S5 E11 Mercy in Wrath: God, Noah, and the Chance to Start Over (Genesis 6-11)

The Scriptures Are Real

Kerry Muhlestein

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Courses

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🗓️ 8 February 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In this episode Kerry helps us understand the background of the Flood by helping us understand more about who Noah is. He also explains some crucial phrases that open up understanding the text, such as what it means for Noah to be perfect in his generation. Then Kerry guides a roundtable discussion through the idea of violence in the Old Testament and how it helps us understand elements of the Flood story. They also use the Book of Moses to understand it better. Then Kerry explores biblical phrases and how knowing what they mean opens windows into the text. Then he explains more about what is happening during Noah’s day and why the flood was necessary and how understanding it correctly helps us understand the nature of God.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the scriptures are real.
0:11.4	We have another fantastic episode set up for us this week, I believe, with lots of different fun parts.
0:18.5	We are going to have, I'll start us off just by explaining a couple things,
0:22.5	and then we're going to jump into a roundtable discussion about the violence in the Old Testament
0:27.2	in general and how we can learn a little bit about it as we look here at the Book of Moses.
0:31.4	And so that's a discussion that will help you understand lots of things that you'll
0:37.0	encounter throughout the rest of the Old Testament.
0:38.6	It's one of those things that I do believe will make a difference for you in terms of just getting more out of your reading for this entire year.
0:48.2	So after that roundtable discussion, I'm going to teach some more about Noah.
0:51.9	But I also want to remind you of our episode, our second
0:57.0	episode this week, because for the Come Follow Me reading this week, we are also supposed to start
1:02.1	to think about the covenant. That's important because next week we'll read about Abraham and the
1:07.0	establishment of the covenant. And so this is in conjunction with that. We're having a special thought about the Abrahamic covenant this week.
1:14.0	And so I will, this is something I've been writing and teaching about for years and years and years.
1:18.9	I think I've written as much about it as anyone in the church except for President Nelson.
1:23.8	And so I'm going to talk about that.
1:26.1	We'll have a special episode and then I'm going to have an episode or a lesson on our Patreon website that goes even more into depth on specific aspects of the covenant.
1:34.9	So if you really want to understand the Abraham of covenant, jump into that part of our Patreon website, tsar.
1:42.8	website will take you there and just be part of supporting the podcast and that lesson.
1:47.9	So I want to start out just with a little bit of an introduction to Noah in general.
1:55.2	We, of course, we'll start out in Chapter 8, where all the days of Enoch were 430 years.
2:02.2	It took him about 360 years to get Zion taken up in heaven, but they did.
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