Genesis 6:1 - 9:17 Noah's Ark and the Flood

[nancyshanice]

God saw how great wickedness had become and decided to wipe mankind from the face of the earth. However, one righteous man among all the people of that time, Noah, found favor in God's eyes. With very specific instructions, God told Noah to build an ark for him and his family in preparation for a catastrophic flood that would destroy every living thing on earth.

God also instructed Noah to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, both male and female, and seven pairs of all the clean animals, along with every kind of food to be stored for the animals and his family while on the ark. Noah obeyed everything God commanded him to do. But human beings just laughed and said that had gone mad.
After they entered the ark, rain fell on the earth for a period of forty days and nights. The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days, and every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out. As the waters receded, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. Noah and his family continued to wait for almost eight more months while the surface of the earth dried out.

Finally after an entire year, God invited Noah to come out of the ark. Immediately, he built an altar and worshiped the Lord with burnt offerings from some of the clean animals. God was pleased with the offerings and promised never again to destroy all the living creatures as he had just done. Later God established a covenant with Noah: "Never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth." As a sign of this everlasting covenant God set a rainbow in the clouds.

Noah was righteous and blameless, but he was not sinless (Genesis 9:20-21). Noah pleased God and found favor because he loved and obeyed God with his whole heart. As a result, Noah's life was an example to his entire generation. Although everyone around him followed the evil in their hearts, Noah followed God. Does your life set an example, or are you negatively influenced by the people around you?

[205victor]

From Noah’s experience, we learn that even in our sinful life, we still have a chance to receive God’s favor and it only comes by obeying His commands wholeheartedly as Noah did.

We should strive to live an exemplified life so that we may escape Hades.

[lynkez]

Just as the rainbow symbolised a blessing and not a curse of the rains to come, we should live a life that is pleasant and a blessing to others. Let more people come to the Lord through what we live. Just as Noah was blameless that God saved his people, we can as well save our family or people around us by leading them to righteousness.

[Ivyc]

From that experience we learn that it is not too late for us to repent our sins and that God is still waiting for us with open arms. It is time we repented our sins and live according to God's commandments just the same way Noah lived. All that God requires from us it total obedience to his words.