We're on a Boat!

Late start tonight. School's in full swing now and I kinda forgot.

[Genesis 7:1-4]
Interestingly, God is just now really telling Noah the plan. He told Noah to build the boat first, then later said it was because everyone was about to die except him. This just adds to the oddness of the situation and the faith it took Noah to build it. Building a boat when you know the whole world is about to flood is one thing; building a boat just because God said to is another thing entirely. Many times the direction God is leading seems strange, but there will often be a Eureka moment, either by finally seeing the consequences, or because God straight up says "oh, yeah, and this is why."

Also God amends the animal count a bit, saying that all the clean animals get 7 of each, as well as the birds. Presumably because there needed to be sacrifices afterwards and God knew He was about to lift the meat embargo so just two of everything wouldn't be enough to repopulate.

[5-16]

Noah does as commanded, and God does as promised. God doesn't do anything halfway, so it says that, in addition to rain, the "fountains of the great deep" and the "windows of heaven" contributed to the world-destruction effort. Creation scientists interpret this as tectonic movement breaking continental plates open (Possibly starting continental drift and breaking the world apart form a possibly Pangaea-like arrangement) and those who hold to the canopy theory say the canopy "broke" and all the moisture which made it up contributed to the rain. It had also presumably not rained at all until this point, so I imagine this was terrifying in all sorts of ways.
Also cool is the line "...and the Lord shut him in," possibly implying that God Himself closed the door on the ark, or just that God kept the water out and the ride safe. I've seen this verse used in Eternal Security arguments, but....yeah, I don't see it.

God held up His end of the bargain. If Noah had fudged on any of it (decided it didn't need to eb QUITE that big, or that he really didn't want to build a tall enough stall for a giraffe, or that he would wait on finishing the ark because he only had, like, 6 episodes left of Breaking Bad until he had Netflixed the whole thing) then the entire human race or a few species of animals could have been exterminated. And I imagine if Noah, the one guy who God saw fit to save, had fallen short, that God would not have had the patience to try another round of intelligent life and stuck with the angels and playing pool with the remaining planets or something.

Part of the reason I started doing this blog again was because I know God has gifted me with writing. I know that God has called me to write and that He has some plan for my writing talents. Having a scientific major and a busy schedule makes it easy to neglect this, and I have generally not been good about keeping this up. I want to make sure I step up the game here, because I have no idea what degree of consequence may rest on doing well in this respect.
Follow through on what God is telling you, because there could be global consequences you are currently unaware of.

[7:17-24]
...and everyone died. The end.
Really, not a whole lot to add here. Everyone but the people on the ark died. I imagine it took centuries for the smell to go away.