Baptism in the Bible

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And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.  Genesis 6: 1-13

Often the things that are the most familiar to us are the things we most ignore. Messiah said that Moses was His witness and as such it is a grievous error to relegate those things taught in Genesis to myths and children’s stories.

The writing of Genesis is apologetic in nature. YHWH through Moses has laid out the truth by which the fables of gods, creation myths, and historic fictions of the surrounding nations would be revealed as embellishments of man. While this is true the believer must remember that this was not YHWH’s purpose for recording these things.

The purpose is to be a witness of the person, truth, purpose, and necessity of the promised Messiah; Yeshua the first born among many brethren. When the believer comes into covenant with YHWH through Messiah the scripture becomes a witness of both that within them from Adam who must be left in the death of the cross and the life of YHWH which is the being of both Messiah and ourselves within us.

The witness of evils consumption of pre-flood man is a truth which should cut through the deception of good works. Mankind is a mirror of every man. Even that which begins as benevolence from a source of man, given the generation of time, becomes selfish and twisted from its original intent. Wickedness (a twisted way) brings forth evil which like a cancer spreads until all becomes cancerous.   

 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh:

Noah found grace by which he was just and upright in his generation. Was this by random selection from YHWH? YHWH does not change and is no respecter of persons therefore when He says we are saved by grace through faith and that the just shall live by faith we know these things to also be true in the witness of Noah. Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin.

Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Romans 6: 4-10

The flood of Noah is a baptism of mankind. A baptism is a burial not a murder. What is buried is already dead. We often can see that a surgeon’s act of removing cancer, while violent, is a benevolent act of preserving life. YHWH on the other hand, despite His longsuffering that waits till all possible hope of recovery is exhausted, is confused as being nefarious when He preserves life.

More bible verses about baptism

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God John 3: 17-18

The story of Noah’s salvation is the story of our own death, burial, resurrection, and expectation of life.

As a closing note the providence of new life for Noah did not make him without sin but served as a lesson of the true resurrection when all men stand before YHWH. On that day the consuming fire of holiness from His presence will purify those who have His life in them and destroy those without His life forever.