Yes — the world after Noah's flood was a whole new ballgame with different conditions and responsibilities.
Noah and his three sons came off the ark into what Les Feldick calls a 'whole new ballgame' (Clip 2). God gave human beings permission to eat meat, set up human government to restrain murder and crime, and the earth came under weather and the four seasons instead of the pre-flood spring-like climate (Clips 1, 6).
Genesis 9:2-3 — Record of God granting the animal creation to Noah and his sons for food after the flood.
Genesis 9:6 — Scripture's basis for human government and capital punishment in the post-flood era.
Genesis 8:22 — God's promise of seasons and weather for the renewed post-flood earth.
After Noah and his family left the ark, Scripture records a new order for the earth. God said, 'While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease' (Genesis 8:22). In Genesis 9, God blessed Noah and his sons, telling them to 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth' (Genesis 9:1). God also delivered the animals into man's hand: 'And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth... into your hand are they delivered' (Genesis 9:2), and 'Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things' (Genesis 9:3).
Les Feldick teaches that when Noah and his three sons came off the ark, every circumstance was 'totally different' than before (Clip 1). He emphasizes that human government was introduced to restrain murder and crime, and that God gave humans permission to kill and eat animal flesh, something they never had before (Clips 1-3). He also points to changed atmospheric and climatic conditions: the pre-flood earth had a single spring-like, no-weather environment, while after the flood the earth came under weather, seasons, and climatic change (Clip 6). Les notes that God had not changed and human nature had not changed, but the circumstances did (Clip 2). He then shows how shortly after the flood people gathered at Babel instead of obeying God's instruction to scatter; God scattered them by confusing their languages, and they spread through the then-known world (Clip 3).
After Noah and his family came out of the ark, God laid a 'whole new set of rules and regulations' on the human race (Clip 7). He gave them permission to kill animals and eat their flesh, something they had never been permitted to do before (Clips 1-2). He also established human government to put a restraint on murder and crime (Clip 1). Genesis 9:2-3 and 9:6 record God delivering the animals into man's hand for food and requiring the life of a murderer.
Les teaches that after the flood the earth was 'completely different' — no longer one spring-like temperature with no weather, but a place under weather, climatic changes, and the four seasons (Clip 6). He says the Lord instigated the tilting of the earth and seasonal changes, while noting that is only speculation. Genesis 8:22 promises 'cold and heat, and summer and winter' as a continuing feature of the earth.
Les explains that God had commanded the human race to scatter and replenish the earth, but not long after the flood the people gathered together at Babel. This was rebellion, and God scattered them by confusing their languages. After Babel the population spread into different parts of the then-known world (Clip 3). Genesis 11 records the building of the tower and the Lord scattering the people.
Les points out that Noah and his three sons were grown people who entered the ark with complete memory of everything before the flood. They would have remembered the technology and conditions of the pre-flood civilization, yet the human race took another downward path (Clip 5).
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Post-Flood Change of Circumstances
Les shows the ark survivors stepping into totally different conditions: human government and meat eating are examples.
A New Ballgame
Les explains the post-flood era as a whole new set of rules while noting God and human nature did not change.
Different Administrations to Babel
Les connects the changed post-flood administration to the Tower of Babel scattering.
Pre-Flood Non-Carnivorous Life
Les contrasts the pre-flood diet of man and animals with the post-flood permission to eat flesh.
Complete Memory of Pre-Flood World
Les notes the ark survivors carried full memory of the old world into the new era, but still failed.
Changed Climate and Seasons
Les teaches the post-flood earth came under weather and four seasons rather than the pre-flood spring-like climate.
New Rules for Noah and Sons
Les highlights Genesis 9's new regulations: the fear of man on animals and permission to eat meat.
Genesis 8:22: While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
This verse points to the changed, weather-driven world promised after the flood.
Genesis 9:1: And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
God gave the post-flood family the command to fill the earth again.
Genesis 9:2: And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
This verse shows a new relationship between man and animals after the flood.
Genesis 9:3: Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
God granted human beings permission to eat animal flesh for the first time.
Genesis 9:6: Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
This is the biblical sanction for human government and capital punishment after the flood.
Genesis 11:4: And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
The people gathered at Babel instead of obeying God's instruction to scatter.
Genesis 11:8: So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
God confused their languages and scattered the post-flood population.
According to Les Feldick, they did not. He says God gave mankind permission after the flood to kill and eat animal flesh, and that permission had never been granted before (Clips 1-2, 4). Genesis 9:3 records the post-flood grant: 'Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you.'
Les teaches God established human government to put restraint on murder and crime (Clip 1). Genesis 9:6 gives the biblical sanction: 'Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.'
Les says yes. The pre-flood earth had one spring-like, no-weather climate, while after the flood the earth came under weather, climatic changes, and the four seasons (Clip 6). God's promise in Genesis 8:22 reflects this: 'cold and heat, and summer and winter.'
The people gathered at Babel instead of scattering and building a name for themselves. God confused their language and scattered them over the face of the earth (Clip 3; Genesis 11:4, 8).
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