Jesus and The Ark of Salvation
It is Genesis 6, 10 generations after Adam and Eve, and things are not going well in God’s world. God observes widespread corruption and immorality, with robbery being the common practice.
God is furious and regrets having created mankind – and resolves to destroy the world in a flood.
But there is a glimmer of hope. God decides to save one man and his family, and through them, eventually recreate the world. That man is Noah.
In Noah, God chose a partner who was righteous and extraordinarily skillful. (Fox News Photo/Joshua Comins)
God instructs Noah to build an ark, whose specifications he dictates. The ark is large and complex, as is befitting of a vessel expected to save the future of humanity and an enormous amount of animals.
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We know little about Noah when God chooses him for this important task. All we really know is that Noah is "a righteous man, perfect in his generation." Commentators have long wondered and debated about whether this means that Noah is objectively righteous, or just good by comparison to others in his corrupt generation.
While the text leaves us wondering about the extent of Noah’s righteousness, it is explicit about something else. Noah builds the ark by himself. He is exceptionally handy.
This fact, as Rabbi David Wolpe explains, reveals an important reason why God chose Noah. God chose Noah, at least in part, because he was very good at building things. If there was a bookish man who was as righteous as Noah, God could not have........