1. Chapters 7-8

2. 1/14 (Thu): Passover (Last supper) 1/15 (Fri): Jesus crucified
Mountains’ tops appeared
Dove back with an olive leaf
Ark covering removed
Came out of the ark
Started to rain
Sent out a raven
Sent out a dove
Dove not return
Ark rested
on the
mountains
of Ararat 40
days of
rain
150
days of
flooding 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2
2/17
7/17
10/1
1/1
2/27
Civil calendar
The date
Jesus rised
Sacred calendar
1/17
1/14 (Thu): Passover (Last supper)
1/15 (Fri): Jesus crucified
1/16 (Sat): Sabbath
1/17 (Sun): Jesus rised
Christ (the ark) went through the water of death under God’s judgement, and then rised from the dead (in Ararat). Those who are in Christ also rised with Him.

3. Raven:
eating corrupted meat and junk (unclean bird)
 Natural life, lust for the world
Dove:
pure and obedient (clean bird)
 Spiritual life, long for holiness and life
So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. (1 Cor 15:45-46)
Adam-Christ;
Ishmael-Issac;
Esau-Jacob;
Saul-David;
Born-born again;
Natural body-spiritual body

4. Is the deluge and the ark a myth?
Besides the Bible, 200+ races in the world (from Asia, Europe to Latin America) also have legends about an ancient great flood, which was somewhat the same as
the one in the Bible.
China: Nuwa repaired the wall of heaven
After Nuwa (sound like Noah) had repaired the wall of heaven with five-colored stones, the rain stopped.
The Bible said, after the flood had receded, rainbow appeared in the sky. God made a covernant with Noah by it.

5. Chinese character “ship” portrays the first ship
eight
boat
family member
Chinese character “ship”
portrays the first ship
in human history – the ark

6. 95% legends: The cause of the flood was a catastrophe.
95% legends: The flood was worldwide.
88% legends: Only one family was saved in the flood.
70% legends: The family was saved through a ship.
67% legends: Not only people but animals were also saved.
57% legends: The ship rested on a mountain top after the flood.
33% legends: Birds were sent to see if the land was dry after the flood.
13% legends: There was a sacrifice after the flood.
9% (about races) legends: Eight persons were saved.
7% (about 20 races) legends: There was a rainbow after the flood.

7. It is found that the nearer the race lived from the middle east, the more similar their legends about the flood is to the Bible. On the other hand, those races lived far away from the middle east, their legends are less similar to the Bible.

8. Are Chinese also descendants of Noah?
Ararat
Pamir Mountains 
Xian
Silk road
Are Chinese also descendants of Noah?
The ark rested on the mountains of Ararat, which is west of the Pamir Mountains and north of Mesopotamia. The Silk road passed by it. It was said that Huangdi, the ancester of the Chinese, entered China from the west of the Pamirs.

9. The deluge (and the red sea) symbolizes the baptism that saves us from the wicked generation
through whom (the Holy Spirit) also he (Christ) went and preached to the spirits in prison who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built.
In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also…. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. (1 Pet 3:19-21)

10. The days of Noah symbolizes the end time
As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. (Matt 24:37-38)

11. Chapters 9-10

12. Ark:
Flood:
Ark rested on Ararat:
Christ
(believers “in Christ”)
Baptism
(believers buried and raised with Christ)
Raised from the water of death
8 members in Noah’s family:
8 symbolizes “resurrection”

13. Coming out of the ark:
First thing:
Burn offering:
Spiritual sacrifices in N.T.:
New life after resurrection
Built the altar and offered the sacrifice
Offering oneself
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God-- this is your spiritual act of worship. (Rom 12:1)
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise-- the fruit of lips that confess his name. (Heb 13:15)

14. New changes:
Man could eat meat
Death sentence allowed (human government began)
Rainbow appeared as a sign of covernant

15. Japheth Shem Ham Tiras Madai Tubal Arphaxad Javan Aram Asshur Elam Put
Ararat
Tiras
Togarmah
Madai
Lud
Tubal
Tarshish
Arphaxad
Javan
Meshech
Aram
Elishah
Asshur
Dodanim
Kittim
Elam
Caphtorim
Nimrod
Canaan
Shem
Put
Mizraim
(Egypt)
Joktan
Dedan
Ham
Ophir
Raamah
Cush
Sheba
Sheba
Hazarmaveth
Seba
Sabtah
Havilah
Havilah

16. Power of words Man was made according to God’s image,
So his words also have power.
For he spoke, and it came to be;
he commanded, and it stood firm. (Ps 33:9)
The tongue has the power of life and death,
and those who love it will eat its fruit. (Prov 18:21)

17. Consequence of blessing & curse
Bible time
World History
Ham
(black)
Canaanites: corrupted in faith & moral, and was finally conquered by Israelites

18. Consequence of blessing & curse
Bible time
World History
Ham
(black)
Canaanites: corrupted in faith & moral, and was finally conquered by the Israelites

19. Consequence of blessing & curse
Bible time
World History
Ham
(black)
Canaanites: corrupted in faith & moral, and was finally conquered by the Israelites
Africans: undeveloped, poor & enslaved

20. Consequence of blessing & curse
Bible time
World History
Ham
(black)
Canaanites: corrupted in faith & moral, and was finally conquered by the Israelites
Africans: undeveloped, poor & enslaved
Shem
(name)

21. Consequence of blessing & curse
Bible time
World History
Ham
(black)
Canaanites: corrupted in faith & moral, and was finally conquered by the Israelites
Africans: undeveloped, poor & enslaved
Shem
(name)
Bible & Christ (salvation) came from the Jew

22. Consequence of blessing & curse
Bible time
World History
Ham
(black)
Canaanites: corrupted in faith & moral, and was finally conquered by the Israelites
Africans: undeveloped, poor & enslaved
Shem
(name)
Bible & Christ (salvation) came from the Jew
Japheth
(expand)

23. Consequence of blessing & curse
Bible time
World History
Ham
(black)
Canaanites: corrupted in faith & moral, and was finally conquered by the Israelites
Africans: undeveloped, poor & enslaved
Shem
(name)
Bible & Christ (salvation) came from the Jew
Japheth
(expand)
Tarshish (Spain) was
the end of the earth

24. Consequence of blessing & curse
Bible time
World History
Ham
(black)
Canaanites: corrupted in faith & moral, and was finally conquered by the Israelites
Africans: undeveloped, poor & enslaved
Shem
(name)
Bible & Christ (salvation) came from the Jew
Japheth
(expand)
Tarshish (Spain) was
the end of the earth
Europeans: Good in politics, science & arts
Japheth lives in the tents of Shem: the gentile and the Jew become one in Christ

25. Examples of blessing in the Bible
God blessed Adam and Noah
Noah blessed Shem and Japheth
Melchizedek blessed Abram
Issac blessed Jacob
Jacob blessed his 12 sons and 2 grandsons
Moses blessed the 12 tribes
The priests blessed the Israelites

26. Applications
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. (Rom 12:14)
Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. (1 Pet 3:9)
Out of the same mouth come praise (blessing) and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. (James 3:10)

27. Revoking curses Seven Indications of a Curse:
Mental and/or emotional breakdown (usually came from some form of occult involvement)
Repeated or chronic sickness (especially if hereditary)
Barrenness, a tendency to miscarry or related female problems
Breakdown of marriage and family alienation
Continuing financial insufficiency
Being “accident-prone”
A history of suicides and unnatural or untimely deaths
(Blessing or Curse You Can Choose – Derek Prince )