And so, the story continues. The Great Power tells Noah to take his family and board the barge, because Noah is the only righteous person on the earth. Can you hear the favoritism seeping through the story of whatever tribe first started telling it? And the Great Power tells Noah to take aboard seven pairs of every animal that was considered clean - like lambs, bulls, and oxen. Each pair had to consist of a male and female because how else was the earth going to repopulate after the Great Power wiped everything off the face of the planet? Noah was also instructed to take seven pairs of every unclean animal, like snakes, pigs, and horses, each pair consisting of male and female. And he did the same with all the birds. Then the Great Power told Noah that after one week, it was gonna rain for forty days and forty nights, essentially blotting out every life form from the face of the earth. Noah did everything he was instructed. He was this tribe's hero, and there's two things I want you to know. Noah represents the tribe leader, and his family represents the leader's tribe. Whoever came up with this story thought their tribe was the only righteous tribe on the planet.
The story continues and says that Noah was six hundred years old when the floods started coming. When Noah and his family saw this, they all entered the barge as fast as they could. And, having the same survival instinct as the humans, the animals ran aboard that barge as fast as they could as well. On February 17th, when Noah was 600, the underground water reservoirs burst open and water shot from the ground into the heavens. At the same time, the sky began dropping buckets of rain. This continued for forty days and nights just like the Great Power said it would.
The day that the ground shot water was the day that Noah and his family were spared, along with all the living creatures. The ark was considered the breath of life - the vehicle which the Great Power would use to save the "good tribe." After everyone and everything was aboard, the Great Power closed the door, putting the final stamp of approval on the work that the righteous Noah had done.
And over the next forty days, the water rose. The ark finally lifted off the ground when the water reached the top of the window, and the people could see that the water was increasing exponentially. Eventually, all the mountains were covered. Everything died, and they had a window to watch it all happen. Everything that used nostrils as the vehicle to salvation died off. The ark had replaced the nostrils as the breath of life during those forty days. So, this tribe's Great Power preserved them but killed off all their enemies, using water as the means of execution for 150 days.
This tribe was special, favored, and superior to the rest of the tribes. The gods were with them but not with anyone else. No one and nothing deserved to live, because they weren't righteous like said tribe.
Do you see the kind of prideful isolation that started happening within and without the first civilizations? I imagine that there were some great philosophers trying to figure out how it ended up that way. And the best they could do was come up with stories that helped explain why humanity was becoming so full of judgment and condemnation. Blame it on the fall of Adam and Eve because it makes sense. Their sins carried on throughout the generations, and if you were considered to be a direct ancestor of Adam, you had this special divine preservation to look forward to. You were one of a kind, and the gods favored you above any other type of human or animal.
And that's how it was back then. Although it was ugly and messy, people were advancing in thought and beliefs. They would have to go through the fire before they got the relief they needed, but they kept moving, kept progressing ever so slowly.
Today, our thoughts have advanced way past the mindset of self-preservation, even though you're seeing it play out right before your eyes. Just remember, that the Great Power that's got us here, brings rain on the just and the unjust. Our Great Power wants to preserve all of humanity, not just a few. So, in the upcoming days, weeks, months, and years, as you look upon the wars and feuds that are gonna happen, remember that our Great Power doesn't condone it or support it, but wants us to be different. Our Great Power wants us to seek way of peace, not violence; love, not hate; humility, not pride; and forgiveness, not resentment
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