What to do in the aftermath of a global disaster Part 1

by Sonny Villagonzalo
on 24 October 2021

GENESIS 7:11-14
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the
second month - on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and
the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty
days and forty nights.13 On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and
Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the
ark. 14 They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all
livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground
according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with
wings.

GENESIS 7:15-19
15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and
entered the ark. 16 The animals going in were male and female of every living
thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in. 17 For forty
days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they
lifted the ark high above the earth. 18 The waters rose and increased greatly on
the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. 19 They rose greatly
on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were
covered.

GENESIS 7:20-23
20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen
cubits. 21 Every living thing that moved on land perished - birds, livestock,
wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.
22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and
animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were
wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left and those with him in the ark.

GENESIS 8:1-5
1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that
were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters
receded. 2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had
been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. 3 The water
receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the
water had gone down, 4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the
ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 The waters continued to recede
until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the
mountains became visible.

GENESIS 8:6-10
6 After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark 7 and sent
out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up
from the earth. 8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from
the surface of the ground. 9 But the dove could find nowhere to perch because
there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the
ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself
in the ark. 10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the
ark.

GENESIS 8:11-14
11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a
freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from
the earth. 12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this
time it did not return to him. 13 By the first day of the first month of Noah’s
six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then
removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was
dry. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was
completely dry.

GENESIS 8:15-20

1. Praise the ACTS of God.

GENESIS 8:21-22
21 The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again
will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of
the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all
living creatures, as I have done. 22 “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and
harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”

GENESIS 9:8-11
8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 “I now establish my
covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every
living creature that was with you - the birds, the livestock and all the wild
animals, all those that came out of the ark with you - every living creature on
earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be
destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy
the earth.”

2. Trust the PROMISES of God.

PSALM 46:1-3
1 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. 2 Therefore
we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the
heart of the sea, 3 though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake
with their surging.

ROMANS 8:35-39
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or
persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 38 For I am convinced
that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor
the future, nor any powers 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all
creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ
Jesus our Lord.

What to do in the aftermath of a global disaster Part 1

by Sonny Villagonzalo
on 24 October 2021

GENESIS 7:11-14
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the
second month - on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and
the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty
days and forty nights.13 On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and
Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the
ark. 14 They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all
livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground
according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with
wings.

GENESIS 7:15-19
15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and
entered the ark. 16 The animals going in were male and female of every living
thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in. 17 For forty
days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they
lifted the ark high above the earth. 18 The waters rose and increased greatly on
the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. 19 They rose greatly
on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were
covered.

GENESIS 7:20-23
20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen
cubits. 21 Every living thing that moved on land perished - birds, livestock,
wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.
22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and
animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were
wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left and those with him in the ark.

GENESIS 8:1-5
1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that
were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters
receded. 2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had
been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. 3 The water
receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the
water had gone down, 4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the
ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 The waters continued to recede
until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the
mountains became visible.

GENESIS 8:6-10
6 After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark 7 and sent
out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up
from the earth. 8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from
the surface of the ground. 9 But the dove could find nowhere to perch because
there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the
ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself
in the ark. 10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the
ark.

GENESIS 8:11-14
11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a
freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from
the earth. 12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this
time it did not return to him. 13 By the first day of the first month of Noah’s
six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then
removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was
dry. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was
completely dry.

GENESIS 8:15-20

1. Praise the ACTS of God.

GENESIS 8:21-22
21 The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again
will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of
the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all
living creatures, as I have done. 22 “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and
harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”

GENESIS 9:8-11
8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 “I now establish my
covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every
living creature that was with you - the birds, the livestock and all the wild
animals, all those that came out of the ark with you - every living creature on
earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be
destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy
the earth.”

2. Trust the PROMISES of God.

PSALM 46:1-3
1 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. 2 Therefore
we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the
heart of the sea, 3 though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake
with their surging.

ROMANS 8:35-39
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or
persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 38 For I am convinced
that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor
the future, nor any powers 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all
creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ
Jesus our Lord.