Hebraic
Musing -- Is there a Creation Parallel in Noah’s Account?
Have you noticed some key words
appearing in both the Noahaic Flood account Genesis 9:20-25 as-well-as in the
Creation story in Genesis 1 to 3?
As we study the flood in Genesis
9:18-25 we began to see familiar key words reappear that we heard in the garden
account in Genesis 1, 2 & 3. Examples
-- soil, fruit, uncovered, nakedness, garment,
and curses come up again. (I am
not the first to notice this parallel.) Let’s
look more closely:
The new beginning as Noach &
family disembarked the ark is told in Genesis 9:18-25 – “The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth.
(Ham was the father of Canaan.) 19 … 20
Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded
to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk
and lay uncovered inside his tent.
22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and
Japheth took a garment and laid it
across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other
way so that they would not see their father's nakedness. 24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found
out what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said, "Cursed
be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will
he be to his brothers." NIV
1.
In v20 Noach is a man of the soil; in Gen.2:7
Elohim formed man from the dust of the ground.
2.
And Noach planted a vineyard; in Gen.2:8 Elohim
planted a garden eastward in Eden.
3.
Then Noach drank the mind altering wine; and Eve
and Adam ate of the forbidden fruit and their eyes were opened – they had their
own way of seeing the world.
4.
Noach lays naked in his tent; and in Gen. 3:7
Adam & Eve realized they were naked
5.
Noach’ s boys covered his nakedness correctly;
and in Gen. 3:21 Elohim made garments for Adam & Eve. Covering of the sin in both cases was done
in an attitude of love.
6.
Canaan, son of Ham, is cursed,; and in Gen. 3:14
it is the serpent who is cursed. Canaan
is cursed and will be subservient to his brothers; in the garden, the serpent was
on level with the other beasts but now is cursed to be below the all the
others.
7.
In Gen. 1:2, the Spirit of God is called Ruach
which means “Breath or Wind”; and in Gen.8:1 God sent a wind over the earth and
waters receded. And separation of Land
and Sea is repeated!
8.
In Gen. 8:17 the animals are told once again to
go forth and multiply.
Adam & Eve related to God in
His presence; Noach was in mankind’s world.
Could Noach be called the “Second Adam”?
The two trees in Adam &
Eve’s life were created by God; Noach’ s wine was man-made from the vineyard. What
was the problem? It was the wine...the
"man-made substance" that comes when we process the fruit. It is not the Creator's good gifts which are
the problem, but Noach’ s abuse of them.
Since we cannot determine for
sure what the “forbidden fruit” was, could it possibly be grapes from the
vine? And Jesus had a lot to say about
the vine in John 15:1 -- “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.”
Points to ponder
What
role did unhealthy desires play in both accounts?
“Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil
prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.” 1 Peter 5:8-9
Yosef a.k.a.
Joe Brusherd November
7, 2017
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