What is th Noahs ark a symbol of?

Answer 1

Washing away the old to prepare for the new.

Another answer:

Noah's ark is a symbol of God's salvation. The way of salvation is provided by God.

The ark is a picture of Christ.

Also in the story we see God's wrath against sinners but also His grace and patience in seeking to draw all men to repentance. God's sovereignty is shown in His control over creation.

In God's instructions to Noah about how to build the ark we see His precise communication regarding His one way of salvation.

The water symbolizes God's judgment, the flood was universal, God's coming judgment will be universal

Answer 2

There is no symbol attached to the Ark, but I might suggest that it could mean Obedience, Safety, Family togetherness, Trust in the Lord. Righteousness. No doubt there are a few others that could be classed as the Ark as having some symbolic meaning.

Noah's ark is a symbol of God's salvation.The way of salvation is provided by God.

The ark is a picture of Christ.

Answer 3

Jesus Christ!

Matthew Henry says:

"...This call to Noah reminds us of the call the gospel gives to poor sinners. CHRIST IS AN ARK, in whom we alone we can be safe, when death and judgment approach. The Word says, 'Come;' ministers say, 'Come;' the Spirit says, 'Come, come into the Ark.' Noah was accounted righteous, not for his own righteousness, but as an heir of the Righteousness which is by Faith, Heb. xi. 7...

"...The ravenous creatures were made mild and manageable; yet, when this occasion was over, they were of the same kind as before; for the ark did not alter their natures. Hypocrites in the church, who outwardly conform to the Laws of the Ark, are yet unchanged; and it will appear, one time or other, what kind they are after. God continued His care of Noah. God shut the door, to secure him and keep him safe in the ark; also to keep all others for ever out. In what manner was this done, God has not been pleased to make known.

"There is much of our gospel duty and privilege to be seen in Noah's safety in the ark. The apostle makes it a type of Christian baptism, I Pet. iii 20, 21. Observe then, it is our great duty, in obedience to the gospel call, by a Lively Faith in Christ, to come into that way of salvation which God has provided for poor sinners. Those who come into the Ark, should bring as many as they can with them, by good instructions, by persuasions, and by good examples. There is room enough in Christ for all comers. God put Adam into Paradise, but did not shut him in, so he threw himself out; but when God put Noah into the ark, and so when He brings a soul to Christ, the Salvation is sure; it is not of our own keeping, but in the Mediator's hand. But the door of Mercy will shortly be shut against those that now make light of it. Knock now, and it shall be opened, Luke xiii. 25.

"The flood was increasing forty days. The waters rose so high, that the tops of the highest mountains were overflowed more than twenty feet. There is no place on earth so high as to set men out of reach of God's Judgments. God's hand will find out all His enemies, Psa. xxi. 8. When the flood thus increased, Noah's ark was lifted up, and the waters which broke down every thing else, bore up the ark. That which to unbelievers betokens death unto death, to the Faithful betokens Life unto Life.

"All the men, women, and children, that were in the world, excepting those in the ark, died. We may easily imagine what terror seized them. Our Saviour tells us, that till the very day that the flood came, they were eating and drinking, Luke xvii. 26, 27; they were deaf and blind to all Divine warnings. In this posture death surprised them. They were convinced of their folly when it was too late. We may suppose they tried all the ways and means possible to save themselves, but all in vain. And those that are not found in Christ, THE ARK, are certainly undone, undone for ever.

"Let us pause, and consider this tremendous Judgment! Who can stand before the LORD when He is angry? The sin of sinners will be their ruin, first or last, if not repented of. The Righteous God knows how to bring ruin upon the world of the ungodly, 2 Pet. ii. 5. How tremendous will be the Day of Judgment and perdition of ungodly men! Happy are they who are part of Christ's family, and safe with Him as such; they may look forward without dismay, and rejoice that they shall triumph, when the fire shall burn up the earth, and all that therein is. We are apt to suppose some favorable distinctions in our own case or character; but if we neglect, refuse, or abuse the Salvation of Christ, we shall , notwithstanding such fancied advantages, be destroyed in the common ruin of an unbelieving world." (Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary: Genesis 7)

Answer 4

A symbol is used to represent something that can't be seen by something that can. Noah's ark is a symbol of the preservation of the righteous from all dangers. The righteous are those who respect God and obey divine laws.

Noah's ark is a symbol of God's salvation. The way of salvation is provided by God.

The ark is a picture of Christ.

Also in the story we see God's wrath against sinners but also His grace and patience in seeking to draw all men to repentance. God's sovereignty is shown in His control over creation.

In God's instructions to Noah about how to build the ark we see His precise communication regarding His one way of salvation.

Answer 5

ARK - Act of Random Kindness

God wanted to make the word better, how do you make the word better? One Act of Random Kindness at a time.

Noahs Ark was a story not to be taken literally but to be taken as an example that God wishes us to remain together through thick and thin and to work to accomplish something (the building of the ark) and that by doing this we can save ourselves from our destruction (the great "flood").

Answer 6

A washing and a cleansing....death to the old way of life and renewal into a potentially new way of life

Answer 7

In the Flood, the water symbolizes purification (like the waters of ritual immersion), and rebirth (like the waters of the amniotic sac).

Answer 8

If we choose to look at the biblical Flood story symbolically rather than literally, we can think of it as symbolising destruction and renewal.

Answer 9

nothing, duuuhh