Lesson 4: Rain, Rain Go Away

Lesson 4:

rain, rain go away

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Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Very Good. Remember those words? God said them at creation. But ever since Adam and Eve ate from the off-limits tree, we might say that the words bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, and very bad best describe what has happened. It was bad that Eve got tricked by the serpent. Bad that Adam disobeyed God. Bad that Cain killed his brother. Bad that Cain had to live away from family. And what happens next is also very bad. Adam and Eve continued to have children—Seth and many others. Cain too had lots of kids. Now there were people all over the earth. The only problem was that most people did not love God and each other. This “grieved God to his heart” (see Gen. 6:6).

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Although God loved the world he made, he didn’t love what man had become. Most people had bad thoughts, spoke mean words, and were very naughty—all the time. God saw this. He didn’t like it, and he did something about it. The Bible tells us that “The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that his heart was only evil continually. . . .So the Lord said, ‘I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land . . . for I am sorry that I have made them'” (Gen. 6:5–7). God decided to send a flood to destroy everything he had made. Everything except one family and one pair of every living creature. But why only one family? Because only one man, Noah, listened to God and did things God’s way. Wow! It does not look good. How will God keep his promise to crush the snake?

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God told Noah he was going to destroy the earth with a flood. He also said that Noah and his family would be rescued. How would God protect them? God had a plan. He told Noah to build an ark. A really big boat. It would be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. It wasn’t as big as the Titanic, but it sure was big! Noah believed everything God told him, so he obeyed. During that time, people lived very, very long lives. Noah was 600 years old when the flood finally came on the earth.

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At last, the boat was finished. Noah and his family, along with at least two of every kind of animal, were safe in the ark. God sealed the door. Two peacocks peeked out the window. Two giraffes stretched their necks. Two aardvarks did whatever aardvarks do. Then, God kept his promise. It started to rain. The Bible says, “On that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights” (Gen. 7:11–12). Can you imagine that much rain? Everything and everyone outside the boat was destroyed. Months later, when the people and animals came out of the ark to live on the land, God made a covenant—an agreement—with Noah that he will never again destroy the world with water. Then God gave a sign to remember his promise: a rainbow. The world had a new beginning.

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The takeaway

god sent a flood to punishall the wickedness on the earth.

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Memory Verse

The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 6:5

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