“By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.” Heb. 11:7

Gen. 6-9 = More about the flood than the Creation

- God was sending a flood – to destroy the evil in the world.

- Noah found grace

-Ark of Gopher Wood

300 x 50 x 30 cubits

450’ X 75’ x 45’

- Built of gopher wood

- 120 years in building

- 300 x 50 x 30 cubits

- Window and door

- Animals aboard

- Food for all

- 8 humans

Or Was It A Local Flood ?Or Was It A Local Flood ?

“There is simply not sufficient concrete information to allow a dogmatic judgment on this matter” - John T. Willis

“There is no way geologically of supporting the idea that there was a worldwide flood….It seems to me plausible that possibly the flood was confined to the known earth at that time”

- John Clayton

Gen. 7:19-21 All the high hills were covered 15 Cubits above the mountains All flesh died Fountains of “the great deep” broken up (Gen.

7:11)

If local flood Why work 120 years to build the ark ? Why not move to another part of world? Why have all in ark for over 1 year? Animals could migrate, birds could fly

Numerous Traditions of a Flood All continents have flood accounts 250 to 300 records

Punishments for Corruption Gen. 6:7 “I will destroy man” Gen. 6:13 “The end of all flesh is come before Me”

“I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.”

Gen. 9:13

2 Pet. 3:1-7 Peter Prophesied about return of Christ“By which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water.” v. 6

Other references in Bible Isa. 54:9 “…the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth”2 Pet. 2:5 “…bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly”

Jesus believed in the flood

“For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be”

Matt. 24:38-39

Was It A Local Flood ?Was It A Local Flood ?

- 450’ x 75’ 45’- 3 decks- Capacity equivalent to 520 railroad

stock cars- 1,518,000 cubic feet of space- About 1 million animal species- 35,000 vertebrate animals- Noah brought animals of its “kind”

- Average animal size that of a sheep- 1 railroad freight can hold 240 sheep- Only 146 cars would be needed- Much less than 520 which the Ark could

hold

- “fountains of the great deep” broke open Gen. 7:11-Not stopped until 150 days into flood-“destroyed the world that existed” 2 Pet. 3:6

“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 opened. And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights” Gen. 7:11-12

“And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.” Gen. 8:3

“God forbid: let God be true, but every man a liar” Rom. 3:4

5 For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water: 6. by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water:

7. But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

2 Pet. 3:5-7