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Subtopic of Remember

Seasons of Waiting

Coming back to what God has said and done.

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Noah's Altar: The Pleasing Aroma Behind God's Promise (Genesis 8:15-22)
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Noah's Altar: The Pleasing Aroma Behind God's Promise (Genesis 8:15-22)

Day ten of a walk through the whole Bible to know the God who speaks, opened up. Genesis 8 records the end of the flood with a first altar and a permanent promise, and the promise rests on one repeated Hebrew word. The reason God gave for never flooding the earth again, the evil yetser of the human heart, was word for word the reason He gave for sending the flood. Humanity stayed exactly the same. The altar was what changed. The olah and its reyach nichoach, the pleasing aroma, point straight to the fragrant offering of Christ.

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Noah Leaves the Ark: Why God Promised No Second Flood (Genesis 8:15-22)
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Noah Leaves the Ark: Why God Promised No Second Flood (Genesis 8:15-22)

Day ten of a walk through the whole Bible to know the God who speaks. In Genesis 8 the ground had been dry for weeks, yet Noah stayed in the ark until God told him to come out. Then he built the first altar in Scripture, and over its smoke God made a promise that still holds every spring, that seedtime and harvest will never cease. The surprise is the reason God gave, and where the altar points.

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To remember is to refuse to forget. The God of the Bible is constantly telling His people to remember. Stones at the Jordan. Bread on the table. Names in a journal. Memory is how faith survives the in-between.

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