Noah and the Great Flood
Tony Nester
Genesis 6:11-22; 7:24; 8:14-19
We're starting a new message series today with stories from the Book of Genesis. We start with Noah and the Great Flood from Genesis chapters 6 - 8. I'm reading excerpts from those chapters and encourage you to take time to read them in their entirety.
(Read Genesis 6:11-22, Genesis 7:24, Genesis 8:14-19 NRSV)
Noah's Ark has fascinated people for thousands of years. Many have gone searching to find remnants of the Ark believing that it's lodged atop some Middle Eastern mountain. The most common location is alleged to be Mt. Ararat in eastern Turkey. Some believe that pieces of the Ark are preserved in the ice at the top of that mountain.
Other people have focused on the construction of the Ark. The design details that are contained in the Scripture portray the Ark to be 489 feet long, 81 feet wide, 49 feet high. I learned about a pastor in Maryland, Rev. Richard Greene, who believes that God has told him to rebuild Noah's Ark. Since 1976 he and his congregation have been trying to raise funds to construct his church in the design of Noah's Ark. That's about the length of one and a half football fields. The original cost estimate was 10 million dollars. 1
Both the search for and the rebuilding of the Ark is in my opinion a distraction from the real meaning of the story. I don't believe God intended for us to look for the remains of the Ark or to try and construct a replica of it. I believe, instead, that God wants us to hear the message of the story.
It's a message in two parts. The first part is called "Judgment". God is angry. His creation has been ruined.
{11} Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence. {12} And God saw that the earth was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon the earth.
Genesis 1:31 says that after God created the world "God saw everything that he ...
Tony Nester
Genesis 6:11-22; 7:24; 8:14-19
We're starting a new message series today with stories from the Book of Genesis. We start with Noah and the Great Flood from Genesis chapters 6 - 8. I'm reading excerpts from those chapters and encourage you to take time to read them in their entirety.
(Read Genesis 6:11-22, Genesis 7:24, Genesis 8:14-19 NRSV)
Noah's Ark has fascinated people for thousands of years. Many have gone searching to find remnants of the Ark believing that it's lodged atop some Middle Eastern mountain. The most common location is alleged to be Mt. Ararat in eastern Turkey. Some believe that pieces of the Ark are preserved in the ice at the top of that mountain.
Other people have focused on the construction of the Ark. The design details that are contained in the Scripture portray the Ark to be 489 feet long, 81 feet wide, 49 feet high. I learned about a pastor in Maryland, Rev. Richard Greene, who believes that God has told him to rebuild Noah's Ark. Since 1976 he and his congregation have been trying to raise funds to construct his church in the design of Noah's Ark. That's about the length of one and a half football fields. The original cost estimate was 10 million dollars. 1
Both the search for and the rebuilding of the Ark is in my opinion a distraction from the real meaning of the story. I don't believe God intended for us to look for the remains of the Ark or to try and construct a replica of it. I believe, instead, that God wants us to hear the message of the story.
It's a message in two parts. The first part is called "Judgment". God is angry. His creation has been ruined.
{11} Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence. {12} And God saw that the earth was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon the earth.
Genesis 1:31 says that after God created the world "God saw everything that he ...
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