Alpha and Omega

“God’s warnings are also unseen things🚫.
Noah believed the Lord when He said that He will flood the whole world even though floods were unknown to Noah ⛈.
No flood had ever happened before in his days or the days of his ancestors. However, he believed that this which never happened before, would happen.
He laboured to complete the ark 💪🏼, enduring the mockery from others, these were years of faith.

Noah heeded to the warning of God, and was therefore considered a man of faith.
Through faith he had seen the flood before it happened.
Through faith, he entered the ark with his wife, his sons and his son’s wives.
Our teacher Saint Paul teaches us,
“By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household “ (Heb. 11:7).
The others, who did not heed God’s warning, and had no faith in God’s truth were destroyed.”

Life of Faith
Pope Shenouda III

Jonah, Being In The Whale's Stomach 🐳, Did Not Lose Faith And Peace.
He even prayed to the Lord when he was in the whale's stomach 🙏🏼, a prayer full of faith, and he said in confidence “I will look again toward Your holy temple.” (Jon. 2:4).
He made the Lord a vow and said “With the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord” (Jon. 2:9).

Even from inside the whale, he saw the Lord's salvation, getting out of the whale, the holy temple and his sacrifice to the Lord and the fulfilling of his vows.
It is faith the source of all peace and ease, no fear in it and no trouble.

Pope Shenouda III
Life of Faith

“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
Matthew 7:13-14