Genesis 6: 14 - 22

¹⁴Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.  ¹⁵And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
 ¹⁶A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
 ¹⁷And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
 ¹⁸But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
 ¹⁹And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
 ²⁰Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
 ²¹And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
 ²²Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

Noah did not have it great when you really think about it. I don't know how Noah envisioned his life, what he thought it would be like; but, I am betting he never thought it would be about building a very large boat and then taking care of a bunch of animals while everyone else on earth was dead. It is interesting to note that Noah doesn't beg God to save everyone, maybe Noah could see all too well how bad man had become.

In Revelations it talks about the end times and says that it will be as in the days of Noah, that may very well mean what is sounds like it says, that the world and man's flesh will once again be corrupted. We have become a nation and a world of those who engage in indiscriminate sex, how many people truly treat their body as a temple and remain chase until married, worse yet, how many remain married to one partner for life (ignoring death and adultery resulting in a remarriage)?

In verses 14 - 22, God explains to Noah what he will have to do. He is instructed to build a very large boat and fill it with all the animals. What isn't often talked about is that Noah was also told to take the food of all kinds that was eaten, that would be potatoes and carrots and onions and all sorts of foods that were eaten by all of the animals on board and the people too.

Today nations around the world are doing the same thing. For the past ten years the world has been stalking a "seed bank" in Norway, it is being stalked with the seeds of every plant and presumably animals. I wonder where they got the idea from, yep, they got it from the bible.

Just in case you were unfamiliar with the word "pitch", it was a type of tar that would make things waterproof. The boat was made of gopher wood and covered in tar so that it would not leak. Nobody knows what "gopher wood" was because the term was only used once in the bible.