Noah and the Rapture

Lots can be said about Noah and the Rapture.  Surely, something prophetic to be learned is here as Jesus clearly said “as in the days of Noah”.  There are practical aspects no doubt – eating, drinking, marrying and given in marriage, but God operates on many levels and it certainly is worth investigating. 

Here is a simple premise I’ll start out with and build on:

·         Doves are symbolic for good – either angels, saints, Holy Spirit

·         Ravens are symbolic for evil – demonic/satanic beings or influences

I believe Noah stands in the position of Jesus in this prophetic archetype.  He is the builder of the ark, just as Jesus through the wood & blood (tar) saves us from judgment so Noah and the Ark take he and his family through the waters of judgment (water standing for Spirit).

Noah died in the year 2006 and so it is believed that the year that just passed 2006, has prophetic parallels.  Noah’s time on the Ark lasted one year, and so to properly look at this we need to continue on with what we have seen for one year to be completed at November 2007.

The dates of Noah are controversial.  I have to say I’m a novice and not a scholar, but I thought I’d try and take a “shot” at mapping out the dates.  I’m not sure of all the experts’ opinions, but without looking I’m already aware there is much disagreement.  I think God put these dates in his word for a reason.  For all the “naysayers” concentrating on you cannot know the day and the hour, what about dates listed in the Bible?  God does not ask us to “check our brain at the door” (come let us reason together…) and there are dates here.  I feel that even if I don’t get it right it may Here is my “broad” stroke attempt:

Genesis 7

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month (Cheshvan 17 Hebrew, November 8^th for us in 2006) — on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

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2006
Sep	Oct	Nov
		8th
		Noah &
		family enter
		Ark, rain
		falls 40 days
		& nights
		Cheshvan 17

13 On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.

The ark stands for Jesus.  With Noah and his family they were protected by the Ark as the “rain of judgment fell”.  When we trust Jesus in our heart of hearts, we enter the ark.  This is similar to, when Israel put the blood of the lamb on the doorposts.  Later, they too would need to be rescued from “waters of judgment”.  I believe these waters of judgment stand for God’s Spirit of Justice.  Yes, he does have grace, but it is through the Ark, Jesus Christ his son.  If you are not “in the Ark” then you too will be swept away by the “waters of judgment” as the persons of Noah’s time were and also Pharaoh’s armies.

 17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.

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2006				2007
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan
		8th	17th
		Noah &	40 days
		family enter	rain ended
		Ark, rain	Kislev 27
		falls 40 days	* during Hannukah
		& nights
		Cheshvan 17

24 The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

Genesis 8

 1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. 2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. 3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,

		2007
Nov	Dec	Jan	Mar	Apr	May
8th	17th			7th
Noah &	40 days			150 days
family enter	rain ended			waters
Ark, rain	Kislev 27			flooded
falls 40 days	* during Hannukah			earth ended
& nights
Cheshvan 17				* during Passover
				Nisan 17
				17th Ark
				comes to
				rest
				April 5th

4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat (see above).

5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

Apr	May	Jun
7th		17th
150 days		Tammaz 1
waters		tops of
flooded		mountians
earth ended		visable
* during Passover
Nisan 17
17th Ark
comes to
rest
April 5th

Genesis 8

 6 After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark 7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.

Notice here that Noah makes a “window” which I believe is significant.  A spiritual “window”?  Notice the Raven is sent out, but it never returns to Noah and it keeps flying until the “judgment waters” are dried up from the earth.

8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. 9 But the dove could find no place to set its feet because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.

The dove returns to Noah.

Jun	Jul
17th	27th
Tammaz 1	Av 12
tops of	Noah sent
mountians	a Raven
visable	and a dove
	Also:
	Noah
	opened a
	window

10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. 12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

Notice the dove returns, but his time with an olive leaf!

Jun	Jul	Aug
17th	27th	3rd
Tammaz 1	Av 12	Av19
tops of	Noah sent	Noah sent a
mountians	a Raven	dove& it
visable	and a dove	returned w/
		olive branch
	Also:
	Noah	10th
	opened a	Av 26
	window	Noah sent a
		dove & it
		did not
		return

 13 By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.

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2007
Sep	Oct	Nov
13th		8th
Tishrei 1		Cheshvan 27
* Rosh Hashanah
water dried up		completely dry
from the earth

Much more to learn here and this study is yet incomplete, but there is enough here to both learn and discuss.

Roundtable…(I look forward to your comments on fivedoves or feel free to email back…)

Blessings,

Tony