Genesis Six….(v.13-22) Noah a Dope?
Verses 13-22….
God's patience with mankind had come to an end, and man needed to be taught a harsh lesson…."I'm going to make an end of this evil, and man will be destroyed from the earth"…..
God revealed to Noah 1his plan and gave him a massive job to do…build this large ark (boat) capable of saving all species of animals and all people who would be willing to join it. What an object of derision Noah must have been! Here he was, miles from the ocean, and no one knew what rain was as it had never fallen prior to this time. The boat was 450 feet long by 75 feet high and had three decks….each storey would have been over ten feet high, high enough to accommodate elephants and giraffes!
God had not only told Noah what to do, but what was going to happen, so Noah would no doubt have told all who came to see what he was doing, why he was doing it. Peter says he was a "preacher of righteousness" (2 Peter 2:5). It is also interesting to note that Noah was the eighth generation down from Adam (eight being God's number). The warning in this is that God ALWAYS judges sin, no matter how long it takes to come, it WILL come.
Man had fallen deep in sin, His every thought was wrong within;
God's patience went and judgment came, the earth was cleansed to start again.
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