WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE
How do we know the flood actually happened?

Genesis 7:23 “Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.”

Do you know the difference between books that are fact or fiction? . . . Let me give you some titles and you tell me to which group they belong: “Alice in Wonderland,” your mathematics book, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “The Holy Bible.” Hopefully you said that your mathematics book and The Holy Bible are both books that are fact.
Over the years Satan has been working to convince people that the Bible is fiction. He wants us to believe that the creation account is only a nice fiction story. The same is said about Jonah and even the resurrection of Jesus. Another important Bible account the devil wants us to doubt is the story of the flood. “Oh,” we hear, “there may have been a little flood, but it never covered all the earth. Don’t believe that impossible story!” Might they be telling the truth? Could the Bible contain a big mistake? Might the flood have only covered a small part of the earth? Does it really make a difference? . . .
Let’s look at the flood account in the Bible and see what really happened. First, the Bible tells us that the flood water covered, “all the high mountains under the entire heavens.” Second, we read that the floodgates of heaven and the vast caverns burst out with water. Third, why would Noah have spent a hundred years building the ark if the flood was only in his neighborhood? Why didn’t he just move? And fourth, why did he need to save animals from everywhere if only the animals in his area were in danger? Finally, God said, “I am going to put an end to all people.” That means people everywhere on earth. And let’s remember that God put the rainbow in the sky as a promise he would never send another worldwide flood. Jesus himself said, “Then the flood came and destroyed them all” (Luke 17:27.)
When one reads the Genesis account, the worldwide flood becomes obvious. This is what we read in Genesis. God said: . . . I will wipe mankind from the face of the earth (Gen. 6:7) . . . I am going to put an end to all people (Gen. 6:12) . . . I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth (Gen. 6: 13) . . . I am going to destroy all life under the heavens; every creature that has the breath of life in it (Gen. 6:17) . . . Everything on earth will perish (Gen. 6:17) . . . I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made (Gen. 7:4) . . . All the springs of the great deep burst forth (Gen. 7:11) . . . All the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered (Gen. 7:19) . . . Every living thing that moved on the earth perished (Gen. 7:21) . . . Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died (Gen. 7:22) . . . Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out (Gen. 7:23) . . . Never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done (Gen. 8:21).
There is no doubt that the flood covered the entire earth. It is important that we take everything we read in the Bible as fact because when we begin to doubt some of God’s Word, we put doubts in our minds about everything else in Scripture as well. Every word is true and everything God has shared with us is 100% facts!

In Christ, Mike Allard, Principal @ St. John’s