Genesis 9:18–19
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
When the doors of the ark opened, Noah and his family stepped out into a world scrubbed clean. The slate was wiped, the reset button had been pressed, and the human race was given a new beginning. A new beginning does not mean a different kind of beginning. The world was washed, but the heart of man was not. The soil of the earth was cleansed by water, but the soil of the human soul still had the old thorns and thistles in it. The players were few, just eight souls, but the script of rebellion and redemption was still the one being performed. The flood was a massive, cataclysmic judgment, a de-creation and a re-creation. But it was not a final solution to the sin problem. God did not eradicate sin by drowning sinners; He preserved a remnant through whom He would bring the ultimate solution, the seed of the woman.