NOAH, Son of Lamech, and 10th in line from Adam through Seth, was born 126 years after Adam's death. When his father named Noah he said:"This one will bring us comfort from our work and from the pain of our hands resulting from the ground which God has cursed."(Genesis 5:28-31)
The story of Noah, from Genesis 5 to 9, was written by Moses not as an entertainment for children, but as part of the divine purpose that God planned for humanity before the Creation of the World. Moses was not the only one to tell the story. The story of Noah is more than a 1000 years older than the Scripture. And the story of the "Great Deluge" has been told not only by the Hebrews, Christians, Sumerians, and Hindus, but also by the Greeks, the Mayans, the Incas, the Ojibwa, the Muisca, and from people of many cultures, on many continents, and many eras.
Moses, a man who stood face to face with God, wrote the history of Noah to teach important sacred science to those who wish to have the experiences he had. The value of the story is much deeper than the one interpreted as evidence that it happen physically in a literal interpretation. To get the real meaning, one must know how to perceive the immaterial world and find the mystical hiding in the literal way. In short, the story explains how divinity, seeing the degeneration of humanity, decides to destroy all living things, save the few who are pure, build an Ark (boat) in which Noah's family is taken plus two of every animal, within which they survive a Worldwide Flood.
The story of Noah has a prologue laying the groundwork that tells how Noah became distinctive; a main narrative recording the Ark and the Covenant that reveals how that distinctiveness showed; and an epilogue of declining and death that records that he was not distinctive enough.
The Scripture is allegorical and symbolic. They are not literal documentation of history, although some of the figures, personages, and characters described in it did exist. Nevertheless, their depiction within the Scripture has meant to serve as a representation of spiritual principles that any individual or group seeks to develop within themselves as part of the path that leads to complete development.
Noah was the 1st Patriarch of the post-Flood society. During his lifetime false religion rose up among those under the leadership of Nimrod, through their rebellious attempt to build a tower with its top in the Heavens for fear that they might be scattered over all the surface of the earth. Noah lived 350 years after the Flood, dying about 2 years before the birth of Abraham. Noah saw God's Judgment on the builders of the Tower of Babel, and the scattering of those rebellious ones over the face of the earth. Noah and Shem, were not involved in the Tower building and do not suffer confusion of their language, and continue to speak man's original language, which God gave to Adam.
Genesis 6 contains the 1st reference to Noah and what was happening in his time in relation to what people's beliefs were: When people had spread all over the World, and daughters were being born, some of the heavenly beings saw that these young women were beautiful, so they took the ones they liked. Then the Lord said, "I will not allow people to live forever; they are mortal. From now on they will live no longer than 120 years." In those days, and even later, there were giants on the earth who were descendants of human women and the heavenly beings. They were the great heroes and famous men of long ago. When the Lord saw how wicked everyone on earth was and how evil their thoughts were all the time, He was sorry that He had ever made them and put them on the earth. He was so filled with regret that he said, "I will wipe out these people I have created, and also the animals and the birds, because I am sorry that I made any of them." But the Lord was pleased with Noah.
These Verses admits that every human being, all alike are wicked, they are the cause of Divine Grief, and the objects of an eradicating Judgment. The Prophets Isaiah, Ezekiel, our High Priest Jesus Christ, and the apostles Peter, Paul, Matthew, and Lucas, all spoke of God's servant Noah as a symbolic way. Noah's Days are shown to be prophetic of the "Presence of the Son of Man" and a future "Day of Judgment and of Destruction of the ungodly men."God, in sparing Noah and his family when He destroyed the wicked World, was setting a pattern for the ungodly on the things to come.
2 Peter 3 says, "My dear friends, ... in the Last Days some people will appear whose lives are controlled by their own lusts. They will make fun of you and will ask, 'He Promised to Come, didn't He? Where is He? Our ancestors have already died, but everything is still the same as it was since the Creation of the World!' They purposely ignore the Fact that long ago God gave a Command, and the Heavens and Earth were created. The Earth was formed out of Water and by Water, and it was also by Water, the Water of the Flood, that the Old World was destroyed. But the Heavens and the Earth that now exist are being preserved by the same Command of God, in order to be destroyed by Fire ... the Day when godless people will be judge and destroyed. But do not forget one thing, there is no difference in the Lord's sight between one day and a thousand years; to Him the two are the same."
2 Peter 2 says, "False Prophets appeared in the past among the people, and in the same way False Teachers will appear ... they will bring destructive, untrue doctrines, and will deny the Master who redeemed them, and so they will bring upon themselves sudden destruction. Even so, many will follow their immoral ways; and because of what they do, others will speak evil of the Way of Truth. In their greed these False Teachers will make a profit out of telling you made-up stories. For a long time now their Judge has been ready, and their Destroyer has been wide awake! God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into Hell, where they are kept chained in darkness, waiting for the Day of Judgment. God did not spare the ancient World, but brought the Flood on the World of godless people; the only one He saved were Noah, who preached Righteousness, and 7 other people.
"God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, destroying them with Fire, and made them an example of what will happen to the godless. He rescued Lot, a good man, who was distressed by the immoral conduct of lawless people. The good man lived among them, and day after day he suffered agony as he saw and heard their evil actions. And so the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials and how to keep the wicked under punishment for the Day of Judgment, especially those who follow their filthy bodily lusts and despise God's Authority."
Matthew 24 makes a description of the World to which the Lord Jesus will one day return:
"No one knows when that Day and Hour will come -neither the angels in Heaven nor the Son; the Father alone knows."
"The coming of the Son of Man will be like what happened in the Time of Noah."
"In the days before the Flood people ate and drank, men and women married, up to the very day Noah went into the boat; yet they did not realize what was happening until the Flood came and swept them all away."
"That is how it will be when the Son of Man comes." "At that time 2 men will be working in a Field: one will be taken away, the other will be left behind. Two women will be at a mill grinding meal: one will be taken away the other will be left behind. Watch out, then, because you do not know what Day your Lord will come (36-42). "
Lucas 17 says, Some Pharisees asked Jesus when the Kingdom of God would come. Jesus answered: "The Kingdom of God does not come in such a way as to be seen. No one will say, 'Look, here it is!' or, 'There it is!'; because the Kingdom of God is within you."
"There will be those who will say to you, 'Look, over there!' or, 'Look, over here!' But do not go out looking for it. As the Lightning flashes across the sky and lights it up from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in His Day."
"But first He must ... be rejected by the people of This Day. As it was in the Time of Noah so shall it be in the Days of the Son of Man."
"Everybody kept on eating and drinking, and men and women married, up to the very Day Noah went into the boat and the Flood came and killed them all."
"It will be as it was in the Time of Lot. Everybody kept on eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. On the day Lot left Sodom, Fire and Sulphur rained down from Heaven and killed them all."
"That is how it will be on the Day the Son of Man is revealed."
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