Noah

Noah’s righteousness

Noah walked with God

Genesis 6:8–9 ESV

But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.

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Noah enjoyed God’s protection

2 Peter 2:5 ESV

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;

Noah illustrates God’s restoring grace after judgment

Isaiah 54:7–10 ESV

For a brief moment I deserted you, but with great compassion I will gather you. In overflowing anger for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,” says the Lord, your Redeemer. “This is like the days of Noah to me: as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, and will not rebuke you. For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

The history of Noah

Noah’s family

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Noah built the ark at God’s command

Hebrews 11:7 ESV

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.

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Noah had three sons

Genesis 5:32 ESV

After Noah was 500 years old, Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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The earth was repopulated after the flood, by the descendants of Noah’s sons:

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Noah saved his family and animals from the flood

Genesis 7:7–9 ESV

And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood. Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground, two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.

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Noah worshipped the Lord

Genesis 8:20 ESV

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

God established a covenant with Noah, the sign of which is the rainbow

Genesis 8:21–22 ESV

And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”

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Noah lived to a great age

Genesis 9:28–29 ESV

After the flood Noah lived 350 years. All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.

Noah’s character

Noah was obedient

Genesis 6:22 ESV

Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.

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Noah was reverent

Genesis 8:20 ESV

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Noah was a man of the soil

Genesis 9:20 ESV

Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.

Noah was subject to human frailty

Nakedness was seen as shameful by OT writers.

Noah blessed and cursed his sons in a prophetic way

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Jesus Christ was a direct descendant of Noah

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The last days are likened to the time of Noah

Matthew 24:37–39 ESV

For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.