an_unshakeable_faith.. - Holy Bible Institute

NOAH’S ARK AND THE WORLDWIDEFLOODTHE FLOODThe vast majority of professing Christians today, even most evangelicals, do not believe that theFlood was global. This is not because science has disproven the global Flood; it is because ofend-times apostasy and the fearful accommodation to modern evolutionary theories.For the following reasons we are certain that the Flood was global.1. The Bible’s description points to a global Flood.The Bible plainly states that the Flood of Noah’s day was worldwide. The great detail in whichthe Flood is described witnesses against a poetic or allegorical interpretation.“And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast,and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them” (Genesis 6:7).“And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath oflife, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die” (Genesis 6:17).“For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every livingsubstance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth” (Genesis 7:4 ).“And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the wholeheaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains werecovered” (Genesis 7:19-20).2. The mechanics point to a global Flood.The Flood of Noah’s day was not merely a long season of heavy rain. It was a great deluge ofwater from the sky combined with a deluge of water from below. The water from the sky camefrom a vast ocean that had been suspended above the earth in vapor form since the creation week(Genesis 1:7). The deluge from below came from “the great deep,” which was an ocean of waterbelow the surface of the earth. The “fountains of the great deep” were broken up (Gen. 7:11).This cataclysmic action would have resulted in massive tidal waves which swept across theworld. The tidal waves created by just one volcano (Krakatoa) in 1883 produced immense wavesat least 100 feet high; traveling up to 450 miles per hour they resulted in the death of nearly40,000 people; the sound of the eruption could be heard 3,000 miles away (Simon Winchester,Krakatoa). When a series of earthquakes struck Chile in May 1960, the resultant tidal waves upto 50 feet high and traveling at 525 miles per hour caused massive damage in Japan one-third ofthe way around the world from their origin.333