THE GREAT FLOOD!

Genesis 7-8


We all talk about the great flood of Noah's time, but have we ever taken note of the hidden messages within this tragic and traumatic encounter? God revealed His plan to Noah, as He always does according to Amos 3:7, to bring a flood that would destroy all of creation. The only escape route for Noah and his family would be the Ark. What a revelation! If we knew beforehand what the Lord was going to do with us, some of us would faint, run, bargain, or ask that our “enemy” face the difficulties while we reap the benefits. But Noah didn’t. Noah did everything as the Lord instructed him, demonstrating complete and total obedience.

The horrors of the flood are unimaginable to us, as was God's destruction of everything He created, including humans. Unfortunately, this is a pale comparison to what is to come as described in Revelation 19:11-16. Today, just as in Noah's days, people are living without a care for eternity. How many of the billions of people on the planet will be destroyed if not offered the gospel and salvation?

Noah and his family may have suffered "survivors’ guilt," which we won't know, but we will certainly feel guilty if our loved ones perish without knowing the salvation of the Lord. Noah, after following all of God's instructions, boarded the ark and waited out the flood. An experience he had never had, so he had nothing to compare it with, but he trusted God to not only get in the Ark but to wait.

How often does the Lord instruct us on what to do, but we decline to obey because nothing meets with our approval or matches the idea we have in our heads? Remember, though, that James 1:17 calls it a sin when we don’t do the right thing, we know we should do. God sent the humans and animals into the ark for posterity—male and female, as in the creation story in Genesis 1:26-28.

Four men + four women—man and woman, husband and wife.

Seven pairs of every clean animal; seven male and female.

Seven pairs of every clean bird of the air; seven male and female.

From out of the clean birds and animals, Noah took some for the sacrifice to God in Genesis 8:20. Water, unrestrained by the Lord, came out from everywhere: Verses 11-12 say all the springs of the great deep (including underground water) and, for the first time, water came from the floodgates of heaven—not just rain, the windows of heaven were opened. An immense quantity of waters occupying the centre of the earth burst forth. The waters that were above the firmament, which were separated in Genesis 1:7, were again united with the waters below the firmament.

Noah and his family, with all the animals, faced this great body of water called the flood inside the ark for 370 days—one year and five days. The flood was catastrophic to living and non-living things. The waters rose greatly and covered everything under heaven—that is, everything outside the ark perished without exception. But everything in the ark—Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives, and all the animals and birds—survived the flood, not because the ark was properly built but because God shut "Noah" and the others in the ark in verse 16.

God shut him in; this symbolizes God's protection. The story of the flood is a testament to the lengths our Father will go to save one man out of a lost world, to save one sheep, to find one coin—the message of salvation. May the Lord shut us in the bowels of His mercy, love, and grace, secure for protection unto eternity.

PRAYER: Lord, like Noah, I am overwhelmed with thanksgiving for Your saving grace, for providing me with Christ, the final Ark for all time and all things. In His name, amen.

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