were to look expectantly to the fulfillment of the promise of redemption. We see that in Eve naming Cain. We are told in Genesis 4:1, Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived “Now and bore Cain, and said, have acquired a man from ‘I the Lord.'” In faith, Eve was hoping that God had fulfilled His promise to give her a Redeemer, though nothing could have been further from the truth. The expectation of the Redeemer is bound also to the establishment of the covenantal line from which Christ would come. Seth stands at the head of that covenantal line. Enoch was a type of Christ in that walked with God and was “he not.” Enoch was an example of exceptional uprightness. In his being taken away to heaven bodily he prefigured the bodily ascension of Christ who with God and was not.” The “walked bodily ascension of Enoch prefigures the resurrection and ascension of Jesus–as well as the bodily resurrection of all those united to Christ by faith. Noah was a type of Christ in that he served as a sort of “second Adam;” he was not second Man,” or Last Adam,” but “The “the was a type of the One to come. Just as God had given Adam creation mandates to be fruitful and multiply so He gave Noah mandates. The Lord had given Adam instruction concerning what he could eat. So too Noah received instruction concerning food. Noah would typically be the federal representative of a new humanity. Jesus is THE federal head of the new humanity. Noah’s name meant His father named “rest.” him saying, one will give us rest from the ground “Rest,” “This that the Lord God has cursed.” Noah only brought rest in a typical sense when he walked off of the Ark with his family to inhabit a typical new creation. But Christ, the greater Noah, actually gives rest to the souls of men and women (Matt. Christ alone has secured the new creation through His death and resurrection. The Lord preserved mankind the flood in order to fulfill His promise (Gen. 3:15) to send the of the woman to crush “seed” the head of the Serpent. He also preserved Noah on the Ark because the Redeemer was in his loins–so to speak (Luke 3:23,
were to look expectantly to the fulfillment of the promise of redemption. We see that in Eve naming Cain. We are told in Genesis 4:1, “Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, ‘I have acquired a man from the Lord.'” In faith, Eve was hoping that God had fulfilled His promise to give her a Redeemer, though nothing could have been further from the truth. The expectation of the Redeemer is bound also to the establishment of the covenantal line from which Christ would come. Seth stands at the head of that covenantal line. Enoch was a type of Christ in that “he walked with God and was not.” Enoch was an example of exceptional uprightness. In his being taken away to heaven bodily he prefigured the bodily ascension of Christ who “walked with God and was not.” The bodily ascension of Enoch prefigures the resurrection and ascension of Jesus–as well as the bodily resurrection of all those united to Christ by faith. Noah was a type of Christ in that he served as a sort of “second Adam;” he was not “The second Man,” or “the Last Adam,” but was a type of the One to come. Just as God had given Adam creation mandates to be fruitful and multiply so He gave Noah mandates. The Lord had given Adam instruction concerning what he could eat. So too Noah received instruction concerning food. Noah would typically be the federal representative of a new humanity. Jesus is THE federal head of the new humanity. Noah’s name meant “rest.” His father named him “Rest,” saying, “This one will give us rest from the ground that the Lord God has cursed.” Noah only brought rest in a typical sense when he walked off of the Ark with his family to inhabit a typical new creation. But Christ, the greater Noah, actually gives rest to the souls of men and women (Matt. Christ alone has secured the new creation through His death and resurrection. The Lord preserved mankind the flood in order to fulfill His promise (Gen. 3:15) to send the “seed” of the woman to crush the head of the Serpent. He also preserved Noah on the Ark because the Redeemer was in his loins–so to speak (Luke 3:23,
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