Noah and his wife, their sons and their wives were the only people left on the earth after the flood.  God had destroyed everything on the earth but these eight people and what was in the ark with them.  He used water to destroy everything, but left the rainbow as a reminder that He will never destroy the earth with water again.  By floating the ark, this same water is also what saved Noah and his family.  We can find a comparison to this saving power of water in 1Peter 3:20-21.  “Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.  The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:”

Today’s reading: Genesis 8-11