Genesis 8:1–5
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
The old world, thoroughly corrupted and violent, has been washed away. For one hundred and fifty days, the ark has been a solitary speck on a global ocean, a tiny vessel of life in a world of death. From a human perspective, this is the very definition of being forgotten. Adrift, with no land in sight, surrounded by the silent, slate-gray evidence of God's wrath. It is in this precise moment of apparent abandonment that God reveals His character most profoundly. Our modern sentimentalism wants a God who never sends judgment in the first place. We want a grandfatherly deity who would never do something so severe as flooding the entire world. But the God of the Bible is holy, and His justice is as perfect as His mercy. It was a righteous, holy, and necessary act of cosmic sanitation.