Year 7, Day 7: Genesis 7

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I Genesis 7 we have the beginning of the flood narrative proper.  Noah is saved, he and his whole family.  It’s a very neat story, although I will point you to the theological commentary that I wrote 6 years ago if you want a perspective that suggests we might not want to think of Noah as the perfect servant.

Today, though, I want to focus on God’s consistency.  God delivers.  He is a God who delivers people.  In fact, He is a God who delivers people through others.  He is a God that works through some so that others can experience His love.  Not just Noah is saved.  Noah’s whole family is saved through Noah’s obedience.

Don’t get me wrong.  I know most of the people on the earth die.  I’m talking about this passage symbolically, now, not literally.

The pattern that God is setting up for us in this story is that He is a God who uses obedient leadership to save others.  He’ll do it again in Moses.  He’ll do it again with Joshua.  He’ll do it again with Samuel.  He’ll do it again with David.  He’ll do it again with Hezekiah.  He’ll do it again with Josiah.  He’ll do it again with Daniel.  He’ll do it again with Ester.  Of course, all of these examples are going to lead us to the fulfillment of His plan.  He’ll do it once and for all on a spiritual level with Jesus.

We are saved not through our own work but through God’s.  We have salvation through Jesus, not because we earned it ourselves.  That’s the boat, figuratively and literally, that Noah’s family find themselves in, too.

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