Dr. Pothana's Teaching

2. Genesis 1-6
Creation history
Genesis 7-11
Noahic history
Adam’s sons (4:1-16) Noah’s sons (9:18-29)
Technological
Development of
Mankind (4:17-26)
Ethnic Development
of Mankind (10:1-32)
Ten Generations from
Adam to Noah (5:1-
32)
Ten Generations from
Noah to Terah (11:10-
26)

3. Genesis 6:1-2
Now it came about, when men
began to multiply on the face of the
land, and daughters were born to
them, 2 that the sons of God saw that
the daughters of men were beautiful;
and they took wives for themselves,
whomever they chose.

4. Genesis 6:3
Then the LORD said, “My Spirit
shall not strive with man forever,
because he also is flesh;
nevertheless his days shall be one
hundred and twenty years.”

5. Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth
in those days, and also afterward,
when the sons of God came in to the
daughters of men, and they bore
children to them. Those were the
mighty men who were of old, men of
renown.

6. Sons of God refer to
Angels
• Septuagint supports this interpretation
• Sons of God are angels in Job
• Angels in heaven do not marry, but these
angels were not in heaven
• The resulting offspring produced giants
• Supported in Apocryphal book of Enoch as
well as in Jude 6.

7. Sons of God refer to
Descendants of Seth
• Preceding chapters set forth contrast of
two lines
• Men began to call on the name of the Lord
• It is mankind that is punished in the flood
• Sonship is a common theme in the Old
Testament
• Marriage of godly seed to ungodly people
is a common theme in Genesis

8. Sons of God refer to
Kings and Rulers
• Aramaic lends itself to this interpretation
• Elohim refers to human judges in Ex 21:6;
22:8-9 and in Psalm 82:1, 6
• Similar use in Babylonian texts
• Kings often referred to as Elohim in east
• Actions paralleled in Lamech
• Nephilim refer to fallen ones

9. Genesis 6:5-6
Then the LORD saw that the
wickedness of man was great on the
earth, and that every intent of the
thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually. 6 The LORD was sorry
that He had made man on the earth,
and He was grieved in His heart.

10. Genesis 6:7-8
The LORD said, “I will blot out
man whom I have created from the
face of the land, from man to animals
to creeping things and to birds of the
sky; for I am sorry that I have made
them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the
eyes of the LORD.

11. Noah’s three sons (6:10)
Noah’s three sons (9:18)
Covenant with Noah (6:18)
• Promise to destroy the earth with a flood
Covenant with Noah (9:8-17)
• Promise not to destroy the earth with a flood
Command to take food (6:21)
Command not to eat blood (9:14)
Noah & Family enter the ark (7:1)
Noah & Family come out of ark (8:14)
Flood on the earth (7:11 – 8:13)

12. Genesis 6:14
Make for yourself an ark of
gopher wood; you shall make the ark
with rooms, and shall cover it inside
and out with pitch.
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Same word is used for
the ark into which the
baby Moses was placed

13. Genesis 6:15
This is how you shall make it:
the length of the ark three hundred
cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its
height thirty cubits.

14. The Lord shuts the door and it rains 40
days and nights (7:15-16)
At the end of 40 days Noah opens the
window (8:6)
Waters increase until the mountains
are covered (7:18-20)
Waters decrease until the mountain
become visible (8:4-5)
150 days waters prevail (7:21-24)
150 days waters abate (8:3)
God Remembers Noah (8:1)

15. What light does the New
Testament thrown onto the
Flood Narrative?

16. ...the patience of God kept waiting in the
days of Noah, during the construction of
the ark, in which a few, that is, eight
persons, were brought safely through the
water. 21 And corresponding to that,
baptism now saves you  not the removal
of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to
God for a good conscience  through the
resurrection of Jesus Christ (1 Peter
3:20-21).

17. The Ark
All flesh was to be
destroyed in the flood.
The Ark
All mankind is under
condemnation.
The ark was designed
and planned by God
(Genesis 6:14-16).
Our hope in Christ
was designed by God
before the world
began (Ephesians
1:4).
Noah’s part was to
build the physical
structure of the ark
(Genesis 6:22).
Christ was born of a
human mother
(Matthew 1:21).

18. The Ark
God made known to
Noah this plan of
salvation (Genesis
6:13).
The Ark
God has made known
to us His plan of
eternal salvation
(Romans 16:25-26).
Noah believed the
Lord (Hebrews 11:7).
We must believe in
Christ (John 3:16).
The ark had only one
door (Genesis 6:16).
Christ is the only door
to salvation (John
10:9).

19. Genesis 6:16
You shall make a window for
the ark, and finish it to a cubit from
the top; and set the door of the ark in
the side of it; you shall make it with
lower, second, and third decks.

20. Genesis 7:11-12
In the six hundredth year of
Noah’s life, in the second month, on
the seventeenth day of the month,
on the same day all the fountains of
the great deep burst open, and the
floodgates of the sky were opened.
12 The rain fell upon the earth for
forty days and forty nights.

22. Universal language
• The waters lifted the ark up above the
earth (7:17).
• The waters prevailed and increased upon
the earth (7:18).
• The waters prevailed exceeding upon the
earth (7:19).
• All the high hills were covered (9:19).
• The water rose 15 cubits above the
mountains (7:20).

23. Universal language
• All flesh died upon the earth (7:21).
• The waters prevailed for 150 days (7:24).

24. Universal Flood
The Biblical account
says that the waters
covered the whole
earth.
Local Flood
The word aretz
(“earth”) is often used
to describe a local
area.
The Biblical language
goes out of its way to
use language of
totality.
The account is given
from the viewpoint of
the narrator is from his
perspective the
destruction is total.

25. Universal Flood
The size of the ark
indicates that this was
no local flood.
Local Flood
The size of the ark is
not related to the
extent of the flood.
The purpose of the ark
was punishment of
world-wide sin. In a
local flood some could
have escaped.
God could have made
certain all flesh was
destroyed without
flooding the entire
globe.
There are world-wide
traces of a flood.
The evidence is
questioned as to its
universality.

26. Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah
and all the beasts and all the cattle
that were with him in the ark; and
God caused a wind to pass over the
earth, and the water subsided.

27. Genesis 6
God warns
Noah
The ark is built
Noah building
the ark
Genesis 7
God delivers
Noah
The ark is used
to save Noah
from the flood
Noah in the ark
Genesis 8
God
remembers
Noah
The ark comes
to rest in the
mountains of
Ararat
Noah coming
out of the ark
The earth filled
with violence
The earth filled
with water
Noah to go out
& fill the earth

28. Genesis 8:4
In the seventh month, on the
seventeenth day of the month, the
ark rested upon the mountains of
Ararat.

30. What is the significance of the
various sorts of birds being sent
out?

31. Genesis 8:15-17
Then God spoke to Noah,
saying, 16 “Go out of the ark, you and
your wife and your sons and your
sons' wives with you. 17 Bring out
with you every living thing of all flesh
that is with you, birds and animals
and every creeping thing that creeps
on the earth, that they may breed
abundantly on the earth, and be
fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

32. Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the
LORD, and took of every clean
animal and of every clean bird and
offered burnt offerings on the altar.

33. Genesis 8:21
The LORD smelled the soothing
aroma; and the LORD said to
Himself, “I will never again curse the
ground on account of man, for the
intent of man's heart is evil from his
youth; and I will never again destroy
every living thing, as I have done.”

34. Genesis 8:22
“While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
And cold and heat,
And summer and winter,
And day and night
Shall not cease.”

35. Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his
sons and said to them, “Be fruitful
and multiply, and fill the earth.”

36. Genesis 9:2
The fear of you and the terror of
you will be on every beast of the
earth and on every bird of the sky;
with everything that creeps on the
ground, and all the fish of the sea,
into your hand they are given.

37. Genesis 9:3-5
Every moving thing that is alive
shall be food for you; I give all to you,
as I gave the green plant. 4 Only you
shall not eat flesh with its life, that is,
its blood. 5 Surely I will require your
lifeblood; from every beast I will
require it. And from every man, from
every man’s brother I will require the
life of man.”

38. Genesis 9:6
“Whoever sheds man’s blood,
By man his blood shall be shed,
For in the image of God He made
man.”

39. Genesis 9:8-10
Then God spoke to Noah and to
his sons with him, saying, 9 “Now
behold, I Myself do establish My
covenant with you, and with your
descendants after you; 10 and with
every living creature that is with you,
the birds, the cattle, and every beast
of the earth with you; of all that
comes out of the ark, even every
beast of the earth.”

41. Noah,
his descendants,
and every living creature

42. Genesis 9:11
“I establish My covenant with
you; and all flesh shall never again be
cut off by the water of the flood,
neither shall there again be a flood to
destroy the earth.”

43. Genesis 9:12-13
God said, “This is the sign of the
covenant which I am making between
Me and you and every living creature
that is with you, for all successive
generations; 13 I set My bow in the
cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a
covenant between Me and the earth.”

44. Genesis 9:18
Now the sons of Noah who
came out of the ark were Shem and
Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the
father of Canaan.

45. Genesis 9:20-22
Then Noah began farming and
planted a vineyard. 21 He drank of the
wine and became drunk, and
uncovered himself inside his tent. 22
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the
nakedness of his father, and told his
two brothers outside.

46. Genesis 9:23
But Shem and Japheth took a
garment and laid it upon both their
shoulders and walked backward and
covered the nakedness of their father;
and their faces were turned away, so
that they did not see their father's
nakedness.

47. Genesis 9:24-25
When Noah awoke from his
wine, he knew what his youngest son
had done to him.
25 So he said,
“Cursed be Canaan;
A servant of servants
He shall be to his brothers.”

48. Genesis 9:26-27
“Blessed be the LORD,
The God of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.
27 May God enlarge Japheth,
And let him dwell in the tents of
Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.”
He also said,

49. Genesis 9:26-27
“Blessed be the LORD,
The God of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.
27 May God enlarge Japheth,
And let him dwell in the tents of
Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.”
He also said,
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50. Genesis 9:26-27
“Blessed be the LORD,
The God of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.
27 May God enlarge Japheth,
And let him dwell in the tents of
Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.”
He also said,
To whom does the
pronoun refer?

51. 27 May God enlarge Japheth,
And let him dwell in the tents of
Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.”
To whom does the
pronoun refer?

52. Adam
Placed into a Garden
Noah
Results in a curse
Results in a lasting division of the seed
Followed by a genealogy to demonstrate the
division
Plants a Garden
Eats the fruit of the
tree
Drinks of the fruit of
the vine
Results in recognizing
his nakedness
Results in lying naked
in his tent

53. Adam Noah
His eyes were opened
and he knew he was
naked.
He awoke from his
wine and knew what
his younger son had
done.
He was judged and
cursed by God.
He placed a curse
upon Canaan.