The Flood

Genesis 7-8 The Flood (2)

- Read Genesis 7:1-8:22

This morning we are going to look at the account of the flood in the book of Genesis again. Last week we look at the reason for the flood, God’s hatred of sin. We looked at God’s provision in the midst of the flood, God had Noah build an ark to save he and his family’s lives, and the lives of a great deal of the animals. And if you recall, we looked at the responsibility that you and I share with Noah, the responsibility to share and to warn of the coming judgment, and to point out the provision God has made for our judgment, the sacrifice of His Son and our Savior, Jesus Christ.

This morning I would like us to look at some of the evidences for the flood of Noah’s time, some evidences for the Deluge.

Now, as I mentioned last week, I am a biblicist. I believe the Bible cover to cover. I believe if God had it recorded in the Bible, then it is true. I believe that in beginning God created the heavens and the earth. I believe God created a great fish to swallow Jonah. I believe Moses and a million Israelites walked through the Red Sea on dry ground. I believe Christ walked with Shadrack, Meshack, and Adednigo in a fiery furnace. I believe Jesus calmed a stormed, gave sight to the blind, raised Lazarus from the dead, paid the price for your sin and mine, is right now preparing a place for me and that one day He will be coming back to take us with Him! I believe one day every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord!

Oh my friend, I believe that.

In 10th grade, in one of my classes at DeLand High School, the only high school on this side of the county at the time, we had to get up and give an oral report on any subject we wanted. There was a boy in our class who gave a speech on how he believed the Bible but why he didn’t believe the first 11 chapters of Genesis.

I asked him, “How in the world can you believe part of the Bible but not all of it?” He had no explanation.

And what do you say when the apostles and others tell us about the flood?

> 2 Peter 2:5 and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

> 2 Peter 3:6-7 They deliberately overlook this: By the word of God the heavens came into being long ago and the earth was brought about from water and through water. Through these the world of that time perished when it was flooded.

> Isaiah 54:9 “For this is like the days of Noah to Me,

When I swore that the waters of Noah Would not flood the earth again; So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you Nor will I rebuke you.”

Jesus Himself tells us in Matthew 24 and Luke 17,

> Matthew 24:36-44 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark

The account of the Flood is mentioned by Isaiah, Jesus, and Peter. They believed it and talked about it. Jesus had no problem with miracles.

Listen, when Jesus had a paralyzed man brought to Him by the man’s friends, Jesus told the man, “Your sins are forgiven.” Then turning to the crowd Jesus said, “So the you may know the Son of Man has the ability to forgive sins,” He then turned to the man on the mat and said, “Take up your bed and walk.” And the man walked.

Jesus performed miracles as evidence that He was God, and so I have no problem believing a God Who can save me, can perform other miracles, like a world-wide flood, a world-wide judgment as well.

- Read Genesis 7:1-6.

Noah was 600 years old when the Flood came and water covered the earth.

I sure am glad I don’t have to live to 600 years old. My goodness. I’m too close to heaven for that. And he had just spent the last 100 years building a boat. Can you imagine? Every day as he left for work his wife would ask him, “What are you working on today?” And he’d answer, “The boat.” And every night she’d complain, “All you ever talk about is your boat.”