"Maybe it will, who knows, but my survival is not its purpose," he said. Huibers hopes his replica of Noah's Ark will help people understand that God is real, "to show people that God exists." He says we're living in the end times though many people aren't aware of it.īorn five years after the North Sea flood in 1959, which killed some 2,000 people, Huibers believes there will be more flooding in the future, but that's not why he built it.
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"We had a butcher, a hairdresser and a teacher working here," he said, definitely not professional boat makers. Huibers and a crew of seven amateur carpenters built the 390-foot-long, 75-foot-high structure in just four years. The 60-year-old businessman, who made his fortune building storage units, told JTA he got the idea in 1993 after reading a story about Noah to his children.
Earlier, he'd considered sailing it to Brazil, but those plans didn't materialize. It only makes sense to take it to God's land."Īccording to the report, Huibers needs to raise $1.3 million to hire tugboats for the voyage because the ark has no motor of its own. "It may sound scary, but I believe everything written in this book, cover to cover," he told JTA, pointing to a Dutch translation of the Hebrew Bible. Huibers said he believes the Bible verbatim, that is, word for word. "I love the land, I love the country, I love the people." "My preferred destination for the ark is Israel," he told JTA. The Durupinar boat-shaped formation was discovered in 1959 by a Turkish. Though the ark quickly became a popular tourist attraction in southern Holland along the Maas River, Huibers says it belongs in Israel. Archaeologists associated with a project named Noahs Ark Scans say they have discovered a 'boat formation' on Mount Tendürek matching the 'exact length' of the ark given in the Bible around 150 meters or 300 cubits in biblical terms The U.S. He had hoped to sail it to Israel not long after its completion, but Israel was dealing with massive wildfires at the time so the plan was postponed.ĬBN News Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Mitchell traveled to Holland several years ago to interview Huibers. Huibers completed the four-year project – built to the exact specifications in Genesis 6 – in 2012, raising the $5 million needed for its construction. Expect special guest stars and enchanting prizes as contestants answer Wizarding World questions for their Hogwarts house and. The upcoming show, hosted by Helen Mirren, will air its first episode on 28th November. Huibers equated a cubit to the average length of a man's forearm in building his version.JERUSALEM, Israel – Dutch Christian businessman Johan Huibers plans to sail his life-size replica of Noah's Ark to Israel, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported last week. New trailer and details revealed for Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses quiz show. In the Bible, God commands Noah to build a boat that is 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high in advance of a great flood. It took three years and cost more than a million dollars. In 2004, he built an ark that was half the size of the specifications from the Bible and then used proceeds from tourists to build a life-size one entirely out of Swedish pine trees. Huibers was inspired to build the ark by a nightmare he had in the 1990s in which he dreamed that the Netherlands was overwhelmed by a flood similar to the one in the Book of Genesis.