After about five months, Noah's ark rested on Mount Ararat.
In all the movies about Noah's Ark, we see Noah sending out a bird 40 days after he entered the ark. That is inaccurate. It was 40 days after his ark came to rest on the mountain that he sent the bird out.
It took a whole eleven months for the whole earth to be dried from all the waters that covered it. It took five months for the waters to abate enough for the ark to rest on the mountain.
One whole year after the flood, Noah and the animals finally came out of the ark.
A whole year!
And, the first thing Noah did was to build an altar and worship the Lord!
God promised that He would never curse the ground again because of the wickedness of man. It is in man's nature to be wicked. God knew that, and He chose to love man anyway. He also promised He would never destroy all living things as He had done this time.
For as long as the earth stayed in existence, the days, the seasons, and the years would continue.
When God rescues us from sure calamities in our lives, we must always remember Him and thank Him before anything else, as Noah and his family did. God must always come first.
And, we must know and remember that God does not seek to destroy us, no matter what problems we may face.
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