Genesis 7

The size of the ark depends on the size of a cubit. It’s entirely possible that the ark was over 500 feet long and 50 feet high – easily enough to have three decks. The storage space inside would be about the same as 450 semi-trailers. If each semi-trailer could hold 250 sheep, that means the ark could have held 112,500 sheep! That would be ample space for two of every unclean and seven of every clean animal, plus the space necessary for additional food.

Genesis 7:11 says, “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened” (WEB). Because of the changes that take place after the flood, some have speculated that there used to be a water canopy above the earth, and that the fountains under the earth refer to subterranean water chambers, hydrothermal vents, and/or tectonic plate movement. In fact, there is scientific evidence for water in the earth’s mantle!

Thought for today: If you really believe that Jesus rose from the dead, why is it so hard to believe some of the other events that the Bible details?

Psalm 119:160 “All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.”