Today I will continue looking at snapshots of grace from the Old Testament. Once again I will post this in three parts.
The King James Version of the Bible describes Noah as a man who found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Noah lived in a time of great wickedness and there seemed to be no hope for the people but Noah found favour in God’s eyes.
The writer tells us that men’s hearts were wicked all the time and the Lord grieved that He had made man. He would have wiped out mankind completely but for one man, the man who found favour in His eyes.
Noah was not a young man when God gave him the instructions to build the ark. He was the great-grandson of Enoch whom God had translated to heaven without dying and He was the grandson of Methuselah whose name meant “when he dies judgment will come.” Noah watched his grandfather grow older and older until he was older than any other person who had ever lived. Every day he saw his grandfather he was reminded that judgment was coming but as long as he was alive there was still time for people to repent so Noah continue to preach.
Everything about the building of the ark went against the natural inclinations of man but Noah obeyed the Lord. For one hundred years he and his sons built the great boat and for one hundred years the people mocked him. Noah did not become distracted from the task that was his and while he built the ark he continued to preach the message of salvation.
Continued tomorrow LW
2 comments:
Why do you think that in verse 3 God says he will limit man to 120 years, then in verse 7 changes his mind and decides that he would rather wipe out all living creation, man and animals (and "the creeping thing" KJV).
After God said that He would limit man kind to 120 years it was a few generations before that happened. Abraham, Issac and Jacob all lived for more than 120 years. As for verse 7 I am not sure that God was changing His mind as much as making an observation (for our sakes) about the wickedness of man. He certainly knew what He would do with mankind because of their sin.
Maybe someone else can offer us a help on this.
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