ANGELS OF HEAVEN (Book Series 1)

The Great Flood (Part 2)

God anger was reduced, he could not find sin on the earth anymore, all he could see was righteousness. Righteousness? God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the earth and the floodwaters began to recide. The underground stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped. So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150 days, exactly five months from the time the flood began, the boat came to rest on the mountains of a place called Ararat. Two and a half months later, as the waters continued to go down, other mountain peaks became visible.

Noah asked his son, Shem, to record as the days go by and if its clicked fortieth day he should come to him and let him know. "Father, Its forty days since the flood."

God promised that the rain would take forty days and forty nights, Noah stood by God's word so has he Shem told him it was already forty days, he quickly opened the window he had made in the boat and released a raven. The bird flew back and forth until the floodwaters on the earth had dried up. He also sent a dove to see if the water had receded and it could find dry ground. But the dove could find find no place to land because the water still covered the ground. So it returned to the boat, and Noah held out his hand and drew the dove back inside. After waiting another seven days, Noah released the dove again. This time it did not come back.

Noah was 601 years old. On the first day of the new year, ten and half months after the flood began, the floodwater had almost dried up from the earth. Noah lifted back the covering of the boat and saw that the surface of the ground was drying which made him happy and praise God for sparing his life and also his families. Two more months went by, and at last the earth was dry!

God saw that Noah knew that the earth was dry and he also saw that Noah's faith, he was waiting for God who told him to go in the boat before the flood to come out. "Leave the boat, all of you--you and your wife, and your sons and their wives. Release all the animals--the birds, the livestock, and the small animals that scurry along the ground--so they can be fruitful and multiply throughout the earth."

So Noah, his wife, and sons and their wives left the boat. And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair, just as they went in.

Then Noah built an alter to the Lord, and there he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and birds that had being approved for that purpose. And the Lord was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice and said to himself "I will never again curse the ground because of the human race, even though everything they think or imagine is bent evil from childhood. I will never again destroy all living things. As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.

The Angels heard God say and they all sang in unity "The words of God remains forever, his words are power. Praise him everyday."