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The Flood

The Flood . Genesis 7-9. Land- bound Noah’s Ark:

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The Flood

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  1. The Flood Genesis 7-9

  2. Land-bound Noah’s Ark: • The Hong Kong-based Noah's Ark theme park was built in 2009 and is popular among touristsMatthew (the Director) added: 'The reason we chose that moment in the Bible's story is because this is the message we want to bring to Hong Kong, to China , to the world. • 'In our lives we always face floods, we will face trials, we will face difficulties. Hopefully Noah's Ark will inspire people to pass through those troubles as Noah did in his day.’ • The Ark opened in May 2009, 17 years after plans were first made for the enormous structure.

  3. Genesis 7:6-9A Summary Statement as 6:13-16 is • “And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. • And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. • Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, • There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah” (KJV)

  4. Genesis 7:10-12 • And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth • In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. • And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights

  5. Genesis 7:10-12 Q: What calendar was used for the exact dating of the Flood? Q: Was the date later editorially emended by Moses to correspond to the Jewish religious calendar? A: Because ‘all scripture is inspired by God and profitable’ there must be a reason for the precision mentioned here. We just aren’t sure why it is. The Jewish civil year began in late fall, as did most other ancient calendars, corresponding with the agricultural harvest.

  6. Genesis 7:10-12 The Jewish calendar is based on the date of Adam’s creation. It can be assumed that the chronological information in Genesis is based upon the date of Creation. In this case, the data given would lead to the simple conclusion that the Flood came on the earth 1,655 years, one month, and seventeen days after Creation. But this would require that in Genesis 5, each named son was born on the exact named birthday of his father (which is unreasonable). “And Noah was 500 years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth” (5:32)

  7. Genesis 7:10-12 We can be sure that the Flood began on a certain particular day, making the prophesied end of the antediluvian world, on that one day, and ‘all the fountains of the great deep (were) broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.” • The antediluvian hydrological cycle was different from the present day • There seems to have been two gigantic reservoirs of water, one ‘above the firmament’ (Gen. 1:6-8; 2:5, 10-14; 5:5) and one under ‘the primordial deep’ (Gen. 1:2)

  8. Genesis 7:10-12 • The ‘waters above the firmament’ constituted the vast vaporous canopy which maintained the earth as a beautiful greenhouse, preventing cold temperatures and therefore preventing wind and rain storms. Being in a vapor state, it was invisible and fully transparent, but nevertheless contained vast quantities of water extending far out into space. • Water in a liquid state, in seas (Gen. 1:10) and rivers (Gen. 2:10-14) existed, but not as runoff from rainfall (Gen. 2:5). They emerged from fountains or springs.

  9. Genesis 7:10-12 • Such subterranean reservoirs were apparently all interconnected with each other, as well as with surface seas and rivers. The energy for repressurizing and recycling the waters must have come from the earth’s own subterranean heat implanted there at Creation. This must have been a marvelous heat engine, which would have operated with wonderful effectiveness indefinitely, as long as the earth’s internal heat endured and as long as the system of reservoirs, valves, governors, and conduits maintained their structure. The details of this were not revealed. There is no reason to questions God’s ability to provide such a structure (Morris, p. 195)

  10. Genesis 7:10-12 Q: How did Almighty God actually cause this to happen? • A sudden tilting of the earth’s axis? • A bombardment of asteroids or meteorites (as the 2013 movie “Noah” suggests)? • A sudden slipping of the earth’s crust? • Nuclear explosions detonated by extraterrestrial space travelers? • Gravitational and electromagnetic forces resulting from a near miss of a wandering planet or comet?

  11. Genesis 7:10-12 Occam’s Razor Principle: the simplest hypothesis which explains all the data is the most likely to be correct. The Theological principle of the Economy of Miracles: God has, in His omnipotence and omniscience, created a universe of high efficiency of operation and will not interfere in this operation supernaturally unless the natural principles are incapable of accomplishing His purpose in a specific situation. God could have accomplished the entire event miraculously (by special creation of the waters of the Flood, and uncreated them later) but that is unlikely.

  12. Genesis 7:10-12 Bombardment of asteroids or ‘astral visitors’ is unlikely, and unnecessary. The Bible makes it clear there were two events---and not more: • The bursting of the fountains of the great deep • Pouring down of torrential rains from heaven These two phenomena are sufficient in themselves to explain the Flood and all its effects without the necessity of resorting either to supernatural creative miracles or to providentially ordered extraterrestrial interferences of a speculative nature

  13. Genesis 7:10-12 “breaking up” (literally means ‘cleaving open’) of the fountains of the great deep is mentioned first and so evidently was the initial action which triggered the rest. “What world-wide cause was there? Most likely would have been a rapid buildup and surge of intense pressure throughout the underground system, and this in turn would presumably require a rapid rise in temperature throughout the system…a world-wide chain reaction with volcanic explosions and eruptions, pouring great quantities of magma up from the earth’s mantle along with the waters” (Morris, p. 196)

  14. Genesis 7:10-12 Volcanic dust blown skyward, along with gigantic sprays of water and turbulent surges of the atmosphere, with expanding and cooling gases, and a vast supply of dust and other particles to serve as nuclei of condensation would suffice to penetrate the upper canopy of water vapor and trigger another chain reaction there, causing its waters to begin to condense and coalesce and soon to start moving earthward as a torrential global downpour of rain. The simple statement of verse 11 provides the basic information needed to explain the physical cause of the great Flood, under the supervision of Almighty God

  15. Genesis 7:10-12 Q: What does the phrase ‘windows’ of heaven mean? “floodgates?” “sluiceways?” Large quantities of water that were restrained in the sky as water vapor---or ‘humidity’, suddenly were released to deluge the earth. This intense downpour continued for 40 days/nights---worldwide.

  16. Genesis 7:13-16 A Summary Statement with addendum • In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; • They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. • And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

  17. Genesis 7:13-16 A Summary Statement with addendum 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in! (KJV)

  18. Genesis 7:13-16 A Summary Statement with addendum Q: Why another summary statement so soon? Perhaps because the writer/s realized future generations would find such a story exceedingly difficult to believe. Perhaps because of the catastrophic events, and the animals that were saved, the story would seem incredible.

  19. Genesis 7:13-16 A Summary Statement with addendum Q: How did God ‘shut him in?” The details are not provided, but the occupants inside the Ark were in the will of God, and under His divine protection. They were dead to the world; they were beginning a new life, in a new world. Gal. 1:4 So Christ, dying for our sins, triumphed over sin ‘that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father.”

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