Why? Because sacrifice on an altar suggests more than mere worship: it is a recognition of the need for atonement with God. Noah could have just written a psalm or sung a hymn, but instead he kills animals and burns their bodies on an altar before the Lord. Yet an altar with animal sacrifices being burned on it is more than just worship. The only proper response to salvation from God is the worship of God! Ignoring his blessings will not do taking them for granted will not do taking credit for the deliverance will not do. This is the only proper response when God delivers us by his grace. In verse 20, Noah’s first recorded action upon leaving the Ark is building an altar in order to worship God. And it is absolutely crucial to see how all the events and promises in this little passage tie together, and build on each other because this Old Testament narrative teaches us much about Jesus and his New Testament work. This brief passage, at the conclusion of the great Flood in Noah’s day, speaks volumes concerning the judgment and mercy of God. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease” (Genesis 8:20-22). Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. “Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
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