Noah
Part 1
Moved with Fear
(Hebrews 11:7)
The Battle Between Good and Evil Continues
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. (Hebrews 11:7)
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By FAITH
the Soul is Restored
As we begin the seventh verse of Hebrews Chapter 11 again the Holy Spirit introduces us to a man of faith: Noah with the words of necessity BY FAITH Noah, and again we draw from the eternal well of faith. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1) Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:2)
Faith is that everlasting water springing up within the heart of the newborn child of God. Faith links us with EVERY soul that has been transformed by faith. Today, as a child of God you are linked together with Noah with Enoch, with Seth, and with Abel, and with all the divine hosts of faith who have walked this earth previous to you. The Holy Ghost in His Person has planted the seed of faith in your heart. He has imparted the Spirit of Christ to you. He has nullified the spirit of Adam, and now you have the Spirit of life IN Christ Jesus that has freed you from the Law of Sin and Death. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. (Romans 8:2) Here is the marvel of salvation, the soul is restored, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is removed, and now we are under the umbrella of the tree of endless life IN Jesus Christ. Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. (Hebrews 7:16) The gateway to the paradise of God has been opened to us THROUGH the Lord Jesus Christ for He is the Door of our salvation. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. (Revelation 2:7) One feels the unction of the Holy Spirit prodding the heart as a gift from above. The Holy Ghost gives to every newborn child in Jesus Christ a gift of this unction, it is the desire to know more of the Savior’s love and the milk, the sincere milk, of the word of God. As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby. (1st Peter 2:2) This unction and this desire can not be quenched for it is the PROOF of sonship in Christ Jesus. Christ, the anointed of God, the Savior of men has been anointed with the oil of gladness above His fellows. But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. (Hebrews 1:8) Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. (Hebrews 1:9)
Christ is the HEAD and the LIFE of His Church or Body, and His word is precious to Him. It is so precious that through the Holy Ghost He has PRESERVED the writings of Moses and the prophets and the apostles and the very words that our Lord spoke while upon the earth to this very day. So, the child of God cannot take the word of God lightly.
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By FAITH
Moved with Fear
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. (Hebrews 11:7)
Noah was WARNED by God and Noah moved with FEAR. He understood the judgment to come upon all the ungodly, and yet, relentlessly he preached the righteousness of God to all of the ungodly. We are in the last day, and we must treat the word of God with all sincerity, with all godly fear for we KNOW the judgment that is coming upon all of the earth. (Consider the word of God, the main word in Peter’s first epistle, Chapter 2, verse 2, is that we should DESIRE, then it is SINCERITY and the SINCERE milk of the word of God. As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.)
Just as Noah preached the righteousness of God to a perishing world, so we do the same today. The message is to ALL the ungodly. As Noah, we have been WARNED of the judgment to come, and we are to move WITH FEAR. We have a responsibility to God, and we have a responsibility to the ungodly that they should know the truth for it is only the truth that can set them free.
In Genesis Chapter 5, in the long list of the men of faith, Noah is the last person, and he is perfect in the generations of faith. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. (Genesis 6:9) With Noah we have God’s revelation of GRACE, and grace is revealed to us in Genesis 6:8. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. Notice that God pauses His judgment to introduce Noah to the world of the ungodly. The Holy Spirit reveals to us a man of separation from the world, a man that is separated from the children of Adam, the ungodly. Noah LOVED NOT the world. He moved with FEAR, and preached righteousness trying to pull the ungodly out of the righteous waves of God’s judgment. And yet, they would not hear, they would not see the storms of judgment coming. Instead, they fulfilled the evil desires of their imaginations within their evil hearts.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. (1st John 2:15)
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. (1st John 2:16)
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. (1st John 2:17)
Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. (1st John 2:18)
Love NOT the world. It is quite evident that the world LOVES itself. When I speak of the world, I speak of the world populace, they LOVE themselves, for they make up the ungodly world. As a child of God, you are NOT of this world, and with GODLY FEAR you have entered into the BATTLE of good and evil. Everyone who has been born of God and has received the Spirit of Christ is a soldier in the battle of good and evil. One has the responsibility to use the weapons of our warfare, which are spiritual weapons, and to use them to tear down the walls of the kingdom of Satan. By preaching the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ who is the righteousness of God the ungodly are pulled OUT of the fires. You have entered into a battlefield both within your being with the flesh against the Spirit, and the outward battle of the attack of the lust of the world. You are in the kingdom of the roaring lion who devours all that is before him and has NO mercy on the children of God.
John in his epistle points us back to Noah. Noah is our example in this battle. John informs us that we are in the last day, (the last time) and I am sure that God told Noah and described to Noah the world upheaval that was to come, thus, Noah moved with FEAR, godly FEAR, as we find in the book of Jude in verse 23. And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. When the world is falling headlong into judgment and every rule of man is falling into tyranny, the devil is smiling, the old serpent is cheering as he destroys the souls of man. So, with FEAR by FAITH, we reach into the ungodly world warning the world of the pending judgment to come. Noah moved with FEAR of what was to come. In his heart, his mind, his conscience, his spirit and his soul, here was a man that was truly tried of God. He lived in a world of VIOLENCE, a world of the ungodly, a world of men who hated God. So, Noah leaned on his faith and rejoiced in the grace of his God, and with sincerity and power preached the righteousness of God. God had given to Noah a verbal portrait of what was coming over the world. Open your eyes and see where we are today. The clouds of world judgment are gathered over the entire globe. Genesis Chapter 6 will be capped with Revelation Chapter 6, and Revelation Chapter 6 should bring ALL mankind into a state of FEAR. Revelation 6 is the sincere milk of the word of God’s judgment, and who is going to be judged for their ungodliness. Not only do we need the SINCERE milk of the word, but we need to GROW into the meat of the word of God.
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. (Hebrews 5:12) For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. (Hebrews 5:13) But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. (Hebrews 5:14)
To overcome the world, one must fortify the heart with the word of God, which has been PRESERVED by the Holy Ghost for YOU. The true word of God today under the mind and Spirit of Christ is the King James Bible. You can’t eat weeds, and be spiritually healthy, you MUST have the sincere milk of the true word of God, and then the meat, which is revealed from Genesis in the progressive revelation of Almighty God. The roadmap of the Spirit of God in the King James Bible is unlike any other, which gives it the authority, not under a king but under the Spirit of God. One who has no love of the truth will not find the truth. If you have not the truth, then you are NOT of Christ. And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith. (2nd Thessalonians 3:2) And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. (2nd Thessalonians 2:10)
I ask you a sincere question: How can one sing ‘I love you Lord Jesus with all of my heart’ and refuse to make the word of God part of your heart, soul and spirit? The Holy Spirit has PRESERVED the word of God so that YOU might be completely fitted with the armor of God.
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. (Ephesians 6:11)
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (Ephesians 6:12)
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. (Ephesians 6:13)
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; (Ephesians 6:14)
And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; (Ephesians 6:15)
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. (Ephesians 6:16)
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: (Ephesians 6:17)
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; (Ephesians 6:18)
If you refuse to make the word of God part of your heart, soul and spirit no matter what you sing, there is NO LOVE OF THE TRUTH within you. Spiritual growth and development can only come through the SINCERE milk of the word. Think of the word of God as your new heartbeat, and the bone and marrow of your soul, the water and milk of your spirit to build in you a spiritual house acceptable to God by the very word that is within you not only the Living Word (the Lord Jesus Christ), but His eternal written word as well. The word of God is given to BUILD YOU into a soldier to destroy the works of the devil, and through the preaching of the righteousness of God to destroy the opposition of mankind. I was once asked after preaching, Brother, do you see the words afar off? It was plain to me, so my reply was, Yes, for I relied on the Lord for every message and for every word. If He does not supply the words, then there is no message. I do not preach for man; I preach for God that man may see his need and the pending storm that is coming in this last time.
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By FAITH
Noah Preached Righteousness
By FAITH Noah preached righteousness. His message was according to the word of God.
● And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; (2nd Peter 2:5)
● Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. (1st Peter 3:20)
Noah warned the world of ungodly man of the judgment to come and how to escape from that judgment, and NO ONE listened. Their ears were stopped by sin and Satan. They LOVED their sin more than God. If Noah was here today, he would be preaching to the ungodly with the SAME RESULT. If God has called you today to proclaim the truth and the sincere milk of the word of God, do not listen to other voices, LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF GOD. For the most part, outside of the Almighty God you are alone in this world of unrighteousness. There are many who gather to the churches of wood and stone, but few there are who gather to the Lord Jesus Christ. If all the symbolism was true, and all the hordes who go to church were REAL what a wonderful world this would be, however, the evidence discloses that Romans Chapter 1 is seen in every church pew, full of vileness and deceit. I have spent eighty years observing man, however, Noah was five hundred years of age when his wife had triplets: Shem, Ham and Japheth. And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Genesis 5:32) This is the ONLY record of triplets in Scripture. These three men represent the sinful flesh in Ham, the spirit of man in Japheth and the soul in Shem. Through Shem Abraham was called when the God of glory appeared to Abraham in Mesopotamia. And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran.(Acts 7:2)
After the birth of Ham, Shem and Japheth, one hundred years later the judgment began. The journey of Noah is extremely telling, not only in the men who preceded him but in the history of his own life. Six hundred years BEFORE the flood, Noah had endured the hatred of the ungodly. Most likely he had gone through many perils. In the genealogy of faith there are many twists and turns, and the adversary’s chief goal is to take-away FAITH from the earth. Although FAITH is a heavenly gift, the devil wants to defeat it in every and any way that he can.
Side Note of a Personal Battle: I was born in England during the WWII. As an infant my mother cradled me in her arms in a bomb shelter in London, and she later related to me that I never cried during those trying and fearful times. After my father was severely injured during a German Luftwaffe attack while serving in the United States Army Air Core at Croydon, my mother and I were given passage on a ship in the largest convoy to sail the Atlantic from England to North America. During this convoy pilgrimage crossing a wolf pack of German submarines slipped into the midst of that convoy and began to torpedo the convoy. My mother related to me that once again I peacefully slept in her arms as the ship rocked violently from side to side from the battle that raged all around. When she told me about our voyage, I could not see God’s plan for me, for I was not saved at that time. Looking back over the years since my birth, I can see how the devil and man tried to destroy me MANY times and, in MANY ways, before I was born-again, and also after my new birth. From the height of age, I can look back OVER the MANY times I was brought face to face with death. Yet, the Lord stood with me and the angelic hosts must have had some time taking care of me, and saving me from danger. I have put myself in harm’s way many times sometimes through shear stupidity, both before salvation and after, yet. I have this wonderful life in Christ Jesus my Lord. End of Personal Side Note.
As with Noah, the devil and his cohorts have feverishly worked to stop the message of GRACE and TRUTH from my Lord. We read of Noah and do not grasp the spiritual drama he endured in the ungodly world. While preaching righteousness, he was also tasked with BUILDING an ark to PRESERVE man and beast for a new world that God had promised.
The preaching of righteousness did not begin with Noah. The message and the stand of Abel against his ungodly brother were preaching the righteousness of God for Abel would NOT deny the most excellent sacrifice. When Seth was called, he was the possessor of God’s righteousness in that SAME excellent sacrifice. When his son Enosh was born, man began to call on the name of the Lord in the preaching of righteousness in the MORE excellent sacrifice. Enoch, the seventh from Adam, not only preached righteousness but he described the judgment of man right up to the last kingdom of man in warning the ungodly of the judgment to come. All these men in Genesis Chapter 5 are given not only for their individual faithfulness but to show God’s preserving hand in PRESERVING FAITH AND GRACE on the earth. Even in the days of Noah, the Spirit of God declared, If you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts. Noah spoke with full authority in the word and breath of God. It was God’s VOICE to the ungodly, and they listened NOT to their own destruction. While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. (Hebrews 3:15)
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, (Hebrews 3:7) Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: (Hebrews 3:8) When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. (Hebrews 3:9)
The lessons that we learn in Hebrews Chapter 3 are consistent throughout the history of man under the penalty of sin and death. Think of Adam before the fall. Adam listened to God as God gave Adam power and dominion over ALL flesh, however, AFTER Adam brought sin into the world (Romans 5:12) Adam hid from the voice of God. And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. (Genesis 3:8) Now the question that the Lord asked Adam was, Where art thou? This question was not to the physical realm, but to the spiritual realm. The same eyes of God that go to and fro throughout the whole earth today are the same eyes that KNEW where Adam was and KNEW Adam’s condition after Adam brought sin into the world. Adam’s nakedness DID NOT expose Adam. Adam’s nakedness exposed the sin that was IN Adam that he had brought into the world through disobedience. Even at that point of the fall of man, Adam was unable to answer God’s truthfully, for there was no truth within him. Now and throughout the time frame of humanity Adam and all of his descendants would give every excuse for sin. And yet, they would ALL be inexcusable. Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. (Romans 2:1) Man will not face his sin although it will bring forth his own death. No matter how man dies: in conflict, disease, or disaster, the root cause of EVERY death is the SIN that Adam brought into the world. Psalm 1 informs us that the ungodly are as the chaff which the wind driveth away, their end is the lake of fire, the final judgment of the sinner without the grace of God.
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By FAITH
Prepared an Ark
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. (Hebrews 11:7)
Noah was six hundred years old when he entered into the ark, and the Lord shut them in. The beasts of the field CAME at the call of God. The fowls of the air CAME at the call of God. The creeping things CAME at the call of God, but man (the ungodly) the conflict of sin would NOT COME at the call of God.
And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. (Genesis 7:1) Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male and his female. (Genesis 7:2) Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. (Genesis 7:3)
And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. (Genesis 7:7) Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, (Genesis 7:8) There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. (Genesis 7:9)
With the eyes of the Holy Spirit Noah was the crying voice to both man and beast, yet, only the beasts answered the call. Think of the testimony of this one man standing ALONE with God, WALKING with God, PREACHING with the voice of God to ALL the ungodly around him. And if that was not enough, Noah was building an ark. And as he built that ark Noah moved with FEAR for it would be to accomplish the saving of his own house from pending judgment. His voice as Enoch, his walk as Enoch, and his work as Enoch were all symbols of what the man of God should be. Also notice that in Genesis Chapter 5 that only men are named. There is not one wife or woman named. The reason for this omission is that God desires that we should see the stark contrast from Geneses 5 to Genesis Chapter 6 in the daughters of men.
The saving of Noah’s house was because of Noah’s righteousness, not the righteousness of Shem, nor Ham, nor Japheth, nor the wives. Noah was the ONLY CHILD of FAITH and he was perfect in his generations. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. (Genesis 6:9) Because of Noah’s faithfulness and the will of God to preserve mankind, God brought eight souls through the flood. God in His own righteousness honored Noah who was perfect in his generations. You cannot change the word perfect. He was perfect all the way back to Seth in his generations of life and faith. And because Noah walked by FAITH (Genesis 6:9; Hebrews 11:7) we can also identify him with Abel the very first man of FAITH on the earth. Although the other seven souls came through the flood with Noah, their deliverance had NOTHING to do with eternal salvation. The evidence of this is plain to spiritual eyes. After the flood, ONLY NOAH built an altar. ONLY NOAH prepared the wood. ONLY NOAH prepared all the sacrifices of every clean beast and every clean fowl. CLICK HERE to read more about Noah.
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. (Genesis 8:20) And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. (Genesis 8:21) While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. (Genesis 8:22)
As Noah took the fire of God and sacrificed those beasts and the fowls of the air, they were a sweet savor that ascended up to God. It also shows us the extent of Noah’s knowledge of sacrifice BEFORE the flood. It also shows us that Noah’s knowledge and the path of that knowledge went all the way back to Seth. Noah’s righteousness was FOUNDED as Abel’s in the more excellent sacrifice. Noah completed THAT line of sacrifice in the old world. Every man in Genesis Chapter 5 except Adam KNEW the more excellent sacrifice. Only these nine men of Genesis Chapter 5 show the continued preserving hand of God in keeping FAITH on the earth. The number nine is the number of finality. When we see Noah offering sacrifices in the new world, he knew in his heart, soul and spirit that he was sanctifying a new world in the more excellent sacrifice. The second evidence that we have is that there was NO movement of righteousness in Shem, Ham or Japheth or their descendants, in fact, even before the flood there is no hint of righteousness in the sons of Noah. When God took Noah home, and Noah’s sojourn on earth ceased, there was NO FAITH left on earth UNTIL God appeared to Abraham. Once again, the vain and evil imaginations of man’s heart took over the heart, soul and spirit of ALL of mankind. They were slaves to sin and the devil. The progression of evil is seen in Nimrod, who is classified as a hunter, most likely in his position, he was a hunter of men. The state of mankind only desired to build a tower to reach the heavens, thus denying God’s way to heaven through the more excellent sacrifice. This is the path of man’s religion, and it ends in ruin. The tower of Babel was the symbol of their own religion WITHOUT God. All was artificial. They used brick instead of stone, and the used slime for mortar.
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. (Genesis 11:1) And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. (Genesis 11:2) And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. (Genesis 11:3) And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. (Genesis 11:4)
In the beginning of Chapter 5 of Genesis, Seth had a son named Enosh. It was in the time of Enosh that men began to call on the name of the Lord. This would be the beginning of the Lord’s name’S sake, a name above every name. Their center point would be the Lord of glory, and the more excellent sacrifice. However, in Genesis 11:4, man became the center and not the Lord. What is important in Genesis 11:4 is the absence of the name of the Lord. We have repeated that SAME FICTION of the tower of Babel in our day and age. They desired to make a name for themselves. I ask you to take some time away from the message and write down all the names that stand for the modern Christendom and all the names that they have made for themselves. This is a trait of the ungodly world to divide and conquer under the influence of Satan. The world was also of one language. This shows that everyone had conformed to the doctrines of Nimrod.
With the tower of Babel we have a symbol of the idolatry of man. Again, notice that there are NO sacrifices mentioned, it is the good works of men and NOT the sacrificial death and shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ in the more excellent sacrifice on the cross of Calvary that is the center focus.
The idolatry and waywardness of the Church did not happen in one day. Over the long course of two thousand plus years, they (the Church) have followed every wind of false doctrine, and they have cast off both the FAITH and GRACE of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is interesting today that our world has become subject to one language of x and o’s. It is the computer language, the language of AI, and not the FAITH of the GREAT I AM. In the high-tech community they KNOW and SPEAK with one another in this language of AI, a language without a heart, a language without a spirit, a language without a soul. They are feverishly building a tower to reach the heavens out of computer bricks and the AI slime of mortar. Churches replace hymnals for big screen TV’s. They take the word of God from the pews and replace it with the slime of theologians. They build great halls that contain a multitude of souls preparing them NOT for heaven but for the lake of fire. They exalt the emotions of man in the imagination of their evil hearts. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. (Genesis 11:6) Can you imagine how drastic the blasphemy of man can be in declaring that they have a one world Church, however, this is the Church of Nimrod and his father, the devil, and NOT the Body of Christ. The Body of Christ is NOT in a wafer. There is a MAN in heaven for us, and He has a physical BODY, and this Body has been seen by apostles after He ascended on high, and the man of FAITH although he has not SEEN the Lord Jesus Christ KNOWS His presence in his own heart.
The imagination of a wicked heart will always desire to stand in their own name. In Genesis 6, their name became ‘men of renown.’ In Genesis 11, their name became the followers of Nimrod. They not only built a tower, but they also built a CITY of Nimrod, the man with wings of an eagle to ascend into the heavens. Remember there is NO mention of the name of the Lord or even the more excellent sacrifice. The Church of the modern world does not want the name of Christ, although they use the name of Jesus, it is another Jesus, and NOT the MAN in heaven for us. We, who are born again, have gone through a transition of life. God has CREATED us to be A NEW SPECIES of mankind upon the earth. As He PREPARES us for our future home WITH Him in heaven’s glory, and later in the new heavens and the new earth where righteousness will dwell. We are born of His blood, we are born of His Spirit, He has restored our soul by offering His righteous soul on the cross of Calvary. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. (Isaiah 53:10) That which is born of God CANNOT be changed by man. That which is born of God BOWS the knee to the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. In bowing the knee, the heart is humbled in the presence of God, the Spirit is in subjection to the will of God, and the soul rejoices in the grace of the Living God. We need NEITHER brick for stone, nor slime for mortar, for heaven has COME DOWN into our hearts in the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is Christ who is our precious Stone. It is God’s GRACE who binds us to the Stone, and it is God’s FAITH that allows us to acquire that Stone that is despised by man but chosen of God and precious. The Spirit of Christ is our mortar of life, as we are fashioned to His Body.
Noah’s FAITH was the faith, the same faith, once delivered to ALL the saints of old, to the very day that we live in and beyond. The same FAITH that saves is the FAITH that keeps us in the bosom of the Father. The ungodly in Noah’s day heard the gospel in the long suffering of God by the lips of Noah. Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief. (Hebrews 4:6) Also consider Romans 1:18-32. This not only speaks of the world that WAS, but because the Lord Jesus identified the end times with the days of Noah it is applicable to our present day for we see ALL the wickedness of Romans Chapter 1 in our present day and age AND MORE.
Noah was a preacher of righteousness . . . what does this mean? It means that TRUTH was his only light. His path was straight. He would turn neither to the right nor to the left. His guiding light was the word of God in his heart, and the righteousness of God in the transaction of FAITH IN God and GRACE applied by God. The connection is GRACE through FAITH. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. (Ephesians 2:8)
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. (Romans 1:16) For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. (Romans 1:17)
According to the apostle Paul, the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And according to Matthew 3:15, it is Christ that fulfilled ALL righteousness because HE IS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD. One must see themselves IN Christ Jesus in the divine sacrifice of the Son of God to be MADE the righteousness of God IN Jesus Christ. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. (1st Corinthians 1:30)
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PERFECT In HIS GENERATIONS
FROM NOAH to JOHN the Baptist
As it was in the days of Noah, the beginning of the New Testament begins after 400 hundred years of silence, and in the gospel of Luke, Chapter 1, the New Testament begins with a priest and his wife (Zacharias and Elisabeth) both direct descendants from Aaron. Where does God begin? He began at the altar of incense. (Read Reflections of Christ in the Tabernacle.) The brazen altar is not seen; however, the altar of incense had the fire of God FROM the brazen altar that was in the courtyard. When God gave Moses the instructions of the Tabernacle, the brazen altar was in the courtyard OUTSIDE the tent. The brazen altar was for the WORLD of sin and the redemption of man; therefore, the brazen altar was IN THE WORLD OUTSIDE OF THE TABERNACLE . . . OUTSIDE THE TENT.
As you approach the Tabernacle, you first had to pass by the Laver where the priest had to first wash himself and his feet thus LEAVING the world behind. As the high priest entered into the Tabernacle, he passed by the table of shewbread which speaks of communion with God. In the New Testament, the Lord Jesus said that bread spoke of His Body that was given for the world. Then you would pass by the Lampstand. Its seven branches gave out light through the holy oil of gladness. Again, we have symbolically the Lord Jesus Christ as the Light and Perfection in the world. However, we are IN the Tabernacle, and we are beginning to see that God is doing something NEW in Luke’s gospel. Before we can go in through the veil into the holy of holies, we come to the altar of incense. It is there that Zacharias stopped and tended the fire of God on the altar of incense. The priesthood of Aaron had been completely replaced by deceivers at that time of Zacharias. Only Zacharias was a TRUE descendent of Aaron . . . perfect in his generation.
After four hundred years, the heavens are no longer silent and an angel appeared at the right hand of the altar of incense and announced to Zacharias that he would have a son, and he would be named John. He would be a man sent by God to INTRODUCE the Savior of the world. Now, remember that the brazen altar was the altar IN the world where sin is judged. The altar of incense was within the Tabernacle which typified the heavens. From the gospel of Luke, we NO longer see activity BY a priest around the altar of incense. It is ONLY through the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ in the heavens that we behold the altar of incense once again. The angel of God takes a censor and fills it with the fire from the altar of incense and with the prayers of all the saints he casts it down into the world.
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. (Revelation 6:1)
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. (Revelation 8:1)
And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets. (Revelation 8:2)
And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. (Revelation 8:3)
And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand. (Revelation 8:4)
And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. (Revelation 8:5)
This gives more meaning to the gospel of Luke and to the altar of incense in the days of Zacharias and Elisabeth. It is at the altar of incense that the prayers of Zacharias and Elizabeth were answered, and their son would be a man SENT from God.
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. (John 1:6) The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. (John 1:7) He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. (John 1:8)
John (as Noah) would come into a world that had forsaken God. John would be a man of righteousness SENT by God. Even in his name (John) he would be a message of peace SENT by God. He would be the LAST Old Testament PROPHET and he would declare himself as a friend of the Bridegroom. John would be the LAST priest perfect in his generations as Noah.
There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. (Luke 1:5) And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. (Luke 1:6)
John’s qualifications came through his father AND his mother. On his father’s side, Zacharias was of the course of Abia and Abia takes us all the way back to Aaron.
Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the governors of the sanctuary, and governors of the house of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar. (1st Chronicles 24:5)
The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, (1st Chronicles 24:10)
Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, (Nehemiah 12:1)
Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah, (Nehemiah 12:4)
Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai; (Nehemiah 12:17)
Elisabeth was from the daughters of Aaron. Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife [was] of the daughters of Aaron, and her name [was] Elisabeth. (Luke 1:5) The Holy Spirit sends us back to Leviticus for one of the qualifications of the high priest was that he could NOT marry outside of the Levitical order. So, here at the altar of incense God had been preparing both Zacharias and Elisabeth to bring forth a man SENT from God whose name would be John. The angel proclaimed that this man would be GREAT in the sight of the Lord. And this man, John, will be FILLED with the Holy Ghost FROM his mother’s womb. For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb. (Luke 1:15)
Through the preaching of John many in Israel would turn to the Lord. As John was baptizing at the river Jordan, we have a marvelous UNSEEN story that is presented to us by the Lord. Through FAITH He opens the UNSEEN. John was harassed by the Levites who had been sent by the Pharisees to discredit the work and message of John. John was at THE EXACT LOCATION where the ark of the covenant crossed over the Jordan leading the children of Israel into the land of promise.
When the priests bearing the ark of the covenant entered into the Jordan, the waters were HELD, and the Jordan became dry so that the people could safely pass over Jordan. There was also a witness of the twelve stones STILL remained as a testimony to the crossing of Israel. And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. (Matthew 3:9)
And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, (Joshua 4:1)
Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, (Joshua 4:2)
And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night. (Joshua 4:3)
Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man: (Joshua 4:4)
And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel: (Joshua 4:5)
That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones? (Joshua 4:6)
Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever. (Joshua 4:7)
And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there. (Joshua 4:8)
And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day. (Joshua 4:9)
For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over. (Joshua 4:10)
And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people. (Joshua 4:11)
It was THERE that the Lord returned where the Lord Jesus Christ and John entered into death IN the river Jordan as BOTH stood upon the twelve stones buried beneath the water WAITING with anticipation of Israel’s Redeemer. It was THERE that the Lord Jesus said to John that it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.
But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? (Matthew 3:14) And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him. (Matthew 3:15)
The next day, when John saw Jesus He proclaimed, Behold the lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. (John 1:29)
What we see in the beginning of the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ is that He DEPARTED from the river of death (the Jordan) and methodically began His march towards the cross of Calvary where He there would fulfill ALL righteousness. Now let us return to Noah.
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Our Age and Our End Written in the Age of Noah
Noah was a man of faith and had found GRACE in the sight of God. He was in the world as described in the first Chapter of the book of Romans. They had forsaken God and worshiped all forms of organic and inorganic constructs of deity. As the battle of good and evil with Cain and Abel, so the battle of evil versus good continued through the days of Noah, through the days of Nimrod and the through the failure of Israel to stay true to their Almighty God and Creator.
When John was SENT by God, the entire Levitical system had been totally corrupted. John was SENT purposely by God to call and to prepare a people for the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. It would be Christ Himself who would call out a people, a heavenly people, who would be removed from the world and removed from sin and death. The pharisaical line had replaced the ordinances of God with ritualism and legalism which had turned the hearts of man AWAY from God and not TO God. This higher class of mankind in the Pharisees and the high priests (plural) for there were TWO high priests at the time of Christ which was totally against the ASSIGNED priesthood of ONLY ONE high priest directly and solely through the line of Aaron. The Supernatural Gift of God’s Son was to fulfill ALL righteousness and deliver a people OUT from the world to become A NEW RACE of HEAVENLY people.
In 1st Corinthians 1:30 and 31 we have our path to the righteousness of God. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 1Co 1:31 That, according as it is written, But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. (2nd Corinthians 10:17) The transaction of faith has MADE us righteous IN Christ for He is the FULLNESS of righteousness. It is HIS righteousness that is applied to us which covers ALL of our sin. He is our ONLY way to righteousness, and only through TRUTH can we find righteousness. Only in that righteousness do we have a life IN Christ. No person can approach God the Father WITHOUT the righteousness of Christ. This is all part of the transaction in the NEW CREATION and NEW BIRTH of a child of God. We are made righteous IN Him for He fulfilled all righteousness on the cross of Calvary.
Noah was a JUST man. He was JUSTIFIED by God. He understood the more excellent sacrifice. He understood BEFORE FAITH came into his heart that he lived in a sinful state and condition that were brought in by Adam. If Christ had NOT been MADE sin for us, who knew no sin, then WE could not have been MADE the righteousness of God IN the Lord Jesus Christ.
● For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (2nd Corinthians 5:21)
● And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. (Colossians 1:20) And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled (Colossians 1:21) In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: (Colossians 1:22)
● For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: (1st Peter 3:18)
● Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: (Hebrews 10:5)
In the righteous preaching of Noah (if you can bear it) Christ was present in His Spirit WITHIN Noah.
Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: (1st Peter 1:10) Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. (1st Peter 1:11) Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. (1st Peter 1:12)
Noah was a prophet through his preaching. He declared an approaching storm of judgment against the ungodly in the righteousness of God. And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly. (2nd Peter 2:5) Here is what the eye of FAITH sees: a man of God preaching righteousness, giving a prophetic message of judgment, and preaching CHRIST to a world that had rejected their Creator. In our day and age, it would be as the man-made doctrine or theory of evolution, all from the vain imagine of the evil heart. And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Genesis 6:5) The word imagination is documented fourteen (14) times in fourteen verses. ONLY ONE time is the word imagination used in a good way. O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee. (1st Chronicles 29:18) That leaves thirteen (13) times that the word imagine relates to an evil heart, thus confirming that the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9) I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. (Jeremiah 17:10)
The evil heart is continually linked to the IMAGINATION of man. It leads man AWAY from the Lord in the opposite direction, the direction of darkness and evil. Here are the thirteen (13) mentions of the IMAGINATION of the evil heart.
1. And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Genesis 6:5)
2. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. (Genesis 8:21)
3. And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: (Deuteronomy 29:19)
4. And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware. (Deuteronomy 31:21)
5. At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. (Jeremiah 2:17)
6. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. (Jeremiah 7:24)
7. But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: (Jeremiah 9:14)
8. Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not. (Jeremiah 11:8)
9. This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing. (Jeremiah 13:10)
10. And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me: (Jeremiah 16:12)
11. And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. (Jeremiah 18:12)
12. They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. (Jeremiah 23:17)
13. He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. (Luke 1:51)
As the word IMAGINATION is mentioned thirteen times in its evil relationship to the heart, so the word IMAGINATIONS (plural) is mentioned six times, the number six is the number of man.
1. And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever. (1st Chronicles 28:9)
2. An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, (Proverbs 6:18)
3. Thou hast seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me. (Lamentations 3:60)
4. Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, [and] all their imaginations against me; (Lamentations 3:61)
5. Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. (Romans 1:21)
6. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; (2nd Corinthians 10:5)
We also have the word IMAGINE twelve (12) times. Remember that this number is tied to both Israel and the Church.
1. Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind? (Job 6:26)
2. Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices [which] ye wrongfully imagine against me. (Job 21:27)
3. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? (Psalm 2:1)
4. They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. (Psalm 38:12)
5. How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall [shall ye be, and as] a tottering fence. (Psalm 62:3)
6. Which imagine mischiefs in [their] heart; continually are they gathered together [for] war. (Psalm 140:2)
7. Deceit [is] in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace [is] joy. (Proverbs 12:20)
8. Though I have bound [and] strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. (Hosea 7:15)
9. What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. (Nahum 1:9)
10. And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. (Zechariah 7:10)
11. And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these [are things] that I hate, saith the LORD. (Zechariah 8:1)
12. Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? (Acts 4:25)
Do you see the direction that the imagination of man takes? It is prone to evil. In our world today, we have allowed our imaginations to go completely wild in the realm of evil. The entertainment world has completely given themselves over to the evil imagination. In ALL realms of our society, from our basic education to the most prestigious schools and universities IMAGINATION is one of the biggest subjects taught. They IMAGINE a VAIN thing, and truly vanity revolves around imagination. Even so-called Bible scholars and theologians have embraced their VAIN imaginations and have perverted the word of God to satisfy their own presence before the intellectual world so that they might be men of renown.
The imagination is constantly linked to an evil heart, whether it is in youth or in the aged years. We see this imagination ALL around. It is the devil’s carrot to produce EVIL in the societies of the world. As we see in Genesis 6:5, the first time that the word IMAGINATION is used it is surrounded by the evil heart. You MUST (as a child of God) keep your imagination UNDER the righteous power of the word of God. Imagination is thriving in the professing Church today. It has caused all types of spiritual and doctrinal havoc in what I call the Universal Church that is OUTSIDE of the will and thoughts of God. As children of God, we are to bring ALL of our thoughts under the power of God’s righteousness. There is no room for the unrighteousness imagination in the child of God. As a child of God you have been given WISDOM, and UNDERSTANDING by the Spirit of God, and THIS fights against the imagination.
The separation of the just from the unjust is seen in Noah and a world that refused to repent. Noah as a just man stood before God justified in his faith in the more excellent sacrifice. We have seen the world of Noah as described in Romans 1:18-32, and verse 21. Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. (Romans 1:21) It was the imaginations of their hearts that reveals the FULL depravity of mankind. Romans Chapter 2 begins with man who has NO excuse before God. As the evidence of Genesis 6 and Romans 1 is overwhelming. Man had completely degraded himself in depravity. Mankind had mingled so deeply into evilness that ALL was of The Wicked One. Through man’s uncontrollable lust mankind had mingled with the beasts of the field. They had conspired with ALL forms of VIOLENCE and MURDER. Their souls were corrupted beyond redemption and thus, God GAVE THEM UP.
● Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: (Romans 1:24)
● For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: (Romans 1:26)
In Daniel Chapter 4:27-37 we have the testimony of king Nebuchadnezzar finally extolling the true King of heaven and the sovereignty of the True God of the SEEN and UNSEEN spiritual and physical realms.
Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity. (Daniel 4:27)
All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. (Daniel 4:28)
At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. (Daniel 4:29)
The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty? (Daniel 4:30)
While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee. (Daniel 4:31)
And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. (Daniel 4:32)
The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws. (Daniel 4:33)
And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation: (Daniel 4:34)
And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? (Daniel 4:35)
At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me. (Daniel 4:36)
Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase. (Daniel 4:37)
Before Nebuchadnezzar was humbled, he was as the men of Genesis Chapter 6. His kingdom was a kingdom of evil and God humbled this king and cast him into the wilderness as a beast and caused the days and nights to pass over him for seven years. Nebuchadnezzar was made to FEEL and to SEE and to BELIEVE the POWER of God to set up the kingdoms of man and to remove the kingdoms of man.
In the days of Noah, the world of man REFUSED to be humbled before God. All the preaching of righteousness was to reveal to mankind who man was, and the sin within and they refused the righteous preaching of Noah. So, judgment carried them all away.
In Genesis Chapter 6 we again see the first biblical principal of separation. As God created the heavens and the earth, there was a vast wall of darkness between heaven and earth. The darkness embraced the earth, then God created Light and separated Light from the darkness. Here we have the FIRST principle: separation. Even in the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, we see this principle of separation. Just as light was separated from darkness, so there is a great separation between good and evil. The tree itself did not overthrow mankind. It was Adam’s disobedience in bringing sin into the world. The very root of sin was found in Lucifer in the great rebellion of Lucifer and his angels against Almighty God. This same rebellious sin corrupted mankind so that the heart, soul and spirit now belong to the Wicked One and NOT to God.
When the Lord Jesus spoke about the days of Noah, He reaffirmed the SEPARATION and the principle of separation. And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. (Luke 17:26) They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. (Luke 17:27)
But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. (Matthew 24:37) For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, (Matthew 24:38) And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. (Matthew 24:39)
The Lord Jesus was reminding us of a GREAT SEPARATION. That it is NOT up to man, but marriage is a gift of God. Marriage is a SEPARATION from mother and father. Marriage is a SEPARATION from two spirits INTO one spirit, from two hearts into one heart of two souls into one soul of two beings into one being under the eyes of the Almighty God. Man makes a huge celebration of marriage today without the principles that when two are brought together, both male and female, in the eyes of God they become one flesh, one body. If Noah were to preach today, he would speak of SEPARATION from the evils of the world. Although the world will look on this with critical eyes, there MUST be a DIVISION between the godly and the ungodly. What overthrew the sons of God were their MINGLING and MIXING with the ungodly daughters of man. The end result was a unification of the children of Cain, the children of the Wicked One, for ALL were swept away. Everybody was of The Wicked One, every heart was of The Wicked One, every spirit was of The Wicked One, and every soul was of The Wicked One.
The historical period of the Church is approaching its end. As Genesis Chapter 6 reveals the hearts of evil man, so Revelation Chapter 6 reveals the continuation of the evil hearts of man. It is also interesting to see that the hordes of mankind in the day of Noah kept on partying even to the very day that Noah entered into the ark, and they ALL were swept away by the waters of judgment. Our contemporary world is IN the great upheaval of evil under the direction and promotion of the prince of darkness, the old serpent, the devil. In fact, the world will become so dark that God will shorten history because of man’s depravity so that faith may be found on earth. For the sake of the elect God will bring the kingdom of The Beast to an end.
For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be. (Mark 13:19) And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days. (Mark 13:20)
Faith is the battle cry of the soul. It is the substance of deliverance that God imparts to bring the soul out of darkness and INTO God’s marvelous Light. Faith must begin IN the soul as a gift from God. The soul is NOT replaced. It is RESTORED. However, the spirit of man is replaced with the Spirit of Christ.
For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. (1st Corinthians 2:11)
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. (1st Corinthians 2:12)
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. (1st Corinthians 2:13)
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (1st Corinthians 2:14)
But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. (1st Corinthians 2:15)
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. (1st Corinthians 2:16)
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. (Romans 8:2)
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. (Galatians 4:6)
As it was in the days of Noah, so IT IS the same in the very day of our lives today.
Amen and Selah.
© Copyright – Michael Haigh
Published on. November 16, 2024 @ 1:06 PM (EST).
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All Scripture references are from the King James Bible. (KJB)