This is not the simple story that we learned as children in Sunday School where all of the animals went two by two into the ark. This is a story of finality. God had given his creation the best including long lives and as it says in the previous chapter: "Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart." Gen 6:5-6 NKJV
God had finally had it with his creation, and determined he would close the door on all of his creation with the exception of Noah, the only godly man left. And that is what he did...he shut the door tight on the party goers and revelers, on the people building their barns, cooking their gourmet dinners, moving money in and out of their IRA's and visiting Disneyland.
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