Bible Commentaries
Génesis 7

Versículos 1-24

Y Jehová dijo a Noé: Entra tú y toda tu casa en el arca; porque a ti he visto justo delante de mí en esta generación. Ahora bien, del animal limpio tomarás de siete en siete, macho con su hembra ( Génesis 7:1-2 ):

Así que siete pares de las bestias limpias.

y de los animales que no son limpios por dos, el macho y su hembra. De las aves del cielo de siete en siete, macho y hembra; para mantener viva la semilla sobre la faz de toda la tierra. Porque en siete días haré llover sobre la tierra cuarenta días y cuarenta noches; y todo ser viviente que he hecho, lo destruiré de sobre la faz de la tierra. E hizo Noé conforme a todo lo que le mandó Jehová.

Y Noé tenía seiscientos años cuando el diluvio de las aguas vino sobre la tierra. Y entró Noé, y sus hijos, y su mujer, y las mujeres de sus hijos con él, en el arca, a causa de las aguas del diluvio. Y de los animales limpios, y de los animales que no eran limpios, y de las aves, y de todo lo que se arrastra sobre la tierra, de dos en dos entraron con Noé en el arca, macho y hembra, como Dios había mandado a Noé. .

Y sucedió que después de siete días, las aguas del diluvio estaban sobre la tierra. En el año seiscientos de la vida de Noé, en el mes segundo, a los diecisiete días del mes, aquel mismo día fueron rotas todas las fuentes del grande abismo, y se abrieron las cataratas de los cielos ( Génesis 7:2-11 ) .

Ahora, recuerda que en el primer capítulo de Génesis allí Dios estableció un espacio, el raqiya, los cielos separando las aguas, que estaban sobre los cielos, y las aguas que estaban sobre la tierra. Estas aguas ahora se condensaron y cayeron a la tierra. Pero con eso, las grandes fuentes del abismo se rompieron, hubo grandes trastornos, sin duda, empuje hacia arriba de cadenas montañosas.
Podría ser en este momento que los Himalayas surgieron del mar.

A medida que las antiguas cadenas montañosas colapsaron en el mar, la presión del agua como cuerpo, los cuerpos oceánicos se movieron. La presión que empuja hacia abajo sobre los nuevos lechos oceánicos empujaría hacia arriba las cadenas montañosas y crearía un cambio total y violento en la superficie geográfica de la tierra. Y no tengo ninguna duda de que hubo muchos cambios dramáticos, en lo que respecta a la geografía en el momento del diluvio, ya que las cadenas montañosas desaparecerían, las grandes fuentes del abismo se romperían, la lluvia descendería, la presión del nuevo los océanos y el cambio de los océanos, y demás, por supuesto crearían grandes cambios.

Solía ​​haber un vasto océano en el área del medio norte de América, en el área de Salt Lake y sienten que eso es todo lo que queda de lo que alguna vez fue un océano muy vasto. Vas al borde sur del Cañón allí y encuentras en el nivel de ocho mil pies restos fósiles de peces marinos, conchas, moluscos y demás, por lo que esa área alguna vez estuvo cubierta por un vasto océano.
Los dinosaurios vivían alrededor de sus bordes.

El Desierto Pintado es un área interesante para buscar artefactos de dinosaurios. Tengo una vértebra muy interesante de un dinosaurio del Desierto Pintado allí. Y es muy interesante ir a buscar los restos de los dinosaurios que alguna vez estuvieron por las orillas del vasto océano que había en esa zona o el vasto mar, según sea el caso. Pero ha habido grandes cambios catastróficos; empuje hacia arriba, presiones por el agua cambiando sus lechos y así sucesivamente.

Y todos dan testimonio de la verdad, el relato bíblico de que hubo una vez un gran cataclismo en el que se abrieron las fuentes del abismo. Cambios de los fondos oceánicos. Cambios de cordilleras. Empuje hacia arriba, otras áreas hundiéndose y desapareciendo. Podría ser que el continente perdido de la Atlántida, que hay en realidad una base de hecho de que esto existió y pudo haber sido eliminado por esta gran inundación, por todo el cambio de las estructuras.

Han encontrado en el Atlántico medio vastos lechos de arena. Solo tienes arena en la orilla del mar. Es causado por la acción del movimiento del agua desgastando las rocas y demás, el granito. Gran parte del mar está cubierto de limo a lo largo de los siglos, solo el limo se asienta en el fondo del océano. Pero estos grandes lechos de arena son algo que no pueden explicar en medio del Atlántico mostrando que alguna vez fue una playa, una orilla del mar.

¿Por qué no está cubierto por varios pies de limo? ¿Cómo llegó allí? Todas las cosas interesantes que los científicos aún no han descubierto. Pero el diluvio con los cambios de la superficie de la tierra explicaría fácilmente todas estas cosas.
Así "se rompieron las grandes fuentes del abismo, se abrieron las cataratas de los cielos".

And the rain was upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. And in the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort ( Génesis 7:12-14).

I only wish that he could have gotten those two fleas at that time.

And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all the flesh, wherein is the breath of life. And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in. And the flood was for forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the water prevail; and the mountains were covered ( Génesis 7:15-20).

Now there are some who try to make this a local flood. That it only happened in the Babylonian plain. Well then, why would God put Noah to the job of building such a big boat? Why didn't He say, "Move out of this plain, Noah, over to the next mountain, you know, range and all and get into that valley over there cause this thing is going to get flooded"?
And how could the ark be deposited on Mount Ararat and how could the waters cover Mount Ararat fifteen feet above which is seventeen thousand feet high? How could the waters just be piled up in that one area without being dispersed around the face of the earth? So those who try to just make this a local flood have many problems.

Why bring all the animals in? It would not at all be necessary if it were just a localized flood.
But evidence, of course, the Scripture declares it was a worldwide flood and evidence would seem to go along with the Scriptures on this. That is the whales being found here in Vermont, five hundred feet above sea level and the cavern in Maryland, and things of this nature with the various animals thrust in and broken up.

"The flood was forty days upon the earth; the waters increased, bare the ark, it was lifted up above the earth. The waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; the ark went upon the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered." That is, fifteen feet above the highest mountain.

And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and cattle, and beast, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, creeping things, the fowl of heaven; they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. And the waters prevailed upon the earth for a hundred and fifty days ( Génesis 7:21-24).

Almost a half a year the waters prevailed upon the earth, during this time of great cataclysmic upheaval. Now Jesus, when talking to His disciples about the signs of His coming and the end of the world said, "as it was in the days of Noah, so shall the coming of the Son of man be" ( Mateo 24:37).

The days of Noah were days of rapid population explosion. "It came to pass in those days, when men began to multiply upon the face of the earth" ( Génesis 6:1), population explosion during Noah's day. The days of Noah were days of abnormal sexual behavior. "The sons of God seeing the daughters of men." Jesus says that they were days in which marriage vows were cast aside and men were marrying and giving in marriage, or live-in type of relationships, not honoring the marriage vows, casting them aside.

The days of Noah were days of wickedness, man's mind being evil continually. They were days of corruption and they were days of violence. As it was in the days of Noah, so it is today. Noah was to be a sign of the coming of Jesus Christ. I believe that Noah also gives to us another sign of sorts, for Noah was upon the earth at the time of God's great judgment of the earth because of the wickedness.

And God is going to again judge the earth because of wickedness. But I do not believe that Noah is the type of the church that God preserves during His period of judgment.
There is a group that God is going to preserve during the period of coming judgment that will be sheltered by God, these are the 144,000, the Israelites who will be sealed by God and be sheltered from many of the judgments of God that are coming.

That seal upon their forehead, the name of God upon their forehead will be, as it were an ark.
But I believe that Enoch is a type of the church who walked with God and was not for God took him. But before God took him he had this testimony that he pleased God and Enoch was taken up before the flood, before the judgment of God, being a type of the church. And Noah, the type of the 144,000 Israelites that are sealed, is protected by God and taken through the judgment of God that is coming upon the earth, even as the 144,000 will be protected and taken through.

The interesting thing to me is that God placed Noah in the ark and He shut the door. The Bible says that Noah was a preacher of righteousness. He was preaching to these people during the hundred-year period that he was building the ark, warning them of God's impending judgment that was to come. But the people no doubt scoffed at Noah and laughed at his warnings and mocked the crazy old coot building a big boat out in the area where there is no water.

But Noah by faith built the boat to the saving of his family. It brought salvation because he obeyed God and God shut him in. At that point, the die was cast; Noah, his family, safe inside. The others, on the outside; it's too late. That marked an interesting day between the mercy and the grace and the patience of God and now the necessary judgment. For God said, "My spirit shall not always strive with man.

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God's spirit does strive with man. That in itself is a miracle and a marvel. Why should God strive with me? Who am I that God should strive with me? Who are you that God should strive with you? What a miracle of grace that God would even strive with man! What a marvelous demonstration of His condescension and of His love and of His concern that God would even bother to strive with man.

But what an awesome and solemn warning. God's spirit won't always strive with you. In Hebrews we read of those "who have done despite to the spirit of grace. Who have counted the blood of the covenant wherewith Jesus was sanctified an unholy thing. Done despite to the spirit of grace." And there remains for them that "certain looking forward to the fiery indignation of the wrath of God by which His enemies shall be devoured.

For if he who despised Moses' law perished in the mouth of two or three witnesses: how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, he should be counted worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, counted the blood of his covenant an unholy thing, done despite to that Spirit of grace" that's been dealing with his heart ( Hebreos 10:27-29).

"God's spirit will not always strive with man." There is a time we know not when, a line we know not where; that marks the destiny of men twixt sorrow and despair. There is a line though by man unseen, once it has been crossed, even God Himself in all His love has sworn that all is lost.
It's possible for you to say "no" once too many times. It's possible for you to do despite to the spirit of grace.

Es posible que usted cruce esa línea entre la gracia y la misericordia y la paciencia y la longanimidad de Dios, y el juicio de Dios. Llegó ese día en que entró Noé y Dios lo encerró. Qué día tan glorioso cuando Dios nos encierra en sí mismo, en esa arca de refugio que Él ha provisto para nosotros a través de Jesucristo, y me hago parte de Su hermoso reino. a través de la fe
Que Dios, por Su Espíritu Santo, nos hable a cada uno de nosotros mientras continuamos nuestro viaje a través de Génesis.

Padre, te damos gracias por el privilegio de estudiar Tu Palabra juntos, examinando estas cosas interesantes. Gracias por el registro, Señor, que nos lleva a Jesucristo ya la vida eterna en Él. Señor, permite que Tu Espíritu Santo implante ahora Tus verdades en nuestros corazones. En el nombre de Jesús, Amén. "