Coachlight Bible
Study – Genesis Lesson XXI
Complete Atonement –
The Flood Part 3
I. Jesus’ Apology of the Flood
A.
Jesus Knew The Flood Would Be Questioned In The Last Days
B.
Just Before His Return, And Placed His Seal Of Approval On It.:
Luke 17:26 And as it was in
the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
Luke 17:27 They did eat, they
drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe
entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
A. Scripture Was Given With The
Primary Purpose Of Revealing Jesus Christ,
B. Christ Came To Earth In The Middle Of This Revelation To Give The
Human Race Complete Atonement For Sin.
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B. The ark of Noah is a type of Jesus Christ. We found that in Noah’s time, the wickedness of man became so great in the days just prior to the Flood, that we read:
Genesis 6:5 And GOD saw that
the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of
the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.
Genesis 6:6 And it repented
the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Genesis 6:7 And the LORD
said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both
man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it
repenteth me that I have made them.
III. Redemption - We find that no
sooner had God pronounced His judgment, that He gave His plan of redemption:
Genesis 6:14 Make thee an ark
of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and
without with pitch.
IV. Ark, A Type Of Christ - We Found Out
Because Of Two Points:
A. The
B. It Was
Supernaturally Revealed To Noah By The Word Of God:
Hebrews 11:7 By faith
Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared
an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and
became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
V. Noah Had To Build His Own
A. Seed Of The Woman Or Virgin Birth - Likewise
The Redeemer Of Mankind, In Order To Substitute For Man, Must Himself Be A
1. While the ark was God’s divine design, the
ark itself must be built by the sinner who was to be saved from the flood.
2. The Savior had to be both
God and man.
a. He must be man to atone for man’s sins.
b. He must be God in order to bear the infinite
penalty of man’s sin.
3. The Savior must have a human body and nature
as well as divine.
a. So Noah was commanded
therefore to build his own ark.
b. Millenniums later, the One
who was foreshadowed by all of this came into the world, the product of a human
being, a virgin woman, and the Holy Spirit.
This is called in Genesis as the Seed of the Woman.
4. The Apostle Paul made this clear in
the book of Galatians:
Galatians 4:4 But when the
fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made
under the law,
Galatians 4:5 To redeem them
that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Galatians 4:6 And because ye
are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying,
Abba, Father.
Galatians 4:7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a
son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
5. This was a fulfillment of the
Protevangelium:
Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
VI. Three Stories - This Also Points To The Lord
Jesus Christ.
A. Noah Was
Instructed To Build The
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B. Do We Have A Picture Of The Trinity Here? We Know The
Christ said in John
C. When Philip Said To Jesus, "Shew Us The
Father, And It Sufficeth Us"...
John 14:9 Jesus saith unto
him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?
he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou [then], Shew us
the Father?
John 14:10 Believest thou not
that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you
I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
John
D. Paul tells us:
II Corinthians 5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
E. All Three Present At Christ’s Baptism:
Luke 3:21 Now when all the
people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and
praying, the heaven was opened,
Luke 3:22 And the Holy Ghost
descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven,
which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
F. Incarnate Representation of the Entire Godhead - Jesus was the incarnate representation of the entire Godhead Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. He was the embodiment of the Trinity. He was the ambassador for both the Father and the Holy Ghost here on earth. There are many Scriptures to back this up, I will quote only one at this time in the book of Colossians:
Colossians 2:9 For in him
dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
Colossians 2:10 And ye are
complete in him, which is the head of all
principality and power:
G. From these conclusions and Scriptures, I believe that the three stories of the ark, which is such a clear type of Christ, may very well point to the trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost - All active in the salvation of Noah and his family.
A. Christ’s
Provision Of Rest And Relaxation In The
B. A Little Phrase Is Inserted In Verse 14 Of Chapter 6:
Genesis
1. The Hebrew word translated "rooms" in this verse is KANE with literally means "a nest". God not only provided for the safety of the occupants of the ark, but He made "nests" in the ark.
2. Our Lord Jesus of Whom all this is a type,
said many years later in the book of John:
John 14:2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if [it were] not [so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
VIII. Absolute Security - In order for the ark to be
a place of absolute security, it had to be absolutely waterproof.
A. This Was
Provided For By A Number Of Ways:
1. One Door - There was only one door,
and that door was locked by God Himself.
2. The ark itself was made of cypress, in itself
an excellent wood for the exposure to the water.
3. The ark was completely sealed both inside and
outside by a waterproofing material common in that area. We read in Genesis:
Genesis
4. The Hebrew word here translated as "pitch"
is not the usual word used elsewhere for pitch.
5. The usual Hebrew word used in the Bible for a
"bituminous substance such as asphalt" is ZEPTHETH.
6. The material that Noah used to seal the ark
may have been the same material, but a completely different word is used.
a. The word translated "pitch" in Genesis
6 is KAPHER (noun) or KOPHER (verb). This
is the only place in the Bible that it is translated that way.
b. It is used 70 times in other
places in the Bible, and each time it is translated "Atonement."
B. The word "Atonement" literally means "A Covering", but is translated "atonement" in every other place in the Bible except in Genesis 6! Literally then, we might read Genesis
Genesis
C. What God Will
Accept - We Have Already Learned What Is
The Only Atonement That God Would Receive For Sin Was A Blood Sacrifice.
1. Adam -
After Adam’s fig leaves had proven inadequate, the Lord came and slew a
substitutionary animal and covered Adam and Eve with the bloody skins.
2. Cain
- Cain’s sacrifice was rejected
because he ignored the blood, while Abel’s sacrifice was accepted because he
brought a bleeding lamb.
Hebrews
D. After
E. Where Was The Blood In The Flood? - Noah had scarcely left the ark when God gave
the command about the blood. As soon as
Noah left the ark, he built an altar and presented the blood to the Lord.
Genesis
clean beast, and of every
clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 8:21 And the LORD
smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse
the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s
heart [is] evil from his
youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
F. It Was Right After This That God Gave The Command Concerning The
Sacredness Of Blood, When He Said In Genesis:
Genesis 9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
G. This Prohibition Was Repeated In The Book Of Leviticus:
Leviticus 7:26 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, [whether it be] of fowl or of beast,....
H. The Reason That They Were To Eat No Blood Was
Because Blood Speaks Of Atonement And The Covering For Sin, And It Was Not To
Be Despised.
1. Christ Had Not Yet Shed
His Blood For The Sins Of The World,
2. Only The Typical Gospel
Had Been Preached.
3. This Is Made Clear In
The Book Of Leviticus:
Leviticus 17:10 And whatsoever man [there be] of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
Why?
Leviticus
I. Do You Realize That The Very Word
"Atonement" In This Verse Is The Same Word Kopher Translated
"Pitch" In Genesis 6? The Pitch With Which The
J. Do you know that when the high priest went
into the Holy of Holies (Leviticus 16)
and sprinkled the blood upon the mercy seat over the broken law, that he
made atonement" (KOPHER) for their sins, and the same word is translated
"pitch" only in Genesis 6.
K. This Means That The
L. The
Holy Spirit Evidently Wanted Us To Know How Safe The
Genesis 8:18 And Noah went
forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:
Genesis 8:19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, [and] whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
M. Not A Single One Was Missing. The
John 10:27 My sheep hear my
voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
John 10:28 And I give unto
them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any [man] pluck
them out of my hand.
John 10:29 My Father, which
gave [them] me, is greater than all; and no [man] is able to pluck [them] out
of my Father’s hand.
N. God Is Calling Today
Genesis 7:1 ..... Come thou and all thy house into the ark......