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Noah's Ark |
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Before the Great Flood the Bible tells us that mankind's behavior degenerated to where people's minds were thinking about "only evil continually" and "the earth was filled with violence." Our righteous God became sorrowful for having created people who became so wicked. So, God decided to destroy all people, all land animals, and all birds. Noah was trying to live righteously in this wicked world, so God was merciful to him and his family. Noah was given instructions about how he was to build an Ark 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. The dimensions were similar to today's oil tankers, making it practically impossible to overturn even in the worst storm at sea. |
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God told Noah, "Everything that is on the earth shall die" by a flood. Noah was also told that the Ark would save his family and a male and female pair of every kind of animal. Noah was also instructed to store food in the Ark for his family and for all the animals. Noah did "all that God commanded him." |
| Seven days before the rain started, God ordered Noah, who was 600 years old, to come into the Ark with his family and all the animals. God sealed them in the Ark. God caused water to both rise up from below the earth and to fall from the sky for 40 days, until the water was 22 feet deep over the highest mountain. Everyone and everything that had lived on dry ground was drowned, only those in the Ark survived. The Ark came to rest on a high mountain of Ararat. Also, he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; and the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off, so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. He stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which did not return to him again. When the surface of the ground was dry enough, the Bible says that God told Noah to go out of the Ark, 365 days after he entered it. |
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Later, God made a promise that "never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth." The rainbow is the sign of His covenant. Written by: Amy Ray |
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