The Ark - A Place of Rest

Recently over 2 Sundays, Pastor Prince preached on Rest and he chose Noah's Ark as his bible reference.
It is very interesting that the Hebrew word for 'vessel' (Tebah - pronounced as 'Tay-baw') and the Hebrew word for 'coffin' (Arown - pronounced as 'aw-rone') got translated into the English language as 'Ark' and that causes some confusion as we tend to think of them as synonymous but in reality, they are not.

And so Noah's Ark is actually Noah's vessel while the Ark of the Covenant should really be translated as the Coffin of the covenant. So with their proper translation, it does make a lot of sense why God told Moses to place the ten commandments into the Ark because He did not want His people to see the Law all the time.

With Noah's vessel, no wonder he had so much rest - his name itself meant 'Rest'. And if you look at the dimensions of the Ark, you will realize how formidable the vessel was and why even in the most violent lashing of the winds and waves, the vessel was able to hold out as it was at least 500 feet long and close to 80 feet wide. Hey, the Ark is equivalent to an aircraft carrier in length (though not in height) and wider than an average aircraft carrier. I think a carrier probably measures only 70 feet wide on the flight deck. So we are really looking at a huge vessel!

I was scouring the web to find picture or drawings of the ark and found this interesting picture of a model built by an American company and to get a feel of the size, they built it next to a house.

Another picture or drawing...

Impressed? Wait till you see this one! Someone else built another one...

Very ship-like..