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Noach
Noah
Introduction
Last Torah portion we talked about the Bible being written in Hebrew
Unless we study the Bible from the Hebrew perspective, we miss the whole message of redemption, the significance imbedded in it
Torah Portion
This Torah Portion goes from Genesis 6:9-11:32
But will only cover Some of Chapter 7 and all chapter 8, and some of chapter 9
Noah ( נֹחַ ) Noach
When we hear the name Noah more frequently than not, we think of:
Noah = Flood
Flood = destruction/ death
Death = judgement
Noah #1 (no’-ah) = Rest; comfort; comforter; (root = rest; comfort1
1 Stelman Smith and Judson Cornwall, The Exhaustive Dictionary of Bible Names (North Brunswick, NJ: Bridge-Logos, 1998), 186.
Why did Noah find grace in the eyes of God?
Why is this so important?
To have favour in the eyes of God?
Because this is a very wicked world
Why is this so important?
To have favour in the eyes of God?
Because He will protect us given His covenant
Why is this so important?
To have favour in the eyes of God?
And He will tell us about His plans
And destruction will come
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.
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
God restrained the rain from heaven - hashamayim
At the end of 150 days the waters decreased
150 days - also mentioned in Gen 7:24
There is a limit to Judgement
What causes God to give a limit?
Persistent unfaithfulness =
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
Daniel
Job
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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.
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