FEB 7

Genesis 7:10-8:14
Memorise 2 Peter 3:3-4
“There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts”

A simple straightforward reading of the account of the flood in Genesis 6-8 would lead most to assume it was a real global flood. Historically, Christians throughout the ages have always known Noah’s flood to be one that covered the whole earth and destroyed all air-breathing inhabitants, both man and animal. However there are many so-called Christians today who deny the literal reading of the book of Genesis, explaining the flood to be a local one. Based on apparent scientific and geological ‘facts’, they claim that there is no evidence whatsoever that attests for a global catastrophe. They have fallen prey to the intellectualism of these faithless, scientific ‘proofs’, and have denied much of the historic faith.

As we take a closer look from Genesis 7:10 onwards, we see a very clear description of a flood that covered every single inch of the whole earth. In fact, the very notion that Noah had to build an ark in the first place and took the effort to gather all the animals and provisions for the year long voyage shows that there was no escape except through the ark. If it was just a local flood, he could have easily spent that 100 years travelling to the other side of the world to escape the flood. To say that he spent all that time constructing such a large craft just to survive a local flood would be making a mockery of the whole biblical account!

Instead we are told clearly that waters rained down for forty days and forty nights, such that the waters rose up high above all hills, and every mountain was covered. The repeated use of words like ‘all’ and ‘every’ and ‘whole’ clearly attest to the fact that the flood was global. Not only were all the high hills covered (Genesis 7:19), but all flesh and every man upon the earth also died (Genesis 7:21). The whole world was completely covered to a height of 15 cubits (close to 7 m) – enough clearance to allow the ark to drift anywhere without it being struck from below. The Bible then explicitly states that all that was left was Noah and those in the ark.

With such clear explicit biblical evidence, it is a shame that there continues to be Christians today who deny the fact that it was indeed a global flood. Truly as 2 Peter 3:3 explains, these are scoffers who walk after their own lusts, and willfully are ignorant of the Lord’s judgments upon the earth!

Thought: God always means what He says and says what He means.

Prayer: Lord, may I always have the faith and discernment to believe.