{"id":3519,"date":"2010-04-27T16:09:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T21:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2025-04-13T04:57:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T09:57:37","slug":"finding-noahs-ark-will-prove-bible-prophecy-but-scoffers-will-remai-willingly-ignorant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/finding-noahs-ark-will-prove-bible-prophecy-but-scoffers-will-remai-willingly-ignorant.html","title":{"rendered":"Finding Noah’s Ark proves Bible prophecy but scoffers remain willingly ignorant"},"content":{"rendered":"

The claim that Noah’s Ark was found <\/strong>is being picked up by some of the major news outlets today. The article was on both Fox News and Drudge. I suppose the liberal news will either not cover it or they will make a big deal about the tiny doubt that still remains that this is really Noah’s Ark. I am sure the biblical concept of a ship near the top of a mountain as a result of a flood will make their eyes roll if they are ever told to report it.<\/p>\n

I do not know if this will turn out to be the real deal or not. These claims have been made several times before. So we have to be careful here but it looks to me like it is the Ark. The wood structure was found on Mount Ararat where the Bible says it rested and it is at 13,000 feet. The artifacts at the site were carbon dated to be 4800 years old so it all fits. The Christian explorers say there is a 99.9 percent probability that this is Noah’s Ark and after further examination by the experts I suppose it will be proven. Nevertheless, even if it is proven will the world still choose to disbelieve and remain willingly ignorant about the great flood and the coming judgment?<\/p>\n

I think 2 Peter Chapter 3 gives us the answer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

3\u00a0 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers<\/strong>, walking after their own lusts,
\n4\u00a0 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
\n5\u00a0 For this they willingly are ignorant <\/strong>of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
\n6\u00a0 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:<\/strong>
\n7\u00a0 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A key point of this book from Peter is to warn the Church that there would be ungodly counterfeit false teachers among them walking after their own lusts leading others astray in the last days. Notice that in this passage it is talking about last days scoffers that will scoff about any literal judgment and any literal\u00a0 promise about a second coming of Christ.<\/strong> Do we hear that in the mainline liberal and emergent churches of today? I think that view is gaining ground rapidly.<\/p>\n

I do not think the mention of the flood in this passage is by accident. I think there is plenty of proof out there already that there was a world wide flood. The flood is in the record of many ancient world cultures and there is evidence that\u00a0 most earth land masses were under water. Finding Noah’s Ark will be icing on the cake. Nonetheless, the willingly ignorant will continue to dismiss the facts simply because they choose not to believe.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have previously taught that Noah’s Ark would be found prior to the tribulation as a witnesses to the world because of what is written in this passage. Even the petrified stones of the boat will cry out the truth to the world before the end comes. The whole earth was judged in history with water because of man’s evil, and all Bible prophecy about a future judgment of fire on all who love evil will come to pass just as God said through His prophets.<\/p>\n

If this is Noah’s Ark, it is one less of the very few remaining things that I think still need to be fulfilled<\/strong><\/a> before the tribulation begins.<\/p>\n

It is also interesting that the artifacts tested to be 4,800 years old or from about 2790 BC<\/strong>. That is about 500 years older and earlier than a literal Masoretic Text dating if it is tallied without any gaps. The 2790 BC date agrees more with the earlier dating of the flood from the Septuagint and by the ancient Jewish historian Josephus. This is important because if the flood actually occurred several hundred years earlier than most fundamentalists claim, some valid arguments from archaeologists about known civilizations prior to 2300 BC would vanish as arguments against the universal flood.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see how the unbelieving world will spin a huge ship found at 13,000 ft. They probably will say Mt Arafat was only a hill in biblical days or that a wind storm blew it up the mountain. Or maybe they will claim the ship evolved from Big Foot’s walking stick. More likely they just will willingly ignore that God once judged the world with a flood and I think this is what Peter implies in his prophecy. The ungodly will choose to ignore the fact that God dealt with evil on earth once before with a flood and He promises to judge ungodly men on earth once again at the end of the age by fire.<\/p>\n

Update <\/strong>– After the report made nation news other Ark hunters claimed that this is a fraud.<\/a><\/strong> Of course they would have to claim that in order to keep receiving funds for their own expeditions. In time this latest claim of finding the Ark will either be proved or disproved.\u00a0 Whatever the truth about this latest claim, I still think the real Noah’s Ark will be found and documented before the end comes.<\/p>\n

More interesting background information on this story, the flood and the hunt for Noah’s Ark.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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