The Message of Mount Ararat

In the first book of the Bible, Genesis, we read of a worldwide Flood that God sent in judgment for the sin of all mankind. We also read that He instructed a man, Noah, to build an ark of safety that would protect people, animals, and birds during this catastrophe. After the Flood, the Bible says that the ark came to rest “upon the mountains of Ararat.” It is no doubt that the finding of the actual ark would be the archaeological discovery of all time! Interesting artifacts have been found on Ararat, such as a 5’ hand-hewn piece of wood encased in ice, 300 miles from a forest! Intriguing “wood-like” rock formations have been discovered, but these are inconclusive. While the verbal accounts and findings may be supporting evidences for the Flood and the ark, nothing yet has been produced that conclusively proves that Noah’s ark exists today. However, in recent months, Dr. Randall Price of World of the Bible Ministries claims to have located what he says is a large, box-shaped structure deep under the ice on Mt. Ararat! (See www.WorldoftheBible.com/news.htm for more.) If such a proof is never found, would it disprove the Bible? Not at all, for a global event such as Noah’s Flood is clearly evidenced worldwide in the fossils, canyons, and rock layers that are seen. The main question regarding Ararat and the Flood is:

Did Jesus lie when He said that Noah existed and that the Flood happened?

“They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.” (Luke 17:27)

Jesus also used the Flood as a springboard to future judgment:

“And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.” (Matthew 24:39)

The Book of Peter also mentions the Flood, and he used it to speak of future judgment:

“For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the Word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:” (2 Peter 3:5-6)

“But the heavens and the earth, which are now…reserved unto fire against the day of judgment.” (2 Peter 3:7)

If both Jesus and Peter used this past judgment of God as a springboard to the future, should not we do the same? There was one door in the ark of Noah; likewise, there is only one door of salvation from the future judgment of man’s sin: the fire of an eternal hell. Not only did Jesus speak of an actual Noah and the Flood, but He also spoke of a literal hell and said that He is the only way to heaven:

“I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by Me.” (John 14:6)

Have you believed on the LORD Jesus? Have you entered the Door of the ultimate Ark of Safety from the judgment of hell, trusting solely His work on the Cross?