WORDS OF LIFE

                      Important Details about Noah & the Ark

Gen. 6, 7

1  The wickedness of man was great in the earth

2  The Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth

*He said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth (and the beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air)

3  But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. (He was a just man and perfect in his generations, and he walked with God.

4  God told Noah He was going to destroy all flesh, but told Noah to build an ark & how to build it.

*Noah obeyed God’s instructions: *The materials to use, the size, the door, the window

*God gave Noah a specific plan for salvation. Noah obeyed according to all that God commanded him

5  God told Noah, “with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark” (and his family)  8 souls

*The ark was the only means of salvation...everything under heaven was covered by water (Gen 7:19)

The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us..(1 Pet. 3:21)

1 Pet. 3:20 ... wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. (They weren’t saved by the ark - they were saved by the water.

Rom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death…(covered by water)

6  The Lord ‘shut him in’. (shut the door) = “A door shalt thou set in the side thereof…”Ge 6:16

*There was only one door...Jesus said, “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved… Jn 10:9

Jn 19:34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.

*The window... The scriptures don’t give a clear understanding of the design of the window. What we do know is that it gave light & was fashioned so Noah could see outside the ark.

Ps 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Jn 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

2 Cor 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

7  Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. Out of all the people in that day - only Noah found grace with God.

Lu. 17:26, 27 “And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.” “the flood came, and destroyed them all.”