Dec. 9, 2005 - The Chisel of God - The Flood
While reading the book, Little Town in the Ozarks, by Roger Lea McBride, I read about a debate a woman was retelling to Laura Ingalls Wilder.
The debate was over which natural destructive force was stronger, fire or water? The side defending water finally won with the argument that water can quench fire, but fire cannot quench water.
Water can be destructive, but water can also create! There are three instances in which water has done both. The flood, Niagara Falls, and the Grand Canyon are these three happenings that changed the face of the earth forever. Keep your heads up, because I don’t want to drown you in boredom!
The Flood
God sent the Flood to purge the world of evil. In Genesis 7:11-12, it says, “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month – on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
The springs of the great deep sprung forth, that would mean that it didn’t just rain and that springs bursting forth would help change the landscape. Especially since all that water coming from different directions, at top speed would make a horrendous, violent mass of liquid. Verse 20 tells us the waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet.
Before and possibly during the Flood there might have been earthquakes. Add earthquakes to rushing torrents of water, faster then you can imagine, and you get a massive Extreme Makeover!
God used water to destroy the earth, but it wasn’t God or the water that brought about this destruction. It was sin.
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