A Presentation of the New Testament History of Noah's Ark

The OT speaks of the historical reality of Noah's Ark.  It makes the issue clear: that is, it was a global flood.  There was a man named Noah who built himself an ark to stay afloat in the middle of the greatest catastrophe in human civilization.  There are many cultures around the world that speak of the global flood of Noah. 

We ought to remember that Noah was a righteous man.  He was a righteous man like man become righteous today; that is, it is through the righteousness of Another that we are declared and accounted as righteous by faith and trust.  The NT speaks of the days of Noah; that is, the days of Noah were wicked days that forsook the righteousness of the Almighty and embraced idolatry in utter abandonment to wickedness and corruption. 

There was none righteous but Noah's family.  Jesus of Nazareth speaks of the historical nature of Noah and compares Noah's days like that of Himself.  The people engage in the same wicked behavior.  The flood has no efficacious worth unless God's sanctifies it through His gospel grace.  Noah's family escaped the condemnation of the world through the righteousness of Messiah by faith alone.  Noah's family was saved by water; that is, they were rescued from the condemnation of the world.  Christians today are saved by the washing of rebirth in regeneration; that is, we are born again by the Word and the Spirit. 

The flood came to condemn the world, but Jesus of Nazareth comes to set the world free.  The flood came to destroy mankind, but Jesus of Nazareth came to help the sons and daughters of Noah.  We all ought to be a preacher of righteousness like Noah.  This is a testimony to the walk and talk of Noah.  He lived the gospel out and spoke the divine Word of the gospel.  No one listened to what he said save his family of eight.  Sometimes we fall short of God's divine message; however, we ought to seek to repent and live afresh. 

Matthew 24:37 
But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 
Luke 17:27 
They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 
Hebrews 11:7 
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. 
1 Peter 3:20
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. 
2 Peter 2:5 
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;