Hey, it is Shelby and Scott with A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

We're in the book of Genesis.

Today we're in chapters seven through nine.

And we get a really familiar story here.

We have Noah's story.

Can you walk us through these chapters, Scott? Yeah, this is fun,

because I think you'll relate to this. You've got kids too. Like, so I grew up in the church

my entire life, and this is, this is like a kid's story. Like every kids ministry talks about

this. I think in my church, once we had a mural of this painted and like we we

love this to teach kids this story. I mean it's a it's a zoom on a boat. I mean why I

wouldn't you but like there's a ton of destruction and death in the story and so it's super

dark and super weird that we teach the story to kids but but I mean, it's in the Bible. It is

still a great, great story, but I think it's important to see this story through the lens

of Genesis 1. And the study day brought this out, just the parallels between the creation

account and what we see in these chapters. Like, you know, when God starts to bring the flood down,

there's a lot of parallels to the creation.

It's as if God is recreating the earth.

But even before that, though,

as the flood waters come in,

I think we're meant to see in that kind of God undoing

the work of creation.

It's a work of decreation.

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