Resting on the Resurrection

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It’s amazing how Christ will show up in what seems to be the most unlikely places in the Bible! I was working through Genesis 8 recently, and I discovered this comment from Dr. Henry Morris concerning Genesis 8:4—

This “resting” of the ark, after protecting its precious cargo against the terrible cataclysm for five long months, occurred exactly 150 days after the Flood began. It may be significant that on the anniversary of this date many years later, Jesus Christ rose from the dead. The seventh month of the civil year used by the Jews (almost certainly the calendar used in the Flood narrative) was later set as the first month of their religious year. The Passover was on the fourteenth day of the first month, and Christ rose three days after the Passover. Thus, He “rested” in Joseph’s tomb and then rose from the dead on the seventeenth day of the seventh month of the civil calendar.

The Ark had gone through the most catastrophic event ever to occur upon the earth, and the day that it at last “rested” became the day of Resurrection so many years later. Likewise, our world went through such a season of darkness and unrest, and the Day of Victory began on that wonderful Easter morning. Our entire lives and faith needs to “rest” on this critical moment, just like the Ark foreshadowed this thousands of years earlier.

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