upon the earth". Six is the number of man. Six days complete the week of work and lead

to the Sabbath. Noah enters the Ark in his 600th year and thereby signified that the end of

flesh had come. When were the waters dried up from the earth? "In the 601st year, in the

1st month, the 1st day of the month" (8: 13), this is the beginning of the seventh

hundred, the Sabbath rest of which Noah himself and his experiences were prophetic.

By the symbolism of the first seven days we are led to expect that the ages will lead

on to a Sabbath; we do know that the millennial kingdom will be for a thousand years,

and if we look upon the thousand years as being represented by a day, the six days of

earth's toil and man's sin will cover a period of six thousand years. The re-entry of Noah

into the world after the flood in the very dawn of the seventh century suggests the same

line of thought. The millennial kingdom is also called, "the Regeneration" (Matt. 19: 28),

and of this the flood and the renewed earth are a type. The days of Noah were also

prophetic of the coming of the Son of man (Matt. 24: 37). Everything points to the

flood as an epoch, and a type of the day of the Lord. Let us therefore, as we look at a few

of the details of this momentous judgment, continually look away from the type to the

great reality that is surely coming upon the world, plunged in darkness, heading for

perdition, yet deluded by the fallacy of "peace and safety".

We noticed in our last paper that although the corruption began in the days of Adam,

yet the height of iniquity was not reached until the days of Noah. After giving the names

of Noah's three sons, the record continues, "The earth also was corrupt before God, and

the earth was filled with violence". "The end of all flesh had come". Like Ezekiel's

reiterated "end" (Ezek. 7: 2, 3, 6) there was no more remedy, and no further extension.

For the preservation of Noah and his family (also of bird and beast) the building of the

Ark was commanded; an act of faith that must have drawn down ridicule and scoffing

upon the patriarch's head. There are suggestive parallels between this first structure here

commanded, and the tabernacle and temples of Solomon and Ezekiel that may be worth

the while of some of our readers to carefully work out. In the Ark, actual men, animals

and birds were preserved; in the Tabernacle and Temple, the cherubim shadowed forth

the same hope.

The destruction by the flood was utter and complete, the high hills "under the whole

heaven" were covered (7: 19), "the mountains were covered" (20).

The first act of Noah upon leaving the ark was to build an altar and offer unto the Lord

burnt offerings, "and the Lord smelled a savour of rest". Noah the man of rest, in his

sabbath century, with death and judgment passed away, looks out again upon the earth.

"I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake". Why? Because Noah and

his family were now sinless? No,