GENESIS 7
Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, 3 and seven pairsof the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth. 4 For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.” 5 And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground, 9 two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth. – Genesis 7:1-10
GENESIS 7 THE EARTH’S PURIFICATION
A poem inspired by these verses by ILMA
The Lord God prepared the righteous family of Noah for the flood
By the time Noah got ready for the flood, he was 600 years old
Before seven days to the rain, God instructed him to take in the animals
Seven pairs of all clean and seven pairs of unclean animals as well.
Because of the corruption and wickedness of humans, God will redo mankind
It will take God forty days and forty nights to destroy these created beings
But the Lord preserved all kinds of species to go inside the ark
The earth will be purified and cleansed from sin through blameless Noah.
There is one interesting verse that kept me wondering about the story of Noah’s ark. Verse 7 says that Noah was 600 years old when they were gathering all the animals just before the flood was to happen. In Genesis 6:32, it stated that he had his sons when he was 500 years old. Since his sons had their own wives here, I would surmise that it is probably between 50-75 years that he built the ark. The point I’m making is that God gave
Humans enough time to repent before the flood, yet they all laughed at Noah’s prophecy.
REFLECTION
- Why do you think God used 40 days and 40 nights for the flood to happen?
