The Bible speaks
Do you know Noah? The Noah of the Bible? The one whom God ordered to build a very large ship because He wanted to put a stop to the disobedience of men, to put an end to their violence and sinning and to destroy the wicked world by water? This was not what God had intended when He created Adam and Eve in the beautiful Garden of Eden. But ……..…
Shem, Ham and Japheth, the three sons of Noah, helped their father with the building of the ship. No one had ever built or seen such a big ship. Everyone laughed at Noah and his family, especially when Noah told them that soon the whole Earth would be flooded according to what God had told him.
Then when the ship, which is called the ark, was finished, everyone could see, without understanding and with astonishment, animals getting into the ark two by two: lions, sheep, rodents, bears, birds, cattle, animals of all kinds… AND when they were all in the ark, Noah, his wife and their three sons with their wives, in all eight people, also went onto the ark.
AND the great door closed. AND the rain began to fall without ceasing for forty days and forty nights. AND the ark began to float, even over the mountains!
You couldn’t see any houses, or trees, or anything that had been on the Earth.
The only survivors were Noah and his family who tended the animals in the ark.
After 40 days, the waters that had covered everything began to recede and the ark came to rest on a mountain… But was there still life on Earth? Noah opened the window and let out a crow and a dove.
After a few days the dove returned with an olive leaf in its beak, signaling it was safe to go onto land. Life had started again! Everyone was able to get out of the big boat. A beautiful rainbow appeared in the sky: God’s Covenant with men! So Noah’s family repopulated the Earth.
The dove showed that a new life was beginning...like when Jesus came to Earth, to the land of Israel. Remember that men put him to death on a cross but Jesus was resurrected.
He offers us new life, even today. I let Jesus fill my heart. What about you?
