Noah Part 3

12 - Noah pt 2 - The Flood pt 2 Gen. 6:14-7:10

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

9:11 AM

14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

The Ark 6:15-22 - Last week we talked about the state of the world, it's sin wickedness and the fact that only Noah found grace or favor in the eyes of the Lord. We discussed Noah's family his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. We discussed Noah's call - that he was called to build an ark to save his house and the animals. Tonight I want to talk a little more about the ark, and all that went into it. Building 6:15-22;7:9 - The Ark is not a word used in the Bible very often. In fact the only other reference is found in Exodus 2:3,5 where Moses was placed in a papyrus basket or ark on the Nile River. A different Hebrew word is used for the Ark of the covenant. The Ark was made out of : Gopher wood or probably a type of Cypress wood. Was pitched within and without - This pitch is sometimes called bitumen. "Since Mesopotamia today is home to a vast supply of the world's oil, it is possible that in the preflood era, if this oil reserve was already in place, some of this underground reserve might have made its way to the earth's surface. " [1]Made with rooms - it doesn't specify but it indicates many rooms. Rooms literally means nests300 cubits longs, fifty cubits wide, 30 cubits high. With a window of a cubit above. Question is what is a cubit? "The Babylonians had a royal cubit of about 19.8 inches; the Egyptians had a longer and a shorter cubit of about 20.65 and 17.6 inches, respectively; and the Hebrews apparently had a long cubit of 20.4 inches (Ezekiel 40:5) and a common cubit of about 17.5 inches. Another common cubit of antiquity was 24 inches. Most writers believe the Biblical cubit to be 18 inches."[2]Dr. Morris goes on to say, "With the dimensions as calculated, the total volumetric capacity of the Ark was approximately 1,400,000 cubic feet, which is equal to the volumetric capacity of 522 standard livestock cars such as used on modern American railroads. Since it is known that about 240 sheep can be transported in one stock car, a total of over 125,000 sheep could have been carried in the Ark." [3]The Size of the Ark: The ark, with 95,700 square feet of deck space, could hardly have been designed for a local flood. [Note: it was not until 1858 that a vessel of greater length was constructed: the Great Eastern (692’ by 83’ by 30’’) Also, it can be shown through simulated tests in water that a boxlike structure of the ark’s dimensions is exceedingly stable, indeed, almost impossible to capsize.][4]My Social Studies book from High School tried to describe it this way, "The Ark was not, however, a small boat. It was about 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. Its volume was more than 1,500,000 cubic feet. Because it had three floord it's area was about 101,250 square feet.

In case you still don't have a mental picture of the size of the Ark, it had as much volume as 356 railroad livestock cars. (Imagine waiting at a railroad crossing for ten trains each of which consists of 36 cars) The Ark had about as much room as 100 average-sized houses in the United States. "[5]

A Flood - I believe this was a catastrophic flood a global flood. which I will probably get into next session if time permits. Verse 18 - A Covenant - this covenant of salvation and the line of Christ transferred to Noah - Adam, Seth, Noah. After the flood the covenant would also be made with "every living creature that was with you" (Gen. 9:10). These were ones over whom mankind was to have dominion and for whom mankind was to care (Gen. 1:28).[6]

Entering 7:1-9Bring into the Ark - "The indication of v. 20 is that these animals will come to Noah. Noah does not have to find and trap the animals; apparently that is God's responsibility—he will guide them to the ark. Or at least some unexplained stimulus will move the animals in Noah's direction."[7]

20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

The only things taken on the Ark would have been creatures that had the "breath of life in them." If they didn't breathe oxygen, they wouldn't have been taken on the ark except it be to feed other animals. It took Noah 100 years to build the ark—he was about 500 years old when he started (Genesis 5:32), and 600 years old when he finished (Genesis 7:6). (Some say he was 480 years old when he started the ark, which would mean it took 120 years to finish it.) The ark’s purpose was to keep safe certain persons and animals from the deluge that God was about to bring upon the earth. The ark became known as a symbol of Noah’s faith and a symbol of God’s mercy. Today “ark” is also used as a term for a shelter or refuge.[8]

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[M] Kenneth O. Gangel and Stephen J. Bramer, Holman Old Testament Commentary – Genesis, ed. Max Anders, (Nashville, TN: Broadman Holman, 2003), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, 74.[M] Henry M. Morris, The Genesis Record, (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1976), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, 181.[M] IBID[M] GB&C FA16 Pentateuch Dr. Alan Brown Class Notes[M] ACE Social Studies workbook[M] Kenneth O. Gangel and Stephen J. Bramer, Holman Old Testament Commentary – Genesis, ed. Max Anders, (Nashville, TN: Broadman Holman, 2003), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, 75.[M] Victor P. Hamilton, The New International Commentary on the Old Testament – The Book of Genesis Chapters 1-17, (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1976), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, 284.[M] Freeman, James M. ; Chadwick, Harold J.: Manners & Customs of the Bible. Rev. ed.]. North Brunswick, NJ : Bridge-Logos Publishers, 1998, S. 9