Noah ark windows

Likewise, the Salvation of God is real — and it is in fact a real means to give us light and life in the midst of a present evil world of darkness and death. You have read a different Bible than I have! There is no mention of a second window, period. A window in the side of the ark could not be sealed if it was meant to be opened. The ark was sealed within and without with pitch to make sure it was water proof.

As a symbol of the sealing of the believer by the Holy Spirit would mean that there is one way in though Christ and one way out, going up. There are not two ways to reach heaven. So sorry John, that you feel my Bible is different from yours. The first is found in chapter six:. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above ; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof;.

Thus, it means an over-head opening , or skylight. And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:. Notice that this is described as a window which Noah had made — through which he released and then retreived the dove.

Is this what you read in your Bible John? We are reading the same Bible — but I am also looking at the Hebrew words that were used, and I am deriving my understanding of the meanings of those words on the basis of how they are used in the rest of Scripture. The light is the word of God. Like Noah in the ark, it was upon him to determine how much illumination he wanted by controlling the window of the ark.

If you open your window widely, you will receive a great total light intensity which will shine to all corners of your house the body and no darkness will be found in you because light cannot dwell with darkness. After light shines in the whole house body , it is when it starts to radiate to others through you. You cannot radiate light preach or teach the word without you having enough light in yourself.

Sometimes the light inside becomes so little that it is insignificant. The more you allow the word in you the more illuminated you became, the more Christ-like Christian you be. We are in this time were two spirits are moving at the same time; the evil spirit and the Holy Spirit. The spirit of God is moving in the face of earth looking for a place to rest.

Also the raven evil spirit is moving in the face of earth feeding on everyone who is not of the Holy Spirit. Friday, January 14, Contact About. Sign in. Forgot your password? It seems likely that wild animals in general were not included. It is obvious, therefore, that we cannot calculate the number of animals preserved in the ark, or compare the space they would require with its recorded dimensions.

We may rest assured that there was accommodation for all that needed to be there. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary A window—probably a skylight, formed of some transparent substance unknown. Matthew Poole's Commentary A window, or a light; or lights, or windows; the singular number being put for the plural, which is most frequent: or it might be one great light or lantern, by which light might be derived and distributed into several rooms.

Shalt thou finish it above, i. The window, which was to be a cubit square. Or rather, 2. The ark; as appears, 1. From the gender of the Hebrew affix, which is feminine, and therefore agrees with the ark, which in the Hebrew is of the feminine gender, not with the window, which is masculine.

From the nature of the thing, the ark requiring a roof, and that sloping, that the rain might slide off from it, and not sink into it; for which end the roof in the middle was to be higher than the ark by a cubit.

And as the other parts of the ark were made with exquisite contrivance, so doubtless this was not defective therein. The highest story was for men and birds; the second for provision for the brute creatures; the lowest for the beasts, under which was the sink of the ark, which most probably was made sloping at the bottom, as all ships and boats are, where serpents and such like creatures might be put, with their proper provisions.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible A window shalt thou make to the ark, Or a "light", such as is that at noon, for which the word in the dual number is used; and therefore Junius and Tremellius translate it a "clear light". The Jewish writers s will have it to be a precious stone, a pearl which Noah fetched from the river Pison, and hung up in the ark, and it gave light to all the creatures, like a large chandelier; but a window no doubt it was to let light into the several apartments, and to look out at on occasion, since Noah is afterwards said to open it; but what it was made of is difficult to say, since it does not appear that as yet glass was invented.

Some think it was made of crystal, which would let in light, and keep off the water. How large this door was is not said; it is reasonably supposed w to be ten cubits high and eight broad, that there might be room enough for an elephant to enter in by it; and it seems it was so large, that Noah, and those with him, could not shut it, but it was done by the Lord, Genesis This ark was a type of the church of God.

As to the form and pattern of it, it was of God, so the separation of men from the world in a church state is of God; it is by his appointment, and it is his will, that when any numbers of men are converted in a place, that they should be incorporated together in a church state, the form of which is given by him, its officers appointed, and the laws and ordinances of it fixed by him: and as to the matter of it, "Gopher wood", a lasting and incorruptible wood, denoting the duration of the church; God ever had, and ever will have a church in the world: as to the parts of it, and rooms in it, the rooms may point at particular churches, of which there have been many; or may signify, that there is always room enough in the church of God to receive saints.

The ark had three stories in it, as the tabernacle and temple had three divisions, which were types of the same also; and may have respect to the visible church, consisting of believers and unbelievers, the invisible church, or general assembly of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven, and the church triumphant. The door into the ark may signify Christ, who, and faith in him, may be said to be the door into the church, and to all the ordinances of it: the window may either typify the glorious light of the Gospel, held forth in the church, or the ordinances of it, to which sensible souls betake themselves, as doves to their windows, Isaiah Into this ark not only Noah and his family, but creatures of all sorts were admitted, as sinners of all sorts called by grace, and become peaceable, are received into the church of God; yea, even good and bad have a place here, though the latter under the notion and character of the former, but are hypocrites in Zion: here also were plenty of provisions for all in it, as there are in the church of God fulness of spiritual provisions for all the people of God.

The ark was of the use of a ship, and was the means of saving a few men, even Noah and his family; so the church of God has the nature and use of a ship, of which Christ is the pilot, and conducts it through the sea of this world, in which it is often tossed with tempests, and distressed; but at last brought to its haven, in which a few are saved, not as the cause, which alone is Christ, but as the means.

Concerning the Ark, Genesis mentions windows only twice. The second reference is in Genesis How did Noah illuminate the Ark? An ancient Hebrew tradition says the tsohar was a very large pearl or gem that Noah hung in the rafters of the Ark, which powered itself and illuminated the Ark.

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