Genesis 7

Genesis 7

7:3 God could easily have recreated all the animals, so why build the ark in the first place? I wonder if it was for Noah's sake that He did this, as a task that Noah could not do on his own. Some have said that over 10,000 animals could have lived on the ark based on its size, which further says that Noah couldn't have done this by himself.

7:4 Ha, and God gives him seven days to do it! Prior to this, the command was just to build the ark and that there would be animals in it.

7:4 There are some that believe there was no rain up until this point in history, and they point to the water covering as the interpretation of Genesis 1:6. If this is true, imagine being Noah and not really knowing what God was talking about. As if building the ark in the desert took enough faith, this stretches that even more.

7:9 Here is the fulfillment of the covenant given in Genesis 6:18. Not only that, but God delivers on the animals too. It makes no mention of Noah going out and gathering animals, God simply commanded them to come. God's word is always reliable.

7:11 At the Creation Museum there is a great video on this event. It shows people going about their business, and then suddenly there is a great rumbling and a tidal wave covers the planet. But think about it: this is the effect of sin on the world, just what is taking place in this passage. Compare this with Revelation and these people were lucky to go so fast. The Bible says, "During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them" (Revelation 9:6).

7:16 It may come to you that if Noah had a large door in the side of the ark that it might leak, so how did Noah get in the ark? The answer is here in verse 16. God sealed them in. No worries about leaks there!

7:20 This is massively high. Think about the amount of water it would take to cover the mountains? Actually though, I believe that the mountains at that time weren't quite as high as they are now. This would mean that the total amount of water on the planet today could accommodate such a feat.

7:24 Not even flying animals could last 150 days in the air.