Did you know it took 150 days,
after the Great Flood, for the waters to go down? “And on the 17th day of the 7th month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.” Google says, “Mount Ararat is located in the far eastern part of Turkey, in Armenia, near the border of Iran. It is the mythical resting place of Noah's Ark, as mentioned in the Book of Genesis.” Today, the Ararat Mountain is an inactive volcano, and has 2 ancient volcanic peaks, located in eastern Turkey, in the province of Agri." Mount Ararat stands 16,854 feet tall, and borders present-day Turkey to Iran, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. And it’s known by both Christian and Muslim religions, to be the boat’s landing place after the flood. Can you imagine? After it rained from Heaven, and the flood waters opened up on the earth, It took 2 1/2 months for the waters to go down, just so Noah could see the tops of the mountains. That’s about 43 days for land to become seen! So here’s a question- Just because land could not be seen, does it mean land did not exist? Scripture says, “The waters continued to recede until the 10th month, and on the 1st day of the 10th month the tops of the mountains became visible.” Genesis 8:3-5 “Then after 40 days, Noah opened a window he had made in the ark and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.” “Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark.” “Noah reached out his hand, took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.” Genesis 8:6-9 “Noah waited 7 more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.” “When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew the water had receded from the earth.” Genesis 8:10-11 Can you imagine how great Noah must have felt? After all the chaos, and all the despair, a small olive leaf meant there had to be a small olive tree. The earth and the remnant - had been spared! “Noah waited 7 more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return back to him.” Genesis 8:12 I wonder why not? “By the 1st day of the 1st month of Noah’s 601 year, the water had dried up from the earth.” That’s a whole year that Noah (and his wife, his sons and their wives) was on the boat! “Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.” Genesis 8:13 Has God ever removed the covering from your eyes? Imagine how glorious it will be when He removes the the covering of the sky! “By the 27th day of the 2nd month the earth was completely dry. “Then God said to Noah,” Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you - the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground - so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.” Genesis 8:14-17 Genesis 7:11-13 says Noah entered the ark in the 600th year of his life, on the 17th day of the 2nd month Genesis 8:14-15 says Noah left the ark on the 27th day of the 2nd month - a little over one year later. So Noah came out, together with his sons (Shem, Ham and Japheth) and his wife and the wives of his sons. Assuming that each man only had one wife, that would make 8 people who became the remnant. “All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds - everything that moves on land - came out of the ark, one kind after another.” According to Genesis 6 and 7, 7 pairs of each kind of clean animal - animals that would be acceptable for a blood sacrifice; and 1 pair of each kind of other animals that were taken on the ark.” “Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.” “The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” Genesis 8:18-22 Can you imagine being the earth? The place that has to endure the consequence of it all! It’s no wonder Jesus said, Even the rocks cry out! Some day, at God’s appointed time, everything we see will be burned up by fire. When Jesus returns, for the second time, he will come as a Lion, not as a meek lamb. The water baptism is just a precursor of what is to come. Fire Baptism - now, that is the One! The old will pass away, and finally there will be a new earth and new Heaven - and together the Children of God will stand.
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