“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.”
By the first day of the first month of Noah's 601st year, the water has dried up from the earth. Noah removes the covering of the ark and looks out — and he sees that the surface of the ground is dry. This is the first time Noah has seen the outside world since entering the ark. The first day of the first month is, in Hebrew reckoning, the first day of the new year — the new world begins on what amounts to New Year's Day. The same God who created the world in the beginning is re-creating it at the beginning of a year. 2 Corinthians 5:17 declares that in Christ the old has gone and the new has come — the theological trajectory from this moment is toward that ultimate new creation. Isaiah 43:19 announces that God is doing a new thing — 'do you not perceive it?' Noah removes the covering and sees. The application: some new seasons require you to remove the covering — to actively look, to open your eyes — before you can see what God has already made dry.
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