But Noah, it says in Genesis, was a righteous man, the only blameless person living on earth at the time. He walked in close fellowship with God (Genesis 6:9). In Hebrew, Noah means rest, comfort, repose. The only blameless person on the earth was also the man whose name is identified with rest. Do you grasp the significance? On the sixth day, the day before God rested from all that he created, God saw all that he had made, and it was very good (1:31). Yet only one was blameless. “God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them” (1:27). Noah was the spitting image of
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