Nov 11 2005
Genesis 8
“What Happens As It All Starts Over”
OR
“Who Let the Doves Fly Around and Poop on All of Us??”
Verses 1-12 – We have here the story of how Noah, his family, and all of the Ark’s inhabitants finally stepped back onto dry land. After the 150 days of the floodwaters covering the earth, they finally began to recede and, by the middle of the seventh month of the (Jewish??) year, the Ark came to rest on the peak of Mt. Ararat (located in modern-day Turkey). 2-1/2 months later, at the beginning of the tenth month of the (Jewish??) year, the waters had receded enough for the tops of the mountain to finally be seen (that is, if you were outside of the Ark, which no one was).
40 days after the mountaintops could be seen, Noah released a raven to see how the raven would respond to what it saw. The raven simply flew around until all of the water dried on the earth. Noah then sent off a dove to survey the situation – it flew around, finding nothing, and returned to Noah when he beckoned for it. Seven days later, Noah sent off this dove again; the dove returned that evening with a freshly-plucked olive leaf in its beak. At this, Noah was excited because it meant that the water had finally left the surface of the earth. Noah decided to wait yet another week before releasing the dove. This time, the dove failed to return, a sign to Noah that it was time to exit the Ark.
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