The Flood

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Chapter 7 describes the flood. Noah was 500 years old when his three sons, Ham, Shem and Japheth was born. He was 600 years old when he was told to take his wife, his three sons and their wives and a pair of every living creature and put them inside the Ark that he had built.

Then God opened all the "fountains of the deep" and the "windows of the heavens" and for 40 days and 40 nights, rain fell upon the earth. Many believe that at that time God returned the earth to the condition described in Gen. 1:1 when the waters of the seas covered the earth. The water fell in "streams" or "spouts" not in raindrops. The earth became completely covered with water to a depth of 22 feet above the highest mountain. All who were not in the Ark were drowned.

Eliphaz, in the book of Job, had knowledge of this event. He suggested to Job that he must have done something very wicked to have deserved the judgment that had fallen upon him. He asked of Job, "Have you walked the old way which man trod, those who were cut out of time and sent to eternity, whose foundation was over flown by the flood?"

We must believe that Noah witnessed to the people of his day of the impending doom by word as well as action, with the building of the Ark, but it returned unto him void. They mocked and ridiculed him. Ezekiel condoned Noah when he said, "Noah did but obey God and deliver his own soul".

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