I’m preaching from Hebrews 11 this weekend about the story
of Noah and I noticed something I hadn’t thought about before. According to the
Genesis account, Lamech (Noah’s Dad) was 182 years old when Noah was born and
he died at age 777. Moses mentions that Noah is 500 years old when Shem was
born and that he was 600 years old when he entered the ark. If I did my math
correct, Lamech died only 5 years before Noah entered the ark. If we understand
chapter 6 at face value it took Noah 120 years to build the ark, (Answers in Genesis,
says that it was more like 75 years) but in either case, Lamech if he lived
around Noah, would have been there as
Noah was constructing the ark. Why does this matter? Glad you asked. You see
back in chapter 5 of Genesis, Moses breaks the cycle of the “so and so lived so
long and begat so and so and died” with a quote from Lamech:
“Out of the ground that the LORD has cursed, this one shall
bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands” Genes
5:29
How crazy is that! Lamech prophesizes that Noah would bring
relief. I don't think he thought the relief would come via the flood.
I’m still wrestling
with this one.
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