"Forty Days and Forty Nights" Continue

 No. Nor did their merciful God.  (Ezekiel 33:11) Jehovah had done everything to save as many as possible. He had commissioned Enoch's warning, and he had ordered Noah to build the ark. Noah and his family had been laboring on that massive project for decades, in full view of the people. What is more, Jehovah directed Noah to serve as "a preacher of righteousness." (2 Peter 2:5) Like Enoch before him, he warned people about the judgment that was coming upon the world. And did they respond?  Jesus, who witnessed events from heaven, later recalled the people of Noah's day: They took no more note until the flood came and swept them all away." - MATTHEW 24:39.

Imagine what it must have been like for Noah and his family during those first 40 days after Jehovah shut the door to the ark. As the torrential rains kept drumming down on the ark day after day, the eight of them likely settled into some kind of routine-caring for one another, tending to their home, and seeing the needs of the animals in their enclosures. At one moment, though, the whole immense structure shuddered and lurched. The ark was moving!  Cradled on the rising waters, the ark was lifted up, higher and higher, until "it was floating high above the earth." (Genesis 7:7, 17) What an amazing demonstration of the power of the Almighty God, Jehovah!

Next time: "Forty Days and Forty Nights" - Conclusion

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