Bless YHVH the blessed One; Blessed is YHVH, the blessed One for all eternity. Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim, King of the Universe, you have selected us from among all the peoples, and have given us your Torah. Blessed are you, YHVH, giver of the Torah. Amein.
2Pe 1:12 And so
I intend to remind you of these matters again and again, though you know
them and have been established in the present truth. (present application of
ancient truth)
2Pe 2:4 For if Elohim did not spare the messengers
who sinned, but sent them to Tartaros,
and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be kept for judgment, -
Τάρταρος Tartaros̄ (the deepest abyss of Hades); to incarcerate
in eternal torment: - "Tartarus occurs in the Septuagint of Job
40:20, 41:21 but otherwise is only known in Hellenistic Jewish literature from
the Greek text of 1 Enoch 20:2 where Uriel is the jailer of 200 angels that
sinned."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdOdonUxos4
2Pe 2:5 and did not spare the world of old, but
preserved Noaḥ, a proclaimer of righteousness, and seven others, bringing in
the flood on the world of the wicked,
2Pe 2:6 and having reduced to ashes the cities of
Seḏom and Amorah condemned them to destruction – having made them an example
to those who afterward would live wickedly,
2Pe 2:7 and rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed
with the indecent behaviour of the lawless1
2Pe 2:8 (for day after day that righteous man, dwelling
among them, tortured his righteous being by seeing and hearing their
lawless(Torahless) works),
2Pe 2:9 then יהוה knows how to rescue the reverent ones from trial and to keep the unrighteous unto the day of judgment, to be punished,
Gen 6:9 This is the genealogy of Noaḥ. Noaḥ was a
righteous man, perfect in his generations. Noaḥ walked with Elohim. (The Hebrew
word for “perfect” (8549) is an adjective and comes from the verb
“tammam”(8552) “tammam” means to “complete or to make it to the end”)
Gen 6:10 And Noaḥ brought forth three sons: Shĕm,
Ḥam, and Yepheth.
Noach means “rest”.
Shem means “name” and implies authority honour and character (Ha Shem) Ham or
Cham means “hot”. Canaan was the son of Cham. Yepeth means “opened” the 3rd son
of Noach whose descendants after the flood settled on the coastal lands of the
Mediterranean spreading north into Europe and parts of Asia.
Prophecy regarding
these three sons:
Gen
9:27 “Let Elohim enlarge Yapheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shěm.
And let Kena‛an become his servant.”
Gen 6:11 And the earth was corrupt before Elohim, and
the earth was filled with violence.
The Hebrew says - “All the earth
had become corrupt”. The Hebrew word for “corrupt” is “shachat” This word
clearly conveys a meaning that an object or person in this state is beyond
human redemption.
According to popular opinion it was sin and rebellion that caused the
flood to come, yet the word “sin or rebellion” is not used once in this
parasha. (Ezek 16:49,50)
“Shachat” is the Hebrew word used as the reason for the destruction of
the flood. It is found in different places in the scriptures:
Jer 18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was
ruined (shachat) in the hand of the potter, so he remade it into another
vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do. The vessel could not be
repaired, it had to be remade.
Gen 6:12 And Elohim looked upon the earth and saw that
it was corrupt – for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth – niphal verb is used which means “become
corrupt” (nishchat)
Gen 6:13 and Elohim said to Noaḥ, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence (Heb - chamas) through them. And see, I am going to destroy them from the earth.
From the beginning of time Yahshua would be our redemption – He would take upon himself our ‘’shachatness”
Vs 11,12,13 all contain word ‘shachat’ Strongs 7843 which means “marred
beyond recognition”
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as many were appalled at thee--so marred was his visage unlike that of a man,
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Gen 6:14 “Make yourself an ark of gopherwood. Make
rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with tar. (Ex 2:3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN81iwosnow
‘’Rabbi Israel
Baal Shem Tov explains the relevance of the divine instruction to Noah,
“Come into the ark,” to our daily lives. The Hebrew word for “ark,” teivah,
also means “word.” Come into the word, says the Almighty to each one of us;
enter within the words of prayer and Torah study. Here you will find
a haven of wisdom, meaning and sanctity amidst the raging floodwaters of
life.’’ ‘’Teivah’’ is also used to describe the basket that was used to save
Moshe’s life – Ex 2:3.
Dimensions of the
Ark:
One cubit is approx 48.2 centimeters. This
means that, by approximation, the ark would have been 144.6 meters
long, 24.1 meters wide, and 14.46 meters tall—the size of a very small
cargo ship.
Gen 6:15 “And this is how you are to make it: The
length of the ark is three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its
height thirty cubits.
Gen 6:16 “Make a window for the ark, and complete it
to a cubit from above. And set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with
lower, second, and third decks.
Gen 6:17 “And see, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on
the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under the
heavens – all that is on the earth is to die.
Gen 6:18 “And I shall establish My covenant with you,
and you shall come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons’
wives with you.
Gen 6:19 “And of all the living creatures of all
flesh, two of each, you are to bring into the ark, to keep them alive with you
– a male and a female.
Gen 6:20 “Of the birds after their kind, and of the
cattle after their kind, and of all creeping creatures of the earth after their
kind, two of each are to come to you, to keep them alive.
Gen 6:21 “As for you, take of all food that is eaten
and gather it to yourself. And it shall be food for you and for them.”
Gen 6:22 And Noaḥ did according to all that Elohim
commanded him, so he did.
Vs 22 also appears in Ex 40:16 And Mosheh did
according to all that יהוה had commanded him, so he did.
We see many
comparisons between the ark of Noach and the tabernacle of Moshe. Both were
designed and initiated by YHVH and built by man. Both had three main sections.
Both had one entrance. Both were made with wood and covered. Both were mobile:
one moved by water and one moved through the desert. Both travelled: one for
period for 40 days and one for 40 years. Both had special features that
measured one cubit by one cubit, the window in the ark and the golden altar of
incense and both point us to Messiah’s ministry and our call to be co heirs
with him.
Gen 7:1 And יהוה said to Noaḥ, “Come into the
ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous
before Me in this generation.
Gen
7:2 “Of all the clean beasts take with
you seven pairs, a male and his female; and of the beasts that are unclean two,
a male and his female;
Gen
7:3 and of birds of the heavens seven
pairs, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
Gen
7:4 “For after seven more days I am
sending rain on the earth, forty days and forty nights, and shall wipe from the
face of the earth all that stand that I created.”
Gen
7:5 And Noaḥ did according to all that יהוה commanded him.
Gen
7:6 Now Noaḥ was six hundred years old
when the flood-waters were on the earth.
Gen
7:7 And Noaḥ and his sons and his wife
and his sons’ wives went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.
Gen
7:8 Of the clean beasts and of the
beasts that are unclean, and of birds, and of all that creep on the earth,
Gen
7:9 two by two they went into the ark to
Noaḥ, male and female, as Elohim had commanded Noaḥ.
Gen
7:10 And it came to be after seven days
that the waters of the flood were on the earth.
Gen
7:11 In the six hundredth year of
Noaḥ’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that
day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the
heavens were opened.
Gen
7:12 And the rain was on the earth forty
days and forty nights.
Gen
7:13 On that same day Noaḥ and Shĕm and
Ḥam and Yepheth, the sons of Noaḥ, and Noaḥ’s wife and the three wives of
his sons with them, went into the ark,
Gen
7:14 they and every living creature
after its kind, and every beast after its kind, and every creeping creature
that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every
bird of every sort.
Gen
7:15 And they went into the ark to
Noaḥ, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
Gen
7:16 And those going in, male and female
of all flesh, went in as Elohim had commanded him, and יהוה shut him in.
Gen 7:17 And the flood was on the earth forty days, and the waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.
The torrential rains
lasted for forty days and nights. The waters rose to great heights and covered
even the highest mountains, killing all humans and animals; everything died aside
for Noach and the other occupants of the teivah. After the waters raged
on the earth another 150 days, YHVH caused the waters to subside. The teivah
eventually rested on the Ararat Mountains,(on the 17 th Aviv) and shortly
thereafter the mountain peaks came into view. Noach opened the window of the teivah
and dispatched birds to see whether it was time to leave the teivah.
First he sent a raven, which refused to execute its mission and just circled
the ark. He then sent out a dove. On its second attempt the dove went and did
not return, signalling that the earth was once again habitable. After one full
year in the teivah, the earth had dried.
Gen
7:18 And the waters were mighty and
greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the
waters.
Gen
7:19 And the waters were exceedingly
mighty on the earth, and all the high mountains under all the heavens were
covered.
Gen
7:20 The waters became mighty, fifteen
cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.
Gen
7:21 And all flesh died that moved on
the earth – birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping creature that creeps
on the earth, and all mankind.
Gen
7:22 All in whose nostrils was the
breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died.
Gen
7:23 So He wiped off all that stand,
which were on the face of the ground – both man and beast, creeping creature
and bird of the heavens. And they were wiped off from the earth. And only Noaḥ
was left, and those with him in the ark.
Gen 7:24 And the waters were mighty on the earth, one hundred and fifty days.
One of the
first things that strikes a person when reading this account of Noach is that
YHVH protected the righteous man Noach and his family and destroyed all other
life on earth. Yahshua says the same pattern
will be repeated in the last days.
Mat 24:37 “And as the days of Noaḥ, so also shall the
coming of the Son of Aḏam be.
Mat 24:38 “For as they were in the days before the
flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that
Noaḥ entered into the ark,
Mat 24:39 and they did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also shall the coming of the Son of Aḏam be.
The “mikvah”
represents a kind of dying to self and to any kind of notion that we can
somehow make it on our own. This ordained “mikvah” or emersion of people is
YHVH’s chosen method of bringing about a NEW CREATION -Resurrection through
death. According to the Sages the “Mikvah”, or ritual bath must contain 40
“seah” of rainwater (a seah is a typical halachic measurement that corresponds
to approximately 308 litres). The “forty” being a hidden reference to the forty
days and nights that rain came upon the earth during the flood.
The sages teach ““What
is the meaning of this Mitzvah? What is the Mikvah’s spiritual purpose? We
understand that a ritual bath with 40 measures of water must be a place of
transformation and rebirth. This is indeed the case. After all, who goes to a
Mikvah? In Temple times, Mikvah immersion was an integral part of regaining
ritual purity; especially important for Kohanim, but also, at times, vital for
all Hebrews. Restored purity conferred new status on the individual; he was
spiritually refreshed, reborn. Nowadays, the Mikvah is only halakhically
required by Jewish halacha for converts and married women. When a gentile
converts (unlike what they believe, we are grafted in gentiles according to
Romans 11 and do not have to “convert and go through their conversion mikvah”
we go through a Yahshua mikvah so to speak and then become part of the body of
Messaih part of the “olive tree” of Romans 11) he or she takes on a new
religious identity. A convert, say the Sages, is like a newborn child. What
about a woman, whose visits are coordinated with her monthly cycle? Quite
simply, a woman’s physical change at that time of the month indicates that her
body’s preparation to create life was not actualized. The ritual impurity that
results reflects the Torah’s recognition of this loss of potential life. The
Mikvah’s 40 seah of water soothe and restore; they help a woman become
sensitive to the potent, spiritual force inherent in her body’s ability to
create life.
Hasidic men, unwilling to cede the Mikvah experience entirely to women, immerse
every erev Shabbat, to elevate themselves in preparation for the seventh day.
Ashkenazic men typically limit their Mikvah use to the days immediately prior
to Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. In tandem with repentance, the Mikvah helps us
refashion our inner selves.” End quote. The input in brackets was done by the
author of these notes.
We now can understand the importance of this
practice by Yochanan the immerser prior to Yashua’s first coming. Will we see
an emergence of this practice again in these days?
We see this doctrine
or “teachings of immersions” is one of the foundational principles of the-
faith in Messiah Yahshua. We see that unless this and other foundational
principles are established in our lives we will not be able to move on into
spiritual maturity.
Heb 6:1 Therefore, having left the word of the
beginning of the Messiah, let us go on to perfection,1 not laying
again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of belief toward
Elohim, Footnote: 1Mt. 5:48.
Heb 6:2 of the
teaching of immersions, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of
the dead, and of everlasting judgment.
Heb 6:3 And this we shall do, if Elohim indeed permits.
There is a
reference to the events of this parasha in the apostolic writings (Second
Writings) that gives us important insight into the significance of this event:
2Pe 3:3 knowing this first: that mockers
shall come in the last days with mocking, walking according to their own
lusts,
2Pe 3:4 and saying, “Where is the
promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all continues as from
the beginning of creation.”
2Pe 3:5 For they choose to have
this hidden from them: that the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out
of water and in the water, by the Word of Elohim,a Footnote: a Heb_11:3.
2Pe 3:6 through which the world at
that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.
2Pe 3:7 And the present heavens
and the earth are treasured up by the same Word, being kept for fire, to a day
of judgment and destruction of wicked men.
2Pe 3:8 But, beloved ones, let not
this one matter be hidden from you: that with יהוה one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one
day. Psa_90:4.
2Pe 3:9 יהוה is not slow in regard to the promise, as some count slowness,
but is patient toward us, not wishing that any should perish but that all
should come to repentance.b Footnote: b 1Ti_2:4.
2Pe 3:10 But the day of יהוה shall come as a thief in the night, in
which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall
melt with intense heat, and the earth and the works that are in it shall be
burned up.
2Pe 3:11 Seeing all these are to
be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be in set-apart
behaviour and reverence,
2Pe 3:12 looking for and hastening
the coming of the day of Elohim, through which the heavens shall be destroyed,
being set on fire, and the elements melt with intense heat!
2Pe 3:13 But according to His
promise we wait for a renewed heavens and a renewed earth Isa_65:17, Isa_66:22
in which righteousness dwells.
Baruch atah YHVH,
Eloheinu, Melech ha-‘Olam, asher natan lanu Toraht-emet, v’chay-yeh o’lam
nata-b’tochenu. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Amein.
Blessed are you YHVH,
our Elohim, King of the Universe, you have given us your Torah of truth, and
have planted everlasting life within our midst. Blessed are you, YHVH giver of
the Torah – Amein.