To whom Noah cursed and why? (Part 4)
Canaan, somehow, learned how to produce wine. Certainly, Canaan heard about this with his parents and uncles. After knowing the customs of the anti-deluge people, Canaan decided to make, perhaps secretly (with the support of his parents, uncles and, who knows, cousins), wine, without sharing with them his desire of seeing, live, how stupid and mockable someone can become after drink a certain quantity of wine.
And now, after all that perverse generation was gone, Noah didn’t see any problem in experiment a little of grape juice (this deportment, apparently, wouldn’t stir up anybody to the addiction).
What Noah didn’t know is that his three sons and daughters-in-law wasn’t so righteous and fearful to the Creator like him.
His grandson, taking advantage of Noah’s desire and naivety (Noah didn’t know the taste of grape juice and never could imagine the evilness that was harbored in the heart of Canaan), allowed Canaan to prepare for him a little of grape juice.
As Noah never drank wine or grape juice, he couldn’t make the difference between them, beyond being more susceptible to drunkenness.
So, Canaan exposed Noah to become an bad example to be followed by a generation that was beginning to arise after the greatest disaster of all times (until now). Recall: Noah became the seed of a new generation; Canaan gave occasion so that all this generation could come back to the past sins of an execrable generation, which were abetted chiefly by alcohol beverage, which make someone poor spiritually:
• Hos 4:11 -> “whoredom, wine, and new wine, which take away the understanding.”.
• Pro 21:17 -> “Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.”.
Hence the malediction of Noah was confirmed by Habakkuk:
• Hab 2:15-17 -> “ “Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink— you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness! You will have your fill of shame instead of glory. Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision! The cup in the LORD's right hand will come around to you, and utter shame will come upon your glory! The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.”.
In short: Noah cursed Canaan because he cheated him, giving wine instead of grape juice. Ham saw Noah naked, not intentionally, but by chance (certainly he was to the tent of his father because he needed of him); and Ham only told this to his brothers because he didn’t know what to do. Ham didn’t desire to stay looking at his father at this state, nor could walk backward and cover his father without see him, alone.
So, have a good day don’t accepting any reproach against your neighbor.
Canaan, somehow, learned how to produce wine. Certainly, Canaan heard about this with his parents and uncles. After knowing the customs of the anti-deluge people, Canaan decided to make, perhaps secretly (with the support of his parents, uncles and, who knows, cousins), wine, without sharing with them his desire of seeing, live, how stupid and mockable someone can become after drink a certain quantity of wine.
And now, after all that perverse generation was gone, Noah didn’t see any problem in experiment a little of grape juice (this deportment, apparently, wouldn’t stir up anybody to the addiction).
What Noah didn’t know is that his three sons and daughters-in-law wasn’t so righteous and fearful to the Creator like him.
His grandson, taking advantage of Noah’s desire and naivety (Noah didn’t know the taste of grape juice and never could imagine the evilness that was harbored in the heart of Canaan), allowed Canaan to prepare for him a little of grape juice.
As Noah never drank wine or grape juice, he couldn’t make the difference between them, beyond being more susceptible to drunkenness.
So, Canaan exposed Noah to become an bad example to be followed by a generation that was beginning to arise after the greatest disaster of all times (until now). Recall: Noah became the seed of a new generation; Canaan gave occasion so that all this generation could come back to the past sins of an execrable generation, which were abetted chiefly by alcohol beverage, which make someone poor spiritually:
• Hos 4:11 -> “whoredom, wine, and new wine, which take away the understanding.”.
• Pro 21:17 -> “Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.”.
Hence the malediction of Noah was confirmed by Habakkuk:
• Hab 2:15-17 -> “ “Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink— you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness! You will have your fill of shame instead of glory. Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision! The cup in the LORD's right hand will come around to you, and utter shame will come upon your glory! The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.”.
In short: Noah cursed Canaan because he cheated him, giving wine instead of grape juice. Ham saw Noah naked, not intentionally, but by chance (certainly he was to the tent of his father because he needed of him); and Ham only told this to his brothers because he didn’t know what to do. Ham didn’t desire to stay looking at his father at this state, nor could walk backward and cover his father without see him, alone.
So, have a good day don’t accepting any reproach against your neighbor.