Well good morning all you fine
people out there!
How has your week been? Besides busy, many things have happened
this week. I guess the most ground shaking is our dear worship leader has announced
God has called him to a church plant in California. We wish him many blessings
and will miss him dearly.
Speaking of ground shaking
events, literally, the next major event that happened in world history after
the Fall of Man, is the Noahician Deluge. What was the reason for such a destructive
flood?
“God saw how corrupt the earth
had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said
to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all the people, for the earth is filled
with violence because of them. So I am surely going to destroy both them and
the earth. So make yourself and ark of gopher wood…” (Genesis 6:12-14a).
Why was Noah spared this world
wide judgment? Because, “Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people
of his time, and he walked with God. Noah had three sons; Shem, Ham, and
Japheth.” (Genesis 6:9,10).
So we know the world had become wickedly
corrupt after The Fall and God decided to do something about it, giving mankind
another chance. But when did this all
happen. We know that The Fall happened shortly after Creation Week. God put up
with man’s violence for almost two thousand years before He was “grieved that
He had made man on the earth, and His heart was filled with pain.”
I believe that if God had any
other way to take care of the horrible violence, He would have. But history
shows us there was a global flood about 2348 BC.
TIMELINE (BC)
Creation 4004 10 days after 2348
Science Creation
Cosmos First Life End of
origins dinosaur age
Secular ~13.7 billion ~3.8 billion ~65 billion
Science years ago years ago years ago
We know that it was global
because a series of local floods does not collaborate with physical
evidence found in the geologic and fossil layers. There is, without a doubt, much
physical evidence that tell us local floods have happened virtually all over
the world. And Creation science agrees that local floods do occur in various
areas and different times leaving their imprint in the area affected. However, just
as local floods leave their evidence, there also can
be no doubt of the evidence of the one and only the global flood. It is the
only explanation of worldwide fossil-bearing layers thousands of feet deep that
makes any sense. For example, sedimentary rocks have almost all been laid down
by moving waters. Sedimentary mudstones make up the bulk of Earth’s mountains
and continents and it has long been taught by secular scientists that these mudstones
could only be formed by millions of years and millions of local floods that
produce the slow buildup of sediments in calm, shallow water bodies such as
ponds and lakes. The problem is local floods don’t distribute marine and other
fossils on a global scale, such are found on even the tallest mountains
throughout the world. There are fossils of marine creatures such as
brachiopods (bi-valves like clams and oysters), corals and mollusks, ferns and
other plants, and fossilized footprints and trackways of amphibians and
reptiles throughout the rock layers. Many of these fossils show evidence of
rapid burial – like clams in a closed position (clams are alive when they are
closed, dead when the two halves are open-thus fossilized clams in the closed
position can only mean one thing…they were buried alive). We find these fossils
even in the Grand Canyon. If there
were really only local floods, how did marine organisms get to Arizona?
Creation
scientists have long stated that mudstones formed quickly in a global flood. When
Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980 secular scientists were hard put to explain
the resulting layered mudstones. These mudstone layers are exactly the same as
found throughout the world, but were laid down quickly, supporting the global
flood. At Mt. St. Helens it was even recorded a number of layers were
accumulated in a matter of twenty minutes! The fossil record in itself is
evidence for a worldwide flood. “As Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis,
has often said, ‘If there really was a worldwide flood, what would you expect
to see? Billions of dead things, buried in rock layers laid down by water all
over the earth.’ This is exactly what we do see.” A world-wide flood has
left its mark on every continent on this planet.
Now that
we know why, when and that the Noachian Flood was indeed global, what triggered
the flood? What did God use?
That,
my friends has the most fascinating answer that new studies have reveled, and I
will too…next week!
Until then,
God bless and enjoy His creation out there!
Willow Dressel
This week
in the night skies: the full moon is Tuesday March 26. Comet
PanSTARRS is fading but still visible in early twilight in both
hemispheres. Bring binoculars!
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