![]() ![]() ![]() While the Bible does not say where Noah lived before the flood it tells us that the Ark landed somewhere in the mountains of Ararat (modern day Turkey) after the flood. We can see it would have been extremely difficult to live righteously in this corrupt environment. As a holy and righteous God, God could not tolerate this kind of behavior. It was so evil God grieved in His heart and felt regret and remorse at man’s pitiful condition. The world had descended into a cess pot of evil and filth. There were no Scriptures, prophets, or the church to act as restraints. See that “every intent of the thoughts of his heart was evil continually.” There was no break from sin. But by and large humans were living under the influence of demons and rebelling against God. Here and there a righteous person would pop up such as Seth, Enoch, and Noah. The result was people acted according to what was right in their own eyes. There were no human governments, or at least limited ones, to act as restraints towards sin. Murderers like Lamech apparently went unpunished. There was a heavy demonic influence that tainted and twisted God’s natural order. Genesis 6:1-8 tells us the condition of the world at the time of Noah. When and where he lived: Noah lived in the pre-flood era, also known as the dispensation of conscience. In Noah’s own family, he had three sons, each of which had married by the time the ark was built and launched. At this point about 8 of the generations from Adam to Noah would have still been alive at the same time. ![]() Adam lived about 800 years after he had his first son, so Noah was actually born only 200 years after Adam died. Noah was born 1046 years after Adam had his first son. His great-grandfather was Enoch, who was a righteous man, so righteous that God took him straight to heaven without having to face death like Elijah. His grandfather was Methusaleh, who lived longer than anyone in recorded history. His father was Lamech (a different Lamech than the murderer in Genesis 4:19-24). Ancestry and family life: Noah was the tenth of the pre-flood patriarchs. ![]()
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