My lovely brothers and sisters, I have heard many thoughts of how the current Noah movie is ridiculing Noah. I have yet to see the movie but I would like to talk about what I believe the significance of Noah is in our Bible and what we all should keep in mind when talking about Noah.

At the time of Noah, the world’s moral state was coming down to its knees. Scripture tells us that the Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth has become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time (Genesis 6:5). Man, that is something really bad. Imagine that every single inclination of your thoughts are evil all the time, this must be a very messed up world. This was way before Jesus and in the fair and just God’s eyes, He decided to wipe mankind from the face of the earth, along with the man and animals, birds, creatures as God was grieving (Genesis 6:7). Imagine the wrath of God at that time, but Noah found favour in God’s eyes (Genesis 6:8).

If you were a Noah of that society, imagine what would be happening to you. Everyone is corrupt and, you’d probably feel like you are left out or even ridiculed and punished for being right in this society of destitute. Yet, Noah stands up to righteousness and God finds favour in him. Moreover, he was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and walked with God (Genesis 6:9). Here, we must notice that he was found blameless among the people, don’t have the misconception that he is God because God is blameless among all, but Noah was blameless relative to those in his surroundings. Through the rest of Genesis 6, God gives commands to Noah on how to build an ark and plan for the loading of the ark, in which Noah, who is walking with God obeys obediently.

Later in Scripture, we are told the common story of Noah’s ark where 2 of each specie (female and male), along with Noah’s family are all brought on the boat and the earth is flooded for 44 days and 44 nights after 7 days of being on the ark. With Noah’s obedience, God guides his ark to safe waters after the dove gives signs and Noah receives the call from God to disembark. Right after they disembark, Noah pleases God by burning offerings to HIm, in which God declares:

“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease” Genesis 8:22 (NIV 1984)

Then God blesses Noah’s family and commands Noah and his sons to “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.” (Genesis 9:1). He then presents Noah with the Noahic Covenant. Now, as Christians, we all respect Noah because as long as the Bible is concerned, we are all descendants of Noah. The Tower of Babel that scattered people around the world was after Noah, and as we could tell, everything on this earth was gone except Noah. What a righteous man and a servant of God he is!

This is a summary of the story of Noah for those who haven’t read it in the Bible yet, and I strongly encourage you to read it if you haven’t. Other than serving as history that we should know about mankind, I believe we should read the story of Noah to understand how God favours righteous men and follow his example in this upside-down valued world.

God Bless You All! 😀