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- 1. No deck chairs on Noah's Ark to... re-arrange
- 2. How is the Noah's Ark like Baptism?
1) No deck chairs on Noah's Ark to re-arrange
On Noah's Ark there were no deck chairs.
What is meant by that statement?
There is a saying when people are seen as being so busy “doing”, that they lose sight and focus of the main event, that they are ”re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic”.
No deck chairs on Noah's Ark? Why?
Why were there deck chairs on the Titanic?
So passengers could sit down, relax, be waited on and enjoy the scenery.
We are told in Genesis the conditions that prevailed in the days of Noah.
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.(Genesis 6:11-12)
and
And Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Genesis 6:5)
Anyone who pays attention to the News can see that the phrase used by Yeshua (Jesus), “as in the days of Noah”is applicable to now. There is an amazing parallel to the days in which we are living.
But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.(Matthew 24:37)
In Noah's lifetime, Yahweh was longsuffering waiting up to 100 years and the length of this grace was shown in that Methuselah (whose name means when he dies it shall come) was the longest living man.
But at some point to make the world liveable again the evil had to be removed. But Noah was not saved because he was a good person. It is said Noah found grace,
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. (Genesis 6:8-9)
The grace that is given to Noah is a promise to destroy all the evil!
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. (Genesis 6:13)
Then Noah is given a series of very detailed commands,
Make you an ark of gopher wood; rooms shall you make in the ark, and shall pitch it within and without with pitch. (Genesis 6:14) and
If – if he kept the commands then Yahweh would establish his covenant with him
But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. (Genesis 6:18)
Noah did keep the commands
Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he. (Genesis 6:22)
He built a massive boat
The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shall thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shall thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shall thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shall thou make it. (Genesis 6:15-16)
It was just over 150m long. Compare it with the Titanic at 268m
or the Queen Mary 2 at 345 m (soon to be outclassed by 'the world' a floating residential complex at 453m)
and it was 25metres wide. The Titanic was 28m wide and the Queen Mary 2 was 41m wide
It's height was over 15m compared to the Titanic which was just under 30m
15m high is a 5 storey building. Gopher may have been pine, cyprus or cedar. So Noah and his sons just cut up a few trees? You think preaching is hard?
Just for one strip of one side up to 15 trees with no power saws, no portable mills and no logging truck. Up to 450 trees per side were needed just to clad that enormous height, let alone the massive structure needed to stop it bending in the water! And what was the timber held together with? It was hard work to make each joint. They would have sweated to build it. Noah couldn't hide his preaching. It was out there in the open. A remarkable structure in his day dominating the landscape like the Pasha Bulker on the beach.
It was a huge boat, high and dry in a paddock.
One of the later tasks was assembling the animals.
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. (Genesis 6:19)
Gerald Durrell, the famous British zoo collector's, efforts in Africa would be nothing compared to the effort to catch all these animals. Steve Irwin's park would be nothing to the park Noah would have had to make to collect them. With all the locals saying 'why?' And on top of this he had to collect all the food they would need for the long voyage.
And collect unto you of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to you; and it shall be for food for you, and for them. (Genesis 6:21)
He had to collect whatever all those animals ate. Some animals are very fussy eaters.
So after labouring with a small work force to make this huge Ark they then stop work collect animals and food and load the vessel and then they feed the animals and muck out the stalls on three levels on a boat half the length of the Queen Mary. Even with a team of 8 by the time you finish one end it would be time to start at the other. They weren't sitting around. Their salvation came with work, quite hard manual work to obey the commands.
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