Genesis 7

Genesis chapter 7

God bids Noah and all his family to enter into the ark. There is no safety or guarantee outside of God's love and his son's Salvation. The ark represents God's love and safety. The ark represents escape from this world and sin. The ark represents life, while living in the world with an eminent doom represents death. God is calling everyone lost in sin to the safety of his Son's sacrifice and love.

Notice that Noah and his family are being delivered because of their righteousness and faith, not chance or happenstance. So God tells Noah once again what is expected of him and what he has to do to live. God is not leaving our details and he also reiterates that he will destroy all life from the planet.

After Noah puts his family and all the animals on the ark, the rain and floods start after seven days just as God had said. Be certain that God will fulfill and bring to pass all his promises. Now for forty days and nights it rains and causes this flood. No doubt this was a rain that would cause fear in our hearts if we were to see it. What makes it worse for that time was the fact that they had never seen it rain at all, must less a downpour of this magnitude.

Everything on earth is destroyed in the flood; all life, all civilization, everything dies.There are no homes, no people, no animals. After seeing the evil that is in our own time and God has so far spared us, to imagine the evil that existed then must almost purely evil. God must have had to protect Noah while he built the ark if such evil existed.

After it rained for forty days, the Bible says that the water prevailed for another one hundred and fifty days. Nothing could survive this but what was delivered by the hand of God. It will be no different for us.