Okay, now let's move on to part three here of this lesson of the Flood. We'll get to typology. So we've seen all of the events of the Flood, the occasion of the Flood, with the sons of God and daughters of men bringing sin upon the earth, Noah's the only righteous man around. We saw his biography, what his name means, how God calls him to be mediated of this new covenant, the Flood Waters, the actual covenant that he establishes with Noah in Creation in chapter 9, all of this stuff.
And we've seen all the echoes of Genesis chapters 1 through 3, really chapter 1, and of how there is a new creation taking place. So this major thing that we opened up with, Decoration and Recreation, I want to tie all these little hints and echoes and flashes, like Deja of Ummomom in here as we read the Flood account, and see how it all ties together again, and we can learn what is being taught here, what are the larger lessons that are being taught here with the story. So in part three of your notes, we've got typological lessons. Number one, I want to see how the Flood is a new creation, again, Decoration, Recreation, how Noah is a new Adam, that's part one.
Then I want to look at the typology of the Flood as baptism, and how baptism washes away our sin within our heart. Because remember there's that other key thing we opened up with chapter 6 verse 5, the thoughts of the events hearts were ew continuously from his youth. Sin is in the heart, and the Flood teaches us that we need to ultimately wash sin from our heart. How does that happen?
Well, we're going to look at the typology of baptism. Then I want to see typology of Noah and the Ark prefiguring Jesus in his church. And then finally, everyone's favorite, how is the Flood a type of the end of the world? Because God swore he would not destroy the Earth by water, but he didn't say he wouldn't destroy the Earth.
Now, Decoration, Recreation, Motif will be applicable even to the end of time when God creates a new Heavens and a new Earth and destroys the old. Okay, so we'll look at all these points of typology for the last section of this class. Now, go to Roman numeral one, let's look at the Flood as a renewed creation. And just by way of recapping this whole theme, I've got this quote for you from your commentary, which says, the Flood needs to be understood as an active recreation, whereby God plunges the world almost back to the original state of Tohu Abohu, Formlessness and Void, if you remember back in chapter one of Genesis, there was these two problems, the Earth was formless and it was empty.
So now it seems like the Earth has returned to that. With the Earth below the surface of the deep, it then rises back up again, end quote. So that's from your commentary I recommended the references in your footnotes. So this is the problem with the Flood, we're going back to Genesis chapter one, verse one.
And so now the Earth is covered with waters, and then the Earth rises again out of the waters. So what I've done for you here, just for the sake of time, I want to make all the connections that we've seen so far in this lesson in a list format. So you can see that there are these parallels between creation of the Flood, and then Noah as a new Adam. So number one, obviously, water is covered the whole face of the Earth yet again, and then the Ruach of God moves, hovers, flutters over the waters.
So just like in chapter one, the Ruach, the spirit of God covers the waters. Now you have again, in chapter eight verse one, remember God made a Ruach blow over the course over the face of the whole Earth. So the Ruach is present three, obviously land re-emerges from the water. Four, Noah's Ark is filled with flora and fauna, recalling the Garden of Eden.
We'll talk more about that in just a little while about how the Ark is really, really should be seen as a new Garden of Eden and as well as a new temple. All right, so that's number four. Number five, this is so interesting because if you go back to the Genesis account, Genesis chapter one, God creates first the plants and the animals and the man. Well, it's interesting in the Flood account, plants re-emerge, come forth first, specifically the all of branch and then more plants after that.
Even out of the Ark comes the animals and then finally out of the Ark comes the man. So you have the same sequence of presentation of plants, animals and man. Okay, that is number five. In number six, you have the Blessed to be fruitful and multiply for both Adam, even as well as for Noah.
And have all the references here. I don't have time to get into all this with you now because we've seen it in our study. But I have all the references in your notes, you can go back and compare them side by side if you want to. So that's six, blessing to be fruitful and multiply for both Adam and Noah.
Seven, dominion over the animals is given both to Adam as well as to Noah. And then both Adam and Noah, number eight are tillers of the soil. Okay, nine, Adam and Noah are both heads of the subsequent human families. Naturally, Adam is the first man of all human history.
And then Noah is the head of the new creation after the Flood. Okay. Number 10, Noah is the mediator of the renewed covenant as we saw, just as Adam is the mediator of the original covenant. 11, Noah's name means rest as we saw, rest, relief, comfort, which is an absolute obvious reference to the Sabbath rest of creation, the seventh day.
Number 12, both Adam and Noah have three sons that are mentioned by name here. Adam has Cain, Abel and Seth, and then Noah has Shim Ham and J. Fifth. Okay, three sons for Adam, three sons for Noah.
Number 12, Adam has, no, excuse me, no, we did 12, three names sons. Okay, number 13, the covenant number seven is prominent, very importantly, in both accounts, obviously the seven days of creation, the Sabbath rest, and all the best signifies intimacy with God, worship of God, friendship with God, be a child of God, all the things that we discussed in previous lessons. Well, now the number seven is everywhere in the flood account. For example, there are seven pairs of all the clean animals.
You've got the flood that came after a warning of seven days. The Ark rested on Mount Ararat for, or after the seventh month, Noah sent out a dove every seven days. And my personal favorite, now most people don't point this out, but I really love this connection. Even the rainbow has seven colors to it.
Okay, so it's not explicit in the text, obviously, but if you ever paid attention to a rainbow, there are seven colors. So it's so awesome that the sign of the covenant, the bow, the rainbow, itself has within it the number seven. That just gives me every single time. That's fantastic.
And of course, Noah comes on the Ark with seven people. So anyways, seven everywhere, because it's a renewal of the covenant of creation. If the number 14, you also have those five characteristics that Adam had in the beginning that we discussed, right? Adam is a son of God.
He is a bridegroom to his wife, but he's priest, prophet and king of creation. Those five characteristics are also present for Noah, right? Noah is a priest, so we'll do the reverse, right? He's a priest because he built an altar and he sacrificed on us, obviously, a priest.
He's a prophet because he preached repentance to his generation. He's king of creation. He's the minion over all the earth. He is a son of God because he's in the line of Seth descended from Adam.
And then finally he's bridegroom to his, his bride, Mrs. Noah. We don't know her name, but Mrs. Mrs.
Noah, he's a bridegroom, has a husband to her. And that's actually really, really important because in the next lesson, I want to draw the connections. This lesson is called the fall, the new fall. This is new beginnings and new creation.
Well, there's also a new fall, and I want to draw a connection for you with the whole bridegroom aspect showing you how Adam and Noah are parallel in that way as well. So for all of these, and this is honestly 14 of them, there are more when we talk about the fall between Adam and Noah. But this is, I think, should just kind of whet our appetite to see the undeniable parallels between these two accounts. So the flood is not this random story, infliction of punishment on a simple humanity.
It's deeply, theologically significant, de-creation, re-creation. Now, next, let's look at the symbolism and the typology sacramentally on how to evoke baptism, washes away our sin, and we're looking at Peter. So turn, flip the page here, and we're going to look at Roman numeral two. I'm Dr.
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