Noah & The Flood

00:00:00 Speaker 1: Previously on the chosen people. Mankind was blighted by bloodshed and discord. Noah was determined to oppose the culture. Like his great grandfather Enoch, Noah possessed a heart attune to God's voice. 00:00:18 Speaker 2: These are dark times. 00:00:20 Speaker 3: My sons remaining in the light, who require wisdom learned. 00:00:27 Speaker 1: To listen to the voice of God. 00:00:29 Speaker 2: Behold, I would destroy them with the earth. I would bring a flood to wipe this earth clean. Noah's heart tightened. He fell to his knees, the weight of God's words pressing down on him. 00:00:45 Speaker 3: What am I to do with this knowledge? 00:00:47 Speaker 2: I have appointed you, Noah, to build an arc. 00:00:52 Speaker 1: The whole thing seemed inconceivable and far fetched. We're building a ship in the middle of the ball, Shem. 00:00:59 Speaker 4: That's what's wrong. 00:01:00 Speaker 5: Everyone from here to the desert has. 00:01:02 Speaker 4: Visited to mock us, and I don't blame them. 00:01:05 Speaker 5: This is insane. 00:01:07 Speaker 1: How are these planes going to flood? 00:01:09 Speaker 5: Where will the water even come from? 00:01:11 Speaker 1: Charcoal clouds galloped across the sky. With them came a chilly wind that bit at their cheeks. They hadn't heard the clapping of thumper before. A sound made their muscles tense, as if they were witnessing the birth of a new predator. 00:01:28 Speaker 4: And so it begins. 00:01:38 Speaker 1: The man's gone mad. 00:01:39 Speaker 4: Look at it. 00:01:40 Speaker 2: A boat in the middle of a valley. 00:01:43 Speaker 4: His mind's made of clay. 00:01:46 Speaker 3: The lunatic thinks he's gonna sail away to the sea. 00:01:49 Speaker 4: From the valley. 00:01:50 Speaker 1: A glove of mud and ox dung flew through the air and hit Noah square in the face. It stuck to his beard, contrasting with the white creeks that had formed since the beginning of the ARC's construction. The mud smeared across his face, mingling with the sweat and grime of relentless toil. He ignored their mockery and kept his head low. He buffed out a piece of lumber before hoisting it onto his shoulder. Noah's arms were thick and tight, like a rope. Months of crafting the ark added more great his beard and muscle to his body. Behind him, his sons toiled in silence, their hands calloused and their spirits weary under the weight of the village's ridicule. The valley echoed with hammers striking nails, and saws biting into wood, a symphony of determination and despair. 00:02:45 Speaker 6: I'm not sure I can endure the ridicule much longer, and it's only a matter of time before they oh more than dung. These people hate us already, and now we've given them more reasons to be estranged from us. 00:02:58 Speaker 2: Ignore them, Jubis. 00:03:00 Speaker 1: Your father isn't worked up, then neither am I. 00:03:03 Speaker 4: What do you care what they think your father's right? They'll I'll be underwater soon. 00:03:07 Speaker 1: Next time they insult me, I'll ask them how good they are at swimming. Noah hurled the gleam from his shoulders, slamming it onto the ground with a jarring thud. His eyes, like storm clouds, turned towards his son's. Fury and sorrow intertwined in his gaze. 00:03:24 Speaker 3: You think you're funny, Ham, What about you, Jacob? Do you find the idea of millions drowning under the weight of the sky amusing? 00:03:32 Speaker 1: The boys fell silent, their faces paling. Their father's nostrils fled, and the creases of his brow deepened with anger. 00:03:41 Speaker 3: You laugh now, But I assure you one thing. When you hear the screams of people as they thrash against mountains, you won't be laughing. You'll never laugh again. 00:03:53 Speaker 1: Noah stormed off into a grove of fern and pine, his chest heaving with the weight of unspoken fear. He glanced at his hands, which trembled with anxiety. 00:04:04 Speaker 3: How will I undore this? 00:04:07 Speaker 2: In seven days time? The waters will come. For forty days, the heavens and the earth shall weep. Their tears will drown all life from the ground. 00:04:21 Speaker 3: I don't know if I'll be able to bear it. Who am I to carry this responsibility? 00:04:28 Speaker 2: You are righteous, Noah, You are set apart in this generation I have appointed you. Now go into the Ark, Noah, go with the pairs of animals that I send you as you wish. 00:04:44 Speaker 1: Noah dragged his feet through the soft earth, grazing a damp firm with his hands and rubbing the dew on his neck. He sighed. Stepping into a patch of sunlight piercing the storm clouds, Noah gazed at the Ark, a towering monarch against the sky, its shadow stretching over the valley. He watched his son's no longer boys, but men bound by duty and the promise of future generations, saw chop, hammer and sand the vessel's final touches. They still hadn't grasped. But Noah fell deep in his bones. This calling was a curse as much as a blessing. Noah steadied his trembling hands and drew a deep breath. Before he could take another step, a massive hand gripped his shoulder. It was the Tanner. His face contorted with rage and confusion. He shoved Noah against the trunk of a dying tree. 00:05:38 Speaker 4: What's your place, son of Seth. What's the point of having a boat in the middle of. 00:05:44 Speaker 3: The valley, Eh, it's for the coming flood. Soon, the skies will burst forth with water and the earth will open up. 00:05:55 Speaker 4: Ha. I have swine with sharper minds than you. You expect me to believe the sky's gonna open up like a river. You're a mad man. 00:06:08 Speaker 1: The Tanna drew out a blade and pressed it against Noah's throat. 00:06:13 Speaker 4: You got a lot of resources to make about this, big Nay. Maybe they'd be better off with someone who still has his wits about him. 00:06:24 Speaker 3: All I have has been given by the Creator. You'd rub from him. 00:06:30 Speaker 4: I do what I want to whom I want, Son of Seth, You live by rules nobody else does. 00:06:39 Speaker 2: That's your weakness. 00:06:41 Speaker 4: It's why you spend your days with sawdust in your throat instead of a good meat. 00:06:47 Speaker 1: The Tanna pressed the edge of the blade further into Noah's skin. A crimson streak dropped down his neck and on to his collar bone. Just then, the ground began to shake. The tanner stepped back and turned. In an instant, the man was trampled by a large beast bursting from the forest. Its legs were larger than tree trunks, with ivory tusks curling upward. Noah ran beside the beast and out of the tree covering. His eyes widened to behold thousands of animals galloping, crawling, flying, and skulking toward the ark. Noelah pressed his hands on his head in disbelief. He shouted to his sons. 00:07:25 Speaker 3: Shem, Jafith, open the ark door, am get our wives, sell them to gather the shades of hay. 00:07:33 Speaker 1: Noah sprinted alongside two gazelles, leaping over lumber and sliding to the ropes beside the ark. He pulled with Shem and Jaffith, heaving to open the large door for the aging animals. Thousands of creatures, two by two, ran into the ark, their hooves, paws and claws thumping and scratching against the Ark's floor. How do they know where to go? You know the answers to that shem the following the Creator's command, just like us. A flash of lightning split the skies, followed by a crack of thunder. Noah's gaze turned intense as he watched the clouds churn like deep chaotic waters. He looked back at the forest where the tanner lay. This was just the beginning. Soon everyone outside the awkward perish The earth was still. The birds had flown away, and the beasts had fled to their burrows. They knew what the city did not. A storm was coming to claim them. Noah and Imsara stood atop a cliff, the wind tugging at their garments like the persistent whispers of the doomed. To their left, the Ark stood complete and filled with creatures of all kinds, a lifeboat amidst a notion of inevitability. Lights flickered from within torches lit by their children as they tended to the animals. To the right, the city was aglow with bonfires, the faint sounds of laughter and screams echoing through the breeze, A cacophony of ignorance and defiance. 00:09:14 Speaker 3: This world is sick. These people are plagued by evil. I know what they deserve, but I can't bring myself to fully accept it. They're all going to die. 00:09:32 Speaker 4: I find some solace in knowing our children will at least be safe. 00:09:37 Speaker 3: But what about the other children, What of those who haven't done anything wrong? 00:09:43 Speaker 1: Noah's voice cracked like thin ice. His heart was breaking, peace by peace. He gazed out at the horizon, where the sun had not been seen in a week. It's light fainting, dimly illuminating the storm clouds. Before sinking past the valley, Emzara squeezed his hand, her voice a soothing balm to his wounded soul. 00:10:06 Speaker 4: You've walked with God this far. Continue your stride and don't look back. 00:10:12 Speaker 3: Tonight I will walk into that ark. I feel I will not be the man I was when I walk out. 00:10:21 Speaker 4: Nothing will be the same, you, me, the world, everything will be new. 00:10:28 Speaker 1: Flashes of lightning replaced the sun's light, and thunder roared like a predator ready to kill. The voice of the Creator spoke through the. 00:10:37 Speaker 2: Tempest to the ark Noah. 00:10:40 Speaker 1: Noah and Emzara scaled down the cliff, back to the Ark. As they strode, the skies opened and rain descended upon the land. The rain grew heavier with each moment, softening the earth below. The two quickened their pace when the ground began to quake. There were only a few paces from the Ark when the ground burnt open with gezers of rushing water. Zarah flew backward while Noah was caught in a torrent of water cascading from above and bursting from below. 00:11:09 Speaker 3: Oh help me hold on. 00:11:13 Speaker 1: Noah gripped a stone with his arms and pulled himself up. He scanned the rushing water for signs of his wife. His eyes darted back and forth, desperately trying to see through the rain. Finally, he spotted her hanging onto a pine branch. Noah forced his way through the torrent, driving his feet through the rushing water, and picked her up. Jafforth stood at the art's entrance. Reaching out, He took his mother and pointed out to the valley. 00:11:39 Speaker 4: Mama, ham and Shiver missing. 00:11:42 Speaker 3: What where could they be? 00:11:44 Speaker 6: Hamard was returning from the city, and sim went looking for him. 00:11:47 Speaker 3: When the waters began to fall. Stay here with the others. 00:11:51 Speaker 1: Noah leaped from stone to stone avoiding the rushing waters beneath, he reached the hill sloping upward into the forest. The rains were relentless, falling like arrows on Noah's back. The earth trembled under foot all around, water irrupted from below. Noah looked up to the mountains, where falls tumbled violently, swelling rivers with mighty force. 00:12:14 Speaker 3: Ah sheb, where are those foolish boys? 00:12:21 Speaker 5: Father? 00:12:23 Speaker 1: Noah saw Ham and Shem running with their hands tied behind their backs. A mob of men pursued them from behind. Shen leaped over a stone, but Ham's feet were immediately caught on the route. Ham looked back at his pursuers and braced for their attacks, but before they could lay a hand on him, another geeze of burst before them, sending each of them tumbling down the hills. Noah helped his boys to their feet and unbound them. The three dodged rolling stones and falling trees, eventually reaching the ark's entrance. Men from the city marched through the rapids with spears in hand, prepared to strike them down in commandeer the ship, But before they could, Noah heard. 00:13:02 Speaker 5: The creature of work, a mighty winged glow raising the ARC's door and slamming it shut. No Noah ran to the door and pounded his fists against it. His shouts were surprising to the others. 00:13:15 Speaker 2: What's wrong? 00:13:16 Speaker 3: We made it exactly ham, We made it. Everyone else is either dead or dying as we speak. 00:13:24 Speaker 4: They didn't care about us. 00:13:26 Speaker 5: Seconds ago, they were trying to skewer us and steal the ark. 00:13:30 Speaker 4: Why are you so upset? Where's your soul? 00:13:34 Speaker 3: Listen closely, everyone, listen. 00:13:39 Speaker 1: Underneath the white noise of falling rain and rushing water, the screams became audible, desperate, blood curdling screams. 00:13:49 Speaker 3: If you don't weep it their suffering, you'd know better than them. 00:13:55 Speaker 1: Silence fell among them. The sound of animal's brain and purring mingled with the rain and wind. Emzara threw a blanket over Noah's shoulders and led him away. He kept his gaze fixed on Hand, who scowled back, then turned to his brothers, who wore concerned expressions. Outside. The skies wept and the earth quivered. God's wrath poured forth, but it did not blease him. He sent the flood with regret and sorrow. The waters prevailed over the earth, and the seas swallowed every creature given the breath of life. It rained for forty days. Streams turned to rapids, which turned to seas. They rose above the mountains, lifting the ark with them. The ark floated over the massacre in a sea of judgment. Noah was spared. When the forty days of rain had ceased and the sun's rays gently peeked through the dissipating clouds, Noah o and one of the windows. He looked out, seeing a vast expanse of nothingness. Choppy, dark and unruli waters stretched as far as the eye could see. Floating on the surface were remnants of desolation everyone had perished. This Prey dot com production is only made possible by our dedicated team of creative talents. Steve Gattina, Max Bard, Zach Shellabarger, and Ben Gammon are the executive producers of The Chosen People. Narrated by Paul Coltefianu. Characters are voiced by Jonathan Cotton, Aaron Salvado, Sarah Seltz, Mike Reagan, Stephen Ringwold, Sylvia Zaradoc, Thomas Copeland Junior, Rosanna Pilcher, and Mitch Leshinsky. Music by Andrew Morgan Smith, written by Aaron Salvato, bre Rosalie and Chris Baig. 00:15:57 Speaker 2: You can hear. 00:15:57 Speaker 1: More Prey dot com productions on the Prey dot Com app, available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. If you enjoyed The Chosen People, please rate and leave a review,