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Noah's Ark
Lesson 3
Into the Ark
 
Thanks for joining us for more about Noah's Ark and God's Wonderful Word!  Open your Bibles to Genesis 6:21-7:16:

 
Genesis 6:21-22  "And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them.”  Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.  Genesis 7:1-16   "Then the LORD said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.  You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female; also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep the species alive on the face of all the earth.  For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.”  And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him.  Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth.  So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.  Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth, two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.  In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.  And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.  On the very same day Noah and Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark — they and every beast after its kind, all cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.  And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life. So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in."



Wow!  Did you make it through that large section?  Let's look at it again:

*God told Noah to get food for everyone and put it in the Ark.
 
*Noah obeyed everything God told him to do. 
 
*God said the clean animals were to come in;  fourteen in all!
FOURTEEN?  Yes, take a look at it closely.  God said, "seven; the male and his female."  That's seven pairs of every clean animal which would be fourteen!  That's a lot of clean animals! 
 
*Then it says the same thing about fowls or birds.

*Noah and his family went into the ark.
 
*God then sent all the animals in. 
 
*Finally, God shut the door Himself and sealed it. 
 
*God tells us that this happened the very same day that it began to rain on the earth.


Questions:
1.  True/False  Noah and the animals did not need food on the ark.

2.  True/False  Only two of each animal went into the ark.

3.  True/False  Noah was faithful and obedient to God.

4.  True/False  Noah was only 6 years old when the flood came.

5.  True/False  The animals went in last.

6.  True/False  Noah and his sons used horses and corralled the animals into the ark themselves.

7.  True/False  God shut the door.

8.  True/False  Noah had to wait a week in the ark before the rain started.


Fun project time!


Ask your Mom and Dad if you can go to a furniture or appliance store and ask for a large box (like a refrigerator box).  Once you get it home, make it into an ark with one window and one door.  If Mom and Dad say it is okay, maybe you can even get about 3 cans of brown spray paint for the outside (usually about $1 a can at dollar stores).  As you are painting it, think of Noah having to go all around the ark and cover it with pitch.
(Look up pitch in the dictionary and see what you find!)

Once it is ready, pretend you are Noah and fill it with food (pretend food - real food could get messy and moldy.  :) ) and animals (stuffed or plastic of course).

Memory verse for the week:
Genesis 6:22  "Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he."
Our study of God's Wonderful Word continues next week with lesson 4!  See you then!