Noach ( נֹחַ ) Noah - Audio Podcast Nov 5, 2022

And he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord has cursed.”

Genesis 6:8 NKJV

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

Why did Noah find grace in the eyes of God?

Genesis 6:9 NKJV

This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

Genesis 6:22 NKJV

Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.

Genesis 7:1 NKJV

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.

Genesis 7:5 NKJV

And Noah did according to all that the Lord commanded him.

Why is this so important? To have favour in the eyes of God?

Because this is a very wicked world

Genesis 6:11–13 NKJV

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Why is this so important? To have favour in the eyes of God?

Because He will protect us given His covenant

Genesis 6:18 NKJV

But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall go into the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

Why is this so important? To have favour in the eyes of God?

And He will tell us about His plans

Genesis 7:4 NKJV

For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.”

And destruction will come

Genesis 7:20–24 NKJV

The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died. So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive. And the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days.

Presentation

These things we have presented so far are the usual things taught and understood even to those who do not see the Bible from a Hebrew perspective, but there is more

Genesis 8:1-3

And the Waters Subsided (hamayim)

This is the onset of God’s mercy, as the waters begin to recede slowly

God Remember:

God remembered In the Bible, “remembering,” particularly on the part of God, is not the retention or recollection of a mental image, but a focusing upon the object of memory that results in action.1

1 Nahum M. Sarna, Genesis, The JPS Torah Commentary (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1989), 56.

To say that God remembered as an act of memory is to imply that forgetfulness is possible for God, which is clearly absurd. The Torah uses this term, like many other terms, to make it easier for us to understand the sequence of events taking place. Remember means He keeps His covenant with Noah that Noah and his family will remain alive.

Genesis 7:23 NKJV

So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.

This is the mercy of God. God remembered that Noah fed and cared for the animals that were permitted to enter the Ark had not previously perverted their way, and that they had refrained from mating in the Ark - Rashi

God also noted that Noah was a perfectly righteous man, and that there was a divine covenant to save him. Concerning the animals, God remembered His plan that the earth should continue with the same species as before - Ramban

And God made a wind to pass over the earth

The word God uses is ruach - The Holy Spirit

He uses the HS to cause the waters to stop the seething (high boiling inferno and agitation) boiling fury and it sealed the sources of water so that the Flood could begin to recede

Genesis 8:2 NKJV

The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

God restrained the rain from heaven - hashamayim

Genesis 8:3 NKJV

And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.

At the end of 150 days the waters decreased

150 days - also mentioned in Gen 7:24

There is a limit to Judgement

Ezekiel 2:6 NKJV

“And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you dwell among scorpions; do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

Job 2:6 NKJV

And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, but spare his life.”

Revelation 9:5 NKJV

And they were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.

Numbers 11:19–20 NKJV

You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days, but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have despised the Lord who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, “Why did we ever come up out of Egypt?” ’ ”

What causes God to give a limit?

Genesis 7:23 NKJV

Ezekiel 14:12–14 NKJV

The word of the Lord came again to me, saying: “Son of man, when a land sins against Me by persistent unfaithfulness, I will stretch out My hand against it; I will cut off its supply of bread, send famine on it, and cut off man and beast from it. Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness,” says the Lord God.

Persistent unfaithfulness =

Genesis 6:5 NKJV

Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 6:5 NKJV

Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

What does the Lord look at?

Consider this question

What did Noah, Daniel and Job have in common?

They saw three worlds being built up, destroyed and rebuilt

Noah: the world created by God: humans, animals, mountains

Daniel: the world represented in the temple: Temple (Babylon conquest)

Job: his world: well- established, destroyed and again re-established

All 3 were righteous men were in its midst, they would save neither son nor daughter. Yet I will bring [all] four of them on [your brethren in] Jerusalem, and [still] leave over for you some of your sons who are there although you are not in its midst. And not because they are worthy of being saved, but to console you when they are exiled [to an area] near you and you will see their evil deeds and be consoled about the evil that I brought upon them.

God protected them all by shutting them out of the world

Noah

Genesis 7:16 NKJV

So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the Lord shut him in.

Daniel

Daniel 6:22–23 NKJV

My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths, so that they have not hurt me, because I was found innocent before Him; and also, O king, I have done no wrong before you.” Now the king was exceedingly glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no injury whatever was found on him, because he believed in his God.

Job

Job 1:9–10 NKJV

So Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing? Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

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Genesis 8:4 NKJV

Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

RESTED - Hebrew va-tanaḥ is another play on the name noaḥ.1

1 Nahum M. Sarna, Genesis, The JPS Torah Commentary (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1989), 57.

2 Days into Sukkot (Tabernacles)

Sukkot in Genesis?

Arguing that since the Old Testament Patriarchs did not keep the feast days really is an argument from silence. There are nuggets of proof in the book of Genesis that show that they did. The creation of the calendar as noted above is one. Just because Genesis doesn’t mention Adam and Eve keeping the feasts doesn’t mean they didn’t. Genesis is a book of origins not commands, and scattered throughout the book of Genesis the law of God can be seen. Obviously the law was given orally to the Patriarchs, and then written down during the time of Moses, but the law existed! One such law is the origin of the Sabbath (Gen 2).

Others:

The Law of clean and unclean meats (Gen 7:2, 8).

Law of Righteousness

Noah was “righteous” before God (Gen 7:1). God’s righteousness is his law (Psalm 119:172).

Law of Sacrifices (Gen 4:3-5; 8:20-21).

Eye for and Eye law (Gen 9:6).

Life of the flesh is in the blood (Gen 9:4).

God’s Covenant established (Gen 9:9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17).

God’s law existed long before Sinai given orally, written down afterwards by Moses to establish it.

You are about to see a few important points in this Torah portion:

Hebrew Calendar

The Flood calendar is based upon 30-day months with a year of 360 days, not upon the 29.5 days of a lunar calendar with a lunar year of 354 days.Scripture does offer some evidence in support of this assumption. The period between the start of the Flood on 2/17/600 and the resting of the ark on 7/17/600 is said to occupy “one hundred fifty days” (Genesis 7:11, 24; 8:4). This would hold true only if the months were 30 days long.

The seven-day cycles of the Flood chronology are Creation cycles based upon a seven-day week that starts with a first day and ends with a seventh day or sabbath day (Genesis 1:3–2:3). This is true of the seven-day wait for the start of the Flood and the seven days for the sending out of the birds in seven-day cycles. On this basis each of these seven-day periods should have ended on a Saturday/sabbath. This becomes the most important of the six presuppositions. The remainder of the article will offer several lines of evidence that this assumption is sound.

The three sets of chronological doublets (seven days, 40 days, 150 days) refer to distinct time periods. This means that Flood chronology has two 150-day time periods whereby the first one ends at exactly the point that the second one begins.

Answers and Research Journals

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Genesis 8:5–12 NKJV

And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. So it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. Then he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth. He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground. But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and drew her into the ark to himself. And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark. Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth. So he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return again to him anymore.

Events Genesis 8

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Genesis 8:11 NKJV

Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

The word חטף used by the Torah here, always is used in connection with something that has been plucked from a tree. If it had been picked up floating, it would have been a whole leaf, and would not have shown signs of having been picked from its branch.

Seeing the sprouting leaf, Noach knew that the waters had receded significantly. It was also clear to him that the pigeon had not found that leaf floating on top of the water. He was certain that it had been plucked from a tree that was in good condition.

The question is: where did the dove find even such a leaf? The Midrash offers several explanations. Rabbi Levi claims that the leaf came from Mount Olives (Jerusalem), seeing the deluge had not touched the Holy Land. He claims that G-d had said to Ezekiel 22:24 בן אדם אמר לה את ארץ לא מטהרה היא לא גשמה ביום זעם, “Ben Adam, say to her: “You are a land that has not been cleansed; she had not been rained upon on the day of fury.” The words לא מטהרה refer to the fountains of the deep beneath the Holy Land not having opened at the time of the deluge, whereas the words ולא גושמה mean that no destructive rain fell on the Holy Land during the period of the deluge.

Nonetheless, it is fair to assume that the waters of the deluge which had flooded neighbouring countries also spilled over into the Holy Land. After all, the Torah testifies that the waters of the deluge “covered all the high mountains beneath the whole sky (7,19).” Seeing that no rain had fallen on the Holy Land which would have uprooted and broken the trees in that land, the waters which spilled over into that land did not have such a destructive effect. It is quite plausible therefore that the dove took the leaf from Mount Olives.

This explains what is meant when the Torah wrote ((Genesis 8:11 ) וידע נח כי קלו המים מעל הארץ, “Noach realised that the waters had subsided from upon the earth.

Is this the Jerusalem of Israel?

Zechariah 4:11 NKJV

Then I answered and said to him, “What are these two olive trees—at the right of the lampstand and at its left?”

Jeremiah 11:11–16 NKJV

Therefore thus says the Lord: “Behold, I will surely bring calamity on them which they will not be able to escape; and though they cry out to Me, I will not listen to them. Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they offer incense, but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble. For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to that shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal. “So do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry out to Me because of their trouble. “What has My beloved to do in My house, Having done lewd deeds with many? And the holy flesh has passed from you. When you do evil, then you rejoice. The Lord called your name, Green Olive Tree, Lovely and of Good Fruit. With the noise of a great tumult He has kindled fire on it, And its branches are broken.

Romans 11:24 NKJV

For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

Revelation 11:4 NKJV

These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth.

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Genesis 8:13 NKJV

And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry.

Exodus 12:11–18 NKJV

And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover. ‘For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord. Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. ‘So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. On the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you. No manner of work shall be done on them; but that which everyone must eat—that only may be prepared by you. So you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this same day I will have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.

New Year - the first Month- Nissan

Genesis 8:14 NKJV

And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.

The second month moving forward into Pentecost - Shavaout before the third month

Genesis 8:15–19 NKJV

Then God spoke to Noah, saying, “Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.

Genesis 8:20–9:1 NKJV

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled a soothing aroma. Then the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done. “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease.” So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Passover and Pentecost Timeline

We must celebrate and remember the covenant the Lord has made with us by means of celebrating His feasts

Genesis 9:11–17 NKJV

Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow 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; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”