Number of 7, mountain top experience, and burnt offerings -Genisis 8

Gen8
A lot of sevens in this chapter. v4 seventh month, seventeenth day... v10 another seven days ...v12another seven days...v14 twenty-seventh day of the month

It seems to me it has to do with receiving directions for life, and seeking God's will. At the end of the waiting Noah received his mission: be fruitful and multiply on the earth(V17)


Do you want to have a mountain top experience? Here's one: "the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat."(v4)"the tops of the mountains became visible."(v5)
How do we get to the mountain top? Not by climbing this time, but by following God's orders, even though it's quiet inside the ark, even though all we can see for a long time is only flood,even though what we're doing inside the ark has nothing to do with climbing seemingly, but when the time is right, the flood itself takes us to the mountain top. When we do what God tells us to do, then God will do the climbing for us at the same time even though we might not even be aware of it.


V20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

That's a lot of burning! Every clean animal and every clean bird!
And the burning made the Lord said to himself,"I will never again curse the aground...."
It's a life commitment to the Lord, as Paul said, "living sacrifice". Commit the whole life to God until death.