Notes for each box:

Wild Places  

• God had given humanity the job of continuing to bring order to the land by subduing and ruling over it with God’s wisdom. Instead, it became a place full of disorder and violence.
• Noah’s name means rest. Noah’s parents hoped that Noah would bring the family of humanity rest from the pain of being outside the Garden (see Genesis 5:29).

Through the Waters

• The Great Flood can be understood as an act of decreation and recreation. Once again, “…the land was wild and waste and darkness was over the face of the watery deep…“ Once again, God’s wind blows over the earth. Once again, He gathers the waters and brings humanity through them.

Blessing

• God affirms His intention for humanity and creation. Notice the similar words in both the blessing to humanity in the garden and the blessing given to Noah. However, instead of ruling over the animals with peace, animals will now be afraid of humanity.

Covenant

• A covenant is a special type of agreement. God doesn’t just make this covenant with humanity but with the animals and the land. Remember God’s intention for creation. How does this support His goal?

Garden

• Here we see Noah cultivating a new Garden. How was Noah’s garden similar to the Garden of Eden? How was it different?

Choice

• Even though Scripture doesn’t come out and say Noah has a choice to make, part of meditating on Scripture is reading stories in comparison with one another. It sets us up to be paying attention to whether Noah will continue to ask God for wisdom or if he will give in to his desires to do what is good in his own eyes..

Reveal

• Encourage students to simply draw a tent for this story, similar to the one they saw in the video. This story is very complex, and there are several different ways to interpret it. The important thing is that it shows Noah is no different from Adam and Noah’s son is a lot like Cain. Both Adam and Cain let their desires rule over them…and the same is true for Noah and Ham.

Promise

• The story of the tent also revealed that Noah’s son Shem acted in a right way that honored God. At the end of this story Noah blesses Yahweh, “the God of Shem.” This blessing is worded in a way that suggests he is asking God to let the promised seed come through Shem.
  

Out of the Garden

• The story of Noah’s family ends with the Tower of Babel. Instead of filling the earth – which was part of God’s blessing – they make it their goal to stay in one place. Remember that the Garden of Eden was a place where heaven came to earth. The Bible gives several hints that the Garden was on a hill – a place where the skies (heavens) surrounded the land. The Tower of Babel can be understood as humanity wanting to invade and rule over heaven (a man-made structure invading the space of skies and ruling from that place). It was the opposite of the Garden of Eden. It was better for them that God confuse their language and scatter them. 
• Babel (also called Babylon) means confusion. Babylon is a word that will keep coming up throughout the entire Bible whenever a writer wants to describe a place that is like the opposite of the Garden of Eden.
  

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