Read: Genesis 6:1-8 NLT – A World Gone Wrong – Then the people – Bible Gateway
“But Noah found favor with the LORD.” Genesis 6:8 NLT
A famous biblical character in the Old Testament is Noah. There is controversy to go along with his familiarity. Throughout history there has been doubt a worldwide flood occurred in Noah’s day and that he was able to build such a massive ark. An ark that took him 120 years to complete. Researchers from ‘The Noah’s Ark Research Project’ have made recent discoveries this year in their work near Mount Ararat in Turkey that will be tested this winter to see if it could be determined if there was human activity in the area and is there a presence of decayed wood. This is encouraging news for the world to hear but as Christians we do not need science to prove it happened. Scripture records it.
What was Noah’s world like? It was a world that had gone wrong. After sin entered the world it was a continual slide into chaos and depravity. “The LORD observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil.” (Gen.6:5 nlt) God’s heart was broken and was determined to wipe mankind off the face of the earth. But then there was Noah. A man who found favor with God. Obviously, Noah was not engaged in the things of world for he was a righteous man, not sinless, but was found right with God. And the Lord God had a big job for him to do.
Our world today is very much like it was in Noah’s day. There is wickedness of all kinds most of what no one could have ever thought possible. The Lord God is not going to instruct us to build an ark, that story’s over, but future judgement is on the way. I am sure Noah was not silent during those 120 years of hard work building the ark but was telling others what was on the horizon. Christians today are to be sounding the alarm of future judgement that is to come. Our world has gone wrong and it is for all of us to ‘be a Noah.’
