Lesson date: 12/17/5854AA

Verse 1 – “Be fruitful” is used in conjunction with (H853) /“blessed”.

Psa 128:3  Let your wife be As a fruit-bearing vine within your house, Your sons like olive plants all around your table.

Psa 128:4  Look, so shall the man be blessed Who fears יהוה.

Verse 2- “The fear of you and the dread of you” shows that before the flood, since nothing ate meat, there was no fear of man nor animal innate in animals until after the flood. In Bereshith 1:29 He gives man all the green trees and plants for food.

Verse 3-4 – (Get ready to have your socks blown away. Just a warning to wear shoes and to be careful where you tread.))

The command to eat meat is now given. Why? What is significant about us being able to eat meat? After having been saved by the immersion of water Noah and his family are instructed they can eat meat: 1Pe 3:20  who were disobedient at one time when the patience of Elohim waited in the days of Noaḥ, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight beings, were saved through water,

1Pe 3:21  which figure now also saves us: immersion – not a putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward Elohim – through the resurrection of יהושע Messiah,

Here is a hint: Joh 6:48  “I am the bread of life.”

Joh 6:49  “Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died.

Joh 6:50  “This is the bread which comes down out of the heaven, so that anyone might eat of it, and not die.

Joh 6:51  “I am the living bread which came down out of the heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever. And indeed, the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”

Joh 6:52  The Yehudim, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, “How is this One able to give us His flesh to eat?”

Joh 6:53  יהושע therefore said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Adam and drink His blood, you possess no life in yourselves.

Joh 6:54  “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood possesses everlasting life, and I shall raise him up in the last day.

Joh 6:55  “For My flesh is (truly)* food, and My blood is (truly)* drink. *Please see note below.

Joh 6:56  “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood stays in Me, and I in him.

Joh 6:57  “As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me shall live because of Me.

Joh 6:58  “This is the bread which came down out of the heaven, not as your fathers ate the manna and died. He who eats this bread shall live forever.

* Truly is the word we want to look at. G230 – ἀληθῶς – alēthōs – al-ay-thoce’ – Adverb from G227; truly: ((It can also mean “pure”))

“I have given you all” There is a play on words here and I believe, if we had the original Hebrew, we would see Yeshua using it in John 6. In Aramaic you have bread  = meat and food. In Hebrew you have bread = meat and food. Here is the wordplay being employed: food can = bread and meat; bread can = all food; and meat can be any substantive food, i.e. bread and/or meat.

Had we not been allowed to eat meat we could not have been able to partake of the Passover Lamb and therefore would have no hope of redemption of sin. Bitter herbs were employed in the painting of the blood on the doorposts but had not “substance” or “flesh”.

Deu_12:16  “Only, the blood you do not eat, pour it on the earth like water.

Deu_15:23  “Only, do not eat(H853) its blood, pour it on the ground like water.

Now let’s look at the two operative words here: H1818- דָּם – dâm – dawm – From H1826 (compare H119); blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy the juice of the grape;

and: H121 – אָדָם – ‘âdâm – aw-dawm’ – The same as H120; Adam, the name of the first man,

We now see that we have to drink the blood – dam – of the Son of Adam to be redeemed.

D         = tent flap, door, back and forth movement, dangle

m         = water, chaos, mighty, the nations, especially “blood”

“The moving back and forth of the water.”

and:

a         = head of an ox, strong leader, El, yoke of oxen

d         = tent flap, door, dangle

m         = water, chaos, nations, blood

“Elohim’s blood will flow back and forth (for man).”

Verses 5-6 – Life is required for a life even if it is for an animal killing a man.

Verse 7 – “bear fruit and increase”: Gen 38:6  And Yehuḏah took a wife for Ěr his first-born, and her name was Tamar.

Gen 38:7  But Ěr, Yehuḏah’s first-born, was evil in the eyes of יהוה, and יהוה took his life.

Gen 38:8  And Yehuḏah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife and marry her, and raise up an heir to your brother.”

Gen 38:9  And Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. And it came to be, when he went in to his brother’s wife, that he spilled on the ground,** lest he should give an offspring to his brother. Gen 38:10  But what he did displeased יהוה, so He took his life too.

**early form of birth control

Birth control was against the plan of YHVH and was therefore evil.

Verses 8-17 – We see a covenant being established and it is with Noah and his see and all animals that He will never destroy the Earth by water again.

Verse 13 – “I shall set My rainbow in the cloud,”. Why is it His rainbow?

Eze 1:28  As the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the esteem of יהוה. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking.

Rev_4:3  And He who sat there was like a jasper and a ruby stone in appearance. And there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance.

Rev_10:1  And I saw another strong messenger coming down from the heaven, robed in a cloud, and a rainbow on his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet like columns of fire,

The rainbow is not just a pretty set of 7 colors floating in the horizon but it is actually the proof of YHVH’s presence. What else does it indicate?

H7198 – קֶשֶׁת – qesheth – keh’-sheth – From H7185 in the original sense (of H6983) of bending; a bow, for shooting (hence figuratively strength) or the iris: –  X arch (-er), + arrow, bow ([-man, -shot]).

No mention of rainbow but a bow like a bow and arrow: Psa_7:12  If one does not repent! He sharpens His sword, He bends His bow and makes it ready,

Psa_18:34  Teaching my hands for battle, So that my arms shall bend a bow of bronze.

Psa_64:7  But Elohim does shoot at them with an arrow; Their wounds shall be sudden.

Lam_3:12  He has bent His bow And set me up as a target for the arrow.

Zec_9:14  And יהוה shall appear for them, and His arrow go forth like lightning, and the Master יהוה sound the ram’s horn. And He shall go with whirlwinds from the south,

Verse 18-19 – Noah’s descendants. In this verse we see the reference to Ham as the father of Kena’an even though Kena’an has not been born yet. This makes Kena’an very important to this story.

Verse 20-21 – Like an old silent movie, where the villain twists his mustache and quickly raises his eyebrows to indicate he has an evil idea we see this happening in Hebrew for the word “began”:

H2490 – חָלַל – châlal – khaw-lal’ – profane, prostitute, polute

If Adam himself was a man of the soil how is this perverse? It wan’t the action but the outcome of that action.

Verse 22 – Once again we see that Ham is mentioned as the father of Kena’an, this time relative to the nakedness of his father. What is so bad about seeing your father naked?

Lev_18:8  ‘The nakedness of your father’s wife you do not uncover, it is your father’s nakedness.

I believe that this indicates that Ham had sexual intercourse with his own mother and Kena’an was born as a result of this deed. To make matters worse Ham bragged about it to his brothers: Told = H5046 – נָגַד – nâgad – naw-gad’ – A primitive root; properly to front, that is, stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively to announce (always by word of mouth to one present);

Verse 23 – Shem and Yapheth covered their mother with a garment. Imagine the shame and humiliation she must have felt.

Verse 24-25 – Noah awoke and cursed Kena’an, who had not even been born yet. Why? H3667 – כְּנַעַן -kena‛an – ken-ah’-an – From H3665; humiliated; Kenaan, a son of Ham;

The first recorded words of Noah in Scripture is his rebuking his yet unborn grandson. But what is so bad about being “a servant of servants”? Isn’t it better than death?

Joh 15:14  “You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

Joh 15:15  “No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, for all teachings which I heard from My Father I have made known to you.

A servant doesn’t know what the master is doing or going to do. A servant of servants would know even less. Not knowing what our Master and Messiah has done for us is a death sentence but this time a spiritual death.

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Verse 26 – Shem is blessed in the blessing of Elohim and Kena’an’s curse continues.

Verse 27 – Yapheth is blessed and Kena’an’s curse continues.

Verses 28-29 – Noah lived 950 years.