Good & Evil Animation Clip 2 - Noah

Transcription

[music]

[background music]

Narrator:  God told Noah how big the boat must be to hold every air-breathing creature on the earth, along with the food they would eat. It made Noah sad to think of everyone perishing in the coming flood, so at every chance he warned them to stop sinning.

[background music] [crowd talking in background]

Noah:  I am telling you one last time; God is going to destroy the world with a great flood. You must believe me and join me on the boat.

Man 1:  Why would a loving God destroy his children?

Noah:  Because of sin. You must stop sinning and treat your neighbor with love and justice.

Man 2:  You old fool! [background music continues]

Narrator:  120 years later, when the boat was finished, God caused animals to come to Noah from all over the world. [animals marching in background]

Man 1:  Look! Here come more animals. They come on their own like someone is calling them.

Man 2:  Some are so strange looking. I didn't know such animals existed. Do you think there could be anything to what Noah says about God sending a flood?

Man 1:  Not a chance. Where could you get enough water to flood the entire earth?

Noah:  There's not much room left.

Man 3:  This is the last of them.

God:  Noah, it is time. Come into the boat with all of your family and the animals. It will soon be too late for all of those who refused to stop sinning.

[huge door closing]

Narrator:  God shuts the door to the boat and for seven days nothing happened.

[laughter from crowd]

Man 1:  Ha ha, look at the fools, shut up in a big boat with all those animals in the middle of the dry plain, miles from any water.

Man 2:  Yeah, I bet the lions have eaten them by now.

Man 3:  They've been in there a week!

[background music continues] [heavy rainfall] [thunder crashing]

Narrator:  But on the seventh day it began to rain. And water stored deep in the earth came to the surface.

Man 4:  I have never seen anything like this. Do you think the crazy people in the boat could be right about God wanting to kill everybody for their sins?

Man 1:  Don't be ridiculous. God is love. How could one man be right and all our religious leaders be wrong?

Narrator:  Before this time, it had never rained. The weather was always nice, and a mist came up from the earth to water the ground. No one had ever seen or heard of rain, so many people thought Noah was crazy for thinking water was going to fall from the sky. But Noah believed what God said.

Man 4:  I should have listened to Noah. What a fool I've been.

[baby crying] [heavy rainfall] [background music continues]

Woman 1:  God, save my baby!

Narrator:  By the time the people realized Noah had been telling the truth, it was too late. It rained 40 days and nights, until the water covered every mountain on the whole earth. Every living soul that breathed air died, except those that were in the boat with Noah. It would be more than a year before they would leave the boat.

[water splashing on side of boat] [background music stops]

Woman 2:  I'll be glad when the water goes down and we can leave this boat.

Narrator:  Finally, Noah released a dove and it came back with a branch in its mouth, which meant that somewhere there was a tree already growing. Later he again released it, and that time it did not come back, which meant it had found a good place to live. Before long the boat settled on a mountaintop called Ararat. Everyone came out to a new world, a world without sin.

Noah built an altar and offered animal sacrifices to God. Though Noah was a just man, there was still sin in his heart. These blood sacrifices were offered to God in substitution for the lives of Noah and all his family.

The animals represented the eight who should have died in the flood, but were spared by the grace of God. It was something like what God did in the garden when he killed animals to make coverings for Adam and Eve.

God:  I will give you a rainbow in the sky as a reminder that I will never again destroy the earth with water.

[music]