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This is just a short observation which I made this past week, when reviewing the story of Noah's flood. Genesis 7:13 tells us that in the selfsame day, Noah went into the ark with his wife, sons, and son's wives, along with every beast, creeping thing, cattle, and fowl after its kind. Then seven days passed until the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
Why seven days? I believe there is a particular significance for God waiting this exact span of time until the deluge occurred which killed everything with the breath of life except for the occupants of the ark.
There is a comparable account about the afflicted Job being visited by his friends. Job 2:13 tells us, "so they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great."
We also read about the death of Jacob being observed in Genesis 50:7-13. Joseph and all his brethren with chariots and horsemen forming "a very great company" participated in this. "And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days. And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan."
Getting back to God waiting seven days to bring the flood waters on the earth while Noah's family and all the creatures were waiting within the ark... Could it be that God was mourning what He would have to do to purify the planet of the inhabitants' corruption? Perhaps, just like Job and Joseph's family, God's grief was unspeakably great at this point.
God tells us that He has no pleasure in the death of the wicked, that he should die. A seven-day period of God mourning for all the creatures in the world which He was about to submerge below the flood waters shows us the longsuffering heart of God - even for those blatantly wicked ones who despised Him.
Why seven days? I believe there is a particular significance for God waiting this exact span of time until the deluge occurred which killed everything with the breath of life except for the occupants of the ark.
There is a comparable account about the afflicted Job being visited by his friends. Job 2:13 tells us, "so they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great."
We also read about the death of Jacob being observed in Genesis 50:7-13. Joseph and all his brethren with chariots and horsemen forming "a very great company" participated in this. "And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days. And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan."
Getting back to God waiting seven days to bring the flood waters on the earth while Noah's family and all the creatures were waiting within the ark... Could it be that God was mourning what He would have to do to purify the planet of the inhabitants' corruption? Perhaps, just like Job and Joseph's family, God's grief was unspeakably great at this point.
God tells us that He has no pleasure in the death of the wicked, that he should die. A seven-day period of God mourning for all the creatures in the world which He was about to submerge below the flood waters shows us the longsuffering heart of God - even for those blatantly wicked ones who despised Him.
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