Noah

 

Hello everyone, 

I know I’ve written about Noah before, but his life was crucial to our existence today, as well as our salvation.

Most of us remember when Eve was deceived by the serpent.  She and Adam both ate from Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  God found them in the garden.  He told the serpent “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel,” (Genesis 3:15). 

This was the first prophecy of Christ, our Savior.  Apparently, it was handed down to each generation.  Noah was the tenth generation of mankind and when he was born we read about the hope of the prophecy being fulfilled.

“ When Lamech had lived 182 years, he fathered a son and called his name Noah, saying, “Out of the ground that the Lord has cursed, this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands,”  (Genesis 5:28).  The name Noah means rest.

Lamech’s statement was also a prophecy, but it was probably not like he expected.  However, it did express hope. 

Noah found himself in an almost impossible situation because of all the evil in the world.  God regretted He had created man and planned to “blot them out”  (Genesis 6:6, 7). 

Genesis 6:8 is a dramatic turnaround from the previous verses. “But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.”  Why Noah?  We know it wasn’t a random choice.

Noah’s ancestry is so interesting and I believe it is at least part of why Noah found favor with God.  We first have to be taught about God to walk with Him, right?   

Based on what he said when Noah was born, his father Lamech believed in the Lord.  Noah’s grandfather was Methuselah, the son of Enoch.  And Enoch was the man who did not die because he walked with God.  

I believe Noah was taught about God by his father and grandfather.  However, knowing about Him and acting on that knowledge are two different things.  But Noah made his own decision. 

Genesis 6:9 tells us he “was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.”   He chose to walk with God.  He was looking for God’s favor.  That’s why he found it.

Here are some other passages which tell us about Noah’s relationship with God.

 ^“Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him” (Genesis 6:22 and Genesis 7:5).

“By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith,”  (Hebrews 11:7)

2 Peter 2:5 – “if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;”

Let’s all make the same choice Noah did. 

Christ above all things - Robin