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The DEEP

What Was the Flood?

A miracle.

Genesis 6:11-22 (ESV)

Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high. Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.” Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

People ask a lot of questions about the flood. What’s a cubit? Was it a global flood or a local flood? How did that small crew care for so many animals? The list is endless.

Two points are worth noting. First, God was angry with man, not the animals. Carnivores are going to be carnivores. That didn’t bother God. Fish are mostly carnivores. Life in the sea is a great food chain of eating and being eaten, yet the flood spared than all. The purpose of the flood was to wipe out the humans.

Second, analyzing the flood isn’t the same as analyzing, say, the Nephilim. Science adds important perspectives to understanding the Nephilim.

But the flood was a miracle. God didn’t say, “An asteroid will strike the earth, wiping out everything.” He said, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them.

It is good to ask tough questions about the flood, but don’t expect it to be a natural event.


Yesterday, we noted talking to the Lord the way you would talk to your boss. It’s OK to ask Him for favors, just not all the time. Yes, Jesus healed the sick and did wonderful things, but God does not exist for the purpose of helping us out. We need to get on His wavelength, not vice-versa.

We should ask the Lord to show us His way and commit to letting our plans flex to His.

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. – John 15:7 (ESV)


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Mike Slay

As a mathematician, inventor, and ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in America, Mike Slay brings an analytical, conversational, and even whimsical approach to the daily study of God's Word.

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