When our girls were young I taught Vacation Bible School, children’s Sunday School, worked in children’s church, and in a bus ministry. I didn’t think I had the gift of teaching nor did it always work out well with my work schedule, but I saw a need and stepped out in faith. God did more than just make it work out with my schedule; He blessed me many times over and above what I could have imagined. Preparing Bible lessons, teaching children, and singing children’s Bible songs helped me grow in my faith as well.

Several of the young children’s songs we sang at VBS and Sunday School have stuck in my mind over the years, including the hand motions! One song I remember was about Noah and the Ark:

A rat-a-tat-tat and a thump, thump, thump! Noah built a great big ark! 

A rat-a-tat-tat and a thump, thump, thump! For his family to embark! 

Get all aboard! it’s going to rain!

Here come the cows; moo, moo, moo!

(Chorus)

Get all aboard! it’s going to rain!

Here come the ducks; quack, quack, quack!

(Chorus)

Get all aboard! it’s going to rain!

Here come the pigs; oink, oink, oink!

Get all aboard; it’s going to rain! 

Here come the animals, two by two. 

Note: You can add as many animals as you want! 

In Genesis 1-11, in the Bible tells us of God’s amazing creation story as well as the flood. Amazingly, both of these events encompassed the entire world.

To be clear, I believe that everything in the Bible is true, including the creation story, Noah and the Ark, and the flood.

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 2 Timothy 3:16

I also believe that the creation and the flood were global events, just as the Second Coming of Christ and the Judgement will be global events. 

Jesus spoke clearly about the connection of both the creation and the flood with the coming Judgment in the New Testament: 

For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Matthew 24:37-39

But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ Mark 10:6

So that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation. Luke 11:50-51

But on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all. So will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed. Luke 27:29-30

And he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. Luke 17:22 

Paul also spoke of the connection between the creation and the flood with the coming Judgment in the New Testament: 

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. Romans 5:12, 14

For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 1 Corinthians 15:21-22

For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. 1 Corinthians 11:8-9

But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. 2 Corinthians 11:3 

Peter, as well, spoke of the connection between the creation and the flood with the coming Judgment in the New Testament:

If he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly. 2 Peter 2:5 

For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. 2 Peter 3:5-6 

Jesus will return one day to judge all mankind, the living and the dead: 

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” Matthew 25:41, 46

The Bible story of Noah and the Ark, and the children’s Bible song noted above, warns that in order to escape the fate of non-believers in the coming Judgement, that we need to “Get all aboard,” i.e., turn from sin, turn to Christ, receive Him as our Lord and Savior, and to do this before it’s too late. 

The Bible explains, no less than six times, that the Lord’s return will appear suddenly, like a thief in the night: 

For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 1 Thessalonians 5:2 

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Matthew 24:43 

But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into. Luke 12:39 

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed. 2 Peter 3:10 

Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you. Revelation 3:3 

“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed! Revelation 16:15

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