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    How Did God bring the Flood of Noah?

    November 15

    How Did God bring the Flood of Noah?

    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 (Gen. 7:10-11)

    In Genesis 6 God says, "And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh," Yet, God often says that He will do that which He merely allowed or permitted by the removal of His restraining protection.

    Genesis 7 tells us that "all the fountains of the great deep broken up." It was by God's power that the waters were kept from overflowing and destroying (Genesis 1:6-10; Hebrews 1:3; 2 Pet. 3:5-7). Man would not repent so God "destroyed" by removing His protection. He abandoned them (except for Noah and his family) and allowed the consequences of their sin and corruption of the earth to bring the inevitable destruction:

    For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. (Isa. 54:7-9)

    The Living Bible paraphrases it, "Just as in the time of Noah I swore that I would never again permit the waters of a flood to cover the earth and destroy its life, so now I swear that I will never again pour out my anger on you."

    Notice that God did not actively bring about the consequences of Israel's sin but He abandoned them, hid His face, and withdrew His protection. Abandonment and hiding His face is the normal way that God exercises His wrath (Deut. 31:16-18; 1 Kings 14:15-16; 2 Kings 17:17-20; 2 Chron. 29:6-8; Psalm 27:9; 89:46; Isa. 57:17; Jer. 33:5; Hos. 11:7-9; Matt. 18:34; Rom. 1:18, 24-28). The same is true concerning the people of Noah's time who told God to depart from them. Therefore, His Spirit stopped striving with them, thus removing His protection, and allowing the consequences of their corruption of the earth to take place.

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    How Did God bring the Flood of Noah
    †. Gen 7:11b . . on this day, all the springs of the great deep were split, and the windows of the heavens opened up.

    The word for "deep" is from tehowm (teh-home') which indicates an abyss (as a surging mass of water) especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean water-supply). Tehowm occurred very early on in the Bible's texts at Gen 1:1-2.

    The difference is that this deep is the great deep. The word for "great" is from rab (rab) which means abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality), so that this particular deep could be thought of as bottomless; viz: an abysmal source of water beyond human imagination.

    The atmosphere alone holds about 2,900 cubic miles of water at any given time; with the balance of Earth's 340 million cubic miles of water stored in oceans, rivers, lakes, ice caps, glaciers, permafrost, and the ground. Relatively little ground water is stored in subterranean voids. Most of it is soaked in tiny pores and cracks in soil and rocks. Almost all ground water resides within five to ten miles of the surface. Water below that depth is chemically bound in the rocks and minerals and not readily accessible; but can be released as a result of geologic processes such as volcanism. But for the Flood, water above and beyond the earth's indigenous sources was necessary.

    Scientists have long suspected an abundance of water out in the cosmos. Well, it's there alright. In an article I found on the internet dated July 22, 2011; astronomers have discovered the largest and oldest mass of water ever detected in the universe-- a gigantic cloud harboring 140 trillion times more water than all of Earth's oceans combined. Well; I'm pretty sure that's a sufficient quantity of water to inundate the earth to the depth required by the Flood and that's only one of the sources of water in space that I'm aware of.

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    Good information Webershome. Thanks. I found imilar info in my research as well on this.

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    4 some reason i was thinking water hose......

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    Maybe this was when the continents were broken up too, as these fountains let go?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ezekiel 33 View Post
    Maybe this was when the continents were broken up too, as these fountains let go?
    I believe that to. I also believe that the city of Atlantis sunk during that time as well as some other wierd things taught as "fairy tale" and "mythology today.
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