Show Don't Tell: Genesis 7:1-24

Instead of saying "The flood came and destroyed everything," make them feel the rain. The first drops hit the roof of the ark—a sound Noah has never heard. Then more. Then a roar. The fountains of the great deep burst open—the waters held back since creation now released. Feel the ark shift, then lift, then float. Through the wooden walls, listen: screaming, pounding, desperate climbing. People who laughed last month now claw at the pitch-covered hull. The water rises. Animals Noah used to hunt swim past the window. Houses disappear. Hills become islands become memories. Forty days of rain. One hundred fifty days of floating. Eight souls in a wooden box on an ocean that has swallowed the world. Every living thing erased—every person, every dream, every city. Silence, except for the endless slap of waves against gopher wood.