The provided clips do not quote 'God remembered Noah,' but Les teaches the surrounding context: the waters prevail for 150 days, then the floodwaters recede and God tells Noah to leave the ark.
Les describes the waters prevailing upon the earth for 150 days, which is five months. Then he says the floodwaters began to recede, new life appeared, and God instructed Noah to leave the ark. In Les's telling, the ark survived not by sailing through the flood, but because the Lord was in it. The narrative therefore places God's remembering as the turning point from judgment to Noah's direction.
Genesis 8:1 — This is the verse that contains the exact phrase 'God remembered Noah' and the immediate result that the waters assuaged.
In Genesis 8:1 the text reads: 'And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;' Before that, Genesis 7:24 records the state of the flood: 'And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.' Genesis 7:11 marks the beginning: 'In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.' The Scripture moves from the flood's onset and the 150 days of prevailing waters to the point where God remembers Noah and the waters begin to subside.
In the clips provided, Les does not directly define the phrase 'God remembered Noah.' Instead, he teaches the context around it. He notes that after forty days of rain, the waters prevailed upon the earth and maintained their deepest depth for 150 days, or five months. Then, as he continues the account, the floodwaters began to recede, new life appeared, and God instructed Noah to leave the ark. Les also explains that the flood was not simply forty days of rain; the same day saw the fountains of the great deep broken up and the windows of heaven opened, causing a cataclysmic upheaval. He emphasizes that the ark was a rectangular, enclosed box built to withstand the flood rather than to sail, and that it survived because the Lord was in it.
Les does not quote the phrase in these clips, but his narrative moves from the forty days of rain and 150 days of prevailing waters to the point where the floodwaters recede, new life appears, and God tells Noah to leave the ark. This places the moment of God's remembering at the turning point of the flood.
Les points to Genesis 7:24 and says the waters prevailed upon the earth, maintaining their deepest depth for 150 days, which is five months. After that period, according to his teaching in the following lesson, the floodwaters began to recede and new life appeared.
No. Les teaches that on the same day the fountains of the great deep were broken up and the windows of heaven were opened. He says 99 out of 100 people think only about the forty days of rain, but the cataclysmic breaking up of the deep was the secret of the flood's enormity.
Les says the ark was not a little rowboat but an enclosed rectangular box built to stay in one place rather than sail. It was designed to withstand the awful rigors of the flood. He also says the Lord was in it; had He not been in it, the ark would not have survived.
The 150 Days of Prevailing Waters
Les explains that the waters maintained their deepest depth for five months and that the ark was safe because the Lord was in it, showing the need for God's intervention before the waters could recede.
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But whatever, Noah now is being approached with God to do something that has never been done before, and that is to make an ark or a boat that would survive a flood. Now you want to remember, it's never rained before. But what made Noah do it? Let's go back again to that book of Hebrews chapter 11, and we call it the great faith chapter.
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And I think perhaps that's the reason, then, that Noah lost his influence, because we're going to see in the moments to follow. The human race is going to take another tack straight down, in spite of all the knowledge that Noah and his three sons have concerning the will of God.
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We studied it way back in chapter 1, and now all of this fits that perfectly, that how can there be a flood if it's never rained? But God said there would be. And now come back to the verse. For warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house, and by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
The Days of Noah: Understanding the "Sons of God" & Coming Judgment
The New Testament refers to Noah as that preacher of righteousness, and from that I think we can take that from the time that God commissions Noah to build an ark until the flood would come is 120 years. That's a long time in our way of thinking, but you want to remember people lived 900 years back here.
The Ark Built to Endure
Les stresses that the flood was far more severe than rain, and the ark was an enclosed box designed to withstand the flood's rigors, not to sail.
The Waters Recede and God Speaks to Noah
Les moves directly from the cataclysmic flood to the point where the waters begin to recede, new life appears, and God instructs Noah to leave the ark—this is the scriptural moment of God's continued care for Noah.
The Fountains of the Great Deep
Les shows that the flood began with the breaking up of the deep and the opening of heaven's windows, explaining the scale of the event that later had to subside.
Genesis 8:1: And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;
This is the phrase at the center of the question; it shows that God's remembering is followed immediately by action on the waters.
Genesis 7:24: And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Les specifically referred to this verse when describing the floodwaters remaining at their deepest for five months.
Genesis 7:11: In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Les uses this verse to show the flood began with more than rain—the fountains of the deep were broken up.
No, the exact phrase does not appear in the provided transcript clips. However, Les teaches the surrounding events, including the 150 days of prevailing waters and God's later instruction for Noah to leave the ark.
Les says the waters prevailed upon the earth and maintained their deepest depth for 150 days—five months—after the forty days of rain.
Les explains that the ark was a rectangular, enclosed box built to stay in one place and withstand the flood's rigors, not to sail. He also says the Lord was in it; had He not been, the ark would not have survived.
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