DUDLEY: Roof.
RALPH: I can see there are a few people out there that don't believe
you can talk. Let's give them some proof. (DOG NODS HIS HEAD YES). Name one of the books
of the Bible,
DUDLEY: Ruth.
RALPH: Ruth! Right, Dudley! Very good (PATS DOG ON HEAD). Are you all
ready to help with the story? (DOG NODS HEAD YES) Good. A long time ago there was a man
named Noah. Noah lived among very wicked people. In fact everyone was so bad that God
decided to destroy the earth with a flood. Only Noah and his family found favor in God's
eyes. God told Noah to build a boat ...
DUDLEY: Ark.
RALPH: Right Dudley! It was called an ark. He and his three sons worked
on the ark for many years. God gave him the dimensions and told him what kind of wood to
use. By the time it was done, it was longer than a football field. God then told Noah to
gather every animal, male and female, into the ark.
DUDLEY: Shark!
RALPH: No, there weren't any sharks. Only animals and birds, no fish.
Noah believed God and obeyed Him. It took a long time, but they finally got all the
different animals on the ark. Then Noah and his wife and his three sons and their wives
went into the ark.
DUDLEY: Dark!
RALPH: Right. The sky became very dark. All of a sudden it began to
rain. It rained and it rained and it rained. Forty days and forty nights, non-stop. The
waters went above even the highest mountain. Every living thing on earth was destroyed.
Only Noah and those in the ark survived.
DUDLEY: Shark!
RALPH: Oh, yeah. The fish lived, but everything else died. After the
rain stopped, the ark floated on the waters for a long time, and finally rested on a
mountain. Noah waited a while, and then sent out a bird to see if it could find dry land.
DUDLEY: Lark!
RALPH: No Dudley, it wasn't a ]ark. It was a raven, and it never came
back.
DUDLEY: Shark!
RALPH: Maybe a shark did get it, who knows? Anyway, Noah waited a
little longer, and sent out a dove. The dove came back. Noah waited longer, and sent out
the dove again. The dove came back again, this time with a twig from an olive tree. The
third time he sent the dove out, it didn't come back. Noah figured it must have found dry
ground. After being in the ark for over a year, Noah realized it was finally safe to come
out. The first thing Noah did when he got out was to build an altar and offer a sacrifice
to God. God was pleased that Noah did this and put a rainbow in the sky as a promise to
Noah, and the human race, that He would never destroy the earth by a flood again. And
that's the story of Noah.
DUDLEY: Art, arf.
RALPH: Right, Dudley, we better get going. (ASIDE TO THE AUDIENCE).
It's his mealtime. If you want to read about Noah for yourself, his story is found in the
first book of the Bible. Be seeing you. Bye!
