seekeroftruth
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Genesis 8:1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. 2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. 3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, 4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
This comes from the blueletterbible.org site.
In a sense, Mount Ararat was not a very "smart" place to leave the ark. Leaving the ark at a high altitude and mountainous terrain meant a difficult departure for everyone and everything in the ark.
However, if God's purpose was to put the ark in a place where it might be preserved for thousands of years, He chose an excellent place for it.
However, if God's purpose was to put the ark in a place where it might be preserved for thousands of years, He chose an excellent place for it.
I found this statement in the easy English commentary.
The waters were going down all the time. But at first, Noah could not see this. Noah was only able to see this after several weeks passed. God does things to help us. But he is often doing them for a long time before we know it
