1. The World
before the Flood
Before the Flood
• Waters in One Place
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many places
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“one place”
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many places
Before the Flood
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Waters in One Place
Fountains of the Deep
No rain
Like Egypt
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Noah
Moses
Christ
World
before the
Flood
Flood: “eight souls
were saved by water.
The like figure
whereunto even
baptism doth also
now save us” (1 Pet.
3:20,21)
Egypt
“And were all baptized
unto Moses in the
cloud and in the sea;”
(1 Cor. 10:2
World
Baptism
World after the
Flood
Through
wilderness to
the Promised
Land
Through
spiritual
wilderness to
Kingdom
World before the Flood
“for Yahweh God had not
caused it to rain upon the
earth” (Gen. 2:5)
Egypt
“even upon them shall be no
rain. And if the family of Egypt
go not up, and come not, that
have no” (Zech. 14:17,18)
“And Yahweh God planted a
“even as the garden of
garden eastward in Eden”
Yahweh, like the land of Egypt,
(Gen. 2:8)
as thou comest unto Zoar”
(Gen. 13:10)
“spirits in prison” (1 Pet. 3:19) “the prison” (Gen. 39:20)
“... the prisoner; to loose those “We be all dead men” (Ex.
that are appointed to death”
12:23)
(Ps. 102:20)
“an instructer of every artificer “out of the iron furnace, even
in ... iron” (Gen. 4:22)
out of Egypt” (Deut. 4:22)
Egypt a microcosm of
what the world was like
before the Flood.
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Before the Flood
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Waters in One Place
Fountains of the Deep
No rain
Like Egypt
Garden of Eden
River divides into four
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“Went out “to water the
of Eden” garden”
“from thence it
was parted”
Pison
Gihon
Garden
Eden
“eastward in
Eden”
Hiddekel
Euphrates
“four
heads”
The rivers go
out already
parted
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Before the Flood
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Waters in One Place
Fountains of the Deep
No rain
Like Egypt
Garden of Eden
River divides into four
One Language (Hebrew)
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Hebrew names
• “And Adam called his wife’s name Eve (chavvah);
because she was the mother of all living (chay)”
(Gen. 3:20)
• “... and bare Cain (qayin), and said, I have gotten
(qanah) a man from the LORD” (Gen. 4:1)
• “... and called his name Seth (sheth): For God,
said she, hath appointed (shiyth) me another
seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew” (Gen.
4:25)
• “And he called his name Noah (noach), saying,
This same shall comfort (nacham) ... ” (Gen. 5:29)
“And he called his name Noah (noach), saying, This
same shall comfort <05162> (nacham) ... ” (Gen. 5:29)
“And the ark rested <05117> (nuwach) in the seventh
month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the
mountains of Ararat” (Gen. 8:4)
“Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will
cause my fury to rest <05117> upon them, and I will be
comforted <05162>: and they shall know that I Yahweh
have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished
my fury in them” (Ezek. 5:13)
Before the Flood
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Waters in One Place
Fountains of the Deep
No rain
Like Egypt
Garden of Eden
River divides into four
One Language (Hebrew)
Long life expectancy
Tent dwellers
Cattle
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• Harp and organ
• Worked brass and iron
Before the Flood
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Waters in One Place
Fountains of the Deep
No rain
Like Egypt
Garden of Eden
River divides into four
One Language (Hebrew)
Long life expectancy
Tent dwellers
Cattle
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Harp and organ.
Worked brass and iron
Marrying out of the Truth
Flesh versus spirit
`Giants’
“There were giants <05303> (nephilim) in the earth in
those days; and also after that, when the sons of God
came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare
children to them, the same became mighty men which
were of old, men of renown” (Gen. 6:4)
“And there we saw the giants <05303>, the sons of Anak,
which come of the giants <05303>: and we were in our
own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight
... And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this
land, to fall <05307> (naphal) by the sword, that our wives
and our children should be a prey? were it not better for
us to return into Egypt?” (Num. 13:33; 14:3)
“And the Sabeans fell <05307> upon them, ...”(Job 1:15)
Before the Flood
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Waters in One Place
Fountains of the Deep
No rain
Like Egypt
Garden of Eden
River divides into four
One Language (Hebrew)
Long life expectancy
Tent dwellers
Cattle
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Harp and organ.
Worked brass and iron
Marrying out of the Truth
Flesh versus spirit
`Giants’
Wicked and violent
Like world of Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes
2:24
“eat and drink”
“eating and drinking”
9:9
“Live joyfully with the wife
whom thou lovest”
“marrying and giving in
marriage”
11:2
“thou knowest not”
“And knew not”
Matthew
24:38
24:38
24:39
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Waters in One Place
Fountains of the Deep
No rain
Like Egypt
Garden of Eden
River divides into four
One Language (Hebrew)
Long life expectancy
Tent dwellers
Cattle
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Harp and organ.
Worked brass and iron
Marrying out of the Truth
Flesh versus spirit
`Giants’
Wicked and violent
Like world of Ecclesiastes
Some walked with God
“And Enoch walked <01980> with God ... ” Gen. 5:22)
“And Enoch walked <01980> with God ... " (Gen. 5:24)
“... Noah walked <01980> with God” (Gen. 6:9)
“... and Abraham went <01980> with them to bring them on
the way” (Gen. 18:16)
“The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found
in his lips: he walked <01980> with me in peace and equity,
and did turn many away from iniquity” (Mal. 2:6)
“From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked
no more with him” (Jno. 6:66)
“Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not
defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white:
for they are worthy” (Rev. 3:4).
Before the Flood
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Waters in One Place
Fountains of the Deep
No rain
Like Egypt
Garden of Eden
River divides into four
One Language (Hebrew)
Long life expectancy
Tent dwellers
Cattle
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Harp and organ.
Worked brass and iron
Flesh versus spirit
Marrying out of the Truth
Wicked and violent
`Giants’
Some walked with God
Noah the eighth.
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Adam
Seth
Enos
Cainan
Mahaleel
Jared
Enoch
Methuselah
Lamech
Noah
“the seventh from Adam” (Jude 14)
8th from Adam
“the eighth” (2 Pet. 2:5)
When Methuselah died Noah took on his role.
Before the Flood
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Waters in One Place
Fountains of the Deep
No rain
Like Egypt
Garden of Eden
River divides into four
One Language (Hebrew)
Long life expectancy
Tent dwellers
Cattle
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Harp and organ.
Worked brass and iron
Flesh versus spirit
Marrying out of the Truth
Wicked and violent
`Giants’
Some walked with God
Noah the eighth.