God closed the door of the ark for us. Soon, it started raining and pouring.
But space-suited theatrics and Noah’s ark overtones aside, Biosphere 2 was still the world’s most ambitious test tube.
These days Shute and Rakes find themselves not justcapturing fish to bring aboard the ark but tracking the progress offish they have already returned to the wild.
And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.
"and when they got up early on the morning after, Dagon had come down to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord; and his head and his hands were broken off on the doorstep; only the base was in its place."
So they moved the ark of the God of Israel.
In Deuteronomy we read that it will be deposited for safekeeping in a special ark.
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family.
"and they sent men to the people living in Kiriath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have sent back the ark of the Lord; come and take it up to your country."
"and David went up, with all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-jearim in Judah, to get up from there the ark of God, over which the holy Name is named, the name of the Lord whose place is between the winged ones."
While Noah's ark found in Turkey would bolster Bible literalists, an American ark-hunter says the latest discovery could be a hoax.
God isn't finished with you, either, so keep moving forward. Even the snail reached the ark by persevering!
"and the people of Beth-shemesh were cutting their grain in the valley, and lifting up their eyes they saw the ark and were full of joy when they saw it."
So they sent the ark of God to Ekron.
He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
He said to the Levites, who instructed all Israel and who had been consecrated to the Lord : 'Put the sacred ark in the temple that Solomon son of David king of Israel built.
The ark of God was captured, and Eli's two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.
When Noah and his family stepped off the ark, they spoke a single language that was passed on to their offspring.
Arise, LORD, come to your resting place, you and your majestic ark.
Noah had his ark, did he not?
"Then Joshua, in great grief, went down on the earth before the ark of the Lord till the evening, and all the chiefs of Israel with him, and they put dust on their heads."
The ark itself contained the tablets of the covenant.
And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.
And the ark of the LORD continued in the house of Obededom the Gittite three months: and the LORD blessed Obededom, and all his household.
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