Lessons From Noah

Introduction

While I gear this up, let me just take a moment to express my appreciation for the invitation to be here with you. And I look forward to the next few days and getting to know some of you and reacquainting myself with those of you that I’ve known for some time. I have a good number of friends in the audience. Actually, I’m I have to be careful about that. You’re not my friends just because I don’t know you yet, but there’s some I’ve known for quite some time. And I’ll I’ll save most of the name dropping and schmoozing for the regular service, but I do want to just say how much I appreciate your invitation to be here, and I look forward to the time together, and I hope we can have a mutually beneficial time as we encourage each other in our lives for Christ.

I want to talk this morning about Noah and the things surrounding the flood that happened a long time ago. We have a great source of not only evidences, but also a great example of faith. There’s so many lessons. I don’t think we can cover all the different lessons that we can get from the story of Noah, but I want us to realize that when we think about some of the challenges that are made to the idea of us having a creator, there are so many things surrounding the events of the flood that give an explanation of the world in which we live in. In fact, there’s so many ways that the earth is very different because of the flood. Let me just ask you to give me some ideas of things that you see as you’ve thought about this, and I think most of you have one way or another, of things that you know that say this is this is evidence that there was at one time a great flood.

Just things that you’ve observed. What things have you noticed? Anything? Seashells on the mountaintops. Seashells on mountaintops. What else? You know, I mean, if you think about it, we read about the creation in Genesis chapter one, and we see this paradise and the way it was, but we realize that the earth is more a reflection of what happened during this enormous catastrophe than how it was originally created. What else? Continent stood together as bad view before they were further for it. Okay, the sit the arrangement of the continents. What else?

1. The Grand Canyon: Testimony of the Great Flood

A lot of water at once and what created. Okay. And in fact, there are so many things geologically that give evidence that there was there were things, for example, there are people there are petrified trees that are solidified running through several layers of rock that supposedly took millions of years to lie down, and yet these trees run all the way through them as the sediment was arranged around them, things along that line. I want to look at a few particular things regarding something that’s pretty close to where I live now. How many of you have been to the Grand Canyon? Okay, pretty good number. If you get a chance to go, is it worth it, Tony? Absolutely. Okay. It is something to see. You can’t get it from pictures.

You can’t get it from anything else. When you stand there and you see the enormity of this place, you realize, wow, there’s something happened there. And right down in the middle of this is this little river. And although it’s almost said with embarrassment, there are people who say, oh, well, this little river is what carved this out. There’s no way. There’s no way that’s what happened. It’s actually an extraordinary testimony, among many other things, of the great flood that happened at one time. And if we compare this with some of the local floods that happened, Ross Harkrider and I used to attend a congregation in Bulverdi, Texas, together. And not far from there is a place called Canyon Lake. And I don’t know why that’s doing that.

But there’s a gorge that exists just to actually just the north of the canyon of the dam. Now, this gorge is about 50 feet deep. That gorge was formed after a local flood in 2003. Now, this is an article. We’re not going to read all of that article, but I just want to notice some of the things here, and you probably can’t see it. This is taken from the Associated Press on October 5th, 2007. And they say this.

A torrent of water from bloated canyon lake sliced open the earth, exposing rock formations, fossils, and even dinosaur footprints in just three days.

And there are some tours of it if you want to go further in it. But this is this, if you notice the last phrase down here, the gorge which emerged where a nondescript valley covered in mesquite and oak trees once was, sits behind this stillway built as a safety valve for Canyon Lake. Now, what I’m I’m gonna try to describe this for you a little bit. This was in that year, you might remember it, Ross, when we were getting all those series of rains that were coming through, and they were trying to hold back the water. They have a valve in the bottom of this lake where they it feeds into the Guadalupe River, and they open it up when they want to, and they shut it down.

They’re trying to protect the downstream and they held it back. They thought this storm was going to pass over the lake, it was already full, and it dumped all this water, and it was out of control. It destroyed homes and new Bronfels and parts along the lower part of the Guadalupe River. But before it got to that point, it went over the spillway, which is next to the dam. And this is about a 500-yard wide concrete spillway. It just started spilling over. And prior to that, if any of you have been to the hill country, you know you have all this these hills with the live oaks and things, and it was just irregular, like anywhere else along the hill country. And this cut through this limestone in three days.

Now, the reason I’m bringing this up is because the stories that were told about how long it takes to erode these canyons doesn’t match up to what we can we know happened. This is another view of the canyon. This is the Canyon Lake Gorge. And this is a view during the time, I don’t know if you can see this, but this is the dam over here. This is the spillway, and the water’s just gushing through there and tearing out this canyon. And a little bit further down, it washed out this road. And that road is a road we traveled quite often. It’s been repaired, of course. But just enormous power of water and what it does. So it cut through 53 to solid limestone in less than three days.

Now, I’m not a geologist. I don’t know all the things that apply to it. But most of the Grand Canyon is limestone. If all the factors were the same, at that rate, the Grand Canyon would have been cut in 274 years, not 70 million years. That’s if there was no more water than what went over the spillway at Canyon Lake. Now, if we think about the runoff, first of all, of the sediment that was laid down during the flood itself that established the top layers of what is now the Grand Canyon, and realize the top of the Grand Canyon on one side is over 7,000 feet and on the other side is over 9,000 feet above sea level. It’s not down like we might think of down in a valley.

It’s up in the mountains. And this runoff that occurred after the flood was cutting through there from numerous directions. And though we’re still dealing with questions about how exactly it carried out, I think the most logical thing is to describe that these settling floodwaters after the flood, as it was running off. How many days did it rain? One of the somebody under 15, tell me how many days it rained. Somebody under 15. 40 days and 40 nights. How long was Noah in the ark? Anybody?

Well, it was a full year that he was in the Ark. It was a full year that he was in the Ark. It took a long time for that water to run off. And then remember that they sent out, even after it settled, he sends out the raven and the dove, and he’s waiting for there to be dry land, enough for them to be able to exit the ark. There’s a long time, at least in regard to that, but there was a tremendous amount of turmoil going on underneath. And then, if we, if you look at the terrain, and there’s some people who actually mapped this, that in a good majority of Arizona, Colorado, and Utah, there are there are high elevation lake beds. That are that there’s a there’s a natural dam of mountains in northern Arizona called the Mogeon Rim that was holding back these waters, but as they as they breached the dam, the natural dam, that tremendous, and we’re talking about a lake the size, three times the size of Lake Michigan, that would have been running through there and cutting out what we now know as the Grand Canyon.

So this massive lake of residual flood water that spilled over the mountains in northern Arizona would have carved the Grand Canyon at a much faster rate. Now, it is about 6,000 feet deep, the Grand Canyon is. Over a mile deep. Where the river enters the canyon, the ground level is about 3,400 feet above sea level. And so as it gets into the deep part of the canyon, the mountains, it comes up to the point where it’s where it’s breached the mountains. So the ground is between 7,000 and 9,000 feet. So here’s the question. How did that river run uphill 3,500 vertical feet to get over those mountains? And they say, I’m the one that needs faith.

It doesn’t make sense. And there have been numerous attempts to try to explain away the process by what is called uniformitarianism, which is the belief that the foundation thing of what evolution is about is that everything just happened over gradual processes over a long period of time. Instead of accepting the overwhelming evidence that there was a great flood on this earth at one time. There’s a book called The Grand Canyon Monument to Catastrophe. If you’re interested in some technical information about the geology of the Grand Canyon, this is a great book. And he approaches it from another point here, and I’m afraid some of my text is missing here. Stephen A. Austin, not Stephen F. Austin, Stephen A. Austin is the editor of this book.

He has numerous quotes in there, and he does a lot of figures and things. And he looks at it just from the standpoint of something that they keep track of, which is how much erosion sediment is in the river. They have to calculate that to know what they may have to do to deal with sediment buildup in places like Mead, Lake Mead and Glen Canyon and other places. There was a 1927 flood that the rate of erosion was the most that’s been on record. At that rate, the estimates of the erosion of the total Grand Canyon, in other words, you take, if you can, if you calculate and figure out how much volume of sediment has been removed from that whole area to make the Grand Canyon.

If you just use the flood that happened in 1927, that they know what it was. It would have only taken about 1,300 years to do it. If that’s all that, if that’s all the erosion. I guarantee you, the flood of Noah’s time was much greater than that of the 1927 flood. Here’s a view of the Grand Canyon. That’s just a photo I took. To make it a little more familiar, there’s a familiar face for you. And there’s another one. We’ll even include Tony. It is, it is phenomenal, isn’t it, Tony? Just the size, just the enormity of it. But it is a testament to really what God has done. We’ve already talked about some of the other things. There are numerous formations like this around the globe.

2. The Quantity of Fossils, Oil and Coal

And let me mention, like the thing that happened at Canyon Lake, there are other events that have happened within our lifetimes that bear out the same thing. There was some erosion that took place after Mount St. Helens. They carved out miniature canyons. In fact, there’s one of them, they call it the Little Grand Canyon. But these are things that unfortunately are ignored when it comes to calculating how they think these other things. The quantity of fossils that exist around the world.

Near Blanco, Texas for about five years, and we had a little place that had an acre and a half. I gathered three buckets full of fossils. Almost all of them were clams. The clams were fossilized. And of course, the fossilization is not just a clam. It’s the replacement of the organic material with rock, basically. And so there’s these clams that I wish I’d have brought some of them, but I didn’t. Just buckets of them. They’re all closed. And it didn’t dawn on me what that meant until I heard a scientist talk about it. You know what clams do when they die? They open up. The fact that they were fossilized closed is not just evidence that they died, and then over time, you know, if they were covered up.

That’s evidence that they were not only covered up quickly, they were contained quickly to where they then were fossilized in that way. And almost every one of them. Almost every one that I found was closed. That’s evidence of a catastrophic flood. If it was a little flood, the clams could have moved out of the way. They live in the water. But the amount of sediment and other things that were going on. Oil and coal deposits, 1972, I believe it was. Big announcements on the news. No more oil and coal is being made. Why? Because we don’t have the conditions that make oil and coal today. That happened because of this catastrophic event. Henry Morris in his book, The Genesis Flood, explains this process. He explains how it was not only the enormous body of organic matter, both plants and animals that were covered up, but also the pressure that would exist when all the highest mountains were covered with water.

3. A Vapor Canopy That Surrounded the Earth

You ever been down deep in the water? You can even go to the bottom of a swimming pool. What do you start feeling on your ears? The pressure. When you start talking about enormous depths, we can’t handle it. Even our submarines have a limit of how deep they can go. They have what they call crush depth. Well, I don’t, we don’t know exactly because of the other things that were going on during the flood, what the highest mountain was. But somebody tell me how high Mount Everest is. Over 26,000 feet. Over 26,000 feet. That pressure is enormous of what would take place in the crushing of these animals and basically forming them into the coal and oil deposits that we have now. There’s some creation scientists who come up with the idea that there was a vapor canopy, and this is taken from Genesis chapter 1, where it talks about the space between the waters above the firmament and the waters below the firmament, what those waters were saying is, well, that’s just talking about clouds.

And there’s some, I think, reasonable descriptions of what would happen if there was literally a vapor canopy that surrounded the earth that would have provided the water for the flood, that would have also explained why places that are now covered in ice and snow year-round, like the tundra in Russia, that at one time was tropical, because they find they found animals like a baby mammoth with little buttercup flowers in their mouth, still preserved. But this vapor canopy would have provided a greenhouse effect to make everything tropical all over the world. In other words, when God made the world, he made a paradise of a perfect climate. It never got too hot, never got too cold. There was always plenty of moisture. Remember what it says in chapter 2?

That it had not rained, but there was a mist that went up and watered the ground. All those things would explain not only that, but the extreme ages that you find. Methuselah, 969 years. And though he was the oldest, he wasn’t the only one that lived to great ages. Some people have said, oh, I think they just counted time differently. Well, that doesn’t, that doesn’t fit the concept of saying, I believe what God says. But there was a reason why. And the other evidence is the animals. The great dinosaurs. One thing that’s different about reptiles from mammals is that the older a reptile gets, the bigger it gets. Mammals reach a length of a size when they mature, and they don’t really grow any bigger.

But reptiles keep growing. And we talk about the Bronosauruses and which I think they’ve renamed, but you know, Tyrannosaurus wrecks and all these others. You know what the word dinosaur means? Somebody tell me what garnosaur means. What? Somebody said it. Terrible lizard. Big lizard. Great lizard. They found, among other things, in some of these remains, a 50-foot long alligator. Still an alligator. How did it get to be 50 feet long? It started out just like the regular alligators. But he lived longer. The vapor canopy would have prevented one of the most effective agent aging things, and that is the gamma rays of the sun. So it affected not just man to live to 969 years old, but all these animals where we have these enormous dinosaurs.

You know, when we think about Noah taking on the ark two of every kind, I believe he took dinosaurs on the Ark. But he didn’t have to take the grown ones. He could take the babies.

4. How Did Anyone or Anything Survive?

Once we can acknowledge, once anyone can acknowledge, that there was at one time a great flood that covered the earth. And it destroyed not only the animals and created things like what we call the Grand Canyon, but it destroyed man. And you know, there’s there’s this enormous number of fossils of men that were created at that time as well by some of these catastrophic events that were happening during the flood. So think about that. How did anyone or anything survive? How is it possible that anyone or anything survive? There’s not enough time between when that happened and where we are now to come up with these ideas of evolutionary development. Because we’re only talking about 6,000 years ago. But how did anyone or anything survive? Do you realize what great evidence that is for the truth of the story of Noah?

Because the only way he could have survived was first of all with God’s warning, and secondly, with God’s providence. God taking care of him during that. And that’s the thing that the atheists, the humanists, the evolutionists don’t want you to acknowledge. They don’t want you to believe that. Because that changes everything. I don’t know if you ever thought about this, but Peter wrote two little books at the end of the New Testament. Very short books. He mentions, he makes reference to Noah and the flood three times in those short little books. He realized the power of that story. And it’s a story that exists in cultures around the world. Almost every culture has a flood story in their legend. For example, there are the ancient Chinese characters.

I don’t, I’m going to have to make a disclaimer again. I’m not a linguist. I don’t know that much about Chinese, but I heard a great presentation on this one time, and I’ve got a few charts that I got from another guy. Mine just went blank. I can’t think of his name. Darryl Emil. Daryl Emil. And he did some research on this. There’s of course the mention of Noah, his wife, and their three sons, making a total of how many people? Eight people on the boat. Okay? The Chinese characters, and here’s what I understand about it. Hopefully I’m understanding this right. Modern Chinese is like a shorthand of how they do things. But the ancient Chinese language that they used a long time ago, it was very elaborate, and it was a it was more of an idea, not a word, not a sound.

And it was formed on the basis of a combination of things. So, for example, we have this is their symbol for boat. And I don’t know why those are going in the wrong order. That’s the symbol for person, that’s the symbol for eight. So eight people in a boat, it combines, they put those three things together, that’s their symbol for a large ship. Why eight people? Why is that? Here’s another one. When you take the word eight, and this word that means this symbol that means united, and the earth, so when you’re talking about something that is the total, it is the combination of eight united on the earth, in other words, the total number of people. How many people were there? How many people were there when on the earth alive when Noah and his family exited the ark?

Don’t listen to them to the recent movie that’s just a mockery. How many people were there? Eight. That’s the total. Why did they use that? Why is that part of their ancient culture? And then when you take that word total and water that includes this idea of eight people, you put that’s their symbol for flood. Now, some preachers who’ve gone over there have used this to talk to the Chinese people and let them know that there’s something in their legend and in their culture and in their history that the Bible gives the details about. But think about it. Every person, every person that’s alive today is a descendant of Noah. Now we usually talk about Adam, because he was the first.

In other words, all of our ancestors walked off that ark. So no matter where they went, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, whatever parts of the world they went to, they carried with them the story of the ark, the story of the flood. Obviously, cultures change them as it’s handed down by word of mouth. There’s things that get a little more bizarre, but it’s very common that they’re there. You know, how do these ancient people in China even know about these things if they didn’t have a Bible? There’s another one. And when you take this same thing, a person, eight persons, and water, and that means to hand down or to continue. Because there was a continuation of life from that point. There’s also a people that live in the western end of the Grand Canyon.

If you want to visit there, you have to go about well, let me just, I’m going to say you have to drive about six hours from Phoenix. And then you have to hike for seven miles down into the canyon into their little village. There’s no transportation there except helicopter mules and feet. But you get down there and they have these beautiful waterfalls. I haven’t been there. It’s one of my goals. I want to go there sometime. But the Havasupai people, which means people of the blue-green water, they have a they have a legend in there in their culture that says, and one of their writings says, as the waters of the world dried and float away, the crack of the earth, the face of the earth cracked and was worn full of deep canyons.

And they describe that this particular canyon is the canyon of the Havasupai people. And there’s another description of the time that the water covered all the earth and drowned all the people, and then that same story is the salvation of one particular Havasupai girl that was survived because she was in a small boat that was covered with pitch.

And this is included in the report that they gave. There was one, oops, what did I do? There we go. There is one particular story in which the tribes identify themselves with the general traditions of mankind. I realize this is written in 1847. They wouldn’t even come close to acknowledging this today, would they? It is in relation to a general deluge, flood by which the races of men were destroyed. The event itself is variously related by Alvonkin, an Iroquois, a Cherokee, a Mascogee, or Chickasaw, but all coincide in the statement that there was a general cataclysm and that a few persons were saved. So what I’m trying to say on that is, instead of ignoring these ancient stories, it should be reassuring to know that though they may have been modified and though they might have been corrupted, it gives evidence to there being this great story, and this one is one that’s written down for us.

This is one that God revealed to us as one that we can be confident in.

5. Noah's Faith: Conviction of Things Not Yet Seen

Now, that phrase, the assurance of things hoped for, conviction of things not seen, if we apply that to Noah, who’s mentioned a few verses later, what was it that he hoped for?

What was he hoping for when he started building the Ark? What was he hoping for when he’s gathering the animals? Salvation. He’s hoping for salvation. I mean, first of all, meant that he had to also have the conviction of things not yet seen. Had he ever seen anything like that kind of a flood? Never rain. Probably never seen rain. If Genesis chapter 2 about there not being any rain and the mist went up in water, there may not have been any rain at all. So God’s telling about things that are going to happen that he hadn’t had no experience of. It was not anything that he himself had ever seen that he could calculate that he could expect. And it motivated him to do some things based upon that faith.

And there’s some great analogy that should be made to our own selves as we think about the things that God tells us about things that we have not yet seen, but God says are going to happen. In fact, that’s what Peter uses. And I’m going to add in jump on down here. Actually, I didn’t put it up there. 2 Peter chapter 3. Look at 2 Peter chapter 3. And I want to notice some things that are stated in regard to the flood about the way in which these are things that are should remind us about the way God is going to also carry out some other events that we do not yet have any experience of. In verse 3, knowing this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lust, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming?

For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continue just as it was from the beginning of creation. For this, for when they maintain that, may maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water. And by his word, the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. And maybe that’s why some people don’t want to acknowledge this. Because it means I’m going to have some accountability. Maybe it means the other things God says that are going to happen are really going to happen. But the fact is it’s going to happen whether we realize it or not.

While we’re there in 2 Peter chapter, 2 Peter chapter 3, turn back to chapter 2. And notice it says God did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly. That’s the only place that I know of that Noah is referred to as a preacher. I believe that’s the way in which God preached to the ancient world that’s mentioned in 1 Peter chapter 3. When it talks about that Christ in spirit had proclaimed to the spirits now in prison. Verse 18, Christ, 1 Peter 3, verse 18, for Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that he might bring to us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, in which, that is in the spirit.

He also went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison, who once were disobedient when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah during the construction of the ark in which a few, that is, eight persons were brought safely through the water. Or some say, some of the versions say saved by water, because he was separated from that wicked world in the same process that destroyed them, lifted him above it. I also want to recognize this. Hebrews 11 and verse 7, where we are, the things that Noah did were done by faith. How can we not see that? That it was by the faith of what God had told him. He said, Well, yeah, but God was speaking to him directly. Well, you have it in writing.

You have it in writing from God. Hebrews 11 and verse 7.

I’m in the wrong chapter. That’s why I’m not reading. I’m looking at it. It doesn’t look right. By faith, Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household by which he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. The work that Noah that Noah did was the obedience that he had because of his faith, but make no mistake about it. He didn’t save himself. God saved him. But he had to do what God told him to do. And that’s a great example of what faith really is. The work of the ark, think of the size of it. 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, 45 feet high. We used the minimum, the minimum dimensions.

He had to gather the animals, he had to feed the animals, he had to clean up after the animals. The preaching he did, the ordeal that he went through in the ark itself, the 40 days and 40 nights. You ever think about just what that was like inside that ark? And the full year in the ark. What time are we supposed to end this class? Right now? I got 10 minutes. Okay, good. I was rushing through some of this. So think about some of the lessons of Noah himself. The great example of faith. He was your ancestor. You might have ancestors you’re proud of. You know. Well, my great grandfather was a Texas ranger. I had to throw that in.

But I’m not as proud of him as I am of the conviction of a man named Noah, who was my ancestor and yours. And he did, he provided, because of his trusting in God, provided our existence. Provided the continued existence of all the land animals that exist today. Provided a great story for us to learn about how important it is not only to do what we need to do toward the saving of ourselves and those that we’re close to, but even this reference to him preaching, being a preacher of righteousness. You know, there’s been numerous stories. I’m going to just mention this latest Noah movie that I have not seen. I’ve only read some of the excerpts of it. It sounds like one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard of.

But I will say this that most stories have given some of this instead of the way it’s presented, that there was an appeal being made, trying to get other people to be part of this salvation that was found on the ark. And we know that because of inspired word, he was a preacher of righteousness. And I believe the reference there to him pre Christ preaching to the spirits now in prison doesn’t mean he went to Hades and is preaching to him there, but rather that he was in spirit preaching to them through Noah and the work that he did.

6. The Like Figure: Who Was He Really Trusting?

The very next verse, 1 Peter chapter 3 and verse 20, when it talks about that Noah and his and the other seven were saved through water, goes on and says, the like figure whereinto baptism does also now save us. What is the figure? What is the like figure? What’s similar between what happened with Noah and what happens with someone when they’re baptized? What the Peter makes that comparison? So how is it alike? We’re separated on people who were separated from the wicked world, from the from destruction. Well, there’s one washed away sin from terror. Right. There was a cleansing that took place, the washing away of sin. Anything else? What about this concept that has to do with us with our part to salvation?

God does his part, he’s done his part, he’s provided the means of salvation. Laura? Well, Noah had to build an ark, a certain measure of a certain tool, a certain gold boy. And in our life, we need to be a Christian and breaking the world of God has given that. What does that say about Noah? Why did he do all that? Why was he careful? Why was it he was careful to use gopher wood? Why was it that he used the dimensions that God gave him?

Why was that so important? What if he just did it his own way? I want a bigger ark. I want a different kind of wood. So who was he really trusting?

The obedience that Noah showed who he was really trusting. And that’s a missing piece that sometimes people don’t get when we’re talking about obeying God and following what he says. It’s not a matter of us saying, I’m going to save myself. It’s a matter of saying, no, I’m dependent on God to save me, so I want to listen to what God says and do things in his way. Because he’s the one I’m going to be dependent upon. And Noah knew that. And we should too. So we’ve already read over 1 Peter, 2 Peter chapter 3, but I want to finish out with the last couple of verses there. And I may give us a few more minutes to either make some comments or dismiss early.

Conclusion

Look at the last part of this as he concludes this idea that we look at what happened with Noah in his day. We see that Noah, that this flood that was that happened, and by the way, Jesus also makes reference to this in Matthew the 24th chapter. Another reference to Noah, not as a myth, but as a reality, that there were people going about their daily activities. There were people not believing that this was really going to happen, and the same thing’s going to happen at the end of time. Verse 8. 2 Peter 3, verse 8. Do not let this one fact escape you, notice, beloved, that with the Lord, one day is like a thousand years. And a thousand years like one day. The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance.

But the day of the Lord will come, like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. Application. Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy living or holy conduct in godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat, but according to his promise, we’re looking for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

There’s another day of destruction coming that’s going to be even more intense than the great flood. It’s going to happen. And so, since that’s the case, how should that affect us? Do you know, people, that if they really believe the flood story? And they made the application to realizing God’s told about some other destruction coming, do you think that might change the way they live? If they really believed it.

If you think more about the reality of this world is passing away. Every bit of it. And where we put our hope and our trust needs to be in God and the promises that he makes that are beyond this life. Final thoughts. Anything I needed to cover a little more detail? I’m not an expert on in geology and all that stuff. I’ve just borrow a little and describe things the way best I can see them. Thank you for your good attention and comments.