Flood of Judgement and Deliverance of Grace

Genesis 7:1-12

1 Then the Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation. 2 You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female; 3 also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep the species alive on the face of all the earth. 4 For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.” 5 And Noah did according to all that the Lord commanded him. 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth. 7 So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth, 9 two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

After God made the unbreakable agreement (covenant) with Noah and tasked him to build the boat to escape judgement on the world, God called him and his family onboard.  God saw Noah as righteous among those alive at that time, and so was called out of them and into the grace of deliverance from death.  He took seven of some animals and two of others, not just the traditional two by two we may have been taught.  God had a purpose and a plan for them all.  They were given seven days warning before getting a continuous deluge of rain for forty days where God would ensure that the earth was wiped clean before starting to fill the earth again with Noah’s better stock outside of Cain’s lineage.  Then the rains came when Noah was 600 years old, and it would be 371 days before the waters receded and the land was dry enough to walk on again (Genesis 7:11, 8:14).  God held to His covenant as always, and judgement was executed on all but those few whom His grace was given, just as it is now in Christ (1 Peter 3:20-21).