Noah : An Example of Righteousness

by Jerold Aust

As the sun rose on the horizon every day, large crowds gathered around the skeleton of a gigantic ship resting on the dry ground. Immediately they were struck by its enormous size and shape:
a flat keel with giant bowed ribs shooting out and upward more than 40 feet. How strange this was. The man Noah must have taken leave of his senses!

As the crowds gathered to observe this landlocked monstrosity, they likely jeered, perhaps asking, “What’s your problem, Noah? Why do you need such a giant boat? And how are you ever going to get this thing to the water?” He surely told them, as God does not bring such judgment as was coming without revealing it through His servants. But the onlookers refused to believe.
Days turned to weeks, weeks to months, and months to years. Would it ever come to an end? Would God follow through with His decree?

Being human, Noah could have become disheartened at times from having to listen to the local blowhards. What probably hurt him most, however, was to hear his relatives and friends scorn him. To them he was building a monument to stupidity; to God he was building a monument to faith and obedience.

As time passed, Noah may have had moments when he wondered whether his scorners were right. After all, he suffered their relentless ridicule day after day, year after year. Yet clearly he remembered and followed the words of God, who had told him of His great purpose in an incredible prophecy. Those words must have greatly strengthened, comforted and encouraged him to be true to his original mission and never quit.

After many decades of labor, the ark was nearing completion. There it stood, a colossal structure some 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high (137 by 23 by 14 meters). The ark was gargantuan.

Finally, after all the animals were loaded on board, Noah and his family entered the ark and God, not Noah himself as many assume, closed the door behind them.

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