What Does Jesus Have to Do with Noah’s Ark?

Does Jesus have anything to say about Noah’s ark? Yes! Jesus talked about the ark, Noah, and the flood in Matthew.

For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. (Matthew 24:38–39)

Jesus spoke of the global flood as a real, historical event that occurred and compared it to the coming judgment.

So we use our life-size Noah’s Ark at the Ark Encounter as a reminder that God’s Word is true and that Jesus Christ spoke of this as a real event. We also want to remind people that Jesus Christ is our Creator and our Lord and Savior; he died on the cross for our sins, rose again on the third day, and all who place their faith in him will be saved.

Why did we build our life-size Noah’s Ark? To remind people of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Jesus Is Our One Door to Salvation

When God told Noah to build the ark to survive the flood that he would send on an exceedingly wicked world, he also instructed Noah to put one door in the side of the ark.

And set the door of the ark in its side. (Genesis 6:16)

Noah and his family entered the ark through that one door to be saved from the watery judgment.

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.” . . . And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood. (Genesis 7:1, 7)

Noah and his family entering the ark through the door reminds us of the good news of Jesus Christ.

Just as God judged the world with the flood, he will judge it again. But the final judgment will be by fire. We have all sinned against our holy Creator and deserve the penalty of death. Unless God forgives us of our sins, we will be separated from him forever when we die, in what the Bible calls the second death (Revelation 20:14).

However, God has provided the means of salvation for us by sending his Son, Jesus Christ, to die as our substitute on the cross. Jesus endured the penalty for our sin and conquered death by rising from the grave. Everyone who asks for his forgiveness and trusts in him will be saved from the second death and live with him for eternity.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)

The ark’s door reminds us that we need to go through a door to be saved. Jesus Christ is our one door to salvation, the “ark” that saves us from God’s judgment forever.

Start planning your visit to the Ark Encounter today, and be sure to reflect on this truth as you stand in front of the enormous door.