DWDP - Gen 8: 1-4 The Ark Rested on Mount Ararat

What if the flood didn’t solve the problem it seemed designed to wash away? We walk through Genesis 8 and discover a world drying out under God’s command while eight sinners step into sunlight with the same hearts they had before the storm. “God remembered Noah” becomes a banner for renewed action, not divine forgetfulness, and the wind over the waters invites us to hear creation’s echo: order returning at the word of the Lord.

We unpack the timelines that often blur in memory — forty days of rain, one hundred and fifty days of prevailing waters, a full year in the ark — and let Psalm 104 narrate what happened next: mountains rising, valleys sinking, boundaries set so the seas would not swallow the earth again. Along the way, we explore why the first act after the ark’s door opens is sacrifice, because new ground requires atonement, not optimism. The ark itself becomes a vivid picture of Christ: laboring through judgment’s waves, delivering a people, then resting. That rest, dated to the seventeenth day of the seventh month, draws a line toward resurrection hope and the final word spoken from the cross: “It is finished.”

This conversation stays honest about the struggle believers face. Salvation is secure, yet the battle with the flesh continues, the world beckons, and the adversary prowls. Demas’ love of the present age is a warning and a mirror. We offer practical encouragement to resist steadfastly, worship gratefully, and read the Bible’s details as invitations to trust, not trivia to file away. The God who commands the waters still draws clear boundaries around our fears and failures, and the living Word stands as our true ark when lesser boats fall apart.

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Chapters

• 0:02 Welcome And Scripture Reading
• 0:41 God Remembered Noah
• 2:32 Why The Flood Didn’t Erase Sin
• 4:16 Battling Flesh, World, And Satan
• 6:15 How The Waters Receded
• 7:32 Timelines: Forty Days And 150 Days
• 10:09 The Ark As A Type Of Christ
• 11:44 The Seventeenth Day And Resurrection
• 12:44 God Of Details And Closing Encouragement

Transcript

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Welcome to More Than Medic, where Jesus is more than enough for the ills that plague our culture and our country. Hosted by author and physician, Dr. Robert Jackson.

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Papa, can you tell me a story? Do you really want me to tell you a story? Well, you go get your brother and your sisters, and I will tell you a story. Welcome to Devotions with Dr. Papa. Gather around, grab your Bibles, and let's look into the written word which reveals to us the living word who is our Lord Jesus Christ. Today we're in Genesis chapter eight, verses one through four. But God remembered Noah and all the beast and all the cattle that were with him in the ark, and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided. Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained, and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased. In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat. May the Lord add his blessing to the reading of his word. After a hundred and fifty days of flood, chaos and destruction, utterly destroying the world, the world that then was, as Peter states in Second Peter chapter three and verse six, God began to clean up the mess. The Bible says he remembered Noah and all who were with him in the ark. Now does God forget did God forget them? No, God does not forget. This is a Hebrew phrase that means literally God began to act again on their behalf. It was time to start a new life in a brave new world. It was a new world without sin, right? Well no not right. All the sinners filled with violence. They all drowned, right? Well a lot of them did. But the ark was filled with eight sinners who promptly began to do what sinners do, which is to sin, as we shall soon see. They were preserved by the grace of God, but they were still sinners. Does that sound familiar to you? Does that sound like anybody that you know? Well, it sounds just like you and me. You and I were saved by the grace of God. We were washed in the blood, our names were written down in the lamb's book of life. We were made a citizen of heaven, indwelt by Holy Spirit, preserved from eternal destruction. You would think that we would be so grateful that we would never even consider sinning again. After all, we are new creatures in Christ, made righteous in Christ. Why would we choose to sin? Noah and his sons knew that the world destroying flood came because of corruption and violence. Surely they knew better than to dabble in sin. You and I know that Jesus, the very Son of God, went to the cross on our behalf because of our sin. Surely we know better than to dabble in sin. Well it's not that simple, is it? We still have to do battle every day with our lower nature, our old sin nature, which loves to sin, prone to wonder how I know it, prone to leave the God I love. We have to do battle with the world, which is always enticing us, and if any of us loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Paul said in one of his epistles that Demas has left me having loved the present world. Oh my goodness, how much of Demas is in you and me? We have to do battle with Satan, our ancient adversary, the tempter, the accuser of the brethren, who roams about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. If we do not resist him steadfastly, he will not flee from us. You understand sin got on the ark of safety with those eight souls, and it got off the ark with those eight folks. The brave new world freshly washed by the wrath of God against violence and corruption was contaminated by sin as soon as the door was opened, and their dirty little feet touched the ground of the pristine New World, which is why, as we will see in a later lesson, the first thing Noah did when he departed from the Ark was to do what? Well, it was to offer sacrifices, and what are sacrifices for? Sacrifices are for sin. The first thing Noah did was to offer sacrifices for sin. And then the first thing God did was to make a wind pass over the earth to make the waters subside. Now there's two possibilities here. The first possibility is the word wind is ruas, which could be wind or spirit. The fundamental meaning is invisible force. It could be that the same Holy Spirit that moved at creation to separate the waters above from the waters below blew on the earth to remove the water supernaturally. Or it could be an actual wind created by the the changes in temperature by the removal of the water canopy and the creation of atmospheric air circulation, which may have been quite violent for a period of time, creating uh large amounts of evaporation. Now all that's speculation because you know none of us were there and we really don't know for certain, but it does make some sense. Now, the psalmist tells us in Psalms 104, verses 6 through 9. Now listen to this this reading from Psalms 104. Now this whole chapter is talking about the creation and the flood. And it says in verse 6, Psalms 104, You covered it with the deep as with a garment. The waters were standing above the mountains. Now when did the water stand above the mountains? Well, it was at the flood. At your rebuke they fled. At the sound of your thunder, they hurried away. The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place which you established for them. You set a boundary that they may not pass over, so that they will not return to cover the earth. Now who did that? Well, the Lord God Almighty did that. He set a wind that blew on the earth, and it made the waters recede, and in the consequence of all that the mountains rose up, the valleys went down, and there was a boundary set for the sea that it may not pass beyond it. And God did all of that in these days after the flood. Perhaps the great subterranean caverns, the fountains of the deep, once they were emptied of their contents, they collapsed on themselves, creating the great ocean deeps. Now that's speculation, but it makes good sense. And then in verse two, God tells us that the fountains of the deeps and the floodgates of the sky were closed. The rain from the sky was restrained. So let me ask you a couple of questions. How long was this process of rain? Well the Bible told us it was forty days. Forty days the fountains of the deep were burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were thrown open. All right, next question. How long did the water prevail mightily upon the face of the earth? It was a hundred and fifty days. Remember that. The waters covered even the mountains for a hundred and fifty days. How long was Noah and all the animals in the ark? We covered that in last week's lesson. It was one year. One year they were in the ark. Now move to verse four. All the way back to Genesis, and let's read in chapter eight and verse four. It said in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Arat. I have pointed out to you before that the ark is a type of our Lord Jesus Christ. That word type means a picture, a portrayal of Jesus. I want you to keep that in mind. As verse 4 tells us that the ark rested, pay attention to that word rested on the mountains of Arat, as though it had been laboring for five months at its work of saving Noah's family from the destruction and judgment of the flood. If you recall, God also rested after the work of creation on the seventh day. These two words for rest are different Hebrew words, but very similar words. I hope you see that God finished his work of creation, just as the ark finished its mission of deliverance. So our Lord Jesus Christ announced on the cross it is finished tetalesti, as he finished or completed the work of salvation. Did you notice that the ark rested on the seventeenth day of the seventh month? Now why would the Bible give us such specific dates? And why is that noteworthy? I'll tell you why. Because our Lord Jesus Christ rose from the dead on the seventeenth day of the seventh month of the Jewish civil calendar. If the Ark is a true type of our Lord Jesus Christ, we would expect nothing less than this kind of precise detail, this kind of precision. Our God is a God of the details. He leaves no detail out, just so you and I will be amazed, and to bolster our faith and our confidence in the inerrant and infallible word of God. Please remember this written word always points to the living word, whom to know aright is eternal life. You're listening to Devotions with Dr. Papa. If you like what you hear, I pray that you would follow, like, share, or even download it. Tell your friends about it. I'll be back again next week, and until then, remember that Jesus loves you and your doctor loves you.

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