Hebrews 11:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

Warned

Things

Hebrews 11:1

Prepared

1 Peter 3:20

He condemned

Matthew 12:41

Luke 11:31

General references

Acts 5:11

Bible References

Warned

Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.

Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, “Up, get out of this place, for the Lord will destroy the city.” But he appeared to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

Behold, about this time tomorrow, I will send a very heavy hail, such as has not been seen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

The prudent sees the evil and hides himself,
But the naive go on, and are punished for it.

A prudent man sees evil and hides himself,
The naive proceed and pay the penalty.

“Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman to the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from My mouth, warn them from Me.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

“Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.

Things

Now faith is the

assurance of things

hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Prepared

But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this time.

“Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.

even though these three men, Noah, Daniel and Job were in its midst, by their own righteousness they could only deliver themselves,” declares the Lord God.

who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.

He condemned

The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment, and will condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

The Queen of the South will rise up with the men of this generation at the judgment and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

General references

Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.

Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood.

The one among the servants of Pharaoh who feared the word of the Lord made his servants and his livestock flee into the houses;

A prudent man sees evil and hides himself,
The naive proceed and pay the penalty.

then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.

The one who is on the housetop must not go down, or go in to get anything out of his house;

And great fear came over the whole church, and over all who heard of these things.