prompt, we should show our willingness to obey the Lords command by not delaying: Abraham rose up early in the morning,-. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope. O brethren, if you can remind God of his own promise, you must win the day, for promised mercies are sure mercies. This time the patriarch has advanced by ten; before, it was by fives. Yet, if you do feel that it is right to make such plans as Jacob made, take care that you do what Jacob also did. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. The LORD was sorry that He had made man He was grieved in His heart: Gods sorrow at man, and the grief in His heart are striking. He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Click to enable/disable _gid - Google Analytics Cookie. There was no life in the sea or on the land until all was ready for it. The unclean beasts were mostly killers and devourers of others, and therefore their number we to be less than that of the clean species. Surely, it would have been the proper order of things if the prayer had preceded the planning; but Jacob planned first, and prayed afterwards. So did Zebulun dwell even until the day when our Lord came, for Matthew writes concerning him, Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee; and leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; the people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.. There are some of you, dear brethren, who have minds that are naturally given to inventions, and devices, and plans, and plots, and I believe that, where this is the case, you have more to battle against than those have who are of an ample mind, and who cast themselves more entirely upon the Lord. Gen 24:1. Chapter 1-5 From creation to the flood, Chapter 1 The work of the six days (general report), Chapter 2 Creation of man (special report), b. And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, sayings, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. When writing Genesis, apart from direct revelations of God (for example the report on the creation of the world in Genesis 1; Genesis 2), he could possibly have referred to documents from the time of the patriarchs (for example the genealogies of Genesis 5:10-11 ,36).Under the direction of the Holy Spirit of God Moses wrote everything down.As he was a prophet, the words of 2 Peter 1:21 apply to him as well:"Holy men of God spake under the power of the Holy Spirit.". At this point, all Noah knew was that God will judge the earth, and he was supposed to build a big barge. 1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on . The tradition that Moses is the author of the first five books of the Bible originates from the Word of God itself. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. Check to enable permanent hiding of message bar and refuse all cookies if you do not opt in. The breath of life ( Genesis 2:7; Psalms 104:29-30) remains his to give and to recall." [Note: Brueggemann, Genesis, p. God will use them as a foundation for the rest of the human race. And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you. He spoke like a prophet of God when he was really speaking to his son in the anguish of his spirit, and in his prophetic utterance we find the sum end substance of the gospel: My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. He is the great Provider, and he provides the offering, not only for us, but for himself, for the sacrifice was necessary to God as well as to man. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. Asher was a tribe that was placed in a very fertile region where everything was crowned with delight. He was strong, but then he was an ass as well as strong, so he liked couching down between two burdens much better than bearing either one of them, yet he had to bow his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute. Thou hast loosed my bonds.. Does it look to you like a curse? He took not on him the nature of angels; but he took our nature, and died in our stead. Click to enable/disable _gat_* - Google Analytics Cookie. Gen 18:20-22. It is for our sake that the rainbow is set in the cloud, and we can see it there; yet infinite mercy represents it as being there as a refreshment to the memory of God: The bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it,-. How that Spirit of God comes there, we know not, we cannot tell how he acts, even as we cannot tell how the wind bloweth where it listeth, but until the Spirit of God moves upon the soul nothing is done towards its new creation in Christ Jesus. How there was light before there was any sun, for the sun was not created until the fourth day of the week it is not for us to say. In the six hundred and first year: Genesis 7:11-13 says that Noah entered the ark on the seventeenth day of the second month of the six hundredth year of his life. Now let us read what the Lord says, through the prophet Isaiah, concerning this covenant. Let us always look upon the list of our difficulties as only a catalogue of our triumphs. You can also change some of your preferences. And the evening and the morning were the first day. Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892.
