January 2016

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech – Genesis 11:7

“God comes down into human life. Though the world is corrupt and full of violence; though His arch-enemy has taught man to dread and hate Him; though attempts are on foot to resist Him in open rebellion, by making a unity apart from Him, and in exclusion of His cornerstone, yet He comes down.

By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their LANDS; every one after his TONGUE, after their FAMILIES, in their NATIONS – Genesis 10: 5

“Few realize the treasures that lie in this heap of names. This chapter is the key to ancient histories and contains many of the names that lie on our modern maps. What teeming myriads are here! We learn three things.

And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent – Genesis 9: 20-21

And GOD BLESSED NOAH and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth – Genesis 9:1

The fall of Man did not change the nature of God: He remains the BLESSER! The first blessing is here renewed, and repeated in Genesis 9:7, for humanity was, more-or-less, beginning anew! The blessing bestowed upon Noah, matches that given to Adam – to be fruitful, to multiply, to fill the world with human life, and to exercise dominion over the animal world (Gen. 1:28-29; 2:16-17). There were however a significant omission and two additions.