Scheme of

Redemption
Goals of Our Study
• To learn how God moved from man's problem
of sin to His solution of Jesus on the cross
• To understand how everything in the scriptures
relates to, and points to, Jesus and the cross
• To understand how everything in the Bible
reveals God to mankind - who He is and what
He is like
• Get a better understanding of how we got here
tonight on the orange carpet

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Recap
•"Scheme of Redemption" - The plan of God,
established before creation, to redeem
mankind from sin
•View the Bible as one book with the real
division taking place at Genesis 3:6 rather
than between Malachi and Matthew
•This division covers two drastically
different worlds: The world prior to sin and
the world after sin
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Recap
•Genesis 1-2: God and perfection, man and
innocence
• Strife and tragedy were unheard of
• Adam did not lie awake at night stressing over
how he was going to resolve a problem in his life
or how he was going to survive.
•Genesis 3-12 – “The Background of
Redemption”
• The true division of the Bible takes place at
Genesis 3:6. Everything changed here
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Recap
•Two main lines stem from Adam and Eve
• The righteous lineage of Seth
• The evil lineage of Cain
•Eventually these two lines intermingle by
way of the marriage
•These leads to such disaster of:
• “Every intent of the thoughts of [man’s] heart
was only evil continually”
• The earth was filled with violence.
• The earth was made corrupt
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Recap
•God is:
• Grieved in His heart (6:6)
• Sorry that He had made man (6:6, 7)
•God sets a “diving reboot” in motion
• He sets out on a plan to flood the whole earth
with water
• To destroy all life on the earth, of both man and
animals
•However, God would spare man and animals
through a man named Noah
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Meet Noah
• Genesis 6:8-9 – But Noah found favor in the eyes
of the LORD…Noah was a righteous man,
blameless in his time; Noah walked with God
• Why is this such a monumental statement?
• Of all the people on the earth (creation approx. 1500
years old, most likely millions), only Noah found favor
with God
• What was different about Noah?
• Safe to assume that Noah did not mix himself up with
the unrighteous as others in his family did
• He remained faithful to God
• He had parents who led him to God 7 of 25
A preacher of righteousness
•2 Peter 2:5 refers to Noah as a preacher of
righteousness
• Do you think God would have spared anyone
else who repented during the 120 year
timespan?
• You can bet on it!
•Note that we are never told that Noah’s
wife, his sons, nor his son’s wives were
upstanding and righteous people. We just
assume so. Yet, they were also saved.
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Construction of the ark
•Genesis 6:13-22
•God gives Noah the instructions for the ark
• To be made from gopher wood
• It was to have rooms
• Covered inside and outside with pitch
• Dimensions: 300 cub (L) x 50 cub (W) x 30 cub
(H)
• Was to have a window one cubit from the top
and a door in the side of it
• Was to have three decks
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Construction of the ark
•Putting it into perspective
•450 feet long
•75 feet wide
•45 feet high
•Titanic: 882(L) x 92(W) x 175(H)
•Largest passenger ship today is the
Royal Caribbean Allure of the Seas:
1,187 (L) x 198(W) x 236 (H above water
line)
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Construction of the ark
•According to an Apologetics Press article*,
the ark:
• Had enough space to transport 10 freight trains
pulling 52 standard boxcars each (520 total box
cars)
• Total area of approximately 95,700 square feet
(about 20 standard basketball courts)
• Total volume of approximately 1,396,000 cubic
feet

* “An Examination of Noah’s Ark and the Global Flood” – Thompson, Harrub
http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=13&article=1413 11 of 25
Animals on the ark
•Genesis 6:19-20 – And of every living thing
of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind
into the ark, to keep them alive with you;
they shall be male and female. Of the birds
after their kind, and of the animals after
their kind, of every creeping thing of the
ground after its kind, two of every kind will
come to you to keep them alive

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Animals on the ark
•Genesis 7:1-3 – Then the Lord said to Noah,
“Enter the ark, you and all your household,
for you alone I have seen to be righteous
before Me in this time. You shall take with
you of every clean animal by sevens, a male
and his female; and of the animals that are
not clean two, a male and his female; also of
the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and
female, to keep offspring alive on the face of
all the earth
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Animals on the ark
•Birds, animals, and creeping things were all
to be gathered on the ark
•6:20 tells us that the animals would come to
Noah, so he didn’t have a great roundup
•Noah was to take animals “after their kind”
• Idea is that there didn’t have to be two German
Shepherds, two Labrador Retrievers, two
coyotes, two wolves, etc. Simply had to be two
animals of the canine family

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Animals on the ark
•Of every clean animal, by sevens, a male
and female (7 pairs, 14 animals – Kirk’s
opinion)
• 7:8-9 – Of clean animals and animals that
are not clean and birds and everything that
creeps on the ground, there went into the
ark to Noah by twos, male and female, as
God had commanded Noah.
•Of every unclean animal, one pair, a male
and female (1 pair, 2 animals)
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Final preparations
•Genesis 6:21-22 – “As for you, take for
yourself some of all food which is edible,
and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for
food for you and for them.” 22 Thus Noah
did; according to all that God had
commanded him, so he did.”

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Final preparations
• Genesis 7:1,4-6 – Then the Lord said to Noah,
“Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you
alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in
this time...For after seven more days, I will send
rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I
will blot out from the face of the land every living
thing that I have made.” Noah did according to all
that the Lord had commanded him. Now Noah
was six hundred years old when the flood of water
came upon the earth. Then Noah and his sons and
his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the
ark because of the water of the flood. 17 of 25
Final preparations
•Genesis 7:15 – So they went into the ark to
Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the
breath of life. 16 Those that entered, male
and female of all flesh, entered as God had
commanded him; and the Lord closed it
behind him.

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Final preparations
•Genesis 7:15 – So they went into the ark to
Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the
breath of life. Those that entered, male and
female of all flesh, entered as God had
commanded him; and the Lord closed it
behind him.
•Why is this an important statement?
• It shows that God was heavily involved with
Noah on this effort
• God was with the animals coming to Noah
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The flood
• Genesis 7:17-20 – Then the flood came upon the
earth for forty days, and the water increased and
lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.
The water prevailed and increased greatly upon
the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of
the water. The water prevailed more and more
upon the earth, so that all the high mountains
everywhere under the heavens were covered. The
water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the
mountains were covered.

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The flood
• The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the
mountains were covered.
• “The draft of a boat built for seaworthiness (such
as the ark) is generally half the ship’s height. That
is, when fully loaded, it sinks in the water to a
depth equal to half the height” *
• Height of ark was 30 cubits
• Water prevailed 15 cubits above the highest
peak
•God was with Noah!!!
* “An Examination of Noah’s Ark and the Global Flood” – Thompson, Harrub 21 of 25
http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=13&article=1413
Depth perception
•Famous mountains’ heights
•Mt. Everest – 29,029 feet (5.5 miles)
•K2 – 28,251 feet (5.3 miles)
•Mt. McKinley – 20,310 feet (3.8 miles)
•Kilimanjaro – 19,341 feet (3.6 miles)
•Based upon what we read earlier, what
questions do these numbers raise?
•The flood was over 5.5 miles deep???

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The flood subsides
• Psalms 104:5-9 – He established the earth upon
its foundations, So that it will not totter forever
and ever. You covered it with the deep as with a
garment; The waters were standing above the
mountains. At Your rebuke they fled, At the
sound of Your thunder they hurried away. The
mountains rose; the valleys sank down To the
place which You established for them. You set a
boundary that they may not pass over, So that
they will not return to cover the earth.
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Days of the flood
• 40 - days of rain (Genesis 7:4)
• 110 - additional days of water “prevailing on the
earth,” for a total of 150 days (Genesis 7:24)
• 74 - days until mountains were viewed (from the
17th day of the seventh month to the 1st day of
the tenth month: 13 + 30 + 30 + 1) [Genesis 8:5]
• 40 - days elapsed before Noah sent out the raven
(Genesis 8:6-7)
• 7 - days elapsed before Noah sent out the dove for
the first time (8:8)
* “An Examination of Noah’s Ark and the Global Flood” – Thompson, Harrub 24 of 25
http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=13&article=1413
Days of the flood
• 7 - days elapsed before Noah sent out the dove for
the second time (Genesis 8:10)
• 7 - days elapsed before Noah sent out the dove
the final time (Genesis 8:12)
• 29 - days elapsed to correlate with the date of
601st year, 1st month, 1st day (Genesis 8:13)
• 57 - days elapsed before Noah and the animals
disembarked (Genesis 8:14-16)
• 371 - days total

* “An Examination of Noah’s Ark and the Global Flood” – Thompson, Harrub 25 of 25
http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=13&article=1413
Exiting the ark
• But God remembered Noah and all the beasts
and all the cattle that were with him in the ark
• Remembered:
• From Hebrew word zakar
• Indicates a thoughtful mindfulness – not a
recalling of something that was forgotten
• “Remember us in your prayers”
• God was with Noah, his family, and the animals
during their voyage through the flood

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Exiting the ark
• Genesis 8:15-10 – Then God spoke to Noah,
saying, “Go out of the ark, you and your wife and
your sons and your sons’ wives with you. 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.” So Noah went out, and his
sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.
Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird,
everything that moves on the earth, went out by
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Exiting the ark
• Genesis 8:20-22 – 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.
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. “While
the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And
cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day
and night shall not cease.”
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Coming Up
•Genesis 3-12 – Continue on with
studying the background of
redemption
•State of mankind after the flood
•Babel
•Intro to Abraham

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