Chapter 10: Noah's Sacrifice

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Genesis 8
Later Noah removed the covering of the ark. By one year and ten days, the earth was quite dry. So God told Noah that he and his wife and sons and their wives should leave the ark. And so they and the beasts and the birds and creeping things, all left the ark. How happy! But God had been with Noah all that long time in the ark. The joy of Heaven is to be with God, and the Lord Jesus, and He with us. Noah had this joy; although he was shut up inside the ark a whole year, he had the best Friend with him. We who believe in the Lord Jesus have Him with us, and are just as safe as Noah.
Noah built an altar and sacrificed of every clean beast and bird. The Lord smelled a sweet smell, and 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 everything living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease” (Gen. 8:20-22). The sweet smell from the altar is a picture of God’s foreseeing the preciousness of the sacrifice of His Son on the cross for us, and for Noah too.
All the water of the flood, or of baptism, can never wash away the sins of your bad thoughts and works, for “without the shedding of blood is no remission” (Heb. 9:22).
God blessed Noah and his sons, and said, “Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth. 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, But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat” (Gen. 9:1-4).
Some think that good acts, not eating meat, not killing things, makes them fit for heaven. No! Eating meat, or not eating, has nothing to do with the forgiveness of our sins (1 Tim. 4:1-6). But we do not eat the blood. Why? Because the blood is the life, and the life belongs to God (Acts 15:20-29; Lev. 17:10-14). The blood of Jesus Christ poured out, tells us that He died—He gave life for us.
God put the rainbow in the clouds as a sign of no more flood. This reminds us that God has promised that all who trust in the Lord Jesus have everlasting life and will escape judgment (John 3:16; John 5:24).
Noah planted grapevines, drank wine, and got drunk. His son Ham saw him naked in his tent, but Shem and Japheth covered their father. When Noah was awakened from the wine, and knew what was done, he cursed Ham’s son. From then on, Ham’s children were to be servants.