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We believe that the human race began anew in Noah and his sons, and with them
commenced the order of things that was at the base of the national life, soon to be
instituted; the beginning of the nations and their place in the divine economy we must
consider in our next paper.
Space will not permit a lengthy examination of all the varying features of the new
dispensation which commenced with Noah and his saved family and the lower animals.
We feel that the evident relation between the dispensations connected with Adam, and
that connected with Noah is important enough to receive the following tabulated list of
parallels and contrasts, and we trust the interested reader will pursue the theme more fully
than we are able to do in these pages; we write always for BEREANS:--
List of parallels and contrasts between the dispensations headed by:
ADAM.
NOAH.
A judgment in the background which left the earth
A flood in the background that left the earth a ruin
without form and void (Gen. 1: 2; Isa. xlv 18).
(Gen. 7: 17-24).
(The parallel between these two passages is so close that commentators are divided
as to which of them II Pet. 3: 5, 6 refers).
The dry land appears in Noah's 601st year, and the
The dry land appears on the third day, grass and
trees grow (Gen. 1: 9-13).
plucked olive leaf indicated to Noah that this was so
(Gen. 8: 11-13).
Living creatures are "brought forth" from the
Living creatures are "brought forth" with Noah out
water and from the earth, and God blessed them of the ark that they may breed abundantly in the
saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters earth, and be fruitful, and multiply in the earth"
in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth" (Gen. 8: 15-19).
(Gen. 1: 20-25).
Man made in the image of God to have "dominion
"And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish
and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over the earth, and the fear of you and the dread of you
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. . shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon
. . and God blessed them, and God said unto them, every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the
Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, and earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea, into your
subdue it" (Gen. 1: 26-28).
hand are they delivered." "In the image of God
made He man" (Gen. 9: 1, 2, 6).
Food.--"Every herb bearing seed, which is upon
Food.--"Every moving thing that liveth shall be
the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which meat for you; even as the green herb have I given
is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be you all things", but not blood (Gen. 9: 3, 4).
for meat" (Gen. 1: 29).
The seventh day rest (Gen. 2: 1-3).
Every flood date (except Gen. 8: 5) is a sabbath.
(Companion Bible note) the ark rested in the
seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month
which was a Sabbath (Gen. 8: 4).
Adam has three sons, Cain, Abel and Seth
Noah has three sons, Shem, Ham and Japeth
(Gen. 4: 1, 2, 25).
(Gen. 5: 32).
One son, Cain, is cursed more than the earth, and
One son, Ham, the father of Canaan, is cursed,
becomes a fugitive and a vagabond (Gen. 4: 12).
even though God had promised not to curse the
ground any more, and Canaan becomes a servant of
servants (Gen. 9: 25; 8: 21).
God curses Cain for shedding his brother's blood,
God will require the life blood from every beast
but does not sanction vengeance by human hands and man, but now delegates the execution of
(Gen. 4: 10-15).
judgment to man himself.
"Whoso sheddeth
man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed"
(Gen. 9: 5, 6).