Noah had found grace in the eyes of the Lord. [i] Having received grace, Noah labored for 120 years in building the Ark as God commanded him to do. [ii] Once the Ark was built, Noah was not finished; God commanded [iii] him to gather the animals and gave him seven days to do so. Rain, for the first time, would begin to fall in seven days.
Seven days seems innocuous enough but think on that great
task. Surely by then the beasts had scattered outside of Paradise and were
numerous. Indubitably, animal kind had not yet become the beasts that mankind
had. Perhaps, docile beasts copied the dominant species of mankind for survival
outside the protective hedge of the Garden.
The seven days of work were made easy because God called the
animals, and they merely went into the Ark without gathering them or
prodding. [iv] To
this day, animals have sense enough to get out of the rain whereas people may
not! Animals also have another sense that natural man does not have — they can
detect danger before it occurs. God had grace on the animals then and does to
this day. People, however, have difficulty detecting danger and are always in
the middle of it!
The first entry into danger, was not the animal kingdom, but
Adam and Eve. They entered unto temptation and had no idea they had. The animals
had an innate trait to stay out of danger, and as such, never went under the
Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Hence, animals are “good” because they know
no “evil.” The violence they do is not out of hatred but survival.
God could have built a new world with new animals, but why
would He, for the animals had not sinned? Outside of Noah, the animals deserved
preservation even more so than his wife, sons, and daughters. God had grace on
them while they were yet sinners, just as Paul wrote to pagan Gentiles millennia
later, “God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us” (Rom 5:7-8). God died for all who would not go into the Ark
as well as the few who would enter in.
Jesus warned sinners in His day: “Enter ye in at the strait
gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction,
and many there be which go in thereat” (Mat 7:13). Outside the Ark would be
peril. The animals sensed it and came in on their own. Humans, on the other
hand, did not have that other sense for survival. They are not the fittest to
survive, but to this day, by grace, God died to make them “fit.”
“Fitness” for survival depends on one thing. To walk the Way
with Jesus. Since the Ark would save mankind, the Spirit of Jesus would have
been on the Ark. Since Jesus was with the crew on troubled waters, they were as
safe as the apostles when they floated on them in the same Way. [v]
Note that when the apostles were with Jesus the boat was “filled with water.”
Water was their peril and Jesus saved them from the water. In like manner, by
grace, God saved Noah and his family from the water!
As such, baptism may not be soterial, but tribulation. Why
deep and moving water? To be saved from troubled waters. Why does God part the
waters? Not because they save but destroy. It is the emergence from troubled
waters that leads to salvation!
The impotent man (paralytic) sought to get into the water
but always one before him would enter in and he could not go in himself.
Apparently, the angel troubled the water for only one on each occasion. It is
described for the reader as such: “For an angel went down at a certain season
into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling
of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had” (John
5:4).
Surely many went into the healing waters, but only one would
be made whole. “Wholeness” in scripture has two meanings: both physical and
spiritual health. The paralytic man was made whole and spiritually alive, not
by getting into the water but by seeing Jesus. He merely took up his pallet and
walked. [vi]
To where did the spiritually whole man walk? To see Jesus in the Temple. [vii]
The water had not made the man whole but looking at Jesus
did. He trusted Jesus to carry him, but Jesus, would rather him walk! Walking
seems like work, but when the work is because of Jesus, it is joyous. In his
joy, the paralytically “dead” man was able to walk toward Jesus.
In like manner, Noah built the ship to avoid the troubled
waters. God carried them through the storm, but it was their own walk up the
gangplank that carried them to Jesus. Their walk was not what saved them from
perishing, but Jesus on the ship. They would see Jesus for forty days and nights.
Now for a little esoterism. Could the seven days before the
rain was to come be representative of the “seven days” of the world, with each “day”
consisting of one-thousand years? [viii]
Could mankind be in the last days now? The current year is Anno Mundi 5783
— the end of the sixth day, and things are today as in the time of Noah, as
scripture warns! [ix]
But before the Earth is flooded with fire next time, Jesus will reign for one-thousand
years. That would be His Sabbath day wherein He rests before the work of regenerating
the world. Perhaps now is the time of salvation to which we are nearer than when
we first believed. [x] It
certainly was for Noah and his family!
God then commanded Noah to do a third thing:
The Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. (Gen 7:1)
The third thing God commanded was another “shalt” as all
three things were: “Come thou…into the Ark.” Noah would enter first, perhaps,
then the others would follow. That was how to children would honor their
father. What is the promise? The finger of God wrote all the prescriptions for
eternal longevity: “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be
long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee” (Exod 20:12). When
the children entered the Ark and honored their father and mother, what did God
do for them? Their days were made long upon all the Earth.
Read the Ten Commandments. They were not commandments at
all, but Ten Prescriptions for Eternal Life. It just depends on whether
one sees themselves in the Words of Jesus, or whether they see Jesus. They are
the walk the Way to the Straight Gate in the Ark. They did not take God’s Name
in vain. They saw that the only Way to salvation was to enter the Ark with God.
That remains the Way to this day.
The violent ones could not enter into the Ark. The ship was
built to save them as well, but their violence would keep them out. The “Thou
shalt nots” in the Ten Commandments are to distinguish between the righteous
and the unrighteous. They knew who they were, and none even tried to enter the
ship because their “god” was not on it! They had no faith in the ship and
failed to even recognize that the water would destroy them. Perhaps for a while
they partied in glee in the showers, but after forty days of rain they would become
angry. Surely, the God of Noah was a destroying God. They could not see Jesus
for the turbulent water! That remains a problem to this day for those who think
that water is saving!
The Ark floated wherever God would take them for forty days.
Wherever God wanted them, they would go. None but Noah knew where they would
end up. Noah and his household ended up on the shoulder of Mount Ararat and there
they were then safe from the destroying waters. They were safe n dry land as
would be the case throughout the Bible.
Is it coincidence that it rained for forty days? Was the
forty days a test? Could any of them take their eyes off Jesus and jump
overboard? So long as they saw Jesus on the Holy Mountain, they were safe. The
water was troubled by God’s Angel, but they looked at the prize ahead. They saw
dry land and had the assurance that they would be safe if they stayed on
course. God would never sink the Ark, but they could jump ship. Because they kept
their eyes on the prize, they would not, even though they still sinned.
Yes, sin was on board as well. It entered genetically. God
made Adam with free will, and he chose sin. Immediately on a safe harbor, Noah
sinned and so did Ham. Satan had been on board as well.
The troubled waters had kept one whole as in Jesus’s day.
That One was Jesus. Only He was kept whole by His Father. Jesus made the voyage
as well, surely tempted by Satan all the Way. The forty days and nights were
like the first temptations of Christ. Perhaps Satan endeavored to enter unto
Jesus as he would when Jesus was tempted for forty days. That would not happen with Jesus then or
later! Jesus made it across the same troubled waters with them as He did much
later with the apostles. Mankind is always safe with Jesus, but what if Ham had
pushed Jesus overboard? They all would have perished.
Why had Noah and his household been saved? God said why: “Thee
have I seen righteous before me in this generation.” It sounds as if God was
talking about Noah’s generation. That was what chapter four and five had been
about. But “this generation” was speaking about the generation of a new
world, or precisely “regeneration.” God had generated all over again, and with
the Ark going wherever God Willed, it was Him again breathing life unto eight of
Adam’s kind. But the problem was that one man aboard was the Serpent’s kind — a
kind like Cain. Like Cain, Ham was cursed. Like Cain before him, Ham had the mark
of the Beast.
Cain’s “mark” was his DNA. He was “of the Wicked One.” [xi] Perhaps
Ham received the unholy ghost of Satan aboard ship because he looked on Noah
with disrespect. Had he changed allegiances. Had he vicariously jumped ship but
remained on board for the sake of his new “father” the Devil? [xii]
Had a new generation been conceived on the Ark? Canaan was the son of Ham that
was cursed. Geneticists spread the lie — that Canaan was a Semite. That would
make him the son of Shem. He was not; he was the son of “sin” (Ham) and perhaps
Canaanites to this day are of the Wicked One.
Baals of all sorts were the gods of the Canaanites. They
were the violent ones when the Semites entered the Holy Land. They made the
Holy Land unholy, and today, Islamic Canaanites (Palestinians) still are an
unholy alliance between “people of the Book” and Baals (pagans). Their religion
is one of syncretism of Judaism,
Christianity, and paganism.
They did the worst thing. They have other gods in God’s Face.
Their “Jesus” (Isa) will be the unrighteous face of their god, the
Antichrist. The number of the Qu’ran, by their own admission, is “666.” It
is the number of man. It is the number of cursed Cain, cursed blind Lamech, cursed
Ham, and cursed Canaan. Somehow, the DNA of Cain made it through the flood, and
“giants,” perhaps incorporeal Gregori, were stowed on board — the same “sons of
God” who knew the daughters of men. [xiii]
How is it known that the DNA of giants, men of renown, made
it through the flood? There were Nephilim guarding the Way to the Tree of Life
(The Cross) as the Hebrews entered the Promise Land. Dark angels with cherubim blood
in them were still on the job, guarding the Way. [xiv]
Is it possible invisible beings, those guarding the gate, went through the door
to the Ark unawares to the others? Perhaps so, as giants appeared later. Goliath
was a Canaanite giant who David killed. Goliath had guarded the Way to the Tree
of Life (Palestine) but David did away with him for Jesus, the Name above all
Names!
Did cherubim guard the Way to the Ark? That is not mentioned,
and perhaps because they had invisibly, but rather than guarding; they undetectably
entered the Ark.
God had seen righteousness and saved the eight new “Adams.” They
were “very good” like Adam, but only one had been righteous. That was Noah. He
had found grace. The other had grace bestowed on them. Although yet sinners,
God had mercy on them as they all had sinned.
Noah was righteous. He was as his Father, “seeing Lamech”
and unlike “blind Lamech,” the seed of Cain. As such, Noah had no Satan in him
and was not of the Wicked One. Hs wife was said to be Cain’s seed.
Some say that Noah had wives by two different names. Were
Shem and Japheth of one wife and Ham the other? Did the son of the Wicked One
get his DNA through a second wife of Noah? We may never know, but that is a possibility.
Righteousness is walking the Way that God Willed. The “Conditions”
of God’s Will — the Abrahamic Covenant — are the Ten Tenets written on stone
for perpetuity. They are an item by item list of God’s Will for His heirs. They
must be right with Him to be His heirs. Foremost is not to take His Name
in vain. “Take,” not “say.” His Name, found out later, is “Jesus.” Blasphemy is
to take the Name in vain, and that is “Yahweh Saves” of which “Jesus” is
theophoric.
What did those who did not enter the Ark do? Take “Yahweh
Saves” in vain, as if God could not save! The unpardonable sin is blaspheming the Holy
Ghost. [xv]
If Jesus was on board, and it seems that He was, then he would be the Holy
Ghost of Jesus on the Good Ship. Blaspheming the Holy Ghost of Jesus would have
doubt that an invisible God could save. Well, Jesus saves, and the deluge
verified that. Now, the rainbow signifies “the hope of salvation” of which Paul
wrote. [xvi]
There was a rainbow forthcoming that Noah could see in the
darkness. When all was well done, then the rainbow appeared. Noah has the hope
of salvation, and that “hope” became real. It still does because the Ark is a
foreshadowing of the Holy Cross on which Christians are carried through the turbulence
of the world.
(picture credit: dreamstime; :Floating Cross")
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