Noah’s Surprise

Posted by Lorren on January 7, 2009

Have you ever thought about what it would have been like to have been Noah?

As a child, Noah lived in a world with lots of people. The Earth had been around for over 1000 years, and two people can end up with a lot of descendents in that time period. Millions of people are decended from the people on the Mayflower, for example, and that was only 400 years ago. The fertile crescent region was probably pretty populated.

Then God told him to build a boat because he was going to send a flood. Despite not knowing what a flood, or even what rain, was, Noah was obedient and did what God told him to. Then he got in the ark and the rains came. And the world was changed forever.

Noah spent months on the ark. Although it only rained for 40 days and 40 nights, the entire world was under water for a lot longer than that. Did you know that there are rivers that run underground? The Bible says that the fountains of the deep were broken up during the period of the flood. Water not only came from above, it was coming from inside the earth as well.

After the flood waters receded and Noah and his family could come out of the ark, the world was nothing like he would have remembered. There were no people. Every building would have washed away. Even the topography of the earth had changed (many people, including myself, believe that the Grand Canyon was created in the flood, for example).

Noah’s new world was different. It was an easier world to live in. God removed the curse from the ground after the flood. God told Noah and his family that they could eat meat, when they were previously only vegetarians.

We will be entering a new world someday as well. The Bible says that one day, there will be a new Heaven and a new Earth. Just as in Noah’s day, however, you’ll have to trust God to get there. Only saved persons who have had their sins forgiven by Jesus Christ will go there.