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Wendy:
Hi everyone

I pray you are all well. I was wondering did Ray ever talk about Noah and his family about what they may of felt after they enter the  ark and God closed the door I know the rain started and it had to be awhile before the water was deep enough to make the ark float
So during that time the people outside the ark must of been screaming and banging on ark to get in .
That had to of been horrible to listen to .any thought or comments on this
God bless
Wendy

octoberose:
Hey Wendy, I hope someone can find something about Ray and Noah but I’ve come up empty.  We know that God had Noah and his family and the animals get into the ark seven days before the flood waters started.  We can’t really know, but I’m inclined to think that storm was so furious, so overwhelming, so devastating that nobody went anywhere .  If it was hailing, then who goes out in hail? If it was like a firehose on you, who can even run?  I’m from Florida, and if you know anything you do not go out in a hurricane.  I just think it was more than a person could withstand .

Porter:
I think it was as sudden as sudden could be. The waters came from not only above, but below as well.


--- Quote ---Gen 7:11  In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Gen 7:12  And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
--- End quote ---



Ray did a paper on the suddenness of destruction that will come upon the earth. I think Ray used the following verse as one of his proof texts.



--- Quote ---1Th 5:2  For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.
1Th 5:3  When they say, "Peace and security," then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
--- End quote ---

The parable of the Ten Virgins also comes to mind.



--- Quote ---Mat 25:1  "Then the kingdom of heaven will be like 10 virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the groom.
Mat 25:2  Five of them were foolish and five were sensible.
Mat 25:3  When the foolish took their lamps, they didn't take oil with them.
Mat 25:4  But the sensible ones took oil in their flasks with their lamps.
Mat 25:5  Since the groom was delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.
Mat 25:6  "In the middle of the night there was a shout: 'Here's the groom! Come out to meet him.'
Mat 25:7  "Then all those virgins got up and trimmed their lamps.
Mat 25:8  But the foolish ones said to the sensible ones, 'Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.'
Mat 25:9  "The sensible ones answered, 'No, there won't be enough for us and for you. Go instead to those who sell, and buy oil for yourselves.'
Mat 25:10  "When they had gone to buy some, the groom arrived. Then those who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.
Mat 25:11  "Later the rest of the virgins also came and said, 'Master, master, open up for us!'
Mat 25:12  "But he replied, 'I assure you: I do not know you!'
Mat 25:13  "Therefore be alert, because you don't know either the day or the hour.
--- End quote ---

I don't know why, but I have a hard time believing that everyone in the land/region literally died. Nevertheless, I'm probably very wrong about that. I do believe everyone and everything was “swept away” off the land/region, however. Thus, I'm sure there is a lot more to learn about Noah's flood for me.

ralph:

--- Quote from: Wendy on October 30, 2023, 02:03:54 AM ---Hi everyone

I pray you are all well. I was wondering did Ray ever talk about Noah and his family about what they may of felt after they enter the  ark and God closed the door I know the rain started and it had to be awhile before the water was deep enough to make the ark float
So during that time the people outside the ark must of been screaming and banging on ark to get in .
That had to of been horrible to listen to .any thought or comments on this
God bless
Wendy

--- End quote ---

I am sure it was horrible for the people outside the ark, and no picnic for Noah and his family, but it is not something I tend to think about. I am more interested in the spiritual significance of Noah's Ark as we have to live every word within.

Matthew 4:4
4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”

octoberose:
Porter, that is so interesting.  It’s the second time in a week someone has brought up the Ten Virgins for me to read.  It’s interesting the virgins without weren’t just told to go away but they were told to go where the oil was and buy some for themselves.  And the virgins with the oil said they couldn’t give any of theirs.  What do you think that means for our time now ? Then  of course it was too late for the groom. 
  The rivers must have all gone up and up and up and  everything was flooded .

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