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God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water. And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you—not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him. • The ark had one door (Genesis 6:16); Jesus claimed to be "the door" to salvation (John 10:9). • God invited Noah to come into the ark (Genesis 7:1); Jesus said, "Come to me, all you that are weary" (Matthew 11:28). • The ark was made of wood (Genesis 6:14) just as the cross was. • Because God saved him, Noah "remained alive" (Genesis 7:23); Jesus gives us eternal life (John 10:28). • In type the rain that fell was God’s wrath on a sinful world. It fell on the ark, not on those in the ark, in the same way that God’s wrath fell on Jesus on the cross and not on us.
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