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Noah’s family repopulated the earth. (Josh 24:2-4) His descendants became idolaters, The Lord said unto Abram, “Leave your family and country, go to a land I will show you.” (Genesis 12:1) Abram, his wife Sarai, and Lot his nephew left and traveled to Canaan. Abram built an altar to God, who promised to give him and his seed the land. (12:7)

“Abram believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.” (Genesis 15:6)

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went to Egypt. (12:10) Abram told Sarai his wife, “You are a beautiful woman. When Egyptians see you. They will say, this is his wife and they will kill me, but they will save you. Tell them you are my sister. Then everything will be well and I will live because of you.” (12:11-13)

Sarai was taken into Pharoah’s house, and he gave Abram herds and servants for Sarai. BUT the Lord inflicted plagues on Pharaoh because of Sarai Abram’s wife.

Pharaoh called Abram, “What have you done. Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?”  Why did you say she was your sister?  I could have slept with her. Take your wife and go.” (12:18-19)

Adam’s and Eve’s sinful nature was passed down to Abram. God is faithful and saved Abram and Sarai just in time.  They returned to their altar in Canaan and prayed. (13:3-4)

 We may sin but can always go to God and ask forgiveness.

After the flood Noah build an altar to offer animal sacrifices and praise God for delivering them. God gave his promise to never again send a flood of such destruction. As long as the earth remained, seasons would come and the rainbow will be a sign to all that God would keep his promise. (Genesis 8:20-22)

Then Noah, the righteous man of God and great hero of faith who loved the Lord and did everything God commanded, got drunk.

(Genesis 9:20-26) Noah planted a vineyard. He became drunk from the wine and lay uncovered in his tent. Noah had the sinful nature he got from Adam and Eve and developed in all men’s hearts. All sin makes us sinners and cuts us off from our holy God. “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23) All sin leads to death because it separates us from God. Man’s sinful nature continued down the generations to Noah’s sons and all mankind.

Ham, one of Noah’s sons saw his father naked but did not respectfully cover him. He announced Noah’s nakedness to his brothers perhaps in a mocking way. Shem and Japheth backed into the tent with their faces away and covered their father. Then Noah cursed Ham’s son. (Genesis 9:20-26)

“Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.” (Hebrews 9:22) Christ shed his blood for our sins.

Noah descended from Adam and Eve and their son Seth. (Genesis 8) Noah’s great grandfather, Enoch, is one of only two people in scripture who never died. (Genesis 5:22-24) Noah’s grandfather (and Enoch’s son) was Methuselah, the oldest recorded living person in history.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day, (I think of it as February 17 (Genesis 7:11-13), the flood waters overtook the earth, and all the people and animals were destroyed.  Genesis 7-8 gives the details of the rain and water covering the entire earth. In the six hundredth and first year. The second month the twenty-seventh day. (February 27 of the following year) the waters had descended and God told Noah he could leave the ark. (Verses 8:13-14) Noah, his wife, three sons and their wives left the ark with the animals. (8:15-19) 

In one act, God wiped out every living thing on earth except Noah and his family to make a new world. God told them to be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth.

“Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.” Genesis 6:9 KJV “Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.” NIV

The righteous have faith in and love for God, so they live according to God’s laws, and so should we.