What About Noah?

6-1-2023

What about Noah?

In the book of Genesis, Chapters 6 – 10 is “The Story of Noah” but what is the backstory?

Have you ever wondered who Noah was, where he lived before and after the great flood? Who was Noah’s wife, where was she from? How about Noah’s three sons Shem, Ham and Japheth? Where were they born? How and where did they meet their wives? Where were their wives from?

We read that God called Noah the only blameless person living on the earth at the time and that he walked in close fellowship with God.

The reason Noah and his family were spared from the flood was because of Noah’s relationship with God.

God told Noah to build a large boat according to the specifications of God – Noah obeyed.

Nothing is recorded about whether anyone else in Noah’s family had a relationship, close or otherwise, with God, or whether they contributed to the construction of the boat or did Noah do it singlehandedly.

When God told Noah what type and number of animals to bring into the boat and insure there was food for Noah’s family and the animals – Noah obeyed.

It’s interesting to note that Noah’s relationship with God was such that he never strayed away from God.

After the flood when it was recorded that when God told Noah to take his family and all the animals and leave the boat – Noah obeyed.

God blessed Noah and his sons and told them to be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth.

After Noah grew a vineyard and became drunk of the fruit of the vine, it was his son Ham (the father of Canaan) that saw his father naked and sinned against his father by telling his brothers.

Noah cursed his son and said he and his descendants would be the servant of his brothers and their descendants.

So what is the backstory?

Corny as it may seem, like it or not we are the descendants of Noah and if we can’t get along now we should all go back to the top of Mount Ararat or further back in time, like to the Garden of Eden? If we could just get past the Angel guarding the garden we’d finally have a shot at the Tree of Life and break the first commandment God gave Adam, so that we could become immortal?

The heart of man became evil in the days of Noah and God brought forth the flood. Afterwards God gave a rainbow as a sign that he would never again flood the earth with water.

Now because the heart of man has once again become evil in all his ways, a minuet few flaunt the rainbow as a means of legitimizing their individual and corporate sin against God.

This time God has promised to consume this earth and all of its evil with fire.

But first, the rapture of those who have secured their relationship with God by the saving Blood of Jesus. Salvation comes by no other name. What is the nature of your relationship with God? Do you know him? Read John 3:16 and repent of your sins and then ask God to save you, in the name of Jesus Christ. – RTM