In the ark, built according to divine direction, we have a beauitiful type of Christ. Pitched within and without, it went through the flood carrying its passengers safely over to the renewed earth - a picture of Christ bearing the judgment of God against sin and saving all who trust in Him. Note that Noah and his family did not have to hang onto spikes or some similar arrangement outside the ark. They were safe inside where the waters of judgment could not reach them. Blessed it is to be thus "in Christ Jesus," where there is no condemnation(Rom. 8:1). - H. A. Ironside