Noah

By Zeljko Kalinic

(SECRETS OF THE BIBLE Book 4) The purpose of this book is to tell you that there is a fire in your building and that when you go down the fire escape, you should pay special attention to the seventh platform because it is partially broken, and it could collapse; your parachute is not packed correctly, nor is it adequately secured, so it should be fixed before you jump; oil has leaked from the brake system on your car...

The account of Noah's flood was created as a kind of key for opening the understanding of the entire Bible, that is, the concepts, principles, and stages of the creation of man. Man is not yet entirely created but is in one of the stages of creation.

This key is somehow disguised by an easily noticeable, very offensive, and logical for the flood report, wholly unnecessary and redundant duplication of identical information stacked one after the other and occasionally twisted into one another. This foreshadows the next phase of creation in which something identical to it will be created within humanity yet slightly different, and it will be twisted into humanity.

There is also, characteristically and strikingly, the emphasis and repetition of specific numbers (seven and forty), which have absolutely no logical need for the account of the flood event itself. However, these numbers reveal to us...

Humanity is living a film in the filming phase, where the script has a clear beginning and end, while the action in between is determined in traces. Partial flexibility of roles is a significant characteristic of all participants in the film.

Man has deadlines, that's why there is time and its measurement, he has goals and tasks, and it is up to man whether he will deal with them, that is, whether he will fulfill what he is advised to do, for his good.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zeljko Kalinic
• Release date: Jun 4, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223892960

Zeljko Kalinic

Zeljko Kalinic was born in 1967 in Zadar. So far, he has written several novels: Morlach The Knight of St. Mark; Avenger; Good Man in Ten Seconds; Servon – Testimony of Bad Times; Hologram Stories; Thirsty Water; Royal Falcon Hunting; How The World Began; Pharaoh's Dream; Noah; Samson – The Coll of Sin; God and Man in a Hologram. Through all the books was dragged a little supernatural but connected them also, a fine thread that, regardless of the subject, action, historical moment, or characters, identifies and separates good from evil to encourage men to begin their 'correction,’ the separation of good from sin, truth from falsehood, identification and separation of right from wrong ... Books are full of colorful characters embedded in turbulent historical moments and interesting and exciting events, which are forced to move constantly and actions full of uncertainty. Make-believe or real mysteries, which the actors occasionally wrapped, impose their questions about the reality in which we live. The characters' psychological profiles, actions, reactions, and general behavior reveal the human weakness that should work. Each of these books from the reader requires a journey through the book’s interior, through the events described in the interior. What was expected to be found there let her remain a personal secret. The intention is that each person starts internal wind, at least one good 'Buru,’ and to dispel the dirty fog that hung over from a good depopulated valley of our mind.

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Noah

WHO WAS NOAH?

Hebrew: נֹחַ

(Transliterated: Noah)

Meaning of the name: rest, consolation, or maybe rest.

Noah's father is Lamech (לֶמֶךְ- lemek, the possible meaning of the name is: to make lower or to be lower in status); he was one hundred and eighty-two years old when Noah was born.

(Genesis; 5:28-29; And Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years and begat a son. And he called his name Noah, saying: This one will comfort us (rest) from our work, and from the labor of our hands, from the earth, cursed by God.)

It should be noted that Lamech was fifty-six years old when Adam died, which means that he could have spoken directly with the first created man, which is very important for transmitting and understanding the past.

Noah can also be said to be the biblical forefather of humanity that arose after the great flood.

He was married, and the Genesis account does not mention a wife's name. In Jewish tradition, it is claimed that her name is Naamah, which means pleasure, that is, that her actions were pleasant and brought pleasure to other people.

Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Noah is marked as righteous, and in the Book of Genesis, only Joseph is called righteous.

Hebrew:קצַדִּי אִישׁ

(Transliterated: ish tzadik – righteous man)

In the same place where the report informs us that Noah is a just man, it also says that he is blameless, which is strange because if he is already just, then he cannot be unjust. I will return to this feature of the text later to clarify it.

It is almost impossible to determine the exact year of Noah's birth due to the impossibility of determining the first year of creation, the first year of Adam. Nevertheless, following the genealogy backward, one can somewhat arrive at an approximate year, and it would be somewhere around 3160 BC, while by the same principle, the year of death could be said to be 2210 BC.

Noah lived 950 years.

(Genesis; 9:28-29; And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.)

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Genealogy Adam - Noah

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According to Genesis, when did the flood occur?

BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGY allows us to roughly date events all the way back to the beginning of biblical human history. In Genesis 5:1-29 we can trace the genealogy from Adam's creation to Noah's birth. The flood began when Noah was six hundred years old (7:11).

To determine the time of the flood, we must start from some date accepted by general history, and that can be connected to the event described in the Bible. By calculating from such an approximately determined date, we can determine which date would correspond to the flood according to the Gregorian calendar, which is the most widely used today.

One key date is the year 539 BC. This is the year in which the Persian king Cyrus defeated Babylon. We can find this information about Cyrus' reign in Babylonian clay tablets and in the writings of Eusebius, Ptolemy, Diodorus, and Sextus Julius Africanus. Those who remained of the Jews in captivity returned from Babylon to Israel in 537 BC by order of Cyrus. This marked the end of slavery, which, according to the biblical account, began in 607 BC. If we include the period of the judges and the reign of the kings of Israel, we can establish that the Israelites left Egypt around 1513 BC. Biblical chronology then takes us back another 430 years until 1943 BC, when God made a covenant with Abraham. The next thing we have to calculate is the time of birth and life span (genealogy 11:10-32), Tara, Nahor, Sarug, Rev, Phaleg, Heber, Salah, and Arpachshad, who, according to the Book of Genesis 11:10 was born in the second year after the flood. It follows that the flood began somewhere around 2370 BC

There is no discrepancy in the calculation for counting the time from Adam to the flood, but for counting from our days to the year in which the flood occurred, there are discrepancies. Thus, the year 2370 BC is only accepted by some biblical researchers.

Two other years that are also often used as the year of the flood are 2348 and 2567 BC.

All this calculation confusion comes from using different calendars as a basis for calculation, then calculating a different number of days in a month and a different number of months in a year. All this adds to the confusion in calculating the overall biblical age of the Earth.

So, for now, we can use the years that will have an approximate state in front of them.

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The Book of Enoch

THE APOCRYPHAL BOOK of Enoch also mentions Noah's flood, but the reasons why God destroys the world with a flood are significantly different from the reasons given by the Book of Genesis.

Nevertheless, for the sake of insight into that writing, I will also post the chapters that refer to Noah, the flood, and its reasons.

Chapter Six

1. And the sons of men multiplied greatly on the Earth, and daughters were born to them, beautiful and lovely.

2. When the angels - sons of heaven - saw them, they began to feel lust and started saying to each other: Come, let us choose wives for ourselves from among the children of men; let them conceive with us and bear us sons.

3. And Semjaza, who was their leader, said to them: I am afraid that you would not really be ready to do what we are talking about, so, in the end, I myself will remain guilty and suffer the punishment for this great sin.

4. They answered him: We will all swear allegiance and bind ourselves to each other's curse so that we will not give up our idea but put it into action.

5. And they all vowed together and bound themselves to curse each other if one of them should give up and betray the others.

6. Two hundred came down to the Earth in the days of the man Jared. And they gathered at a mountain which they called Hermon (Hebrew: Hermon = Cursed or Dedicated to destruction). They called her that because they had previously vowed and committed themselves to curse each other.

7. And these are the names of their leaders: Semjaza, the chief leader; Arakiba, Ramiel, Kokabiel, Tamiel, Ramiel, Danel, Ezekiel, Barakiel, Azaiel, Armaros, Batarel, Hananel, Zakiel, Samsakeel, Satarel, Turel, Yomjael, Sariel.

8. These are their corporals.

Chapter Seven

1. And they all followed them and took wives for themselves; each of them would take the one he chose. They took them as wives and defiled themselves by sleeping with them. In addition, they taught their wives divination and spells, transplanting plants and growing them.

2. Over time, they became pregnant and gave birth to sons who became great giants (or: three kinds of giants), about thirty cubits (about thirteen meters) tall,

3. who forcibly robbed other people of their property. And when people couldn't take it anymore

4. the giants began to overthrow them and began to devour the human race.

5. Eventually, they began to sin against flying creatures and land animals, reptiles, and water creatures and even began to devour one another and drink blood.

6. And the whole Earth sighed because of those lawless men.

Chapter Eight

1. Azazel taught the people how to make swords, knives, shields, and breastplates. Namely, he discovered earthly metals for them and taught them the art of processing them. He taught them how to make bracelets, decorative jewelry, and black eyelids from antimony. He also revealed to them the special properties of all kinds of precious stones and instructed them to make coloring tinctures.

2. And wickedness spread more and more in the land, and people committed more and more fornication because they were led astray, and day by day, they became more and more corrupt in all their ways.

3. Semyaza taught them magic and transplanting plants, Armaros the removal of spells, Barakiel instructed them in astrology, Kokabiel taught them about the constellations, Ezekiel taught them the knowledge of cloud interpretation, and Arakiel the interpretation of terrestrial signs, Shamsiel the interpretation of signs on the Sun, and Sariel's knowledge of the changes of the Moon.

4. And when the people who were taught to die, they wept, and their weeping was heard up to the heavens...

Chapter Nine

1. And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from heaven and saw that much blood had been shed on the Earth and that iniquity had spread throughout the land.

2. So they said to each other: The echo of their sighs spreads through the empty earth, and the sighing reaches the very gates of heaven.

3. And therefore now you, heavenly saints, hear the plea of ​​earthly souls: 'May the Highest pay attention to us.'"

4. And they said to Jehovah the Eternal: "Lord of all lords, King of kings and God of Ages, Your throne stands gloriously from generation to generation, and Your holy name will be glorious and blessed for all ages!

5. You created everything, and everything moves and lives according to Your will. Everything is naked and exposed to Your gaze, You see everything, and nothing can be hidden from You.

6. You saw what Azazel did, who led all the inhabitants of the Earth into the path of unrighteousness by revealing to them the eternal secrets which are reserved for the heavens, which it is not permitted for men to know,

7. and Semjaza, to whom You have given the authority to set ordinances for his associates.

8. Now they went to the daughters of men on Earth, and they lay with them, thereby defiling themselves with impurity and revealing all kinds of sins to people.

9. And the women gave birth to giants who filled the whole Earth with injustice and soaked it with blood.

10. Therefore, now You receive the souls of those who died and those who weep, those whose sighs reached the gates of heaven and whose lamentations ascended to us. And I cannot keep quiet because of the great lawlessness that is being done on Earth.

11. You know what will happen before it happens; you see every evil thing and endure evil for a long time, so now tell your servants what they should do since great evil is being done on Earth."

Chapter Ten

1. Then the Highest sent Uriel to the son of Lamech, and the Exalted Saint said to