Precept Ministries
Genesis Part II – Lesson 9
Genesis 6-9
Take a drive through the Grand Canyon and stand there in absolute awe as you look at
those rock formations, and know that there was a flood—a deluge, a catastrophe. As you drive
through the cuts along the side of the road viewing the hills and mountains where you can look at
the different strata, know that there was a flood.
Drive out of Tokyo to Word of Life’s camp. Watch those mountains and see that the
same formations are seen there as in the United States of America, and know that there was a
flood. Listen with Kay to the Wecholee [sp?] Indians as they tell the story of the day that a great
flood came, how a man was rescued in a boat with another man and a dog. This is the way the
Wecholees came back into existence after the flood subsided: The old man told the young man,
“Watch for the dog. When it goes down to the water and takes off its skin, catch it quick and it
will become a woman.” The young man did so. He caught it without its skin and it became a
woman. That’s how the Wecholees were repopulated after the flood.
Listen to the ancient stories. Read them in books. There are stories all over the world of
their version of a cataclysmic event called a flood. Come stand with Kay in Kazakhstan, Korea,
in the United States of America. Stand with others around the world and look in awe, in wonder,
at the rainbow and know: There was a flood. But there will not be another because God is a
covenant-keeping God.
What does God say He did upon this earth over 4600 years ago regarding the Flood and
the rainbow? What happened about 1500-1656 years after Adam was created in the Garden?
Genesis 6:1-12 tells us flood is coming. God is going to wipe out everything on the face of the
earth except for Noah, Mrs. Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth and their wives.
Genesis 6:13-22 Noah is told to make an ark.
Genesis 6:13 Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is
filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the
earth.
God is going to do something to the earth. He is not just going to do something to man or
animals but something is going to happen to the earth itself.
Genesis 6:14-15a “Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with
rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch. This is how you shall make it:”
Then God tells Noah exactly how to make the ark. He tells him the dimensions in cubits.
If a cubit is 17.5-18 inches then this ship would be 450 feet long by 75 feet wide. It would have
three decks on it (Genesis 6:16b), rooms in it, and it would have about 95,000 square feet inside.
That would be 1,396,000 cubic feet. That is a big, big boat. But it’s more of a boat than a ship; in
fact, it’s more of a barge.
The navy built a flagship according to these dimensions and it was wonderful for
transportation. The only problem was that it was so slow it couldn’t get out of the way of the
enemy so they couldn’t use it in war.
The ark Noah built was designed for transporting things long distances but not getting
there fast. It had no rudder. It was built like a box, not like these cute little arks we see and buy
all over the world in tourist places. Because it was built like a barge, it could withstand waves up
to 200 feet high. That is significant if you understand what happened when the Flood came. It
could turn to 89 degrees without tipping over. In the navy, if you tip 20 degrees you’re in
trouble. The ark could turn on its side and still right itself. Even with all 75 feet out of the water
it could come back down without turning over. It had no locomotion but in high seas, because of
the way it is built, it turns itself parallel to the waves, which is where a boat needs to ride. If it
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rides perpendicular to the waves, there is emptiness underneath so it would crack in the middle.
This was an awesomely engineered barge that could withstand what God was about to do. It was
designed in this way so that it would automatically maneuver in the water and because of the
winds the air would flow through. That air conditioning must have been mighty nice with all
those animals in it. It was optimally designed for its function. You know it was optimally
designed because God designed it. God told Noah specifically how he was to make the ark.
Genesis 6:17 “And behold, I, even I…”
God wants you to understand: It’s no accident; it’s not Mother Nature—it’s Father God.
Genesis 6:17 “And behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all
flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth
shall perish.”
Everything on the earth. Everything all over the earth.
Genesis 6:18-20 “But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark—you
and your sons and your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. And of every living thing of
all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they
shall be male and female. Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind,
of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind shall come to you to
keep them alive.
The key repeated phrase is “After their kind.” It doesn’t say “their species” but “their
kind”. There is a “kind” of animal and from that animal or bird comes all these different species.
They all come from that one single kind. Not everything was put into the ark. The great living
sea creatures didn’t have to be put into the ark, only the birds and the land animals and the
insects. They were all put in after their kind. There are 40-100 species of a kind for animals and
birds. For insects there is an average of 1000 species to a kind. The vinegar fly has 5000 species,
can you imagine? And you wonder where they came from—there are just species all over the
place. If you take an average of 100 species for every kind of animal and bird and add in the
insects, there should be about 35000 species of animals and birds that go on the ark, and several
million insects. If you average 100 species per kind, there would only be 350 kinds that go on the
ark. When they get off the ark and multiply they will become different species.
It’s no problem to fit all the kinds on the ark along with all the insects. As a matter of
fact, the capacity of the ark is huge. Say you’re standing on a platform waiting for a train to go
by. A freight train comes by with 52 stock cars. Another comes by with 52 stock cars. When 10
of those trains pass, each with 52 stock cars, you have the capacity of the ark. That is a huge
capacity. About 40% of the ark would not have been used at all.
“Where is the promise of His coming?” God is not slow in regard to His promise; He’s
not willing for any to perish but that all should come to repentance. God doesn’t want to judge
men. He takes no delight in seeing men go into eternal damnation. He wants men to be saved.
1 John 2:1b-2 And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the
righteous; and He Himself is the propitiation (the payment, the expiation, paid in full)?
for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.
This means that any man who stands at the great white throne judgment would not have
to be standing there had he repented because Jesus Christ is not just the propitiation for our sins
but those of everyone in the whole world. This means that His blood was shed for every single
human being—but every single human being did not appropriate it. When you think of all that
extra room in the ark Kay thinks, “Where sin did abound grace did much more abound. He is the
God exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we can ask or think.” There was room left over.
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What about the dinosaurs? Was there room for a dinosaur? Yes. Kay believes that the ark
included dinosaurs. Ellen G. White counters that Satan designed dinosaurs to deceive man, but
that’s not true. Dinosaurs did exist because their fossils have been found. They’re part of God’s
creation, well designed organisms. They are land creatures. Job 40:15-24 contains the description
of the behemoth. This describes a sauropod dinosaur. They no longer exist but it describes that.
In the fossil record dinosaurs were found so well preserved that it indicates that the fossils were
created by a cataclysmic event—an instant thing. When they find dinosaur bones in the fossil
record they are mingled with a different kind of plant that is extinct today. So what happened to
the dinosaurs? As Kurt Wise says, after the Flood people might not have wanted the dinosaurs so
close. Scientists believe from the plants that dinosaurs ate, that they were isolated from other
animals. They were plant-eating land creatures but the plants that they ate no longer existed so
their food supply disappeared.
It could be that Nimrod and other mighty hunters didn’t want dinosaurs in their garden or
around their kids. It could be that dinosaurs became extinct after the Flood just like the
duckbilled platypus and other things like that—they were killed off. There are no fossils of
dinosaurs after the Flood. You say, “Well, then they didn’t get off the ark.” No, you get on the
ark, you get off the ark. What you can probably assume is that you don’t find many fossils today
because when an animal dies, God has designed His little cleanup army to come in and eat the
tissue and consume everything so you just find the bones lying around in different places if they
didn’t eat the bones. You just don’t see a lot of fossils unless you go down to that fossil layer that
we believe is from the Flood. All these animals enter and live in the ark after their kind and:
Genesis 6:21 “As for you, take for yourself some of all food which is edible, and gather it to
yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them.”
You say, “What about all that food? What about all those days? That was a long time—
almost a year to take care of all those animals.” By watching the patterns of animals whenever
there is a cataclysmic event, scientists believe behavior changes help keep the animals alive. For
instance, at Mount St. Helens the elk took off before it ever erupted—they were smarter than the
people. Many times when there’s a cataclysmic event animals huddle together. It’s like a truce is
declared. They don’t eat each other because they are all huddled together. Many times they go
into estivation (hibernation or sleep). If they are in a state of sleep they aren’t going to eat as
much, you aren’t going to shovel as much waste. How God did this we don’t know.
Genesis 6:22 Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.
For 120 years Noah worked on that ark. How long it took him we don’t know, but for 120
years he knew a flood was coming. He was about 480 years old when he found this out. He
moved in faith and obedience and didn’t cut any corners. He never said, “Oh this is too long, I’ll
make it shorter. This is too narrow, I’ll make it wider.” He did according to all that God
commanded. He is a role model for Kay. She wants to do according to all that God commands
her to do. The Bible is a big book. In order to do that she needs to know the Book.
Genesis 7
Genesis 7:1 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you
alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this time.
Remember what Ezekiel said: that if Noah, Daniel and Job were in a city of a country that
was going to be judged by God they could only deliver themselves because only the righteous
will survive. You say, “I’m unrighteous. How do I get to be righteous?” You get to be righteous
by believing God and coming to Him saying, “God, I am a sinner; I have transgressed. I have
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broken Your commandments; I have walked in my own way and leaned on my own
understanding. God I am a sinner. I have messed up my life because I haven’t believed You. I
haven’t been like Noah; I haven’t done according to all You have commanded me. In fact I
haven’t even paid attention to this Book because it’s been boring to me. I’ve seen a lot of
hypocrisy in a lot of churches I’ve gone to and the others I have seen I can’t even measure up to.
God, I have messed up.” That’s all God needs to know—that you know you are not righteous.
The Bible is the standard of God and you have fallen short. To the degree you fall short, you
have sinned.
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Romans 3:10 As it is written, “There is none righteous, not even one;
You say, “How do I get righteous?” The same way Noah did—by faith.
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is
the gift of God;
God wants to save you. There’s room at the cross for you, as there was room in the ark
for others who could have been rescued if only they had listened to Noah, that preacher of
righteousness. It’s the same way for you. God desires to draw you, to bring you into His family.
There was a real flood. There’s a real judgment coming. There was a real ark, and there was a
real cross. There was safety in the ark for Noah and his family; there is safety at the cross for
you. There is room at the cross for you. All you have to do is what God commands: Believe,
repent, have a change of mind, and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ then He will give you the
gift of His Son and the gift of eternal life. As we study something that happened over 4000 years
ago, know that it has relevance for you today.
In Genesis 6, God told Noah to build an ark because He was going to flood the earth and
destroy every living thing off the face of the earth.
Genesis 6:18a “But I will establish My covenant with you;
 Mark the word “covenant.” Kay colors it red then boxes it in yellow. Red because to enter
into a covenant usually involves a cutting—a shedding of blood—in the cutting of a
covenant. Yellow because God is the sovereign administrator of every covenant.
In other words, if a covenant is made in marriage between two people when a solemn
binding agreement is made between them—and that’s what a covenant is—then God’s going to
administer over that covenant. That’s why God says:
Hebrews 13:4 (NKJV) Marriage is honorable among all and the bed undefiled: but fornicators
and adulterers God will judge.
Why will He judge them? Because marriage, according to Malachi, is a covenant:
Malachi 2:13b You ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD is acting as the witness between you and
the wife of your youth, because you have broken faith with her, though she is your
partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.
You are then judged by God because you have broken a covenant.
The first time the word “covenant” is ever mentioned in the Word of God is right here:
Genesis 6:18! This is the very first mention of the word. The word “covenant” enters into the
atmosphere, the context, the setting, of God planning to judge mankind. He is going to spare one
man and his family. Judgment is coming but He makes a covenant with Noah and his family that
protects them from that judgment.
Kay knows the Scriptures so she knows this. She has written a book called Our Covenant
God: Learning to Trust Him. If you get it, study it all the way through, then you will see that
everything that God does is based on covenant—on that solemn binding agreement. The Bible is
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divided into two parts: an Old Covenant and a New Covenant. The Old Covenant, or the Old
Testament (which is the Greek word for “Covenant”), is the Law, which came by Moses. But:
John 1:17 For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized in Jesus Christ.
The first time that “covenant” is ever mentioned, it’s in connection with both judgment
and salvation. That points to a covenant God made in Jesus Christ. He is the mediator of the
covenant. He is the Covenant. It is the Covenant into His blood. When you enter into that solemn
binding agreement with God then you pass from death—from the judgment of God—into life.
The covenant God makes with Noah will be elaborated on at the end of the flood in Genesis 9.
In chapter 7:1-5 Noah and his company are to enter the ark.
Genesis 7:4 “For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty night;
and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made.”
Noah is told: “You go into the ark. Take your sons and their wives and the animals and
you all go into the ark.” Then Noah sits there for seven days. Do you think those might have
been long days? For 120 years he’s known that judgment is coming and that it has to do with
water because he’s just built a boat. Now he’s in the boat but there’s no rain. (Kay believes that
there has never been rain upon the earth up until this time because the Scriptures imply God
watered the earth from the bottom.) He’s sitting in the ark—there’s supposed to be water from
some place—and he waits. Day 1…day 2…day 3… Seven days. What is seven? “Seven” in
Scripture is the number of perfection.
Here Noah obeys God, walking by faith as it is described in Hebrews 11:1
Hebrews 11:1 (KJV) Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
So Noah is sitting there for seven days.
Genesis 7:5 Noah did according to all that the LORD had commanded him.
From verses 6-24 the flood comes:
Genesis 7:6 Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the earth.
Noah was 500 years old when he had Shem, Ham, and Japheth. It has been 1656 years
since Adam’s creation if you follow the genealogies. This makes Noah’s sons about 100 years
old and their seed will replenish the earth. They had possibly been waiting for 120 years for this
moment. They have waited because God doesn’t want men to perish.
How widespread was the flood?
Genesis 7:7-9 Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark
because of the water of the flood. Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and
birds and everything that creeps on the ground, there went into the ark to Noah by twos,
male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
They not only came in two by two but also in sevens. The clean animals came in sevens.
The unclean animals came in two by two.
Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth
day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the
floodgates of the sky were opened.
There’s no way we could begin to conceive of what happened at the point in time when
the fountains of the great deep burst open. It was not: “Noah, he built him an arky arky and he
floated on the water as it rosey rosey rosey.” No. God broke up the fountains of the deep. In the
appendix of Precept Genesis II there is a drawing that shows the composition of the earth. The
inner core is solid. There is a liquid outer core. Then there is the thick mantle. Outermost is the
thin crust. The day before the flood an ocean crust lay under the water, then a continental crust
above the ocean crust and above the water. Below both is a mantle with density.
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When the flood came there was a breaking up where the mantle pushed up bringing heat
up through the ocean. The crust went one way and the rest went another… And the result was a
great cataclysmic event. The earth was lifted, lowered, twisted, melted, shifted, layered and
eroded. That’s what happened on the one day when the flood came. The fountains of the earth
were burst open. They were broken up. Some have called this event “rapid plate tectonics.” It is
described in an article in the appendix. Get Kurt Wise’s two tapes on this.
In conventional thinking, evolutionists believe the earth has always been “ever since it
was from the beginning” as Peter says. Those who do not believe in a literal flood have taught
that these plates move a centimeter a year. Here, though, they were moving meters per second. If
this happened there would be a pile of coal stuff at the bottom of the mantle piling up at the
core/mantle boundary. As a result there would be a pile of coal left there. It’s because of all this
that we’re getting coal and oil today, so the upheaval did have some benefits.
There was a reversal of the earth’s magnetic field. Now scientists are looking at the
reversal of the earth’s magnetic field and concluding that it happened less than 10,000 years ago.
How long ago was the Flood? About 4500 years ago or a little bit less. Today at the bottom of
the sea is a blotchy magnetic sea floor. All of this, if you look at it honestly, shows that some
cataclysmic event happened at a certain point of time. When you go through the Grand Canyon,
the mountains of Japan, etc, you see that there are global patterns in the rocks and in the fossils.
There are bonded iron formations with 99% in one layer. There is coal in a carboniferous set of
rocks; black shells, cross-bedded sandstone all in global patterns that are not according to the
conventional models of an earth that is millions of years old. It’s contrary to the conventional
way of thinking but God is telling us, “Go into the rocks, if you want to, and study them.” But if
you don’t believe what the Rock has said (His name is “Kur”—Rock), are you going to believe
when you dig down in those rocks? No, because you will rationalize away the evidence. This is
what people have done in the scientific field. They start with theories, but when something
doesn’t fit the theory, unless they’re honest, they’d rather support their theory than to tear it
down. There have been all sorts of theories since the time of the Flood because men are
unrighteous and evil in their thinking. Their thoughts are still evil continually.
Know that a key phrase is in chapter 7:
Genesis 7:11b-12 On the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the
floodgates of the sky were opened. The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty
nights.
All of a sudden, while man and the animal kingdom are out there on the earth, the whole
foundation of the earth, from the outer core and mantle, burst open with all that heat and cooling.
Cataclysmic events occured that all the animals were caught up in. They were suddenly brought
to death and covered. There was no animal to eat another animal, no insect to eat other insects
because every living thing on the face of the earth died at this point. This is why there are fossils
in the geological column found in the same layer all around the world. When they study the flow
of the waters, some rivers flow east or west—different directions. But the rocks from this era are
all in the same direction all across the world from east to west. This implies that there was a
global directionality to this water. Well-preserved fossils are the result. You don’t see such
things developing today. Everything outside the ark perished.
 Mark “perished”, “died”, “blotted out”. God brought all to death because all were evil and
God was judging the world.
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Genesis 7:21-23a All flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and
every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind; of all that was on the
dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died. Thus He blotted
out every living thing that was upon the face of the land.
Genesis 7:17-18 Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and
lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth. The water prevailed and increased
greatly upon the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.
With all these cataclysmic events when the tide came through along with volcanic
eruptions and the resultant high waves, that ark could withstand it all because of the way it was
built. It could ride out the storm, and ride out the storm it did.
Genesis 7:19-20 The water prevailed more and more upon the earth so that all the high
mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered. The water prevailed fifteen
cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
There was nothing on the face of this earth not covered with water except for the ark.
Genesis 8
In Genesis 8:1-14 the flood abates. The ark rests on Mount Ararat, in modern-day Turkey.
Genesis 8:13a Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first
of the month, the water was dried up from the earth.
This was Noah’s age when he sent out the birds. He knew now he could leave the ark.
Genesis 8:13b-14 Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the
surface of the ground was dried up. In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the
month, the earth was dry.
In Genesis 8:15-22 Noah left the ark. What’s the first thing he did? He built an altar to
worship his God and to kill for a sacrifice one of each of the seven kinds of clean animals that he
took on the ark. Noah made a blood sacrifice. He knew that without the shedding of blood there
is no pleasing God. You must come to Him through blood. When Noah did he received a
promise from God.
Genesis 8:21 The LORD smelled the soothing aroma; and the LORD said to Himself, “I will never
again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his
youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.”
Man got off the ark the same way he got on the ark. Noah was righteous but he had a
heart that was deceitful and desperately wicked. He needed a new heart and that’s what the New
Covenant brings:
Ezekiel 36:26-27 “Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I
will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My
Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe
My ordinances.”
When man got off the ark he was still a sinner but there was a promise:
Genesis 8:22 “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer
and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”
Genesis 9:1a And God blessed Noah and his sons…
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Genesis 9
Genesis 9:1-17 contains three commands and a promise.
The Commands:
1. Genesis 9:1b (KJV) “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.”
Remember in Genesis 1:28 it was not “replenish” the earth but “fill” the earth
[The NASB version of Genesis 9:1 uses “fill”.] Now there is a new generation. It’s no
longer “the generations of Adam” but “the generations of Noah.” We can all trace our
genealogy back to Shem, Ham, or Japheth.
2. Genesis 9:2-4 “The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth
and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all
the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given. Every moving thing that is alive
shall be food for you; I give it all to you, as I gave the green plant. Only you shall
not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.”
The fear of people would now be in the animals and the birds as they are given
into man’s hand. They are now food for man but he could not eat blood.
3. Genesis 9:5 “Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And
from every man, from every man’s brother I will require the life of man.”
Numbers 35:29-33 says that if you kill a man, you die. It’s a life for a life because
we were created in God’s image. If a man kills another but the murderer is not put to
death the blood pollutes the land even as the ground was cursed because of Abel’s blood
when Cain slew him.
The Promise: This is the covenant from Genesis 9:9-17. It is a one-sided covenant.
4. Genesis 9:9-10a, 11 “Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with
your descendants after you; and with every living creature… I establish My
covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the
flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
If the flood wasn’t universal then did God keep His covenant? No, because He
promised here never to destroy the earth by a flood so if the flood had not destroyed the
earth then God didn’t keep His covenant. God never breaks His covenant. He’s the
sovereign administrator of a covenant.
Do you know why the rainbow is in the heavens? It’s not for our sake:
Genesis 9:13-15a “I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant
between Me and the earth. It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the
earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud, and I will remember My covenant.”
Every time you look up and see a rainbow, God is looking down and seeing a
rainbow. God remembers the covenant He made with us. Never will He destroy us with a
flood, and yet He is going to judge us.
What is the lesson for us in all of this? It’s the one phrase:
Genesis 6:22 Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.
May you walk like that righteous man. If you do you will have nothing to fear. Hang on.
Hebrews 11:1 (KJV) Ffaith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
You believe Him no matter what it looks like and know this:
Hebrews 11:6b (KJV) and that God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.