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Thank you metmom for your questions. They brought back memories of several years ago when my pastor was teaching a study on the book of Genesis and yours were questions that I and others asked during that study. Since the answers were anecdotal rather than doctrinal I went back to my pastor after your questions for a refresher course. Your question regarding men being created to replace the fallen angels, go to Replacing Fallen Angels: Overturning the Evil Powers @ www.patheos.com for a dissertation from St. Augustine of Hippo and St. Anselm of Canterbury, as there are no direct Bible quotes. See also 1Peter 2:9~12 for an idea of how St. Augustine and St. Anselm through the Holy Spirit were able to as we have intuit using the Bible as our source. Additionally for a clearer understanding, you should read St. Matthew 24, paying special attention to what it says regarding as in the days of Noe. (See also our website So as in the Days of Noah! https://sites.google.com/site/view/soasinthedaysofnoah ) For you to be able to understand any of this read all of St. Paul's letter to the Hebrews 11, and recognize what part faith plays in understanding anything that is not spelled out specifically in the Scriptures. Genesis 6:10 tells us of Noe's three sons. Chapter 6:18 tells us that Noe and his sons each had a wife. 2Peter 2:4&5 tells us "...(God) spared not the original world but preserved Noe, the eighth person, the preacher of justice, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly." We can understand from this that no one else showed up! We can also intuit from chapter 6:14 that the little rooms were meant for humans. There was no mention of accommodations for animals. If you will read all of Job 38&39 you will get an idea of the daunting task that Noe had in providing accommodations for all the various types and sizes of animals that God commanded him to put on the Ark, and pay special attention to Behemoth and Leviathan in Job 40 and you can easily tell that all the little rooms were for people as opposed to animals.Chapter 5 of Genesis verse 31 tells that Noe was 500 years old when he found Grace before the Lord (Genesis 6:8) and began his family and the building of the Ark, and chapter 7:6,11 tells us that "he was 600 years old when the waters of the flood overflowed the Earth." Keep in mind that Genesis 2:5&6 tell us that it had never rained upon the Earth so you can imagine the fear and despair that took hold on every human and animal aside from those in the Ark when the water came up to their ankles then to their knees and to their waists and to their necks, then was above their heads and they could no longer breathe. The Bible does not give us this specific detail. Genesis 7:18,19,20,21,22,23 tells us of the flood's devastation. Again. Our own intuition can easily fill in the blanks. If after you read all this and you have new questions from this material feel free to ask. Before you send those questions, follow the Blood Moons trail starting with "The Witnesses are Here!" and the 5 Blood Moons Over Fatima Treatises as they may answer many of those questions or bring up more. May God reward you for your earnest search for Him in the Scriptures as He did Daniel through the Archangel Gabriel in his Scriptural searches.

We can also intuit from chapter 6:14 that the little rooms were meant for humans. There was no mention of accommodations for animals.

Well, people can *intuit* all they want but there's nothing in the passage to suggest that. There's no reason to think that the rooms weren't for animals and there's nothing that indicates Noah ripped out rooms and remodeled the ark to accommodate animals.

That's taking a lot of liberty with the passage.

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