{"id":15526,"date":"2025-04-02T07:42:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T12:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15526"},"modified":"2025-04-08T07:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:46:25","slug":"noah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15526\/noah\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Good Morning!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I have a question: in Genesis chapter 5 it says Noah was 500 years old.\u00a0 Then, Noah was 600 years old when he went into the ark.\u00a0 Do you think it took 100 years to build the ark?\u00a0 100 years of people watching and laughing at him!\u00a0 Also, Noah did have ancestors that loved God! Enoch, Methuselah!\u00a0 We are studying about Noah with the girls!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sue<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">=========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hi Sue.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Yes, it appears that it took at least 100 years (see Gen. 6:3) for Noah (and, I assume, his son&#8217;s and possibly others) to build the ark.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I wonder sometimes if Noah hired men to help build the ark, who later died in the Flood.\u00a0 That puts the fear of God in me, knowing that we can work to forward the gospel, and then, as Paul said, &#8220;be a castaway&#8221;.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>God help us all to work and be found faithful in end!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tell us what you think:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1909588422710132791\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1909588422710132791<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning! I have a question: in Genesis chapter 5 it says Noah was 500 years old.\u00a0 Then, Noah was 600 years old when he went into the ark.\u00a0 Do you think it took 100 years to build the ark?\u00a0 100 years of people watching and laughing at him!\u00a0 Also, Noah did have ancestors that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15528,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15526\/revisions\/15528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}