The Visions of Mrs. E.G. White

OBJECTION 16. — ENTERING THE ARK

Spiritual Gifts 3:68, says that the animals were for seven days coming into the ark, and that the family of Noah were seven days in the ark before the rain began to descend; and this is claimed as a contradiction of Genesis 7:11-16. “In the selfsame day entered Noah, etc. into the ark. The cattle after their kind.” etc. To make an objection here, the objector would carry the impression that in the very day that Noah entered into the ark, the animals came in too, and on the same day the flood came. We can only inquire if the objector has ever read the first part of Genesis 7, in which it is shown that Noah was first summoned to go into the ark, that the animals came unto him, into the ark which shows that he was in there, of course, arranging them as they entered, and after seven days the flood of waters came upon the earth. There is not the least contradiction between this and the vision. VEGW 71.1