To whom Noah cursed and why? (Part 2)
It comes the question: what did Canaan do against Noah?
To figure out this, we need to get the drift of who is Noah.
Well, he was someone who lived 600 years before the deluge:
• Gen 7:6 -> “Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.”.
Nonetheless, despite the turpitude of his time, he was favored by the Creator:
• Gen 6:8 -> “But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.”.
He was so special that He was referred by the Creator as a prominent man, someone very beloved by Him:
• Eze 14:14 -> “even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord GOD.”.
• Eze 14:20 -> “even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.”.
That is to say, Noah wasn’t a “simple” servant of the Creator, but someone very dear, intimate of the Creator.
And Noah, after 600 years living amidst an outright perverse generation (the Earth was filled with violence through them – Gen 6:13), knew, more than everyone, how disastrous is the consumption of alcoholic beverage:
• Luk 17:26,27 -> “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. They were *eating and drinking* and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.”.
And He knew how that generation irritated the Creator (it’s not in vain that Noah stayed inside the ark 1 year and 17 days).
• Gen 7:10,11 -> “And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.”
Noah came into the ark one week before the deluge. And stayed inside 1 year and 17 days:
• Gen 8:13-16 -> “In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out. Then God said to Noah, “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.”.
Did you thought why the Creator acted like this? Why did He enjoined Noah to build an ark (which spent 100 years to be ready – see Gen 5:32 and Gen 7:6) to, then, send the deluge which lasted 1 year and 17 days? He could kill all that wicked generation in a jiffy, without need of all this.
Tomorrow we will carry on. Have a good day.
It comes the question: what did Canaan do against Noah?
To figure out this, we need to get the drift of who is Noah.
Well, he was someone who lived 600 years before the deluge:
• Gen 7:6 -> “Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.”.
Nonetheless, despite the turpitude of his time, he was favored by the Creator:
• Gen 6:8 -> “But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.”.
He was so special that He was referred by the Creator as a prominent man, someone very beloved by Him:
• Eze 14:14 -> “even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord GOD.”.
• Eze 14:20 -> “even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.”.
That is to say, Noah wasn’t a “simple” servant of the Creator, but someone very dear, intimate of the Creator.
And Noah, after 600 years living amidst an outright perverse generation (the Earth was filled with violence through them – Gen 6:13), knew, more than everyone, how disastrous is the consumption of alcoholic beverage:
• Luk 17:26,27 -> “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. They were *eating and drinking* and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.”.
And He knew how that generation irritated the Creator (it’s not in vain that Noah stayed inside the ark 1 year and 17 days).
• Gen 7:10,11 -> “And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.”
Noah came into the ark one week before the deluge. And stayed inside 1 year and 17 days:
• Gen 8:13-16 -> “In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out. Then God said to Noah, “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.”.
Did you thought why the Creator acted like this? Why did He enjoined Noah to build an ark (which spent 100 years to be ready – see Gen 5:32 and Gen 7:6) to, then, send the deluge which lasted 1 year and 17 days? He could kill all that wicked generation in a jiffy, without need of all this.
Tomorrow we will carry on. Have a good day.