God blesses those who have found Him. God is always there, but since He is an invisible God, He must be sought after. “Noah found grace” [i] because he sought God. Those who seek Him will find Him. It is not a case of the game, Hide and Seek, but here I AM, can you find Me?
In finding grace, or better said, finding God,
what is it that needs to be done. One only needs to just be there, and
God manifests Himself. When God is “found” the Discovery is Jesus. Now,
this is imperative: “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is
that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will
love him, and will manifest myself to him” (John 14:21).
In that Noah found grace, Jesus was made manifest to him. The
others did not see Jesus, but Noah did! Why Noah? Because he loved God and
obeyed Him even before he saw God. He was just like Moses in that respect. Moses
saw Jesus in the burning bush before God revealed Himself later in writing the
Ten Commandments with His “Finger” [ii]
When it (regeneration) was all complete, all eight saw Jesus:
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. (Gen 9:13-15)
Noah received the Covenant of Grace when He found Grace,
albeit it was only the Way that was found — by grace. Paul wrote, “For by grace
are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God”
(Ephes 2:8). Noah built the ark, but it was not him who saved mankind from
perishing. Hope floated them from danger into safety.
Focus on the word, “saved.” There is one instance of “saved”
in the Old Testament: “Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the
sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants” (Gen 47:25). In that situation the Hebrews would have the
increase, [iii]
and as such they would give a fifth of their increase to the good Pharaoh of Joseph’s
day.
That unknown “Pharaoah” is symbolic of the Unseen God of the
Hebrews, and Joseph, the antitype of Jesus. The Hebrew word there has several
meanings, but the most applicable is “let live” (chayah; Hebrew). The
increase was grain — the Bread of Life. Rather than allowing them to die, and
then be saved from death, God allowed the Hebrews to continue living. The
Greek word for saved is “sozo.” It means to “make safe” or “saved.”
There is a huge difference! To save is more than preservation but
deliverance from any further harm, whereas safe is preserved until the
time of salvation arrives. That is the “To live is Christ; to die is gain” of
which Paul wrote! (Phil 1:21).
So, the conclusion is that “chayah” applies to Noah
and his family. They were allowed to continue living whereas the
remainder of Adam’s kind perished.
Were they all saved when the flood waters receded? No;
they remained protected under God’s “Tent.” (Gen 9:27). God’s “Tent”
turned out to be Tabernacle worship. There they could see God manifested as a
cloud, but they would not be able to see His Face, not even Moses! They would
need to see Jesus when they looked toward God’s Tent and see the cloud, or when
they looked toward the Land of Milk and Honey, they would see the “Bow” of God
even when it was dry! That “bow” was God’s cosmic Tent. It would represent the
firmament or the celestial dome over the entire world.
Think of that! Enoch spoke of God in the Tenth Heaven above the
celestial dome. The rainbow is the symbol of Jesus and it is there even if it does
not rain! God is the Invisible Bow that reveals Himself as Jesus when the sun
shines after a rain!
Original sin occurred in the Garden, right outside the Tabernacle
of God — in God’s Face, so to speak. The First Commandment was broken: “Thou
shalt have no other gods before me” (Gen 20:3). The exact words were in Hebrew:
lo’ haya’ (???) ‘elohim ‘aher ‘al paniym. (The meaning of the third
Hebrew word is unclear). But ‘al paniym means “above the face” or above
the Face of God. Just who is the Face of God? Jesus Christ. Adam sinned
with Jesus looking on. “The Word” who spoke with Adam is Jesus! [iv]
God allowed Adam to live in the presence of His Face. God
covered him with a skin of a lamb. It was the second “Tent” provided by grace. God
provided a Lamb of God for only two people, then as they multiplied, the “Tent”
was stretched to cover all mankind. Indeed, the grace that Jesus would provide
that “none should perish” [v]was
stretching the Tent to save all of Noah’s kind. The rainbow is that Tent.
The first “Tent” was less obvious! In the middle of the Garden
were two “tents.” One Tent was to cover all the living as Eve was the mother of
all living. [vi]
That large Tent was the “canopy” provided by the Tree of Life to shelter the
living from the curse of death. Cherubim were placed at the Garden to keep the undeserving
from the Way to the Tree, or Tent, of Life.
In like manner, the Body and Blood of Christ are not to be
taken undeservingly, to wit: “Whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this
cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord”
(1 Cor 11:27). Who are worthy? Who deserves to eat of the Tree of Life… the
Body and Blood of Jesus? “Ye followers of me (Paul), even as I also am of
Christ” (1 Cor 11:1). Those who follow Christ, walk the Way to the Tree of
Life.”
Noah found Jesus. He saw Jesus on the Cross. The Cross is
the transportation from the physical realm to the spiritual realm, and the Ark
was pretty much the same! Ham got on board through the grace of Noah as the
Christians would follow Paul to obtain the Way to Paradise. Not all who had
grace would follow Paul. However, Simon the Sorcerer, although he found grace,
followed Paul to undercut the Word. He was most certainly Paul’s “thorn in the
flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.” [vii]
Lucifer was Adam’s thorn in his side, and so was Eve!
Satan buffeted Adam with temptation, and Adam “hearkened unto his wife.” [viii]
Well, Ham with Satan in him, buffeted Noah. Once on solid
ground, Noah, even in his drunkenness, remained safe although Ham buffeted him with
mockery. Ham, most certainly, like Cain, was of the Wicked One and that was
passed along to Canaan. [ix]
To this day, Canaanites “buffet” Christians. The spirit of
Satan resides in Canaanites. Judas is their “Isa” (Jesus) who shall come again
with a vengeance. On page 666 of the Qu’ran, is the exact words of
Mohammad: “Allah has prepared for them a severe punishment. Evil indeed is what
they used to do.” “Them” in that passage are Christians — Friends of them of
whom God is wroth! [x]
The mark of the Beast is on page 666 of the Koran. The mark
of Cain is 666, and the mark of Canaan and Canaanites (Muslims) is 666. Taking
the Face of Allah as God, is perhaps, the mark of the Beast. Note that
Adam never abandoned God but took another “face” in the Face of God. Sinful Adam
was syncretic; he beheld the Face of God as the Tree of Life but beheld the
face of the Seraph (Serpent) as his other “god.”
Adam found grace as the first of the living. Eve was
the mother of all but Adam, but Adam was perhaps not the father of all. Cain
was of the Wicked one. Rather than Eve multiplying with her king and priest,
Adam; some way she multiplied with Satan. The command was for her and Adam to
multiply: “God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the
waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth” (Gen 1:22). That was
commanded at the generation of Adam and Eve.
What did God say when another adam (Noah) was
regenerated? “God blessed them, saying, be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the
waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth” (Gen 9:1-2).
Multiplication is a blessing to add to the list of Beatitudes
spoken by Jesus on Mount Canaan. Was Canaan cast out on his own mountain to be isolated
from the godly? Perhaps so! Why else would God pick the mountain of Canaan to
remove the accursed and by blessing the blessed?
Somewhere on a mount in Ararat, Noah and his household were
blessed. They would be commanded to multiply and to fill the Earth just as Adam
and Eve.
Canaan was the new Cain. The latter was sent away to the
Land of Nod. “Nod” is not a land per se, but a wandering. Canaan
wandered to another mountain; perhaps to Mount Canaan! On his mountain, he too
would multiply, and to this day that is Palestine, the land of the Philistines
whose origin is unknown. They were “sea peoples” as many suggest — wanderers.
Once they came to Canaan-land, their wanderings ceased. They have been a curse,
whereas multiplying was intended to be a blessing. I believe that Canaan is the
final one cursed. Look for the Antichrist to come from around Mount Canaan in northern
Palestine.
“Multiplication” that was commanded by God was more than
reproduction or it would say so. It is spiritual multiplication. God
commanded that as well: “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all
the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come” (Mat 24:14).
The Great Commission is spiritual “multiplication” — “All power is given unto
me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Mat 28:18-19).
As usual, mankind multiplied in the flesh, but diminished in spirit, starting
with Ham’s disrespect to his father and their Father.
Christians are called to multiply. Jesus provided the
blessings for those who do so. The Beatitudes are a list of God’s blessings on
those who spiritually multiply by making new animated “images” of Jesus — like
original Adam before he sinned.
Canaan multiplied little wicked ones, and Shem and Japheth little
righteous ones; not that all would be right with God, but they had the DNA of
God alive within them. (Through Eve, the mother of all living). All they need
do is find grace as Noah had… to find the DNA of Jesus in them.
I found Jesus! When I was born again, I found grace. Now my
DNA is of God whereas before it was of the Wicked One. No longer
a child of Satan, I have my life continued as a child of God!
(picture credit: By Walker, Charles: The encyclopedia of secret knowledge. [S.I.]: Limited Editions, 1995, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1345027)
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