What have we
discovered so far about Noah’s ark in the Great Flood?
- Noah’s ark was a floating zoo commissioned
by God
- The ark’s proportions were optimal
for seaworthy stability
- God as captain, assembled the passengers and
livestock cargo, ordered loading, then closed the door 7 days later
- God wasn’t joking - He covered the
whole earth with water
- After the ark ran aground, Noah’s
family was given a new start – new earth, new climate, new authority, new diet,
new contract….then failure again! (...and yet today, many theologians argue there are no dispensations)
- Thanks to Noah’s son Shem, we have
eyewitness record preserved by the nation of Israel
Today,
people deny the Great Flood ever happened!
What else can we learn, thanks to those who personally knew Jesus
Christ?
- Noah trusted God to deliver but he
moved with ‘eulabeomai’: apprehension
– this monstrous barn was expected to float!
- It was predicted nearly 2000 years
ago that people today would scoff at Jesus Christ’s second coming, at Creation
and the Great Flood! (Did the apostle Peter get that right?)
- Now God maintains the universe until
it will be burnt up with fire. The ‘big bang’ comes at the end!
Just like in
the Great Flood…
- God delays because He wants all to
repent and not perish!
- The ark is an illustration of our
salvation by the power of Christ’s resurrection. He is ‘The Door’!
- When Jesus Christ makes His move it
will be sudden and unexpected!
- People will be busy in legitimate
activity like weddings
- When Jesus Christ make His move – some
will be taken but the others will be left behind!
Now this may
seem strange, even inexplicable…
The apostle Peter tells us that Jesus Christ, by the Spirit, went and
preached to the ‘spirits in prison’ that in the past had been disobedient when the
ark was being built.
Uhh? Does this
mean that those who drowned in the Great Flood heard Christ’s message of
salvation later on?
What we can
be sure of is that millions upon millions of people will believe the gospel
preached during the coming Tribulation – after the rescue of the true Church…as
if taken away in an ark.
