NO RAIN BEFORE THE GREAT FLOOD

NO RAIN BEFORE THE GREAT FLOOD

    The reason for this post is because I was talking with a very close friend today and mentioned that there being no rain before the Great Flood.  I felt obliged to document where I got my information.  We begin in Genesis 2:4:

   This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created.  When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens--(5) and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground, (6) but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground--(7) the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.    (NIV)



   So, we have no rain upon the earth.  All vegetation, "THE WHOLE SURFACE OF THE GROUND", is being watered by streams of water. 

   Now, we have established that there was no rain before Adam and Eve until the day of The Great Flood in Noah's time.

   We pick up the story again in chapter 7:1:

   The Lord then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.  (2) 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, (3) and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.  (4) Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forth days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.

   I note that God  found Noah righteous and yet, he instructed him to take his sons and daughters-in-law into the Ark.  God did not find the children righteous but saved them anyway.  He found Jesus holy but allowed me into His family even though I am not holy.  Thank you Lord.

   This was really not a study moment, but just little details that I find interesting (about the rain).  Stay hungry for The Word.

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