A Tough Assignment

Genesis 6:8-13

God loved Noah and planned to save him and his family even when He decided to destroy everyone to clean the world of sin.
God gave Noah very detailed plans about how to build an enormous boat. The ark was 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet deep which is equal to 522 cars.

Inside this ark, God told Noah to put a male and a female of each kind of animal, then he and his wife and his sons and their wives should all get in. These would help start the new world that would come after the flood. Folks say Noah only needed to bring about 16,000 pairs of breeders, though others say that he needed about 4 million species. Feeding all those animals was tremendous work for one family. The ark was stuffed with dirty animals that were noisy because they didn’t enjoy being caged. Since a cow weighs half a ton, the animals alone weighed more than 1600 tons and their food added to that weight.

Then God sent a huge flood which wiped out every person on earth except Noah and his family who must have been scared stiff. It rained and poured for forty days! When the flood was over, Noah, and his family got out of the boat and began a new society that would listen more to God. Most ancient cultures have a story about a big flood. People claim they have found Noah's ark and call themselves "arkeologists."

God brought the ark to rest on the mountain. God gave us the rainbow as a reminder of His promise never to destroy the earth with water again . The light of God shines through the rain, causing the light to bend and reflect off the rain. The rain acts like a prism, splitting the white light into the 7 colors. Noah built an altar unto the Lord and sacrificed burnt offerings. Most people would curse if God destroyed everything, but Noah was grateful that he and his family were spared. Talk about a positive attitude!