Nimrod - Page 2 of 3
With the exception of tidbits about Noah, again, we know absolutely nothing about the family’s, background, schooling or ability to retain and reinstitute knowledge. I assume, and I believe rightly so, the physiology of Noah’s family did not change much during the Flood nor the following centuries through to the time when written history was begun. These eight people retained all the past knowledge available to them, within their individual capacity to do so.
And we know little about family life, interaction, mores’ or activities immediately following the Flood. We do know, though, that one of the first things the family did, upon settling in the new Earth, was to set up a vineyard, and get drunk.
Now we can’t say this drunkenness was a purposeful thing on Noah’s part as “fermentation” may not have been an issue in the old Earth. We may only theorize what happened.
There were many changes in the new Earth after the Flood; man now ate meat; animals no longer cohabited entirely; man and animals of prey were at odds; other animals were now afraid of man, to name a few of the changes in Genesis 9.
And we must strongly consider the changes in the atmosphere of the Earth. Prior to the Flood, there was no rain, Genesis 2:5-6. What this means is beyond my comprehension except to say that even husbandry and the yield from it were probably different after the Flood. It doesn’t appear that Noah was a farmer before the Flood though he may have been. But the wording of the Bible seems to say it was something he only dabbled in afterward, maybe his bucket list, Genesis 9:20.
And after the Flood, God gave man the rainbow as a sign of remembrance and promise.
Impudence, the crux of this entire article, has taken that sign today and turned it into an unwholesome signal to rebel against the Almighty.
Impudence was a major trait we find in Nimrod,
And closer to the story, or actually pulling it together, that is Noah and Nimrod, it was the same impudence that was displayed by Canaan, an uncle of Nimrod.
Canaan, as I believe, purposefully got his grandfather, Noah, drunk, then probably laughed about it and told others, Genesis 9:24. This story line is speculation, but plausible when we read the whole episode.
Now where there was certain knowledge accrued by mankind and shared abundantly before and after the Flood, and knowing the history of man, we can say many old attitudes survived and were shared also. It would seem that one of them was the ignorance of teaching of respect for others, especially elders, as we see in Genesis 9:22-23. This is a major problem of society today. And we will see in our conclusion, next time, it was the expressed attitude of the family of Ham which spawned Canaan and Nimrod.