Noah, a man who walked with God and did everything he was commanded(Genesis 6:9, 22) lives in a time of wickedness. The people who he is trying to save are threatening to kill him...and oh yeah...they are GIANTS.
So the Lord commands Noah to build an Ark. Noah is 600 years old and is told "Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
We did a little activity in our class and tried to write down all the mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and birds we could in 3 minutes. I also added insects...not sure if they were included on the list but I imagined they would have had to been on the ark to survive because of the totality and length of the flooding). The kids listed 40-50 mammals, about 20-30 reptile and amphibians, and I was impressed by a list of 33 birds...and these were just the ones we could think of.
Oh and we read in (Genesis 6) And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. That's right food too. Think of all the food it would take to sustain all these animals for that many days.
Can you imagine the immenseness of this task????
And then Noah was commanded to get inside the ark and guess what...it wasn't raining yet. In fact it was SEVEN days before it rained! That is faith! In a ark with animals for a whole week and it's not raining yet.
Then in my sweet innocence I thought it rained for 40 days and 40 nights...the end. No...that is how long it rained until the flood lifted up the boat. The ark was a adrift or in biblical terms "And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days." So 7+40+150=197days or about 6 1/2 months that Noah was in the ark.
Such amazing details to apply to our own lives!
Such amazing details to apply to our own lives!
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