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Genesis 8

Genesis 8. The Flood Subsides. Genesis 8:5-9a . 5  The water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

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Genesis 8

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  1. Genesis 8 The Flood Subsides

  2. Genesis 8:5-9a 5 The water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible. 6 Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made; 7 and he sent out a raven, and itflew here and there until the water was dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water was abated from the face of the land; 9 but the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, so she returned to him into the ark, for the water was on the surface of all the earth.

  3. Genesis 8:9b-12 “Then he put out his hand and took her, and brought her into the ark to himself. 10 So he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent out the dove from the ark. 11 The dove came to him toward evening, and behold, in her beak was a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abated from the earth. 12 Then he waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; but she did not return to him again.”

  4. Genesis 8:5-12 Q: How long were they on the Ark? • Securely anchored on the earth again, they simply had to wait for the waters to recede. This took another 7 months. • They were on the Ark (in the Ark) slightly over a year, 371 days altogether • After 2 ½ months they could see the tops of the mountains nearby • 40 days later, Noah released a raven, which did not return • 7 days later, Noah released a dove, which returned • 7 days later, Noah released the dove again, and it returned with an olive leaf

  5. Genesis 8:3-4 Apparently, the Ark came to rest on Mt Ararat after 150 days. Other mountains have been suggested in Iraq, Ceylon, India and elsewhere. The entire region is known as Ararat (Jeremiah 51:27), which is the Hebrew form equivalent to the Greek word Armenia (2 Kings 19:27; Isaiah 37:38) Reports of seeing the Ark on Mt. Ararat have been made in ancient, medieval and modern times.

  6. Genesis 8:3-4 The Ark is said to have ‘rested’, implying that it was laboring for months, as it worked to save the occupants from sin and judgment. This is the second mention of ‘rest’, the first being when God rested after His work of creation (Genesis 2:2-3). These are two different, although synonymous, Hebrews words for resting. As God ‘finished’ His creative work, and as the Ark ‘finished’ its mission of saving from destruction, so Jesus Christ ‘finished’ His work of salvation (John 19:30 “When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished” and he bowed his head and gave up the spirit”)

  7. Genesis 8:3-4 Q: Why does Moses mention that the Ark rested on ‘the seventeenth day of the seventh month”? A: Possibly because the Lord Jesus Christ rose from the dead also on ‘the seventeenth day of the second month.’ The seventh month of the Jewish civil year (which is probably the calendar used here) later was made the first month of the religious year, and the Passover was set for the fourteenth day of that month (Exodus 12:2). Christ, our Passover (I Cor. 5:7), was slain on that day, but then rose three days later, on the seventeenth day of the seventh month of the civil year (Morris, p. 209)

  8. Genesis 8:13-14 13 Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried up. 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. 

  9. Genesis 8:13-14 Q: What are some of the changes the cataclysmic Flood made to the planet earth? • The oceans were much more extensive, since they now contained all the waters which once were ‘above the firmament’ and the subterranean reservoirs as well • The land areas were much less extensive than before the Flood, with a much greater portion of its surface uninhabitable for this reason

  10. Genesis 8:13-14 • The thermal vapor blanket had been dissipated, so that strong temperature differentials were inaugurated, leading to a gradual buildup of snow and ice in the polar latitudes, rendering much of the extreme northern and southern land surfaces also essentially uninhabitable. • Mountain ranges uplifted after the Flood emphasized the more rugged topography of the postdiluvian continents, with many of these regions also becoming unfit for human habitation.

  11. Genesis 8:13-14 • Winds and storms, rains and snows, were possible now, thus rendering the total environment less congenial to man and animals than had once been the case • The environment was also more hostile because of harmful radiation from space, no longer filtered out by the vapor canopy, resulting in gradual reduction of human longevity after the Flood • Tremendous glaciers, rivers, and lakes existed for a time, with the world gradually approaching the semi-arid state we see today

  12. Genesis 8:13-14 • Because of the tremendous physiographic (physical features of the earth) and isostatic(equilibrium between forces) movements generated by the collapse of the subterranean caverns and the post-Flood uplifts, the crust of the earth was in a state of general instability, with volcanic and seismic activity earth-wide. • The lands were barren of vegetation, until they could be reestablished through the sprouting of seeds. • There is a possibility that the earth’s rotation speeded up by about 1.5%, increasing the days in a year from 360 to 365

  13. Genesis 8:13-14 Q: As the Flood subsided, how were soils eroded and dissolved and deposited, becoming great beds of fossil-bearing sedimentary rocks found everywhere in the world? These sediments were rapidly being lithified, through the eroded and dissolved cementing agents present in the waters that had deposited the sediments. The fossils were not heterogeneously dispersed throughout the sediments, but were generally deposited in a certain statistical order, from the more simple marine invertebrate organisms on the bottom to complex land vertebrates near the top

  14. Genesis 8:13-14 • Fossils are buried in association with the same ecological communities in which they had lived • Fossils are buried in association with the ability to flee from the encroaching Food waters • Fossils of larger life would have a tendency to be transported farther and deposited more slowly, at the top of sediment. • In general, there is a definite tendency for similar kinds of animals to be buried at about the same levels, according to increasing size and complexity

  15. Genesis 8:13-14 Q: Have the evolutionary uniformitarian geologists misinterpreted the levels of strata to teach a gradual evolution of life from simple marine invertebrate organisms to complex land vertebrates through long geological ages? Yes Evolutionists have arranged these supposed ‘geological ages’ in a supposed chronological order, purportedly extending vertically upward through the ‘geological column’ of sedimentary rocks deposited above the crystalline rocks on the bottom. (Morris, p. 213)

  16. Genesis 8:13-14 The fossils found in these rocks, proceeding supposedly from simple to complex, comprise the best evidence for the theory of organic evolution. Q: If the fossiliferous deposits are mainly records of the Flood year, instead of millions of years of upward evolutionary struggle for life, is the entire evolutionary system scientifically bankrupt? Yes

  17. Genesis 8:13-14 Q: Is this the reason the evolutionists so fervently defend the concept of geological ages, and ignore the ‘flood geology’ concept---or ridicule it? Yes Q: Does the evolutionary ‘geological column’ actually occur anywhere in the world? No (Morris, p. 213)

  18. Genesis 8:13-14 Q: Is it possible for any ‘age’ of the fossil record to to be on the bottom, on top, or somewhere in between, around the world? Yes Q: Is it possible for any vertical sequence of these ‘ages’ or any portion of them, to exist in any given locality? Yes

  19. Genesis 8:13-14 Note: The theory of evolution is assumed in building up the geological column, and then the geological column is taken as the main proof of the theory of evolution. Q: If fossils speak eloquently of death, were they all deposited on the earth after the Fall of Adam/Eve? Yes Q: The fossil graveyard earth-wide, must have mostly been buried by the Flood and its after-effects? Yes

  20. Genesis 8:13-14 The fossil record which is recorded in stone (sedimentary rocks earth-wide) is not a testimony to evolution, but rather to God’s sovereign power and judgment on sin, demonstrated by a cataclysmic Flood.

  21. Genesis 8:15-19 15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 “Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.17 Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” 18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by their families from the ark.

  22. Genesis 8:15-19 7:1 “Come thou and all thy house into the ark” Matthew 11:28 “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” 8:16 “Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee…’ Mark 16:15 “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature”

  23. Genesis 8:15-19 The animals awakened from a long rest, were brought out of the Ark, and scattered around the world All dry-land animals are descendants of those who were on the Ark All people on the earth today are descendants of those who were on the Ark (Genesis 9:19) They spread East into Asia, West into Europe, and South into Africa…

  24. Genesis 8:15-19 Q: Was the earth’s surface configured into 7 continents immediately after the Flood? Unlikely. Genesis 10:25 says that in the days of Peleg, ‘the earth was divided” Q: Did a ‘land bridge’ exist across the Bering Straits into the Americas? Unlikely, until after the earth was divided. However, such land bridges are known to have existed during the Ice Age, after the Flood

  25. Genesis 8:15-19 Note: In the book, “The Center of the Earth”, by Andrew Woods, computer studies have shown that the geographical center of the earth’s land areas are located within a short distance of Mt. Ararat. Animals would have reproduced rapidly: • Lack of competition • Room to spread out • Time to locate an ecological niche for them to live in

  26. Genesis 8:15-19 Q: Could there have been a rapid variation in each ‘kind’ of animal that was on the Ark following the Flood? Yes • Rapid multiplication • Small inbreeding populations • Rapidly changing environments

  27. Genesis 8:15-19 Q: Is this really just the evolutionary process taking place, if there are variations in ‘kinds’ being developed after the Flood? No. There is no record anywhere that one kind developed into another kind. There is simply rapid variation developing within each kind This variation potential was latent in the genetic system of each kind to become expressed openly in distinct varieties within the ‘kinds’

  28. Genesis 8:15-19 Q: Would the change in climate cause some ‘kinds’ to disappear---become extinct? Yes. With the changing environmental factors, some animals would find it difficult to adjust. After a few generations, they would become extinct. Q: Would this include the dinosaurs? Yes, as well as pterondons, credodons, glyptodons, and other ‘bizarre’ creatures of the past.

  29. Pterodon

  30. Credodon

  31. Glyptodon

  32. Glyptodon baby

  33. Glyptodon adult (on the left)

  34. Genesis 8:15-19 Q: What about the Ice Age? “Many of these extinctions probably took place during the Ice Age. The sharp change in temperatures following the Flood, occasioned by the precipitation of the vapor canopy that had maintained the greenhouse affect over the world, led to the buildup of great thicknesses of snow and ice near the polar regions. These eventually radiated out in the form of tremendous ice sheets, covering northern Europe and reaching down into the northern third of the United States…It probably lasted about a thousand years…and undoubtedly had a profound effect on the earth’s animal kinds” (Morris, p. 216)

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