Close Encounters of the Furry Kind...

An Invitation to check out God's wonderful creatures...

A few weeks ago i felt God telling me that i should come to Him, as a little child. This doesn't mean childish, but rather, in wonderment. 

So i asked Him to show me some fun things. Now, i can be quite a serious person, so things really need to be in my face when it comes to fun. Well, God has answered my prayer. Three possums in three days. One at our house and another two at a relative's house. 

Not only that, each possum has been up close and personal. We didn't try and pat them, as they're still wild creatures, but they hung around and were quite at ease in our presence.

Ask God to show you some fun things.

Did you know:

• That there were actually different amounts of animals that were taken on to the Ark in Noah's Day? Seven (7) of every clean animal (a male and his female), and two (2) of every unclean animal. Genesis 7:2

• Do you wonder how Noah and his family would have fed all of the animals for so long? Well, first of all it was an enormous ark. Secondly, the animals at that time, may still have eaten only green herb. Genesis 1:30. Third, God is God, and he provided manna for the Israelites in the wilderness for all of those years, so He could have quite easily replenished the food on board. Genesis 6:21.

• Do you wonder how all of the animals would have fitted? Well, like i said it was an enormous ark, but we need to remember that some of the animals could have been babies or even still in the egg stage. 

• Do you wonder how Noah came to have (get/collect) all of those animals? Well, God brought them to Noah. Genesis 6:20 tells us that God told Noah that these animals would come to him. Can you image waking up every morning and having more animals to get settled into the ark? It would have been quite a process! 

• Now to the last did you know. Did you know that there were actually more animals board the ark than most people believe? We often see pictures in books of the animals boarding the ark, 2 giraffes, 2 elephants, and so on. If we look closely at Genesis 7:2, we read, two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female, so we automatically assume two unclean animals of every type boarded the ark. However, if we look at the clean animals, we see an odd number.
  
  
  2 giraffes – male and female = (assumed as) 2 giraffes
  7 sheep – male and female = how many sheep? I’d say 14.
  14 actual sheep are actually counted as 7 sheep, because the female is automatically counted as a part of the male – they become one. Genesis 2:24
  
  
  Therefore I believe that 4 giraffes boarded Noah’s Ark – 2 males and their females.  

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