1 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 (Genesis 7:1-5).
God had promised to save Noah and his family due to Noah’s righteousness. God directed Noah on what to do and expect, and warned him of both the timing and the extent of the flood. It doesn’t appear like Noah questioned God but just simply obeyed. It would be difficult to imagine Noah not being conflicted by the knowledge of the coming disaster. And yet also likely that he had tried to warn people for many years to turn towards God. Noah was probably righteous for this exact reason, he probably spent his life worshipping God and trying to convince others to do the same.
God had promised to save Noah and his family due to Noah’s righteousness. God directed Noah on what to do and expect, and warned him of both the timing and the extent of the flood. It doesn’t appear like Noah questioned God but just simply obeyed. It would be difficult to imagine Noah not being conflicted by the knowledge of the coming disaster. And yet also likely that he had tried to warn people for many years to turn towards God. Noah was probably righteous for this exact reason, he probably spent his life worshipping God and trying to convince others to do the same.
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