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February 2, 2025 - Genesis 7:2 - Two by Two, But What About the Sevens?

Writer's picture: Pastor Ken WimerPastor Ken Wimer

Genesis 7:2

"Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female."


Most of us know about God bringing the animals into the ark two by two, but what were these extra, clean beasts Noah was to take in by sevens, male and female? Here are several lessons we can draw from this.


The distinction between clean and unclean beasts, being before the flood, was due to the sacrifices that Noah would need to offer to the LORD upon exiting the ark after the waters subsided (Genesis 8:20). Although Noah found grace [eternal, electing grace] in the eyes of the LORD (Genesis 6:8), and God prepared the ark to preserve Noah and his family alive through the judgment of the world (a type of salvation in Christ), it all could not be without the shed blood of innocent victims—typical of the sacrifice of the LORD Jesus, and the justification of the elect in His death. "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission" (Hebrews 9:22).


Why clean animals? While some proclaim loudly today that in 2 Cor. 5:21, “...made Him to be sin for us...” means that He became guilty with the sin charged to Him and died guilty of the sin of His people, NOTHING could be more foreign to the Scripture types and teachings. Why the importance of CLEAN animals? It is because they typified Christ, the SPOTLESS LAMB: “... Who did NO sin, neither was guile found in His mouth...” (1 Peter 2:22). Scripture says that He died "THE JUST FOR THE UNJUST:" "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:" (1 Peter 3:18). It does not say that He died the GUILTY One for the unjust. He was made an offering for sin only by imputation, and not by personal experience- "who knew no sin" (2 Corinthians 5:21).


The LORD Jesus was made sin (legally and judicially CHARGED with the sin of His people BY IMPUTATION, not infusion). If Christ died for our sins:

  • He was affected BY our sin, not infected with it (Isaiah 53:3)

  • He died FOR our sin, not IN it (Isaiah 53:5).

  • It was laid on Him, not put in Him (Isaiah 53:6).

  • His soul was made an Offering for sin, not made sinful (Isaiah 53:10)

  • He was numbered AMONG the transgressors; He was NOT a transgressor (Isaiah 53:12).


It was for this reason that God was pleased to bruise Him because He was the Just, Holy, and PERFECT SACRIFICE, and thereby the JUST God and Savior. "Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? Who hath told it from that time? Have not I the LORD? And there is no God else beside me; a Just God and a Savior; there is none beside me" (Isaiah 45:21). "


The clean animals were to be taken into the ark by sevens. Isn't seven the number of perfection, pointing to the perfect work of the LORD Jesus in His death on the cross, perfectly redeeming and justifying ALL of His elect once and for all?


“Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus...” (Romans 3:24)






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