Noah and The Flood Genesis 6:5-14, 7:17-21

The story of Noah and the ark is about God’s judgment for human sin.  It is akin to God’s destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, His judgment of the generation that refused to enter the Promised Land, and the razing of Jerusalem and the deportation to Babylon.  It foreshadows the final judgment.  Sidney Greidanus, professor of preaching at Calvin Seminary, writes, “It is a precursor of God’s final judgment at Jesus’ Second Coming (Matt 24:39) when “the heavens will be set ablaze and dissolved, and the elements will melt with fire” (2 Pet 3:12) and all will be judged by the heavenly Judge on the “great white throne” (Rev 20:11-15).”

Noah foreshadows Jesus.  Through his obedience a remnant of humanity was saved.  But there was a key difference between the two.  Noah preserved a remnant through escaping judgment; Jesus preserved a remnant through undergoing it.  Pastor Tim Keller states, “On the cross, what do you have?  Through his sinking, the same wrath, the same judgment, that sank Jesus can lift you up if you get into him, if you climb on in. Then all of the waves and all of the billows and all the lashing and all of the lightning and all of the thunder are slapping against him. He takes it. You’re in him. That means there now is no more judgment for you. “There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.””