GOD’S HATRED OF SIN.

Children, you have heard about the flood, when God
drowned all the people on the earth, but Noah and his
family. How terrible was the scene! All the men, the
women, the children, the animals and the birds, all living
creatures were drowned in the flood.

Surely God must have been very angry with man.
Why do you think it was? It was because he was so
sinful. This sinful nature, we learned about in our last
lesson, which led Cain to kill his brother, had led the
people into such wickedness that there were no righteous
ones to be found on the earth, save Noah and his family.
This is why God was so angry with the race, and sent the
flood to drown them.

He told Noah to build a great boat for himself and
family, and take into it also, two of every kind of beast
and bird. When all were: in the ark, God shut the door
himself, so they were safe.

Then the rain began to pour down, and we see the
people climbing to the hilltops to escape the flood, but the
water follows them until the top of every mountain is
covered, and every living thing has perished, except those