Giants, Days of Noah, the days of Noah, Abomination of Desolation, and the Day of the Lord.

Part 7 The Ark and the Flood.

Just how big was the ark built by Noah. The Ark Encounter in KY has recently completed a life size replica of the ark. The picture doesn’t really reveal just how large it was. It was 450-500 feet long, 75-80 feet wide, and 45-50 feet tall. It included nearly 1.5 million cubic feet of interior space and could easily hold the equivalent of over 500 rail cars. It took over 100 years for Noah to complete it.

Gen 7:6-16  Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the earth.  Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood.   Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground,   there went into the ark to Noah by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.   It came about after the seven days, that the water of the flood came upon the earth. 

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.   The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. 

On the very same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark, they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, all sorts of birds. So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life. 

Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the LORD closed it behind him.

The water from above the earth and from below the earth combined with the rain to produce this global flood. Only eight people were saved from this devastation. Only eight people were considered righteous or clean. Only those in the ark were saved. Notice, that the Lord closed the door on the ark of salvation. As mentioned before, a global flood is part of almost all cultures history. God said he would destroy all flesh in the world with a flood and He did.