Class Notes

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Noah' Ark
Read Genesis 6-8

Genesis 6-8

​6) Man's Wickedness
1Now it came to pass that men began to exist in great numbers on the earth, and daughters were born to them. 2So when the sons of God saw the daughters of men were beautiful, they took wives for themselves of all they chose. 3Then the Lord God said, “My Spirit shall not remain with these people forever, for they are flesh. So their days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”  4Now there were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men of old, men of renown. 5Then the Lord God saw man's wickedness, that it was great in the earth, and every intent of the thoughts within his heart was only evil continually.  6So God was grieved that He had 7 made man on the earth, and He thought this over.  7Then God said, “I will blot out man whom I created from the face of the earth, from man to cattle, and from the creeping things to the birds of heaven, for I am grieved I made them.”  8But Noah found grace in the presence of the Lord God.  Righteous Noah Builds the Ark 9This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, who was perfect in his generation and well-pleasing to God.   10So Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11Now the earth was corrupt before God and filled with unrighteousness.  12Thus the Lord God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh corrupted their way on the earth. 13Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with unrighteousness through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14Make yourself an ark of square timber. You shall make the ark in compartments, and cover it inside and outside with pitch.  15Thus you shall make the ark: three hundred cubits in length, fifty cubits in breadth, and thirty cubits in height. 16Now when you assemble the ark, you shall gradually finish it up to a cubit at the top, and set the door in its side. You shall make the ark with lower, second, and third stories. 17And behold, I am bringing a flood of water on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life. Whatever is on the earth shall die. 18But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall go into the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. 19From every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. 20Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing on the earth after its kind, two of every kind, they will enter into the ark with you, male and female, to keep them alive. 21You shall also take for yourself all kinds of food to eat, and you shall gather it both for yourself and for them.” 22Thus Noah did according to all the Lord God commanded him, so he did.
7) The Flood
1Then the Lord God said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your family, because I have seen you righteous before Me in this generation.   2You shall also bring with you into the ark the clean cattle by sevens, male and female; and the unclean cattle by twos, male and female;  3and the clean birds of heaven by twos, male and female, to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth. 4For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out from the face of the earth every living thing I made.” 5So Noah did all the Lord God commanded him. 6Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth. 7Then Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, entered the ark because of the flood waters. 8Also the clean and unclean birds, the clean and unclean cattle, and everything that creeps on the earth, 9entered with Noah into the ark, two by two, male and female, as God commanded him. 10Then it came to pass after seven days, the waters of the flood came upon the earth. 11In the six-hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened. 12Then it rained on the earth forty days and forty nights. 13On the very same day Noah and his wife, his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives entered the ark. 14Also, all the wild animals after their kind, all cattle after their kind, every creeping thing moving upon the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, 15entered the ark with Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life. 16So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God commanded him. Then the Lord God shut him in the ark.  17Now the flood was on the earth forty days and forty nights. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. 18So the waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters. 19The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. 20The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and covered all the high mountains. 21And all flesh died that moves on the earth: birds and cattle, wild animals, and every creeping thing that moves on the earth, and every man. 22Thus all things in whose nostrils was the breath of life, and everything on dry land, died. 23So He blotted out all living things on the face of the earth: both man and cattle, creeping things and the birds of heaven. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah and those with him in the ark remained alive. 24Now the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days.
8) The Flood Ceases
1Then God remembered Noah, and whatever was with him in the ark: all the wild animals, all the cattle, all the birds, and all the creeping things. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.  2The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained. 3And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased. 4Then the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. 5And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. 6So it came to pass, at the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark he had made. 7Then he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters dried up from the earth. 8He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground. 9But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself in the ark. 10Then he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark.  11The dove returned to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew the waters had receded from the earth. 12So he waited yet another seven days and again sent out the dove; however, she did not return to him any more. 13And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year of Noah's life, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed, the surface of the ground was dry. 14Now in the second month, on the twenty seventh day of the month, the earth was dried. 15Then the Lord God spoke to Noah, saying, 16“Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and their wives with you. 17Also, bring out with you every living thing of all flesh: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that moves upon the earth, so they may abound on the earth, and increase and multiply on the earth.” 18So Noah went out, along with his wife and his sons and their wives. 19Every animal, every bird, and every creeping thing that moves upon the earth, according to their kind, went out of the ark. 20Then Noah built an altar to God, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered whole burnt offerings on the altar.  21So the Lord God smelled a sweet aroma. Then the Lord God thought it over and said, “I will never again curse the earth because of man's works, although the mind of man is diligently involved with evil things from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done. 22While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and spring shall not cease by day or by night.”

​Intro

• ​God is grieved by humanity's moral decay and decides to destroy it except one man's family.
• Noah's family is tasked with continuing the human (and animal) race by building an ark.

Noah - Symbol of Obedience

• Noah becomes a symbol of faithfulness and obedience to God, even if he is ridiculed by other people for building and ark in middle of nowhere.
• Noah is faithful to God till the end.

The Flood - A Symbol of Baptism

• God wipes clean the wickedness of this world through a flood.
• And when the water recede, God gives Noah a sign in the sky (a rainbow) that He is willing to renew His covenant with humanity.

The Ark - A Symbol of the Church

• Just humanity was saved in the ark, so we are saved from sin in the Church (the Ark of the New Covenant).

Remember

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About the Noah's Ark:

• Noah's faithfulness.
• We are born again through the water of Baptism.
• The Church is our ark of salvation.