How did Noah get all those animals on the Ark

That was a question of mine at one point but to be honest, I was too embarrassed to ask.  I thought the question was not important enough to show my ignorance.  That’s a silly attitude.  I now know that I’m not the only one that has asked this question.  In case anyone is in the same boat as I was and are too embarrassed to ask but want to know, it’s a easy answer as long as we see that one scripture that tells us.  But first, I would like to share an example on what it may have been like for Noah to get all those animals on the Ark.

I recently came across a video, actually a short video of a documentary of a parrot that is almost extinct.  This parrot is the only parrot that cannot fly.  The species is known as the Kakapo Parrot.  In the video, I first thought the parrot was a tame parrot as it approached the camera man without any fear.  The parrot walks on the ground as it does not fly.  Turns out that the parrot was a wild parrot but has no fear of man or animal.  And that is why there are only 60 left and the government of New Zealand has moved them to an island where there are no predators, either man or beast.  They are a protected species.  This parrot, not having the fear of man or beast for it has never known predators, approaches man and animal alike.  When man came to the island where the kakapo parrot lives, it approached these new beings without fear.  It has no idea that it is in danger until it’s too late.  Unable to determine that what it is approaching is has designs to kill it, it approaches dogs, cats, man or other animal with curiosity and no fear in any way.  It has done with such abandon that today that they are almost extinct.  They never learned fear and that lack of fear has nearly lead to their total extinction.

Before the flood, animals, like the Kakapo Parrot, had no fear of man.  Noah simply had to walk up to the animals and gather them, two by two, and lead them to the Ark.  It was not a difficult feat to capture them.  Before the flood, man did not eat animals.  After the flood, God gave man the animals for food.

• Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. Genesis 9:3 (ESV)

Before He gave man animals for food, He first put the fear of man into the animals.

• The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. Genesis 9:2 (ESV)

Before God put this fear and dread upon every animal, bird and other creatures, they had no fear.  This fear did not come upon the animals until AFTER the flood and just prior to God giving man the animals for food.

Noah did not have to chase or hunt down the animals.  He simply had to walk up to the animals and lead them to the Ark.

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