Blessed are You, YHVH, our Elohim, King of the universe, who set us apart us with Your commandments and have given to us Yeshua the Messiah, the Living Torah.
Blessed are You YHVH, our Elohim, King of the universe, who
chose us in Yeshua the Messiah and renewed your ancient marriage covenant you
made with Israel and included us who were once gentiles to become joint heirs
with Israel in this life and in the life to come. Blessed are You, YHVH, Giver of the Torah –
Amein.
אלה תולדת נח
Gen 6:9 This is the genealogy of Noaḥ. Noaḥ was a righteous man, perfect (tamim) in his
generations.
תולדתNoaḥ walked
with Elohim. את־האלהים
התהלך־נח
Japheth → Indo-European peoples
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7. (Song of
Moses) Dev 32:5 שִׁחֵת לוֹ לֹא, בָּנָיו מוּמָם: morally corrupt – מוּמָם This could also read “he became
corrupt with the moral stains that were not his but those of his sons.”
דּוֹר עִקֵּשׁ, וּפְתַלְתֹּל vs 5 ‘’a perverse generation and at war
with itself”
The Hebrew says - “All the earth had become corrupt”.
The Hebrew word for “corrupt” is “shachat” This word clearly conveys a meaning
that unless YHVH removes the ‘’rotten apples’’ out of society all the people in
that society will go rotten or become contaminated.
YHVH’s intervention is presented not only as punishment (cleansing)
but also as a kind of cosmic reset — removing the corruption so that life can
begin anew with Noah.
Rom
8:21 that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage to
corruption (phthora) into the esteemed freedom of
the children of Elohim. Rom 8:22 For we know that all the creation groans
together, and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.
In
other words the ‘’old’’ creation cannot continue in its corruption – something
new must come out of this chaos – a new creation - a ‘’cosmic reset’’
Gen 6:12 And Elohim looked upon the earth and saw that it
was corrupt – for (because) all flesh had corrupted their way on
the earth –
According to popular opinion it was sin and
rebellion that caused the flood, yet the word “sin or rebellion” is not used
once in this parasha - it is emphasizing total corruption and structural collapse,
but now beyond repair and human repentance. When we observe our own country and
the world around us, it is not that difficult to imagine that they are passing
a point of no return.
Religion thinks it can save mankind – but religion is the
reason for the corruption of mankind.
Paul (Rom 1:18–32) uses similar language: humanity’s
corruption and rebellion against YHVH and His Torah has almost assimilated into
all of creation. Paul echoes the idea that humanity cannot self-correct — only
divine intervention and removal of evil restore life.
“Shachat” is the Hebrew word used as the reason for
the destruction of the flood. It is found in different places in the
scriptures:
Yirmeyahu/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.
Yeshayahu/Isa 52:14 As many were astonished at You – so
the disfigurement (shachat) beyond any man’s and His form beyond the sons of
men –
This is referring to the state of our Messiah –
commentators say that this was the deepest degradation possible for any human
being to undergo.
Without Messiah we are a “shachats” people. Sadly,
most of our teaching and preaching today does not even remotely address the
seriousness of our condition. Our pulpits are filled with motivational messages
and a clear understanding that “things” are not “so bad”.
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, Gen_7:7.
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. Mat 24:40 “Then
two shall be in the field, the one is taken and the one is left. (mankind is
about to find out how serious this ‘’shachtness’’ is)
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. (YHVH will also destroy
the state of ‘’shachath’’)
Midrash Tanchuma adds: “The generation of Messiah will be
like the generation of the Flood.”
Gen 6:14 “Make yourself an ark of gopherwood. Make rooms
in the ark and cover it inside and outside with a covering.a Footnote: aPitch,
tar or other - כּפר
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 (הקמתי hakimoti – I will cause My covenant to be lifted up Jn 12:32) 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 of all flesh, two of
each, you are to bring into the ark, to keep them alive with you – a male and a
female.
Why two of each? So that the covenant would
continue after the destruction of life on earth. Two is covenantal language.
Zep
1:2 “I shall snatch away all from the face of the earth,” declares יהוה – (only a tiny tiny remnant will be
saved -not permanent eradication of all life.)
אָסֹף
אָסֵף כֹּל מֵעַל פְּנֵי
הָאֲדָמָה נְאֻם־יְהוָה – ‘’asof’’ אָסֹף –
repeated twice means to ‘’terminate to terminate’’
Zep
1:3 “I snatch away man and beast, I snatch away the birds of the heavens,
and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling-blocks, with the wrong, when I shall
cut-off man from the face of the earth,” declares יהוה.
Zep
1:4 “And I shall stretch out My hand against Yehuḏah, and against all the
inhabitants of Yerushalayim, and cut off every trace of Ba‛al from this place,
the names of the idolatrous priests, with the priests,
Isaiah 24:3 is one of the most sweeping judgment
statements in the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew reads:
“בּוֹק
תִּבּוֹק הָאָרֶץ וּבֹז תִּבּוֹז כִּי יְהוָה דִּבֵּר אֶת־הַדָּבָר”
“The earth shall be utterly emptied and utterly plundered, for YHWH has
spoken this word.”
Why? The earth is defiled by its inhabitants (24:5). They
have transgressed Torah, broken the everlasting covenant. (annulled it for
themselves but it remains binding)
Gen 6:20 “Of the birds after their kind, and of the
cattle after their kind, and of all creeping creatures of the ground
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. (building Tabernacle)
We see many comparisons between the ark of Noach and the
tabernacle of Moshe. Both ‘’co – incidentally’’ share the same Hebrew word - תֵּבָה (tevah) 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 to a standard measurement for their purpose and
construction.
Symbolism of a Cubit: The cubit is the “base
measure” throughout the Torah’s construction commands. It acts as a divine
yardstick, suggesting that YHVH alone defines what preserves and measures life
and what sustains and measures worship.
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.
The Hebrew word for "ark," teivah,
also means "word." "Come into the word," says YHVH; enter
within the words of prayer and Torah study. Here
you will find a sanctuary of wisdom, meaning and set apartness amidst
the raging floodwaters of life - Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (founder of
Hasidism) taught: “Enter into the teivot of prayer and Torah.” In
this view, the word of Torah itself becomes an ark — a protective vessel that
carries the soul safely through chaos.
Is this YHVH maybe saying to an end time generation –
‘’come away with Me I have prepared a special place for you in the wilderness
so that you don’t have to go through the great tribulation”
Hos
2:14 “Therefore, see, I am alluring her, and shall lead her into the
wilderness, and shall speak to her heart,
He who
has the key of Dawiḏ, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens, Isa_22:22 says this:
Rev
3:8 “I know your works – see, I have set before you an open door, and no
one is able to shut it – that you have little power, yet have guarded My Word,
and have not denied My Name.
Rev
3:9 “See, I am giving up those of the congregation of Satan, who say they
are Yehuḏim and are not, but lie. See, I am making them come and worship before
your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
Rev
3:10 “Because you have guarded My Word of endurance, I also shall guard
you from the hour of trial which shall come upon all the world, to try those
who dwell on the earth.
David holds a unique place in Israel’s history as
the only king who truly united all twelve tribes into one kingdom. Will the 12
tribes unite again in Rev
7:4 And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred and forty-four
thousand, sealed out of all the tribes of the children of Yisra’ěl: (in
the wilderness of the nation’s Ezek 20:35)?
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;
The
revelation about clean and unclean animals existed already at the time of
Noach. That did not mean that the clean animals could be eaten. Man did not eat
meat before the flood. The difference between clean and unclean animals was, at
that time, only in connection with the offerings. The clean animals were able
to serve as food for YHVH. In Bemidbar/Numbers 28:2 we see that offerings were
considered by Almighty as his food.
Rabbinic tradition stresses that the sacrifices were
never for YHVH’s benefit but for Israel’s spiritual awakening.
Midrash Tehillim 50 says: “Do I eat the flesh of
bulls? Do I drink the blood of goats? Rather, I commanded this for your sake,
so that you might live by My commandments.”
Psa
50:5 “Gather My lovingly-committed ones together to Me, Those who have
made a covenant with Me by slaughtering.” (the cutting ones who have
entered into covenant with Me through sacrifice)
“אִסְפוּ-לִי חֲסִידָי, כֹּרְתֵי בְרִיתִי עֲלֵי-זָבַח.”
Psa
50:22 “Understand this please, you who forget Eloah, Lest I tear you in
pieces, With no one to deliver:
Psa
50:23 “Whoever slaughters praise esteems Me; And to him who prepares a
way, I show the deliverance of Elohim.”
זֹבֵחַ
תּוֹדָה, יְכַבְּדָנְנִי: וְשָׂם דֶּרֶךְ--אַרְאֶנּוּ,
בְּיֵשַׁע אֱלֹהִים.
Ezekiel 40–48: gives a long vision of a restored
temple in the future, complete with sacrifices, priests, and offerings. Many
Jewish interpreters read this as the messianic temple where sacrificial
service is restored in perfection.
When there is no temple!
Rom
12:1 I call
upon you, therefore, brothers, through the compassion of Elohim, to present
your bodies a living offering – set-apart, well-pleasing to Elohim – your
reasonable worship.
Rom
12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind, so that you prove what is that good and well-pleasing
and perfect desire of Elohim.
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 מָחָה 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 new moon,a
the seventeenth day of the moon,a on that day all the fountains of the
great deep were broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
Footnote: aMonth.
Gen
7:12 And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Gen
7:13 On that same day Noaḥ and Shěm and Ḥam and Yapheth, 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 life form 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.
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 – the creeping creature on the earth –
birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming creature that swarms 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 מָחָה 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 מָחָה from the earth. And only Noaḥ was left, and those with him in
the ark.
The Hebrew verb מָחָה (macha)
or “wiped out” implies complete removal. There was no chance for
survival outside YHVH’s protection.
Also used in 6:7, 7:4, 23 – last use in the Torah
is in Parashat Netzavim – addressed to all those ‘’still standing’’ Deu 29:19 “And it shall be,
when he hears the words of this curse, that he should bless himself in his
heart, saying, ‘I have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,’ in
order to add drunkenness to thirst.
Deu
29:20 “יהוה would not forgive him, but
rather, the displeasure of יהוה and His jealousy shall burn against that man, and every curse
that is written in this book shall settle on him, and יהוה shall blot out מָחָה his name from under the
heavens.
Deu
29:21 “And יהוה shall separate him for evil,
out of all the tribes of Yisra’ěl, according to all the curses of the covenant
that are written in this Book of the Torah.
Gen
7:24 And the waters were mighty on the earth, one hundred and fifty
days.
Isa
54:9 “For this is the waters of Noaḥ to Me, in that I have sworn that
the waters of Noaḥ would never again cover the earth, so have I sworn not to be wroth
with you, nor to rebuke you.
Isa
54:10 “For though the mountains be removed and the hills be shaken, My
loving-commitment is not removed from you, nor is My covenant of peace shaken,”
said יהוה, who has compassion on you.
Torah study and observance = tasting Eden again.
Blessed are You, YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe,
who gave us the Torah of truth and eternal life in Yeshua the Messiah. Blessed
are You, YHVH, Giver of the Torah.