“And on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark
came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.”
Genesis 8:4
After so long spent in a boating rocking along to the waves
and winds the ark has finally stopped.
Back in Genesis 7:11 it says that it was the 17th day of the
2nd month that the flood started.
So it looks like they have been in the ark for five months.
The boat has stopped, but that doesn’t mean that there is
any land visible yet. Perhaps this was
just a sign to Noah and his family that the waters are receding. They couldn’t see the mountains yet, but they
could feel from the movement of the ark that the bottom had sunk down low
enough to rest on ground of some sort.
Just as God rested on the 7th day of creation,
now the ark is resting on the 7th month. If the ark hadn’t been over the Ararat mountains
when the waters abated maybe it would have been longer before they hit ground
and it would have been a different month.
The pattern shows that first there is work to be done, (God
creating, Noah building and ark and caring for the animals and people loaded up
in it) and then there is a period of rest.
If you find yourself working hard now, don’t worry, your rest is coming.
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