Messages from the ark

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• Messages from the ark

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Lesson 1 Noah, Flood, Ark not a myth!

• By faith Noah, being warned by God about things
• not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for
  the
• salvation of his household, by which he
• condemned the world, and became an heir of the
• righteousness which is according to faith.
• Hebrews 117

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Lesson 1 Noah, Flood, Ark not a
myth!

• who once were disobedient, when the patience of
• God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the
• construction of the ark, in which a few, that is,
• eight persons, were brought safely through the
• water.
• 1 Peter 120

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Lesson 1 Noah, Flood, Ark not a
myth!

• and did not spare the ancient world, but
  preserved
• Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven
  others,
• when He brought a flood upon the world of the
• ungodly
• 2 Peter 25

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Lesson 1 Noah, Flood, Ark not a
myth!

• For the coming of the Son of Man will be just
  like
• the days of Noah. For as in those days before the
• flood they were eating and drinking, marrying
• and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah
• entered the ark,
• Matthew 2437-38 Luke 1726-27

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Lesson 2 The ark has not been sighted
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Lesson 2 The ark has not been
sighted
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Lesson 3 The ark was big
enough

• This is how you are to build it The ark is to
  be
• 450 feet long,
• 75 feet wide and
• 45 feet high.
• Gen. 615 (NIV)

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Lesson 3 The ark was big enough
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Lesson 3 The ark was big enough
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Lesson 3 The ark was big enough

• 100,000 sq. feet
• 20 standard-sized basketball courts

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Lesson 3 The ark was big
enough

• 1,518,000 cubic feet
• 569 railroad stock cars

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Lesson 3 The ark was big
enough
Average animal size sheep Double-deck stock car
240 sheep
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Lesson 3 The ark was big
enough

• For all practical purposes, one could say that,
  at the
• outside, there was need for no more than 35,000
• vertebrate animals on the Ark.
• The Genesis Flood, p. 69
• John Woodmorappe suggests as few as 2,000 were
• needed.
• Noahs Ark A Feasibility Study

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Lesson 3 The ark was big enough

• For 50,000 animals
• 3 trains with 69 cars each (207 cars)
• 50,000 sheep-size animals
• 37 of capacity used
• 5 trains with 72 cars each (361 cars)
• 8 people, food, etc.
• 63 of capacity remaining

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Spiritual messages from the ark

• Patience
• The Lord is not slow
• about His promise, as
• some count slowness,
• but is patient toward
• you, not wishing for
• any to perish but for
• all to come to
• repentance.
• 2 Pet. 39

• when the patience of God
• kept waiting in the days
• of Noah, during the
• construction of the ark,
• in which a few, that is,
• eight persons, were
• brought safely through
• the water.
• 1 Pet. 320

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Spiritual messages from the ark

• Means of salvation
• He who was delivered
• over because of our
• transgressions, and was
• raised because of our
• justification.
• Rom. 425

• when the patience of God
• kept waiting in the days
• of Noah, during the
• construction of the ark,
• in which a few, that is,
• eight persons, were
• brought safely through
• the water.
• 1 Pet. 320

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Spiritual messages from the ark

• Preaching
• For since in the wisdom
• of God the world
• through its wisdom did
• not come to know God,
• God was well pleased
• through the foolishness
• of the message preached
• to save those who believe
• 1 Cor. 121

• did not spare the ancient
• world, but preserved
• Noah, a preacher of
• righteousness, with seven
• others, when He brought
• a flood upon the world of
• the ungodly
• 2 Pet. 25

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Spiritual messages from the ark

• Reward
• For the wages of sin is
• death, but the free gift
• of God is eternal life in
• Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Rom. 623

• did not spare the ancient
• world, but preserved
• Noah, a preacher of
• righteousness, with seven
• others, when He brought
• a flood upon the world of
• the ungodly
• 2 Pet. 25

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Spiritual messages from the ark

• Sin punished
• dealing out retribution
• to those who do not
• Know God and to those
• who do not obey the
• gospel of our Lord Jesus.
• 1 Thess. 18

• did not spare the ancient
• world, but preserved
• Noah, a preacher of
• righteousness, with seven
• others, when He brought
• a flood upon the world of
• the ungodly
• 2 Pet. 25