Evidences of a Universal Flood

("Christian Evidences" Class Notes, MSOP)

1. Purpose

To destroy everything that lived on the face of the earth that lived on dry land and breathed air (Gen. 6:7).

It all died (7:21-22).

2. Ark

One does not need an ark half the size of a football field to escape a localized flood.

Also was to contain all the variuos kinds of animals to reproduce after their kind.

3. Time of Warning

120 years before the flood (Gen. 6:3).

Noah was a preacher of righteousness (1 Peter 3:18-20); He preached to the people of his time for 120 years.

4. Depth of the flood

Covered the high hills of whole heaven were covered (7:19).

Water rose 15 cubits above the mountians.

5. Duration of the flood

Waters were upon the earth for a year

Rained forty days and forty nights

Gen 7:24 Waters prevailed for 150 days (that is 40 days and nights of raining and 110 days of prevailing).

Also Gen 8:1-3

Local floods do not last for 150 days!

How did the Flood maintain its great level for 110 days?

It was not until after 110 days that the water began to receed

Volcanoes are "water generators"

Only the windows of heaven stopped after the first forty days

6. Geology of the flood

"...the same day were all the fountians of the great deep broken up..." (Gen. 7:11)

"broken up" in Hebrew means "cleaved open".

7. The Fact That The Ark Was Needed At All

Why? Because everything was going to be killed.

8. Testimony of Christ

Matt. 24:37-39

v. 39 "...too them all away..."

Christ goes all the way back to the flood to describe the universal flood.

9. Peter's Testimony

1 Peter 3 - Peter said that only 8 souls were saved.

2 Peter 3:4ff.

v. 6 - "...the world that perished..."

Peter said that just as God destroyed the world by a flood he's going to destroy it by fire.

2 Peter 2:5 - "flood" - in Greek the word "cataclysmos" from which we get the word cataclysm.

10. The Rainbow

Genesis 9:8-10 - God established a covenant with Abraham and his seed (which includes all of us) that He would not again destroy the world with a universal flood.

We are still having destructive local floods.