Just about 5,000 years ago, God says He destroyed the Earth’s entire human population.
All but eight humans were killed in the flood. No one could escape the Flood because God caused the earth’s crust to break up at the start of the Flood.
Huge eruptions that raged under the oceans for thousands of miles literally boiled the ocean and released steam and volcanic ash into the air.
Immense tidal waves were also created.
The steam and the ash that went up precipitated rain for the entire period of the eruptions. All who are familiar with volcanic eruptions know this phenomenon. There would be a cooling down of the earth’s atmosphere as well due to the blockage of sunlight. Then oceanic waters not only boiled off and gave the rain but also swept across all landmass with such force that the soil and all the trees were uprooted into a muddy soup.
No one escaped; the Lost World perished in the Genesis Flood engineered by God.
This is the event we will read about in God’s Word. And this event directly caused the death of every man, woman, and child on Earth, except 8. It devastated all the forests of the earth. It drowned or suffocated every land animal on earth. It killed every massive and powerful dinosaur.
It destroyed every human being. And it left its footprints globally. Noah and his family rode out the first global catastrophe in a wooden boat! They were locked inside and had no way to see what was happening. Can you imagine the emotions they experienced? Fear, dread, anxiety, stress, claustrophobia, nausea, sea-sickness, second thoughts and so much more. But abandonment may have been the worst thought.
Try to think of the most alone and forgotten you have ever felt. Think about what it would have been like to have felt that for a year. Now you are only starting to feel what Noah felt as we examine his life this evening!
As we open Genesis 8, we are opening to the darkest hour of Noah’s life. As far as Noah could tell, they were all alone and adrift over fathomless swirling black waters. They had no rudder, sail, chart, or compass.
God had personally spoken to them and asked them to come in and join Him inside the Ark. They had responded and had been here for over a year, but there had been no word from God for over a year. Every member of his family was dead except his 3 boys and their wives. Every inch of his hometown was under a mile of rock and three miles of water. Noah’s world was gone, ruined, wrecked. Noah was alone and felt forgotten and abandoned. On top of that, the door was sealed shut, and the ark was floating somewhere that none inside could see.
The good news of this chapter is that God had not forgotten them. They were not abandoned. God has a perfect plan for the universe and me. He is working out that plan with infinitely accurate timing. God moves at the correct moment, even if we don’t.
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