Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, decreed the Trinity.

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2)            It is not just a vessel – Noah’s Ark –, it is the divine treasure box to preserve and protect the lives of His saints. Who are God’s saints? They are generation of holy people called out of darkness into the marvellous light of Jesus, where our lives show forth the praises of the Most High. You may want to ask, “Why did God put His saints in a chest?” The LORD God made a huge investment in the Adamic elevation. The last of intelligent being of the creationism, Adam the female, carried the Divine actuation of the soteriology in her. Salvation of mankind having been conclusively proved in the rising of the Eden Woman from the deathlike sleep of Adam, from whom she was formed, the LORD God rested from all His works of the recreationism! It is another way of saying, “It is done!” God had to wait until the number eight summed up those that will enter the ark. Noah alone would not have been kosher. One represents the unity of the Godhead. Noah, in his sinlessness, did not possess true unity with the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. Two saints would have been inappropriate. Two, being of witness and testimony, would wrongly rank them as being members of Godhead.

Male and female created He them (Genesis 1:27).

                Three stands for the Trinity which they, who needed redemption, were not a part. Four is creation which could probably give them the tag of new creators. The grace, solely of God, is the number five. God did not save six: for it is a reminder of the day of Adam’s creation who became a sinner. Man is not perfect so seven antediluvian saints should not be the occupants of divine chest of very valuable souls. Eight stands for new beginning; the number eight of antediluvian saints was most proper. God wanting to begin a new thing, the freaky pollution of the world by fallen angels and their irredeemable progenies must be absolutely removed. Now, where would God keep the redeemable souls of Adamic existence? Of course, inside what is considered Divine reliquary. Why would Jesus die for us? To redeem unto Himself His priceless jewelry of Christianity – God’s holy people.

…in our image, after our likeness…

                Genesis 1:26 “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” What, or rather, who is the ‘our image’ of this verse? 2Corinthians 4:4 “In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” Glorified in the eternal image of Christ, Adam was like God and is actually the lord of the earth. No wonder the Devil must crave for the office of Adam as the false god of this world.

                Psalm 82:6 “I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.” The eminence of the souls of antediluvian saints would not allow God to put them – God’s inestimable investment – in anything short of the ark. If God called His chosen ones ‘gods’ then we have the responsibility to judge matters of spiritual import. We are ambassadors for Christ, teaching the will and ways of God. Noah’s ark saw to the preservation of Christianity: for the foreknowledge of God had apprehended their appropriate existence in His Kingdom.

“For in him we live, and move, and have our being” (Acts 17:28).

                John 10:34 “Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?” As lesser gods are we not spiritually related to the LORD God? We were preserved to live to please Him. The Lord knows those who would do His will: “For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring” (Acts 17:28). The ark was truly the only place He could get us full protection. While the whole world died, the occupants of the ark lived in His protection.

                Who do you think closed the door of Noah’s Ark? Genesis 7:16 “And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.” The word ‘LORD’ is the Hebraic yehôvâh (yeh-ho-vaw’): ‘the self-existing One; the God of Israel; the Creator.’ Why would the LORD God personally shut the door of the ark? It is the same reason why the code that opens an all-important safe is very personal to the owner. Like Noah, Christianity is God’s eternal property: eternally safe!

                Spiritual acquittal and discharge takes place only when one is born again. To be born again, say, with all your heart, this simple prayer:

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”

(…to be concluded…)

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