Patriarchs & Beginnings
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In a world where people had forgotten their Creator, Noah stayed faithful and obedient. God asked him to build a huge ship out of gopher wood.
Noah and his sons worked day after day to follow all the measurements God had given. Even though others laughed at him, Noah kept working patiently.
“Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.”
God asks Noah to build an enormous ark. What would you choose?
When the ark was ready, God told Noah to bring into it a pair of every kind of animal, bird, and creeping thing.
Lions, rabbits, doves, and deer went in, one after another. God took care of all His creatures and showed His love for life.
“There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.”
When everyone was safe inside, the Lord Himself shut the door. The springs of the deep burst open and rain poured down from the sky.
It rained for 40 days and 40 nights, but inside the ark Noah’s family was safe. God watched over the ship without ceasing.
“And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.”
After many months the waters began to go down. Noah first sent out a raven, and then a dove, to see whether the ground had dried.
The first time, the dove came back quickly. But the second time it brought back a fresh olive leaf in its beak! Noah understood that life was beginning again on the earth.
“And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.”
Stepping out of the ark onto dry land, Noah built an altar and offered a sacrifice of thanks to God.
God set the rainbow in the sky as a promise that He would never again send a flood over the earth. Every time we see a rainbow, we remember His faithfulness.
“I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.”
