God Remembered Rest
November 10, 2013




Genesis 5:28    And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
Genesis 5:29    And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.

Genesis 8:1    And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;



Noah's name means REST or COMFORT.

God sent a flood to remove the sin from the earth and thereby remove the curse that Adam's sin brought into the world.

Genesis 3:17    And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

It seems Lamech may have thought Noah would be the Messiah first promised to when God cursed the serpent and said the seed of the woman would crush his head.

But spiritually, he carried creation out of sinful world into a cleansed world.

Like Jesus, the true Noah, would do in the ARK OF HIS BODY THROUGH THE FLOOD OF DEATH.

It is said that the flood mentioned by Peter is not Noah's flood but a previous one after satan fell.

2Peter 3:5    For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
2Peter 3:6    Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

Genesis 1:1    In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:2    And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

We read of the waters receding the third day.

Genesis 1:9    And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Genesis 1:10    And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:11    And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself,
upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:12    And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and
God saw that it was good.

The third day was the day Jesus resurrected!

Dry land appeared.

Notice that when Genesis 1:2 said earth was void and without form, we find the same terms here:

Jeremiah 4:23    I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Jeremiah 4:24    I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
Jeremiah 4:25    I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
Jeremiah 4:26    I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.

This occurred when the earth was void and without form.

Notice the same circumstances are mentioned here when Lucifer fell.

Isaiah 14:12    How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
Isaiah 14:13    For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of
the congregation, in the sides of the north:
Isaiah 14:14    I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Isaiah 14:15    Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Isaiah 14:16    They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake
kingdoms;
Isaiah 14:17    That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

And if Jeremiah said those events occurred before the earth was void and without form, making it void and without form, then Lucifer seemingly fell at that time.

God did not make the earth without form.

Isaiah 45:18    For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain (Heb. "WITHOUT FORM"), he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.

Genesis 1:1    In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:2    And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

God flooded the earth in judgment.

But Noah came to give rest like Jesus!

Matthew 11:28    Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Hebrews 4:3    For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Look at this CHIASTIC PATTERN found in Genesis' account of the flood.



A Noah (6:10a)
  B Shem, Ham, and Japheth (10b)
   C Ark to be built (14-16)
    D Flood announced (17)
     E Covenant with Noah (18-20)
      F Food in the ark (21)
       G Command to enter the ark (7:1-3)
        H 7 days waiting for flood (4-5)
         I 7 days waiting for flood (7-10)
          J Entry to ark (11-15)
           K YHWH shuts Noah in (16)
            L 40 days flood (17a)
             M Waters increase (17b-18)
              N Mountains covered (19-20)
               O 150 days water prevail (21-24)
                P GOD REMEMBERS NOAH (8:1)
               O’ 150 days waters abate (3)
              N’ Mountain tops visible (4-5)
             M’ Waters abate (5)
            L’ 40 days (end of) (6a)
           K’ Noah opens window of ark (6b)
          J’ Raven and dove leave ark (7-9)
         I’ 7 days waiting for waters to subside (10-11)
        H’ 7 days waiting for waters to subside (12-13)
       G’ Command to leave ark (15-17 [22])
      F’ Food outside ark (9:1-4)
     E’ Covenant with all flesh (8-10)
    D’ No flood in the future (11-17)
   C’ Ark (18a)
  B’ Shem, Ham and Japheth (18b)
A' Noah (19)

The above is a CHIASM of Genesis 6 through 9 covering the entire story of the
flood!

Even the numbers of days is in chiastic pattern here...

7 - 7 - 40 - 150 -- 150 - 40 - 7 - 7

What a miracle of God's Word!

Notice that Noah's entrance into the ark is paralleled by the raven and dove leaving the ark.

The shutting of the ark is parallel with the opening of the window.

Noah is like Jesus.
The covenant with Noah in Genesis 6 is parallel to the covenant with all flesh in Genesis 9.

But the focus of it all is that GOD REMEMBERED NOAH.

God remembered REST and the plan to bring deliverance to mankind from the curse in the days of the Garden of Eden when Adam sinned.

Like the ark, Jesus died and we were baptized into that death to be carried with Him thru death into the resurrection into newness of life.

A rainbow indicated the world would not be destroyed by floods again.

Genesis 9:14    And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
Genesis 9:15    And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

Floods represent death.

Revelation shows a flooded space before the throne of God where a rainbow stood.

Rev 4:2    And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
Rev 4:3    And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Rev 4:4    And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
Rev 4:5    And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are
the seven Spirits of God.
Rev 4:6    And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.

And Jesus as a LAMB walks across this sea to the throne to get a BOOK like Noah got a COVENANT from God on the island-like mountain top of Ararat.

Genesis 9:12    And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual
generations:
Genesis 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.

Rev 5:1    And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.

Rev 5:7    And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.

As God gave Noah dominion over the earth in Genesis 9, Jesus conquered and made us kings and priests.
Rev 5:9    And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
Rev 5:10    And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

God remembered the rest Adam had before he lost access to the tree of life where God planted the Tree and it would make man live forever, to where Adam had to work the land with thorns to impede his progress, and work to eat and die anyway.

God brought it back through the greater Noah named JESUS!

All by the death in which He was like an ark to carry us in his body to a resurrection into newness of life!



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