Rain, Rain go away...

The skies are a dark bluish, purplish black color, the winds are blowing as though trying to get to a destination with the utmost speed and a feeling of relaxation comes over me and I settle on the sofa with a bowl of popcorn and with the T.V. remote at hand ready for a great evening.  I don’t know about you but I love a good hard rain, strangely enough it’s peaceful to my soul, the sound it makes when hitting the roof and the mini running lakes that it makes on the ground, yes I love the rain.

There was another rainy day that lasted for 40 days and 40 nights, a rain that was so devastating that all life was extinguished from the earth except for 8 people. All plant life, animal life and human life was destroyed in this rain. What would make God do such a thing? What happen for Him to be so disappointed with the work of His hands? Let’s look and see.

To answer these questions and others you might have, you must look at the times of Noah. Now Noah was a man that came from a great linage. His great-grandfather Enoch was a man who walked with God and that he pleased God, he also was a prophet of judgment just as Elijah and they fought against idolatry and apostasy in their time. 

Hebrews 11:5 tells us that “By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.” Enoch did not see death (neither did Elijah 2 Kings 2:11-12) because God took him, he will be one of the two witnesses that will return during the tribulation of Rev. 11, but this is another great teaching.

A Brief History

Now Noah’s grandfather was Methuselah, he was the oldest living person recorded in the Bible at that time, when he died he was 969 years old. Enoch on the other hand is still in heaven awaiting his time to return.  I haven’t lost it believe me, if you have any concerns please direct all question to God, this is what His Word says; read Genesis 5:21-24 it does not say “and he died”. If you have a good references Bible (I use the Dake Bible) study all the scriptures about this and see for yourself.

Anyway, Noah’s father Lamech was a religious man; the Bible does not give much else about him. I must tell you that when you read Genesis 6-7 you must first realize that the Bible is God’s Word and it’s the truth and you must receive it as the truth.  When you get into debates or theological conversations it takes you away from the truth and you begin to interject your wisdom and your thoughts, not God’s.

State of the Nation

Starting in Genesis chapter 6:2, “that the sons of God saw the daughter of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.” The result of this affair produced giants 6:4 “there were giants in the earth in those days; 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.” In other words women were having children by fallen wicked angles as well as by regular men, producing giants in the earth so much so that God said “…my spirit shall not always strive with man…” (Gen. 6:3) “And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart” (Gen. 6:6).

We’re still talking about the days of Noah now, so don’t get too confused.  Well now, “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” (Gen 6:5). The people of this day were doing just too much, “…every imagination…was only evil” can you even begin to imagine a world like this? There would be no safe place, or justice, no law for protection – almost sound like life today without the giants.

Noah’s Walk

“Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord” and “Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walk with God” (Gen 6:8-9). Perfect here means he and his sons had not infected their lives as others with fallen angels; they were still the only pure Adamites left. Noah had sisters and brothers after he was born “ And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:” (Gen 5:30); and yet he was the only one walking with God.

 His sisters and brothers all were fallen prey into the ways of the world; Satan was trying to destroy the pure Admite line from which Christ would come through.  Out of all his family and the entire world, Noah and his family were the only ones pure. He even walked as His great-grandfather did for he walked with God. It’s heart wrenching to know that you are the only one in your family that is walking with God, as much as you may try to influence them to hear a Word from God or talk about salvation they just blow you off.  I’m sure Noah did what he could to sway his siblings; we all would if we were in such a situation as he was.

God had finally had enough He pronounced judgment for His holiness could no longer tolerate this wickedness any longer.  “God said unto Noah, the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is fill with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth” (Gen 6:13). Because of God’s grace for Noah and his family, He instructs him to build an ark; this was an immense undertaking for Him, God gave Noah the dimension of the ark, the type of wood to use, and the instructions in how it should look (Gen. 6:14-16). 

God promised Noah “but with thee will I establish my covenant; and their shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife and thy sons wives with thee.”  (Gen. 6:18). God then instructed Noah as to what animals to bring and how many “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” (Gen 6:19). But He also instructed that he bring in “of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female; and of beast that are not clean by two, the male and his female” (Gen 7:2). This was for the purpose of making sacrifice later.

The End

God then promised Noah that in seven days it will begin to rain on the earth “…and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth” (Gen 7:4). God’s Word does not return unto Him void, it was as sure as the sun will rise that the earth was about to be flooded and all life extinguished. Noah was a man of God so one would think that as he worked on the ark he was telling people to repent and trust God, right? I could only hope so.  Can you imagine the society at that time, the thoughts, the ways, and the attitudes were only evil. Men had become so universally depraved that God had no recourse but to destroy the race.

Noah was surrounded daily by a mass of godless, unbelievers, who would come to see his work and remain just to mock him. Through it all Noah maintain his faith to do what God had call him to do. Noah stands among all the workers of the Bible unsurpassed, if not incomparable, in persistent faith. We must ask ourselves whether we would have such faith in a world that only glorifies sin, would we be persistent in doing what God has called us to or will we finally give in to all the taunts, cursing and ridicule?

God open the “…windows of heaven…” (Gen. 7:11). The new movie Noah is out and I have not seen it yet. And from a lot of comments I have read many believers know that it was nowhere near Biblical based. I can’t say that whether I will see it or not, I just know that I believe in the Bible and after reading about the “Noah of the Bible” I would prefer this truth more than the fiction of movies. Thousands of people were lost because they would rather mock him and make fun of what he was called to do, instead of asking “what is this great calling that you do this?”  

We must open our eyes even in this day and time that judgment will first come to the house of God and then the world.  What is your heart like are you accepting of things that the Bible says is wrong or will you stand for what God says is right?

Chosen4God