THE FLOOD BEGINS

The unbelief of the world will not delay by a single moment the judgment of God. Long disbelieved by the antediluvian world, its very possibility denied, the flood came nonetheless. And so it will also be in these last days. The very idea of Christ’s return and of the judgment to come is most vehemently denied by many. Yet like the antediluvians before them, they too will discover that that which they have so long denied, that which they have so long disbelieved, will come.

The storm came with unimaginable fury. Nobody doubted anymore. Nobody mocked anymore. But it was forever too late. Their eternal destiny was already decided.

Imagine if you will dozens of super-hurricanes sweeping the globe. Not piddley little category 5’s mind you, but categories 7’s, 8’s, and 9’s. Super-storms big enough to engulf entire continents, screaming across the landscape with unabated fury for a full forty days. And then consider that that may well have been the very least of your problems.

“On that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up.�?There is some debate among creationist as to just exactly what these fountains of the great deep were, but one idea that has been put forth, (which the Hebrew allows) and which I agree with, is that this refers to the ocean basins themselves. It is thought that on one hand the continents were depressed downward, and this depression of the continents was accompanied by a simultaneous raising of the antediluvian ocean floors on the other hand. There are mountains all across the Pacific now hundreds of feet below the surface whose tops have been sheared off flat by the action of surface waves. When you raise the sea bed enough to bring those mountain tops to the surface, the water above them is going to have to go somewhere. Surge after surge of super-tsunamis, tsunamis so big that the Christmas tsunami that hit southeast Asia would scarcely register as a ripple on its surface, would have scoured the land clean of everything, down to bedrock and beyond.

At the Cambrian/Pre-Cambrian boundary there is a global erosional unconformity so huge that it is estimated that the amount of material eroded at that level exceeds that calculated to have been eroded in all the rest of the geologic column combined. It is so exceptional that it has even been given the name “the Great Unconformity.�?By conventional geologic time scales, nearly a billion years worth of sedimentation is missing, just gone, eroded away by an erosional event that dwarfs anything else that has ever happened in the history of the planet. The Pre-Cambrian rock was scoured down to and deeply into the granitic basement rock that make up the foundations of the continents, and few places on earth escaped this scouring. All around the world, lying directly on top of this Great Unconformity are the basal conglomerates and breccias, and sandstones, consisting of large rocks, and coarse sandstones that consist of little more than crushed rock. In other words, rubble that represents the last phase of erosion before deposition began. These are very high energy deposits, and they are global in extent, transcontinental in extent, and no known geologic process currently operating on earth can even begin to create their like.

Genesis 7:17 Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. 18 The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered. 20 The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

The water increased . . . prevailed . . . greatly increased . . . prevailed exceedingly . . . and the mountain were covered Many people think of the flood as a somewhat simple, placid process, something like filling up a bathtub and then draining it again. But the flood was a very much more violent process. The picture Genesis paints is one of surge after surge of flood waters covering the earth. The waters would surge across the landscape in a super-tsunami, appear to retreat for a time, only to be followed by an even stronger surge, until in the course of time (it took about five months altogether) all the earth was flooded, the highest mountain tops on the planet covered by at least 22 to 23 feet of water.