Sin's Haunting Legacy

Very quickly after Noah and his family left the ark, the corruption that had been the hallmark of the old world began to reappear in the new world. Strikingly, the first manifestation of that corruption was drunkenness on the part of Noah and that sin led to an act of perversion on the part of Ham toward Noah that is left unspecified in the text. The point of the passage is that the Flood had not changed the awful reality of depravity and that there was more than ever the need for God's saving mercy. From the house of Shem, there would arise that Redeemer who would deliver His people from their sins.