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Lesson 27 Hope of Israel Ministries BIBLE Correspondence Course 7

Are you ready? Do you have
your Bible in front of you so you can
read each scripture reference given in
this lesson? Don’t forget to ask
YEHOVAH God to help you grasp and
THOROUGHLY COMPREHEND the
vital truth you are about to study. Now
let’s begin.

LESSON 27
The Flood a Type of Baptism

The Old Testament contains
significant types or foreshadows of
New Testament water baptism which
are important to our understanding of
the Messiah’s and the apostles’ Onlookers jeered obedient Noah just before he was sealed
teachings concerning baptism. Let’s within the ark. They didn’t laugh for long.
begin with Noah and the Flood.
flood -- the PENALTY of the land’s sins?
1. When men began to multiply upon the
Genesis 6:22 and Hebrews 11:7.
face of the earth, did they obey YEHOVAH
COMMENT: Many long, arduous and
God? Or did they sin grievously against
trying years were required to complete the ark.
YEHOVAH? Genesis 6:5, 11-12.
(Compare Genesis 5:32 with Genesis 7:11.)
2. What did YEHOVAH God say He
Just imagine all of the RIDICULE Noah must
would do to the land’s population as a
have endured from the people around him. They
punishment for sin? Genesis 6:7. By what
thought he was a fool! But Noah BELIEVED
means of destruction? Verse 17.
YEHOVAH God. He TRUSTED and OBEYED
COMMENT: YEHOVAH says “the
YEHOVAH God. He had SAVING FAITH!
wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). The evil
5. Does Noah’s escape from the
world of Noah’s day was to receive just payment
tremendous flood -- a WATERY GRAVE for
for sin.
the sinners of the land -- typify our deliverance
3. But who, in that land of rampant sin,
from sin’s penalty through the symbolic
found grace in YEHOVAH’s sight? Genesis
meaning of water baptism? I Peter 3:20-21.
6:8. Why did YEHOVAH favor Noah? Did he
COMMENT: YEHOVAH provided a
walk with YEHOVAH in obedience to His
WAY for Noah to ESCAPE the old world of sin
Laws? Verse 9. Also II Peter 2:5 compared
and the penalty it had incurred for disobedience
with Psalms 119:172.
to YEHOVAH’s Laws. Noah BELIEVED
COMMENT: Noah preached OBEDI-
YEHOVAH God when He warned him of the
ENCE to YEHOVAH God’s Commandments!
flood He would send upon the land. And Noah
But the people of the land would not listen.
OBEYED YEHOVAH God by building the ark.
4. YEHOVAH told Noah to build an
He DEMONSTRATED his faith by his
enormous ship so he and his family could escape
obedience! This is the same kind of ACTIVE
the great flood He would bring on the wicked
faith YEHOVAH expects from us today -- if we
and lawless land (Genesis 6:14-16). How did
want to be saved from the penalty of our sins!
Noah demonstrate his belief -- his FAITH -- in
Noah was brought up OUT OF the water
YEHOVAH’s promise of salvation from the
The Meaning of Baptism