Genesis 7:6 KJV 6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
According to Genesis 5: 32 of the Genealogy of Adam -32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
And we read now in Genesis 7: 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
100 Years- Keep in mind that based on these verses we can conclude that it took Noah close to 100 years to complete the building of the Ark.
Genesis 7:7-9 KJV 7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
God tells us the exact day when the flood of waters began on the earth.
Genesis 7:10-12. 10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Noah’s 600th year, 2nd month, 17th day “all the fountains of the great deep were broken up.”
The fountains of the great deep are channels through the crust and mantle of the original Earth through which water drained into the great deep.
Reminder: Day 3 of Creation, Genesis 1: 9-10 KJV 9 Then God said, 9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
These channels through the crust and mantle were broken up and used in the flooding of the Earth. Along with “the windows of heaven were opened,” torrential rain for 40 days and 40 nights.
Genesis 7:13-16 KJV 13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. 15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
In building the Ark, God told Noah to “set the door of the Ark in its side” (Genesis 6:16). The Ark had only one door to pass through to escape God’s grim judgment. By faith, Noah and his family entered the Ark. Once they were all inside, the Lord shut them in.
What is significant about God shutting the door of the Ark? It demonstrates the twin truths of man’s responsibility and God’s sovereignty that we see in Scripture.
After God shut the door, the time of judgment arrived. Only those who had entered through the doorway would be saved; no one else could enter. Noah and his family had to obey God’s command to build and then enter the Ark for salvation—but it was God who had commanded the Ark to be built as the means of Noah’s family being saved in this time of judgment.
The Ark pictures salvation in Jesus Christ, our “Ark” of salvation. Jesus said “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved” John 10:9