"Enoch
walked with God" (22-23). Following this striking statement about
Enoch's remarkable walk with God, we are introduced to Noah (28-32).
Like Enoch, "Noah walked with God" (6:9). "Noah" means "Relief" - "Out
of the ground which the Lord has cursed this child shall bring us relief
from our work and from the toil of our hands" (29). This seems to be a
rather mundane statement. The deeper significance of this "relief"
becomes clearer as we look more closely, chapters 6-9, at the place of
Noah within the purpose of God. By building the ark, Noah brought relief
from the storm of God's judgment. What an awesome judgment of God the
flood was. In the midst of this judgment, there was relief (salvation).
The ark is a picture of Christ. Those who are in Him are saved. Those
who are outside of Him are lost. Christ is the "child" of our salvation.
He takes salvation into His hands, taking it out of "the painful labour
of our hands." Now, looking to Christ and what He has done for us, we
can say, with confidence, that we are "safe in the arms of Jesus."
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