Admonition Podcast

Good morning.

So thank you for your patience today.

Had to figure out a few kinks, especially with our wonderful guide doing what he needs to
do out in, I believe, Branson.

So moving forward, we will be looking at the flood account and the Gilgamesh Epic.

Usually, when do you see when you go out into the sunlight, when does it seem the
brightest?

Well it's after you were in somewhere dark.

When you can compare two things side by side, or if you can put a dirty plate or a plate
that's just slightly dirty by one that's clean, you can see the difference.

That's simply what we want to do today.

We still want to have a Bible class, not an ancient literature class.

Before we move any forward, let's bow in a word of prayer.

Our Lord and Father in heaven, we come before thee at this time and we thank thee for the
God that you are, for being our wonderful Creator who desires the best for us.

And allows us to worship you.

We come before thee, and we thank you as well for the fellowship we have here, for being
able to be with one another in song and in efforts towards serving you and bringing others

to you.

Dear Lord, we love thee and we thank thee most for your son who gave his life for us.

And we give this prayer in his holy name.

Amen.

So today we will look at, as was mentioned, the Gilgamesh Epoch and compared to the Noah's
Flood.

Now, the Gilgamesh Epoch is not a perfect match to match of Noah's Flood.

It couldn't be.

It is not an inspired account.

But there are some similarities we can look at today.

Also, apologies for the size of that.

It did not expand properly and we were already out of time.

but what what that says up there, we first have the oldest fragment of the Gilgamesh epic.

We want to c go ahead and look at it and just take a little bit of time seeing where it
came from so we can compare it fairly.

We it came from multiple sources.

It was from the ancient Samarias, that land that was between the Tigris and Euphrates,
where ancient civilizations started.

Now, with them they started having these short stories, and they had the short stories of
this man called Gilgamesh.

Now Gilgamesh was an actual king from before the time of Abraham, but they made these
myths about him, and they kept building and building until the Samarians had all these

stories, and then they had another story about the flood, which is interesting in and of
itself, and then they put it all together in what's called the Gilgamesh epic.

So all of these ancient stories got put together later in time during the Babylonian era.

It was preserved not at Babylon, but in the library of Ashrabanapal.

Was a wicked king that was over Assyria.

But he had an incredible interest in literature of that time.

And the way we look at the Greeks and their literature, it's kind of the way they looked
at the Sumerians back in that time.

They were the starters of everything they knew.

And the people who were uh involved in the excavations of this time, uh Henry Laird was a
man who was doing was involved.

He was also involved in other excavations at Assyria and even Babylonia.

But moving forward.

uh

The point where it really got interesting, where we knew what was going on, was with this
man named George Smith.

Now he was a self taught man.

He became fluent in reading cuneiform.

Now all that cuneiform is, is that old it's one of the oldest forms of writing, if not the
oldest, where they would take a wedge and they would just impress into clay or into what

other pressible material they had.

And they would make these wedges and make their letters.

He was able to decipher that.

Read it and figure out what was being said.

And he had to put these tablets back together.

When you have something this old that's made of old clay or even stone, it's not usually
going to last all that well.

So he had to put it back together.

Now, this flood account, he was able to find it within the Gilgamesh Epic.

Remember, we talked about it being short stories, being these things that were put
together over time.

The we usually talk about the Gilgamesh epoch and when we talk about

It compared to the flood.

What's interesting is it is much more than just a flood account.

That's only one part of it that is on the eleventh tablet.

Looking at this from a biblical perspective, George Smith, like us, was very interested in
the Bible.

He knew its importance.

And when he saw this tablet, when he read it and realized that, hey, this is about a man
who was told by a god to build a boat to escape a flood that was going to kill all that

was on earth, he was like, hey, this kind of sounds like something else.

Sounds like Noah's flood.

No, as we described earlier, there was that progression of how it came to us.

And this this goes back as far as three thousand BC or potentially even further.

Now we now this is where we start getting into it and start seeing the lessons build from
the Gilgamesh epic and where we can start comparing it to scripture.

First, the way it starts is you have this king, this ancient king Gilgamesh, he's two
thirds God, he's one third man, and he is out doing whatever he wants to do the way he

wants to do it.

And then the gods say, You know what, this person needs someone to calm him down.

And then it's disgusting.

He is civilized through relations with a prostitute.

This is something filthy.

uh

of man, something not divine, and you can already see it in this.

Then it goes from Enkidu was sent, he is then fights Gilgamesh, and then they become best
friends.

It's like two guys that go to the gym, it's like, hey, you lifted more than me.

I like you now.

So, and after that they had shared trials.

They went through all these different things together, facing uh the bull of heaven,
facing all these other things that were sent against them.

And then you have Enkidu's sudden death.

He is killed because the gods are mad over the things that they have done, over the things
they've got away with doing.

And now they're like, one of you has to die.

And they choose and kidju.

Then after that, Gogamesh realizes he's not fully God.

He already knew, but now it comes to light, and he wants to go seek eternal life.

He wants to go and figure out, okay, how can I go and not face this same thing?

Because it hurt him to see and kidju die.

He faced a miserable, slow death.

After that

There was he finally was able to go and find it.

He went on this journey to go find eternal life.

And he found the man who was on the flood, who faced the flood.

And then he asks him, How did you receive eternal life?

It's like, well, basically, I built a boat, I got saved from a flood, I put the things on
the boat that I wanted, because the gods told me to.

And then after I got off the flood, the God who flooded the earth said, You know what?

I kind of like you now.

I'm going to give you eternal life.

It's doesn't quite have the ring of authenticity, does it?

Now it doesn't sound quite like scripture.

But that's what happens in this Gilgamesh epic.

He gets off the boat and he is given eternal life.

Now, what's interesting is he basically tells Gilgamesh, he puts him through tests to say,
hey, you can have eternal life if you can stay up for seven days and seven nights, if you

can do this or that.

And Gilgamesh doesn't end up doing it.

Utnafish team's wife ends up saying, Hey, come on, just give him what he wants.

You see how much effort he's put into it.

So he gives them a chance to eat this plant that's going to give him eternal life.

Now, keep in mind,

And we're looking at things that are from thousands and thousands of years ago, when
people were much closer to the generations of the flood.

It's interesting that Gilgamesh was told that he could have at least revitalized life by
eating this plant.

It's interesting we read about the tree of life in Scripture.

Now we do not know if this is a direct descendant idea from it, but it could very well be
the case that the things we see in this epic are things that were in that culture because

they heard different versions of it passed down from generation to generation.

Now again, we need to lay a tent peg right here.

Scripture is scripture.

It is not something that has changed from generation to generation.

That's the difference here.

We know with Scripture, Eve, Adam and Eve were in the garden, and they went away from the
tree of life.

They were tempted by a snake, and then they faced death after that.

But with Gilgamesh, it is a total corruption of that.

Instead, he has whatever this plant was taken away by a snake.

It's different, but it still has those similarities where it's like, you know, this could
have been a kid listening to his dad, but not fully listening.

Kind of like when you listen to instructions and it's like, that's not what I told you to
do.

Or when one of us could listen to instructions and then we go and do it, and then the
parents like, That's not what I told you to do.

After that, Gilgamesh goes home, he's empty-handed.

He does not have eternal.

Life.

He goes home and enjoys being in his city of Uruk with an interesting conclusion of, well,
look at how beautiful this city is.

Look at all these things in life.

I'm going to go enjoy what I have.

It's interesting that this corruption of this account or this story, this epic, which
includes something that looks like it's from Scripture, it looks similar.

Its ending is you know what?

Enjoy your life because you don't have anything on the other side.

It is showing a mind.

Mindset of that time, of that era, where they were worried about things when it came to
idolatry.

They wanted to worship, they wanted to know what was on the other side.

But as we'll be seeing as we move forward, they were focused on this world even when they
acted like they were looking to the next.

It can be easy for us to do that, to think, I'm doing something spiritual when all I'm
doing is focusing on this earth.

There are religions, there are denominations that claim to be the Lord's church that make
it all about the next statue, all about the next cathedral, all about the next structure

that can be built, the next memorial that can be placed.

Is it about the things of this life?

Are we claiming to look at eternal life?

Well, what we're really worried about is what we can see on this earth.

That was happening back then, and it can still happen today.

Now that we've overviewed this together.

We want to look at the echoes of a common event, and we're going to have some time to read
scripture now to look into that.

Now, first, one commonality between these two accounts is the flood was sent as a
consequence to man.

If someone could read Genesis 5, 6 through 7, please.

Genesis 5, 6 through 7.

Or six five through seven.

I apologize.

Six five through seven.

Sorry that he had made man on this earth, and he grieved in his heart.

So the Lord said, I will destroy man who I have created from the face of the earth, both
man and beast, creeping things, birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.

Looking at Scripture, what was the reason God sent the flood?

He sent it because uh of sin.

Because it repented him that he made man.

The thoughts of man were on evil continually.

Scripture makes it clear that the reason the flood came was not just any just a flippant
decision of God.

He wasn't like, you know what, it might be fun to just treat that world like it's nothing
and just stir it up for a little bit.

No, he sent it because man was wicked.

Now the Gilgamesh epic is also going to be sent because of something man does.

But as we will see in a little while, it's

It's not the sa it's not parallel, it's not the same.

Next it's by a divine plan, it's sent by someone divine, and it is planned by someone
divine.

The Lord says, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man
and beast, and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I

have made man.

Notice that it's not only the consequence of man.

God was very intentional in why he was doing it.

Think about what happened before this.

You have the first sin in the garden, and man is told he no longer has eternal life.

He is taken away from the tree.

There is an angel set with a fiery sword to guard, or a fiery sword set to guard, rather,
and then after that you have Cain and Abel.

What is it that Cain does to his brother?

He slew him.

And then God says, I'm going to set, I'm you are going to be banished.

You are going to be sent out because you have laid your brother's blood in the ground.

And what does Cain say after that?

My punishment's greater than I can bear.

He killed his brother.

He put his brother in the ground.

And then after that, he said.

I you can't banish me.

Someone's going to kill me because I killed my brother.

He realizes that there's going to be societal consequences for what he did apparently.

Now the society of that day and age would be his brothers and sisters, which they were
apparently more than Cain and Abel.

But with that with that fact, he knew that there were going to be consequences for this,
but he wasn't willing to face the consequences, even if they were merciful for what he

did.

So the Lord says, I will set a mark on you.

Nobody's going to hurt you, and if they do

They will be they will repay seventy they will repay seven times.

There was going to be punishment if anyone set a hand on Cain.

God was merciful, God was kind.

But what happens to the world after that?

Their thoughts were set on evil continually.

When someone committed a capital punishment, something that we would consider worthy of
death penalty today, when they went out and killed a brother, and

And then they were not punished.

Wickedness prospered through the world.

It grew, it festered to the point that people were taking multiple wives, they were
bragging over the fact they were killing one another, and whatever else that we don't know

that was buried under the flood.

The world became corrupt when sin wasn't punished.

Now was that God's mistake?

Did he make a mistake not punishing Cain?

God is incredibly wise.

And he allowed us to see what happens when the world doesn't practice punishment, when God
did not punish Cain, when there was not a due punishment for what was done, the world

festered in sin.

Now, in our day and age, if sin is not punished, if there is not a consequence for things
that are done, then sin will fester as well.

Now there are times people are penitent.

There are times where there is no need for punishment, or at least the full punishment.

Remember David.

He went and he took another man's wife, something that was already worthy of death at that
time.

After that, he went and he killed that man, or had him killed, so he could hide what he
did.

Now did the Lord say, Okay, it's time.

It's time for the punishment.

No.

David said, I have sinned.

Against thee and thee only have I sinned.

An entire psalm was written that we strongly believe is what he said after that in
repentance.

He realized what he did wrong and he was willing to change.

Now that's the point there.

Now we cannot read one another's thoughts, we cannot predict the future.

But when one has shown proper indications that there is not going to be change, there is
no longer.

Stronger room for mercy according to what our Lord shows, according to what He has done,
what He has said.

He allowed us to see what happens when you have a world that does not punish sin.

That's what occurred before the flood.

You have this by a divine plan.

There's a reason God is sending it, and He's teaching us a lesson that He taught a lesson
that comes to us today.

After that you have a warned survivor, another commonality between these two.

One man received a warning of the Lord and then led his family to salvation.

Genesis chapter six, verse eight.

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord for

Noah was a man who was already living in a way that was proper, a way that was different
from the world.

You had the sons of God who were descended from Seth, and then the sons of man from Cain
and Abel.

Now you have some who will come and try to say that, well, these giants that were on the
earth at this time, they were they they went and they those angels, they married women of

earth, and then they had these giant babies.

You'll hear a whole bunch of malarchy around this.

But with that

You have this world that is different from ours.

You have people that are larger.

It was a d you have a different

We come from the same genetic pool, but you have a world that is much closer to what it
was at the very beginning.

A world with an entirely different atmosphere.

It is different.

You have this man who was told that that world is about to perish, that he is about to
survive, and he doesn't have a clue what the world's going to be like on the other side.

But he does know that there will be salvation if he does as God says.

Noah does not live like the rest of this world.

He doesn't trust in its strength.

He does not try to

To continue in its pleasures.

Verse thirteen And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me, for the
earth is filled with violence through them, and behold, I will destroy them with the

earth.

Make thee an ark of gopher wood, rooms shalt thou pitch, rooms shalt thou make in the ark,
and shall pitch it in within and without with pitch.

And it's going to continue with these instructions.

You have a warned survivor, one who is going to hear what he has to do.

And he is going to be saved after the fact.

And then you have obedience to instruction.

Jesus not.

God is instructing Noah what he has to do here.

He tells him You need to build a boat.

You need to make thee an ark of gopher wood, room shalt thou make in the ark, and shall
pitch it within and without.

And this is the fashion that thou shalt make it, the length of the ark shall be three
hundred cubits, the breadth fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

A window shalt thou make in the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above.

The door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof, with lower second.

Second and third stories shalt thou make it.

VBS time, you usually see an ark that's on the wall.

Now, when you look at that ark, how does it usually look?

It's almost like it's the shape of a lemon.

Like we make them real small, really like a story.

And then you have the giraffe that's its its neck is about two times the height of the ark
itself.

That's not how Noah's Ark looked.

It wasn't a story.

This was three hundred cubits by that by fifty cubits by thirty cubits.

This was first a huge boat, but also it is one that is realistic.

Now that's going to be when we are looking at similarities now.

Soon we will look at differences.

And that's going to be one of the largest ones here.

You have the ark that is built like a true vessel.

Just thinking about its magnitude, its size, you realize this isn't just a story.

This is something that could actually occur, something that could actually be the case.

If Noah does what Yes says.

Now, if if Noah did what if Noah built a ark like we like to do for VBS sometimes, if he
wanted to make it look like a lemon with a little bitty roof on top and then draft

sticking out the top, it wasn't going to do what God said.

He had to follow the instructions specifically.

He had to realize that what the Lord said was important.

As we described earlier, you have the instructions that are from the Lord.

How he says to make the boat.

Now, verse 5 of Genesis 7.

Genesis 7:5, and Noah did according to all the Lord commanded him.

All of these instructions.

All of these things he has to do, and then he does it for a hundred and twenty years.

He follows every single instruction.

He doesn't make it a cubit shorter.

He doesn't make it a cubit.

He doesn't make it a cubit shorter lengthwise, widthwise, or heightwise.

He does according to what the Lord said.

Otherwise, that ship wasn't going to make it.

The same applies with our lives.

If we desire for salvation, if we desire for God to allow the salvation he's given to us,
even when we don't deserve it, we need to follow the instructions he has given to us.

You have these commonalities here.

You have a common consequence or you have a consequence for man.

You have this flood that comes by a divine plan.

You have a warned survivor, you have obedience to instruction, but also you have, as we
described, a large boat.

Now what's going to happen with Gilgamesh is you have a boat that is it's either 120 cubit
cube or 180 cubit cube.

I think it's the 120 cubits, 180 feet.

But also, so you have a large boat in either, and then you have life preserved aboard.

There is salvation in the boat.

Now you have these commonalities.

What are the differences?

First, you have a difference in theology.

in the very foundation of the powers that be in there, of the deity.

First, with God, He is righteous.

He's perfect.

Exodus thirty-four, he is the one who is merciful, and then he is the one that is just.

Isaiah 55, he is the one who, his ways compared to the wicked, his ways are higher than
the wicked's ways, his thoughts are higher than the wicked's thoughts.

He is the perfect God, the wise God who inspired even the book of Proverbs.

You live by the book of Proverbs, you will find so many amazing things, so many things
that the Lord knew before any of our psychologists did.

When you look at who the Lord is, he's wise.

Now, the gods in the Gilgamesh epic, they're a contrast.

When they sent the flood to the earth,

earth.

They were trying to hide from it.

The mountains were covered.

Their home was gone because they lived on the mountain.

And then after that they they regret what they did.

They were fearful over their own flood.

Our Lord does not fear what he does.

Our Lord does it.

Now, it's interesting.

You have these gods who they were fearful over what they did.

The fact that they sent this flood, and now even their home is destroyed.

But then you have the Lord.

Notice what he did.

It repented him that he made man, and then he sent a flood.

Now, repentance, what is repentance?

It's a change of mind leading to a change of life.

That's how we describe it for us.

Now, when we repent, we are willing to change.

Well, we change our will.

But when God repents, He wills a change.

Our God is willing to say, okay, this is going to be done differently.

He has the same mind.

He is not going to change who he is.

Our God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

But our Lord is willing to say, Okay, this course of direction, you've proven you aren't
deserving of it.

Here this comes instead.

There is a way that the world could have been if they continued in the proper way, if they
were lived his way.

But the Lord was allowed it to change because of man.

Now he knew what was going on the

Entire time.

Our Lord is all wise and he is all knowing.

But isn't it amazing that while he is all knowing, he also makes sure that he uses the
world, he uses even our decisions.

The Lord does not choose what you are going to do tomorrow.

The Lord might allow what happens tomorrow.

He does allow what happens tomorrow, but he does not choose.

He uses our decisions in his providence and wisdom.

And that's a subject I can't even begin.

How beautiful it is the Lord interacts in our lives without using miracles within the laws
of nature.

It is beautiful.

You have God who is all wise.

He is so intentional versus this pantheon of gods who didn't even realize what they were
doing.

You already have a difference that show this account, even though the Gilgamesh epic has
so many similarities, it bears the mark of being corrupted by man.

Of man saying, You know what?

God said something simple.

I want to make a story about it.

I want to make this actually interesting.

So the gods, they're gonna be more like me.

They're going to make some mistakes every now and then.

In fact, they're going to destroy their own home.

They decide that the gods are going to be impulsive.

This, instead of just being something about morality, being just these gods are just
annoyed.

They send the flood.

Some some accounts, there's different iterations of it, but some accounts say that they
sent the flood because man was too loud, because he made too much noise.

Now does that sound like the God you serve?

Is he going to kill because we make too much noise?

No, he kills because of sin.

But he is willing to save those who are righteous.

And it's not that the Lord necessarily kills those who sin.

There are times our Lord has killed a direct punishment.

But when it comes to the full punishment that will come one day, man decides that for
himself.

He decides his eternal destination.

Now, looking at this concept of morality, we have Genesis 6, 5 through 7, as was read
before.

God saw the wickedness of man that it was great on the earth, and every ima imagination of
the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually, and it repented the Lord that he made

man on the earth, it grieved him in his heart.

This is not just something spur of the moment.

It grieves the Lord that he made man, and now that man has gone and done this.

But even with that, our Lord is being just.

Remember, Genesis six, eight.

You have all of this wickedness about man, verses five through seven.

And what's that first word of Genesis six, eight?

But but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

Even in a world that was wicked, the Lord was looking for what was righteous.

It can be easy with our own eyes to s see something that's perfectly clean, and then we
see that's one spot on the tablecloth, that one stain on a suit, and then the whole thing

is ruined.

The Lord was willing to look at the earth, and while all of it was stained, except for
this one spot one part, he saved that one part.

It is the case that there is sin in our lives that we allow even just one and we allow it
to

Professor, that we will be judged for it.

But at the same time, our Lord is balanced.

He wants to save, He wants you to be free.

2 Peter 3, 19 through 21.

2 Peter 3, 19 through 21.

There is no second Peter three, nineteen through twenty one.

First Peter three, nineteen through twenty one.

Thank you.

Verse eighteen for Christ hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he
might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit, by

which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison, which sometime were
disobedient, when once the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark

was preparing, wherein few that is eight souls were saved by water.

The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us, not the putting away of the
filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God by the resurrection of

Jesus Christ.

When this says that Jesus went and preached the spirits in prison, the

God had a message.

And God did not just come down directly and speak that message.

He spoke through Noah.

He gave his message to Noah and all of the Godheads and Godhead is involved like that.

We can easily look at this and say, Jesus was able to preach, God was able to preach
through what Noah was saying in his preaching.

Now you have some who will say that we can look at scripture and it says Noah, Noah didn't
do any kind of preaching.

Noah was told in secret.

It looks right here.

God says that they were preached to, and the one that was serving God was Noah.

He was the one that preached.

Now Jesus is making it known through Noah that these what they needed to do.

It also says that these are the souls that are in prison.

They were preached to when they were alive, and now their punishment has come.

This is not God saying, I'm going to send down a f this is not Jesus descending down into
the depths of the earth, teaching the souls in torments.

This is some this is simply what Noah did.

What he allowed, what God did through Noah.

uh You have this morality where God allows man a chance to be saved.

He gives him time.

Man is able to know, but then they are ultimately going to be judged.

You have a different philosophy here.

You have gods who are from men rather than man being from God.

an entire difference that is seen in how they acted, what they did.

When Gilg when Utnafish team offers an offering, the the the gods are going to swarm.

It said like flies.

It's how it's translated.

They swarm like flies around the altar.

It's like they've been craving something they haven't had because they killed everybody.

And now they're starving.

Our God smells a sweet savor.

It is something elegant, something graceful, and something that it is not that he needs
anything from us.

But he desires all that we can give because that's what love does.

It desires to give all and desires that in return.

You have a different theology, a different morality, a different philosophy, and also a
different realism.

As you can see, they were able to take a picture of the Ark.

Therefore it's real.

The Gilgamesh, it's in a glass box up there.

Therefore, it's not real.

Okay, no.

That's not a real picture of the Ark.

But just look at those two.

What happens if you put that box in water?

It's going to roll up and down.

It's gonna be like having a shipping container that's gotten out and now it might float
for a little while, but as it does, it's going to roll and then it's going to fill and

then it's going to sink.

And everything that's in it.

But that other one, that one is almost parallel to the dimensions we still use today.

And how we st we still build ships so that they s keep everyone alive on board rather than
going down into the water.

With that, another interesting note about the Ark is while you have this one who is a box
that's going to get every single wave, notice how long the ark is.

It's going to cut through.

Again, the Lord was wise in how he made it.

Obviously we don't know if the ends were flat or curved and you can debate with someone
all day about that.

That was left up to Noah from all that we can see.

But the Lord gave every opportunity for this to be built wisely, a way that was actually
realistically going to be saved from a flood rather than

Rather than what this other one was.

As we conclude, you will have some who want to say that the Gilgamesh epic, it came before
and Noah's flood was just a different version of it.

We've looked at all these differences.

Which one is better?

Noah's Flood.

When you have someone who corrupts something, or what if one came from the other, Noah's
flood is either

an improvement on the Gilgamesh epoch.

Or the Gilgamesh epoch is a degradation of the flood.

Now neither of these could technically be the case.

Genesis was written about fifteen hundred BC.

The f this flood account

Its roots go back to three thousand BC.

It actually came before.

So it can't be that the Gilgamesh epic was based on Genesis, but also it's not an
improvement on it either.

Scripture claims to be inspired.

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God.

It is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness.

If God's word is inspired, its basis, its inspiration is not in the epics of man.

We cannot look at God's word and say it came from there.

If we trust what he has said about his own word.

Instead of either of these things being the case, one coming from the other, it's two
records, attempted records at one event.

The Gilgamesh epic is trying to record it, it's what man remembers and how man has changed
it, while the Noah's flood is what God remembers.

And since he is an inspired witness who knows everything, fifteen hundred years later or
however long it was, he could remember what was done and be able to tell Moses exactly

what to write.

Word for word.

A final lesson from this.

Man, when given the opportunity, is going to degrade the message he has from God.

You have the first century church, something that does something similar to the Ark.

It saves those who are in it.

But then you have those who want to take it and change every single aspect.

No, we want we want to allow this.

We want to utilize this.

They want to degrade what God has given.

That's exactly what happened then, and it ended up with a story.

You just look at some of

It's almost like we have church mythology.

The things that some put out that claim that they follow Jesus Christ.

Man will degrade the message he has given, but we must make sure that we follow God's
message, wanting to stick to it, to adhere to what it says, and also do all that it says.

The task of a Christian is to hold the perfect word that God gave, not to decide what God
inspired is not good enough.

God's word is perfect, and if we desire to serve Him, all we have to do is take it for
what it says.

Not allow the truth to degrade.

Thank you for your time.