Noah and the Ark - Part 2
In Genesis Chapter 7, we read how
the waters flooded the earth for 150 days! Can you imagine it raining that long!
We get (or many of us) grumpy when it rains for a couple of days, don't we? But,
as we start in Chapter 8, we see that Yahweh "remembered" Noah and all the wild
animals and the livestock that were with him (verse 1). Let's read a bit and see
what happened. We'll start with verse 6:
After forty days Noah opened the window
he had made in the ark and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth
until the water had dried up from the earth. Then he sent out a dove to see if
the water had receded from the surface of the ground. But the dove could find no
place to set its feet because there was water over all the surface of the earth;
so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and
brought it back to himself in the ark. He waited seven more days and again sent
out the dove from the ark. When the dove returned to him in the evening, there
in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had
receded from the earth. He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again,
but this time it did not return to him, (Genesis
8:6-12, New International Version).
 Where
do you think the dove got the olive leaf? What do you think that meant? The dove
did not return to Noah the last time; why do you think it did not return?
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