Through Hell and High Water

Genesis 5:32 tells us Noah was five hundred years old when he became a father and in Genesis 6:14 the command was given to build the Ark.

He was commanded to gather two of every kind of animal, Genesis 6:19, and prepare for the flood that would come in seven days, Genesis 7:4. We are told Noah was six hundred years old when he entered in the Ark so he was faithful to warn the world for a century of impending doom.

The rain came for forty days and nights in the second month on the seventeenth day as the fountains of the deep and floodgates were opened. Genesis 7:20 tells us the water covered fifteen cubits higher than the mountains so we know that world was submerged just as G-d said it would be.

Then the Ark rested on Mt. Ararat the seventh month and on the seventeenth day.

Finally we are told the ground was dry in the 601^st year of Noah in the first month and in the second month on the twenty-seventh day the earth was dry, Genesis 8:14-15.

One hundred years of warning, seven days of preparation , the water covering over a 17,000 ft mountain range, the length of the flood and the time it took to dry out all laid out in G-d’s commandments.

Noah was not without blemish but he was faithful and obedient. G-d preserved him through the worst and will do the same for us if we let Him.