Genesis 6–7, Noah’s flood provides allegorical insights relating to end-times prophecy. In Matthew 24:37, Yeshua compares the end times to the days of Noah. The story of Noah has allegorical implications that give hints about end-times prophecy.
In 1 Peter 3:18, we learn that the story of Noah is also a picture of salvation and baptism. Noah is a type of Yeshua.
Noah building the ark is a prophetic picture of the redeemed believer working out his own salvation all the while following the exact plans or specifications of YHVH.
Noah builds an ark of safety from Elohim’s wrath or judgments against sinful man. The ark is a metaphorical picture of the believer’s salvation; Noah is a spiritual picture of Yeshua. The flood is also a picture of water baptism for the remission of sins, which ceremonially pictures the death of the old sinful man, and the birth the new spiritual man (Rom 6:3–6). The unregenerated sinful or carnal men perished in the floodwaters in Noah’s day, while the new, redeemed man (as pictured by Noah and his family) who had found grace in the sight of Elohim found refuge on the ark. While the flood is a judgment against sinful man who has violated the Torah-laws or divine instructions of YHVH, the ark is a picture of the grace that YHVH offers to those who will repent of their sins (i.e. Torahlessness) and turn to him through Yeshua. As Noah found grace in the eyes of YHVH because he was “perfect in his generations” (Gen 6:8, 9), he was spared from the wages of sin which is death, and YHVH offers the same grace to all men to this day (2 Pet 3:9).
