Genesis Chapter 7

¹ And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

² Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

³ Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

⁴ For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

⁵ And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him.

Noah followed the instructions of God completely, and it saved him and his families’ life.

⁶ And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

⁷ And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

⁸ Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

⁹ There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

God is clear about his design. Male and Female are the only combinations that can produce an offspring. Any communion outside this plan of God is UNGODLY…. meaning without the blessings of God, and it is sinful.

¹⁰ And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

It had never rained before, so it must have been amazing for Noah and his family to behold. I’m going to ask Noah and his family all about this experience once we are in eternity. I’m sure I’ll run in to them eventually.

¹² And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹³ In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

¹⁴ They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

¹⁵ And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

Noah was a mighty man of faith. He had to be. There was this huge work load on him at the age of 600, he never argued with God about his abilities to do what he was called to do. He had to capture dangerous animals like bears, lions, vipers etc…so he had to have the faith in God that he would be protected. He had to have the wisdom to catch the birds and the knowledge on what to feed everything. Also, he had to grow all of the food himself, along with his sons and their families. It was a lot, and it took a lot of faith in God to do it all.

¹⁶ And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.

¹⁷ And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

¹⁸ And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

¹⁹ And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

²⁰ Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

Note: Years ago, I was reading an article on water that stated that the earth has the same water on it as it did the day the Lord created it….not one single drop more. Mount Everest is the tallest mountain at 29,029 feet….and 15 cubits is 22 feet, so there was 29,051 feet of water in some spots of the earth.

²¹ And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

²² All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

The people who died knew they were being evil, and they didn’t care. Had they been saved with Noah’s family on the ark, they would not have repented, instead they would have attempted to corrupt the others.

²³ And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

²⁴ And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.