{"id":3519,"date":"2022-03-10T04:30:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T04:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2022-03-10T04:30:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T04:30:47","slug":"it-wasnt-raining-when-noah-begun-to-build-the-ark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2022\/03\/10\/it-wasnt-raining-when-noah-begun-to-build-the-ark\/","title":{"rendered":"IT WASN&#8217;T RAINING WHEN NOAH BEGUN TO BUILD THE ARK."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luk 17:26 &#8220;And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man . Luk 17:27 &#8220;They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.<\/p>\n<p>Noah was between the age of 525- 545 years old when he started building the ark. Bible scholars estimate that it took Noah between 55-75 years to build the ark( Answers In ). The Bible clearly records that Noah was 600 years old when the floods finally came. Certainly, the construction of the ark was a lengthy endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>But imagine how awkward Noah felt constructing an ark during a dry season? I am sure many people were convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that all was not well with him. He must have earned himself a nick name among the locals. But everything changed when it started  raining and the water levels started rising.<\/p>\n<p>Faith at times will make you appear foolish until it &#8220;begins to rain&#8221;.  Do not shy away from trusting God to release to you what appears impossible.  Gen 7:6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was on the earth.Gen 7:7 So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons&#8217; wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.<\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<br \/>\nMat 24:37,38<br \/>\nHeb 11:7<br \/>\n1Pe 3:20<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4fBlessed Day\ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luk 17:26 &#8220;And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man . Luk 17:27 &#8220;They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}