About the book:
Experience the story of the great flood as you never have before
Zara and Noah have walked together with the Creator for their entire lives. They have done their best in an increasingly wicked and defiant world to raise their three sons to follow in their footsteps. It has been a challenge--and it's about to get much, much harder.
When the Creator tells her husband to build an ark to escape the coming wrath against the sins of humankind, Zara steps out with him in faith. But the derision and sabotage directed their way from both friends and extended family are difficult to bear, as is knowing that everyone she interacts with beyond her husband, her sons, and their wives is doomed to destruction.
When the ark is finally finished and the animals have been shut up inside, Zara and her family embark on an adventure that will test their patience and their faith as they await deliverance and dry ground.
Zara and Noah have walked together with the Creator for their entire lives. They have done their best in an increasingly wicked and defiant world to raise their three sons to follow in their footsteps. It has been a challenge--and it's about to get much, much harder.
When the Creator tells her husband to build an ark to escape the coming wrath against the sins of humankind, Zara steps out with him in faith. But the derision and sabotage directed their way from both friends and extended family are difficult to bear, as is knowing that everyone she interacts with beyond her husband, her sons, and their wives is doomed to destruction.
When the ark is finally finished and the animals have been shut up inside, Zara and her family embark on an adventure that will test their patience and their faith as they await deliverance and dry ground.
My review:
After seeing the Ark in Kentucky a couple months ago, I was excited to see this book become available and that I'd get a chance to review it. The Ark Encounter was fascinating and huge and it's amazing to think Noah and his sons built an ark that size so many years ago and that it took decades! I think in my mind it was built quickly and seeing how the book brought that difficult time to life was something to see. Noah and his family were made fun of and sometimes feared for their lives, which seems likely given the evil times. There was a ton of work to do to get everything prepared, from getting all the supplies they needed just to build the ark to getting what they needed to survive on board. Sometimes people didn't want to sell to them; I just never truly thought about the logistics of it all. Seeing Noah's wife, Zara, as a human just like us but forced to go through such a difficult experience of seeing other family and friends lost in the flood and then trying to navigate relationships with her daughters-in-law in close living conditions must have been extremely difficult so it was inspiring to see her faith and patience. Ham's wife is depicted as difficult and seeing how that could explain later choices they made was interesting; she did get on my nerves, though. Reading about what their different personalities could have been like and how they interacted with each other truly made them human, which is what they were! Seeing the genealogies come to life was fascinating, too! I would recommend this book just to see what they truly went through and to make the Bible come to life!
I received this book free from Revell. I was not compensated for this review. All opinions are my own.
The Author
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© J. Lynn Perry Photography Jill Eileen Smith
Jill Eileen Smith is the bestselling and award-winning author of the biblical fiction series The Wives of King David, Wives of the Patriarchs, and Daughters of the Promised Land, as well as The Heart of a King, Star of Persia: Esther's...
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