Shavuot Revealed in the Story of Noah: The Ark of the Last Days (2025)

The story of Noah and the ark is arguably one of the most well known events in the entire world, yet at the same time, the most underestimated prophecy. Yes, there is a hidden prophecy in the story of Noah. It's not just about Noah and the flood. It's about the effects of fallen angels upon the Earth, the opening of the Ark of the Covenant, and a dove sent by the one true God to deliver those who call on his name. Welcome to the feast of Shavuot. Let's get right into it. Before we get into the actual prophecy, I'll give you a quick recap of the story. The story begins with God explaining to us why he is about to flood the world. In Genesis 6, he speaks of how the fallen angels, also known as the Nephilim, came into the daughters of men and they bore children to them. There was great wickedness upon the earth. So much darkness in fact, that God said that he regretted creating man. But God is not done with man. For he calls a righteous man called Noah and commissions him to build an ark that will carry and protect life itself while judgment ensues in a worldwide flood that sweeps across the entire world. But then, after that flood occurs. I want to zoom in on how Noah approaches this world now. For after the flood, two birds are released upon the earth by Noah. And in that, the future is foretold. In Genesis 8, 6 we read at the end of 40 days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made and sent forth a raven. And it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. Then he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground. But the dove found no place to set her foot and she returned to him to the ark. For the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him. So first off, we see, interestingly enough, these two very different birds released by Noah. First being a raven, an unclean black bird, followed by a dove, this white, clean bird. And the way that these two birds respond to their mission is completely opposite. The raven is sent out by Noah, but does not cooperate with Noah, but rather flew to and fro according to his own desires. While the dove, on the other hand, returns to Noah faithfully when she finds no place to lay her feet. A first glimpse by this is given to us of what the coming post flood world would be like for Noah. You know, you'd think that if the whole world had a big reset button on it where we could wipe out all wicked people. Then obviously there would be a garden of righteousness that would erupt from there, that would be restored. It would be like the Garden of Eden again, would it not? No. Two birds fly upon the earth. A dove who faithfully carries out the mission given to her, and a raven who follows his own desires. People will choose either the path of the raven or seeking their own ways, or the dove remaining faithful to God. And this I want to submit to you, is an allegory that goes very deep. For we even see in Genesis 8:7 when it describes the raven going to and fro. This is the same way in which Satan describes himself. When the Lord said to Satan in job 1 7, from where have you come? Satan answered the Lord and said, from going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it. We also see in Revelation 18:2. And he called out with a mighty voice, fallen, fallen is Babylon the great. She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, and a haunt for every unclean, unclean bird. Of course, the raven is an unclean bird, here being equated to an unclean spirit. And when Jesus describes demons in Matthew 12:43, he says, when an unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. A waterless place is a wilderness where there is no water. And this is exactly what a raven, even in nature, does. Ravens encircle the wilderness to and fro, looking for someone or something that's dying in the wilderness that they can feed upon. And this I want to submit to you, is now showing us what is happening spiritually upon the earth. The enemy Satan is going to and fro, seeking whom he may devour. Some of you listening may even be in such a wilderness as I speak. And Satan is waiting and hoping for your spiritual death so he can feed on your carcass, like he laid in wait for the Messiah in the desert, like he laid in wait to tempt Israel when they were in their wilderness in the Exodus. And some did fall in that wilderness. But to this all a dove was sent. Noah releases. After the raven does not return, he releases a dove. And this dove could not come upon the earth, because the world was still under the judgment of sin, being flooded. And this shows us a picture of Mount Sinai. The Spirit of God was on top of the mountain. Everyone approached in reverence and in fear, with thunder and lightning coming from the mountain. But the Spirit of God could not come upon all of the people of Israel because the world was still under the judgment of sin. They were held under the law, for Yeshua had not died yet, and they have not received their remission of sin yet. The Holy Spirit could not indwell an unholy people and water. The Holy Spirit went to settle beyond the veil in the holy of Holies. Noah's dove similarly found no place to rest its feet, but rather returned to Noah's Ark. The Ark is a picture of of the Ark of the Covenant, the holy of holies. But the Holy Spirit remaining there was not the ultimate plan of God. For Numbers 11:29, even Moses expresses, are you jealous for my sake? Would that all of the Lord's people were prophets, that the Lord would put his Spirit on them. Moses knew that there was something that the Lord desired more than what was in his present day. That the Lord wanted his Spirit to be upon all of Israel as the Holy Spirit was upon him. But in the story of Noah, what happens next is that everything changes. It says in Genesis 8:10, he waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. And the dove came back to him in the evening. And behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. Noah firstly waits seven days, pointing to the Lord of the seventh day, the Lord of the Sabbath, as Yeshua called himself. And immediately as this dove returns with the freshly plucked olive leaf, a message is sent to Noah by this bir. Number one, that the waters are receding, that the time of judgment that the flood represents is coming to an end. And number two, that something is changing, that the ark itself may soon be opened. For, of course, locked behind the doors, behind the veil, behind the covering of the ark, is all of life itself. Inside of the Ark of Noah is animals. It's Noah. It's his family. It's a sanctuary of life. And outside of the ark is a place of judgment. That's a world that's flooded, a world that is only full of death. And this contrast is the same as what we see with the Ark of the Covenant. For the Ark of the Covenant is full of life. It's inside of the Holy of Holies, and it is where spirit and truth resides. While outside of the ark is a world that has fallen and under the judgment ever since the time of Adam and Eve. But because this dove returns to Noah with a freshly plucked olive leaf in its mouth, that means that the dove needed to land on an Olive tree. And we have to ask, what is the meaning of this olive leaf and the olive tree? Paul tells us about the olive tree in Romans 11:17, where he says, but if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others, and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree. Yeshua the Messiah. Jesus is the root of the olive tree. He is the source of life itself. So here's the big question. Where in the Bible does the dove land on the olive tree of the Lord of the seventh day? We know that at the baptism of Yeshua, John the Baptist in Matthew 3 baptizes him. And a dove comes from heaven and lands on his tree. And John declares himself in John 1:32. And John bore witness. I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him. Hallelujah. So we're seeing this fulfillment of Noah's prophecy. The dove has come to the olive tree of Yeshua, taken a freshly plucked olive leaf, the evidence of his fruitful life, back to the Father. And the Father has come to declare, in fact, this is my beloved Son in who I am well pleased. And then after that, immediately something unexpected happens. It's written that after Yeshua receives the Spirit, that the Spirit leads Yeshua into the wilderness, a waterless place to be tempted by the devil. And after he was fasting there for 40 days and 40 nights, he was hungry, just as the earth was flooded for 40 days and 40 nights. And when he was in that waterless place, as we read earlier, the place where unclean spirits go. And we see, even in that wilderness, a raven going to and fro, looking for someone he can feed on. See, brothers and sisters, when we find ourselves alone in a wilderness like Yeshua did, our flesh alone does not have the power to resist Satan. Yet some of us are stuck in this loop of oppression in our own wilderness. We're in this sin cycle that we can't seem to break free from. And it's because even as believers, we can try to fight the darkness alone. But demonic oppression is a problem for our flesh. It's a big problem for us, for we cannot overcome it alone. But it's no problem for the Holy Spirit. See, Satan is waiting and hoping for your sin to lead you to an eventual spiritual death spiral so that he can feed on you. And this is a time for us to truly wake up. For if we want to be the people of God, known as those led by the Spirit, known as those who are grafted into the olive tree, into Yeshua partaking in that root and being filled by the Spirit. We must be a holy people. We must be a people with evidence of the freedom that the Holy Spirit brings when he comes. Wake up before you find yourself in the place that many of Israel did, in a wilderness without food or water, spiritually dying. See, your only hope is the same food that Yeshua had in the wilderness. And it wasn't an earthly food. It wasn't an earthly water. For it's written he fasted 40 days. But Yeshua said to them in John 4:32, I have food to eat that you do not know about. So the disciples looked at one another and said to one another, has anyone brought him something to eat? What is he talking about? And Yeshua said to them, my food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. What is it that Yeshua was busy with in that moment of his speech? He was sharing the gospel with a Samaritan woman at the well. He was being empowered by the Holy Spirit from on high as he told her about her many past men that she has gone through by the power of the Spirit. He knew it because he received the word of knowledge by the power of the Holy Spirit. Spirit. And that was his food. Think about that. When he was doing the work of God, being led by the power of God, being empowered by the Spirit, that was what he himself fed on. That was his spiritual nourishment. That is what made him spiritually strong in order to resist when he was in the wilderness without food, because he was busy with the power of God in his life by the spiritual gifts, he could resist the devil because he was satisfied by the flesh, Father. And he did not look to the satisfactions and the gains of this world. But because we at times have quenched the Holy Spirit by not teaching the body of Christ about her spiritual gifts, she has found herself disarmed in a wilderness attacked by ravens. Your behavior modification, dear brothers, dear sisters, is not enough. You, by your own flesh and your own works and your attempts, trying to be a better person today than you were yesterday, as amazing as that is, is not enough. You must understand that if the Holy Spirit is not the one you absolutely rely on for your nourishment and food and empowerment, you will not make it in the wilderness no matter how many laws you learn, how many, how many Torah portions you've gone through, no matter what. If you do not surrender yourself to the dove, as Yeshua did, and truly live a surrendered life, in faith. Because true, faithful living is actually stepping out in faith, not just saying it. Not just mentally ascending to a place of I believe, but doing I believe, but walking I believe, not just saying it. Brothers and sisters, Yeshua said to Israel, your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died there. And then he says, this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread who came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh. To eat of him is a big deal. It's to partake in all of him. He is the Passover lamb. Just that, like at the Passover, we were commanded to eat the entire Passover that night. You cannot leave anything for tomorrow. And so when you eat of Yeshua, you don't get to leave any of him, for tomorrow. He is an all or nothing God. You accept him for who he is. You bow the knee, and you do not pick and choose him for. For yourself. So when he says, cause out the demon, you cast out the demon. When he says, heal the sick, you heal the sick. When he says, I'm pouring out my spirit. And they spoke in tongues. Then let there be speaking in tongues when he said, I give a gift of discernment, Let there be a gift of discernment. When he says, let there be a gift of miracles, let there be a gift of miracles. Let the Holy Spirit not be one whom we pick and choose from. When he says, I will prophesy through my people young and old, and I will give them dreams and visions, let there be prophecy. Let there be dreams and visions. Let the Spirit be the Holy Spirit. And let you be you made of dust, and to dust your return, unless you give the Holy Spirit his place in your life. For Yeshua died for this very thing. And as he is crucified, that veil was torn. And this brings us now to the last moment of Noah. Genesis 8:12. Then he waited another seven days and sent forth forth the dove. And she did not return to him anymore. So we see that this dove first came to Noah the freshly plucked olive leaf, the evidence to Noah that the dove had landed on the olive tree. Yeshua. And the fruit has pleased the Father in heaven. And so the Father sent the dove out again. And the dove does not return again, for the dove had a new commission upon the earth. And we read that in the next verse. And Noah removed the covering of the ark. And look and Behold, the face of the ground was dry. So the moment has finally arrived for Noah to open up the ark, this box where all of the world's life was placed within, to enter now again the world. And this is a picture of the Ark of the Covenant, which was placed beyond the veil, inaccessible, where man could not come, where the Spirit of God was, where the truth of God was placed. And suddenly, as Yeshua is crucified and the veil is torn, access is restored, the door is open, for Yeshua is the door. And the life of God, God, the life of the world that was beyond the veil is now let into this world. Humanity's access is restored to that which was lost in the garden. The presence of God, the waters of judgment have dried up. For the Messiah has made a way for us to be forgiven, to give us salvation, yes, but not only salvation in his people. Now he raises up a new ark, and he baptizes them with the Holy Spirit. The dove has come upon the olive tree, Yeshua. But now, as we are grafted into Yeshua, the dove comes upon all believers. In John 1:33, John quotes the Heavenly Father and says, he on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. So while at Mount Sinai, the earth was not ready for the Holy Spirit at Mount Zion at the feast of Shavuot, because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, the Spirit is now poured out upon believers. And now the prophecy of Psalm 52 is, But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever. We as believers have been commissioned to shine this light that is empowered by the olive oil, the same oil that the five wise virgins had until the end, the oil of the Holy Spirit. And so, brothers and sisters, as we all know, the first judgment was that of water with the flood and God promised by the rainbow to never flood the world again. But the second judgment is coming, the judgment of fire and your ark provides a place of refuge for those in this world that are heading towards the fire. As we speak, people, through your life can experience the kingdom that is to come and meet their king. But it is our testimony that will allow that. It is through our prayers for them. It is through the power of the Holy Spirit's spiritual gifts reaching the hearts of others. It's through the power of the Holy Spirit that empowers us to overcome sin and the temptations of the devil, being a witness of holiness to them. Above all, I want you all to remember that we must abide in this, not falling away, as many do and many will. For just as you were grafted into the olive tree, be careful, lest you be grafted out of the olive tree. John 15:6 if anyone does not abide in me, he is thrown away like a branch and withers. And the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. Jeremiah 11:16 the Lord once called you a green olive tree, beautiful with good fruit. But with the roar of a great tempest he will set fire to it, and its branches will be consumed. The fire of God will come upon us all to test whether we will stand. He will burn up, and only that which is holy and pure will remain. Will you be like the burning bush that Moses encountered, that burns but does not burn out? Or will you be a tree that burns up completely once the fierce fire, the consuming fire of God comes upon you? We must understand, brothers and sisters, that the sacrifice of our Messiah makes us fireproof. He protects us, he covers us, but we must remain in him, abide in him, bearing his fruit, and not growing weary of that. John 15:5 I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. And so I conclude with this. This is the reason for the test of the wilderness that you may find yourself in now or will find yourself in one day. God tested Job in the wilderness to see if he will curse God if all of his possessions were to be taken away. God led Israel into the wilderness to be tested, to see if they will trust God in the midst of their trial. God led Yeshua into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil after his baptism, to see if he will exchange his calling to to gain this world. And in the same way God will even lead you into the wilderness to be tempted. What for, you may ask to test whether you will curse God or trust him, whether you will be tempted by the devil or whether you will absolutely rely on the Holy Spirit. By this everyone who plays church every Sunday, who puts on a religious mask and every counterfeit believer will be sifted out. They will not remain if they do not abide in him. Only those in intimacy of the Holy Spirit will survive the wilderness journey. And the rest? They will be eaten. Revelation 19 tells us so. Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he calls to all the birds that fly directly overhead, Come gather for the great supper of God to eat the flash of kings, the flash of captains, the flash of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great. Revelation 19 describes those who joined themselves with the raven, going about their own ways, ultimately joining the side of the Antichrist in the end of the world. Don't give in to the raven. Surrender yourself over to the dove and you will love. Father, I thank you for your Feast of Shavuot. Father, I ask that you would open our eyes and our ears, that we would be awake and not sleep, that we would spiritually be alive and not dead. That when we are in the wilderness, that we would feed on the Son of God and be satisfied and empowered by the dove from above. Father, I ask that you would give your people who right now are in bondage, the people right now who are listening to this, who are in a sin cycle. The people, Lord, who you have called to be holy, but are walking in unholiness right now. We speak to every sin and demonic oppression in the name of Yeshua. Every unclean spirit. Go in the name of Yeshua right now. I thank you, my Lord, for your freedom and your mercy. I thank you for filling the homes, listening to this with your Holy Spirit. I thank you, Lord, for every addiction to be broken off your people. I thank you, Lord, for every temptation that is attempting to distract, that is attempting to place people on a road to death. I pray, Lord, that you would give them the discernment. Father, I ask that you would help us to not rely on our own flesh. Help us not rely on our own devices. But, Lord, let us come to a place where we completely rely on you to be the one to set us free. Holy Spirit, without you, there is no hope. Without you, there is no way out of our bondage. Without you, there is nowhere else to turn. Lord, I ask, Holy Spirit, that you would make us conscious of you, of your presence and of your power. Come, Lord, and come and deposit your spiritual gifts like a dove upon the heads of people, like the fires of the Holy Spirit on the heads of those men in Acts 2. Holy Spirit, come and use us like never before this year. Give us new life in the name of Yeshua. Amen. Thank you, guys, for joining me this Shavuot. May the Father bless you, keep you, shine his face upon you, lift up his countenance upon you, give you his shalom and his mercy and his grace. If you would like to bring a Shavuot offering and the Holy Spirit lays it upon your heart to bring it to this ministry, you can do [email protected] Many blessings to you and Shalom.