Seed Time and Harvest
Scripture Reference: Genesis 8:20-22.
Seven days before He sent the deluge the Lord invited Noah and his family—eight persons in all—into the ark.
Then, under God’s direction, the animals arrived from every part of the world.
Scoffers must have gasped at the gigantic ark towering over them, and been amazed and stunned as they saw the animals troop in.
Finally, Noah and his family entered—and God shut them in! (Genesis 7:16). It was too late for last-minute mind changes for, when God shuts, “no one opens” (Revelation 3:7).
That same day “all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights” (Genesis 7:11-12).
Creation scientists tell us that if all the clouds today were to precipitate as rain, it would only raise the ocean level by less than two inches! Where did all the rain come from? On the second day of creation God had prepared an extensive water vapor canopy above the atmosphere just for this purpose.
Genesis 7 and 8 describe the progress of the flood, covering the high mountains and levelling after five months, beginning to subside when God caused a wind to pass over the earth. One year after Noah first entered the ark, the earth was dry.
God told Noah to leave the ark, and he immediately offered burnt offerings to the Lord.
Noah must have been shocked to see the “new world”—bleak, barren, and inhospitable, vastly different from the beautiful “old world” he had left.
Now came God’s great reassuring promise. The essential cycles of nature, governed by the laws of the universe He had made at creation, would remain for the benefit of mankind—day-and-night cycles, climate cycles, season cycles and agricultural cycles.
God promised Noah that He would ensure the stability of nature “while the earth remains.”
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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