Noah Ark on Mount Ararat
God had promised Noah that he and his family would be saved, and Noah knew that God could be trusted. The water was now deep enough for the ark to float, and as it became even deeper, the ark began to drift about on the surface. Noah could not tell where they were, for the flood had risen so high that they had covered every part of the land. They went on rising so much that soon they were seven and a half yards above the tops of the highest mountains. There was nothing to be seen in any direction except water.
And they stayed like that for 150 days and nights. It must have seemed a very long time. Then a great wind began to blow, and at last the water started to go down. The rain stopped and gradually, for another 150 days, the water began to go lower and lower. The ark stopped rocking to and fro, and at last it came to rest on a mountain called Ararat. The water continued to go down and one day, when Noah looked out, he found that he could see the tops of other mountains.
Noah waited for another forty days. Then he opened a window in the ark and let a raven fly out. It flew around for a while and then flew away and did not come back. Next Noah sent out a dove to see if the flood water had gone down, but the dove could not find anywhere to land and, after a while, it flew back to the ark. Noah reached out his hand and lifted it in through the window.
He waited for another week, then he sent the dove out again. On the evening of that day, it came back and in its beak, it held a fresh olive leaf. Now Noah knew that somewhere the water had gone down far enough for the trees to be appearing again. He waited for one more week before he sent out the dove again. Out it flew, round and round, and out of sight. This time, it did not return, and Noah knew that it must have found somewhere to settle among the trees.
A little time later, Noah was able to look out of the ark and to see that the ground was becoming drier. In time, it became completely dry and the water disappeared. Then God said to Noah,”You may now leave the boat. Take your wife with you, and your sons and their wives, and all the birds and animals, so that they can settle on the earth and start having families again to replace all those that were drowned in the great flood.”
So out came Noah and his family and all living creatures whom God had preserved during the great flood. The first thing Noah did was to take some stones and build an altar to God, to offer a sacrifice upon it and thank Him for keeping them safe. God was pleased and said,”Never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done this time. As long as there is a world, there will always be seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, and they shall not cease, ” and as He promised, all these things have gone on ever since.
As a sign of His promise to Noah, God said,”I shall put a rainbow in the cloud. Whenever the sky is cloudy and a rainbow appears, I will remember my promise to you and to all living creatures, that a flood will never again destroy all that live on the earth.”
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