Below are the quotes that were used in the video.
Noah is an excellent example of walking in faith in times of wickedness. His life was spent preaching the gospel and preparing to bring his family to a new and promised land. I love the symbolism of the ark and how it relates to Christ and His atonement. The symbolism of the ark also speaks to us today as we work to keep the flood of wickedness out of our lives through Christ.
President Wilford Woodruff: “The Prophet Joseph taught us that father Adam was the first man on the earth to whom God gave the keys of the everlasting priesthood. He held the keys of the presidency, and was the first man who did hold them. Noah stood next to him, he being the father of all living in his day, as Adam was in his day. These two men were the first who received the priesthood in the eternal worlds, before the worlds were formed. They were the first who received the everlasting priesthood or presidency on the earth. Father Adam stands at the head, so far as this world is concerned.” (Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, pp. 66-67)
President Ezra Taft Benson: “While our generation will be comparable in wickedness to the days of Noah, when the Lord cleansed the earth by flood…
“…there is a major difference this time: God has saved for the final inning some of His stronger and most valiant children, who will help bear off the kingdom triumphantly. … You are the generation that must be prepared to meet your God.
“The final outcome is certain—the forces of righteousness will finally win. But what remains to be seen is where each of us personally, now and in the future, will stand in this battle—and how tall will we stand?” (“In His Steps, March 4. 1979, BYU Speeches of the Year)
The Book of Jasher, an apocryphal work, described some of that violence this way (4:16-18): “They taught one another their evil practices and they continued sinning against the Lord. And every man made unto himself a god. And they robbed and plundered every man his neighbor as well as his relative. And they corrupted the earth. And their judges and rulers went to the daughters of men and took their wives by force from their husbands according to their choice.”
John Taylor: He (God) destroyed a whole world at one time save a few, whom he preserved for his own special purpose. And why? This...people were not only very wicked themselves, but...they transmitted their unrighteous natures and desires to their children, and brought them up to indulge in their own wicked practices. And the spirits that dwelt in the eternal worlds knew this, and they knew very well that to be born of such parentage would entail upon themselves an infinite amount of trouble, misery and sin.
...Is it right that a just God should sweep off so many people? Is that in accordance with mercy? Yes, it was just to those spirits that had not received their bodies, and it was just and merciful too to those people guilty of the iniquity. Why? Because by taking away their earthly existence he prevented them from entailing their sins upon their posterity and degenerating them, and also prevented them from committing further acts of wickedness. (Journal of Discourses, Nov. 14, 1877, 19:158-59)
President John Taylor: "By taking away their earthly existence he prevented them from entailing [give as an inheritance] their sins upon their posterity and degenerating them [making them wicked], and also prevented them from committing futher acts of wickedness" (Journal of Discourses, 19:158-59).
President Thomas S. Monson: “Noah had the unwavering faith to follow God’s commandments. May we ever do likewise. May we remember that the wisdom of God ofttimes appears as foolishness to men; but the greatest lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and we obey, we will always be right.” (“Models to Follow,” Ensign, Nov. 2002, 61).
Noah’s Ark as a Symbol of Christ
The word ark = tebah (Heb) which is “box or chest.”
The word pitch = kafar (Heb) which is “to cover with blood.”
Genesis 7:1 The ark takes a righteous family from a sinful world to a new world.
Genesis 7:1 The Ark (Christ) takes a righteous family from a sinful world to a new world (promised land).
Getting a little deeper…
Genesis 8:4 - the ark rested on the 17th day of the 7th month.
Exodus 12:1-3 – Calendar reset. The 14th day of the 7th month becomes the beginning of the Jewish calendar.
This was the Passover.
Christ will eat the Passover meal with his disciples (Matt 26:17, Luke 22:7 John 18:28).
3 days later (17th day of the 7th month ), Christ (the ark) rose from the dead bringing life to a new world.
President John Taylor said that during the flood "the earth was immersed. It was a period of baptism." (Journal of Discourses, 26:74-75)
President Joseph Fielding Smith: “We read that it was in the seventeenth day of the second month when the great deep was broken up, and the rain was forty days. The Ark landed at Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month, therefore there were five full months of travel when the Lord drove the Ark to its final destiny. Without any question a considerable distance separate the path where the Ark commenced the journey and where it landed. There can be no question to contradict the fact that during the flood great changes were made on the face of the earth. The land surface was in the process of division into continents. The rivers mentioned in Genesis were rivers that existed in the garden of Eden long before the land was divided into continents and islands.” (Answers to Gospel Questions, 2:94)
Joseph Smith: “The Lord hath set the bow in the cloud for a sign that while it shall be seen, seed time and harvest, summer and winter shall not fail; but when it shall disappear, woe to that generation, for behold the end cometh quickly.” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 305)
Joseph Smith: “I have asked of the Lord concerning His coming; and while asking the Lord, He gave a sign and said, In the days of Noah set a bow in the heavens as a sign and token that in any year that the bow should be seen the Lord would not come; but there should be seed time and harvest during that year: but whenever you see the bow withdrawn, it shall be a token that there shall be famine, pestilence, and great distress among the nations, and that the coming of the Messiah is not far distant.” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp. 340-341).
The account is a bit puzzling because Noah awakens and curses Canaan, the son of Ham (see Gen. 10:6), who does not even seem to be present. There are indications that this story has deeper meaning that is evident here, meaning which had to do with the temple garment.
Hugh Nibley: "Nimrod claimed his kingship on the ground of victory of his enemies see Gen. 10:8-10; his priesthood, however, he claimed by virtue of possessing 'the garment of Adam.' The Talmud assures us that it was by virtue of owning this garment that Nimrod was able to claim power to rule over the whole earth, and that he sat in his tower while men came and worshiped him. The Apocryphal writers, Jewish and Christian, have a good deal to say about this garment.
“....Incidentally the story of the stolen garment as told by the rabbis, including the great Eleazer, calls for an entirely different rendering of the strange story in Genesis 9 from the version in our King James Bible. They seemed to think that the 'erwath' of Genesis 9:22 did not mean 'nakedness' at all, but should be given its primary root meaning of 'skin covering. Read thus, we are to understand that Ham took the garment of his father while he was sleeping and showed it to his brethren, Shem and Japheth, who took a pattern or copy of it (salmah) or else a woven garment like it (simlah) which they put upon their own shoulders, returning the skin garment to their father. Upon awaking, Noah recognized the priesthood of two sons but cursed the son who tried to rob him of his garment.“ (Hugh Nibley, Lehi In The Desert And The World Of The Jaredites, pp. 160-162)
In the beginning God gave Adam a language that was pure, perfect, and undefiled. This Adamic language, now unknown, was far superior to any tongue which is presently known.
President Joseph Fielding Smith: “The first language spoken by mortals was either the celestial tongue of the Gods or such adaptation of it as was necessary to meet the limitations of mortality; and Adam and his posterity had power to speak, read and write it.” (Way to Perfection p 60-69 )
Elder Bruce R. McConkie: “During the millennium, it appears that men will again have power to speak and write the Adamic language. Of that day the Lord says he will ‘turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent.’” (Zeph 3:9) (Mormon Doctrine, p 19)
Elder Bruce R McConkie: “Following the confounding of the language of the people, only the Jaredites retained a tongue patterned after that of Adam." (Ether 1:33-43; 12:24, Mormon Doctrine, p. 430)
Teaching Thoughts:
President Wilford Woodruff: “The Prophet Joseph taught us that father Adam was the first man on the earth to whom God gave the keys of the everlasting priesthood. He held the keys of the presidency, and was the first man who did hold them. Noah stood next to him, he being the father of all living in his day, as Adam was in his day. These two men were the first who received the priesthood in the eternal worlds, before the worlds were formed. They were the first who received the everlasting priesthood or presidency on the earth. Father Adam stands at the head, so far as this world is concerned.” (Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, pp. 66-67)
President Ezra Taft Benson: “While our generation will be comparable in wickedness to the days of Noah, when the Lord cleansed the earth by flood…
“…there is a major difference this time: God has saved for the final inning some of His stronger and most valiant children, who will help bear off the kingdom triumphantly. … You are the generation that must be prepared to meet your God.
“The final outcome is certain—the forces of righteousness will finally win. But what remains to be seen is where each of us personally, now and in the future, will stand in this battle—and how tall will we stand?” (“In His Steps, March 4. 1979, BYU Speeches of the Year)
The Book of Jasher, an apocryphal work, described some of that violence this way (4:16-18): “They taught one another their evil practices and they continued sinning against the Lord. And every man made unto himself a god. And they robbed and plundered every man his neighbor as well as his relative. And they corrupted the earth. And their judges and rulers went to the daughters of men and took their wives by force from their husbands according to their choice.”
John Taylor: He (God) destroyed a whole world at one time save a few, whom he preserved for his own special purpose. And why? This...people were not only very wicked themselves, but...they transmitted their unrighteous natures and desires to their children, and brought them up to indulge in their own wicked practices. And the spirits that dwelt in the eternal worlds knew this, and they knew very well that to be born of such parentage would entail upon themselves an infinite amount of trouble, misery and sin.
...Is it right that a just God should sweep off so many people? Is that in accordance with mercy? Yes, it was just to those spirits that had not received their bodies, and it was just and merciful too to those people guilty of the iniquity. Why? Because by taking away their earthly existence he prevented them from entailing their sins upon their posterity and degenerating them, and also prevented them from committing further acts of wickedness. (Journal of Discourses, Nov. 14, 1877, 19:158-59)
President John Taylor: "By taking away their earthly existence he prevented them from entailing [give as an inheritance] their sins upon their posterity and degenerating them [making them wicked], and also prevented them from committing futher acts of wickedness" (Journal of Discourses, 19:158-59).
President Thomas S. Monson: “Noah had the unwavering faith to follow God’s commandments. May we ever do likewise. May we remember that the wisdom of God ofttimes appears as foolishness to men; but the greatest lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and we obey, we will always be right.” (“Models to Follow,” Ensign, Nov. 2002, 61).
Noah’s Ark as a Symbol of Christ
The word ark = tebah (Heb) which is “box or chest.”
The word pitch = kafar (Heb) which is “to cover with blood.”
Genesis 7:1 The ark takes a righteous family from a sinful world to a new world.
Genesis 7:1 The Ark (Christ) takes a righteous family from a sinful world to a new world (promised land).
Getting a little deeper…
Genesis 8:4 - the ark rested on the 17th day of the 7th month.
Exodus 12:1-3 – Calendar reset. The 14th day of the 7th month becomes the beginning of the Jewish calendar.
This was the Passover.
Christ will eat the Passover meal with his disciples (Matt 26:17, Luke 22:7 John 18:28).
3 days later (17th day of the 7th month ), Christ (the ark) rose from the dead bringing life to a new world.
President John Taylor said that during the flood "the earth was immersed. It was a period of baptism." (Journal of Discourses, 26:74-75)
President Joseph Fielding Smith: “We read that it was in the seventeenth day of the second month when the great deep was broken up, and the rain was forty days. The Ark landed at Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month, therefore there were five full months of travel when the Lord drove the Ark to its final destiny. Without any question a considerable distance separate the path where the Ark commenced the journey and where it landed. There can be no question to contradict the fact that during the flood great changes were made on the face of the earth. The land surface was in the process of division into continents. The rivers mentioned in Genesis were rivers that existed in the garden of Eden long before the land was divided into continents and islands.” (Answers to Gospel Questions, 2:94)
Joseph Smith: “The Lord hath set the bow in the cloud for a sign that while it shall be seen, seed time and harvest, summer and winter shall not fail; but when it shall disappear, woe to that generation, for behold the end cometh quickly.” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 305)
Joseph Smith: “I have asked of the Lord concerning His coming; and while asking the Lord, He gave a sign and said, In the days of Noah set a bow in the heavens as a sign and token that in any year that the bow should be seen the Lord would not come; but there should be seed time and harvest during that year: but whenever you see the bow withdrawn, it shall be a token that there shall be famine, pestilence, and great distress among the nations, and that the coming of the Messiah is not far distant.” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp. 340-341).
The account is a bit puzzling because Noah awakens and curses Canaan, the son of Ham (see Gen. 10:6), who does not even seem to be present. There are indications that this story has deeper meaning that is evident here, meaning which had to do with the temple garment.
Hugh Nibley: "Nimrod claimed his kingship on the ground of victory of his enemies see Gen. 10:8-10; his priesthood, however, he claimed by virtue of possessing 'the garment of Adam.' The Talmud assures us that it was by virtue of owning this garment that Nimrod was able to claim power to rule over the whole earth, and that he sat in his tower while men came and worshiped him. The Apocryphal writers, Jewish and Christian, have a good deal to say about this garment.
“....Incidentally the story of the stolen garment as told by the rabbis, including the great Eleazer, calls for an entirely different rendering of the strange story in Genesis 9 from the version in our King James Bible. They seemed to think that the 'erwath' of Genesis 9:22 did not mean 'nakedness' at all, but should be given its primary root meaning of 'skin covering. Read thus, we are to understand that Ham took the garment of his father while he was sleeping and showed it to his brethren, Shem and Japheth, who took a pattern or copy of it (salmah) or else a woven garment like it (simlah) which they put upon their own shoulders, returning the skin garment to their father. Upon awaking, Noah recognized the priesthood of two sons but cursed the son who tried to rob him of his garment.“ (Hugh Nibley, Lehi In The Desert And The World Of The Jaredites, pp. 160-162)
In the beginning God gave Adam a language that was pure, perfect, and undefiled. This Adamic language, now unknown, was far superior to any tongue which is presently known.
President Joseph Fielding Smith: “The first language spoken by mortals was either the celestial tongue of the Gods or such adaptation of it as was necessary to meet the limitations of mortality; and Adam and his posterity had power to speak, read and write it.” (Way to Perfection p 60-69 )
Elder Bruce R. McConkie: “During the millennium, it appears that men will again have power to speak and write the Adamic language. Of that day the Lord says he will ‘turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent.’” (Zeph 3:9) (Mormon Doctrine, p 19)
Elder Bruce R McConkie: “Following the confounding of the language of the people, only the Jaredites retained a tongue patterned after that of Adam." (Ether 1:33-43; 12:24, Mormon Doctrine, p. 430)
Teaching Thoughts:
- Discussion on modern-day arks and prophets.
- When have you been blessed or protected by being in your modern-day ark as well as obeying the prophets of the Lord?
- Just as the pitch (kafar) enabled the ark to be watertight, how has the enabling power of the Atonement of Christ protected you?
- If we ‘are one’ and ‘imagine to do’ righteousness, then what will be given to us from God?
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