Over the years I have enjoyed watching reruns of the series, “Golden Girls.” I can almost see and hear Sophia recounting Noah building the ark. “Picture this, here’s a man building a humongous ark for 120 years in the middle of the desert where no rain has ever fallen. And whoever heard of gopher wood and two of every what?”
Years ago Bill Cosby did a humorless skit of his impression of a conversation between God and Noah, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bputeFGXEjA&feature=kp.
The movie “Evan Almighty” was, in my opinion, entertaining and a tongue-in-cheek spoof. However, from the reviews of the recent movie “Noah,” it would seem that it was written and produced by those who worship at the altar of evolution and at the altar of distorted ecology.
So what was so unusual about Noah building an ark that it is still a subject of much discussion and speculation four thousand years later?
As an aside, it has been stated a number of times that the names in the direct line from Adam (man) to Noah (rest) are prophetic of the gospel.
Genesis 5:29, "And he called his name Noah (H5146), saying, This same shall comfort (H5162) us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed."
Genesis 6:8-9, "But Noah found grace (H8435) in the eyes of the Lord. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God."
Noah was untainted by the cesspool of genes caused by the fallen Angels taking wives and fathering children as told in Genesis 6:4-5. God regretted creating man and instructed Noah to “Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.” Genesis 6:14. The only humans to survive the great deluge were Noah and his family.
The dimensions that God told Noah to build the ark to have been analyzed extensively over the years. As I recall, the center of gravity was so located that the ark would always returned to its upright orientation even after being tossed around by the rising seas. Also, there were sufficient room on the ark for Noah and his family and the animals.
So for 120 years Noah follow the dictates of God and built the ark. One can only imagine the ridicule he and his family endured building an Ark in a dry climate that had never known rain. Also, I would imagine the procurement of the gopher wood, etc. required was quite an undertaking. Nevertheless, Noah fatefully followed God’s instructions and through his righteousness mankind survived. Noah fulfilled God’s command and "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." Genesis 7:11. We all are descendants of Noah.
Every day that that I wake up still on planet Earth rather than having been rapture I am trusting in God for a glorious outcome.
Word study added later:
So here is perhaps the most relevant verses dealing with of the why of God’s destruction of all humans with the exception of Noah and his family. Genesis 6:4-5, "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."
The following is from Strong’s concerning the words referenced in the above post; Noah (H5146), comfort (H5162) and grace (H8435). The following include the Greek and Hebrew spelling as well as an aide to pronunciation.
H5146
נח
nôach
no'-akh
The same as H5118; rest; Noach, the patriarch of the flood: - Noah.
H5162
נחם
nâcham
naw-kham'
A primitive root; properly to sigh, that is, breathe strongly; by implication to be sorry, that is, (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself): - comfort (self), ease [one’s self], repent (-er, -ing, self).
H8435
תּלדה תּולדה
tôledâh tôledâh
to-led-aw', to-led-aw'
From H3205; (plural only) descent, that is, family; (figuratively) history: - birth, generations.
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