Noahs Ark

With all the recent rain, storms and flooding here’s some trivia about Noah and the Ark

• God Himself was the master designer and architect of the ark.   
• God judged the world with the Flood, saving Noah and his family, about 4,300 years ago.
• God shut the door of the Ark.
• Dinosaurs could have been on the ark.   
• Noah was a type or forerunner of Jesus Christ
• Noah was a farmer.  He was already 500 years old when he fathered three sons
• Noah lived 350 years after the Flood and died at 950 years old.
• Noah's ark was a huge boat:  450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. 
• The ark took over 100 years to build.  It had a roof on top, three decks, and rooms within the decks.  The ark was not designed to be steered or sailed but only to float
• There could have been as many as 75,000 animals.
• II Pet. 2:5 says 8 souls were saved. We assume this means Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their wives.
• The Biblical word for Ark is "tebah" which is the Egyptian word meaning "box",
• The Bible says that the Ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
• The Bible says “gopher” wood, but we really don’t know what gopher wood is.
• Noah and his family were on the Ark for over a year.