Noah as the New Adam of Creation- Noah's Ark as the Temple of God and other New Covenant Connections


       Noah as the New Adam of Creation- Noah's Ark as the Temple of God and other New Covenant Connections

  •       Adam is the first man of Creation
  •          Noah is the New Adam of the New Creation
  •          Adam performed a sacrifice in the Fallen Creation
  •          Noah performed a sacrifice in the Fallen New Creation
  •          Both Adam and Noah are the High Priests for their respective families
  •          Both Adam and Noah are called the Lord of the Whole Earth-Dominion Mandate
  •          Both Adam and Noah brought sin into their environments through eating and drinking respectively.
  •          Both Adam and Noah shared the shame/curse of their sin.
  •          Both Adam and Noah saw their nakedness and the covering of God’s grace.
  •        Both Adam and Noah are instructed what to eat and what not to eat.

Additional Notes
  • Noah’s name means rest (Creation’s 7th day). He is the Rest of the New Creation and a foreshadowing of Christ’s rest and believers becoming the New Creation.
  • The number 7 is emphasized throughout the story. The flood begins after seven days, like the seven days of creation (Genesis 2:2; 7:10).
  • As the Lord rested on the seventh day, the ark comes to a rest in the seventh month (Genesis 2:2-3; 8:4).
  • Noah sends out birds every seven days (Genesis 8:10-12).
  • Noah was commanded to take seven pairs of clean animals (animals acceptable for sacrifice) into the ark (Genesis 7:2).
  • Both Moses and Noah relied on a water device purely navigated by God’s water (Living Water) and wind (Holy Spirit). They both used pitch in order to prevent sinking.
  • Unlike the Tabernacle/Temple, the Ark is the only man-made structure revealed that is directly given by God.
  • Noah’s ark is a Temple foreshadowing of the Tabernacle and Solomon’s Temple. The ark has three decks just like the tabernacle has three divisions, and the Garden of Eden of having a three-fold division.
  • The three decks of Noah’s ark was exactly the same height as the Tabernacle and three times the area of the Tabernacle court.
  • The Ark and the Tabernacle uses the same Hebrew word  tevah. This became the standard word for the Ark of the covenant in Mishnaic Hebrew.
  • The Septuagint uses the same Greek term, kibotos, for both Noah’s ark and the ark of the covenant
  • Gopher wood can be also be called cypress wood-The same wood that was used for Jesus’ Cross
  • The Ark is a mobile sanctuary just like God’s Throne in Ezekiel 1.
  • The Greek word for Ark is Aron. It means coffin and treasure chest. Christ’s presence/ the resurrection is our treasure.
  • There is a 3 division layout for the Ark, The Tabernacle, The Temple, and Mt. Sinai
  • The Ark and The Ark of the Covenant had a 3 to 5 ratio (width to height)
  • The Ark looked like the Ark of the Covenant-Just a rectangular box
  • The Ark was the Entrance Way for the Righteous-It alluded to the later Temple Entrance and ultimately in Jesus as the Way
  • The Ark landed on the New Year Holiday just like the Tabernacle and Temple inauguration Ceremonies
  • The Curse of Caanan involved Ham looking into the Tent at the nakedness of his Father Noah. Ham was not qualified or authorized to enter his Father’s Tent. This alludes to how man cannot enter the Tabernacle’s Holy of Holies without a covering. We cannot look at the unveiled presence of God without consequences/death.
  • An alternative view, on Noah’s uncovering was that after having sexual intimacy with his wife. Ham came into the tent and raped his mother. The purpose of this was to overthrow his Father’s Headship/High Priest status. Because Noah was drunk during sexual intimacy, he was unable to protect his wife just like when Satan tempted Eve and Adam was unable to protect his wife.
  • Similarly, Adam and Eve “uncovered”/entered the Lord’s presence when they made their own path to the Tree of Life (the Veil) and then unto the Forbidden Tree/Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (God’s Holy of Holies in Eden).
  • When Adam and Even sinned, God provided them a cover. When Noah was exposed, God provided a cover for Noah through his sons.
  • Noah sinned in a vineyard just like Adam in the garden.
  • As high priest, Noah misused the wine.  (See Abraham and Melchizedek in Genesis 14)
  • The Hebrew word for Pitch is to cover just like Christ covers us. The ark itself is a covering/veil just like Christ is in himself is our covering/veil.


Genesis 8:13 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.
There is a parallel between Genesis 1:2 and 7:8

Genesis 1:2 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

Genesis 7:18 18 The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. (This is like a Recreation of the first part of Genesis)

Galatians 3:27 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

Genesis 6:14 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out(Kaphar).

Ezekiel 16:63 63 Then, when I make atonement for you for all you have done(Kaphar), you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your humiliation, declares the Sovereign Lord.’

NOTE: Genesis 6:14 and Ezekiel 16:63 uses the Hebrew Kaphar. This means to cover and atone just like how Christ atones for us on the cross.

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