When God smelled a sweet savour from Noah's sacrifice, the literal Hebrew actually says a
RESTFUL savour.
Genesis 8:21 KJV And the LORD smelled a
sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
H5207
ניחח ניחוח
nı̂ychôach nı̂ychôach
nee-kho'-akh, nee-kho'-akh
From H5117; properly restful, that is, pleasant; abstractly delight: - sweet (odour).
So many things of Noah remind us of Adam's creation. Both were told to replenish the earth. Both were even told to eat certain things and not other things.
Genesis 2:16-17 KJV And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: (17) But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Genesis 9:3-4 KJV Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. (4) But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
I once saw a thought there of how the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil had one thing in it that the others did not have - DESIRE TO MAKE ONE WISE. And it was the killer. Same with Noah's meat. The forbidden meat had one thing in it the others did not have -- blood. So the meat with animal blood in it is spiritually similar to the forbidden fruit. And it shows a beautiful message. Meat must have the BLOOD SHED in order for man to not die. This of course reminds us of the cross. Jesus' shed blood. Fruit of Life!
