Jesus Foreshadow

Jesus Foreshadowed Through Noah

Noah and the ark just might be one of the most popular stories in the Bible. Even those who are unbelievers know the story of Noah. As well, there are a few different movies about this man and what happened, but none come to biblical truth. Noah was more than a character in a story, he was a real man who did something amazing for the kingdom of God. Noah was a just man who found grace in days of wickedness, the work he did in the Old Testament was symbolic and a representation of the foreshadowing of our Lord Jesus Christ. In the beginning was God, and the word was with God. Genesis 1:26 ”Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…” (Women’s Study Bible, NKJV). The wording used

As well as two of every clean and unclean animal and everything that creeped on the earth. In a corrupt and sinful world, the ark became the salvation for Noah and his family that protected and spared them from the wrath of God. This clearly foreshadows Christ, that when Jesus came he became the safety and salvation of the world by shedding His blood to cleanse us of our sins, to cover us and protect us from the wrath of the Father. Equally important, the ark is clearly made with a single door. Christ is the only way to enter into salvation, “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved…” (John 10:9). The single door of the ark is symbolic that the only way to be saved from the sinful world was to enter through the one and only door. Just as Christ is the door, He is the one and only way to enter into salvation. Additionally, the door of the ark was specifically “set in the side thereof” (Genesis 6:16). “Surely this points toward the piercing of the side of Christ on the cross” (Hymers 5). Furthermore, Dr. R.L. Hymers, Jr. points out that “the ark shows the atonement of Christ.” Genesis 6:14 says, “Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch” (KJV). The word “pitch” is translated from the Hebrew word “kaphar” and this means “to cover.” The blood of Jesus Christ is a

This is foreshadowing of Christ coming as a sacrifice for all of mankind. Thereafter Noah’s sacrifice God was pleased, Genesis 9:1 “Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth” (NKJV). Noah became like a second Adam. From the beginning Adam was told to be fruitful and multiply to fill the earth (Genesis 1:28). After the flood God told Noah to do the same as well as establishing a covenant with Noah and all of his decedents after him. God promises He will never destroy the earth in a flood again and creates the rainbow as a sign of this covenant (Genesis 9:9,13). Shortly after Noah and his family went out from the ark Noah became a farmer and planted a vineyard. He drank of the wine and became drunk one day, this is where his son Ham found him naked; consequently, Noah cursed his grandson Cannan (Genesis 9:18-27). This is likely added to the end of the story of Noah to show that without the blood of Jesus the human race is subject to sin. That every person needs the blood of Jesus in order to be redeemed from their sinful nature.

In conclusion, the biblical story of Noah in Genesis is an important aspect of the foreshadowing of Jesus Christ. Every detail was carefully thought of by God the Father before the birth of His son. God knew, from the very beginning, exactly what would happen before the birth