Genesis 6.13-22-Noah is a Type of Christ
Wednesday September 14, 2005
Genesis: Genesis 6:13-22-Noah is a Type of Christ
Lesson # 27
Please turn in your Bibles to Genesis 5:28.
This evening we will study that Noah is a type of Christ.
Biblical typology involves an analogical correspondence in which earlier events, persons, and places in salvation history become patterns by which later events and the like are interpreted.
A type is a specific parallel between 2 historical entities; the former is indirect and implicit, the latter direct and explicit.
A type is designed to teach us a lesson about the Lord Jesus Christ.
Noah and the events of his life parallel the Lord Jesus Christ and the events of His life.
An example of a type is found in Romans 5.
Romans 5:14, “Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.”
The Lord Jesus Christ employed typology in His teaching about Himself.
In John 6, the Lord compared His humanity to the manna that was given to Israel.
The manna typified the human nature of Christ, which provide for spiritual nourishment.
The fact that Noah is a type of Christ does “not” mean that Noah is equal to the Lord but rather Noah and his life foreshadow the Lord and the events of His life.
Noah and his work on the Ark parallel the Lord Jesus Christ, His work of salvation and His Second Advent.
Now, in regards to the typology concerning Noah, we must first examine the meaning of his name, which means, “rest,” which foreshadows the Lord Jesus Christ who would give us rest from the curse.
Genesis 5:28, “Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and became the father of a son.”
Genesis 5:29, “Now he called his name Noah (“rest”), saying, ‘This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from the ground which the LORD has cursed.’”
Noah’s father Lamech regarded him as the one who would be the rest-giver and who would provide comfort from the Curse imposed by God on the human race as a result of Adam’s disobedience to the Lord’s command to not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 3:17, “Then to Adam He said, ‘Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.”
Genesis 3:18, “Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field.”
Genesis 3:19, “By the sweat of your face you will eat bread, till you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Lamech looked at Noah his son as the one who would bring deliverance from this curse and provide comfort and rest but only the Lord Jesus Christ could provide the human race rest and deliverance from the curse.
Therefore, Noah is a type of Christ in that Noah’s name meaning, “rest-giver” foreshadows the Lord Jesus who through His obedience to the Father’s will in suffering a spiritual death in our place on the cross would deliver us from the curse imposed upon us because of the first Adam’s disobedience.
Matthew 11:28, “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:29, “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS.”
Matthew 11:30, “For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
Also, Noah’s name and the prophecy of his father Lamech looks forward to the Second Advent of Christ and His millennial reign when the Lord Jesus Christ will deliver the earth from its curse that it has been under since the day that the first Adam disobeyed the Lord’s command to not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Isa. 65:19-25; Rom. 8:19-22).
Now, another interesting thing about Noah is that Genesis 6:8 records that Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
Genesis 6:8, “But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.”
The first thing the Word of God tells us about Noah is that he found grace in the eyes of the Lord, which typifies or parallels the Father estimation of the Lord Jesus Christ at His baptism.
Matthew 3:17, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.”
Furthermore, Genesis 6:9 records that Noah was a righteous man.
Genesis 6:9, “These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.”
The fact that the Word of God says that Noah was a righteous man foreshadows Jesus Christ, the righteous.
Noah did “not” inherently possess divine righteousness but rather it was imputed to him the moment he believed in Jesus Christ as His Savior (Rom. 4) whereas the Lord Jesus Christ was and is inherently righteous (1 John 2:1).
Also, Genesis 6:9 tells us that Noah walked with God, which typifies the Lord Jesus Christ who perpetually remained in fellowship with the Father and the Spirit.
Genesis 6:9, “These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.”
John 8:29, “And He who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him.”
Genesis 6:13-20 records for us that God gave Noah a great work to do that would deliver his family and two of every kind of living creature on the earth, which typifies the Lord Jesus Christ who was entrusted by the Father with the work of salvation on behalf of all men.
Genesis 6:13, “Then God said to Noah, ‘The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.’”
Genesis 6:14, “Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch.”
Genesis 6:15, “This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits (cubit: 17.5 inches long; 300 cubits=437.5 feet wide), its breadth fifty cubits (72.92 feet wide), and its height thirty cubits (43.75 feet high).”
Genesis 6:16, “You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.”
Genesis 6:17, “Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish.”
Genesis 6:18, “But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark -- you and your sons and your wife, and your sons' wives with you.”
Genesis 6:19, “And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.”
Genesis 6:20, “Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.”
John 4:34, “Jesus said to them, ‘My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.’”
John 17:4, “I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.”
John 19:30, “Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, ‘It is finished!’ And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.”
God entrusted this great work of building the Ark to Noah alone, which typifies the Lord Jesus who the Father alone entrusted with the work of salvation.
1 Peter 2:24, “and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.”
The fact that the Lord Jesus Christ, our Great High Priest alone accomplished our so great salvation is typified in Leviticus 16:17 where the high priest in Israel made atonement for the people while alone in the holy of holies.
Leviticus 16:17, “When he goes in to make atonement in the holy place, no one shall be in the tent of meeting until he comes out, that he may make atonement for himself and for his household and for all the assembly of Israel.”
Noah’s work of building the Ark brought blessing to his own family, which typifies that the Lord’s work on the cross brought blessing to His family, the church.
Noah’s work brought blessing to the living creatures on the earth, which typifies the Second Advent of the Christ, which shall bring blessing to every living creature.
Also, Genesis 6:19 teaches us that God made the entire animal kingdom subject to Noah, which also typifies the Lord Jesus Christ in the desert during his confrontation with Satan where He was with the wild animals.
Mark 1:13, “And He was in the wilderness forty days being tempted by Satan; and He was with the wild beasts, and the angels were ministering to Him.”
Genesis 9:1-3 teaches us that God put all things in subjection to Noah after he accomplished his work of building the Ark and delivering his family and the animals, which typifies the Lord Jesus Christ who was made the heir of all things after accomplishing His work of salvation on the cross.
Genesis 9:1, “And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.”
Genesis 9:2, “The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.”
Genesis 9:3, “Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant.”
Hebrews 1:1, “God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways.”
Hebrews 1:2, “in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world.”
In Genesis 6:21, we see that God made Noah the great food provider for his family and the animals in the Ark, which typifies the Lord Jesus Christ who is the bread of life and who we are to receive spiritual nourishment from.
Genesis 6:21, “As for you, take for yourself some of all food which is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them.”
John 6:51, “I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”
Genesis 6:22 records Noah’s implicit obedience, which typifies the perfect obedience of our Lord who obeyed the Father’s will and accomplished the work of our salvation.
Genesis 6:22, “Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.”
Philippians 2:8, “In fact, although He was discovered in outward appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by having entered into obedience to the point of spiritual death even death on a Cross.”
Genesis 9:1 records that God blessed Noah and his sons after disembarking from the Ark, which foreshadows God blessing us, the Lord’s family with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places because of our union with Christ.
Genesis 9:1, “And God blessed Noah and his sons.”
Ephesians 1:3, “Worthy of praise and glorification is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.”