The Answerer

What a great guy you are and a great question. Noah still gets talked about 4,000 years later.

After the creation in Genesis chapter one, and humans got to feel good and free…it was NOT good! People got to be so evil and selfish for their own pleasure that: “When the Lord saw the extent of human wickedness, and that the trend and direction of men’s lives were only towards evil, He was sorry He had made them. It broke His heart.”  That sounds awfully sad doesn’t it. (Genesis 6:7 TLB)

God was pleased with Noah and his family because they all lived right. He told Noah to build a large boat (the Ark) because ‘I am going to destroy all living creatures from the earth – and start again.’

The Ark was to be 150 metres long, 25 metres wide and 15 metres high.’ 

(I read once that marine architects considered the size and dimensions of Noah’s Ark were ‘perfect for a seaworthy vessel’.  ‘Make it three stories high with a roof and a 40 cm space between the roof and the sides, and a door in the side – a ramp too I guess, for the animals and not wheelchairs!!

Noah was told to get in food, and a pair of every bird and animal and he did. The rain came down for 40 days and 40 nights and the great fountains of the deep were opened up until every high hill was covered. All living things died and the water slowly went down till the earth became normal again. Took a bit over a year. Then Noah let the animals and birds out and they went out and multiplied as God had planned. God told Noah that He would put a rainbow in the sky as a sign that never again would He flood the earth.

Today (2020), many people are the same as in Noah’s day; selfish, greedy and uncaring of others. It must give God pain (that is all in Genesis Ch. 6 on to chapter 9).

Some people claim to have found the remains of the Ark on a high mountain in Turkey. Maybe they have but I guess it would not float today (it has not be verified (proven))!

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