Way back when a population explosion took place upon the face of the earth (Genesis 6:1), and mankind was rotten to the core (verse 11), Noah was the only person conducting his affairs according to the will of God (verse 9).  Alarming?  Not until you realize that at the end time of this world in which the majority of the population profess Christianity, only two individuals shall be witnessing before Yahweh, the Almighty God of Israel (Zechariah 4:3, 11-14; Revelation 11:3-6).

Think: Whom on earth is Christianity testifying before?

At that time, those vicious depraved people who directed their lives totally towards evil (Genesis 6:5), were not only involved with the spiritual world, they were sexually active as well (vv 1-4); and while the crime rate was rapidly rising across the earth, they were at ease, going about their daily business as usual (Matthew 24:37-38; Luke 17:26-28), which broke the heart of God who created them (v 7).

Tip: The world is moving backwards into the future very fast, biblically!

Now when the Lord decided to destroy every living thing He had created from the face of the earth with a flood (vv 7, 12-13, 17), He gave Noah specific instructions on how to build an Ark that would carry him to safety along with his wife, his three sons and their wives, one pair of each unclean animal, and seven of every clean one.  Noah did exactly as the Lord commanded him (vv 14-22), and entered the ship (7:1-9).

NOTE: If Noah did not WORK hard at building the Ark, strong as it was, his FAITH would not have kept him afloat.

One week after, mighty torrents from the sky, and subterranean waters from the ground began to lift the Ark higher and higher, until 150 days later, it came to rest safely upon the mountains of Ararat, indicating that the flood was receding (7:10-12, 17; 8:3-4).  To check how much, Noah released a raven and a dove.  Being an unclean bird, the raven kept flying back and forth (wavering) from the Ark to feed on floating carcasses, which proved it unreliable, but the dove came back, as clean fowl do not alight on decaying flesh.  When upon her second release she came back with an olive branch in her mouth, Noah knew that the waters were almost gone.  Only when later she did not show up at all, he trusted that they were (verses 6-13).  Nevertheless, Noah did not come out of the Ark before he heard the voice of the Almighty commanding him to (v 15).

Mditate: The regions this 'for the birds' story can fly you to, are limitless.

After disembarking, Noah buit an altar upon which he offered burnt sacrifices unto the Lord of Hosts, of every clean animal and bird designated for that purpose (8:20-21).  Pleased, Almighty God blessed him and his sons, and asked them to go repopulate the earth.  After giving them laws to abide by, Yahweh established a covenant with them, their descendants after them, and with the animals that were brought out of the boat, promising to never again destroy the eath with a flood (9:1, 8-11).  To seal that covenant until the end of time, the Lord placed His rainbow in the clouds as a constant reminder (vv 12-17).

Ponder: What is more attainable to you; the pot of gold that is at the end of the rainbow, or the mercy of God?

Noah became a farmer and planted a vineyard.  One day after drinking too much wine, he intoxicatedly went into his tent and slept naked.  Seeing him like that, Ham went and told his brothers who walked backwards into the tent and covered their father.  When Noah awoke from his stupor and learnt what had happened, he cursed Ham's descendants saying: "Cursed be Canaan (the son of Ham) for he shall be a slave of slaves to the descendants of Shem and Japheth; Blessed be Shem, and blessed be Japheth who shall dwell in the tents of Shem" (Genesis 9:25-27), as sharing his prosperity or occupying his territory);  and so it was to this day.  Noah died at the age of 950 years.

Fact: Shem is the father of the Arabs and the Jews who are of the Caucasian (white) race as are the Europeans and Americans.  As for Japheth, some sources believe him to be the ancestor ot the peoples who dwelt in the regions of Anatolia and the Aegean (Greece and Asia Minor), while others say that he is the father of those who occupied the land of Magog which is often identified with the ancient region of Scythis that streched from the west of the Danube to the eastern borders of China (The Russian Block), and even to China itself and the rest of the countries considered to be of the Mongoloid (yellow) race.  Ham was the father of the Canaanites who occupied the land of Canaan.

Noah's cursedid come to pass when the Canaanites were enslaved by the Israelites (Shem's descendants) after the Exodus, and his blessings are still in effect to this day.  If we are to believe that Japheth is the father of the Greeks and Turks, both Greece and Turkey (the Grecian and Ottoman empires) dwelt in the tents of Shem and shared his prosperity;  but if on the other hand he is the father of the Russians, Chinese, and the rest of the Mongoloids, their nations are competing economically and militarily with the Americans (Shem's descendants) at this very moment.