Saturday,November15, 2003
SOME THREES IN OLD TESTAMENT TYPES OF THE UNITY AND TRIUNITY.
NOAH THE BUILDER OF THE ARK. An Ark of salvation and deliverance. Built by Noah [Rest] who is himself a type of the Lord who gives security, deliverance and rest. His father speaking prophetically gave him his name and said, that he would be a comfort to them, relieving them from the hard labor of the curse. Gen. 5:28 Wickedness was rampant in his days. The earth was corrupt and filled with violence. Gen. 6:11 The thoughts and actions of men were constantly directed toward evil and unrightousness. Jesus used that day as a sign of the condition of the earth in the days of the coming of the Son of man. Lk 17:26-27 The world is certainly satisfying that bit of the prophetic picture. In the midst of crocked and perverse generation of people, the Lord found a man after His own heart. Gen. 6:5 Noah found favor and grace in the eyes of the Lord. Gen. 6:8 No wonder, for he was a righteous man, perfect and blameless, even in the sight of the people of his time. He walked with God. Gen. 6:9 It is not difficult to see why the Lord chose him to start all over again and to make him to be the beginning of a righteous race.
THE ARK. It was built of a durable wood which would easily float. The wood was covered with pitch inside and outside making it to have three layers. The middle being the wood, which was completely sealed assuring that no water could leak into the ark. The three made one are representative of the Godhead. The Father, the Son (always the middle one) and the Holy Spirit. Three, yet blended together making one. Gen. 6:14 The wood is likewise symbolic of the cross of Christ. It was to have three stories, once again three built together in one Ark. An interesting side note, that would give it four decks and four is the number of this world. The Lord preserved the populating of the earth in the family of Noah. There were eight souls saved. 1 Pet. 3:20 Eight is the number of new beginnings or of resurrection. The door (Christ) was on the side of the Ark, in the second story, the middle one. Jesus is the door of salvation. John 10:9 The third story contained the window, the source of ventilation and the entrance of light. It was unquestionably a window of a cubit high which circled the entire top deck of the Ark. So we have three stories, the first being the foundation representing the Father the source of all things. The second the Son, always the one in the middle, the door. The third deck, that which depicts the Holy Spirit. The light giver, the revealer. The breath and living source of air, whose very name means breath, air or Spirit. The Lord has revealed Himself and the constitution of His being throughout nature and through His Word. When scientists, in their research, come to a place where they find themselves missing an element and do not know how to explain that which is a mystery, so often times the answer is so simple, and that is the Lord. He has placed an element of Himself in all that He has created.