Noach

Corruption was everywhere

Genesis 6:11“The earth was corrupt before God, the earth was filled with violence” (or terror)

ה"א"ר ץ (מ'"ל%א +ת' ו ה"א0ל/ה(ים %י ל(פ2נ ה"א"ר ץ (ש5'"ח%ת +ת' וח"מ"ס

Chet Mem Samech – Hamas

Because of the mixing and mingling of holy and profane, Adonai decided to blot out all the wickedness of the earth

Corruption was everywhere

Through these events, of whom is Adonai trying to get the attention? The wicked?

Or is it the righteous who have allowed themselves to become corrupted and perverse. Over time they let their guard down and as a result they begin to fall away from God.

God is trying to get the attention of the righteousness and bring them back into the light.

Leading up to the flood

The people were eating, drinking, and marrying in the days leading up to the flood.

Sound a lot like today?

Reminder for us to live righteously and be a light in the darkness.

If he delivered the righteous then he will do it again.

Noach - Rest

Lemekh named him Noach because he was going to bring us rest from the curse of the ground that Adam brought upon the earth.

Given the chronology of Noach, we can calculate that he was born in the year 1056 after creation.

It is possible that Noach was actually born on 1058. 1058 in Hebrew is Aleph (1000) Nun (50) Het (8). In Hebrew, Noach is spelled Nun Het

500 hundred years later when God instructed him to build an ark, that would have been the year 1558. Aleph Tav Quph Nun Het - et kaneach - “to wipe clean”

100 years after that when the floods began. That would have been the year 1658. Aleph Tav Resh Nun Het - atar Noach – “a place of rest”

However, is this entirely accurate?

Noach - Rest

Noach was a man righteous and wholehearted; Noach walked with God.

Noach could speak to God, and because he succeeded, we are here today.

It doesn’t mention anything about the righteousness of his wife or children.

Is it possible that their lives were spared because of Noach’s righteousness?

Shem

Noach’s sons were not named in the order of birth.

Yafet was eldest but Shem was the spiritual first born.

Tents of Shem

In the chronology Shem was born 1558 and died 2158

Abraham died in 2123 – 35 years before Shem died.

The Ark

Ark – - Tevah in Hebrew. Same word used to describe the container Moses was placed in.

Noah had no control, it was left up to the mercy of God to direct it.

“Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; you are to make the ark with rooms and cover it with pitch both outside and inside. The word to cover is khafarta The word pitch is Kofer (protective covering)

Same concept Kippur – they will be covered. There is atonement.

The Waters

Genesis 7:4“For in seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights”40 in Hebrew is Mem and in the paleo Hebrew it resembles water waves

Genesis 8:1“…so God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to go down.”The Hebrew word for wind is Ruach which means spirit.

Came to rest

Genesis 8:4“On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.”

That would be the 17th of Aviv

Also corresponds to the 3rd day after Passover begins which is the same day Yeshua was resurrected.

Came to rest

Genesis 8:13“By the first day of the first month of the 601st year the water had dried up from off the earth; so Noach removed the covering of the ark and looked; and, yes, the surface of the ground was dry.”

That would be the 1st of Tishri

Also corresponds to Rosh Hashanah or Yom Teruah. New year with new earth.

God’s Promise

How is a rainbow formed?

Could this have had an effect on the lifespan of men?

The rainbow has become a symbol of the perverse.

Nimrod – The mighty hunter

Noach’s son Ham had a son named Cush who married Semiramis. They had a son named Nimrod who was a mighty hunter before Adonai.

Nimrod is said to be the first powerful ruler on earth. He was seen as being a god.

Nimrod was later killed and his body parts were spread around to different parts of the kingdom to show that he was a man and not a god.

Semiramis claimed that Nimrod had ascended to the sun and was now called “Baal” the sun god.

Semiramis became known as Ishtar or Easter (derived from the ancient word for spring – eastre) and claimed that she came down in a moon egg on the first full moon after the spring equinox. She then became pregnant and credited the rays of the sun-god Baal for the conception. She gave birth to Tammuz who was worshiped as the son of Baal.

Tammuz

When Tammuz was 40, he was killed by a wild boar.

Ishtar proclaimed a 40 day period of sorrow known as “Weeping for Tammuz” - one day for each year of his life.

You were to deprive yourself of an earthly pleasure and not eat meat.

Sign of Tammuz in front of their hearts and on their head

Make cakes with the sign of Tammuz – wafers during Eucharist service.

Kill and eat ham in remembrance to the boar that killed him.