"Make for Yourself an Ark..."

August 21, 2016

“Make for Yourself an Ark…”

Blessings folk!

Noah…
  • was righteous
  • was blameless
  • walked with God.

Gen 6:9-10
These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.
And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Noah had three sons
Shem
Ham
Japheth

God had decided to destroy evil man.
He would eliminate them from the face of the earth.

God gave detailed instructions to Noah.
God instructed Him to build a boat.
A boat for a flood.
It had never rained upon the earth in the traditional hydrological cycle we experience today.

Try explaining a flood that will destroy, when it has never rained.

Gen 6:14-16
“Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch.

“This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

“You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.


Noah was to make an ark - for himself.
Each detail of the ark is of importance.
Most, if not all, are pictures of the Lord Jesus.

An example.
The word “pitch” in the Hebrew is “kopher”.
It refers to “covering” and “price of life”, “redemption price”.

The ark saved Noah…and family.
The ark is a picture of the Lord Jesus.
It was “pitched within and without”.
Covered with the redemption price.

Selah…