Noah and His Family

Entry - Six

Hello, I hope you found my last entry interesting. I got so excited about telling you about Noah knowing, Enos, the Grandson of Adam: and of how he heard about the garden of Eden, and all those stories from the Grandson of Adam.- That I forgot to give you Enos’ time line so that you can see who was still alive during Noah’s time. Again, you can do the math your selves if you wish.


Enos lived 905 years. He was the Grandson of Adam, and son of Seth. He was:
90 yrs old when Cainan was born
160 yrs old when Mahalaleel was born
225 yrs old when Jared was born
387 yrs old when Enoch was born
452 yrs old when Methuselah was born
639 yrs old when Lamech was born
821 yrs old when Noah was born; Noah was about 84 yrs old when Enos died.

Moving right along: As the human race was multiplying they were expose to Satan, and apparently they were very easily swayed by him. Some of those men he swayed were famous it seems, or very influential: Genesis 6:4 “....the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.” The LORD said that he would give men 120 years before he withdraws his Spirit from them, and bring the flood. Genesis 4:3 “The LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man(human race), for he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.” He saw how wicked the people had become, inside and out of their souls that he became very “grieved” Genesis 4:6 “And it repented the LORD that he had made man(human race) on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” I know you think you know the story, but have you picture this in your mind? The American Heritage Dictionary says that; “To grieve is To hurt. To be sorrowful; to lament; mour; pain.” ... With this definition in mind... Imagine this: The LORD God, deeply in pain, very, very sad,.. NOT angry, but deeply sad, deeply in pain in his heart, in other words Broken Hearted to see sooo many of his precious children, not only going astray, but become very wicked in their hearts and in their actions. ... Remember, these people did not have faith in God,... they had knowledge. They knew God. A lot of them had heard his instructions from Adam, Seth, Enos... and so on. They KNEW for a fact about the teachings of God, and his existence; and they also KNEW about Satan. They were exposed to both facts. They openly rebelled and chose to follow Satan. Heavenly Father saw that, and it hurt him deeply... “...it grieved him at his heart” ... also, if Adam and Eve lived for so long... don’t you think that they might also be broken hearted, deeply sad, and hurt to see so many of their children openly rebel against them, and God??? Now, picture this: If you’re a parent or a sibling who loves God... how would you feel to see your own flesh and blood who once was very good, and had a witness that God loves him/her and now starts to hang out in a gang, or with drug addicts or idolize a killer, a rapist, a thief, a Satan’s worshiper; or all of the above??? How would you feel when they don’t want to listen to you, or don’t want to be around you... they completely reject you and your love, and chooses those bad influences over you??? That can cause intense pain... especially to a parent. It is almost unbearable to even think about it. Just the thought - it is too much ...And I’m only talking about one child..... Now can you imagine hundreds of them??? Maybe thousands?? If you can hardly bear to see one of your children go in a terrible direction, even though you might have five or ten children of your own... you still suffer for that one that left you.... right??? I know you would.. It is only natural, because you had that child and loved that child, because he/she is your own flesh and blood. Now picture how Adam and Eve must have felt... they raised a lot of these children, they once nursed them and held them and kiss them and gave them all the love a parent could give... No wonder Eve was so happy to bear Seth, and know that he was going to be like Abel. Now, if God is the creator of us all, and feels much, much more, and loves us much, much more than we can possible comprehend... how much more intense were his emotions, how do you think he felt to see so many of his children choose Satan over him, whom hasn’t done any thing for them, whom hasn’t sacrifice any thing for them??? I wouldn’t even be surprised if the LORD God cried to see them walk away from him... his children... the ones he created the earth for; to see them turn their backs away from him. Even then, the LORD gave them 120 years to repent before the flood. As parents, we also shed tears for our children, we do everything in our power to help them; but when some hit a point of no return... some parents move on, and leave them to their own consequences. Or throw them out of their homes...and so on. But if they get their act together, they are welcomed back home.. Right? Heavenly Father is no different; He knew they were at a point of no return.. He knew that if he let them go on, they would destroyed all that he worked for...they would continue to corrupt all of his children. They knew too much evil Wouldn’t you do the same? Wouldn’t you kick-out, or ask the rebellious child to move out so that he/she would not corrupt the rest of your children; that they may have a better chance at life?? Ponder what I just wrote. God loves us, he wants us to be happy, just like any other parent. How can I tell? Well, he has shown us his feelings or how he feels when we don’t choose him. Think of Cain, and his children; think of these children now... When the LORD sees that there is no turning back for these children: He decides to destroy them and start over again with all flesh.. but he is going to give them 120 years before he destroys them... Again on Genesis 4:3,7-9,11-13 “The LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man(human race), for he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years... And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air.... But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. ... Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. ...The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.” From these verses we can say that even the animals have been corrupted... Well, most of them; for there was Noah, his wife with three of his children and their wives who were righteous; and the animals that went with them in the Ark. Noah probably had more than three children, after all he was over 400 years old when Shem, Ham, and Japheth were born; and out of all of them; only three were righteous, with their wives . The three brothers were in their late 90's when they went into the Ark That means that they also had children; They also had to leave their children behind due to their wickedness... How sad is that??? Again, why am I telling you this, when you know the story? Well, I want to point out that God is no different then us when it comes to parenting... on a much higher level then us, but none the less the same as to wanting us to be happy and doing things for us to be happy, correcting us, and praising us when necessary. He is more fair and just though. Look, he gave the people 120 years to repent... isn’t that more than fair? You can tell that he doesn’t want to destroy them, for why else would he give them that much time? He loves them in spite of their evilness... well, obviously they didn’t repent, so they were drown. I’m pretty sure It was extremely sad for the LORD to see all those people drown before him. After the flood, the Lord promised not to flood the earth again, nor destroy all living thing again... and why did HE promise this?... he promised it for our sake. He made a covenant with Noah and his sons: Genesis 8:21 “... 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.” Notice that he doesn’t say “man’s(human race) heart is evil from” birth... but instead, he says that is evil from youth... which would make sense, because children don’t sin, they only do what they see others do,.... But, youth... they know better, so they act upon knowledge of good and bad. They know the difference between good and bad. Children don’t; at least not at first.

Anyway, after the flood which lasted over a year by the time it dried up; and Noah and his family were able to leave the Ark- “God blessed Noah and his sons and said unto them to Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.” Genesis 9:1. So, Remember Noah is only 601 years old. He was also included when “God ...said to Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.” Noah lived 950 years.. So he had another 350 years to multiply and replenish the earth. His children had a little bit more time. We know from Genesis that at least Shem lived about 600 years. He was about 98 years old when the flood stopped. The three brothers were in their late 90's when they went into the Ark. Genesis 11:10-11 “... Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxas two years after the flood: And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.” : So maybe his two other brothers lived as long, give or take. Anyway, Noah and his sons continued to multiply as they were told to do. God gave them instructions just like he instructed Adam and Eve. It is interesting... When the Lord instructed Adam and Eve about food outside of the garden; it doesn’t say anything about eating animal flesh... at least I didn’t see it. He tells them about toiling the ground and eating herbs, but nothing on animal meat.... Maybe he told him and we don’t know about it. (Remember, the Bible was translated many times before it was translated to the English language, and during the dark ages; there were things withheld from the people by their religious leaders. So the Bible is not complete: There are books that are missing... for one, there are all those patriarchs from Adam, and after Adam that must have written about what they taught their children... it obviously implies that they taught them to pray and make offerings to the Lord, and if the children were turning away from God, they must have said some things to them to try to reason with them. I doubt it that they just let them walk away without a fight for their lives: to help them repent. Isn’t that what good parents do???) Food for thought. Anyway, going back to Adam and Eve and their eating instructions; it shows that they sacrifice animals, but nothing on eating animal meat.. Now, when he instructs Noah, He puts him in charge of the animals, but He also tells him that now the animals will fear them; that “Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for them; even as the green herb” Genesis 9:2-3 “ And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.” He also told them that they can eat the meat, BUT not the blood nor the flesh that it is still alive. Blood signifies life. Were the people before the flood so wicked that they ate animals or flesh that was still alive while they ate it? They definitely committed murder.. They learned it from Cain. Well, God definitely set new rules after the flood, which causes one to think that he did it to prevent some of the same things from happening again with this new beginnings of man. He places the penalty for murder, which seemed to not have been necessarily demanded before the flood. At least not this way. He is more stern with the consequences; Again, maybe so that man may think twice before committing some thing this great: Genesis 9:4-6 “But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed for in the image of God made he man.” Again, here is another scriptures that indicates that God is not a mist nor energy. He again reminds us that we are made in his image which means appearance, likeness; which means that if we have arms and legs and so forth, he must also have them... common sense. No mystery there. He is a perfect, glorify being who looks like us, or more like, we look like him in appearance. From the above scripture we can see that he wants us to know how sacred is our body. He wants us to have respect for it: “for in the image of God made he man”shouldn’t we revere that knowledge???

One last thought: Most people think that the covenant God made about the rainbow was with Noah, BUT the covenant was NOT only with Noah, but with his sons and ALL FLESH - including animals: Genesis9:9- 13,16“... I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. And I will establish my covenant with you;... And God said, this is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth... And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.” (Perpetual means everlasting, lasting for eternity:... indefinitely,.. unlimited duration). Isn’t this a wonderful, and very thoughtful promise. God could have made this covenant with Noah: He didn’t need to include anyone else, Yet, He loves all of us, He loves all his creations that he includes every living thing on the earth. How loving of a parent is he??? He loves us immensely, beyond our comprehension. Ponder this.

I have one more entry on Noah and his family. I hope you can see how real and personal our Heavenly Father is with his children... and he’s still is with us...if we let him. Thank you for reading the Blog. I hope it continues to intrigue you enough to Ponder the scriptures as you read them. Thank you.

JC