So we're here in Genesis chapter 8 and we're going to finish the whole chapter here tonight
And there's a lot of symbolism in this chapter, but also a lot of just literal stuff that we'll look at here
We'll just go verse by verse
And point number one we see the Bible talks about the water is lessened in the earth
obviously
we just looked at the worldwide flood that took place in Genesis chapter 7 where the waters came from the crust of the ground and
From above and so obviously they're flooded and everything and now the waters are going to slowly
Basically recede and there's gonna be a little bit less water
So verse number one and God remembered Noah and every living thing and all the cattle that was with him in the ark and God
Made a wind to pass over the earth and the waters assuaged
The fountains also the deep in the heavens of the windows of heaven were stopped and the rain from heaven was restrained
So up until this point it keeps raining and raining and there's water coming from the crust of the ground
So there's more and more and more water and then eventually it just kind of stops
God just stops it
The reason why it stops it is it says God remembered Noah in every living thing and you know
The truth is that sometimes you go through trials in your life and there could be
Disasters and maybe you happen to live in an area with a big disaster
but you know oftentimes you'll see that God will say and God remembered so-and-so and God
protected them through a difficult time period and obviously God's anger was upon the earth and he destroyed everybody and then as this is going
On God remembers Noah and then basically his wrath is pacified and he allows the water to stop and then you know
Obviously at the end of this chapter we're seeing they're about to get off the ark and everything verse 3
And the waters returned from off the earth
Continually now this seems to be kind of a reference of you know
Basically how the water cycle works the waters return from off the earth continually because obviously, you know
We have it rains and there's more water here, but it's not like the waters vanishing
There's just kind of a cycle that goes on
you know the basic water cycle the Bible seems to be making a reference to this in verse 3 and it says after in after
The end of the 150 days the waters were abated so abated means to be less and then it says in the ark
Rested in the seventh month on the 17th day of the month upon the mountains of Ararat
So once again, you're seeing throughout this chapter here in this verse as well
The Bible is very specific with the exact day and the precise time
Because it's trying to give you this as basically a historical narrative that this actually took place
It gives precise dates and it says upon the mountains of Ararat
Okay
And there's a lot of debates out there about has the ark been found today because obviously this is a literal story
This took place
But you know people aren't really sure where is the ark obviously we know the general area in terms of you know
What country and it says on the mountains of Ararat, but there's been a lot of just debates about has the ark been found
There's been a lot of like Christian archaeologists that have tried to do discoveries and a lot of them have said they found it
Here's what it says about Mount Ararat on Wikipedia
Mount Ararat is a snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in the extreme east of Turkey
It consists of two major volcanic cones greater Ararat and little Ararat
Greater Ararat is the highest peak in Turkey and there are many in Highland with an elevation of
5137 meters little Ararat's elevation is
3896 meters so many people think that the the ark is resting in that location
Of course, we're looking at the name of something from thousands of years ago
We don't necessarily know if if things have changed and the names are a little bit different
They got things a little bit off, but that's what it says about Mount Ararat, but there's been many basically Christian
So-called archaeologists that have tried to discover Noah's ark
It's like if they can just discover this then they can prove the Bible is true is basically the general idea
Okay, and so here's an example of this of a ministry called Noah's Ark Ministries International
It says Turkish and Chinese explorers from a group called Noah's Ark Ministries International
Made the latest discovery claimed Monday in Hong Kong
This is not this past Monday, but reading an article from a long time ago where the group is based
It's not 100% that it is Noah's Ark, but we think it is
99.9% that this is it Yung Wing Chung a filmmaker accompanying the explorers told the Daily Mail now
Here's the thing about this, you know, this could have been Noah's Ark. I don't know
I mean obviously Noah's Ark existed
We don't really know exactly where it is or but the thing is there's been a lot of Christian ministries that have found Noah's Ark and
Obviously, they can't all be correct and perhaps none of them are correct
Okay, but what I want you to understand is this that when you look at it like the false religion of evolution
Evolution often lies to basically promote their theory
They'll find a bone and they'll make false claims and the reason why they do that is if they can find something
More money will be given to them basically as a donation or as a grant or whatever you would like to call it
So basically if they can't find anything and they're running to the end of their five-year, you know program of getting money
It's like oh we found this we think this is the missing link or whatever and this has happened many times in evolution
Well, the reason why they do that they lie to get money because you know what it's in their best interest to find something
Well, I'm not saying this is true with these organizations that are Christian organizations
But it certainly could be true where they could basically just say we found it because they're going to get more money that way
Right if they can make this big discovery
I mean obviously the love of money is the root of all evil and when we're talking about Christian organizations, we know that
Christian is more like, you know Christian, of course. I don't know these people. Maybe they're saved
I have no idea but I know many people that have supposedly found Noah's Ark
there's a famous seventh-day Adventist who found like Noah's Ark and the Ark of the Covenant and
Ron Wyatt, there we go. He's found like
Everything supposedly it's like man. This guy's like the luckiest guy in the world. Just walking around. Well, here's Noah's Ark
Here's the Ark of the Covenant and he's in supposedly it's proving Christianity, but I want you to understand something
You know, I think it would be cool if we found Noah's Ark and we knew it was Noah's Ark
But that isn't going to get a single person say it does nothing to get somebody saved
I'll prove it to you with Bible go to Matthew 12
Matthew 12
Matthew chapter 12
And not only that when you're looking at these Christian organizations that are basically Christian archaeologists they don't go to church
They basically their full-time ministry is to find Noah's Ark
But they're not going to church
They're not going soul-winning. I mean doesn't everybody need to be in church and
Their full-time ministry is to find Noah's Ark. Well, here's the thing if we lived in this part of the world if we lived in
Turkey
You know what we'd have our normal church service times until the Muslims killed us because it's a Muslim country
We would have our soul-winning times and hey
Maybe we'd have a hike on a mountain and be like on a side point
Just kind of keep an eye out in case you see Noah's Ark
But we we wouldn't make this our main ministry where we're gonna quit soul-winning
And you know not go to church and not read the Bible because it's all about finding Noah's Ark you say, you know brother Stuckey
What's what's wrong with that? Well, what I'm saying is it's it's not gonna do anything and I'll prove it to you Matthew 12 verse 39
But he answered and said on to them an
Evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign and there shall no sign be given to it
but the sign of the Prophet Jonas and what Jesus says is the only sign they're gonna get is
The sign of the Prophet Jonas now, this is referring to Jonah you say what's the sign of the Prophet Jonah?
Well, it tells us in verse 40 for as Jonas or Jonah was three days in three nights in the whales belly
So shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth
so this is a reference that Jesus was actually in hell because it's the heart of the earth for three days and
three nights and what Jonah was in the whales belly for three days and
Basically the idea is Jesus was in the heart of the earth for three days and then afterwards up from the grave he rose
Right
So what's the sign that he's saying? Well, the sign is this that Jesus died was buried and rose again
That's the sign they're gonna get because how do people get saved they get saved with the gospel of Jesus Christ
What is the gospel the death burial and resurrection of Jesus?
Right now Jonah was in the whales belly for three days and three nights. I would imagine being inside a whales belly is not fun
right and
You know what that shows us since that's an analogy of Jesus that those three days and three nights
Jesus was not in a good place because today you've got these you know churches that will say well
Jesus was in hell for three days and three nights, but it was the good part of hell
You know where they basically got to drink the fountains of the living water and it was paradise and everything like that
But was being in a whales belly for three days and three nights fun
Obviously not I mean obviously it was dark
I would presume the stomach acids were probably, you know, very hot and everything like that
The smell was probably terrible probably in many ways a good depiction of hell
Maybe that's why God used that example and he's right in the middle of that whale
Right, and so Jesus was in a bad place for three days and three nights. He was in hell, obviously as the Bible teaches
But the only sign he says he's going to give them is the sign of the Prophet Jonas
Look when we're preaching the gospel if we preach the gospel and show what the Bible says and they don't get saved
That's the only sign that we can give them. We can't give them anything else
You say brother Stuckey
But if you want to get a Buddhist save you got to read like all the Buddhist
Scriptures and everything like that and study the eightfold path
No
You don't because people get saved the same way for I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God
Under salvation to everyone that believe it the Jew first and also to the Greek
Also to the Mormon also to the Buddhist also the Jehovah's Witness
Also to the unsaved Christian or Catholic that's out there. It's the same message that gets them saved. It's the Word of God
That's what gets them saved. The Bible says he's not going to give any other sign
You say the brother Stuckey because there's these people out here that will say if I just saw a sign
I would believe
Right, they say if God just showed me a sign I would believe
Well when Jesus was alive, he gave him a pretty good sign. It's called resurrecting from the dead. Did everybody get saved?
No
Right just because he rose again from the dead everybody didn't get saved. I mean they saw miracles done by Jesus
They saw miracles from other people in the Bible. They didn't all get saved
The reality is the Word of God is more powerful than anything else
And if they're gonna get saved it's gonna be saved from the Word of God now go to Matthew 7 real quickly
Matthew 7
And I'm not trying to be down on finding Noah's Ark because I think it would be cool
Right if I was going on a hike and I found out that you know
Noah's Ark was on Mount Pinatubo. I bet cool. I discovered it. Nobody thought it was here, right?
That'd be awesome right to find Noah's Ark and you know
The other thing is I'm not I'm not down on these historical places because if we lived in this part of the world
and
Biblical events took place there wouldn't it be cool to go in like a church event go hiking and see some of these things
I mean absolutely that'd be great, right?
But so I'm not down on seeing these places. I'm just saying these places aren't going to get anybody saved
Okay
Matthew 7 verse 24
There's other symbolism though from from what we saw in Genesis
And that's the idea that there is this flood that destroyed everything and we can use that for symbolism in our lives notice what it
says in Matthew 7 verse 24
Therefore whosoever hearth these sayings of mine and doeth them
I will liken him unto a wise man which built his house upon a rock and the rain
Descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beat upon that house and it fell not for was founded upon a rock
And everyone that hearth these sayings of mine and doeth them not shall be likened unto a foolish man
which built his house upon the sand and the rain descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beat upon that house and
It fell and great was the fall of it
See the Bible says that if there's a storm that takes place upon your house referring to your body
If you are founded upon a rock, you're gonna last through it. If you're not then you're gonna fall right there
There's importance of having a strong foundation. You know, I'm always when I mean when I'm preaching about building houses
I'm hesitant as we've got, you know
Architects here. I don't want to say anything wrong. But the idea from the Bible is you need to have a strong foundation for a house
Okay, well here's the thing when you think about what happened during the flood
I don't believe those eight people inside the boat were having the time of their life during that flood
I mean, obviously they survived it but and look they got to experience one of the greatest historical things that ever took place
One of the most amazing events, but honestly for the eight of them
They probably weren't having that great of a time inside the ark
I mean, I can't imagine that every day they woke up and said, oh, what a beautiful day
I'm so excited
Let's check what the animals are doing
I mean probably you know that they're kind of miserable and see I want you to understand that you know
We are going to go through difficult times in our lives. We're gonna have times the storms beat upon us. We're tired
We're exhausted. We're trying to hang in there
But you know the idea is God is going to remember Noah as he says and then waters are going to go down
The same is true in our lives
Look when we're going through a storm and it seems like everything's messed up and everything's wrong
You just got to wait it out and things are gonna get better. That's the bottom line go back to Genesis chapter 8 Genesis 8
Genesis 8
Genesis chapter 8 Genesis 8 verse 5 in the waters
Decrease continually until the 10th month in the 10th month on the first day of the month were the tops of the mountain scene
So gives you the precise day and it says the tops of the mountains are seen because the water is coming down
Then it says in verse 6
And it came to pass at the end of 40 days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made so our first
Point we talked about the lesson water here
What I want to talk about is the comparison between the Raven and the dove and what we can learn from this
And so it says Noah opens the window of the ark which he had made now
I'm sure that was an exciting time where he's able to open the window and just get some fresh air and see what was outside
And everything like that. Then it says here in verse 7 and
He sent forth a raven which went to and fro until the waters were dried up from off the earth
So basically sends out a raven and the reason why he's doing this is because now the water has gone down
But he still doesn't know if they can actually just safely like, you know land the ship so to speak and then get off and continue
With their lives and so he sends out the raven to kind of test on these things
Okay, now from what I read online
Ravens can fly for up to 40 hours
So after 40 hours, they run out of energy now
That's quite a bit of time right to fly for 40 hours
But apparently they can fly from what I read for about 40 hours. Of course
It's possible that it might have been a little bit different 4,000 years ago because people live longer
Maybe there's a difference with animals. We can't necessarily be sure of that
But in today's world from what I read they live they fly for about 40 hours
Okay, now realize a raven is an unclean fowl an unclean bird meaning there would be one male and one female
So the Ravens going to be sent out and the raven does not return
So if the rave I mean when I'm reading this, I think the raven drowned to be honest
I'm not really sure but he sends out the raven the raven never comes back
But if that's the case if the raven drowned then the Raven would have had to already mated with the female one to be able
To eventually have the Ravens continue. Obviously we have Ravens today
And so I'm not necessarily sure but what we do know is the raven is sent out and it doesn't come back
What's possible the Raven was sent out and found a place to land and just kind of hung out and just didn't come back to
The ark not really sure the Bible doesn't tell us we don't necessarily know a hundred percent for sure
But we know this story we take it literally we believe this story even though it doesn't necessarily always have every single precise detail
But then it says this in verse 8
Also, we send forth a dove from him to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground
But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot and she returned on them into the ark for the waters were on
the face of the whole earth
So it's possible that the Raven did find a rest for the soul of her foot
But I presume that the Raven didn't and I don't know got lost or whatever
I'm not really sure but the dove ends up coming back and what that signals to Noah is that okay?
It's not time right? You know, we can't go out yet. We still got to wait
So he sends out the dove the dove comes back then he put forth his hand and took her and pulled her in onto him
Into the ark and he stayed yet seven other seven days and again
He sent forth a dove out of the ark and the dove came in to him in the evening and lo inner mouth was
An olive leaf plucked off. So no one knew that the waters were abated from off the earth now verse 11 is
A verse that sometimes people read to try to question the Bible because they say if there was a worldwide flood
Why would there be any plant life?
Right because a worldwide flood just took place and then all of a sudden it mentions an olive leaf
It's like well, how is there an olive leaf if there's a worldwide flood?
But see actually there's a lot of plants that although their normal dwelling place is not inside water
They can survive inside water and all of leaf is one of those plants
Right. And so this is something I read online because it was kind of new to me as well
I don't I don't know much, you know about plants
But obviously we know there are a lot of plants that are permanently always under the water, right?
There's a lot of plants that live under the water
But there's also other plants where their normal dwelling place is not in the water
However, if they are submerged in water, it will not destroy them and it said an olive leaf is actually one of those plants
This is from from an article read
It said it is a remarkable fact as bearing indirect testimony to this narrative that the olive has been a certain to bear leaves
Underwater, so this is something that they did not know
Until the more modern times, but they've actually proven that olives can actually bear leaves
underwater olive trees
So it is possible for some plants to actually survive in the water that are not normally in the water
Which it makes sense because we're reading about the olive leaf here and it's like well, how did that happen?
Well because they can actually survive in the water
Okay, people always want to question the Bible they question the Bible
They study it out and it turns out all the Bible was right on that, right?
And so all of leaves can actually survive in the water
So verse number 12 and he stayed yet other seven days and sent forth the dove which returned not again onto many more
And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year in the first month
the first day of the month the waters were dried up from off the earth and no remove the covering in the ark and look to
Behold the face of the ground was dry
So once again, very precise details on the time and in the second month on the seventh and twentieth day of the month was the earth
Dried so point number one. We looked at the lessened water
Point two we looked at the raven and the dog
We have these two different fowl and then the dove comes back
The raven does not come back and the dove is sent out again
And now let's just look at some other highlights that we see from this chapter verse 15 and God spake unto Noah saying go
Forth of the ark thou and thy wife and thy sons and thy son's wives with thee now
Once again, you know remember we said when they went into the ark it uses the word come into the ark
Right, and you know when it's using this this, you know
Go forth of the ark that the indication seems to be that God's kind of saying from within just go forth because obviously God's presence
Was there with them the entire time, right?
So he told them to come into the ark and now he's saying go forth of the ark thou and thy wife and thy sons
And thy son's wives with thee bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh both of fowl and of cattle
And of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth that they may breed abundantly in the earth and be
fruitful and multiply upon the earth
So what he says the animals is he wants them to breed abundantly and basically he wants to have a lot of animals
Now, of course God tells us to be fruitful and multiply
But he also basically says the exact same thing to them because he says that they may breed abundantly
Then he says be fruitful and multiply and those are synonyms that he's saying and he's saying I want you to be able to have
a lot of offspring
okay, so God wants our planet filled and
Here's the thing. Obviously if we're gonna be here as people one thing we actually need are the animals
Partially because we eat the animals but also because the animals serve a purpose
They actually have a purpose and God tells them to breed abundantly in the earth now, of course today
You know you look at a lot of things like endangered species, which is something the world is often very worried about
Okay, obviously there was dinosaurs and you know today
We don't have dinosaurs at least not in areas that are populated. Perhaps they're in some, you know, jungles or waters or whatever
We're not necessarily sure but we don't have you know
Dinosaurs like they had in the Bible because when he's describing the Leviathan and the behemoth
It's like job knows exactly what he's talking about. Like oh, I've seen Leviathan before now to us
We're like, oh, yeah, what's Jurassic Park, right?
But he had actually experienced, you know those animals, okay
But obviously some animals have died out now
Look, I'm not for species dying out in general because obviously God created them for a purpose
so I think it's good for them to exist and look part of me is a bit sad when a species dies out an
Animal dies out because obviously they were made for a purpose, but I'm not going to spend my life devoted to that or worried about that
Okay. Now here's what's funny about this though
evolution
teaches
survival of the fittest
Right, we're basically just roll the dice and whatever happens happens if you don't make it you don't make it
Well, why is it the same people that say survival of the fittest are the same people trying to protect these animals that are dying off?
It doesn't make sense
Right. They always contradict themselves in so many different ways because the exact same people that are just like we got to protect these species
They're dying off. It's been around for 500 million years
It's like we got to protect it and it's the same one that teaches survival of the fittest
We're basically the fit are the ones that survive. So whatever happens happens, right? It doesn't make any sense
Go to Genesis chapter 1 Genesis 1
Genesis chapter 1
And it says in Genesis 1 verse 26 and God said let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have
Dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over
Every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth
God tells us to have dominion over these animals
so God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him male and female created he them and
God blessed them and God said unto them be fruitful and multiply and
Replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living
Thing that move it upon the earth now. Here's the thing God commanded humans to have children
Right be fruitful and multiply but he says the same thing to the animals
He wants there to be a lot of animals as well
You have to understand that you know what if we're supposed to have dominion over the animals
But see there's going to be a problem if the animals are having a lot of offspring and people are not
Because if man's going to have dominion over the animals there has to be a lot of man
Right look in areas where there's a lot of people
There's usually very few animals. That's the way it works
Animals are afraid of people
Now oftentimes we're afraid of the animals as well, right?
You know, you see a mouse that's crawling underneath your fridge or whatever. It's like yeah, you know what?
I I'm not happy to see that either right but animals will flee from people
They're afraid of people, you know in the United States, you know, Detroit, Michigan is a very famous city
There's a lot of stuff and from you know, a lot of music was famous in that area. It's a well-known area
but in Detroit
They basically just destroyed their city and basically what took place is everybody lost their jobs
Everybody was out of money and basically the people moved away from Detroit
basically, the population just decreased by like half of it was gone and
Literally all over the newspapers. They'd say you know what Detroit has turned into a zoo
Because there were so many animals just roaming the street
I mean animals you never expect to see because Detroit used to be like San Francisco as a big city
Or New York City or Chicago or something like that
It was a big city lots of people then all of a sudden the people leave because for whatever reason
You know all the jobs and finances were messed up everybody leaves and then they reported that you know
You're driving down the road and there's all these animals
You say why because when people are not there animals will take over
Well, here's the thing. You can't really say that the people have dominion over the animals
If you've got to stop when you're driving your car to let an elephant cross the road
Right. I mean you understand what I'm saying. So here's the thing
Animals are going to obey this commandment from God
See the reason why humans don't always have kids is because we're afraid of money
You know, you're like I'm busy, you know my time in life and stuff like that. Well animals don't think about things like that
So they're going to procreate and have a lot of animals anyway
But it used to be that people would have a lot of children
You know to basically carry on the name and be fruitful and multiply in today's world. It's not that common anymore
Well, here's the thing
We're supposed to have dominion over the animals and if there's few people and lots of animals
Then we're not going to have dominion over the animals because when there's a lot of people animals will flee if there's not a lot of people
animals take charge
I mean animals are afraid of humans
But if there's only a few humans then that's where they're going to be end up hanging out
That's just the way it works. And so we're commanded to have dominion over the animals
Well part of that to actually work is that there's a lot of humans because where humans are
The Bible says animals are afraid of them, right?
And we actually see that in the next chapter. We'll see that in Genesis chapter 9, but animals are afraid of humans
That's what the Bible teaches
Go back to Genesis 8 Genesis 8
Genesis chapter 8
The other thing you have to consider is this when it comes to having children obviously we understand that you know
What it's God that opens and closes the womb, but there's a lot of false religions that actually do have
You know a lot of children
Right, you know Islam one of the big reasons why Islam has grown as a religion is just they have more children than you know
the umbrella of Christianity on average
now it used to be some of these like
Catholicism used to be very much into having a lot of kids because they used to preach against birth control
But they've obviously changed a lot as a religion. So they used to have bigger families, but not so much anymore
but Islam has grown
largely because you know what they have a
Lot of kids
right
Mormonism one of the big reason why Mormon Mormonism grew as a religion is just they had a lot of kids
That's what they're kind of famous for because Mormons don't convert anybody
Jehovah's Witnesses do convert people Mormons don't convert anyone
But the reason why they've grown as a religion is because they generally have a lot of kids
Well, so the thing is if if Christians are not having children what's going to take place? Well, number one
We're not going to have power over the animals when people are not having a lot of kids
But as a religion in terms of being fundamental Baptist
Salvation by grace through faith, you know what if we're not having a lot of children that we are basically teaching the ways of God
What's going to take place? Well, you're going to have other religions that are going to basically take over and you know
There's there's very few soul winners in today's world very few soul winners. I mean here in Pompanga
I don't know how many people go soul-winning or know how to preach the gospel, but I would say it's definitely less than a hundred
Definitely less than a hundred
Right. I mean, it's a very small amount of people and it's just like even some that might preach the gospel
Maybe they they go to other Baptist churches. Maybe they don't really necessarily know all techniques or whatever
But the thing is if you have a lot of kids and you teach them to be so winners in the long run when you think
Of like exponents and math it's going to do more good than just you know, basically
one person getting a lot of people saved so it's a commandment God has for us and there's many reasons why but
Obviously we should just obey what the Bible says
Genesis 8 verse 18 and
Noah went forth and his sons and his wife and his son's wives with him
every beast every creeping thing in every fowl and
whatsoever creepeth upon the earth after their kinds went forth out of the ark and
Noah built an altar unto the Lord and took of every clean beast and of every clean fowl and offered burnt offerings on the altar
And the Lord smelled a sweet saber and the Lord said in his heart
I will not again curse the ground anymore for man's sake for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth
Neither will I again smite any more every living thing as I have done now the next chapter will talk more
Specifically about the rainbow and how he's not going to flood the earth
But notice what it says verse 22 because this is in the context of verse 21 while the earth remaineth while the earth remaineth
So what does he mean by while the earth remaineth? Well go to
Revelation 21 Revelation chapter 21 while the earth remaineth
What he's referring to is
That one day there's going to be a new heaven and a new earth and what the Bible teaches and I'll have time to prove
it is what God's going to do is take this earth and
Basically as it's destroyed he's going to recreate from this earth
He's not going to create a brand new earth from nothing
but he's going to take this earth that is destroyed and
basically make it new kind of like because our bodies and the earth have many similarities and
Just as when we get our glorified body. It's not some brand new body
It's our body that was decrepit and died and decayed and everything like that and grew old and God's going to take what's waxed old
And make it new same thing with the earth. He's going to take this earth that is waxing old as a garment
It's going to get destroyed but then he's going to take what's destroyed and then create from that
So it's not a brand new earth from scratch, but he's going to take what's destroyed but it says here in Revelation 21
This is the reference while the earth remaineth
Revelation 21 and I saw a new heaven in a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away
And there was no more sea. So the idea is while the earth remaineth while we are here before it's destroyed
Then what's going to be true in Genesis 8 go back to Genesis 8 Genesis 8
Well, here's the thing revelation 21 is not going to happen anytime soon
This is a long long long long long long time in the future
Right. This is long after the end times have started
Okay, I mean revelation 20 you're seeing you know the lake of fire
You're seeing the second death and those are you know being cast into the lake of fire
We're in Revelation chapter 21 you have the new heaven and a new earth. This is a very long time in the future
So look in today's world, we don't have to worry about this at all
The new heaven and a new earth the rapture is going to take place far before this would take place
So while we are living here on earth if we live for the rapture
We still don't have to worry about this because we're going to be raptured before this takes place
if we die before the rapture
We don't have to worry because that the while the earth remain if the Bible says here in Genesis 8 verse 22
See time and harvest and cold and heat in summer and winter and day and night shall not cease
So the Bible says is while this earth remains
You're always going to have seed time and harvest you're going to plant food and gather it up. Okay?
Because nowadays around the world they're really scared about things like this. We're not going to be able to make plants anymore
Well according to the Bible you will
It says in cold and heat
Until this happens, there's going to be cold and heat now you say brother Stuckey
I don't think we're going to have we've never had cold before. What are you talking about?
Well in certain parts of the world, obviously the temperatures are different
Obviously in this part of the world, it doesn't really get cold in most parts of the Philippines
Okay, and what people here in the Philippines consider cold like they'll say well Baguio is cold. That's not cold
20 degrees or 15 degrees is not cold. What's cold is below zero degrees Celsius. That's cold
Okay, and some people would hear zero degrees Celsius and say well, that's not cold
They say what's cold is like negative 20 degrees Celsius
Now it gets below zero degrees Celsius every single year in West Virginia where I grew up in
Sacramento, California
It gets right at that line
It will get to like two or three degrees Celsius that usually does not drop below zero at all during the year
Every once in a while it will snow and by snow. It means a couple white dots on the ground
That's all that happens in Sacramento in West Virginia, though
We have four seasons summer winter spring and fall all four seasons three months basically for each of those seasons
It definitely gets cold
It gets to the point where I obviously have to wear a sweatshirt or a coat or whatever like that and it's snowing on the ground
Well, here's the thing. There's going to be cold in West Virginia until the new earth comes
That's what the Bible is saying. It's not just gonna be like, oh, wow
There's no more cold weather anymore or there's no more warm weather anymore. This is gonna exist to the very end
And it says in summer and winter
Summer being the hot weather winter being the cold weather and day and night shall not cease
All of these things are going to take place now when it comes to science or so-called science
this is something they've been worried about for a very very very long time and
I kind of understand because the Bible says the earth is waxing old. So there's changes that take place in our earth
Right. I mean sometimes you'll have you know, but lots of volcanoes during a certain time and people are paranoid. Oh, man
We're just going to be destroyed by volcanoes or there's going to be basically a lot of earthquakes and then sometimes over a couple years
There's gonna be a lot of tsunamis
But not really some of the other natural disasters and the world's always concerned that everything's going to be destroyed
The Bible says you don't have to worry about that now, let me read you an article about
global cooling and this was an article in about from
1967 to 1970 they're talking about this because 50 years ago a lot of the scientists were scared to death that an Ice Age was
About to take place and all over the media. They're like we see that the next Ice Age is about to take place
Okay, here's what it says in
1967
Hansen went to work for NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City where he continued his research on planetary problems around
1970 some scientists suspected Earth was entering a period of global cooling
decades prior the brilliant Serbian mathematician
Milutin Milankovitch had explained how a world warms warms and cools on roughly
100,000 year cycles due to a slowly changing position relative to the Sun so supposedly
You'll go through a hundred thousand years of global warming and a hundred thousand years of global cooling
So in 1970, we started the 100,000 year cycle global cooling
So apparently it's getting really really cold all around the world and in another
99,000 years we're going to start having the global warming right of course nowadays
That lasted about 20-30 years now
It's like all global warming global warming global warming but this this Serbian mathematician Milutin Milankovitch
Said it's a hundred thousand year cycles
Milankovitch's theory suggested Earth should be just beginning to head into its next Ice Age cycle
The surface temperature data gathered by Mitchell seemed to agree
The record showed that Earth experienced a period of cooling by about 0.3 degrees Celsius from 1940 through
1970 so basically they researched the earth for 30 years and the temperature was
0.3 degrees Celsius colder in
1970 to 1940 and
Because it was 0.3 degrees Celsius colder
They're scared to death at this rate and another 500 years
It's going to be like 5 degrees Celsius colder or whatever and they just were paranoid. It's going to keep at the same rate
It's only 0.3 degrees
Not even going to notice 0.3 degrees, right?
I mean, it's going to feel like basically the exact same but they're paranoid because they're making all these charts and they don't
understand the way the world works
Right. There's there's this idea that
Scientists and the medical industry and all the that they're experts on everything. They know exactly what's going on
They've got all these gadgets. They're figuring it out
They've done all these studies and tests and they've charted from 1940 to 1970 that the temperature is going like this and
It's just like this slowly linear graph down and another 1,000 years can be five degrees colder
And that's going to be like the end of the world, right?
But they have no idea why it's slowly going down because nowadays they talk about global warming all the time, right?
Isn't that the craze global warming global warming global warming and they say well, it's due to pollution
And you know all the the vehicles that are out there are causing smog and all these things are taking place
And there's these changes in the environment. Well, here's the thing
I'm not saying there's not a shred of truth to what they're saying because the earth is waxing old as a garment
There are going to be some changes they talk about there's certain melting that's taking place as certain ice caps
That's probably true. They're probably not lying about that. The earth is waxing old as a garment
There are some changes taking place
But to take a small little change because here's the thing if we were to go back to all of us when we were born
Maybe it's 0.3 degrees Celsius warmer now
Maybe it's back at the temperature was in 1940. I have no idea
It doesn't really affect our lives that much and here's the thing
The Bible says there's going to be you know summer and winter and cold and heat until the very end
So look if this world lasts 500 more years, you know what they're probably going to be talking about global cooling or global warming
But it's going to be basically the same temperature
It is now because the Bible says there's not going to be much of a change
So I'm not saying there can't be any truth to what they're saying. I will say this though. I
Watched the big documentary on global warming which was done by Al Gore. Al Gore was the vice president for Bill Clinton and
You know Al Gore made this big documentary and I was on a long plane trip
I think it was when I first visited the Philippines they had options on there
It's like a 14-hour flight or 18 hours to Japan or whatever and I watched like the Al Gore documentary
I wish I had written down the notes better, but there were three different things where I saw complete
mathematical lies or manipulation was very misleading what they were saying and it was completely just
False information where they basically took a shred of truth and they basically misled you into thinking something
So if I spotted three
Obvious errors, there's probably a lot more than three and I'm not saying there's no truth to it
I'm just saying here's the thing Al Gore makes a lot of money because he promotes this theory and that was basically his retirement job
after being the vice president and not being successful in his run for president and
So he flies around the country creating all this pollution just to do this presentation, right?
hypocrisy political hypocrisy part 2 to discernment coming this weekend political hypocrisy
Right, and then it says of course Mitchell was only collecting data over a fraction of the northern hemisphere
From 20 to 90 degrees north latitude. So not only does it say 0.3 degrees Celsius is the only change
But he only looked at a small part of the earth. I
Doubt I
doubt it was 0.3 degrees worldwide because he probably took the area where it seemed to be the biggest evidence and he said
0.3 degrees in this part of the world over the course of 30 years
Who knows it could have been 0.3 degrees the other way in the rest of the world
But he's trying to promote a theory of global cooling
Still the result drew public attention and a number of speculative articles about Earth's coming Ice Age appeared in newspapers and magazines
You can go to YouTube today and watch some of these videos where they'll talk about on the news programs is
The world coming to the next Ice Age, right?
That was the big thing that they were concerned about now. I will be fair in what I'm saying
I don't want to be misleading that there was not a
Consensus that an Ice Age was coming because pretty much there was an argument some scientists said is global warming
Some said is global cooling, but pretty much all of them said, you know
There's
Problems, right? It's not going to last or whatever
But it says here in Genesis 8 verse 22
while the earth remain at sea time and harvest and cold and heat in summer and winter and day and night shall not cease so
The bottom line is that you know, there's a lot of information in this chapter
We can trust the Bible even if we don't understand everything like the olive leaf that's mentioned there
It's like well, how are your plants in the water?
Well, it turns out they can actually survive in the water the Bible's rights
Or you look at this global warming and global cooling and the world's lying to you and giving you all this information
Oftentimes it contradicts the Bible. Look if the world contradicts the Bible the world is wrong every single time
Let's close in word of prayer dear Heavenly Father
Thank you for allowing us to be here today and getting you see your word in this topic help us to apply this to our lives