Post by Elizabeth on Jan 6, 2018 7:18:43 GMT -8
I was listening to a lesson discussing Noah.
Noah began to be a man of the soil, and planted a vineyard.
Genesis 9:20
The teacher explained how the word for "began" in Hebrew can also be understood as "and he profaned himself". Based on the context this understanding makes a lot of since given that it was a vineyard Noah planted, as opposed to a solid food source, and the events that followed.
This really intrigued me because not long ago I was thinking about he similarities between Noah starting life again and the Garden of Eden.
Both were commanded to be fruitful and multiply. Both groups of people experienced
related to nakedness. Both required someone cover them, and both involved being cursed and some sort of an implication for dominion or servitude. It's interesting to see how sin followed Noah as it progressed from people being ashamed of their own nakedness to a disregard for modesty and people making fun of each other over their . Now we can also see a connection to the decisions about what we eat as sin was a consequence in both cases of something we chose to ate. A telling difference is that Eve had to be seduced into eating if it very literally and Noah just carried the sin with him as we do.
I don't know just intriguing parallels to me and kind of interesting to consider the progress of the destruction and corruption of sin and how vital it is to consider our focus.
Nothing Yeshua did was purposeless, even His rest and leisure had holy purposes. It amazes me that under the limitations of human weaknesses He never let His guard down spiritually but always was able to engage and interact fully and admirably with the life around Him. He was always fighting in a way but always loving and holy.
Anyway, this is another general guideline I am trying to follow as I pursue
, to have a G-dly purpose in everything including rest and relaxation. I had never thought of Shabbat as kind of a defensive maneuver but I think it is a spiritual defense because even our rest and down time need to be protected with purpose and goodness.
Noah began to be a man of the soil, and planted a vineyard.
Genesis 9:20
The teacher explained how the word for "began" in Hebrew can also be understood as "and he profaned himself". Based on the context this understanding makes a lot of since given that it was a vineyard Noah planted, as opposed to a solid food source, and the events that followed.
This really intrigued me because not long ago I was thinking about he similarities between Noah starting life again and the Garden of Eden.
Both were commanded to be fruitful and multiply. Both groups of people experienced
related to nakedness. Both required someone cover them, and both involved being cursed and some sort of an implication for dominion or servitude. It's interesting to see how sin followed Noah as it progressed from people being ashamed of their own nakedness to a disregard for modesty and people making fun of each other over their . Now we can also see a connection to the decisions about what we eat as sin was a consequence in both cases of something we chose to ate. A telling difference is that Eve had to be seduced into eating if it very literally and Noah just carried the sin with him as we do.I don't know just intriguing parallels to me and kind of interesting to consider the progress of the destruction and corruption of sin and how vital it is to consider our focus.
Nothing Yeshua did was purposeless, even His rest and leisure had holy purposes. It amazes me that under the limitations of human weaknesses He never let His guard down spiritually but always was able to engage and interact fully and admirably with the life around Him. He was always fighting in a way but always loving and holy.
Anyway, this is another general guideline I am trying to follow as I pursue
, to have a G-dly purpose in everything including rest and relaxation. I had never thought of Shabbat as kind of a defensive maneuver but I think it is a spiritual defense because even our rest and down time need to be protected with purpose and goodness. 
