THE SIZE OF NOAH'S ARK: AN EXAMPLE

(Message by Tanny Keng)

1. The Size Of  Noah’s Ark 

a) An argument against a universal flood is that no ark could contain so many species of animals as existed world-wide. Was Noah's ark too small?

b) Here is one of the arguments against such validity.

2. An Example

a) Let us not overlook the example Noah set for us, who are all his children. "Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord" because "Noah did according to all that God commanded him" (Genesis 6:8, 22). So may we do likewise.

b) The long-suffering of God is waiting now, as it did in the days of Noah while Noah prepared the ark and preached salvation from the coming flood. So Jesus Christ, Noah’s antitype, came preaching salvation from destruction at the end of this present world. Like Noah, Jesus was rejected by the world at large.

c) Noah passed through the waters of the flood, the antitype of which is baptism. Just as the passengers of the ark left the doomed world, and passed through the waters into a new world, so we, through the waters of baptism, pass from death into life, from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of God’s dear Son. In this sense, the waters of baptism save us, as the waters of the flood, paradoxically, saved the occupants of the ark (1 Peter 3:18-22).

d) Through baptism, sin is done away with on account of the death of Christ, and we walk in newness of life on account of his resurrection (Romans 6:3-6). In that new life, we should be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth in the spiritual sense of evangelizing all the world and multiplying the family of Christ, so that "whosoever will" may enter that new heavens and new earth beyond the rainbow, beyond our blue-green orb, and beyond the stars.

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