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"NOAH"
(Weekly Reading>>Genesis 6:9-11:32, Isaiah 54:1-10, Numbers 28:1-15, Matthew 24:36-44, 1 Peter 3:18-22)
The Pattern
The ark was divided into the three sections of: lower, middle and upper decks. This similar pattern is seen in:
•The Tabernacle in the wilderness
•The Temple
•The Heavenly Tabernacle
These partitions represent the outer court, the Holy Place and the Most Holy of Holies; the progressive levels of holiness, sanctification and understanding in the Torah principles that relate to our physical and spiritual walk of redemption and sanctification in Yeshua’s priesthood.
Clean and Unclean
As we see in the Garden there is a mixture of clean and unclean (light and darkness) entering the Ark, as Yahweh draws toward Noah clean and unclean animals. How did Noah know clean from unclean?
Noah experienced a relationship with Yahweh and he had also learned through his relatives what was originally taught to Adam and Eve in the Garden. He ate from the Tree of Life and was able to see far more than the people around him who had a distortion of the truth and scoffed at his ideas. This life teaching was passed on down through the generations to Noah. The clean animals were for eating and the unclean animals were not to be food for us; they were never to be for human consumption. The purpose of unclean animals was and is to keep the earth clean. We understand that Noah knew about the clean and unclean, holy and unholy and walked in the obedience of God’s teaching, as Yahweh refers to him as a righteous man in Genesis 6:9, one who kept and walked in the ways/principles of Yahweh.
As mentioned earlier, animals also relate to people as we see in the sheet that fell from Heaven in Peter’s dream (Acts 10:11-12, 28). The clean people were those who walked in the principles of Yahweh honoring His ways and keeping His Feast Days and Shabbats. The unclean people were those who did not honor His Kingdom ways and exhibited animalistic behaviors. We know that only eight people in all entered the ark, but the fuller understanding of an ark is to be a haven for those coming in from the nations.
Believers are likened unto an ark. Many will be drawn toward the presence and truth seen within the ark (Torah), desiring to come under its covering. The clean will stay but the unclean will move on going from Church to Church wanting to have multiple teachers. They will not recognize or be attracted to the One Truth within.
Timing of Passover
Noah and his family entered the ark on the tenth day of the second month (Iyar) on the Biblical calendar. There is a provision recorded in the Torah (Numbers 9:6-12) for those who cannot partake in the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread on the first month due to being unclean. Yahweh made provision for these persons to observe the Holy Days the next month on the (second) on the same dates.
Noah entered the ark on the tenth day of the second month revealing that it was quite probable they celebrated Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread in the ark before the floodwaters came seven days later. Eating the unleavened bread during the Feast days served as a cleansing/consecration (physical and spiritual) for Noah and his family, with the floodwaters acting as a baptism for status change for the entire earth, from an unclean state to a clean state.
Note: Yahweh’s Feasts are prophetic in nature and are eternal, perpetually celebrated in every generation. Zechariah 14 tells us the Feasts continue on into eternity.(Leviticus 23; Ezekiel 46, Colossians 2:16-17).
Death and Destruction
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered to a depth of more than twenty feet. Mount Everest is recorded as the highest mountain on earth at over five miles high. The waters covered this by more than twenty feet (Genesis 7:17-22).
Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. Everything on the face of the earth was wiped out – man, animals, the creatures that move along the ground, and the birds of the air - only Noah and those with him in the ark survived (Genesis 7:21- 23).
The earth flooded a hundred and fifty days, after which Yahweh sent a wind, the Spirit of the Holy One, and the waters that caused death and destruction began to recede. On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark was found resting on Mount Ararat. This timing was in the season called ‘our joy’ at the Feast of Tabernacles, also called the Festival of Ingathering and the Festival of Dedication (Genesis 8:1-6).
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"NOAH"
(Weekly Reading>>Genesis 6:9-11:32, Isaiah 54:1-10, Numbers 28:1-15, Matthew 24:36-44, 1 Peter 3:18-22)
The Pattern
The ark was divided into the three sections of: lower, middle and upper decks. This similar pattern is seen in:
•The Tabernacle in the wilderness
•The Temple
•The Heavenly Tabernacle
These partitions represent the outer court, the Holy Place and the Most Holy of Holies; the progressive levels of holiness, sanctification and understanding in the Torah principles that relate to our physical and spiritual walk of redemption and sanctification in Yeshua’s priesthood.
Clean and Unclean
Genesis 7:5-12 “And Noah did according to all that Yahweh commanded him. Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth. So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth, two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.”
As we see in the Garden there is a mixture of clean and unclean (light and darkness) entering the Ark, as Yahweh draws toward Noah clean and unclean animals. How did Noah know clean from unclean?
Noah experienced a relationship with Yahweh and he had also learned through his relatives what was originally taught to Adam and Eve in the Garden. He ate from the Tree of Life and was able to see far more than the people around him who had a distortion of the truth and scoffed at his ideas. This life teaching was passed on down through the generations to Noah. The clean animals were for eating and the unclean animals were not to be food for us; they were never to be for human consumption. The purpose of unclean animals was and is to keep the earth clean. We understand that Noah knew about the clean and unclean, holy and unholy and walked in the obedience of God’s teaching, as Yahweh refers to him as a righteous man in Genesis 6:9, one who kept and walked in the ways/principles of Yahweh.
As mentioned earlier, animals also relate to people as we see in the sheet that fell from Heaven in Peter’s dream (Acts 10:11-12, 28). The clean people were those who walked in the principles of Yahweh honoring His ways and keeping His Feast Days and Shabbats. The unclean people were those who did not honor His Kingdom ways and exhibited animalistic behaviors. We know that only eight people in all entered the ark, but the fuller understanding of an ark is to be a haven for those coming in from the nations.
Believers are likened unto an ark. Many will be drawn toward the presence and truth seen within the ark (Torah), desiring to come under its covering. The clean will stay but the unclean will move on going from Church to Church wanting to have multiple teachers. They will not recognize or be attracted to the One Truth within.
Timing of Passover
Noah and his family entered the ark on the tenth day of the second month (Iyar) on the Biblical calendar. There is a provision recorded in the Torah (Numbers 9:6-12) for those who cannot partake in the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread on the first month due to being unclean. Yahweh made provision for these persons to observe the Holy Days the next month on the (second) on the same dates.
Noah entered the ark on the tenth day of the second month revealing that it was quite probable they celebrated Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread in the ark before the floodwaters came seven days later. Eating the unleavened bread during the Feast days served as a cleansing/consecration (physical and spiritual) for Noah and his family, with the floodwaters acting as a baptism for status change for the entire earth, from an unclean state to a clean state.
Note: Yahweh’s Feasts are prophetic in nature and are eternal, perpetually celebrated in every generation. Zechariah 14 tells us the Feasts continue on into eternity.(Leviticus 23; Ezekiel 46, Colossians 2:16-17).
Matthew 24:36-39 “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man (Yahweh in the flesh)” (Luke 17:24-28).
Hebrews 11:7 “By faith [obedience to the future – Olam Haba] Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.”
Death and Destruction
Genesis 7:16 “And Yahweh shut the door behind him.” Yeshua/The Word is the door! (John 1:1,14, 10:7).
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered to a depth of more than twenty feet. Mount Everest is recorded as the highest mountain on earth at over five miles high. The waters covered this by more than twenty feet (Genesis 7:17-22).
Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. Everything on the face of the earth was wiped out – man, animals, the creatures that move along the ground, and the birds of the air - only Noah and those with him in the ark survived (Genesis 7:21- 23).
Psalm 29:10-11 “Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood, and Yahweh sits as King forever. Yahweh will give strength to His people; Yahweh will bless His people with peace.”
The earth flooded a hundred and fifty days, after which Yahweh sent a wind, the Spirit of the Holy One, and the waters that caused death and destruction began to recede. On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark was found resting on Mount Ararat. This timing was in the season called ‘our joy’ at the Feast of Tabernacles, also called the Festival of Ingathering and the Festival of Dedication (Genesis 8:1-6).
continues tomorrow...