God’s Purpose in the Wind (Genesis 7:24—8:2)

When the wind began to blow on the one hundred and fiftieth day of the Flood, initially Noah and his family may have thought that things were getting even worse. But God had a twofold plan with that wind.

Music Credit: J. S. Bach, “Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten,” aria from “Jesu, der du meine Seele,” BWV 78 (Leipzig, 1724).