Just as there was one door to Noach’s ark and the salvation it offered from the waters of the flood, there is only one Door to salvation to save us from the eternal destruction of wickedness that will come at the final judgement.

Noach tried to warn his generation of the trouble that laid ahead for the earth, Yeshua (Jesus) did the same in His generation, and He has called each generation of His followers to warn their generation of the coming “time of trouble.”

As the proverb says, history may not repeat itself, but it rhymes. And studying the history of the world from the Torah1 is how we can know what will happen, even if we don’t understand exactly when these things will happen.

In this study

‘Enter the Ark’ (Gen. 7:1)Noach built a word?Days of Noach = Day of the Lord‘Good soil’ = swimming upstream

Genealogy has become a more popular hobby in these days, and people are even looking to DNA to help them find relatives that one can’t easily track from written records. The opening Bible passages of בְּרֵאשִׁית B’reisheet (“In the beginning,” Gen. 1:1–6:8) and נֹחַ Noach (Gen. 6:9–11:32) give us the testimony of the origins of the world, Abraham, the people of Israel and all the other peoples, nations, groups and languages on the earth. The Bible is really history and bears an authentic testimony about the intention and actions of the Creator in this world.

The story of Noach (Noah) explains why we have tall mountains, and deep oceans. From the Flood and its aftermath, we understand why animals fear humans and why people eat all manner of animals in the first place? We also see how humanity has declined from the time of Noach when people live to be over 900 years old to the time of Abraham when people lived on average less than 200 years. We see the breakdown of humanity’s perfection from long life to brief life.

Is the origin of life a tree (common ancestor) or an orchard (multiple lineages)? Genesis tells us that God created different kinds of creatures that are distinct from each other. This has become even more clear over the last 150 years since the days of Mendel and Pasteur, who taught us that life comes from life. People used to believe that rats sprang into existence from garbage and that flies sprang into existence from feces, but careful study of biology disproved the theory of abiogenesis.

Studies of DNA point to humanity’s coming from three female lines (called mitochondrial DNA) and one main male genetic line (called Y-DNA). The Bible gives us a better explanation of how the world works than evolution. In Noach, there is a mix between human action and the work of God. There is a lot of evidence of the Flood in the geology of the earth. The Bible has a better explanation for these physical phenomena than evolution.

The Bible also has a better explanation of why the world is so violent and why the people of the world speak so many different languages, yet these languages retain common linkages even after 5,000-plus years.

‘Enter the Ark’ (Gen. 7:1)