Flood(deluge)
“Flood, deluge”
Summary
The universal deluge in Noah's time by which God destroyed all flesh from the earth except those preserved in the ark, serving as a warning of future judgment.
☩The Event
In Noah's 600th year, on the 17th day of the second month, the fountains of the great deep broke open and the windows of heaven were opened for forty days. The waters prevailed fifteen cubits above the highest mountains, destroying all flesh except Noah's family and the animals in the ark. After 150 days the waters began to abate, and on the 17th of the seventh month the ark rested on Ararat.
☩Universal Tradition
Traditions of a great flood are preserved universally among ancient nations—Egyptians, Chaldeans, Greeks, Scythians, Celtics, Peruvians, Mexicans, and South Sea Islanders. The closer to the scene and the further back in time, the more vivid the traces appear. Noah's descendants carried the record of this solemn judgment wherever they traveled.
☩New Testament Teaching
Jesus used the Flood to warn of His second coming: as people were eating, drinking, and marrying until the day Noah entered the ark, ignorant until the Flood took them all, so it will be at Christ's coming. Peter cites the Flood as proof that God judges the ungodly while preserving the righteous, and warns that the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire.
☩God's Covenant
After the Flood, Noah built an altar and offered sacrifice. God established His covenant never again to destroy the earth with a flood, setting the rainbow as its sign. The promise was afterwards given that while the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease.
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See Also
References
- 1.John McClintock and James Strong, "Flood," in Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature, vol. III (Harper & Brothers, 1867–1887).
- 2.George Morrish, "Flood," in Morrish's Concise Bible Dictionary (George Morrish, 1898).
- 3.James Hastings (ed.), "Flood," in Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels, vol. I (T. & T. Clark, 1906–1908).
- 4.James Hastings (ed.), "Flood," in Dictionary of the Apostolic Church, vol. I (T. & T. Clark, 1915–1918).