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Lesson 8 · August 20, 1898

The Drying of the Waters

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  1. 1.Review carefully the main features of the last two lessons.
  2. 2.What did the Lord do? .
  3. 3.When did the waters begin to decrease? .
  4. 4.When and where did the ark find a resting-place? .
  5. 5.When were the tops of the mountains seen? .
  6. 6.In what manner did the waters decrease? . See margin.
  7. 7.At the end of forty days more, what did Noah do?
  8. 8.What other bird did he send forth, and what did this bird do? .
  9. 9.At the end of seven days more what did he do? .
  10. 10.What emblem did the dove bring back? What did it mean to Noah? .
  11. 11.How long before he sent the dove again? With what result? .
  12. 12.When did Noah look out and find the ground dry? .
  13. 13.What command did he now receive from the Lord? .
  14. 14.How did he regard that command? .
  15. 15.How did Noah now show his gratitude to God and faith in Christ? .
  16. 16.Did the Lord accept the offering? What did He say in His heart? . See note.
  17. 17.What did He say should not cease so long as the earth remains? .

Notes

Readings.

pp. ⟦?⟧ or "Christian Education," pp. 190-197.

"If God's revealed will is so difficult to be understood, certainly men should not rest their faith upon mere suppositions in regard to that which He has not revealed. God's ways are not our ways, neither are His thoughts our thoughts. Human science can never account for his wondrous works. God so ordered that men, beasts, and trees, many times larger than those now upon the earth, and other things, should be buried in the earth at the time of the flood, and there be preserved to evidence to man that the inhabitants of the old world perished by a flood. God designed that the discovery of these things in the earth should establish the faith of men in inspired history."—Spirit of Prophecy, vol. 1, p. 90.

Additional Study.

1. Does the Lord ever forget His children? .

2. How long was Noah in the ark?

3. What in this lesson shows that Noah regarded the weekly division of time, and therefore the Sabbath?

4. Note that Noah came forth from, as well as went into, the ark at the command of God. What lesson do you learn from this?

5. Why did Noah make an offering of every kind of clean beast and fowl? Why offer clean beasts and fowl?

6. What evidence does the earth itself give of a universal flood?

Bible texts in this lesson

Genesis 8 · Genesis 8:1 · Genesis 8:2 · Genesis 8:3 · Genesis 8:4 · Genesis 8:5 · Genesis 8:8 · Genesis 8:9 · Genesis 8:10 · Genesis 8:11 · Genesis 8:12 · Genesis 8:13 · Genesis 8:14 · Genesis 8:16 · Genesis 8:17 · Genesis 8:18 · Genesis 8:19 · Genesis 8:20 · Genesis 8:21 · Genesis 8:22 · Isaiah 49:15 · Isaiah 49:16

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