Noah's Ark - Minus the rainbow

We all grew up thinking that Noah's Ark was a cute little story of little animals going into a cute semi-spherical shaped boat, two-by-two, with a pretty rainbow at the end of it all.



Little did we know that the story of Noah's Ark was the most terrifying story of God's wrath on man's sins. It was an aquatic holocaust, it was.



The painting above by Gustav Dore depicts a family trying to escape the flood that lasted 40 days and 40 nights. The parents are in the water but their children are seeking refuge on a rock. They are trying to push a last child up to stay on the rock. But on that same platform, a tiger is seeking refuge. Bodies are swimming around, dead in the water. Birds circle the air. They look tired from seeking shelter from this perenniel storm.

Not as cutesy as it used to sound in Sunday School huh.

BUT. While everyone was sinking to their death, Noah, his family, and animals two-by-two, were being buoyed by the Ark that he spent 120 years building. They were saved by the object of their ridicule and shame for 120 years. But that ark was also the object of their faith.

Good story.