Depending on who we decide will be our power source, our lives can become the arks of salvation, regardless of our possessions, or title or status life, or conversely, may become a shipwreck. This is not limited simply to a ship built with wood or a basket made with papyrus. Although when relying on God as the only power source Noah’s ark and Moses’ basket looked different in appearance, in essence both through God could be the arks of salvation. In which direction it would go, east, west, south or north, at what speed it would travel, and where it would stop, were all matters to be absolutely decided by God. In other words, the person inside the ark or the basket did not have the ability to control the direction or speed of the vessel. Both Noah’s ark and Moses’ basket did not have any controllable power source of its own. As we learned in the person committed to God classes, the main feature of the ark of salvation is not its size or its material, but it is that it does not have any controllable power source. When compared to Noah’s ark which was as large as a soccer field, is it not a bit awkward to be calling this small basket that carried a three-month old boy the same “tay-baw?” In Hebrew the same word “tay-baw” is used to refer to both. In Exodus 2: 3 the basket carrying Moses which was put down among the reeds along the bank of the Nile is written in Hebrew as “tay-baw.” This is the same “tay-baw” used to refer to Noah’s ark. The princess named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.” This is the Moses who became a great leader by freeing the Israel people from slavery in Egypt.
Moments later the Pharaoh’s daughter, a princess of Egypt, went down to the Nile to bath and found the basket among the reeds, and the boy in the basket became an adopted child of the princess. But a young couple, Amram and Jochebed(jock-a-bed), secretly cared for their newborn boy for three months, and when they could no longer hide him, they made a basket with papyrus and coated it with tar and pitch, then placed the boy in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. However, size alone does not determine whether an ark may be an ark of salvation.ĭuring the time when the Israelites had become slaves in Egypt, the Egyptian Pharaoh ordered that all boys born to an Israelite woman be put to death by being thrown into the Nile. That is why when people think of tay-baw, or the ark of salvation, they think of a structure larger than a soccer stadium. The ark, which in Hebrew is called “tay-baw” as written in Genesis 6: 14, was enormous in size, being 136.8 meters long, 22.8 meters wide, and 13.6 meters high. That is why people call the ark the ark of salvation. By staying in the ark from February 10 in the year Noah became 600 years old and until February 27 of the following year when they finally came out of the ark, they were able to live through the terrifying judgment of the flood. This was possible because God had Noah prepare for the flood by building an ark.
Of men, only Noah and his family was able to survive the judgment.
God wiped all living things from face of the earth. In the days of Noah, by bringing the Flood, God judged the world which had become filled with wickedness.
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