THE ARK The great ark that Creator commands be constructed constitutes a second creation in pregnant form. Even as Creator unmakes creation, He contains temporarily the whole of the new creation in the ark. Animals, seed, people, faith. The ark represents a new creation existing and overlapping with the old, which should sound very familiar to Christians—as it represents the whole new covenant paradigm. The word here for ark is only used one other place in scripture. And not of the Ark of the Covenant, which is the obvious connection we get through English. The term only ever appears again when Moses describes the basket in which he was placed as a baby , the one in which he floated to safety while all others of his generation perished. The ark, therefore, in the mind of Moses (author of both accounts) is a vehicle for redemption as it passes through the waters of judgment, keeping safe all of its contents. Peter picks up this imagery in his first e...