Noah's New Career
3rd in a series on how men and women in the Bible deal with waiting, disappointment and unemployment Noah’s New Career Genesis 5:32 says, “At the age of 500 Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and Japeth.” Five hundred years is a long time. Five hundred years ago our ancestors were either in Europe or Africa. Living under the light of candles and /or campfires. Plumbing was rare and electricity nonexistent. Transportation was mainly en pied or if you were wealthy, you might have a horse or two. We don’t know what technology was available to Noah, but we can assume that the economy was primarily agrarian. One can imagine that in that amount of time, Noah probably acquired many skills. And all those skills were required to live. There was little use for “knowledge workers”. Any expertise you had, better be for starting fires, capturing game, growing food or building homes. At the age of 500 God appears to Noah and commands him to build an Ark. A