Noah

Noah was a righteous man who was one of the sole survivors of a the Great Flood. His only appearance in the original Superbook was in The Flood.

Appearance
Noah is depicted as wearing a light blue-purple tunic with a black belt, and black sandals. He has white skin, a receding hairline, a grey beard and dark blue eyes.

Description
Note: This information is based on his 2011 incarnation.

The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the human heart was evil all the time. The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the LORD said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” (Genesis 6:7) But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. (Genesis 6:9) God looked at the wickedness of people, the pain they caused each other, and grew very sad. He decided He would take away the lives on earth, which He had made. When so many people on the earth were bad, Noah was different. Noah was a man of prayer and he often asked for God’s help. He listened to God and obeyed Him. This pleased God. He told Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. Then fill it with two of every type of animal. Fill it with food and you will be safe.” (Genesis 6:19). Noah trusted God. God gave him the plans for making a large boat, which He called an ark. When the ark was finished, Noah’s family climbed in and left the door open. Soon animals and birds and all and creeping creatures made their way to Noah’s ark two-by-two. Animals of different shapes and sizes entered the ark. Once all the animals were inside, God closed the door to the Ark. Soon it began to rain. The water poured out of the skies for forty days and forty nights. Noah’s ark rose higher and higher as the water lifted it right over the mountains. The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated. The water kept rising until all the high mountains were covered. Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died, including people, animals, creatures that move along the ground, and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah and those with him in the ark survived. The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days. But God did not forget His promise to Noah. When the forty days were over, He sent a wind over the earth. The rains had finally stopped. It took several more months before the land was dry. After forty days, Noah opened a window he had made in the ark and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth (Genesis 8:7). Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded. The dove could find nowhere to perch, so it returned to the ark. He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from Earth. He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him. Then God said to Noah, “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you so they can multiply on the earth.” (Genesis 8:16). So Noah came out with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives and all the animals. Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. As long as the Earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease. (Genesis 8:21). “I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the Earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the Earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.” The Bible tells us Noah lived 350 years after the flood and did not die until 42 years after the birth of Abraham. Shem lived 502 years after the flood and died when Jacob was approximately 50 years old.

LIFE LESSONS:

• Like Noah, we have to be obedient to God even when others around us are not.

• We have to persevere like Noah. He spent years building the ark even though His neighbors laughed at him.