Genesis 7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
"God
---allowed one more week for sinners to repent.
“Rain … forty days and forty nights”:
---The canopy that covered the whole earth, a thermal water blanket encircling the earth, was to be condensed and dumped all over the globe (verse 10).
These threatenings were from God;
Divine in nature to purify the earth.
*Forty had always been a time of testing and trial, thus it rained forty literal days and forty nights.
*This seven literal days ... seven means spiritually complete.
The work was over.
---Divine judgment was here."
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