Noah

Noah’s Flood: Some Interesting Facts

Did You Know…?

  • There are over 500 flood legends from around the world which have many similarities to the Genesis flood account.
  • Evidence of Noah’s flood can be seen all over the earth, from seabeds to mountaintops…the physical features of the earth’s terrain clearly indicate a catastrophic past…[page 138 in the New Answers Book by Ken Ham]
  • Noah didn’t have to round up all the animals to take on board, the Bible says that God brought the animals to him.
  • Only land-dwelling, air-breathing animals had to be brought into the ark, and Noah wouldn’t have taken the largest animals onto the ark. Younger animals would require less food, less space, and have less waste.
  • Many scientists believe that the average dinosaur was actually only the size of a sheep. Either way, Noah would have brought young dinosaurs, elephants, giraffes, and other large animals onto the ark.
  • Since the large variety of species that we see today did not exist in the days of Noah, only the parent “kinds” of animals were most likely taken on board. For example, only 2 dogs were needed to give rise to all the variety of dogs that exist today.
  • According to Genesis 1:20-30 and Genesis 9:3, people were vegetarian prior to the flood.
  • Bent rock layers, fossil graveyards, and polystrata fossils are best explained by a global flood.
  • The top 3000 feet of Mt. Everest (26,000-29,000 feet) is made up of sedimentary rock containing seashells and other ocean-swelling animals. Sedimentary rock is formed in water, and is found all over the world. This rock reveals that there was rapid burial of creatures while they were still alive.
  • There is other evidence in the fossils showing rapid burial, like the one of a fish swallowing another fish.
  • The flood was a geologic/tectonic event. Certain earth features indicate that the continents have not always been in their present location.
  • There have been huge local floods in recent times (e.g. in Bangladesh), but there has never been another global flood that killed all the life on earth.
  • The gigantic Grand Canyon of Arizona that is more than 5,000 feet deep in some places, 25,000 feet across, and extends for more than 100 miles to the east and west has thick, horizontal deposits of various types of sediment resting one upon another from the bottom of the canyon to the top. The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 teaches us that the stratified layers commonly characterizing geological formations can form very rapidly by flow processes.
  • “Not only do sedimentary deposits demand the dynamics of a gigantic flood for adequate explanation, but so also do the fossils for billions of plants and animals that are found within them. This is indeed a serious problem for evolutionary uniformitarianism, for large-scale fossilization is simply not occurring anywhere in the world today. When fishes die in the oceans they do not sink to the bottom and become fossils. Instead, they either decompose or are picked to pieces by scavengers.” [Page 76 in The World That Perished by John Whitcomb]
  • Most important of all is the divinely inspired record in the Bible concerning Noah’s flood, and it was confirmed by Christ in the gospels of Matthew and Luke.
  • The Bible’s wording in the Greek (cataclysmos) and in the Hebrew (mabbul) indicate that the Flood of Noah’s day was more than just a local flood.
  • In some ways, the Lord Jesus Christ is like Noah’s Ark. Anyone who puts their trust in Jesus as their Savior and Lord will be spared from the coming final judgment of the world.
  • If Noah’s flood had not been a worldwide judgment on the whole world (except for Noah and his family), people wouldn’t take 2 Peter 3:5-7 very seriously, which warn that just as God judged the world in the past, so He will do it again. (see these verses at the end of my last blog).
  • The rainbow is not only a reminder of God’s judgment on all the earth. Genesis 9:11-16 tells the actual meaning of a rainbow. “Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said: This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; and I will remember My covenant which is between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

As in the Days of Noah

The condition of the world at the time of the Lord’s return is compared to the days of Noah and the Flood. The condition of humanity at the time of Christ’s return will be pleasure-oriented and motivated by self-interest. Unconcerned about God’s purposes, they will instead mock God’s Word. The eating and drinking, and marrying and giving in marriage probably refers to being busily caught up in the normal course of life without heeding the warnings of the coming judgment. Just like the people of Noah’s day didn’t know the severity and suddenness of the coming destruction, so this present generation seems totally unprepared for Christ’s return.

Although Matthew 24:36 says that we won’t know the exact day or hour of His return, verses 1-6 in 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6 tells us that as followers of Christ, we will not be totally surprised. Just as a pregnant woman knows the approximate time that she will have her baby, believers know from prophecy and what Jesus told His disciples in Scripture the “approximate season” of His return. However, for those who are in darkness, His coming is compared to a thief coming in the night. Verses 4 and 5 tell us that believers shouldn’t be surprised, because it says that we are children of light and not in darkness concerning His return. Therefore, we are to be alert!

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6 “But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman; and they shall not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. You are all children of light and children of the day: we are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.”

Ever since Adam and Eve sinned in the garden of Eden, there has never been a time in life where sin hasn’t existed. However, due to the extreme wickedness that will exist in the end times, there’s a verse in the Bible that asks if there will be any faith on earth at the time of Christ’s return; Also, 2 Timothy 3:1-5 gives a description of that wickedness that will be prevalent in the last days: “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power.”

Just as in Noah’s day, there was widespread corruption and violence, rebellion against God, immorality, etc., so these things are all characteristic of the days in which we are living. And yet, even with so much apathy in our nation and our world, as Christians, we must not allow apathy to dull our senses. We must not allow our love for God and others to grow cold, nor forget that there is a coming judgment.

Much of the world is indifferent to the hope of Jesus Christ, and many are working to bring in a new world order based on evolutionary humanism. Some deny the existence of God, and others do not believe in a personal Creator God–a God who out of love for humanity, sent His Son to take all the sin of the world upon Him; He died this horrible death on a cross to reconcile mankind to a holy God.

I want to encourage everyone who reads this blog to take these warnings seriously. I would also like to encourage you to visit the Answers in Genesis replica of Noah’s Ark (Ark Encounter). If you are already a follower of Jesus, you will find this museum a real faith-builder, and if you are not a believer, you will find answers to many of the questions that have made you doubt the historicity of the universal flood and the record of Noah and the ark.

I have also included 3 of the main passages of Scripture I used to write this blog:

  • Matthew 24:37-44 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then two shall be in the field; one shall be taken, and the other left. Two will be grinding at the mill; one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for you know not what hour your Lord comes. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore be also ready: for in such an hour as you think not, the Son of man will come.
  • 2 Peter 2:4,5 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment: and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly.
  • 2 Peter 3:3-10 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days mockers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? for since the fathers died, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. For this they are willingly ignorant, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water: but the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 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.

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