For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made."
What interests me in this verse isn't really the verse itself, it's what precedes it. The chapter before this verse is the command to put the animals in the ark. Only at this point does God start the countdown. So Noah's spent who-knows-how-long to build a zoo, and here he's told he has a week to fill it.
Obviously, Noah and his family don't have time to go on safari, grab two or seven of every creature, and then drag them back to the ark. So God must have seen to it that the animals came to him. I have this crazy thought in my head like one of those commercials where someone's doing something, looks up, and they're surrounded by people staring at them for as far as the camera can see. Trade the onlooking people for animals, and I wonder if that's what happened to Noah.
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