by Barbara Cohen Hyland
My husband and I just returned from a wonderful trip visiting our daughter and her husband in Dallas. Not only was it fun visiting our kids, but the Creation Science Research people will be opening a grand new exhibit center, based on creation science, and not the evolutionary ideology that pervades our society. It promises to be a wonderful exposition, refuting the false claims of “suppositional” science that our earth is billions of years in the making and that you and I have descended from lower life forms. Really? Now that thinking requires faith.
One of the exhibits will feature Noah’s Ark. I’m sure there will be all sorts of wonderful and creative animals, birds, and other species but all within the concept of a Divine Creator.
When teaching children about Noah’s Ark and the great Flood, we paint cute animals on church walls, and perhaps an oversized boat with Noah looking out the window! However, the real Flood event was horrific. “And all flash died that moved on the earth” Peter wrote, “The world that then existed perished, being flooded with water.” Scenes of such carnage would terrify children.
The Flood was God’s judgment on a wicked world. It might seem a drastic action for a loving God, but much good came from it. It’s like having surgery. Nobody enjoys their body getting sliced and stitched, but a skillful operation can restore health and extend life. Let’s count some of the many graces that Earth’s ancient watery surgery extends to us.
What fuels trains, planes, buses, and cars? Petroleum products, of course. And all that oil and gas came from Noah’s Flood. It buried massive amounts of algae beneath and within sediment layers. It doesn’t take millions of years to make oil! That has already been proven.
The same goes for coal. Pure coal deposits don’t form today. It took the Flood to dismember and bury whole forests across thousands of miles where heat and pressure caused decayed matter to become useable for us. Coal burning power plants help make our electronics go. So, we should thank God for His wisdom whenever we turn on the lights.
How about rainbows? Don’t we all thrill to see one? Dorothy even sang a song about “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”. However, God promised that He would never again destroy the world by water.
How about the Grand Canyon and the many of our National Parks? The pressure from huge amounts of water caused layer after layer of sediments, deep gorges and striking valleys. All from Noah’s Flood.
Dogs and cats and pets were all saved because our Creator knew what joy they give to us. (soft purring here). Have you ever savored an apple or bread from grains? God was thinking of us when He commanded Noah “and you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself and it shall be food for you and for them.”
Finally, the Ark points to our Savior, Yeshua. Just as the eight people escaped judgment by entering the Ark we can escape from future judgments by trusting through our faith and obedience that the Lord will be our Ark of salvation. Yeshua descended from Shem who God preserved on Noah’s Ark.
The Ark of Salvation comes through our Messiah and Savior.
