Proverbs 4:5-7
Proverbs 4:5-7
Noah's Ark Was Real 20 min. read back to extracts index
Trying to establish when Noah started construction of his ark is difficult to ascertain from just the information found in today's modern versions of the Bible with statements like...
…"And it came to pass."
Genesis 6 verse 1...
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them.
Genesis 6 verse 2...
That the Sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Genesis 6 verse 3... Then the Lord said,
“My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120."
Many assume the 120 years that Lord God was referring to was the time when all mankind on the earth would die because of the flood.
However, the statement doesn't actually say that & considering it was made directly after Genesis 5 for which is an account of Adam's family line & the great length of time they had lived it may have been referring to life span.
There were "good" Sons of God" & there were "bad" Sons of God that had become like men.
The bad sons of God were the fallen or embodied angels (of flesh) that succumb to the desires of the flesh as a result they lost their angelic qualities & abilities.
the phrase "took them wives of all which they chose" implies rape...
...as such the reference to 120 years may have been the age the bad sons, who had become flesh, "like men" might be able to live unlike those 'good sons' who lived extremely long lives.
Not until verse 13 does Lord God say...
"The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, be hold I will destroy both them and the earth".
As an elite class of powerful angels were sent to help humanity it could be the Ark was built in a few months had one of those giant angels helped.
Genesis 5 verse 32...
After Noah was 500 years old, Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 7 verse 6...
And Noah was 600 years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
Genesis 7 verse 12...
And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7 verse 13...
On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.
With 100 years between Noah having sons & the flood starting we can righty assume all three sons growing up & getting married took between 20 & 50 years.
Noah would only have had between 50 to 80 years to build the Ark.
This fact would negate the 120 years was referring to the time for killing all mankind or the time remaining to build the ark but was in all likelihood, as previously stated, referring to the life span of embodied angels.
Some religious texts state that Noah had help from an angel to build the ark & maybe it was a Grigori angel or Nephilim both are referred to as giants.
Sefer Hayashar, written as early as the 9th century, states that it took 5 years for Noah to build the ark.
Cassuto stated it could have been just 40 days.
Noah's ark was said to have been built in an area today called Iran & after the waters receded the ark landed only 700 miles away on Mount Ararat.
With the knowledge, as stated in the Bible, the ark was afloat for 150 days.
Meaning the ark travelled north at about 3 to 4 miles a day.
This suggests there was little strong currents, in that area, at that time.
Why would there be when, as the Bible states, initially, the additional water started in that area, from under the ground.
Genesis 7 verse 11…
“all the springs of the great deep burst forth.”
Most Noah's ark sceptics mentions high waves, strong currents & high gale force winds as reasons why, not only the ark would have sunk, the condition on the earth resulting from the devastation would have left the survivors with such adversity all the animals & the people would have died.
Genesis 7 verse 11 states...
At first the waters from the great springs, under the earth, burst forth before it started to rain.
Therefore, because the waters were gradually increasing from under the ground, as indeed was described by the Pawnees "the water crept up the hills" then...
...as vast majority of water was, at the start, rising from underground it would cause evaporation resulting in cloud cover long before the rain started.
With little variations of temperatures, with no heat from the sun getting through the cloud cover; would results in no great changes in atmospheric pressure there by limiting severe winds.
The Bible does not make any reference to any great waves or strong winds during the flood.
The only reference to wind was after the rain stopped.
Genesis 8 verse 1...
"A strong wind, sent by the Lord God, was to enable the waters to abate".
Keep in mind the ark was not designed to be steered or driven by wind with sails, oars or rudder.
No one knows for sure where Noah built the ark but he was born in Shulon, East of Eden.
This, in all likelihood, was where he built the ark.
In or near that area, however, there is also controversy as to exactly where Eden was located.
The scholars that think Eden was a real place believe its location was in southern Mesopotamia, now Iraq, where the Tigris & Euphrates rivers run into the sea.
The ark was built & started in an area known today as Iraq east of the Euphrates & in all likelihood once started it took between 5 & 55 years to build.
The finishing date was some time before the flood started, although still controversial.
Could every type of animal, in the entire world fit, & how to feed them all ?
Again, we must keep in mind that some of the Bible is incorrect & that errors have resulted from misunderstood translations albeit those errors were deliberate or not.
Try taking a well-known saying in English & then use Google to translate it into Japanese.
Then, take that translation & convert it back to English & see how it changes.
"The Old Testament was written in Biblical Hebrew, also called Classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanite branch of Semitic languages”.
“In 405 A.D. St. Jerome finished translating a Latin version that was based in part on the Vulgate version, "despite errors" introduced by copyist it became the standard of Western Christianity for a thousand years or more".
There were times when because of wanting to bolster up belief, in order to increase followers, exaggerations & outright lies were used, as such people today seeking the truth need to learn to discern.
Aside from translation errors there would have been, just like today, reasons the truth in the historic records were deliberately lost or changed because it was not politically or religiously desirable.
The Bible does NOT say, or even imply, all the different "kinds" of animals in the entire world to be on the ark but that is what people have been led to believe.
As stated here in...
"the world." was a homonym meaning... 'from coast to coast'.
What was said to Noah in...
Genesis 6 verse 20 was…
"I will gather to thee all the animals of the earth, the beasts of the fields and the fowls of the air.”
“Of the earth”
meaning of the ‘ground’.
Not of the entire planet Earth.
Only those living on the ground.
Of the earth & in the ‘fields’.
Not those in the water.
Not those living in the deserts.
Not those living in the mountains.
In those days most all people were vegetarians, especially Noah along with his family & as such animals in the area knew he & his people would not harm them.
In fact, most all of the animals would have been treated like family pets & most importantly, most all of them, would have been born on the ark as it served as a shelter during the 50 years building the ark.
Even so, 800 plus animals to be looked after, by only 8 people seems to be a hard task but Noah had plenty of time as to how to make things easier.
Many pregnant reptiles & their mates would have been selected as their soon to hatch eggs would have been collected & taken on the ark not only to save some them from drowning but to use them as food after they hatched.
Many egg laying ducks & chickens would also add to a steady on-board food source.
There were also birds of prey & scavengers, such as eagles, vultures, owls, falcons & crows.
Ancient Mesopotamian fields also contained a lot of blackbirds, thrushes, sparrows, larks, pheasants, partridges, storks & ostriches.
Insects, drawn to the ark, would be followed by many types of birds.
They in turn would attract not only other birds of prey but cats, foxes, civets etc. along with scavenger types of reptiles all of whom would have been stalked by larger meat-eating predators that would have stayed in the general area when the ark was under construction.
Most all insects would have naturally been attracted to the ark not just because of shelter but would have been drawn there while the ark was being built because of the noises, smells of food & animals gathering there.
Insects, as we know, are constantly breeding & they are, as a group, almost indestructible. As such they make an excellent supply of protein for many of the birds, reptiles & a few of the mammals.
Once the larger reptiles have bred, they would have been given to carnivores as food if there was nothing else for them to eat.
Because the Lord God created animals to have instinctive motives for survival, He was right saying in…
…Genesis 6 verse 20…
“every kind of creature that moves along the ground would come to Noah to be kept alive”.
It does not say every kind of creature from the entire world.
People wrongly assume Noah would have needed a huge area to store large volumes of food especially for the biggest of the vegetarians.
Noah would have realized before the flood started that after only a few weeks of deep flooding large leafy plants would have lost their leaves & would be floating every where for months.
Those leaves could be gathered up in fishing nets dragged off the ark & used as food for those large vegetarians.
Obviously honey bees would not be able to continue to produce honey as there were no flowers to collect pollen from however only one hive would provide the bees enough honey to live on for an entire year.
Large amounts of honey, taking up little space, would have been easily stored by Noah in earthen ware vases for which, aside from watered down honey being food for all the pollen feeding birds, it would have also served as extra sustenance for Noah & his family as well as for most all other creature on the ark.
Honey needs no refrigeration & has been found in sealed vases from Egyptian tombs lasting 5,000 years still in perfect condition.
Nuts & seeds would have been gathered by the ton loads way before the flood not just as food but to plant after the flood.
They also take up only a little space while in storage.
High protein powder or pasted nuts would have been made that even carnivores could eat instead of meat if there were no dead animals to feed them with from time to time.
Noah would have only taken younger, as such smaller, of the large animals.
Why take 14 1,000 - pound older camels when it would be much easier & more practical to take 14 100-pound youngsters.
The amount of food needed would have been far less than the animals normally consume because of the fact they would have not been very active confined in a small area that, in all likelihood, would have been cold, dark & not much fresh air.
Under such conditions many would be producing hibernation chemicals.
Dried smoked fish is another highly nutritious food able to be stored in salted cloth wrapping taking up only a small amount of space hanging from the ceilings for long periods able to be eaten by many animals including reptiles even if it goes bad.
Noah, like others in the world, who were told the flood was coming, knew that saving animals would have been vital for their own survival, as such, provisions would have put in place having time to prepare.
No doubt billions of animals died around the world but many, especially those in remote parts, did not.
People all over the world had boats for river travel & ocean fishing.
Those that already had boats took animals, friends & food with them when the land started to get flooded.
The warning signs gave people & animals, that did not have access to a boat, enough time to relocate near mountains.
As the floodwater rose, they would first move to mounds above the water level.
Then to hill tops. Then to mountain tops.
During that time of moving, they would have collected anything able to float putting them together in order make rafts even when on the move.
They would have been collecting food, animals, plants & seeds along with them.
The newly born animals on the ark, the eggs, the sprouted seeds, honey & nuts etc. that were all able to sustain the life of those while on board...
...in the same way would have also been able to sustain life after the flood including using the ark itself as shelter & later, maybe, using the timber to make houses.
As such nullifying the arguments made by those that suggest life after the flood would not have be possible because of the lack of food & shelter.
To recap…
From not only some of the most recent archaeology evidence but in consideration of Enoch's prophetic vision, that included the naming of his son...
…we should all be confident the reported flood, as stated in the Bible, was not only true it was, at the very least, in that area, around 7,500 years ago & that much of the accounts of the ark were also true with exaggerations regarding its size, the number & the types of animals said to have been on board along with the fact that it did not happen world wide in every part nor at the same time.
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