Why we talk about the flood? I want to talk about the world,
that no one knew. Now, remember that before the
flood, we don't know what that world was really like.
In fact, all we have about that world is fairly the first five
chapters of the Book of Genesis and that covers about 1656
years. And so, there are lots of
information. There is lots of information
that's not given to us now to illustrate, why We do not for
sure. Why we do not know what that
world was. For example.
You know, we hear the myth of the ancient city of Atlantis,
well that City might not have been a myth.
It might have come from a real story from a city that existed
before the flood, the technology that they had the science that
they knew we lost in the flood for another example.
In Glen Rose Texas, there's a museum where they found an axe
head in South Texas. They Dated it about six thousand
years ago which would have been before the flood and there is a
mixture of chloride and iron ore and other chemicals that
modern-day metal people would like to understand and know how
to do. They can't repeat it.
So the point is we don't know what kind of world that was all
we can do is take what the text tells us because that world that
no one knew when he entered the boat is gone.
You know, people talk about, historically, you've read
stories about how these ancient soldiers and ancient General
search the world to find the Garden of Eden that they might
find that gold. Well, the problem is the Garden
of Eden, no longer exist. Before the Flood, there was a
cherubim angel with a flaming sword guarding the entrance to
that Garden. But after the flood it was gone,
it exists, no more. And so we're going to talk a
little bit about the world that Noah's move, the weather that
Noah move the causes of the Noah's flood.
The effects of Noah's flood and of course, Noah's flood and the
end of the world. Now, know that this story of the
flood is interesting for many reasons, first of all, it's only
ten Generations from the time that a Has created.
Now that may appear or seemed like a long time, it's about
1656 years, but when you read in Genesis chapter 5, you'll find
that many individuals lived to be over 900 years old.
In fact, the person we teach our children that was recorded to
have lived, the longest was Methuselah.
So when you consider these genealogies that are found there
in the Book of Genesis from Adam to Noah, I want you to realize
eyes that probably Seth died before Noah.
But English, the grandson of Noah probably was alive whenever
duel was born. And so he had a very close
communication with the beginning.
And of course, during this period of Bible History, their
record was passed down from generation to generation and
Moses is recorded or is given the credit as to brought those
records together or to have recorded the Book of Genesis as
we know it. So It was about two thousand
years after creation, that the things we read in the Book of
Genesis were recorded so we have to remember that.
That's very important but what's interesting it's not all that
long. We commonly see Generations 4
and 5. But they saw many more
Generations than that because of their ancient age because of
their extended age. Now what you have to also
remember is that God created a perfect world.
He created a world where there was no sin, he Created man with
perfect Intelligence on the first day that man was born or
made was created. He wasn't born, he had the
ability to look at the animals that God calls to come into His
presence. In fact, if you study the
record, you'll find that the animal man relationship before
the flood was also different and it changed After the flood.
But these animals came into no on the first day that he was
created. I don't, he was only one day
old, there are six hours old or whatever, but he was created.
All groan with full perfect intelligence.
Now he was not perfect in the sense that God is perfect
omniscient and omnipotent, but he obviously are omnipotent, but
he was obviously a perfect being God said him in a perfect world.
Everything was perfect and ready for his care.
And when all of these animals came into him, he not only had
the mindset to name those animals, but he had the ability
to remember those names because they still wear that name today,
like cattle and dogs. Dog and cat, and lion and
elephant. And so forth.
We still go by those names today.
Adams, the one that named them. So God gave man, a perfect
intelligence. That's what he did.
He gave the world, a perfect existence, but man, messed it
up. It was sin that caused thorns
and thistles to grow in the garden.
It was sin that caused the universe to begin to die up
until the time of my Adam's sin. There was no death.
In fact, no matter which theistic evolutionary idea, you
try to incorporate into the Bible, it won't work.
There are too many contradictions.
I can spend an hour talking about the contradictions between
any theistic evolutionary idea in the Bible but the main one is
that all of them suggest that, before Adam, we have seen death
and suffering. And the Bible says that sin and
death and suffering was brought to us by Adam and Romans 5:12.
And so that finishes the day age theory that finishes, the Gap
theory that finishes, whatever, Theory.
You want to talk about and there are many that people have tried
to incorporate in the Bible. There's no way that can be the
Bible contradicts that. You can't believe Evolution and
believe the Bible. Now there is there are two kinds
of evolution there's macro-evolution and there's
microevolution and macro-evolution claims that that
1/8 can become a man. And that's that's false.
Now microevolution is within the species or within the There is a
vast opportunity or ability to change.
That's why it is known today that the Chihuahua and the Great
Dane came from the original dog, male and female that came off
the boat. So you're only, there was only
one, dog one male and one female, and the Great Dane.
And the chihuahua have come from that original match that came
off the boat, so don't get mixed up.
There is there is change or I don't like to use the word
Evolution, but there is changed within kinds.
That's why we have black. People.
And that's why we have white people, and yellow people and
red people because within the species at the beginning of
creation, Adam and Eve had the ability to have dark children
have like children what whichever color or skin tone a
chador or face feature. You want to talk about that was
within Adam and Eve to have that capability and that's how all
these different races came and we don't have time to study
about that. But we could now look at this.
God made a perfect world. Men corrupted, it, he corrupted
it with sin. The Bible says, and the Lord
said, my spirit shall not strive with man forever for he is
indeed, flesh. Yet his days shall be 120 years.
Now, some people try to say that this is the numbering of the
days of man, but this is interesting to me because, you
know, Moses is the one that wrote Psalms 90.
Now, all my life, I heard preachers, I heard preachers.
Get up and quote from Psalm 90 about a man's life being Three
score, and ten and and if he's blessed, he lived to be 44
score. But if you look at the beginning
of the text, it says that Moses wrote that.
Now the point is this if this is a setting of man's age to a
lower level, if that's what he's talking about, then there's a
contradiction in the Bible. Moses said, the average age of
man is 70 years, not 120. Now.
Not only that Noah lived after this to be over 900 years later.
Jacob went into the pharaoh of Egypt later in the text in
Genesis and he was 175 years old at Pharaoh was astonished at the
fact that he looks so young. So again that blasted the
120-year thing way out of proportion.
The point is in this text God's not talking about the average
age of anybody. Talking about the end of the
world. Now, this is really interesting
because Noah would have been 480 years old when this decree was
made because we know that he was 600 when he entered the Ark and
the flood came so 120 years previous to that would have made
him 480. But he did not have his first
child until he's 500. now, the point is No, went out with the
purpose and intent. Of saving his family and he
saved his world. Now, I want you to look at lot
for a minute. I don't think we always
understand what's happening in the case of law.
You remember, it says he pitched his tent toward Sodom.
You remember that when those men tried to take the angels from
Lots house, or those Godly men from Lots house, they said
you've made yourself a judge over us.
You remember that? The Bible says, he said at the
gate. Now, when you read that
expression, the Old Testament, that means he was a judge at
you. In court, all their courts were
held at the gate. Now, think about this, the Bible
also tells us that he was a righteous man and that he vexed.
His soul daily with their ungodly Deeds.
So lots of righteous man. Now notice that, he's a judge,
you know what his intent is? He intends to reform, Sodom,
sometimes we get this idea. That if we get involved in
politics, we can reform the world.
He got so involved in, trying to reform the world, he lost his
family. Now, I want you to think about
this. He went out to save his the
world. He lost his family and his
world. No.
Went out to save his family and he saved the whole world.
Now, think about this. Have you ever wondered why
Abraham stop for 10 people? Why did they burn you don't
remember, when got those men came to Abraham in Genesis 18
chapter and they told him that Sodom Gomorrah were going to be
destroyed and he said my Lord, would you destroy the righteous
with the wicked? I know you would never do that,
suppose that there are just 50 righteous souls in Sodom
Gomorrah. Would you destroy those two
places and God said, no. And he of course, goes on down
45 and 40 and finally he gets down to 10 and he stops.
Have you ever wondered why that he's, you know, I'm not sure out
of tried a second time. But Abraham just keeps going.
And he still winning when he stops at 10.
Why does he stop at 10? If you ever wondered that Well
over there. In Genesis 19, it tells us Those
men were talking to lot and they said, you go tell your son's
in-laws too. Now, that means he had to marry
daughters. He had sons of laws, he had to
have married daughters. Those men said, go tell your
son's had to have at least two. Now, we know that lot had two
virgin daughters and locked. His wife also make two, 2 4, 6,
8 10. You see why Abraham said that he
knew his nephew, and he thought that he had saved his family,
but you see lot made the mistake of going out and trying to save
the society and he not only lost Society, but he lost his family.
But Noah, on the other hand. Went out to save his family and
as a result of saving his family, he saved his world.
Well, so much for that. So in 120 years God decrees, I'm
going to destroy it all, it's going to be finished the world,
as we know it is going to end. Every air breather is going to
die. They're going to see.
See and feel destruction. It's the end of the world as we
know it. Now we know that sea creatures
were not going to die. Any fish were not going to die.
They could live through this too.
Terrible tragedy, but every air breather was going to suffer
death at the hands of almighty. God, the world that no one knew
was finished. And clearly, it was declared
even eat at the Bible says, according to Jude preach that
the coming of the Lord was upon them.
Now let's talk a little bit about the weather.
Go back to Genesis chapter 2. Now remember that Genesis 1 is
God's Divine statement of Creation in Genesis chapter 2 is
God's Divine commentary on what happened in.
After two now he mentions things in Chapter 2.
They did this not mentioned in chapter 1 because he's a making
some application in explaining some things that he did on the
first day that he needed to explain further.
For example, the family, the fact that the institution of the
family is explained clearly in Genesis chapter 2.
Now look at this passage Genesis chapter 2 verses fire and six
before any plant of the field is in the earth than before any
herb of the field had grown for the Lord.
God had not caused it to rain on the The Earth, and there was no
man to till the ground. Now notice that, when God
created the herbs, when he created the grass, when he
created the fruit trees, they were all full grown already.
They all had the ability to reproduce instantly.
God created it. He created it mature.
So obviously it was new but it had the appearance of age it had
to so that it can reproduce after its own kind.
So this passage is not say that there was no grass on the earth.
It's telling us that God had not caused it to rain upon the
earth. Now, think about this.
Why would he say that? Now, he's probably referring
back to the first day of creation in Genesis chapter 5.
On the second day, the Bible says that God, parted the waters
below from the waters above, and he put a space between the
waters above and the waters below.
Now, again, I don't want you to misunderstand me.
I'm not going to debate on this issue because we don't know for
sure how the world was there. That world is gone.
But to me this makes sense and so I'm going to share it with
you because of what the Bible says notice now no rain and a
Mist watered the ground. Now think about this God
separated the waters, from the waters, and he put a space in
between there. The Waters from the waters, and
he put a space in there. Now, if that if that is true, if
we understand that correctly, he must have put what might be
referred to as a water canopy. Of vapor water canopy and of
course, this would have caused several things.
During the time of Noah, in fact, it would have had a
greenhouse effect. You know, we talk we hear so
much about the warming and we hear so much about the whole no
Zone. Well, we don't know that that
doesn't need to be there. Now, we can people can surmise
and hypothesize, all they want, but we don't know why it's
there. Maybe it's there because we're
sprayed aerosol, but maybe chirico's, God, put it there and
maybe that's part. Out of the system that's left
over from from this system. Before the flood, we just don't
know notice. Now, if this was true, there
would not have been any rain. If this water canopy circled the
Earth it would have caused a greenhouse effect.
There would have been no hot desert Bakersfield's, it had
been uniform. There would have been no
freezing, Antarctica, or North Pole.
There would have been no ice caps.
In fact, you can read in National Geographic, which is it
evolutionary? Jean.
But they can't explain why they found those woolly mammoths in
Siberia. That's frozen year-round.
In fact, those woolly mammoths were frozen so fast that there's
grass inside some of their tummies that never digested.
That's pretty remarkable. Now if this were true, if this
canopy circled, the Earth that would have been a vegetation
area. In fact, the whole world would
have been the vegetation area there would have been much more
food and much more vegetation for consumption.
There would have been no severe winds and so on.
In fact, these rays that cause us to age and damage us and
cause cause skin cancer that is many of them would have been
reflected by the water canopy. And so that could have even that
could even be a sinus to how, or why they live longer before the
flood. Well, the Bible says that
everybody's going to die. Hebrews 11:7, by faith, Noah
being divinely, warned of things, not yet.
Seen, you see, God said it. Not had not rained.
He watered the world in a different way before the flood
Noah had not seen it rain but he believed God, enacted by faith
in second Peter 3:6 by which the world.
That then existed Parish being flooded with water.
Now, the world changed After the flood, there was a rainbow
Before the Flood. There was no rainbow After the
flood. There were clouds Before the
Flood. The Bible does not speak of
clouds. So, This probably our this is
one of the solutions. Possibly, that could meet the
text a water vapor canopy circling the earth.
Now let's talk a little bit about the causes of the flood.
We talked about the the world that no new.
We've talked about the weather, no one knew.
Now we're going to talk about the causes of the flood.
If I were to go around the room to set this morning, think to
yourself what would you say caused the flood nearly,
everybody says why the rain wrong answer.
It flooded for 150 days, but the rain only lasted 40 days.
Now the rains contributed but again the waters Rose for 150
days, the rain stopped after 40 days.
See we don't we haven't always studied at like we should have.
Let's look at what it says in the six hundredth year of Noah's
life. In the second month, the
seventeenth day of the month on that day, all The Fountains of
the great deep were broken up and the windows of Heaven were
open. So the first thing that happened
was The Fountains of the great deep were broken up now.
Think about this, the crust of the Earth was literally torn in
two. You talk about earthquakes,
water gushed from the Us of the earth into the sky, possibly
shooting hundreds of feet into the air, as this water gushed
out. And the Bible says that the same
time, the windows of Heaven were opened it rain now, and the rain
was on the earth, 40 days and 40 nights.
It might have even appeared to rain after that.
But God says it finished after that.
But those Fountains of the great deep continue to gush out and
obviously they shot hundreds of feet in the air all over the
Earth and it would appear like in many places, it was still
raining So here you have the ark floating on this water, and of
course, the higher, the waters would rise higher, the ark would
reach. John Whitcomb, said, stupendous
upheaval of ocean basins accompanied by the collapse of
the pre-flood Vapor canopy that Global terrarium.
That provided an even surface temperature in a rainless world
for 1560 or 56 years. Precipitated back to the Earth
from which it had been lifted up on the second day of creation
week and join those. Is rising Waters from below
notice. Now, The Fountains of the great
deep were, broke it up. The floodgates of Heaven were
opened, there were many volcanoes.
In fact, probably hundreds of volcanoes, there were
earthquakes, there was lightning and thunder.
There was static electricity in the air.
There was rain, there was freezing rain, there was water
gushing from the sitter of the earth.
Now, that's the flood. Now, there's no way we can
really understand what all that means without thinking about it
a little bit. So, what I want to do is I want
to take you back to the island of Krakatoa.
Now, if you have a computer, all you have to do is type in
Crockett. Oh, there are hundreds of
websites about this about this volcano.
It occurred in 1883 it's quite remarkable because after this
blast, it frosted on July 4th in Midland, Texas.
I don't know if you've ever been in, Midland, Texas in July, but
you think Bakersfield's hot, you ought to be there.
Now this is what the islands looked like before the flood, I
mean, before the volcano eruption, and this is what they
look like afterwards. I want to show you where this is
at this is in Indonesia, in fact before this island blew up, it
actually connected Malaysia and Indonesia.
Right here. You can see over here, this is
where I live in Zambia and of course, here's Australia down
here in China. And Egypt and so forth.
So here in Indonesia volcanoes, right in here there's a little
bigger picture show, you kind of what it looks like today.
Now on August 26 1883 Krakatoa begin a series of explosions.
Now they were big explosions. In fact, these explosions caused
a black cloud go into the sky for 17 miles.
But they were not anything compared to what's going to
happen the next day. Now, what happened was about
10:00 a.m. the next morning. It got very quiet like the Calm
before storm and down below the surface of the ocean.
These previous explosions the day before had caused a crack in
the volcanoes crust and ocean water.
Now, this morning was pouring into that volcano.
Now, this is something that would have happened hundreds of
times in the flood. And this is what caused this
volcano to be. The be the biggest, modern-day
explosion that we know about it is a thousand times bigger than
the bombs we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
You think about that? They just literally did those
atomic bombs, destroyed those cities but this explosion was a
thousand times bigger than those explosions.
Ocean water poured into this side, net directly into the
heart of the volcano. And of course I remember.
Again I want to emphasize this is what happened.
During the flood Krakatoa literally blew up a column of
rock and fireworks hurled into the atmosphere.
In fact, it went 50 miles in the stratosphere and remained there
for at least two years, scientists have recorded did
record at that time that they ask in the dirt and the dust
circle the Earth twice. And it changed temperatures all
over the globe, it caused it to snow in July and Indiana.
I think about that. It's hot in Indiana to in the
summertime but the ash in the dirt, reflected the sunlight, so
much. Just from this one volcano, it
actually affected globally. The weather just one volcano
Now, if one volcano could do that, what do you think?
A thousand volcanoes can do like that?
We can have an ice age. You see that's probably what the
Ice Age came from, and that's probably why.
There was an ice age for quite a while.
After the flood was it took time for that Ash to get out of the
sky. And just a few seconds, this
2600 foot Mountain literally exploded into bits and pieces
and went into the air. Now dirt and Ash was to circle
the globe, two years, Greg and cooling globally.
The blast Was Heard 3,000 miles away.
That's like somebody sitting in San Francisco, hearing a bomb,
go off in New York. That's incredible.
That's the kind of explosion we're talking about.
The heavy fall of volcanic, ash extended, as far as far away as
900 miles, the tidal flooding occurred as far away as 4500.
If you go and search this out you'll find that a large ship
was lifted up out of the ocean and carried up over this island
into the center and drop. I mean, you see the pictures of
it, it's amazing. The tidal flooding was
incredible, hundreds of people died from the tidal, flooding
hundreds of miles away. From the actual explosion, 13,
cubic miles of material was shot into the atmosphere and
continued to circle the Earth. Now, this is what we're talking
about when we're talking about the flood.
We're talking about mud and slush and dirt and Ash, we're
talking about all these things being scattered all over the
Earth. Explosions water gushing out
water falling from the sky. Layers of dirt being laid down.
All over the surface of the Earth.
That's why you can go in to Colorado and get up on that tall
mountain and find shells. You see because water covered
the whole earth. These shells came from the
ocean. We know that no creature lives
on top of that mountain, that comes from the shells.
You can find in the Permian Basin in Midland, you could find
seahorses. Well, those are ocean creatures.
Where do they come from? That came from the flood.
The flood changed the world. Stopping Envision.
Imagine what it must have been like on that boat that barge
with no Rudder, no, no Direction.
No, no sense of going just floating in the surviving.
This is the flood. This is the.
These are the things that happened during that flood.
And let's talk a little bit about the effects of the flood.
Already, I think probably you're thinking about some effects.
You know, one thing that comes to my mind is the Grand Canyon.
Here you have hundreds of, you can look down at the Grand
Canyon. I don't care how many degrees,
or how many symbols of guy has on his name on the wall.
There's no way he'll ever convince me to Colorado.
River made that Canyon those layers were laid down there in
the flood and that's why all evolutionary scientists want to
say the flood was a local flood. But the Bible is contradictory
to that. If you believe the Bible, you
can't believe it's a local flood, because that's not what
it says. In Genesis chapter 7 and All
Flesh. Died that moved on the earth,
birds and cattle and beasts. And every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth and every man and in whose nostrils was
the breath of the spirit of Life.
All that was on the dry land died.
And you think about that God does not mess with sin.
We think because we can fool the preacher or we can fool the
Brethren or we can keep Knowledge from my mother and dad
or we can keep something from our wives or husbands, We think
we can get by long as we don't get caught.
I don't understand. Church leaders.
That pretend and live double standards live double eyes.
I'll never understand that. I guess I'm just naive and
ignorant, I don't know but I don't understand that.
God, it doesn't mess with us. I'm telling you, he got so fed
up with, seeing he got. So fed up with wickedness.
He got so fed up with double standards that he wiped out the
world and I'm telling you, he'll deal with us the same way if we
keep sending our life, Now, he don't want us to be lost.
In fact for God, so loved the world that he gave his only
begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish but have everlasting life.
Well, I'm telling you. You got said in your life,
you're going to pay for it, if you keep it there and you die in
that sin. All that was on the dry land
died. So he destroyed all living
things which were on the face of the ground, both Man and Cattle
creeping thing and bird of the air, they were destroyed from
the earth, only Noah, and those who were with him in the ark
remain alive, bodies animals, all Air breathers floating in
the water. For over a year.
Now the flood was on the earth. 40 days, the waters increased
and lifted up the ark and it Rose high above the Earth, the
waters prevailed, that means the waters, continue to rise and
greatly increased on the earth and the Ark moved above out on
the surface of the waters, and the waters prevailed exceedingly
on the earth, and all this to do this, all the high heels under
the whole heavens. We're covered.
The waters prevailed 15 cubits upward about 22 feet and the
mountains were covered. now, I want to, I want to ask you this
question, what would it take To cause a cataclysmic flood.
You know, everybody here probably is driven with the San
Joaquin, Valley into the Sacramento Valley, Soul those
Sutter Buttes. Haven't you, you think about
that, the tallest Sutter Buttes about 2,900 feet?
Suppose that, that one high heel was covered with water for a
week. You think any of us would
survive in Bakersfield? No way.
In fact, this whole valley will be would be gone because the
forcing, the crushing force of gravity would demand an equal
depth, all over the planet, all over the valley, that's all it
would take. Just one flood over one Hill
2,900 feet. For one week, well we're going
to talking about a flood over one Hill.
The Bible says that all the high hills were covered for months.
It to a minimal depth of 22 feet.
The higher men, climb the higher, the water Rose, Now,
that's frightening. Cuz this is the God we're
talking about now, he's merciful and he loves us but he is not
going to tolerate sin. The same one that gave his son
to die upon the cross has left us the symbol of the flood and
remind us that punishment is coming to those who reject his
word. Jesus said he that rejecteth me
and receiveth, not my words at the one that judgeth him, the
words that I have spoken. The same shall judge him in the
last day, John 12:48 We're talking about the effects of the
flood. In Genesis chapter 8, the Bible
says, then God remembered Noah now, that doesn't mean that God
had forgotten know that word. Remember Remembered in the
Hebrew. Simply means that he now has
finished his task of destroying the Earth, and now, he's turning
his attention. He's been with him all along,
but now he's turning his attention to Noah and getting
rid of those flood waters. So that knowing his family can
leave the arc. So then God remembered Noah and
every living thing. And all animals, that were with
him in the ark, and God made a wind to pass over the earth and
the waters subsided. But now, obviously Waters
weren't enough. Look at this, The Fountains of
the deep and the windows of Heaven were also stopped and the
rain from heaven, where it was restrained.
And the waters receded continually from the earth at
the end of the hundred and fifty days.
The waters decreased Now, here's a passage of divine commentary
on what he thought about. In Genesis, this tells us what
happened. How God really got rid of the
water. Now certainly he calls the wind
to blow and that helped. But notice what it says, Psalm
104 verses 5 through 10. I'm reading from The New
American Standard Bible, he established the Earth upon its
foundations so that it will not totter forever and ever talk
about the creation verse 6, talk about the flood.
You covered it with the If that is the ocean.
As with a garment, the waters were standing above the
mountains. Now, look at this, at you
rebuke. They fled at the sound of your
thunder. They hurried away.
How did they do that? Look at what he says the
mountains rolls. The valley sitting down to the
place, which you established for them.
You see, during the process of the Earth's crust breaking
mountains, begin to rise. And at the conclusion of the
flood God cause the mountains to rise high and he calls The
Valleys to sink down. Did you know that near the
Philippine Islands? There's a trench in the ocean
and it's seven miles deep. In fact, it's so deep that we
will have the technology really to go down in there and we're
not for sure. What's in there, it's too deep.
The pressures are too high, you see, God, cause that trench to
take away the flood. And now you think about it the
Rocky Mountains rose up? The ocean Basin near the
Philippines. Sunk down here, all this water
and the sludge, and this mud, and these layers and layers of
sand and dirt. And Ash and dust rushed down the
from the Colorado River, from the Arizona Grand, Canyon Basin.
And in a matter of a few weeks at the most, a few months, the
Grand Canyon forms. That's God's doing.
You see the world we live in? Now, it's not God's creation and
we look at the Grand Canyon. And we think what a marvelous,
what a marvelous piece of the globe we're able to enjoy.
I want to tell you something, that's part of the curse.
You think part of the curse is beautiful what what what do you
think his creation was? We don't know.
We don't know, because the world we live in is cursed.
It's been changed. Because of sin.
The mountains, Rose Valley, shut down to the place, which you
established for them yet. You said a boundary that they
may not pass over so that they will not return to cover the
Earth. So he promised you remember
Abraham or Noah that he would not destroy the Earth again with
one of the world that then was perished, the mountains grew
higher, the valley, sunk deeper. The ecologic system was changed
changed forever. You know what's interesting?
The whole Bible looks to the flood.
Hundreds of passages. These are just a few over 100
times every Rider. As far as I know, looks back to
the flood in some way, maybe in figure or in point whatever over
and over again, you read about the flood and its significance.
You can't underestimate the power of God in the flood.
And I want to tell you something, when you think about
the flood, it's a terrifying thing.
It helps us to understand. Yes.
God loves us. Yes.
Noah was extended Grace. But God side is is is full of
grace and at the same time it's full of Terror.
That's why Paul said knowing therefore the terror of the
lord, we persuade men for. We must all appear before the
Judgment seat of Christ. That every one may receive the
things done in his body whether you done good or bad.
Now, you may forget your problems but Lord, don't forget
them. And someday.
We're all going to give kale. And pretending doesn't help.
Because the only ones to see this us me when I pretend it's
me and it's deceived. Now, Terry men never know.
He made, I even go to his death bed thinking of whatever he
thinks of me, good or bad. Because he really don't know,
but God knows. And I answered him.
And so, do you? Well, Noah's flood truly does
point to the end of the world Peter says, but the day of the
Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will
pass away with a great noise and the elements will melt with
fervent heat both the earth and the works that are in, it will
be burned up. Therefore since all these things
will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in,
holy conduct and godliness, looking for, and hastening the
coming of the day of God, which of because of which, the heavens
will be dissolved being on fire and the elements will melt with
fervent heat. Now, look at what he says,
nevertheless. Nevertheless we according to his
promise, look for new heavens and a new Earth in which
righteousness. Dwells now, today, I don't know
the minds of those who are present in this assembly.
But I know this. The flood.
It's for sure. And this reminds us that God's
coming back and his son is going to be the judge for.
He tells us in Acts 17 that he's appointed his son to be the
judge. And all of us are going to be
there. Every person from Adam to the
last breather. That is living when he comes.
The Bible says will be changed those who are alive will be
changed into their Immortal bodies.
Those who have died will be resurrected and they'll come
forth from their graves, in their, with their new bodies.
And Jesus says that, on that day, it'll be like a Shepherd
device, divide sheep from goats. You know, we have this idea that
we can get in judgment and we can get us out Lawyer, find some
loophole. I'm going to tell you something
Judgment Day is not trial day trials right now.
We're on trial right now and the life that you live.
When you take your last breath, is the end of the trial?
How long does it take to tell this is a golden?
This is a sheep. That's the way it'll be on that
day. He's going to separate the goats
from the Sheep. Those sheep.
He's going to say, come on to me.
Come on to me. He says, you've been Faithful
over. A few things.
I will make you ruler over many things.
Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.
Are you ready? That's the question.
Are you ready today? Because when I flood comes, it's
going to be too late. That flood will not be with
water. It'll be a fire.
Paul says that when Jesus appears, they'll be a shout.
They'll be a trumpet. Blow will hear the voice of the
Archangel and we shall meet him in the air.
Are you ready? Jesus said come unto me all ye
that labor. Whatever it is in your life.
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