He Was Kept "Safe With Seven Others"

 "Forty Days and Forty Nights"

Outside the downpour continued "for forty days and forty nights."  (Genesis 7:4, 11, 12) The water kept rising and rising. As it did, Noah could see that his God, Jehovah was simultaneously practicing righteousness and punishing wickedness.

The Flood checked a rebellion that had broken out among the angels. Influenced by Satan's selfish attitude, many angels had forsaken their "proper dwelling place" in heaven to cohabit with women producing hybrid offspring called Nephilim. (Jude 6; Genesis 6:4) Satan no doubt was filled with glee as that rebellion unfolded, for it further debased mankind, the pinnacle of Jehovah's creation on earth.

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