THE COMING FLOOD

The Righteousness of Noah

Genesis 6:5 “The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”

Romans 3:10 “as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;”

Genesis 6:8 “But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.”

Hebrews 11:7 “By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.”

Genesis 15:6 “And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.”

Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”

See Romans 4:1-8… and also Romans 4:16-25...

Amos 3:3 ““Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?”

“To walk with God is to set God always before us, and to act as those that are always under his eye. It is to live a life of communion with God both in ordinances and providences. It is to make God's word our rule and his glory our end in all our actions. It is to make it our constant care and endeavour in every thing to please God, and nothing to offend him. It is to comply with his will, to concur with his designs, and to be workers together with him. It is to be followers of him as dear children.” — Matthew Henry

2 Peter 2:5 “if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;”

The Corruption and Violence of Mankind

See Romans 3:9-18...

Mention Genesis 6:4… The term Nephilim actually means feller or falling ones, the kind of people that fall on you and crush you, powerful, fierce warrior-type people: a bully or tyrant. The term in Hebrew implies not so much the idea of great stature as of reckless ferocity, impious and daring characters, who spread devastation and carnage far and wide.

Genesis 1:27 “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”

Psalm 11:5 “The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.”

Romans 2:5 “But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.”

Instructions for the Ark

Ark- box, chest, casket

Exodus 2:3 “When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.”

The ark was to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. We don’t know what gopher wood is, but it it to be covered inside and out with pitch to avoid leaks.

Noah’s Ark was the focus of a major 1993 scientific study headed by Dr. Seon Hong at the world-class ship research center KRISO, based in Daejeon, South Korea. Dr. Hong’s team compared twelve hulls of different proportions to discover which design was most practical. No hull shape was found to significantly outperform the 4,300-year-old biblical design. In fact, the Ark’s careful balance is easily lost if the proportions are modified, rendering the vessel either unstable, prone to fracture, or dangerously uncomfortable.

The research team found that the proportions of Noah’s Ark carefully balanced the conflicting demands of stability (resistance to capsizing), comfort (“seakeeping”), and strength. In fact, the Ark has the same proportions as a modern cargo ship. The study also confirmed that the Ark could handle waves as high as 100 ft (30 m). To put that into perspective, modern day cruise ships are designed to withstand 50 foot waves. Henry Morris, who is an engineer and a scientist, concluded that the ark would have had to have been turned completely vertical before it could be tipped over, it was so stable.

And the gross tonnage of the ark can be calculated, it would be 14,000 tons. Its internal space, a hundred thousand square feet, and its total volume, 1.5 million cubic feet. It has been calculated that the capacity of the ark is equivalent to 522 train boxcars. Somebody figured out years ago that you could get 240 sheep in a boxcar. So if you had 522 boxcars with 240 sheep, you’d have a total of a bit over 125,000 animals. Sheep are most likely larger than the average animal on the ark.

Verse 16 discusses a roof or a window, depending on your translation. It says, “You are to finish it to a cubit above, or a cubit from the top.” So you’ve got the roof on the top, probably at some kind of pitch so that the water goes rolling off, and where the roof comes out and extends past the sides of the ark, there is an opening, 18 inches. Literally, ventilation all the way around the ark is probably the best way to understand it. It was under the overhang and could be covered with some material during the rain, and that material then could be rolled up or removed when the rain had stopped. So there would literally be an 18-inch, or a foot-and-a-half opening all the way around, ventilating that entire ark, interrupted only by the posts that were holding up the roof. Providing light, providing ventilation.

It is to have a door in its side and 3 decks. It is to have rooms, or nests, to house all of the animals. There would also be room to store food and supplies.

Deliverance from the Wrath to Come

See 2 Peter 2:4-9...

Hebrews 10:30–31 “For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.” It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”

Matthew 3:7 “But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?”

1 Thessalonians 1:10 “and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.”