Did Noah say "I told you so!" ?

Genesis, Chapters 8,9,10 & 11

These chapters record God giving instructions to Noah about how to take all the animals on to the arc before it started to rain. And rain it did. Noah was 600 years old. One thing that I have learned throughout the years of reading the bible is that numbers mean more than you think. I think the Word of God has many layers to dig, mysteries to uncover, if you will. With that said, I don't know what the 600 years old may mean, prophecy wise. I find it interesting that in vs. 11 God gives the exact date of when the fountains burst forth and the windows of the heavens were opened. The 600 year, the 2nd month and the 17th day. That has got to mean something significant in prophecy, otherwise why would God be so precise with the date? Worth studying out. Maybe I will have more insight into that down the road a bit.
Another sentence I find interesting is in vs. 16 where it says that once Noah, his family and all the animals were in the arc, GOD shut them in! Noah didn't shut the door, God did! When God shuts a door...no man can open it. Can you just imagine all the unbelievers that finally realized that what Noah was saying all those years was really true? They must have been pounding on that door, screaming and crying to get in! But it was too late. Good thing Noah couldn't open it or else he may have been tempted to let them in. At least that's what I think.
Chapter 8 begins with the words: But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God doesn't have a memory problem. He finishes what he starts, to say the least. In vs. 13 it says that Noah removed the covering from the ark an looked to see if the ground was dry. Apparently that door was still locked so he had to get out another way. Then in vs. 14 God gives the exact day that everyone exited the arc. It says they all went out by families. God told them to be fruitful and to multiply. Again.
The first recorded thing Noah did after coming out of the arc was to build an alter to the Lord and offer up a burnt offering. When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma He gave the promise that He would never again curse the ground because of man. I love vs. 22: "While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease."
In vs. 9 god declares that every moving thing that lives shall be food for Noah, but not to eat flesh with it's blood life in it. Vs. 5 is an instituting of capitol punishment.
Then the declaration of the sign of the covenant of the rainbow.
In vs. 20 tells us that Noah enjoyed the fruit of the vine just a little too much one night. When his son Ham discovered him drunk and passed out in his tent, he handled it very disrespectfully and announced it to the other brothers. The other brothers, out of respect for their father covered his nakedness, never even looking upon their father...walking backwards into the tent. When Noah wakes up and sobers up he learns about what happened. He curses Ham's son, Canaan and declares that he will now be a servant of servants to his brothers. Not just a servant, but a servant of servants! Needless to say, Noah was not at all happy at how things were handled by his son Ham. I find it interesting that he didn't curse Ham, but his son Canaan. As a parent myself, this would be the worse punishment, to make your children pay for something you did. Now that's intense punishment.
Chapter 10 gives the genealogy of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. The sons that were born to them after the flood. I was intrigued that the genealogy of Japheth came first. It lists his sons and his grandson's, names only. Then the sons of Ham (remember he was the one who disrespected his father, Noah) It goes into much more detail about Ham's genealogy. Out of Ham's line comes Babel, Assyria, Nineveh, the Philistines, Jebusites, Amorites....and much more, but these were some names of people I am familiar of because these are the people who brought so much trouble to God's people. The dis-respect that Ham showed to his father, Noah was no small thing. The last son to be recorded was Shem, and not as much detail is given, yet.
The next record is in chapter 11, the Tower of Babel. Up until now, all of Noah's descendants had one language. Together they all decided to build themselves a tower as tall as it would go, and to make a name for themselves. Vs. 5 says that the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. And the Lord said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they purpose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city." That's why it's called Babel...they no longer could communicate with each other....they just babbled! That's where all the different languages must have started.
Chapter 11, vs. 10 again goes into more detail about Shem's descendants, not sure why that was divided up before and after the tower of Babel was built. Interesting.
Well, that was a lot to cover for sure. I will now be going into the book of Job, chronologically. It's a book I've not spent much time in. I'm looking forward to it. I think.