Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

And the title of today's post is,

What Do They All Have in Common?

Noah's Flood.

In Genesis chapter 6, the story of Noah and the Great Flood begins.

After Adam's fall, people became so wicked that God knew he would have to destroy humankind

and begin again.

He instructed Noah to build an ark for the preservation of his family, a project which

probably took 50 to 75 years. Then, when it was completed, he sent the flood.

It rained for 40 days and nights, flooded the earth, and Noah's Ark floated for 150 days,

before coming to rest on Mount Arara. Genesis 8, 1 to 4, tells us,

but God remembered Noah and all the animals and all the livestock that were with him in the

ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth. The water subsided. Also, the fountains of the

deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed.

And the rain from the sky was restrained and the water receded steadily from the earth

and at the end of 150 days, the water decreased. Then in the seventh month on the 17th day of the month, the ark rested on the

mountains of Ararat. The Red Sea crossing. After Israel's incredible exodus from Egypt,

during which God also demonstrated that the gods of Egypt were not truly gods, but simply idols,

Israel found themselves still in danger at the Red Sea.

There was as yet one Egyptian god he had not exposed, Beil Zffan, their God of the seas. The first two verses of Exodus 14

inform us, now the Lord spoke to Moses saying, tell the sons of Israel to turn back, camp in front of

Pai Ha, high roth, between Migdal and the sea, and you shall camp in front of

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