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As In the Days of Noah and Lot:

A Word of Warning

I confess to you that I am going to bring a word here that I fully do not understand. The element of the “why” seems to be missing here, but the fact that there is such a parallel between Noah and Lot in this regard, I cannot skip speaking of it. Both Noah and Lot ran into the same trouble after they were delivered.

Observe:

Gen 9:20-27

And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

Gen 19:30-38 

And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

In short, Yuck! Both of them got in trouble through wine, and the results were horrific. In Noah’s case part of his offspring were cursed and in Lot’s his daughters laid with their father; now that’s trouble! Both dealt with alcohol and seed, so let the wise be warned by my simple observation. What might the warning be to us? It could be that at this point the typology of Noah and Lot are beginning breakdown, but that fact that both of them are still parallel at this point makes me wonder. Could it just mean nothing since the revelation of Jesus Christ as the seed?

Still, if you make it through to the end of the judgment of these days, and you start thinking, “What this world needs is a vineyard” or your kids start bringing you gallons of wine, BEWARE and think again!