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Parashah 2 - Noach
Parashah 2 - Noach
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What is even more fascination is when you remove the Mem or water,
indicating that the water resided, you are left with Nun Chet xn that spells
Noach. Noah means rest and comfort and those who took YHVH Word
serious connected themselves with the Nun-Chet or Noah and entered His
Rest (Ark) while the ones who rejected the Truth,
joined themselves with the Mem or water that
became their Judge. The Word of YHVH is His water
that cleanses, and you can decide the cleansing
process; out of free will, submitting under the water of
the Word, or out of rebellion, rejecting the Word only
to drown in judgement later on. The same is with
Yshua; you can accept Him as your Saviour or reject
Him and meet Him as your Judge. Another thing to
note is that Salvation is always happens in a time of Judgement, you are not
saved yet, you are in the process of being saved.
Q What do you have to do to avoid Judgment?
We find this is the opening words of John the Baptist as well as Yshuas
ministry Repent for the Kingdom is at hand. We saw how YHVH repented but
there is another word for repentance in Scripture that relates to us and that is
the word shoob that means; to turn back, to retreat, to return. Eze 14 explains
what this repentance is all about:
Eze 14:6-7 Therefore say to the house of Israel, So says the Adonai YHVH:
REPENT and TURN from your idols, and TURN AWAY your faces from all
your abominations. (7) For every one of the house of Israel, or of the
stranger who lives in Israel, who separates himself from Me and sets up his
idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his
face, and comes to a prophet to ask of him concerning Me; I YHVH will
answer him Myself.
This repentance has to do with people who separated themselves from YHVH.
We saw last week that separation is part of the creation process and every day
was good except the 2nd day when He separated the waters from the waters.
When He separated the waters below from the waters above He knew that the
waters above will come down in the time of Noah in the form of Judgement on
those who have separated themselves from Him (v7).
Separating things that are different it is good, like the separation of light and
darkness, water and land, but when you separate things that are the same, like
water and water or people and people, then it is not good. Separating yourself
from YHVH is like the separation of water with water because you are of
the same substance as YHVH, made in His Image. People who separate
themselves from YHVH triggers the separated water from above down onto
themselves in the form of Judgment that will destroy them. YHVH knew when
He separated the waters from the waters on Day 2, what will happen in the
future, and that was not good.
to bring forth what it is intended for, and that causes delays from our
perspective. That is why you must keep on standing in faith until you see the
result of your prayer. Some people lose patience and give up saying that YHVH
will not hear them. He does hear you; it only takes time and patience and faith is
the key to answered prayers.
Faith is the link and bridge you build between the Physical and Spiritual
Realms to connect the outcome or answer to our prayer to us. For your prayer
to be answered, the bridge must be maintained until the solution has travelled
to you. Stand in faith until your prayer is answered. Another reason is because
of the complex Spiritual Realm where things have to happen first before it can
manifest in the Physical. We find an example in Scripture where Daniel prayed
and the answer did not come to him immediately because of a battle that had to
be won in the spiritual before he received his answer.
The Ark was made using incorruptible wood Messiah was a man without sin.
A dove descended upon the Ark while in the
water and a dove descended upon Messiah when
He was baptised.
The purpose of the Ark to save mankind and that
is Messiahs purpose as well.
People could enter the Ark out of free will, and
you accept Messiah as your Saviour out of free
will.
The entrance was on the side of the Ark where the Noah and his family
came out after judgement and Yshuas side was opened where water
and blood came out when He died as a result of the judgement of sin.
Noah and his family found rest in the Ark during the time of judgement
and we will enter into His rest while the earth is going to be judged.
YHVHs Grace: YHVH said that He would not destroy the earth until
Methuselah died. Methuselah was the oldest person recorded in Scripture (969
years old) and that shows YHVHs grace and that He delayed Judgement in
order to give humanity more time to repent. Methuselah was the 8 th born from
Adam, 8 means new beginnings, and this is what the flood signify; new
beginnings for mankind. Yshua also tarries before His Coming before His
Judgement so that more people can be saved. Grace is seen in Noahs name;
Noach xn means rest, but if you reorder letters you get Chen ]x that means
grace. Even during Judgement YHVH takes care of His people giving them rest
and grace.
We all have a yetzer harah or evil inclination that tries to draw us away from
YHVH. Yetzer means imagination and Rah means evil giving the meaning of
evil imagination. The evil inclination or imagination always tries to convince
you that bad is good and good is bad, trying to get you to stumble. Paul calls it
the old man or old nature that you battle against in order to live a holy life.
The yetzer hara is not a demonic force, but rather man's misuse of things the
physical body needs to survive. Losing balance if you like; the need for food
becomes gluttony, the gift of procreation becomes lust, etc., all because of the
yetzer hara.
If you give ear to this voice in your head, it will convince you with your own logic
to do something that might tip you over the edge into sin. This probably
happened to Eve when that voice that told her to go closer to the tree just to
look at the beautiful fruit. Next thing, she was taking a bite.
Q - Was this the voice that tempted Noah to drink just one more unto a point of
overindulgence?
In order to keep your balance and not sinning can be explained by the
example of a tightrope walker. A tightrope walker maintains his balance by
leaning slightly to the opposite side of what he feels is compromising his
balance. If you do not do this when you feel drawn to the wrong side, losing
balance, you will not compensate and move away from danger, loose balance
and fall to your death. Noah is described as ish adamah, the man of the earth
when he planted a vineyard, made wine, got drunk and was found naked in his
tent by his son Ham.
Q Ever wondered why Noah made wine and got drunk?
Was it the fermentation process that took him by surprise due to climate
change because the water canopy vanished after the flood? Was it an indication
to the righteous to show them that they can fall? We all have a yetzer harah or
evil inclination that tries to draw us away from YHVH. Yetzer means
imagination and Rah means evil giving the meaning of evil imagination.
The evil inclination or imagination always tries to convince you that bad is good
and good is bad, trying to get you to stumble. Paul calls it the old man or old
nature that you battle against in order to live a holy life. The yetzer hara is not a
demonic force, but rather man's misuse of things the physical body needs to
survive. Losing balance if you like; the need for food becomes gluttony, the
gift of procreation becomes lust, etc., all because of the yetzer hara.
If you give ear to this voice in your head, it will convince you with your own logic
to do something that might tip you over the edge into sin. This probably
happened to Eve when that voice that told her to go closer to the tree just to
look at the beautiful fruit. Next thing, she was taking a bite. Was this the voice
that tempted Noah to drink just one more unto a point of overindulgence?
In order to keep your balance and not sinning can be explained by the
example of a tightrope walker. A tightrope walker maintains his balance by
leaning slightly to the opposite side of what he feels is compromising his
balance. If you do not do this when you feel drawn to the wrong side, losing
balance, you will not compensate and move away from danger, loose balance
and fall to your death. You need to learn always to avoid situations that that
used to be a problem and struggled with before you accepted Yshua.
Do not reason with your Yetzer Harah, and do not place yourself in situations
that will tip your weaknesses loosing balance and fall into sin.
enemies that tried to prevent them to enter the Promised Land. Sin will always
try to stop you from walking in YHVHs ways because it comes from the seed
of Satan. Sin is the enemy that infiltrates believers, trying to stop us from
entering YHVHs Kingdom.
We tend to give Satan a lot of credit if things go wrong and we end up rebuking
him, but it was our own doing that caused dynamics and hardship in our lives
that came into being through the consequence of our sins we have committed in
the past.
You can say that Yshua washed you clean with His Blood and forgave you of
all of your sins but there will always be consequences. A good example of this
is found in Scripture describing one of the most Spirit-filled believers who ever
lived prior to Yshua, his name was David. He was a man who prophesied, wrote
the most beautiful Psalms and he was a man after YHVHs own
heart, truly someone to look up to. Unfortunately, he committed a
sin in his past that haunted him for the rest of his life. That enemy
was his own son Absalom, who was born out of an illegitimate
relationship that involved murder as well. YHVH gave David victory
over that enemy at the end, but He did not take away the
consequences of Davids sin, David had to battle against it for a
long time. That is perhaps why YHVH did not take away the thorn
in Pauls flesh but said that His grace is enough for him. Was this
thorn an enemy Paul created in his past that came as a
consequence of sin? (2 Cor 12:7)
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YHVHs idea
Expresses Grace & Salvation
Living substance - wood
One build
One saves
Movable foundation in water / word
Build in obedience to YHVHs word
Looks to future - preparation
Ended in Salvation
Build in Faith
Completed
Ark rose higher than tower
Mans idea
Expresses mans Arrogance
Made from dead material - mud
Many build
Many saves
Stationary foundation in world
Build in defilement of YHVHs Word
Looks to past was flood want to
avoid it
Ended in confusion and division
Build in fear
Not completed
Not completed lower than Ark.
The Tower of Babel had one language, and YHVH confused the language so
that the evil unity can be broken. In the same way, we see that the Babylonian
Religious System today consists of many languages (Religions) and try to
unify them into One Religion. YHVH will confuse them and scatter them in order
to show then His One true God.
We see an interesting example in the Book of Daniel. Daniel lived at the
onset of the Babylonian Exile. He and his friends (Shadrakh, Meshakh, and
Abednego) were part of the first wave of Jews to be exiled to Babylon by
King Nebuchadnezzar. In Chapter 3 of the Book of Daniel, we are told
how Nebuchadnezzar erected a giant golden statue in the valley of
Dura, the place where Nimrod had constructed the Tower of Babel. He called
all of his ministers and governors together from every corner of his
kingdom and commanded them to bow down to the statue, all peoples,
nations and languages.
This Giant Golden Statue is synonym to the Tower of Babel, and we read in
Dan 2:24-29 that the Rock will come and smash the statue at its feet,
destroying the systems created by man (political as well as religious) so that
YHVHs Kingdom can be established before His Coming. This shows us
that this Torah Portion is linked to the End Times and to the book of
Daniel and Revelation and the message is for us living in the last days so that
we can prepare ourselves for His Coming.
The story of Noah and the Flood is the best picture of what salvation is all about
and when that salvation will take place. Yshua connects the flood event with the
Second Coming where He will come again to judge the world. YHVH promised
never to destroy the world again by water as stared in our current Parashah
(8:21), and in its corresponding Haftarah (Isaiah 54:9). Yet, because of the
continued evil condition of the hearts of men, he must render judgment once
again, only this time the destruction will be by fire (2 Peter Chapter 3,
specifically vs. 3-7). To be sure, the passage in 2 Peter also mentions the
conditions in which we will be living which will usher in the return of Messiah,
and the Judgment of HaShem. So now that we have been sufficiently warned in
advance, what shall we do to prepare ourselves?
The lessons to be learned from Parashat Noach are timeless. Moreover, the
solution to the dilemma that is facing mankind is still the samethe mercy and
providence of HaShem. In our last parashah, Bresheet, we learned how the
Adversary tricked our first parents into running to the tree that God
commanded them to stay away from. By their disobedience, death and sin have
been introduced into the world, and as a result of that disobedience, all men are
slaves to sin. But in this current portion, we find a glimmer of hope, one
righteous man, of whom it is spoken, Babel is the Mother of all false religions.
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