Genesis 7:6–12
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that has domesticated God. Our modern sensibilities prefer a God who is a celestial therapist, a divine butler, or at best, a kindly grandfather who winks at our transgressions. The story of Noah is not a charming tale for a nursery wall, with cartoon animals smiling two-by-two. It is a story of de-creation, where God unraveled the world He had so carefully made, returning it to the watery chaos of Genesis 1, because the wickedness of man had become so great, so profound, that it grieved Him to His very heart. For one hundred and twenty years, God’s patience was preached through the hammering of Noah. Every beam lifted, every joint fastened, was a sermon of impending doom and a call to repentance. They saw Noah, this preacher of righteousness, as a fool, a fanatic, a madman building a colossal boat in the middle of dry land.