God’s Spirit in the Flood Narrative – Genesis E2

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

When we think of God’s Spirit, judgment is probably not what comes to mind. But the biblical authors saw God’s Spirit as the one who gave life and took it away—the one who could create, de-create, and recreate. In this episode, Tim, Jon, and Carissa follow the theme of God’s Spirit through the second half of the first movement of Genesis.

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0:00.0	When you think of God's spirit, what comes to mind?
0:07.5	Maybe it's the story of Elijah, who encounters God's still small voice on Mount Worth.
0:14.2	Maybe it's the spirit descending like a dove at Jesus' baptism, or Jesus promising
0:20.0	the spirit to his disciples before ascending to the skies.
0:24.4	Perhaps even it's the first mention of the Holy Spirit.
0:27.9	When God hovers over the darkness, ready to bring order in life.
0:32.3	What God's spirit is, there is life.
0:35.0	And so not many of us think about God's spirit related to judgments.
0:39.9	If all creation order is sustained by God's rulach, this spirit means that God has the
0:46.1	progative to take it away.
0:47.6	He deems it so.
0:48.8	This, at least in part, is why Adam and Eve were scared.
0:53.0	After they ate of the tree of knowing good and bad, they heard God coming.
0:56.4	But he came in the sound of a storm.
0:59.5	The wind of the day in Genesis 3, verse 8 is foreshadowing the storms of God's justice
1:05.2	when he shows up for the day of the Lord.
1:07.8	And the next one appears in just a really complicated story about the sons of God and daughters
1:14.5	of women and giants in Nephilim, O my.
1:17.6	Today we're going to look at the rule of God's spirit and judgment.
1:20.5	We're going to look at some fascinating stories, like the Nephilim in Genesis 6.
1:25.8	God makes this strange proclamation.
1:27.8	Yahweh said, my rulach will not dwell with humanity forever because he also is flesh.
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