Providence of Restoration - Noah's family

Restoration would be onto Noah's family. Now, we can say that Noah's family is like Abraham, like Adam's family. Adam had three sons, and of course, the expectation was that Adam and Eve would confess what they did. They would say, 'Yeah, sorry, we ate the fruit,' and God would forgive them. The process of restoration got started straight away, dramatically. Because they didn't do that and weren't able to separate from Satan, we talked about before how people go through this trying to restore what went on at the Fall. We saw that with Cain and Abel. If both sides, Cain and Abel, had done the right things, then Cain wouldn't have ended up killing Abel. It says that God gave Adam and Eve a third son, Seth, and after that, there were also the names of those midwives and their three sons as well. These three sons mean that they were eight members of Noah's family, which represents the eighth Noah. The idea is that God is setting things up to do sort of role play and to put these eight people in a similar situation like Adam's family. This time, instead of doing the wrong thing and continuing the same pattern of wrong behaviour, they would actually do the right thing across generations.

If you divide the three stages of growth into personal assessment, he says there are three parts. The last one is that even though this one attack pretends as if the attendant represents unity from the oneness with God in the direct dominion of God, the idea was that there were going to be these ten generations. They were supposed to be a certain kind of status or standard. The idea was that our potential immersion world should be a good place for God to be able to start working again. That's why for today's discussion, we claim that generations, when ten generations had passed, God saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth. Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually, and the Lord was sorry that he made man and grieved in his heart. The Lord said, 'I will blot out man whom I created from the face of the ground, and beasts and creeping things and the birds of the air.'

God was originally both to create a world of peace, joy, and happiness, with his children being really happy. But the reality was a world of murder, robbery, and rape. His children, instead of living in peace and joy, were just suffering, being abused and oppressed. A terrible thing happened. God looked at the world and felt sorry that he created human beings because he felt sorry for the situation into which human beings were born. The world was terminally suffering. This sets up their progressive creation of beings. Sometimes people say they think, 'Oh, you know, worldwide children, this has happened, that's happened.' All the things with regard to the situation in which I'm living for parents when they can't grieve. So we've got things okay. I will wipe everybody out. The idea here was that if everybody dies, nobody's going to be born into this hell. It's better to stop everything and put everybody in this virtual world than to have more people born into this world of incredible traditions.

This story is not unique. You find the story quite in many places in the ancient world, which is where Abraham came from. Think of all these things; these were the teachings of Abraham. The historian finds in the flood with Noah has its own particular kind of spin or interpretation, which is quite distinct from the other flood stories. Part of it is to do with why did it happen? Sometimes people think, 'Well, the great flood is taking place; it's because God is angry.' Children are suffering, then he told the story of the strategic plan revealing God's fires and suffering. There's a motivation for entering the place of restoration of Noah's family. Someone has to make up for all the foundation of faith. We looked at this before in the foundation of faith in much more detail as an offering to the park, appearing in the types of forty days. So what does the number forty represent? It represents a foundation laid into a solid foundation substance, which we'll look at later. This would have created a foundation for God to send a Messiah, and for this to happen, they require a combination of Divine grace and human will for God's will to be done.

Noah and the offering that was in the ark represented the universe, just as Cain and Abel's living offerings represented all creation. The foundation of faith is restoring also a relationship of the creation. There's an offering, and I represent this universe with stages. The tradition is that Noah went out for two hundred twenty years to build the ark. This is from the Talmud and understanding of the period. During this time, Noah was a priest. What was he trying to do? What was the occasion? What do you think he was telling people to do? He was telling them to prevent the flood. He said there's going to be a flood, just like Jonah went to Nineveh and said, 'This city is going to be destroyed if you don't repent.' Noah had some kind of intuition that there was going to be a terrible environmental catastrophe, an incredible flood. For two hundred twenty years, he would have gone around telling people, 'There's going to be some kind of terrible flood disaster. You need to repent and build your own ship or boats, or when the flood comes, you'll be safe; you won't drown.'

According to the story, that's not the case. People weren't paying attention to Noah; they just wanted to make fun of him until eventually, it was very unsuccessful in terms of getting anybody to listen to him. So what do you think about the flood? Do you think God sent the flood? Is it a natural disaster? I think it's something that would have taken place anyway. Earthquakes and tsunamis are just natural phenomena that take place. If there had been no Fall, there still would have been earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis. The difference is that people would have been much more sensitive to the natural environment. They would have adjusted themselves so they wouldn't build new conditions blindly. When that tsunami happened, people often say that all the animals knew because they picked up on some kind of sensitivity or intuition that something was going to take place. If that hadn't been declared as the flood, I think with the natural world, we would have picked up these kinds of alarm signals and been able to do what was necessary to escape. A lot of people wouldn't have been able to do that.

Sometimes these things happen. There was a case where there was a cold wine, and a lot of waste came out, piling up this huge mountain of waste product just outside the village. It was raining, and some inspectors said it wasn't safe; they needed to do something about it. Somebody had a dream that it was going to collapse one day. There was a huge status before these kinds of natural disasters take place. Sometimes people have dreams that offer some kind of warning, but generally speaking, most people ignore them, thinking, 'Oh, that was just a dream.' It's hard to know which is a real warning and which is not. Noah obviously set the time for the flood, and then Noah's family during the flood was supposed to separate from Satan and purify themselves as a family, representing all the other ten generations of families. They were to represent these ten generations that had gone before, which had separated from Satan to purify themselves during this period of the flood.

God said, 'You shall go into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.' When they went into the ark, they went in separately. The Bible mentions this three times, which means it's really important. What do you think the sleeping arrangements were like in the ark? They separated the story for the men and women. Noah told his family not to have sexual relations during the flood judgment. This is a traditional understanding and interpretation from the early church fathers. I never noticed this before. I discovered this in 1982; it should have been about sexual relations, but it's only a couple of years ago that some church fathers pointed out this verse where they went in separately. We understand that God has a mathematical being; these numbers and principles of creation need to be restored. The numbers from creation are one, two, three, and from that, you get the three stages of growth: formation, personification, and the four-position foundation. This can be divided into three stages, and you can also divide that into four plus three, giving you twelve. Each of these has relationships within the structure, giving twelve possible relationships whose subject is.

Speaking of the growth of these three stages, each represents seven years. Seven stages reach maturity and perfection. Four times ten is expected. In Noah's family, you can see how these numbers restore God. The animals go into the ark in three stages, representing three different levels. They are twelve relationships to the four-position foundation. Noah was going out preaching, trying to relate to all these different matters for twenty years, forty years, and ten generations. It's like judgment, then twenty-one times the dulcet are three times seven days. Sixteen hundred years passed from Adam to Noah, one hundred and twenty years of preaching and building the ark, forty days of rain, and then Mount Ararat. Forty days later, Noah sent out the raven, seven days later sent out the dove the second time, and then the dove the third time. After that, it was the first day of the new year, and the earth was dry. If you look at those numbers, can you see anything? Does that pattern recur in later historical provinces?

Noah's family came out as couples. They went in all the men first, then the women. When they came out, they came out as couples. God said to Noah, 'You and your wife, go out.' They came out as couples, and then Noah built an altar to the Lord, offering burnt offerings on the altar. God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, 'Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth.' God gave Noah and his family the same blessing to be fruitful and multiply after dominion that God gave to Adam and Eve. This was a new start, a new beginning. God gave Noah's family what is called the Noahide Code, which consists of seven basic laws for all humanity. These laws were supposed to apply to all human beings because all human beings descended from Noah. The Jews come from Abraham, but all human beings are in the section of Noah. These were the laws that God gave to all human beings: first, no idolatry; you shouldn't worship idols, only God; no stealing; no sexual immorality; no blasphemy, taking God's name in vain; no eating flesh from living creatures; and the establishment of courts of law. The main important emphasis here is on establishing a court of law, the idea that there should be justice, which is very important. Peace without justice is not peace. Justice is a very important concept. The idea of being kind to creatures is understood; you should take care of animals and not be cruel to them. The idea of cruelty is something which God abhors. Nowadays, you have animal rights people advocating for this, but this is what was revealed in Noah's time thousands of years ago.

For many thousands of years, people have treated animals poorly. Animals are often regarded as mere objects, and it has taken most thinking individuals a long time to understand the importance of caring for and respecting these creatures. In the case of my man, who is a second son, he would turn to stand for the second principle. However, I understand the position of Abel, as one who succeeded in making the symbolic offering. He had to become one in heart with his father, Noah. Abel may have often succeeded, but there were also things he did not succeed in. Nevertheless, he was still the foundation of faith.

In the story of Noah, he is the one who built the ark and restored the foundation of faith. For Ham to stand in the position of Abel as a sending figure, he needed to inherit the foundation of faith from Noah. To inherit this foundation, he had to be one in heart with Noah, love him, and be loyal to him. If he became Noah's favourite son, then he would be able to establish himself as Abel. However, he had to be very humble when considering the perspectives of his older brothers.

Let me recount the curious incident in the tent. Noah planted a vineyard, made wine, became drunk, and fell asleep naked inside his tent. Ham saw Noah naked in the tent and went to tell his brothers, Shem and Japheth. They came to cover Noah, and when he woke up, he cursed Ham's son, Canaan. This incident raises questions about unity and shame. When Ham saw Noah naked, he felt ashamed of his father instead of being proud of him. He judged Noah and shared this shame with his brothers, who also felt ashamed of their father.

In contrast, Shem and Japheth covered Noah and acted with respect. When Noah woke up, he chastised Ham for his actions. Ham's shame led to a separation from Noah, preventing him from inheriting the foundation of faith. This incident illustrates that feeling ashamed can be a sin. An object partner exists to support and act, and Satan cannot act if no one cooperates with him. If everyone resists the evil force of desires, then Satan cannot invade their minds, thoughts, emotions, or actions.

Before the Fall, Adam and Eve were naked and unashamed; they were innocent. However, after the Fall, they felt shame because of their actions. Noah's family had a chance to separate from Satan after the flood, but Ham's shame indicated a connection to Satan's lineage. By feeling ashamed, Ham could not inherit the position of Abel from Noah. Instead of feeling compassion for his father, he judged him and projected his own guilt onto Noah, accusing him of sin.

Ideally, Ham should have approached Noah the next morning, apologising for his actions and expressing compassion. Instead, he allowed himself to be dominated by shame and persuaded his brothers to cover Noah. If they had resisted Ham's influence, one of the brothers could have stood in the position of Abel. This situation illustrates that just because one thing goes wrong does not mean all hope is lost. There are always other possibilities for restoration.

From Noah's family, we learn the importance of compassion and respect, even in difficult situations. If we make a mistake, we should identify it quickly and not let unresolved issues linger. Life is filled with baggage from our past experiences, and these unresolved issues can affect our reactions in the present. It is crucial to reflect on our day, apologise to those we may have wronged, and strive for clarity in our relationships.

Restoration involves addressing the emotional baggage we carry and understanding why we react in certain ways. We must confront our feelings and thoughts, identifying their roots in our past. It is essential to work on ourselves and correct our mistakes. Making mistakes is not inherently problematic; the real issue arises when we fail to admit, confess, and apologise for them. The disaster occurs when we do not take responsibility for our actions, leading to further complications.

We all make mistakes, and that is part of being human. When we sin, it is important to take responsibility for our actions. Acknowledging our faults and apologising is a crucial step in this process. Once we do that, these experiences become part of us; they become embedded in our nature.

Over time, we can become comfortable with our mistakes and learn from them. This acceptance allows us to grow and evolve as individuals. It is essential to recognise that making mistakes is not the end, but rather a part of our journey towards understanding and improvement.