/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //#4 // /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// var title="THE FLOOD"; var title2="Event #4; Genesis 6-9"; Text=new Array(16); aposstr=new String; speechstr=new String; aposstr="'"; speechstr='"'; for (var x=0; x<16;x++) { Text[x]=""; }max=15; Text[0]=" 1. As time went on, the people in the world became so wicked that God decided to destroy them. But there was one good man, Noah."; Text[1]=" 2. God told him, "+speechstr+"I"+aposstr+"m going to send a flood to cover the whole world and destroy all the wicked people. You must build an ark for yourself, your wife, your sons and their wives, also for the animals and birds you are to take."+speechstr+""; Text[2]=" 3. God told Noah how He wanted him to build the ark and how big it should be."; Text[3]=" 4. Noah and his sons began to build the ark just as God had said. People made fun and laughed at them. But Noah and his sons kept on building. They knew that God meant what He had said."; Text[4]=" 5. When the ark was finished, God sent animals. He sent only a pair of some animals, but of others He sent seven pair. All the animals walked into the ark."; Text[5]=" 6 Noah, his wife, their sons and wives, a total of eight people, went into the ark.. Then God Himself closed the door on the ark."; Text[6]=" 7. Soon it began to rain. It kept on raining for 40 days and nights. The water rose higher and higher until it covered the earth. For 150 days water stood over the earth covering all the mountains."; Text[7]=" 8. Then the water began to go down slowly, and the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat. Noah sent out a dove, but it came back, for water still covered the earth."; Text[8]=" 9. A week later he sent out the dove again. This time it brought back an olive branch. Now Noah knew that the water was going down."; Text[9]=" 10. Noah waited a week. Then he sent out the dove again. "+speechstr+"If it does not come back, we will know the earth is drying off,"+speechstr+" he said. And the dove did not come back again."; Text[10]=" 11. "+speechstr+"Come out, all of you,"+speechstr+" God told Noah. "+speechstr+"Let the animals, birds, and other creatures come out too."+speechstr+" So they all came out. It was so good to be on dry land again."; Text[11]=" 12. Noah and his family built an altar and brought a sacrifice. They thanked God for saving their lives."; Text[12]=" 13. God sent a beautiful rainbow. He said, "+speechstr+"Never again will I destroy the earth with a flood. As long as the earth lasts, there will always be sowing and reaping, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night."+speechstr+""; Text[13]=" 14.Now the whole earth had one language and one speech and dwelled together. They built themselves a tall tower."; Text[14]=" 15.But the Lord confused their speech and scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth."; // *** POSITIONING AND STYLES ********************************************* //**DO NOT EDIT THIS ***** //*********************** //************************