Breath of God - Part 2

The Breath of God – Part 2

“In whose hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of every living thing.”  Job 12:10

Chapter 5 in Genesis is the written account of the descendants of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them to be like himself. The oldest man ever to have lived was Methuselah who lived 969 years.  He was also the grandfather of Noah. By the time Noah was 500 years old he had 3 sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth.

No one knows how many years passed and peopled multiplied on the earth, but they became so evil God was grieved in His heart. In Genesis 6:7 “So the LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.”

Then God told Noah that he was going to destroy the earth.  But because Noah was a righteous man, God told Noah that he, his sons, his wife and son’s wives would be saved from the great flood coming to the earth.  So Noah and his family did everything God told them to do from building the ark to bringing all living creatures into the ark before the flood began.

When it began and all was ready, God told Noah for all of them to come into the ark and God closed the door of the ark and sealed it. Noah was 600 years old, “When all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened, and the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.” 

At last the day came when God told Noah and his family to empty the ark of both man and beast.  It was then the first altar was built and a burnt offering was made unto God!  Genesis 9:1 “So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.”  Genesis 9:8-11 “Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying: And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you, and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth. Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” And God Put a rainbow in the sky as His sign of the Covenant.  “And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.”  (Genesis 9:28-29)

Now, this was the end of all the people that had been on the earth before the flood and it was also the beginning of God’s covenant with a new mankind. Hundreds of years later, many people inhabited the earth and they all spoke the same language.  They decided to build a city and a tower to reach heaven.  God was not pleased with this for he thought that nothing could stop them from doing whatever they wanted, so he confused their languages so they couldn’t understand each other and scattered them out across the earth. So the building of the tower was stopped and it was called “The Tower of Babel” because the Lord confused their languages.

Out of Noah’s son, Shem were born many sons and daughters and from them were born many more.  Out of some born, was a man named Terah and had three sons, Abram, Nahor and Haran.  Then Terah took Abram and his grandson, Lot and Abram’s wife, Sarai and moved to a place called Harran.  There he lived until he died at age two hundred and five years.

From here we read the story about Abram whom God changed his name to Abraham and his wife Saria who was then called Sarah.  Thus begins the birth of Israel and whole story of God’s people whom he loved and still does. God blessed Abram and promised he would be the Father of a great nation. All this and more, came about from God breathing his Spirit into the man he made from dust and calling him man.  Then taking one of his ribs and making a women whom he called Eve.

                 From all of this came you and me!