How many were made ALIVE by following his commands and statutes?
For the wages of sin is death;
but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law:
for sin is the transgression of the law.
1 Corinthians 15:56 (KJV)
The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
-well lets see, before the flood.
Genesis 6:9 (KJV)
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man
and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
Genesis 7:1 (KJV)
And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark;
for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
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2 Peter 2:5 (KJV)
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person,
a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
-a preacher of righteousness, so what did he preach
Psalms 119:172 (KJV)
My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
8 saved alive, out of how may that perished in that generation?
-after flood lets see
Ezekiel 20:6 (KJV)
In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into
a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:
Jeremiah 11:5 (KJV)
That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land
flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O Lord.
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Joshua 5:6 (KJV)
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people
that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed,
because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: unto whom the Lord sware that he would
not shew them the land, which the Lord sware unto their fathers that he would give us,
a land that floweth with milk and honey.
“Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness…ye shall not come into the land…save Caleb?
…and Joshua… But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in,
and they shall know the land which ye have despised” (Numbers 14:29-31).
“And,” continued God, “your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years,
and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness” (verse 33).
-2 men of fighting age where saved[not die] and entered the promised land.
from a congregation of perhaps 2 or 3 million people.
This Promised Land is a type of the glorious Kingdom of God,
which the living Savior, Jesus Christ, offers us. flowing with milk and honey.
-And now comes the “day-for-a-year principle”: “After the number of the days in which
ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities,
even forty years…” And this punishment was, in fact, [a withholding]
of the promised blessing for this duration of 40 years.
That generation of Israelites was not allowed to enter the Promised Land.
Their children entered the Holy Land under Joshua’s leadership.
By his word God was bound to give the birthright promises, but he would
give it to them or there decendents, in his time frame, and obediance to him.
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