One in Messiah Congregation
part of the Torah portion - Oct. 28, 2006 - Noah
Noah had knowledge of:
grace
Gen.6[ 8] But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
thy wife ( marriage - one wife )
having children
Gen.6[ 18] But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
perfect
Gen.6[ 9] These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
followed " all " God's commands
Gen.6[ 22] Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
righteous
Gen.7[ 1] And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
Clean
Gen.7[ 2] Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
[8] Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
Gen.8[ 20] And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
not clean
Gen.7[ 2] Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
[8] Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean , and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
offerings on the altar
Gen.8[ 20] And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Even the ark rested on the 7th
Gen.8[ 4] And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Noad received the 3rd blessing recorded
Gen.9[1
] And God blessed Noah
and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,
and replenish the earth.
my bow - a covenant
Gen.9[ 13] I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. [14] And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
[16] And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
The 4th curse
Gen.9[ 25] And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
drunken
Gen.9[ 21] And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
nakedness
Gen.9[ 22] And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. [23 ] And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nak edness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nak edness.
Noah had faith and belief
Noah knew about building construction
Gen.6[ 14] Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Noah had the fear of the Lord
Heb.11[ 7] By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Noah knew about patience, waiting on the Lord
Noah had knowledge of counting and the number " 7 "
Gen.8[ 10] And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
[12] And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
Preacher
2Pet.2[ 5] And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person , a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Noah knew death
Gen.9[ 29] And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
Gen.6
[1] And it came
to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters
were born unto them,
[2] That the sons of God saw
the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which
they chose.
[3] And the LORD said, My spirit
shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall
be an hundred and twenty years.
[4] There were giants in the
earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto
the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty
men which were of old, men of renown.
[5] And GOD saw that the wickedness
of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of
his heart was only evil continually.
[6] And it repented the LORD
that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
[7] And the LORD said, I will
destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast,
and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that
I have made them.
[8] But Noah found grace in
the eyes of the LORD.
[9] These are the generations
of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked
with God.
[10] And Noah begat three sons,
Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
[11] The earth also was corrupt
before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
[12] And God looked upon the
earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon
the earth.
[13] And God said unto Noah,
The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence
through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
[14] Make thee an ark of gopher
wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without
with pitch.
[15] And this is the fashion
which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits,
the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
[16] A window shalt thou make
to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the
ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories
shalt thou make it.
The ultimate mikvah
Mikvah is a "ritual bath" used for immersion in a purification ceremony .
[17] And, behold,
I, even I, do bring a flood of waters
upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of
life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
[18] But with thee will I establish
my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy
wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
[19] And of every living thing
of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them
alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
[20] Of fowls after their kind,
and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after
his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
[21] And take thou unto thee
of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be
for food for thee, and for them.
[22] Thus did Noah; according
to all that God commanded him, so did he.
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2Kgs.5
[1] Now Naaman,
captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master,
and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he
was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
[2] And the Syrians had gone
out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a
little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.
[3] And she said unto her mistress,
Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover
him of his leprosy.
[4] And one went in, and told
his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.
[5] And the king of Syria said,
Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed,
and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and
ten changes of raiment.
[6] And he brought the letter
to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter is come unto thee, behold,
I have therewith sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him
of his leprosy.
[7] And it came to pass, when
the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said,
Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover
a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh
a quarrel against me.
[8] And it was so, when Elisha
the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that
he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him
come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
[9] So Naaman came with his
horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
[10] And Elisha sent a messenger
unto him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall
come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
[11] But Naaman was wroth, and
went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and
stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the
place, and recover the leper.
[12] Are not Abana and Pharpar,
rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in
them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
[13] And his servants came near,
and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some
great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he
saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
[14] Then went he down, and
dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of
God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he
was clean
1Pet.3[ 20] Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
John.9[ 7] And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
John.5[1
] After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus
went up to Jerusalem.
[2] Now there is at Jerusalem
by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda,
having five porches.
[3] In these lay a great multitude
of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
[4] For an angel went down at
a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water:
whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole
of whatsoever disease he had.
[5]
And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
[6] When Jesus saw him lie,
and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him,
Wilt thou be made whole?
[7] The impotent man answered
him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool:
but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
[8] Jesus saith unto him, Rise,
take up thy bed, and walk.
[9] And immediately the man
was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the
sabbath.
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Ezek.14
[12] The word
of the LORD came again to me, saying,
[13] Son of man, when the land
sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine
hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send
famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
[14] Though these three men,
Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls
by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
[15] If I cause noisome beasts
to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no
man may pass through because of the beasts:
[16] Though these three men
were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons
nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.
[17] Or if I bring a sword upon
that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast
from it:
[18] Though these three men
were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons
nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.
[19] Or if I send a pestilence
into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man
and beast:
[20] Though Noah, Daniel, and
Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither
son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
Luke.17
[26] And as
it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
[27] They did eat, they drank,
they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered
into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Shalom all