INTRODUCTION:
Noah was the son of Lamech. His father died at the age of seven hundred and seventy seven (777) years. His father had many sons and daughters (Genesis 5:.30-31). Noah played a vital role in history of mankind as a Bible character. He is the second Bible character I will pick in this project.
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MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE :
Noah, at the age of five (500) hundred years he had three sons (no daughter), namely: Shem, Ham, and Japheth (Genesis 5:32).
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NOAH WALKED WITH GOD:
Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God (Genesis 6:9).
One day God shared His plans with him, as the Bible says that the secret of God is revealed to those who walked closely with Him.
God told Noah that the end of human beings has come to an end. The Almighty Jehovah told him vividly that He is going to destroy the world and all things He created for man (Genesis 6:5-7).
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD (Genesis 6:8).
God instructed Noah to build a ship or an ark that will save him, his family and some animals. But for the rest of human beings, animals, birds, trees, etc., they must come to an end.
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them (Genesis 6:5-7).
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NOAH BUILT THE ARK:
He began to build the ark as he was instructed. The project lasted for a long time. Some Bible scholars said that it took Noah up to one hundred and twenty years. Someone said that Noah abandoned to project for some years in the bush where people began to mess it up, until God persuaded him to continue. There are so many legends around Noah and the Ark he built.
The reality in it is that Noah later finished the project. Noah presented a finished Ark to the Almighty Jehovah for approval. Then God inspected the work and confirmed that it was perfectly done. And it was done exactly according to God's details (Gen. 6:12-22).
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GOD'S DETAILS ON WHO WOULD BE SAVED:
God appreciated Noah for his obedience. God instructed him again on how they will enter the ark. Male and female of every animal in the animal kingdom. Male and female of every bird. The birds 🐦 🐦 🐦 🐦 🐦🐦 🐦 were to be seven in their kinds And all the family members of Noah. They all entered into the ark, and God locked it by Himself and took the key (Genesis 7:1-16).
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THE FIRST RAINFALL ON EARTH (GENESIS 7:17-24):
It was not too long that the dew they usually experience turned into a heavy downfall that lasted for 40 days. It was down falling until every mountain was covered with flood. The flood was on the ground for one hundred and fifty days (i.e. five months of thirty days each). Every mountain was completely covered. Every human being outside the ark died. Every living creature in the animal kingdom and plant kingdom died. Every bird and beast outside the ark died. The only creatures that survived to celebrate their survival after one hundred and fifty days were those saved in the Ark.
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NOAH IN THE ARK / PRISON:
Initially the creatures in the Ark enjoyed their stay. They were together both the animals, humans, birds and their food and water. They ate and drank in the Ark. They also emptied their bowels together there in the Ark. You can imagine the kind of odor the Ark will compound itself. May I ask you, were they any longer enjoying or enduring their safety?
And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days (Genesis 7:24).
They were with such odor of the animals, their food, and their wastes for one hundred and fifty days and nights.
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THE ALMIGHTY GOD CONSIDERED NOAH LATER:
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged (Genesis 8:1);
God made the flood to hasten up and dried up. God told Noah to go out of the Ark with everyone and everything saved in the Ark.
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NOAH CAME OUT OF THE ARK:
And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
And God spake unto Noah, saying,
Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him (Genesis 8:13-18):
Noah was so happy that he built an altar, made a sacrifice unto the Almighty God. When God perceived the aroma of the sacrifice, God declared:
... I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done (Genesis 8:21).
The Almighty Jehovah made a covenant with every creature, with every living creature. God set a rainbow in the sky as a token of the covenant (Genesis 9:11-15).
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RAINBOW IS MULTICOLORED:
The rainbow has many colors, Why? This is a billion-dollar question. I think, only God can tell. In my own opinion, God will not destroy the living creatures together with everything He created. Rather whoever sinned against Him, and whoever disobeys Him will not have easy with Him. He has promised a hellfire punishment. Whoever obeys Him, He also promised enjoyment with such a person wherever He planned such occasion. Heaven's enjoyment and hellfire suffering are real. If you want to believe, good for you, if you don't want to believe, your unbelieve will never stop God Almighty in whatever He plans to do.
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THE LAST DAYS OF NOAH:
Noah's last days were not favorable to his family. He was seen in drunkenness. Such life led him to naked himself unknowingly. When one of his sons saw his nakedness and called his brothers to view their father as a pornography. They didn't agree with him rather they went with cloth on their shoulders to cover their father's nakedness. When their father regained his consciousness, he cursed Ham through Canaan the son of Ham, who was his grandson, and blessed Shem and Japheth for their gesture on his unconscious nude movement.
Noah died at a very good old age of Nine (950) hundred and fifty years.
And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died (Genesis 9:29).
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CONCLUSION:
Permit me to take a break. I will come back in the next post with another Bible character.
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