"GO OUT OF THE ARK"

Finally, Jehovah's came. "Go out of the ark," he told Noah, "you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you." Obediently, the family led the way, and all the animals followed.  How? In a chaotic stampede? Not at all! The record states that "according to their families they went out of the ark. (Genesis 8:15-19) Once outdoors, breathing in the fresh mountain air and looking out over the highlands of Ararat, Noah and his family saw before them a cleansed earth.  Gone were Nephilim, the violence, the rebellious angels, and that entire wicked society!  Mankind ad a chance to make a fresh start.

Noah knew what to do. He started with worship. He built an altar and used some of the animals that God viewed as clean-which they had brought aboard in "sevens"-and offered up a burnt sacrifice to Jehovah.   (Genesis7:2; 8:20) Did that worship please Jehovah?

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