Dennis Bevans - Noah - Saving Your Family in a Dark World - Class 5 - Christ in the Ark

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   This is the Mid-Atlantic Christadelphian Bible School morning program for Friday, July 8th, 2022. Our third speaker this morning is Brother Dennis Bevins from the Austin Leander, TX Ecclesia. The theme for Brother Dennis’s classes this week is Noah, Saving Your Family in a Dark World. Today’s class is entitled Christ in the Ark, Genesis 8. We’ll now give our attention to you, Brother Dennis. Also amongst learning opportunities for Dennis, a number of you have asked me a.

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   Little bit if I was going to talk about the pitch word where it was covered within and without with pitch and tying it to the atonement and the answer. Was no, I didn’t intend to, but we can. And the reason I didn’t intend to was because that’s really a full other conversation tying into the atonement. I know Brother Joseph has been doing that in the first class, but perhaps it did deserve an honorable mention and I didn’t bother doing that, so here it is. So while you’re editing my stuff, just throw this back around Chapter 6, verse 14.

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   Be great. But the the contact, the concept is it’s the first time the word is used. It’s normally translated. Atonement is the word pitch and it means a covering and it implies reconciliation and forgiveness, which is why the word is used and translated as atonement. And something I hadn’t thought of before, but this might not have been a bad idea.

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   Perhaps it would have been better to do another class on the atonement rather than the one we did on Babel. I’m not sure, but since most of what I did yesterday would be qualified as Babel, maybe not OK.

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   So Christ in the Ark. I hope you enjoyed our little intermission. We’re going to go back to the chronological account in Genesis and we’re going to add some sevens. I did hear someone say I thought you’d have a lot more sevens than you actually did. Well, that’s the disadvantage of breaking them up by chapters because there are a lot more. The story’s not over, just Chapter 7 is over, but the 7th as the theme is not.

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   So we’ll continue that as well. And our focus today is going to be seeing examples or shadows that represent Christ in our story. We really if, if this were a study weekend, this would be our exhortation. Now in the the grand scheme of thing, our God is calling about calling out of people for His name to be redeemed by the precious blood of His Son. And Jesus keeps our interest on this account, as we’ve done multiple times.

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   And we’re not going to read this verse again. We may have it memorized by now, but I do want you to focus a little bit on where it is Luke 1726 and 27, because we’re going to go back to this. Chapter in a minute and I think it’ll be relevant to build on that.

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   Genesis chapter 8 verse one. God remembered Noah and every living thing and all the cattle that was with him in the ark, and God made a wind to pass over the earth and the waters. Assuaged. That’s another word we use a lot. Assuaged just means to be still now the word. Wind in the.

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   Hebrew was ruach, so it’s the same word translated spirit in Genesis 1 and 2 that the Spirit of God moved upon to face the waters. And the word spirit we all know is a reference to really the power of God. And the reason wind is used to describe the power of God is because we can see its effects, but we can’t see it.

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    For example, we walk out, the trees are moving, the leaves are blowing, we don’t see the wind, but we can absolutely see the effects of the wind. And that’s God’s invisible power directing the movement of the tree. And that power goes beyond just what we see is the wind, but rather his hand of God at work in the world.

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    So when we look at Genesis chapter 8 now as we introduce this, we have God remembered. Because of the way we. Think as human beings, when we remember, like I did last night, it was I forgot. I know there’s something I’m supposed to do, and that’s not what we should be picturing here with our Father. God was not going.

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    I know I had something I was supposed to do today. Whatever could it be, He did not. Forget this family He had marked. He had marked them. So we can compare this chapter 19 verse 29, which is going to be the next slide for the same concept. Where God looked towards Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld sorry, and he looked towards this is.

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    Referring to Lot toward all the land of the plain. And beheld, and lo, the smoke the country went as the smoke of a furnace. And it came to pass. When God had destroyed the cities of the plain. God remembered Abraham. Same word He remembered or marked the commitment He had made to Abraham.

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    And sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt. So it’s interesting words that we get to see this remembering or this marking a reminder you and I might in modern day. So we set an alarm for ourselves. Too. Oh yeah, it’s time to take care of that family on the boat.

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    Well, same thing takes place as he remembered the commitment he made to Abraham and he delivered Lot as he said he would. And it’s interesting that those two words connect these stories, just as our Lord Jesus does in Luke chapter 17. So we’ve read those few verses before a number of times. We’re going to continue now picking up at verse 20. 8 likewise also as it was in the days of lot, they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they build it again. We have a list of things that are not necessarily. Bad on themselves, but the missing ingredient is God. The same day that lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them. All.

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    So it’s the same response that he added as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man, he adds, as it was in the days. Of Sodom and Gomorrah. Well, what was it like in Lot’s day? Can we find some of that evidence in our day? In Lot’s day we have violence, self-service, homosexuality, political upheaval, disregard for God’s, for God in his word, eating, drinking.

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    Marrying, buying, planting, building and. Others. But we can see our day in the news, can we not? In fact, I gave this talk at Southwest Bible School last year. And one of the sisters afterwards when I made the comment of if, if people from Sodom and Gomorrah could see our day and feel at home, wouldn’t they?

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    And she had said, you know, I imagine if people from Sodom came to us that they might even say we didn’t even think of some of this stuff. It’s kind of sad, but it is scary. And I thought, well, I hadn’t thought of that, but that’s good, so now you can think of it too. To even make this more poignant, keep reading the next verse. Well, the next slide at least.

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    I skipped a couple of verses. Remember Lot’s wife? Very short verse. Remember Lot’s wife. Whosoever shall sake to save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. Now, when we say this, we recall Lot’s wife. I think we have the natural tendency to think of her as a bad human being when we do this. And we go, oh, she was worried about, there’s my furniture, I’ve lost my favorite couch.

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    Whatever shall we do with the loss of our camels? And we make her almost materialistic by thinking she looked back on what she had left behind. Now it is true that she looked back on what she had left behind, but I think we devalue her suffering when we do that. More important than losing the things she owned, she also would have lost the things she loved. We know for certain she lost children because we know at least two of her.

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    Children were married and they mocked a lot when he said it, so we know she lost two children. At least we know those children were married, so perhaps she lost grandchildren as well. She likely lost brothers, sisters and parents. See if if we look at lot follow. This in the Genesis record Lot sees the plain that it’s well watered Moses commentary like the garden of God. And then the next time we see Lot pitches his tent towards Sodom.

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    So it looks good. Now he’s going in that direction and then we find him at the gate of the city and married. The first mention of law is a married man is after he’s in the city of Sodom. Perhaps he married a woman of Sodom, which would have not only put her and her children and maybe grandchildren tying to lot, but if that were true, it puts her entire family in that city.

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    So when she looks back, she’s not looking at the things she has lost. She is looking at the people she has lost. And given the context that our Lord Jesus combines this story with Noah, I find it very fitting that that would be an appropriate reason to look back. It’s even more important than as we see lot and we saw.

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    Noah. But our Lord puts them together just to make sure we know what’s at stake. This is what he says in Matthew 10. He that loveth father and mother more than me is not worthy of me. He that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Can you imagine having those thoughts in the Ark?

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    Or as you are going towards. Or he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth after me is not worthy of me. He who findeth his life shall lose it, and he that loseth. His life, for my sake, shall find it. Where do you hear that? Right after the phrase. Remember Lot’s wife? The Lord Jesus ties these two together and puts them directly in our lap, saying we have to put our God first, even if it’s before our family.

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    Same context. Between these two stories, so we think back to Lot’s wife or even to Lot and Noah and Mrs. Noah, we need to recall the family they lost in order to follow the path to God. One is strength to us because not all of us, all of us have examples of people in our family that have turned aside or not had interest.

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    It also lets us know that we are not alone, that we understand. We have a God who not only understands us, but he has got stories of brothers and sisters in antiquity that we will be able to meet in the Kingdom. Where part of what we can discuss is the struggle of overcoming the loss of our family now. This topic is not just about our salvation, it’s more importantly about God’s glory.

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    So let’s go back to Genesis and see if we can follow that line through the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped. The rain from heaven was restrained. So we have the. Reversal of Chapter 7, verse 11. The waters returned from off the earth continually and after the end of 150 days the waters were abated. So we have continual.

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    That’s the Hebrew word of going in and returning. It almost sounds tidal, doesn’t it? Which makes sense given the context. It’s going, it’s in going and returning that’s. The perpetual So what is the primary force that affects the tides? The moon. Oh, we introduced this one last night, didn’t we? Let’s focus on the moon just a little bit, we.

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    Other than the sun, it’s the brightest focal point in our universe. From the perspective of this planet, it’s a constant. A constant from the perspective of this planet without. The light and warmth of the sun. There would be no life on this planet. But notice the Genesis record includes something lesser of the light to rule the darkness of the world.

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    And we call that the moon. So we get to see in the Genesis record just an example which we tied to Jesus last night, if you can somehow remember anything positive from that. We tied that specifically to Jesus, and now we’re going to. Focus on Jesus as the moon and what that means to us.

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    What do we know about the moon? We’ve mentioned it has no light of its own. It’s a giant reflector in the sky. And that has helped us understand things like Jesus saying, if you’ve seen me, you’ve seen the Father because he was a walking, breathing reflection of God’s glory. And you and I want to be the bride that seeks fellowship with these two great lights, the Father and the Son. As the bride preparing to one with Jesus. We need to reflect the glory of the Father through the face of Jesus so we can tie ourselves to the same concept. Now notice the difference between a full moon, as we would call it.

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    Well, the moon doesn’t like get cut into half on days when it’s not a full moon. The moon’s always full, but from from the perspective of the Earth, the moon can be shadowed when it gets the Earth in the way. Of the path of the light from the sun to us or to the moon.

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    Sorry, the Earth gets in the way. And we did use this slide last night, so you have seen this one before. And this is what made Jesus the perfect reflection of the Father. The world never got in the way. All that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, pride of life is not of the Father, but of the world. And though He was tempted in all points, like as we are, He was able to navigate around that temptation and back to the glory of the Father without ever giving in to those temptations that He did have.

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    The difference between Jesus and you and I is we do not do that to perfection. There are times when our life. Is a full moon. We’re at a Bible school together. This is a spiritual high for us, and we feel connected to our Father. But then there are times in our life when that connection has some interference with the world.

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    And whether it’s things in our work or things in our family, things in the meeting, things with our health, there are a variety of things in this world that can distract us from surfacing the glory of the Father. Maybe sometimes it’s half and half, sometimes it’s that little. Thumbnail that you might see on that third picture or the one that’s bottom left from your perspective, we’re just there’s a sliver of God left in our life and sadly, it’s sometimes our life.

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    Feels like an eclipse. This is one of the beauties of ecclesial life because it gives you and I an opportunity to help each other when we’re at all these stages, because we. All have been in and will be in all of these stages. The beauty of relationships to the meeting is me coming away from 1500 miles popping in. I have no idea what’s.

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    Going on in your life? I don’t know if you came here and you feel like you had to get away to be rescued, or if you came here and it was a continuation of a spiritual high you’ve been on for a while. I don’t know that, but there is somebody who does in your meeting.

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    And this is the beauty of that relationship. Because if I am on a spiritual high, but I know what it’s like to be spiritually depressed, and I know you well, I can eyeball you and go something’s not right. And I need to talk. Hey, look, I know you’re struggling and I can tell because I was right where you are last year, two months ago, two weeks ago.

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    And here’s what I did to help get me through. And I want to help. Let’s work together because we want to walk together towards the Kingdom to the glory of the Father. And it’s a much different conversation when that person knows you and you know they love them. And the good news is there’s a time when you’re going to be in that spiritual though, too.

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    And wouldn’t it be nice if somebody else saw it and could slap you upside the head in a nice graceful manner? And say I’ve been where you are. Let’s go to the mountain together. That’s the beauty of working together in the in the meeting. So whenever we see a moon, which should be just about every day, we have a reflection to give to us. The object lesson to examine ourself and say, Am I reflecting the glory of the Father in fullness? As a partial or as a barely, this is a good object lesson that our God has given us to work with. So here we have the Moon, who has control of the tides. Now we have the Bride working with the Sun, who is control of the Gentile seas and will convert the world to righteousness.

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    This stuff’s amazing when you start piercing. Those things together, the imagery that’s put in below the surface, pun intended. Now let’s have another seven, shall we? Verse 4. The Ark rested on the 7th month, the 17th day of the month on the mountains of Ararat. So let’s start this the course. We have the number 7 coming in and we know the story of Noah is based on the #7 Noah’s name means rested 7th day, but we have an insignificant detail. Now, like, Can you imagine this?

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    This would have meant nothing to Noah and his family. Nothing. Hey, what day of the month is? It well it’s actually the 7th month on the 17th day of the month. Well, let me get out my calendar on the ark. Yep, that’s where we are. I’ve been counting the moon since then so.

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    Why is it there? Because it’s not for them, it’s there for us. Well. Let’s think about that. The 7th month in the 17th day of the month. The 7th month on the. Civil Calendar is a bib, which is also the first. Month in the religious calendar. And that, of course, doesn’t even come. Into play until we get to the exodus. So we’re now moving to another story generations after this. And so we’ve been told this is the 17th day of a bib. Well, what?

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    Else happened on the 17th day of a bib. Well, let’s think about this. This is a Passover week, is it not? I’ll give you some references. We’re not going to look it up, but Exodus 12 and 18, Exodus 13, three and four good references if you want to put them in your in your notes, but we are now finding.

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    Ourselves in the crucifixion week. Modeled after the Passover, the redeeming of the nation by the covering of the blood of the lamb. So it’s keeping very much in line. With what we’re talking about for this whole week now, we’ve got a couple things that come into play. Which are going to start adding it up.

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    We know the Passover is the 14th and then this three dates and three nights thing gets us 14 + 3 is the Ark came to rest on the day our Lord was resurrected. Looking for Christ in the ark isn’t hard. Now. We’ve been told a date that made no sense to them, but because we have that information, we now get to put the resurrection of our Lord in a direct response to what happened after the flood.

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    Now it also dispels the Good Friday nonsense, and I may as well say it because it’s important. I think we get we get this right. We have number of times of reference to three days and three nights and I’ve seen plenty of work, some of them Chris Adelphian, trying to figure out how do we get crucified on Friday, resurrected on Sunday.

49. 18:39

    That is not three days, three nights, no matter how you divide it up and Jesus could have said you. Know I’m going to be in the grave for a little bit little bit hey, I got a couple days get a little time to he doesn’t he’s very specific tying to Jonah, which we’ll do that later to.

50. 18:55

    Three days, three nights. So let’s not argue with Jesus. Three days, three nights means we. Cannot have Friday to Sunday that’s not possible now you can thank the church for that because that’s where it came from and it sure makes a lot of sense and it makes it a convenient holiday I’ll. Give you all that.

51. 19:12

    But it does not match the words of Jesus. Now we talked about the evening morning concept last night. We were looking at Genesis 1. And that’s relevant here because the Jewish day starts in the evening of the day before you. And I would think the. Calendar is. I don’t know if that made any sense at all, but right now.

52. 19:30

    We all agree today is Friday at midnight. Our calendar say it’s Saturday, but to the Jewish calendar, Saturday night starts today about sundown. So now let’s put that in perspective. Let’s go to the Crucian crucifixion weeks. There are a number of ways we can do this, so I’m not suggesting this is the only way because in my very short.

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    Period of time as a Bible student, I have changed what I thought this meant more than once. So you might be getting a version that five years from now go. I don’t know that I believe that anymore, but I’ll give you where I am today. The requirement has to match 3 days and three nights and we got 17 to 3. It gets us to 14, which puts us on the day of Passover and I cannot possibly.

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    Accept that as a coincidence. So here’s where I am today. Wednesday the 13th is the day of preparation and the 14th begins at sundown. Remember, they were going to break their legs because they weren’t going to be on. The tree when the Passover began, which would have been Wednesday night to us, but Thursday night to them dusk.

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    But Jesus was already dead, so that gives us a little bit on the timeline. So then we have Thursday being the Passover. Well, Friday would be the 15th in the Gospel record makes a reference to them coming to the grave the day before the Sabbath and coming to the grave the day after the Sabbath. And that’s hard to reconcile, especially if he was crucified on a Friday.

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    But if he literally was buried on Thursday, and Thursday is the Passover, all holy days under the law were Sabbaths. So you have Friday is both the day before the Sabbath, the net the weekly Sabbath, and the day after the Passover Sabbath. It actually aligns the gospel record. Then we have Saturday. The 16th of this is the Sabbath.

57. 21:28

    Day and Sunday the 17th we have him resurrected sometime before dawn, qualifying for three days and three nights, lining up both with the Passover account and the resting of the Ark and Ararat. Now you might come up with another way to do that, and if you’ve got a great idea, share it because I am open to suggestion as long as your suggestion has an allotment of three days and three nights.

58. 21:49

    I’ll at least listen to you. If you want to go back to Good Friday, you’re going to have to talk to someone else. OK? Verse 5, the waters decreased continually until the 10th month and the 10th month. The first day of the month were the top of the mountain scene. So we have decreasing. We have the waves getting smaller from verse 3. This is approximately 2 1/2 months later, as we’ll see, comparing to verse 4, it’s unseen but present. So we know, we know that this is happening. The waters are going to eventually recede and the top of the mountains.

59. 22:21

    Will be able to be seen. So they know they’re there, they just aren’t able to see it. Nice reference again to Christ in the ark. We know Christ is there wherever two or more of the. More of us are gathered. He is here. We can’t see Him or we would all be quiet sitting and listening to Him, but He’s here.

60. 22:39

    Hebrews 11/1 tells us that faith is based on substance and evidence, and so we look for the substance and evidence around our lives to see. God is at work as the wind in the trees doing things to help orchestrate His glory, and is up to us to incorporate our thinking into His so His glory can incorporate. Us in the future.

61. 22:59

    So let’s put this on a map. Here’s a nice one for your children. Let’s look at the one that actually shows. The real map. So this is now getting us to where Israel is, where Turkey is, and lo and behold, Wallah top right, we have Mount Ararat. Let’s get specific to Ararat itself.

62. 23:19

    So this picture is actually a satellite. Looking down on the snow covered Mount Ararat and then the one little next to it kind of looks like a pimple. The one little next to it that they call Little Ararat. Really creative, I know. These mountains are actually inactive volcanoes. That’s interesting. There are three miles above sea level, and this is traditionally what’s referred to as the place of the resting of the arc.

63. 23:42

    Now you can see below the lava fields if you look closely and see the definition and then you can. See green fields even below that. So let’s get a little bit closer. All right, too close. There we go. OK, now this is a picture showing from the side. You see obviously which one is. Big air rat, little air rat.

64. 24:06

    So it gives us a picture of what we’re looking at. This is. This is the. Topography they would have been first encountering when they got off the boat it’s like great we have been on this boat for a long time and let’s. Do this. We’ve got lots of time and energy. Let’s do some mountain. Climbing all right.

65. 24:23

    See, because when we picture in our head, we picture this cute little boat with a few animals going down the road and somebody take out and take the giraffe for a walk. It’s not exactly. What would have matched reality? All right, it came to pass in the end of 40 days that Noah opened the window of the ark, that he had made another number for us to tie 40 and he sends. Forth a Raven, which went forth to and fro until the waters were dried up from off the face of the earth. Now here’s where we’re going to have some fun with our sevens. Now we’ve got the Raven and we’ve said Christ is being represented in the Ark and we’re going to see. The Raven and a dove, a dove and a dove. I hope I spoiler alert you.

66. 25:05

    I think you know the story. Doves are coming next, so we’re going to have four birds. That are going to be released from the ark and details given about each. Now the Raven is unclean. That means there’s only two of these guys on the boat, which means this guy had to come back.

67. 25:25

    We know that he went two and four, but we don’t have him ever returning. But you know, he made it. Otherwise, there’d be no Ravens today. From a football reference, maybe some of you would like that. So sorry, I’m in Philadelphia. I had to do it that way. I could have done it another anyways, whatever.

68. 25:42

    The point is, Mr. Ravens survived, but we don’t hear anything else about him. But we know he made it. And so if we want to see Jesus in the bird references, boy, it’s going to be easiest, easier for us to see the the dove as Representative Jesus. But how could the Raven possibly represent Jesus, an unclean bird?

69. 26:04

    And I will. Say these four birds then represent 4 appearings of Christ after the crucifixion. The. First time we have Christ visible after the crucifixion. What does he say?

70. 26:17

    Oh, like what you say when you’re unclean? Touch me not. I have not yet ascended to my father. Bird #1 represents Jesus. After the crucifixion, but yet before the ascension, but the next one. What’s the next? Time we see Jesus on the scene, he tells Thomas, touch me. Put your fingers in my hands, my feet, check out my scars, look at the open wounds. So it’s OK to touch him now, but now he’s come back immortalized. Then he comes back in AD 70.

71. 26:54

    As we’re told by the Gospels, that’s a example of a cameo of the return of Jesus. And then he doesn’t return for a long time and we’re waiting for that dove to resurface again. Your 4 dubs tying directly to the four different AD, four different appearances of Jesus after the crucifixion. Well, let’s keep going. So he sends a Raven and we don’t talk about him anymore. He sent him and he went.

72. 27:17

    We know he survived, so he sends a dove. To see if the waters were abated from a face off the face of the ground. So now we’ve got more than one option. Good thing. So the dove is sent being sent out and the dove is a clean animal. The turtle dove or young pigeon were the only acceptable birds of sacrifice.

73. 27:38

    So we’re tying not just to clean as in you can eat. Them, but they’re acceptable as an offering of sacrifice. Which ones leprosy Leviticus chapter 4 which is talking about? Sin as an example of leprosy and how we clean clean the house. The turtle dove or young pigeon was what they were to offer for the covering of sin.

74. 28:01

    How about a childbirth? A childbirth. You were to offer a lamb and one of these birds, but if you were poor, two birds were acceptable. When Jesus was born, what do they offer? Two birds? A tie back to the ark, but there’s one more. When Jesus was baptized and straightway went out of the water, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him, descending like a dove. Well, there’s much more here, but we’re going to try to stick to our topic.

75. 28:33

    Sort of. But I. Do want to add that going back from the dove back to the Ark, it’s got a couple detours on the way and one of my favourites is the story of Jonah. There is connections to the story of Jonah connecting the ark and the work of Jesus everywhere. I’ll give you a few so you can play with them in your readings next year.

76. 28:51

    The number 40 comes up a lot in both. Stories. The judgement of a generation comes up a lot in both stories. The preaching effort to the Gentiles comes up a lot in both stories. And both of them are given the epitaph by Jesus. As it was in the days of Jonah, so will it be in the days of the coming of Son of Man. The sacrifice for sin and dedication at childbirth comes together.

77. 29:16

    And of course, Jonah’s name means Dove. What’s Jonah’s father’s name? Yeah, we all know that, Amitai. It’s probably, I’m probably saying it wrong. Maybe that’s why you’re thrown. So if we have Dennis son of iniquity, we have Dennis filled with iniquity. So when we have Jonah, son of Amitai, we have dove filled with truth. Now we’re getting somewhere.

78. 29:45

    In fact, the story of a study of this the book of Jonah is a blow by blow reference to the first advent of Jesus. You. Want to see the? 2nd Advent, you’ve got to look at Nahum. All right, let’s get back to Noah. So the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark. The waters were on the face of the earth. He pulled forth, out his hand, took her, and pulled her into the ark.

79. 30:10

    So a dove is a clean burn in every sense of the word. It will not put its feet in mud if it can avoid it. It it wants to avoid getting dirty. So it goes out for a little flight, takes a look at the landscape, goes yuck, and comes back. In fact, that’s why the dove landed on Jesus.

80. 30:29

    Where was he baptized? In the Jordan River, which was known for being muddy and dirty. There’s only one clean thing for me to land on. Oh, this is my beloved son, in whom I’m well pleased. All right, keep going. He stayed yet other. Seven days, and again sent forth the dove out of the ark. And the dove came in unto him in the evening. And lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked, plucked off. Sorry, so no one.

81. 30:57

    Knew that the waters were abated from off the earth, so now we’ve got evidence that something is growing. Now the dove is a common symbol of peace for both Jew and Gentile. In fact this picture could be referencing either direction. But the fact that the olive branch is mentioned gives you and IA little bit to play with.

82. 31:15

    Because olives do not need any cultivation, they are not dependent on man. An olive can be grown in the wild. In fact, Paul picks. This up what talks about the wild olive grafted into the hope of the natural branch. Normally an olive tree has no berries until how many get? Anyone want to guess how many years? 7’s a great guess, yes, seven years before the berries are even evidence.

83. 31:43

    Now we mentioned Paul in Romans 11 as he talked talked about this grafting. In which allows the bringing of a covenant relationship with Christ through Christ to the Father, not only to the Jew first. But also to the Gentile. Oh, another wonderful tie to Jonah. But we must aggress in. In fact, how much time do I have?

84. 32:05

    I’m OK, Ish. We’ll be quick. The four fruits of Israel. This is not a rock band. You’ve not heard of this. Just simply looking at four different fruits that describe Israel. Different types of Israel for sure. Now, we’ve already talked about the fig natural Israel. That one comes right out of Genesis chapter 3, and it’s the covering of sin by man’s design, and it’s used to describe natural Israel throughout history.

85. 32:28

    In fact, we mentioned yesterday during the talk about Babylon that The Dirty figs were dirty and rotten figs were left behind to rot in the land. That’s natural Israel. Then we’ve got the olive here, a representation of spiritual Israel. This is the wild olive grafted back into the natural branch. So we were able to.

86. 32:50

    See in the olive, a reference to spiritual Israel. This is where you and I get our hope, unless we’ve got some Jewish heritage we can lean on somewhere else. But it’s also interesting because most of the time we hear the word oil under the law, it’s actually olive oil that we’re looking at. So we can see a representation of the Gentiles hope everywhere we look throughout the Tabernacle. Well then we have the grape perfect Israel. Here we have Jesus.

87. 33:18

    I am the vine. Here are the branches. So we have perfect, a perfect Israel in the face of Jesus. And last we have the pomegranate, multitudinous Israel. There’s a lot of cool things about the pomegranate you can play with this on your own, but we’ll touch on a couple big ones. The seeds themselves are actually white, but they’re stained by the blood of the fruit.

88. 33:40

    They’re individually encased, but the fruit is as a whole with multiple chambers. In my father’s house, there are many mansions covered by the blood of the fruit. To be 1 fruit before the father. Oh, with a little crown on top to think of the crown of life. Now there’s more. Play with it if you want. My favorite example of this is actually the Song of Solomon where the bride is seen with her. Temples or as a piece of pomegranate, meaning she is thinking on the exposed fruit.

89. 34:11

    Of the multitudinous Christ you can see the multitude of seas only when the fruit is open. There’s more play with it you want, but we’ve. Got that all starts its roots in the story of Noah. He stays at another seven days and sent forth the dove, which returned not again to him anymore. So now we know the Earth is clean, the dove surveyed. It could find a place to land.

90. 34:35

    Aha. I’m home and now all is good. So no longer in the muddy water, in the mud itself, but now has found a place to settle. Verse 13. It came to pass in the six. 101st year, the first month, the first day of the month, the waters that were dried up from off the earth, and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.

91. 34:56

    So we remember we. Got the religious calendar playing in here too. So as we put this onto the religious calendar, what was the first day of the 7th month on the religious calendar under the law again, a date. That meant nothing to Noah’s family, but would play a role in the law. And you want to know what the first day of the 7th month in the religious calendar was?

92. 35:17

    Somebody said it. Trumpets Feast of trumpets, which includes the burnt offering of total dedication to our Father. Now, according to Leviticus, the animal was to be skinned and then the insides were to be washed before the body. And there was an order, first the head, then the feet, then the rest, but the skin was left off the altar and that was to be placed on the altar to be totally consumed by God, which is a wonderful model that gives us. For us to be wholly dedicated to our Father, it’s really not about what we look on the outside. It starts with get your head right first. Walk God’s path.

93. 35:57

    And let your insides yearn for serving the Father and the Son forever. That’s the concept of a whole burnt offering. The focus was on the inside, not the outside. It’s obvious ties to Jesus, who was the only true clean. And complete dedicated sacrifice who was offered as a whole burnt offering and just as the smoke ascended as a sweet smelling savour to our God.

94. 36:22

    Why our Lord Jesus, after his crucifixion, ascended? To the father as a whole, burnt offering acceptable to the father. Oh this is fun. Let’s play in Romans chapter 12. I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. A full exertation could be taken from this chapter. We’re not going to do that.

95. 36:48

    We’re going to focus on the offering part. All of us want to present ourselves as a living sacrifice or a walking, breathing example of God’s glory and measure. Our Lord did it in perfection. We try to do it to a degree, but there is more. The Word. Holy, we know, means separate, so we present ourselves as a living sacrifice, a walking. Example of the glory of God, separate and acceptable, which is translated well pleasing at about about half the time that word is used.

96. 37:21

    So we are to be separate and well, pleasing in the eyes of the Father. But look at this reasonable. Now reasonable is an interesting one. There’s only two times it’s used in the New Testament. The other one is translated of the word as in first Peter two and two, as newborn babies desire the sincere milk of the word. That’s the word translated reasonable that you might grow thereby.

97. 37:44

    So let’s reread that together using that definition, that we may be presenting our bodies as a living sacrifice, separate, well, pleasing unto God in our service of the word. Does that not match what we’ve been talking about all? Week and lead us to the Tabernacle with the Father and the Son. Well, yes it does.

98. 38:02

    Verse 14 of Genesis 8, the second month on the 7th day of the month, excuse me, second month on the 7th and 20th day of the month, the earth was dried and God spake unto Noah saying, go forth of the ark, thou and thy wife and thy sons and thy sons wives with thee, go forth. Time to move on.

99. 38:17

    Can’t stay in the blocks, got to move. So they, they survived the work of redemption through obedience. Now they have to continue to follow the instructions of God to continue to survive. And that’s the same. We don’t get to the waters of baptism. We went, I made it, whoo I’m done. We just punched the starting clock.

100. 38:34

     We haven’t ended the service. That’s the beginning of our opportunity. To work in the service of the truth. To continue to follow those same instructions, to stay closer to our God. Now, you’ll notice that I skipped over a date, and you might be wondering why, Because I don’t know what that one’s tied to. There might be something.

101. 38:51

     If you find it, let me know and I’ll change my slide verse 17. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, all flesh, both of fowl, of cattle, every creepy thing that creepeth upon the earth. That they may breed abundantly in the earth and be fruitful and multiply. Notice. This is a little bit different.

102. 39:11

     See, when we got to the beginning of this story, we had you prepare, you gather the food. I’ll. Bring you the animal. So it wasn’t up to him to call him, but he is told you you have to get him out. So he’s supposed to bring them forth to let them out and let them go out.

103. 39:27

     The cattle, the fowl, the creeping thing. They are and they have a job to do. They’ve got to replenish the earth. They’ve got to. Breed abundantly. So be, go and be. Fruitful and multiply as an echo back to Genesis chapter 1 and 2. So Noah went forth, and his sons, his wife and his son’s wives with them.

104. 39:48

     Every beast, creeping thing, fowl whatsoever creeps on the earth after their kind went forth out of the ark. So following the steps they go, they bring. And now they’ve went, so we’ve got it in the past tense, which tells us the same thing we’ve been talking about all week, everything that God commanded. So he did.

105. 40:08

     And so he was told. Go. Bring and then we have here verse 19 They went past tense because they obeyed. Verse 20 Noah builded an altar. Unto the Lord, and took of every clean beast and every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And so now we have another Bible new.

106. 40:29

     This is the first time in the Bible an altar is mentioned. Now it’s inferred an Abel story for sure, but check it out. There’s no altar in chapter 4. The first act they perform after leaving the Ark is to offer one of every clean animal that they brought in. Can you imagine how many this is and how long this would have took?

107. 40:56

     It’s a lot of work. Now I’m putting myself in their shoes and saying if I were on a boat for over a year, basically in a functional zoo, the first thing I do when I get out might be. Kiss the ground. Let’s build a house that doesn’t move.

108. 41:20

     Boy, I’m hungry. I was afraid to light a BBQ up when I had the boat going, but there’s a lot of things I can think of. But where did they start? Dedication to the father and offering a burnt offering a. Whole burnt offering so that we can see in the 7th the completion of the covenant, the ascension to the Father.

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     Another reference to Jesus, and what makes that so interesting is we’ve spent so much time going back to the early parts of Genesis to see how this is just building on the story we already had. And so in this altar, now we can build on the story that starts in Genesis chapter 3, when the angels provided a coat of skins for the covering of sin required the shedding of blood and the object lesson to that, Cain and Abel. And then we have a reference point. Cain and Abel in the in the process of time came to offer before God.

110. 42:17

     There’s no reference. There was a command they came to offer Cain. I cultivate fruit and vegetables. I’m going to give God what I have. Now we look at Cain and we see the end result as evil. And it is. But we must note that it doesn’t start there. It starts with somebody wanting to give God something.

111. 42:37

     How can that be bad? Well, it’s only. Bad when God says I don’t really want that. And we said, well, too bad, that’s what I want to give you. OK, now you’ve crossed the line. In fact, the Genesis record says that because he says, if you do well, will I not also accept your offering? And nowhere in Scripture do we have any evidence that God says you can have the totally miserable heart, but if you follow the right rule, I’ll accept you. That’s not biblical.

112. 42:58

     So the fact that God said I would accept you tells you your heart’s not the problem here, but your action is. Fix your action and I’ll accept you. But if not. Like there’s a there’s a sin offering on your porch and you’re going to need them. The Minka, That’s what it says in the Hebrew.

113. 43:16

     So you don’t. You’re not. You haven’t sinned yet because you’re ignorant. But now, if you now know I don’t want that and you refuse to give it to me, you’re going to need a sin offering. Obviously, Cain was not willing to change. And as a result of that, killed his brother. So we added insult to injury, but his brother became the model then of. What it is to have a life is dedicated to God and can be seen raising as a sweet smelling savour to the Father. Where do we get that?

114. 43:44

     Oh, in the book of James where it talks about Abel whose life was as a vapour, which is what Abel needs. Interesting. As we start tying these early stories together, we then get a chance to see God’s work at work in the world, building on symbols. And we’re only on the 8th chapter of the book and we see so much of what God has designed.

115. 44:06

     Everywhere because our God is embedding them. Early so we can build on them for the rest of our lives. Now I like to think of of these that were put on the offer that one of every clean. Found its way here, which would make it the 7th and you think about all the work in preparation to required to make it happen.

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     And here’s God’s response to the family of Noah. The Lord smelled a sweet savour, and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground anymore for man’s sake, for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I again smite anymore every living thing as I have done. The word translated sweet savor in the Hebrew is a word that means savor of rest.

117. 44:56

     Oh, it’s tied specifically to Noah and the number 7. So every time we make that reference, whether it’s in a reading or in a prayer, the sweet smelling savour is a direct connection back to the first altar, the life of Noah, the completion of a covenant and seven all of. Which pointing towards the work of our Jesus, our Lord Jesus Christ. Now we have a nice interesting note here about. The heart that the heart, the imagination of every man’s heart is evil and this is the center of thinking to their day. We’re good at designing evil things. We as people are good at designing things that pleasure ourselves and give us self-service if we do. Not try to rein that in by overriding the thinking of the flesh with the mind of God.

118. 45:41

     Why we go back to Genesis chapter 3 and we see the curse of the serpent, the thinking of the flesh without considering the mind of the Father. And what was the curse of the of the serpent? To be a dust liquor.

119. 45:55

     From dust out lust to dust out shalt return the. Model for both the cursing for following the imagination of the evil heart is paired right next to the path that leads to life the covering of sin requires a shedding of blood and we see in both of these the example of Jesus and his perfect obedience having the lust of the flesh lust the.

120. 46:16

     Eyes pride of life, focusing on the word of the Father, and though it required pain and sacrifice on his behalf. Laid down his life on the altar of life to give you and I hope of eternal life. While the earth remaineth seed, time and harvest, cold and heat, winter and our summer and winter and day and night shall not cease.

121. 46:38

     And so we see from this just the opportunity. Remember, our God is in control and a reminder that God always keeps his promises. And so we’ll we’ll close with a quote from Ecclesiastes 1 and. Four. That says one generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.