Exiting the Ark

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The Ark Rests on Ararat – Genesis 8

1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged; 2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; 3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. 4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

Noah Sends a Raven and a Dove

6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: 7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in to him into the ark. 10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, see, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again to him any more.

Exiting the Ark

13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. 15 And God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 Go forth of the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creeps on the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth. 18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him: 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatever creeps on the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
 

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The Ark Rests on Ararat – Genesis 8

The Hebrew word for "Ararat" is from 'Ararat (ar-aw-rat') which appears
three more times in the Bible: one at 2Kgs 19:36-37, one at Isa 37:36-38,
and one at Jer 51:27. Ararat is always the country of Armenia rather than a
mountain by the same name.

The Hebrew word for "mountains" in Gen 8:4 is haareey which is the plural
of har (har). It doesn't always mean a prominent land mass like Everest or
McKinley; especially when it's plural. Har can also mean a range of hills or
highlands.

In California, where I lived as a kid, the local elevation 35 miles east of San
Diego, in the town of Alpine, was about 2,000 feet above sea level. There
were plenty of meadows with pasture and good soil. In fact much of it was
very good ranchland and quite a few people in that area raised horses and
cows. We ourselves kept about five hundred chickens, and a few goats and
calves. We lived in the mountains of San Diego; but we didn't live up on top
of one of its mountains like Viejas, Lyon's, or Cuyamaca.

The ark contained the only surviving souls of man and animal on the entire
planet. Does it really make good sense to strand them up on a mountain
peak where they might risk death and injury descending it?

When my wife and I visited the San Diego zoo together back in the early
1980's, we noticed that the Giraffes' area had no fence around it. The tour
guide told us the Giraffes' enclosure doesn't need a fence because their area
is up on a plateau 3 feet high. The Giraffes don't try to escape because
they're afraid of heights. There's just no way Giraffes could've climbed down
off of Turkey's Mount Ararat. It's way too steep and rugged. Those poor
timid creatures would've been stranded up there and died; and so would
hippos, elephants, and flightless birds like penguins.
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in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off:

The word for "plucked-off" is from taraph (taw-rawf') which means: recently
torn off; viz: fresh. In other words: a taraph leaf is green; it's alive.

Old-world olives prefer a Mediterranean climate, which is pretty good
empirical evidence that the ark did not come to rest on the top of Turkey's
Mt. Ararat; a snow-capped dormant volcano consisting of two peaks: Lesser
Ararat @ 12,782 feet, and Greater Ararat @ 16,854 feet.

Tall mountains like Turkey's Mt. Ararat have what's called a timberline;
which is an elevation beyond which no trees grow. The elevation of Mt.
Hood's timberline here in Oregon is right around 6,000 feet. So it's a pretty
safe bet that the olive tree, from which the dove plucked a green leaf,
wasn't growing up on Turkey's Mt. Ararat prior to the Flood. It would've
preferred neither the elevation nor the climate.
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There's just no way Giraffes could've climbed down
off of Turkey's Mount Ararat. It's way too steep and rugged. Those poor
timid creatures would've been stranded up there and died; and so would
hippos, elephants, and flightless birds like penguins.
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Interesting point!
 

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So it's a pretty
safe bet that the olive tree, from which the dove plucked a green leaf,
wasn't growing up on Turkey's Mt. Ararat prior to the Flood. It would've
preferred neither the elevation nor the climate.
The growing regions may have been different before the flood. But still I think you are on the right track.

Much love!
 

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Answersingenesis does an exstensive analysis of what they think happend durring and after the flood.
Whether you like the idea of YEC the world post flood would have been radicly different, massive volcanoes errupting, tectonic plates shifting both of which would have caused earthquakes, the weather would have changed as the thousands of square mile of volcanic lava released under the sea raised the seas temperarture, most winds hitting cooler land resulting in snow, leading to an ice age.

I'm not surprised Noah got drunk.
 

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I think the story of the Ark is one of great importance. The Ark is the thing that saved Noah and his family.

OUR ARK: (the “in Christ” doctrine)

I look at the words ""in Christ"" and think of them in reference to Noah and the flood.

Noah was told by God to build an Ark. It was built by human hands (Noah’s hands). The waters of God‘s wrath in the flood did not touch Noah and those with him. Noah, by his choice, obeyed God and went into the Ark he had built. --- The waters of the flood were the judgment of God on a sinful world full of sinful people. That does not mean that Noah was sinless. It means Noah believed what God told him.

Today there is another Ark. It is “”NOT”” built by human hands. It is built by the hands (will) of God. - Man can not go into the Ark that God has built by his own efforts (will). He must be placed in God’s Ark (Jesus) by God (the Holy Spirit). God places a person in the Ark (Jesus) He built when that person places their faith, trust and confidence in Jesus’ work on the cross to save him/her. -- This Ark that God has built carries those in it safely over the sins “THEY” commit in their flesh. Their sins can not touch them since they have been atoned (paid) for by the blood of Jesus on the cross.

Jesus Christ is OUR ARK, and just as those in Noah's Ark were kept from the waters of the flood, we who are placed ""in Christ,"" by God, and are kept from the judgment of the law. If we are not ""in Christ"" the law condemns us.

I believe what Paul said when he penned the words ""in Christ."" I also believe that we are placed ""in Christ"" by God. It is an operation of the Holy Spirit (God).
 

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What was there for everyone to eat when the FLood ended?

Well, that was no problem. The olive leaf that a dove had in her beak at Gen
8:10-11 indicates that earth's flora was spared mass extinction by the Flood.
The Hebrew word for "plucked-off" is from taraph (taw-rawf') which
means: recently torn off; in other words: the dove didn't pick up an old dead
leaf lying around on the ground; no, it was fresh cut and green right off the
tree.

It's not unreasonable to believe vegetation survived the Flood. The prairie
grasses that once flourished in America's corn belt was some really hardy
stuff. Prior to the White Man, prairie grass roots grew as deep as four feet,
and sometimes eleven, so that no matter how much or how often the grass
was burned off, it bounced right back.

But then again, the Flood was a miraculous event caused by the hand of God
so I think it's safe to assume that He made sure enough natural food stuffs
survived to feed everybody when they came off the ark.
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