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What if an inventor, say an Edison or a Leonardo\u2014instead of sixty\u2014had eight hundred years to invent? What if the antediluvian world were not<\/em> made up of hunter-gatherers and the beginnings of an agrarian society, but of spacefarers and scientists?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what if it were into a world like that that God spoke to tell one of the preeminent scientists of the day to build an ark of wood?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An imaginative take on what Noah’s life might have been like before God called him to build the ark. A fictional<\/em> work by Samuel Ben White.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Available in Kindle<\/a> and in paperback<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs it was in the days of Noah \u2026 \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world has become a dark, sinful place. The crops are dying. The morning dews that used to water everything are drying up. There is nowhere safe, nowhere secure, and no one wants to listen to the one man who tries to tell them that it doesn\u2019t have to be this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At five hundred years old, Noah is told by God to build an ark, to save of the human race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noah, who has always been rather afraid of boats, is now building a huge vessel a hundred miles from the coast. How did he get here? Why did God choose him, out of all the people alive, on the planet and off?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As he builds the ark, Noah looks back on the five centuries he has lived\u2014on the places he has been, the women he has loved, and the God he has served. With a wife beside him and three growing sons, he is building a boat more than four hundred feet long in anticipation of a flood in a land that has never known rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interstellar travel, giant beasts of the earth \u2026 this is not the story of Noah you have ever heard, or even imagined!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Suppose Leonardo or Edison had lived 900 years, and invented for 800 of them? Suppose Noah’s world was not primitive but advanced far beyond ours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1981,1983],"tags":[2014,1368,1564,1075,2013,2012,735],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian","category-fantasy","tag-ark","tag-christian","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-flood","tag-noah-2","tag-technology"],"yoast_head":"\nNoah - After Time Ends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A fictional account of Noah's life before God told him to build the ark. 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