Genesis 8

And the Flood is over! Noah and his family spent one year and ten days inside the ark, which seems like a very long time to be bottled up. My wife and I haven't spent more than a year living in any single location since we got married! From the description of how Noah sent out birds to scout for dry land, and his reaction when he finally opened the covering on the ark, it appears that they didn't have a deck they walked on or even windows that could see out to the sides of the ship. So much for all of those cartoon depictions I saw growing up.

I also like the promise God makes at the end of the chapter:

"While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
And cold and heat,
And summer and winter,
And day and night
Shall not cease." (NAS)

So no ice ages, no massive global warming - no need to be concerned about such things! Mind you, I think we should still be good stewards of the earth and all that God has given us... but it is ever so nice to be able to sit and laugh when folks on TV start to freak out over "global warming" :)

This chapter in:
New America Standard, New King James, New International