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The olive leaf represented a ray of blessed hope. God indeed kept His covenant and saw Noah safely through the flood.

BibleGateway: Genesis 8:6-14

ESV Text: Genesis 8:6-14


KJV Text:

The section starts at about 0:37 and ends at about 2:2

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     6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: 7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. 10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

     13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.(KJV)


Hymn: TLH 149:
Come to Calvary’s Holy Mountain

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1. Come to Calvary’s holy mountain, 
Sinners, ruined by the Fall; 
Here a pure and healing fountain 
Flows to you, to me, to all, 
In a full, perpetual tide, 
Opened when our Savior died. 

2. Come in poverty and meanness, 
Come defiled, without, within; 
From infection and uncleanness, 
From the leprosy of sin, 
Wash your robes and make them white; 
Ye shall walk with God in light. 

3. Come in sorrow and contrition, 
Wounded, impotent, and blind; 
Here the guilty free remission, 
Here the troubled peace, may find. 
Health this fountain will restore; 
He that drinks shall thirst no more. 

4. He that drinks shall live forever; 
Tis a soul-renewing flood. 
God is faithful; God will never 
Break His covenant of blood, 
Signed when our Redeemer died, 
Sealed when He was glorified.