What If The Ark Of Noah Was Found?

In the news this past week, there have been some stories about Noah’s Ark having been found.

I’ve also done a few posts on Noah’s Ark in the last month or so.

Whether this latest installment turns out to have true artifacts or not, we’ll have to wait to see. But I think this brings up a question that everyone needs to ask themselves:

What if the ark of Noah was found?

Don’t just casually dismiss the question. Think about it. Think about its implications.

If the ark was found tomorrow in the mountains of Ararat:

• it proves there was a global flood;
• it confirms the Biblical account;
• it confirms the location specified in the Bible;
• it confirms that God judged the entire world at that time.

But even more so, what did the ark represent to the people of Noah’s day? It was a symbol of judgment. It was a demonstration of a loving, just God who had to punish sin.

Think, too, about where the ark was supposed to come to rest according to Genesis 8:4. We have to assume that nothing happens by accident. Everything happens for a reason according to the will of God. Why would God choose to have the ark come to rest on Ararat, a remote location 17,000 feet above sea level?

Remember, the entire world was destroyed by the flood except for the family of Noah and the animals that Noah brought into the ark. That means when the ark came to rest on Ararat, Noah and his family had no useful natural resources to start over again, right? Had the ark come to rest at a lower altitude, some place where Noah and his family could settle, they could have dismantled the ark and used it to build houses for themselves and barns for the animals.

No, instead God chose to rest the ark at such a high altitude that Noah and his family would have to migrate down to settle. The ark is left at 17,000 feet where it would eventually become frozen.

Along those lines, there is something interesting, too, that God tells Noah in the building of the ark.

“Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.” –Genesis 6:14 (KJV).

“Pitch it within and without with pitch.” Why?

In the days of wooden boats, you pitch the outside to keep the water out. Why would you pitch the inside of a wooden boat? Is it perhaps that God wanted the ark to be preserved? Preserved for several thousand years in order to reveal to a later generation? A generation such as ours that has become so antagonistic toward the things of God?

Again, I ask you: “what if Noah’s ark was found?” What would you think? Would it change your life? Would you suddenly realize that God surely judged the entire world for sin several thousand years ago and will do so again when Jesus returns? Would you suddenly realize that Jesus is who He says He is and you would repent and give your life to Him?

Think about it.

May He Increase!