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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Genesis 7:1-16
Noah obeyed God not only by building the ark but by doing it, in every detail, just as God had commanded (6:22). Now he obeys by going into it the moment the order is given (v. 5). Our safety comes from being obedient to God. Noah, who is a man full of faith, is going to experience Psalms 32:6 literally.
V. 16 reminds us of another door, the door of grace, which is still open today, but for how long? "And the door was shut," solemnly declares Matthew 25:10. Reader, on which side of this door will you be? Inside, with Jesus and His own? Or outside, with all those who will knock in vain and to whom the Lord must reply, "I know you not" (Luke 13:27)? Let us note that it is by the LORD Himself that the door is shut on Noah, his family and all the animals. Even if he had wanted to, Noah could no longer open it to anyone at all. Now that God has provided a means of salvation, has sheltered His own people, and closed the door of the ark, He can open the sluice-gates of heaven.
From the prophetic point of view, Noah and his family represent the remnant of Israel, who after the rapture of the Church (Enoch), will go safe and sound through the final great tribulation and will be introduced into the new world of the millennium.
