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Well, if you stuck with this latest series, “Where was the ark?”, then you might have been expecting me to come up with a smoking a gun, and say precisely where the ark lay.  I am sorry, but I cannot do that.  However, I will close out this series with a summary of what I believe are reasonable requirements for the location of the ark, and then provide what is in my mind a likely possibility.

I have already laid out the Biblical evidence that I have for Noah’s ark being built somewhere in the mountains of Ararat.  But where?  Here are the features I would look for if I were Noah, wanting to a build an ark.
Away from the people
As …

In Genesis 7:18-20 - Where was the ark? (Part 4) - Dressing the Mountains of Ararat, we examined the word for “covered”.  What we found is that in Hebrew, the word for covered has the connotation of being dressed, or covered enough so that your “hollows” are not showing.  However, looking back, I see that I left something unaddressed.  Look back at Genesis 8, which I quoted…
3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, 4 and on the seventeenth day of the …

So, what do we know so far about where Noah built the ark?

In Genesis 7:6-17 - Where was the ark? (Part 1) — The Earth and the Springs, we saw that the rain flooded more land than was populated by Adam’s descendants.  However, scripture only requires it to rain on enough land to kill them.  So how much more land than that was flooded?  We have so far left this hanging, but given the archaeological evidence (which I have discussed in other posts) that other parts of the world were populated continuously through the time of Adam and Noah, we know …

In Genesis 7:6-17 - Where was the ark? (Part 2) - Noah Watched the Springs Burst Forth, we closed with the conclusion that Noah built the ark at a higher elevation than the springs that burst forth at the beginning of the flood.  Where then did Noah build the ark?

I was raised with the tradition that people ridiculed Noah for building the ark.  It is so inset within my mind, that I resist writing against that notion even now.  My wife grew up believing the same thing.  However, I have searched the scripture for references to Noah being ridiculed, and …

In Genesis 7:6-17 - Where was the ark? (Part 1) — The Earth and the Springs, we saw that Noah did not board the ark for the last time until after the rains began and the springs of the great deep had burst forth.  In my mind this suggests that Noah actually saw the springs, and was able to get in the ark without being swept away by the water.  In fact, according to scripture, **everyone** had the time they needed to board (key portions highlighted)…
 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day …

Genesis 7:6…
 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.
This is an interesting verse.  It doesn’t say much, but it says a lot.  Floodwaters came on the earth.  What does this mean?  Well to get a feel, let us go back to God’s warning to Noah of what was to come, in Genesis 6:13,17…
 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.”

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 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the …

According to Genesis 7… 
 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.
I find it amazing how many theories exist on where the flood took place.  For Christians who believe in a local flood, there appear to be numerous possibilities.

The primary roadblock to figuring out where the flood took place has to do with where the ark landed.  According to Genesis 8:4, the ark landed on the mountains of Ararat.  Most people take that to mean Mount Ararat.  However, that mountain was named later, after Genesis was written.  The mountains of Ararat actually refers to the mountains of Urartu, which are further south.

View this map here: http://www.genesisfiles.com/Images/UrartuSearch.jpg.  Notice that Mount Ararat …

After looking at all of the Old Testament events in the Bible that happened over 40 days, we can now turn to Jesus’ 40 days.  Based on Genesis 7:4 - Forty Days and Nights (Part 2), here is a list of the common symbolism found:

Immersion
The removal of impurity or sin
Emerging of God’s light
Establishment of a covenant
Beginning of a ministry or era

The Great Flood embodies all of these.  The other 40-day events in the Old Testament each embody various combinations of this imagery, some using count-imagery, like when the Israelites turn 40 days into 40 years, or when Goliath taunted the Israelites for 40 days.  Some establish a new condition at the conclusion of the 40 days, others shortly after, …

In Genesis 7:4 - Forty Days and Nights, we saw the significance of 40 days and nights in the Old Testament, beyond simply The Great Flood.

Embalming
The next reference to “forty days” after The Flood refers to the duration of the ancient Egyptian embalming process, in Genesis 50:2-3.  Egyptians embalmed the body by immersing it with a soda mixture, which leaves the body that is to be preserved.  One can liken this process to The Flood, where the “world” is immersed and Noah and his family are like the part of the body being preserved.

Establishment of a New Covenant
The next reference is when Moses goes up to Mount …

As I have written in Jesus, the Father’s Proxy on Earth, a Christophany is the appearance of Jesus on Earth, predating his life in the Gospels.  I document a few, and go into great detail about my favorite Christophany in Jesus on Mount Sinai, where Jesus was meeting was Moses in his tent, and Moses begged to see Him in His glory.  So, Jesus showed him His glory from behind on Mount Sinai… and then showed Himself to Moses from the front in the Gospels, on the Mount of Transfiguration.  It is that example that firmly establishes that inter-workings between Jesus’ ministry in the Gospel is intertwined with His work in the Old Testament.  Another example, is the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, …