Noah, a righteous man who walked with God (Gen 6-11)

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“Noah. a righteous man who walked with God" (Gen 6-11)


The Torah says; “Noah was a righteous man, perfect in his generation, and Noah walked with Elohim”

Noah was a “Tzadik” a righteous man. This is a powerful statement since, in his days, the whole populated earth was corrupt, yet he and his family decided against “going with the flow” and decided to follow YHVH in His ways.

The name “Noach” in Hebrew only has 2 letters. The “Nun” and the “Chet” if the name is reversed, putting the “Chet” first and then the “Nun” we get the word “Chen” which means “grace” the name “Noach” sums “58” in gematria, so does the phrase “Yah Gadol” (Great is God) So we have the “God who is Great” who shows “grace” to Noah, who is righteous in the face of a corrupt, fallen world of evil men, women, and giants. (They have found "Giants" in New York, they play football)

We know the story, it is one of the most popular stories from the Bible. Elohim decides to destroy the world with a flood of waters, saving only Noah and his family, and representatives of the animal kinds. He is commanded to build an ark, a “floating barge” a rectangular box-car type of vessel. In feet, it measured 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. It had rooms or animal stalls, three floors, a door in the side, and ventilation all around.

We could also say that the name "Noach" (Nun and Chet) symbolizes in Paleo-Hebrew, "Life and a Fence" Could we say that the ark itself served as a "closed fence" which maintained Noah and his family with life for a whole year?

Using biblical measurements, it was 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high. A cubit is about 18 inches, it would be from a man’s elbow to the tip of his middle finger (more or less). The total was 380 cubits, length + width + height = 380. In Hebrew letters, this sum would equal “Sheen + Pey” with the symbolism of “The all-consuming fire speaks” Elohim is about to judge and tear up the world with a watery judgment, and he speaks to Noah, who is the only one faithful to HIM.

Now, we can see something else in these numbers. The “area” of the ark, using the original Biblical measurement of the cubit would be 300 x 50 x30 = 450,000 square cubits in area. We see the numbers 4, 5, and 0. If we look at the symbolism of these numbers, we see 4 (earth) 5 (grace), and 0 (eternity). Is it possible that Adonai is saying, through these measurements, that in spite of earth’s judgment (through the flood) grace will be given (to Noach) because he is a “Tzadik” a righteous man? Grace is indeed “eternal”

He also says to seal it within and without with “pitch” or “tar” which would make it water-proof. It is interesting that the Hebrew word is “K’fer” very similar to “Kafar” which is “covering” this word is used during “Yom Kippur”. During Yom Kippur, the blood of the animals “covered” the sins of the people for one year. This “covering” on the ark would also “seal” Noah and his family inside the ark for the same amount of time, for a year.

The ark was a safe haven for Noach and his family, as YESHUA is our “ark of safety” and we are “sealed” with his Ruach HaKodesh. Outside, the world is judged, yet we are safe inside the love and shalom of Yeshua.

The world would perish under the water judgment, yet YHVH would make a “brit” (covenant) with Noach and his family. They would be safe and sound, and of course dry inside the ark for a year. The word for “ark” in Hebrew is “Teivah” it has three Hebrew letters; “Tav” “Beit” and “Hey”. The ancient Hebrew meaning of these letters together would be “behold the house of the covenant” The ark would be their house for one year a temporary house that was under God’s “covenant”.

The only other place in the Torah where the word “Teivah” appears is in Exodus 2:3 when Miriam, the sister of Moshe, makes an “ark” (Teivah) and places Moshe inside the ark and places it in the Nile River. There is parallelism between Moshe and Noach! Both were placed inside “Teivot” (arks) which were simply rectangular boxes made to float on water. Both were guided by HaShem and brought to a specific place. Moshe was brought to the palace steps to be received by pharaoh’s daughter. Noach was brought to the mountains of Ararat (in Turkey). Moshe was a righteous man as well as Noach. Moshe was the redeemer of the Jewish people in Egypt and led them out of slavery. Noach redeemed ALL of mankind through his own DNA, thus preserving the human race.

Inside the ark, the DNA for all humankind would be safe. Had not YHVH chosen to save Noah and his family, and instead, destroy all of humankind, today, we would probably be plants, trees, or flowers. Also remember that in the days before the flood, it never rained from the sky, but from under the ground. When the rains finally came, the people outside the ark probably freaked out big time!

Another thing we can note about the ark is that was divided into three parts. The bottom deck (where probably all the heavier animals were kept) a middle deck and the top deck (where Noach and his family probably lived). The Tabernacle was also divided into three parts, the outer court, the inner court, and the Holy of Holies, where the “Ark of the Covenant was kept”

We can also see three parts of the “Ark of the Covenant” (the outside, the inside, and the cover) “Elohim” is “Three” the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Av, Ben, Ruach HaKodesh. The Spirit of Elohim lived within the Ark of the Covenant, the Tabernacle, and of course, was with Noach and his family, inside the ark.
 
There were two Tzadikim (righteous men) mentioned in the first few chapters of Genesis. They BOTH have the same letters that make up their names! Chanokh (Enoch) and Noach (Noah) both have the “Nun” “Vav” and “Chet” in common. If we look at the symbolism in ancient Hebrew, we could read “Noach” as “life is attached to the fence” So, what could that mean? Here’s a possibility; That the life that Adonai wants us to enjoy, as righteous ones, must be within the parameters of the Torah, which is the fence. Anything outside the fence would be the pleasures of the lost world, and all of its corruption. That is why the world was destroyed and Noach and his family saved. They went through judgment by water (inside the protection of the ark) yet were not affected by the flood.

We read that animal representatives of each animal kind entered the ark. Two of each “unclean” kind came into the ark, and fourteen of the “clean” animals, such as sheep, goats, cows, bulls, buffalo, deer, moose, elk, etc., or seven pairs of each. Later on, we find out why? They would be used for eating purposes and for sacrifices, so, there would have to be a lot of them on the earth. Dinosaurs? Yes, they came on board, probably the young ones that were still babies. The word “dinosaur” is a modern word, back then the word “dragon” was used for dinos.

We read that when Noah finished building the ark, which took 120 years, he took enough food to last a year, and when the animals got on board they settled down. Some might have gone into hibernation status. Then, after a period of seven days of waiting, 7:16 says “and YHVH shut him in” This means that “God himself shut the outside door”. The period of grace was over, death and judgment would begin. It is interesting to see that the name of God up to this point is “Elohim” but now, the letters YHVH are used to indicate that the loving nature of Adonai, in his perfect and holy name, secure Noah and his family inside HIS ark of safety.

Every human being on this earth is under a period of grace when we can come into the presence of Adonai and enter into the “ark of salvation” which is Yeshua. After our physical death, our fate is sealed, judgment will fall. Eternal condemnation in the lake of fire for the lost, and for believers, our “works” will be judged where we will either receive or lose rewards, yet we ourselves will inherit eternal life with the King of Kings, and LORD of Lords.

The WORD says that it rained for 40 days and nights. “40” is the number of “judgment and testing,” it says that the waters rose above the highest mountains 22 feet. This proves that it was a “universal flood” not a local flood. During this time, there was a lot of seismic activity, shifting of the earth's continents, creating new mountain chains and ridges. We have no idea how the pre-diluvian earth looked like, but after the flood, Noach and his family stepped out into a strange and different world.

The floodwaters were upon the earth for a year, and the Word says that in the seventh month and on the seventeenth day of that month (Tishrei) the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat. Isn’t it surprising that the ark came to rest on dry land during the third day of Sukkot! Noah’s “Sukkah” received “shalom” and on the first day of the first month “Nissan” “New Year’s Day” the waters had completely dried up on the earth.

This is very significant because the whole earth is starting anew, a new year for a renewed earth. So, Noah and his family leave the ark and start life anew. About 4000 years later, a Turkish countryman and his son, and later the Tzar’s army soldiers found the ark halfway sticking out of an ice glacier on Mt. Ararat. They took measurements and explored it, so, Yes, it was found.

Noah and his family left the ark, and the first thing Noah did was to build an altar and sacrifice clean animals. Here again, is the burnt offering to remind us of our sinful nature. After the flood was when God gave permission to eat the flesh of clean animals, before, mankind was vegetarian. Yes, Noah was a Tzadik, a righteous man yet he still had his sin nature. He planted a vineyard and got drunk from the wine he made.

Ham, one of the sons of Noah saw his father naked inside his tent. We do not know what happened, if he just saw him naked, or…perhaps…committed some kind of perverse sexual thing on Noah, we only know that the Torah says that when Noah awakened from his drunkenness he discovered what his son had “done unto him”(9:24) implying that something was “done” Ham did not just “see” his father naked. The result is that Noah was angry and cursed “Canaan” Ham’s son.

Now, we don’t understand why the grandson had to suffer for what his father had done. Doesn’t seem fair, well, life ISN’T fair. It never has been. We’re living in a lost and dying world, a world that is going down the tubes. One thing is that Noah had already blessed his sons, and being blessed, you cannot take the blessing from them. Are there any Canaanites alive today? I would say not. They ended up being a perverse, vial people.

Now the world becomes populated again. People start moving around from the three sons of Noah; Shem, Ham, and Japheth. From these three sons, we get the three main people groups of the world. “Shem” the Semites, “Ham” the Hamites which went down toward Africa, and “Japheth” who brought about the European peoples. One of the popular names from Japheth is “Ashkenaz” who was the father, one could say, of the Ashkenazim East European Jews later on. “Tubal” = Tobolsk (in Russia) “Meshek” = Moscow (Russia)

Another name is “Nimrod” who came from “Ham” and also “Mizraim” (Egypt) and “Cush” (Ethiopia, Sudan) Nimrod founded Babylon. From here we get the division of the world languages. At that time, the descendants of Noah spoke only one language, probably Hebrew, The people under Nimrod contracted a bad disease, namely “US-itess” “Let US build US a city let US make US a name least WE be scattered abroad the earth” (11:4) the direct opposite of what YHVH ordered them to do, to “multiply and fill the earth again with people! The flood taught them nothing! They continued to rebel.

The Torah says that YHVH gave them new languages. According to scholars, from one language came 70 languages then, and 70 people groups. So, they left Babel and went off in different directions to repopulate the earth, so that is how languages started. They were complete with grammar, syntax, many even with written words.

Today, there are a lot more than 70 languages, but no matter what language a person speaks, YHVH knows his name in ALL languages, and ALL who call upon the NAME of the LORD will be saved! When a person prays to receive Yeshua as LORD and Savior, no matter what the language is, HE will HEAR and come into that person’s life! Remember, HE is the author of ALL languages of the world.
 
About 4000 years later, a Turkish countryman and his son, and later the Tzar’s army soldiers found the ark halfway sticking out of an ice glacier on Mt. Ararat. They took measurements and explored it, so, Yes, it was found.
Is a link available for more info about the Ark being found ?
 
try answersingenesi
I did not find it there .

This is what I seek info on . "Turkish countryman and his son, and later the Tzar’s army soldiers found the ark halfway sticking out of an ice glacier on Mt. Ararat. They took measurements and explored it. "

What I seek info on is the bold quote .
 
I did not find it there .

This is what I seek info on . "Turkish countryman and his son, and later the Tzar’s army soldiers found the ark halfway sticking out of an ice glacier on Mt. Ararat. They took measurements and explored it. "

What I seek info on is the bold quote .

aig have articles on the known reports of finding the ark, if they have nothing then there is no published report.

As they say, following the flood there would not have been any useable timber around so the ark would have be re used to build houses etc.
 
Ben Avraham
This is what I seek info on . "Turkish countryman and his son, and later the Tzar’s army soldiers found the ark halfway sticking out of an ice glacier on Mt. Ararat. They took measurements and explored it. "

What I seek info on is the bold quote .
 
aig have articles on the known reports of finding the ark, if they have nothing then there is no published report.

As they say, following the flood there would not have been any useable timber around so the ark would have be re used to build houses etc.
Yes I see that as a possibility that the Ark timbers could have been repurposed for many uses . We do know from Genesis that Noah lived in a tent at one time after the flood and before the the flood people lived in tents .

But there is so much we don't know about post flood living . :chin

I wonder if the Tower of Babel was constructed with some of the Ark timbers :eek :bricks ?

" No published report " , so where did Ben Avraham get his info for article :thinking ?
 
Yes I see that as a possibility that the Ark timbers could have been repurposed for many uses . We do know from Genesis that Noah lived in a tent at one time after the flood and before the the flood people lived in tents .

But there is so much we don't know about post flood living . :chin

I wonder if the Tower of Babel was constructed with some of the Ark timbers :eek :bricks ?

" No published report " , so where did Ben Avraham get his info for article :thinking ?

Here is some conjecture. If I had been Noah and his family, after the Ark rested and the animals set free, i believe I would have stayed in the Ark as shelter for as long as I could. I mean, why go live in a tent when you have this massive house in front of you?

A tent for Noah may have been just to get away from the Ark and the rest of the group for whatever reason. A man cave so to speak.

(Gen. 11:3) is pretty clear that brick for stone and slime for mortar was used to construct the tower of Babel.

Quantrill
 
Here is some conjecture. If I had been Noah and his family, after the Ark rested and the animals set free, i believe I would have stayed in the Ark as shelter for as long as I could. I mean, why go live in a tent when you have this massive house in front of you?

A tent for Noah may have been just to get away from the Ark and the rest of the group for whatever reason. A man cave so to speak.

(Gen. 11:3) is pretty clear that brick for stone and slime for mortar was used to construct the tower of Babel.

Quantrill
I am sure that they could of lived in the Ark for some time after the flood .

And it could have been that they wanted no part of living in the Ark after being confined to it like they were for so long .

If you lived your whole life in a tent and then you are thrust into the Ark it could of felt very confining for them . The Ark did not have many windows . They could have added windows after the flood though .
 
Well, quite a few things are possible. Some say that Noah took the door and used the wood for the burnt offering after the flood. That the Ark was buried under a glacier and that during an earthquake, half of it slid down the mountainside and was buried in a frozen lake, the other half was only visible when Turkey had a hot summer, and part of the glacier melted and exposed the other half of the Ark. (My grandma and grandpa were from Izmir)

But does it really matter? probably not, if a piece of wood or the part of the Ark that is left, really had been found, people would have made a business selling the pieces on eBay, and a church built on the site. (Hey, I could sell frozen Houston snow on ebay) The important fact is what the Ark represented, Salvation for Noah and his family . the "Teivah" (Behold the House of the covenant) just as Yeshua is our "House of Salvation" just as Noah and his family were protected during the flood, We are protected in this world which is a "flood of iniquity"

It does say that Noah lived in a tent when he became a grapevine grower. Perhaps he was fed up with being locked up in that huge wooden box for over a year. Where ever the Ark is now, let it stay there. let it rest, it served its purpose.
If Noah hadn't been obedient, we would all be fish, plants, or insects today.
 
Hawkman & co:

Some info about the "Ark" sightings/finds can be seen at:
JT Chick 'Chick Publications' & 'Crusader Comics'
Werner Keller 'Bible as History'.
David Fasold "Discovery of Noahs Ark'.

There are 3 or 4 claimed finds/sightings of the Ark. One is on Agri Dag or "Mt Ararat". Another is the "Durupinar" Ark formation nearby Dogubayzit, sometime miscalled the Tendurek formation (Durupinar, Ron Wyatt, David Fasold). And a 3rd is in Mt Suleiman in Iran (in Elburz Mountains?) (Bob Cornuke). David Down's bible history/archaeology course also had a picture of another Ark formation somewhere in the same region too.
The one in Mt Ararat is dubious. The wood is thought to have come from nearby the Black Sea. It is unlikely Noah's ark came to rest way up the top of a mountain and that they all had to come down the mountain. The sighting by Russian pilot during the war might have actually been the Durupinar one rather than on Mt Ararat.
Some like Lorence Collins reckon the Durupinar one is only a natural rock formation, but the evidence is not necessarily definite.

It is not certain that the Ark was "wood". No one knows for sure what 'Gopher' is. And 'atzey' might not mean wood.

The Ark is an interesting historical/archaeological/apologetic topic. There were also a few other similar minor points I'm not sure about, like for example I'm not sure the Ark was box/rectangular/square shape (not very sea/storm worthy, though it might be coffin like), and I am not sure that Canaan the youngest of Ham's 4 children was around in Genesis 9, and I'm not sure about the identifications of Japheth, Ashkenaz, Tubal & Meshech. But as Ben Avraham implies, it is abit off the topic/purpose of the original post which was more messianic spiritual/theological/teaching like. (Though I don't wholly agree that the ark archaeology doesn't matter.)

8 souls in the Ark. 8 is number of "new (man/birth)" (like 8th day man Genesis 2. Seth 8th after Cainite generations. Flood came at death of Methuselah the 8th after Enoch (7th), 8 souls in the Ark. David 8th son of Jesse, Yeshua in Greek numerals is 888).
 
for example I'm not sure the Ark was box/rectangular/square shape (not very sea/storm worthy,

Don't you love it when people don't do there research properly, I thought ever one knew this.

follow the link to the naval architcts asssessment of the Arks sea keeping qualities:-

Use aid's search function for their comments on the other ark sightings.
 
Well, quite a few things are possible. Some say that Noah took the door and used the wood for the burnt offering after the flood. That the Ark was buried under a glacier and that during an earthquake, half of it slid down the mountainside and was buried in a frozen lake, the other half was only visible when Turkey had a hot summer, and part of the glacier melted and exposed the other half of the Ark. (My grandma and grandpa were from Izmir)

But does it really matter? probably not, if a piece of wood or the part of the Ark that is left, really had been found, people would have made a business selling the pieces on eBay, and a church built on the site. (Hey, I could sell frozen Houston snow on ebay) The important fact is what the Ark represented, Salvation for Noah and his family . the "Teivah" (Behold the House of the covenant) just as Yeshua is our "House of Salvation" just as Noah and his family were protected during the flood, We are protected in this world which is a "flood of iniquity"

It does say that Noah lived in a tent when he became a grapevine grower. Perhaps he was fed up with being locked up in that huge wooden box for over a year. Where ever the Ark is now, let it stay there. let it rest, it served its purpose.
If Noah hadn't been obedient, we would all be fish, plants, or insects today.
God's plans never fail.
 
Hawkman & co:

Some info about the "Ark" sightings/finds can be seen at:
JT Chick 'Chick Publications' & 'Crusader Comics'
Werner Keller 'Bible as History'.
David Fasold "Discovery of Noahs Ark'.

There are 3 or 4 claimed finds/sightings of the Ark. One is on Agri Dag or "Mt Ararat". Another is the "Durupinar" Ark formation nearby Dogubayzit, sometime miscalled the Tendurek formation (Durupinar, Ron Wyatt, David Fasold). And a 3rd is in Mt Suleiman in Iran (in Elburz Mountains?) (Bob Cornuke). David Down's bible history/archaeology course also had a picture of another Ark formation somewhere in the same region too.
The one in Mt Ararat is dubious. The wood is thought to have come from nearby the Black Sea. It is unlikely Noah's ark came to rest way up the top of a mountain and that they all had to come down the mountain. The sighting by Russian pilot during the war might have actually been the Durupinar one rather than on Mt Ararat.
Some like Lorence Collins reckon the Durupinar one is only a natural rock formation, but the evidence is not necessarily definite.

It is not certain that the Ark was "wood". No one knows for sure what 'Gopher' is. And 'atzey' might not mean wood.

The Ark is an interesting historical/archaeological/apologetic topic. There were also a few other similar minor points I'm not sure about, like for example I'm not sure the Ark was box/rectangular/square shape (not very sea/storm worthy, though it might be coffin like), and I am not sure that Canaan the youngest of Ham's 4 children was around in Genesis 9, and I'm not sure about the identifications of Japheth, Ashkenaz, Tubal & Meshech. But as Ben Avraham implies, it is abit off the topic/purpose of the original post which was more messianic spiritual/theological/teaching like. (Though I don't wholly agree that the ark archaeology doesn't matter.)

8 souls in the Ark. 8 is number of "new (man/birth)" (like 8th day man Genesis 2. Seth 8th after Cainite generations. Flood came at death of Methuselah the 8th after Enoch (7th), 8 souls in the Ark. David 8th son of Jesse, Yeshua in Greek numerals is 888).
Crazy 8's, I love it.

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Don't you love it when people don't do there research properly, I thought ever one knew this.

follow the link to the naval architcts asssessment of the Arks sea keeping qualities:-

Use aid's search function for their comments on the other ark sightings.
I saw a TV show once about the ark and their thoughts were the ark was built like a fishing cork and would be just about unsinkable .
 
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