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We see rapidly increasing evil everywhere we look. Noah's
flood puts all earthlings "ON NOTICE" - BIGTIME! God's wonderful,
gracious, provision of the Ark to save Noah, his family of eight, and all the animals is so great and blessed. As these eight people, we expectantly wait for the Rapture, Christ's coming to take his believers, to
snatch us from the jaws of destruction, and take us to the Father's mansion in heaven. New
Testament passage 1 Peter 3: (see JFB commentary for more detail) 14
But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled; 15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be
ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: 16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak
evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. 17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that
ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. 18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to
God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once
the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were
saved by water. 21
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the
answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: 22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels
and authorities and powers being made subject unto him. 
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Genesis 6: (JFB Commentary) 1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were
born unto them, 2 That the sons of
God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 3 And the Lord
said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that,
when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were
of old, men of renown. 5 And God saw that the
wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And it repented the Lord
that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And the Lord said, I will destroy
man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air;
for it repenteth me that I have made them. 8 But
Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. 9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect
in his generations, and Noah walked with God. 10 And
Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way
upon the earth. 13 And God said unto Noah, The
end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with
the earth. 14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood;
rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred
cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of
the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. 17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth,
to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. 18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into
the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. 19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep
them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. 20
Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two
of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. 21
And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee,
and for them. 22 Thus did Noah; according to
all that God commanded him, so did he. 
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Genesis 7: (JFB Commentary) And the Lord said unto
Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. 2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens,
the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. 3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the
female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. 4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every
living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. 5 And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him. 6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his
sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing
that creepeth upon the earth, 9
There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters
of the flood were upon the earth. 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. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham,
and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the
cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind,
every bird of every sort. 15
And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of
all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him
in. 17 And the flood was
forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. 18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly
upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that
were under the whole heaven, were covered. 20
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. 21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and
of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all
that was in the dry land, died. 23
And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping
things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were
with him in the ark. 24 And
the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
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Genesis 8: (JFB Commentary) 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, upon 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. 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 unto 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 unto 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, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt 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 unto him any more. 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
spake unto Noah, saying, 16
Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. 17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with
thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed
abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon 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 whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark. 20 And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord
said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from
his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and
heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
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