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Timestamps:

00:26 – Different approaches to reading the flood account.

03:50 – The flood can symbolize a second creation of the earth.

05:59 – A strange passage in Genesis 6.1-4. This text introduces concepts like Watchers, Giants, and a conflict between Enoch and the forces of darkness. It can be read as a polemic against Babylonian religious and political views.

18:32 – Mount Sinai and Mount Hermon as headquarters of the opposing forces of good and evil.

25:09 – Jesus addresses his disciples in Caesarea Philippi, at the foot of Mount Hermon in Matthew 16.13-19.

32:08 – The harsh reality of the portrayal of destruction throughout the scriptures. The Book of Mormon provides a pattern for how to live in peace.

39:14 – The people of Noah’s day were swept off because the earth was corrupt and filled with violence.

43:42 – The Lord sent a prophet and gave them 120 years to change. The people were warned before they were destroyed.

48:34 – Noah’s Ark can be a symbol of the temple.

57:31 – A pattern of how to follow a prophet. It takes patience and faith to follow prophets in a day of peace.

1:02:01 – The bow in the cloud is a token of the covenant in Genesis 9.12-13. When we look up at the rainbow we are remembering the promise of God to bring Enoch and Zion to earth.

1:06:47 – Ways to read the curse Noah gives Canaan in Genesis 9.20-27.

1:12:43 – The Table of Nations in Genesis 10. The dividing of the land and the languages. The Tower of Babel as a polemic against the beliefs of the Babylonians.

1:17:19 – Our connection to Abraham and his covenant. God has promised to preserve us just as he preserved Noah.

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