noah obedience rewarded

Genesis Seven….(v.1-24) Noah's Obedience Rewarded

Verses 1-24….

Noah had prepared the ark and provisioned it with enough food for every creature on board just as God had told him to. What a sight it must have been to see all the animals loaded on board!

Seven pairs of clean (eatable) animals, and all birds, with one pair of all other animals and all the creepy crawlies too! Finally Noah and his family (eight people) went in and God shut the door of the ark. There wouldn't have been any handle on the outside. Then it began to rain….imagine the panic of the people on the outside as they saw the waters begin to rise. They would remember then all the times that Noah had warned them this would happen! The tide too kept on rising and people could now see that Noah's prediction was right after all, but it was too late!

The water kept rising until the highest mountain was covered by fifteen cubits (seven metres). All moving life died and the earth was cleansed of all the filth and evil that man had brought on it. The water covered the earth for just over five months before it began to recede.

Man's sin brought judgment on the earth, Such as was not seen since its birth,

The earth was cleansed all through and through, So then it could start fresh and new.

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