Genesis 8:20

Why are we saved ? We are saved in order to be sacrificed. There is a striking lesson in God’s saving certain of the clean beasts and clean fowl at the time of the flood. At God’s direction, Noah brought these, as well as other beasts and fowl that were not clean, into the ark of salvation.

These clean creatures were favored above those that were lost in the flood. It must have been a wonderful experience to step out from the ark onto dry land again. But what happened then?

Noah was a just man.

The just shall live by faith.—Noah builded an altar unto the Lord ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled a sweet savour.—The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.