Journal(August 2, 2015)

What did the Flood Represent?

(August 2, 2010)

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The flood was made to kill all of the evil, it represents cleansing and starting over and thats exactly what God wanted to do so he took a righteous man and started a new generation of everything. And to show his promise not to destroy the earth by flood again he made the rainbow. So now every time we see a rainbow we should remember God. 

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Reflection(January 7, 2015)

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God is a just God. He always gives man a way of escape. When the descendents of Adam and Eve became corrupt, he found godliness in the form of Noah. Even though, only Noah and his family were the only ones on the Ark, there was more than ample time for all of the rest to repent and join Noah on the Ark. According to modern theologians, Noah was believed to have spent approximately 120 years building the Ark. This means that Noah was in a position to preach to his neighbors about the coming flood for a little over a century. Yet not one other person forsook his worldly pleasure for the opportunity to board the Ark with Noah. Noah became God's chosen because he was set apart from the world. God formed a covenant or promise with him that covered both himself and his household. Much like God's covenant with Abraham covered not only him but his whole people. God provided Noah with a long enough life to complete the Ark, living to the ripe old age of 950. When he had finished building the Ark, after 120 years of tedious carpentry and construction, it would have amounted to nothing had god not sent the animals into it. When the flood came and the waters were rising, it would all be over if God had not closed the entrance. After the 40 days of raining and the 150 days of waiting, Noah and everything on the Ark would have starved and died had not God's wind pushed back the waters on Mt. Ararat and provided a safe place to rest and live. When we make a covenant with God, we admit our inability to succeed without him and our willingness to follow him no matter the circumstances. The rainbow was a sign of God's promise to never again flood the whole world, but it was also a sign marking the beginning of an era of God covenants.