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.
The Sages often draw parallels between Noah’s waiting in
the ark and the future waiting before the Geulah (redemption) and
the Yemot HaMashiach (Messianic age). The Flood story becomes a template
for understanding how humanity should prepare for a radically renewed world.
Just as Noah had to wait, test, and receive a divine sign
before leaving the ark, so too we are in a period of preparation and transition
before the Messianic age.
(Sanhedrin 97b) says we cannot “force the end.” Redemption
has its own divinely appointed time. Our role is patience and preparation, not
trying to break the process prematurely.
The following short video reveals a very serious problem some
believers face today: 3min
"Crazy people gave up all their belongings and
sold all their stuff anticipating the rapture’’
https://youtube.com/shorts/e9e4_6ike7w?si=A4EM8Wud_InX2MbO
ויזכר אלהים את־נח – YHVH remembered
Noah (and us) in our time of transition.
YHVH has not forgotten us in this time of transition. We don’t
have to perform we need to wait.
Isa
40:31 but those who wait on יהוה renew their strength, they raise up the
wing like eagles, they run and are not weary, they walk and do not faint.
Gen 8:1 And Elohim remembered Noaḥ, and all the beasts and
all the cattle that were with him in the ark. And Elohim made a wind to pass
over the earth, and the waters subsided.
This became a lesson: YHVH does not overwhelm creation
with sudden change but restores it gradually. (like birth pains for His people,
but sudden destruction for others)
Joe
2:28 “And after this it shall be that I pour out My Spirit on all flesh.
And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men dream dreams,
your young men see visions.
Mat
24:14 “And this Good News of the reign shall be proclaimed in all the
world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end shall come. (maybe
a much different gospel than what many have heard)
Gen 8:4 And in the seventh new moon, the
seventeenth day of the new moon, the ark rested on the mountains of
Ararat. Gen 7:11
Gen 8:5 And the waters decreased steadily until the tenth
new moon. In the tenth new moon, on the first day of the new moon,
the tops of the mountains became visible.
Gen 8:6 And it came to be, at the end of forty days, that
Noaḥ opened the window of
the ark which he had made,
The window serves as a ‘’Revelation’’ to our transition
from this world to the next.
Gen 8:7 and he sent out a raven, which kept going out and
turning back until the waters had dried up from the earth.
Spiritual lesson: the ‘’raven’’ (ערב) an unclean animal
feeding on dead corpses. Nothing contaminated (‘’shachats’’) will be allowed to
enter the ark – dwelling of YHVH’s people again.
Gen 8:8 Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the
waters had receded from the face of the ground.
Gen 8:9 But the dove found no resting place for its feet
and returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of all the
earth. So, he put out his hand and took it and pulled it into the ark to
himself.
Gen 8:10 And he waited yet another seven days, and again
he sent the dove out from the ark.
Gen 8:11 And the dove came to him in the evening, and
see, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in its mouth. And Noaḥ knew that the waters had
receded from the earth.
Gen 8:12 And he waited yet another seven days and sent
out the dove, which did not return to him again.
Spiritual lesson: the dove with the olive leaf reveals
a powerful mystery of Messiah dwelling within the midst of His people. Isa 61:1 The Spirit (dove) of the
Master יהוה is upon Me, because יהוה has anointed Me (olive branch) to bring
good news to the meek –
The
prophecy continues to elaborate on what happens when this Messiah dwells
amongst His people: (this is why we wait for Him, instead of sending out stupid
little videos that the rapture is about to take place)
He has
sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim release to the
captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound,
Isa
61:2 to proclaim the acceptable year of יהוה, and the day of vengeance of our Elohim,
to comfort all who mourn, (a people in transition do the same while they
wait for Him)
Isa
61:3 to appoint unto those who mourn in Tsiyon: to give them
embellishment for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for
the spirit of heaviness. And they shall be called trees of righteousness, a
planting of יהוה, to be adorned.
Isa
61:4 And they shall rebuild the old ruins, raise up the former wastes.
And they shall restore the ruined cities, the wastes of many
generations.
Isa
61:5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the
foreigner be your ploughmen and your vinedressers.
Isa
61:6 But you shall be called, ‘Priests of יהוה,’ ‘Servants of our Elohim’ shall be said
of you. You shall consume the strength of the nations, and boast in their
esteem.
Isa
61:7 Instead of your shame and reproach, they rejoice a second time
in their portion. Therefore they take possession a second time in their
land, everlasting joy is theirs.
Isa
61:8 “For I, יהוה, love right-ruling; I hate
robbery for ascending offering. And I shall give their reward in truth, and
make an everlasting covenant with them.
Isa
61:9 “And their seed shall be known among the nations, and their
offspring in the midst of the peoples. All who see them shall acknowledge them,
that they are the seed יהוה has blessed.”
Isa
61:10 I greatly rejoice in יהוה, my being exults in my Elohim. For He has
put garments of deliverance on me, He has covered me with the robe of
righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride
adorns herself with her jewels.
Isa
61:11 For as the earth brings forth its bud, as the garden causes the
seed to shoot up, so the Master יהוה causes righteousness and praise to shoot
up before all the nations!
Gen 8:13 And it came to be in the six hundred and first
year, in the first month, the first day of the new moon, that the
waters were dried up from the earth. And Noaḥ
removed the covering of the ark and looked and saw the surface of the ground
was dry.
Gen 8:14 And in the second new moon, on the
twenty-seventh day of the new moon, the earth was dry.
Gen 8:15 And Elohim spoke to Noaḥ, saying,
Gen 8:16 “Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your
sons and your sons’ wives with you.
Gen 8:17 “Bring out with you every life form of
all flesh that is with you: of birds, of cattle and all creeping creatures
– the creeping creatures on the earth. And let them teem on the earth,
and bear and increase on the earth.”
Gen 8:18 So Noaḥ
went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him,
Gen 8:19 every beast, every creeping creature, and
every bird, whatever creeps on the earth, according to their kinds, went out of
the ark.
|
Event |
Genesis Date |
Pre-Exodus Calendar (Tishrei = 1st) |
Post-Exodus Calendar (Nisan = 1st) |
|
Flood Begins |
2nd month, 17th day |
Cheshvan 17 |
Iyar 17 |
|
Ark Rests |
7th month, 17th day |
Iyar 17 |
Tishrei 17 |
|
Mountains Visible |
10th month, 1st day |
Tammuz 1 |
Tevet 1 |
|
Surface Dry |
1st month, 1st day (next year) |
Tishrei 1 |
Nisan 1 |
|
Earth Fully Dry |
2nd month, 27th day (next year) |
Cheshvan 27 |
Iyar 27 |
The Flood story is therefore tied to Tishrei-based
months in Genesis, but can also be re-read through the Nisan-based
calendar for symbolic links (e.g., to Passover and Firstfruits).
Entered Ark / Flood began: Year 600, Month 2, Day
17.
Exited Ark / Earth fully dry: Year 601, Month 2,
Day 27.
That’s 1 year and 10 days inside the ark.
The year in the ark was a long test of patience, faith,
and trust, with no certainty of what awaited outside.
The parallels are striking in both cases, a
faithful remnant endures judgment, is preserved by YHVH, separated from
corruption, and emerges into a covenantal renewal where creation is restored to
harmony. The story of Noah becomes a spiritual blueprint for how the faithful
should wait, prepare, and hope for the Messianic kingdom.
YHVH's Covenant with Noah
Gen 8:20 And Noaḥ
built a slaughter-place to יהוה and took of every
clean beast and of every clean bird and offered ascending offerings on the
slaughter-place.
Gen 8:21 And יהוה smelled a soothing
fragrance, and יהוה said in His heart, “Never again shall I
curse the ground because of man, although the inclination of man’s heart is
evil from his youth, and never again strike all living creatures, as I
have done,
Gen 8:22 as long as the earth remains, seedtime and
harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not
cease.”
After the Flood, YHVH made a covenant with Noah, symbolized
by the rainbow. The Flood was not just destruction but a cosmic reset, a chance
for creation to begin anew with righteousness as its foundation. So, it shall
be again at in the last days.
The messianic era is likewise described as a renewal of
creation (tikkun olam), when the world is restored to its intended
harmony (Isaiah 11:6–9: wolf dwelling with the lamb, universal knowledge of
God).
Additional Midrash:
One of the reasons the remnant of YHVH is so small is
that very few of His people are willing to endure the ‘’pain’’ of change.
In this regard I am deeply grateful for the teachings and
ministry of Bob Mumord. One of his central themes in later years was “transitioning”
— how YHVH moves His people from one season, stage, or way of thinking into
another.
Core Themes in Mumford’s Teaching on Transition
·
Life with
YHVH is not static; He moves us through seasons of growth, pruning, testing,
and renewal.
·
Transition often comes when one season ends and
another begins, even if we don’t
feel
“ready.”
2. The Wilderness Principle
- Like
Israel leaving Egypt and heading to the Promised Land, transitions often
involve a wilderness period — uncomfortable, disorienting, but
necessary.
- Mumford
would say: Don’t fight the wilderness;(transition) let YHVH use it to
reshape (and prepare) you.
3. Dying to the Old
- Transition
means letting go of what worked before.
- Old
methods, old securities, even old ways of thinking have to be surrendered
before we can enter the new.
- This
feels like loss, but it’s preparation for increase.
4. Trusting YHVH’s Timing
- One
of Mumford’s big lessons: YHVH is never late, but He’s seldom early.
- Transitions
often feel delayed, but they unfold in YHVH’s perfect timing, not ours.
5. Relational Anchoring
- He
stressed that covenantal relationships (spiritual family,
discipleship, accountability) help us navigate transitions.
- Isolation
during transition is dangerous; community is part of God’s safety net.
6. From Doing to Being
- A
major transition in the Believers life is moving from a performance-based
faith to resting in sonship.
- Mumford
often framed transition as a shift from trying harder to trusting
deeper.
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.