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In Matthew 24,
verses 37 through 39,
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Jesus takes a look at how the
days of Noah would be a picture
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of how things would be
at the end of time.
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As it was in the days of Noah,
so shall it be in the days of
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the coming of the Son of man.
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He speaks of how they were
carrying on their daily
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activities, marrying and
giving in marriage,
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eating and drinking, and they
weren't paying attention.
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And they didn't know that the
Flood was going to come,
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despite 120 years of preaching.
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So shall it be, He says, in the
coming of the Son of man.
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History is repeating itself. I'm
sure the Lord looks down from
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heaven now, Jesus said
as it was in the days of Noah,
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so will it be in the
days of the Son of man.
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And we're seeing
that in the world today.
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The violence in the land, the
selfishness, the self worship,
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that's out there.
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And I think it just is
breaking the heart of God.
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Perhaps, the single most
important practical lesson to
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try and find the
present-day application for,
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is, what does it mean
to get on the Ark?
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We are living in the judgment
hour. We're living in a final
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twilight in the world's history,
where we're standing on
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the threshold of eternity. And
people need to realize these are
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awesome times. More-so than
any other time in history,
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because the sun is really going
down on the world's probation,
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and now is the time
when people need to
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prepare to meet their God.
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What happened before the Flood
is going to happen again, right
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before the second
coming of Christ.
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Those who don't have a
perspective,
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who aren't looking at the
scriptural message
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they'll go on just as they do
with the circumstances of life
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and they won't
see the end coming.
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I'm Jeff Reich, director of
Laymen Ministries.
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What you're about to witness
will be unlike anything,
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that you've ever seen before.
Not only are we going to
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investigate the Flood story,
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but we'll trace the roots of
evolution and show how it's
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influenced western society.
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Any most importantly, we'll take
a look at how the story of Noah
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helps explain the
pages of Bible prophecy.
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This is the story of
Noah and the Flood
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like you've never seen before.
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Today many
Christians are anticipating
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the future coming of Christ
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and they're wondering what's in
store for planet Earth.
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They'd do well if they went back
and read the story of Noah and
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the Flood, because, within that
epic story of the Bible,
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there is more of the future
revealed to us than many know.
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In fact, the evidences
are all around us.
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God, is love.
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His nature, His law, is love.
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It ever has been,
it ever will be.
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Every part of creation,
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from the tiniest insect that
floats in the sunbeams,
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to vast galaxies in the far
reaches of space.
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All are an expression of His
unsearchable love.
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There's no doubt
whatsoever that the world before
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the Flood spoke
about the love of God.
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Everything was
absolutely beautiful.
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His love was expressed in
anything and everything
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that you wanted to look at.
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From the smallest
single-cell lifeform,
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to the most complex being, in
that of Adam, that He created,
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everything was perfect.
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If we could be transported
back to find out what
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was the world was
like before the Flood,
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you really need to
think almost about,
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it was like a different planet.
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They were surrounded by an
abundance of food.
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There was an abundance
of beauty in nature.
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The mountains were not jagged
and rough and forbidding and
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dangerous like you see today.
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They were majestic and tall and
rolling and covered with fresh
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top-soil, and
every kind of flower
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that you can imagine. Many think
the animals and plants
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are extinct today.
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There was no extreme
colds, no extreme hot,
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no extreme dryness,
no extreme weather.
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And we didn't have
those horrific storms
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that we have now.
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The trees were covered with
vines and little tendrils were
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wrapped around all
in perfect order
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and just laden with fruit.
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It mentions in Genesis
how the water came up,
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as a mist came up and
watered the land.
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The Earth was watered by, like a
automatic sprinkler system.
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The mist came up from the Earth
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according to
Genesis chapter two.
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Rain was unknown.
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Gems and gold and silver were
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just abundant on the
surface of the ground.
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Here you have this
paradise if you will,
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that was in many respects
this perfect biosphere
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that would allow humans
and animals to flourish.
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The life-expectancy of the
people, of course being very
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long, according to the
Biblical record.
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When God makes it, He says it's
good, good, very good.
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And it was in the face of all
that, beauty that man sinned.
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He was really without
excuse because God
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had provided
everything he needed.
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Everything was in harmony
and every was, perfect.
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It's obvious when we look around
us that we do not live in a
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perfect world.
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In fact, this planet is not
even really very friendly
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towards human habitation
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when you consider that
over 70% of the Earth
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is covered with water.
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Add to that the fact that there
are cold barren waste places,
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vast deserts, mountain
chains... Well, either
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this planet's always been like
this, or something happened that
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fundamentally changed the
surface of the whole Earth.
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What happened at the Flood
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totally changed the
geography of the world.
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These little tiny bits of nature
that are broken, that reveal to
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us the true horror of sin,
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and what we're
seeing in our world is
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the consequence of that.
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Man began to try to find
happiness through selfishness
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and through sinfulness
and wickedness,
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but God is so loving, He said
there's still people down there
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I can save, I want to save
as many as I can.
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I'm going to give them a
warning. If they have any
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threads of
redeemable qualities left
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and they reach out,
I'll save them.
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And so He created this
Ark, He created a vehicle
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through which they
might be saved,
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and Noah, a messenger through
which they might learn.
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God is warning us.
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God gives us prophetic insights.
For us to turn from them,
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would be disastrous. Just as it
was for those in Noah's day.
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The story of Noah and the Flood
are in many ways a literal
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demonstration of
Revelation's prophecies.
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So come with us now as we open
the prophecies of Revelation,
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by going back,
to the Days of Noah.
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In the days of Noah, there were
evident tokens of decay,
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but the Earth was still
rich and beautiful
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in the gifts of God's
providence.
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The hills were crowned with
majestic trees supporting the
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fruit-laden
branches of the vine.
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The vast garden-like plains were
clothed with verdure and sweet
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with the fragrance of a
thousand flowers.
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The trees far surpassed in size,
beauty, and perfect proportion
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any now to be found;
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their wood was of fine grain and
hard substance, closely
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resembling stone, and
hardly less enduring.
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Gold, silver, and precious
stones existed in abundance.
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The human race yet retained
much of its early vigor.
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But a few generations had passed
since Adam had access to the
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tree which was to prolong life;
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and man’s existence was still
measured by centuries.
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Had that long-lived people, with
their rare powers to plan and
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execute, devoted themselves
to the service of God,
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they would have made
their Creator’s name
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a praise in the earth,
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and would have
answered the purpose
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for which He gave them life. But
they failed to do this.
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There were many giants, men of
great stature and strength,
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renowned for wisdom,
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skillful in devising the most
cunning and wonderful works;
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but their guilt in giving loose
rein to iniquity was in
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proportion to their skill
and mental ability.
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God bestowed upon
these antediluvians
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many and rich gifts;
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but they used His bounties to
glorify themselves, and turned
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them into a curse by
fixing their affections
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upon the gifts instead
of the Giver.
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They employed the gold and
silver, the precious stones and
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the choice wood, in the
construction of habitations for
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themselves, and endeavored to
excel one another in beautifying
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their dwellings
with the most skillful
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workmanship. They sought only to
gratify the desires of their
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own proud hearts, and reveled
in scenes of pleasure
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and wickedness.
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Not desiring to retain God in
their knowledge, they soon came
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to deny His existence.
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They adored nature in place of
the God of nature.
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They glorified human genius,
worshiped the works
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of their own hands,
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and taught their children to bow
down to graven images.
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And under the shadow of the
goodly trees they set up
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the altars of their idols.
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Extensive groves, that retained
their foliage throughout the
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year, were dedicated to the
worship of false gods.
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With these groves were connected
beautiful gardens, their long,
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winding avenues overhung with
fruit-bearing trees of
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all descriptions,
adorned with statuary,
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and furnished with all that
could delight the senses
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or minister to the voluptuous
desires of the people, and thus
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allure them to participate in
the idolatrous worship.
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The worshipers of false gods
clothed their deities with human
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attributes and passions,
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and thus their standard of
character was degraded
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to the likeness of
sinful humanity.
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"God saw that the wickedness of
man was great in the earth,
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and that every imagination of
the thoughts of his heart
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was only evil continually...
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The earth also was
corrupt before God;
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and the earth was
filled with violence.”
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God had given men His
commandments as a rule of life,
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but His law was transgressed,
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and every conceivable
sin was the result.
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The wickedness of men
was open and daring,
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justice was
trampled in the dust,
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and the cries of the oppressed
reached unto heaven.
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The world was in its infancy;
yet iniquity had become so deep
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and widespread that God could no
longer bear with it,
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and He said, “I will destroy man
whom I have created from the
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face of the earth.”
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He declared that His Spirit
should not always
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strive with the guilty race.
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If they did not cease to pollute
with their sins the world
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and its rich treasures, He would
blot them from His
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creation, and would destroy the
things with which He had
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delighted to bless them;
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He would sweep away the beasts
of the field, and the vegetation
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which furnished such an
abundant supply of food,
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and would transform the fair
earth into one vast scene of
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desolation and ruin.
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A hundred and twenty years
before the Flood, the Lord by a
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holy angel declared to
Noah His purpose,
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and directed him to build an
ark. While building the ark he
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was to preach that God would
bring a flood of water upon the
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earth to destroy the wicked.
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Those who would believe the
message, and would prepare for
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that event by
repentance and reformation,
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should find pardon and be saved.
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God gave Noah the exact
dimensions of the ark and
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explicit directions in regard
to its construction
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in every particular.
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Human wisdom could not have
devised a structure of so great
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strength and durability.
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God was the designer, and
Noah the master builder.
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It was three stories high,
with but one door,
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which was in the side.
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The light was admitted at the
top, and the different
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apartments were so
arranged that all were lighted.
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The material employed in the
construction of the ark was the
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cypress, or gopher wood,
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which would be untouched by
decay for hundreds of years.
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The building of this
immense structure
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was a slow and
laborious process.
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Yet the ark itself could not
have withstood the storm which
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was about to come
upon the earth.
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God alone could
preserve His servants
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upon the tempestuous waters.
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“By faith Noah, being warned of
God of things not seen as yet,
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moved with fear, prepared an ark
to the saving of his
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house; by the which he condemned
the world, and became heir of
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the righteousness
which is by faith.”
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While Noah was giving his
warning message to the world,
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his works testified
of his sincerity.
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It was thus that his faith was
perfected and made evident.
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He gave the world an example
of believing just what God says.
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All that he possessed, he
invested in the ark.
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As he constructed that immense
boat on dry ground, multitudes
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came from every direction
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to see the strange sight and to
hear the earnest, fervent words
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of the singular preacher.
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Every blow struck upon the ark
was a witness to the people.
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Yet they did not turn to God
with true repentance.
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They were unwilling to
renounce their sins.
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During the time that elapsed
before the coming of the Flood,
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their faith was tested,
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and they failed
to endure the trial.
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Overcome by the prevailing
unbelief, they finally joined
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their former associates in
rejecting the solemn message.
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Some were deeply convicted,
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and would have heeded
the words of warning;
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but there were so many to
jest and ridicule,
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that they partook
of the same spirit.
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The men of that generation
were not all, in the fullest
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acceptation of the
term, idolaters.
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Many professed to be
worshipers of God.
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They claimed that their idols
were representations of the
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deity, and that through them the
people could obtain a
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clearer conception
of the divine Being.
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As they endeavored to represent
God by material objects,
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their minds were blinded to His
majesty and power;
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they ceased to realize the
holiness of His character,
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or the sacred, unchanging nature
of His requirements.
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As sin became general, it
appeared less and less sinful,
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and they finally declared
that the divine law
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was no longer in force;
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that it was contrary to
the character of God
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to punish transgression;
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and they denied
that His judgments
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were to be visited
upon the earth.
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Had the men of that generation
obeyed the divine law,
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they would have recognized
the voice of God
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in the warning of His servant;
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but their minds had become so
blinded by rejection of light
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that they really believed
Noah’s message to be a delusion.
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It was not
multitudes or majorities
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that were on the side of right.
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The world was arrayed against
God’s justice and His laws,
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and Noah was
regarded as a fanatic.
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The world made merry at the
folly of the deluded old man.
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Instead of humbling the heart
before God, they continued their
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disobedience and wickedness,
the same as though God
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had not spoken to them
through His servant.
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But Noah stood like a rock
amid the tempest.
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Surrounded by popular
contempt and ridicule,
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he distinguished himself by
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his holy integrity and
unwavering faithfulness.
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A power attended his words.
Connection with God made him
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strong in the strength of
infinite power,
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while for 120 years his solemn
voice fell upon the ears of that
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generation in regard to events,
which, so far as human
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wisdom could judge,
were impossible.
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The world before the Flood
reasoned that for centuries
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the laws of nature
had been fixed.
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The recurring seasons had come
in their order.
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Heretofore rain
had never fallen;
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the earth had been
watered by a mist or dew.
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But by their obstinate
resistance to the reproofs of
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conscience, that generation
filled up the measure of their
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iniquity, and became
ripe for destruction.
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The period of their probation
was about to expire.
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Noah had faithfully followed the
instructions which he had
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received from God.
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The ark was finished in every
part as the Lord had directed,
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and was stored with
food for man and beast.
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And now the servant of God
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made his last solemn
appeal to the people.
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With an agony of desire that
words cannot express,
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he entreated them to seek a
refuge while it might be found.
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Beasts of every description, the
fiercest as well as the most
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gentle, were seen coming from
mountain and forest
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and quietly making their way
toward the ark.
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A noise as of a rushing wind was
heard, and lo,
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birds were flocking
from all directions,
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their numbers darkening the
heavens, and in perfect order
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they passed to the ark.
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Animals obeyed the command of
God, while men were disobedient.
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Guided by holy angels, they
“went in two and two unto Noah
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into the ark,” and the clean
beasts by sevens.
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The world looked on in
wonder, some in fear.
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Philosophers were called upon to
account for the singular
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occurrence, but in vain.
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It was a mystery which they
could not fathom.
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God commanded Noah,
“Come thou and all thy house
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into the ark;
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for thee have I seen righteous
before Me in this generation.”
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Noah’s warnings had been
rejected by the world,
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but his influence and example
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resulted in
blessings to his family.
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As a reward for his
faithfulness and integrity,
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God saved all the members
of his family with him.
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Mercy had ceased its pleadings
for the guilty race.
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The beasts of the field and the
birds of the air had entered
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the place of refuge.
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Noah and his household
were within the ark,
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“and the Lord shut him in.”
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A flash of dazzling light is
seen, and a cloud of glory more
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vivid than the lightning
descends from heaven
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and hovers before the
entrance of the ark.
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The massive door, which it was
impossible for those within
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to close, was slowly swung to
its place by unseen hands.
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Noah was shut in, and the
rejectors of God’s mercy
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were shut out.
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The seal of Heaven was on that
door; God had shut it,
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and God alone could open it.
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For seven days after Noah and
his family entered the ark,
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there appeared no sign of the
coming storm.
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But upon the eighth day dark
clouds overspread the heavens.
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There followed the muttering of
thunder and the flash of
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lightning. Soon large drops of
rain began to fall.
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The world had never witnessed
anything like this,
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and the hearts of men were
struck with fear.
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All were secretly inquiring,
“Can it be that Noah was in the
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right, and that the world is
doomed to destruction?”
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Darker and darker
grew the heavens,
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and faster
came the falling rain.
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The beasts were roaming about in
the wildest terror,
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and their discordant cries
seemed to moan out their
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destiny and the fate of man.
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Then “the fountains of the great
deep” were “broken up,
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and the windows of
heaven were opened.”
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Water appeared to come from the
clouds in mighty cataracts.
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Rivers broke away
from their boundaries,
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and overflowed the valleys.
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Jets of water burst from the
earth with indescribable force,
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throwing massive rocks
hundreds of feet into the air,
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and these, in falling, buried
themselves deep in the ground.
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The altars on which human
sacrifices had been offered were
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torn down, and the worshipers
were made to tremble at the
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power of the living God, and to
know that it was their
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corruption and idolatry
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which had called
down their destruction.
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As the violence of the storm
increased, trees, buildings,
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rocks, and earth were hurled in
every direction.
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The terror of man and beast
was beyond description.
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Above the roar of the tempest
was heard the wailing of a
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people that had despised the
authority of God.
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Others were frantic with fear,
stretching their hands toward
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the ark and
pleading for admittance.
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But their entreaties
were in vain.
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Conscience was at last aroused
to know that there is a God
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who ruleth in the heavens.
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Some in their desperation
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endeavored to break
into the ark,
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but the firm-made structure
withstood their efforts.
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Some clung to the ark until they
were borne away by the surging
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waters, or their hold was
broken by collision with
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rocks and trees.
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The massive ark trembled in
every fiber as it was beaten by
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the merciless winds and flung
from billow to billow.
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The cries of the beasts within
expressed their fear and pain.
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But amid the warring elements it
continued to ride safely.
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Some of the people bound their
children and themselves upon
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powerful animals, knowing that
these were tenacious of life,
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and would climb
to the highest points
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to escape the rising waters.
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Some fastened themselves to
lofty trees on the summit of
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hills or mountains;
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One spot after another that
promised safety was abandoned.
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As the waters rose higher and
higher, the people fled for
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refuge to the
loftiest mountains.
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Often man and beast would
struggle together for a
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foothold, until
both were swept away.
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From the highest peaks men
looked abroad
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upon a shoreless ocean.
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The solemn warnings of God’s
servant no longer seemed
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a subject for ridicule
and scorning.
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How those doomed sinners longed
for the opportunities
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which they had slighted!
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How they pleaded for one hour’s
probation, one more privilege
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of mercy, one call
from the lips of Noah!
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But the sweet voice of mercy
was no more to be heard by them.
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Love, no less than justice,
demanded that God’s judgments
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should put a check on sin.
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The avenging waters swept
over the last retreat,
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and the despisers of God
perished in the black depths.
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By the word of God "the
world that then was,
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being overflowed with
water, perished:
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but the heavens and the earth,
which are now, by the same word
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are kept in store, reserved unto
fire against the day
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of judgment and perdition of
ungodly men.”
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Another storm is coming.
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And sin and sinners
will be destroyed.
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God is love,
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yet there's a limit as to how
long He will endure evil.
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So we saw that God that God sent
a flood of water to wash away
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the evil of that age, but one
question remains.
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Could a world-wide catastrophe
occur and not leave behind some
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evidence that it
actually happened?
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The global Flood is more than
just a story written in a book.
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It's written
in the Earth itself.
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And these physical
evidences remain
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as a witness and
a warning to us.
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So now let's take some time, to
investigate, the Judgment.
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One of the most unique and
beautiful features of the Grand
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Canyon are the various different
colored sedimentary layers
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that run along the canyon
walls for miles.
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These layers are made of
sandstone and limestone and
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that's what creates that
rainbow in the rocks.
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It's one of the things that
makes the Grand Canyon
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so awesome to look at.
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But not only are these layers
unique to the Grand Canyon,
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they give us our greatest clue,
on how the canyon was formed.
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The rock layers that we see,
everywhere on the earth are
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generally in layers.
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The sedimentary rocks are almost
all deposited by water.
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We see the rock layers
consist of turbidites.
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Washed in material and with the
catastrophism that was going on
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you would have turbiditic action
and the washing in of material.
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So water brings mud or sand or
even coarser materials,
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carries it and
deposits it in a layer.
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That's typically how the rocks
in the geologic column form.
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And then there are different
kinds of sediments so they end
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up making rocks that
look very different,
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right on top of eachother.
478
00:29:22,135 --> 00:29:27,556
But there's a question of this
one layer formed, and then how
479
00:29:27,557 --> 00:29:31,393
much time passed until the next
layer came on top of it.
480
00:29:31,394 --> 00:29:34,104
The commonly held belief is
that over millions of years
481
00:29:34,105 --> 00:29:36,482
an ocean advanced over the
entire continent,
482
00:29:36,483 --> 00:29:39,443
and deposited a sedimentary
layer and then retreated,
483
00:29:39,444 --> 00:29:41,945
leaving the ground
dry once again.
484
00:29:41,946 --> 00:29:45,282
In this dry period lasting tens
of millions of years this
485
00:29:45,283 --> 00:29:47,075
sediment would have been
exposed to weathering
486
00:29:47,076 --> 00:29:48,911
and erosion.
487
00:29:48,912 --> 00:29:52,331
And if it just sits there
without being covered up fairly
488
00:29:52,332 --> 00:29:54,875
quickly, then a lot
of things happen.
489
00:29:54,876 --> 00:29:57,753
Plants grow on it, roots go down
through it, animals borough
490
00:29:57,754 --> 00:30:02,508
through it, flowing water will
carve channels and gulleys
491
00:30:02,509 --> 00:30:06,595
through it and so it doesn't
just stay undisturbed.
492
00:30:06,596 --> 00:30:09,932
Tens of millions of years of
weathering and erosion would
493
00:30:09,933 --> 00:30:12,559
create an enormous amount of
uneven terrain between these
494
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,478
two layers, such
as hills and valleys.
495
00:30:14,479 --> 00:30:16,438
But this is not what we see.
496
00:30:16,439 --> 00:30:18,524
There is little variation
between these layers.
497
00:30:18,525 --> 00:30:20,902
They're extremely flat.
498
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,239
And these time spans that
supposedly occur between two
499
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:29,535
layers, can be ten million
years, it can be 15 million,
500
00:30:29,536 --> 00:30:32,663
it can be up to 150 million
years like you see in one place
501
00:30:32,664 --> 00:30:35,874
in the Grand Canyon, in
deposits in the Grand Canyon.
502
00:30:35,875 --> 00:30:42,047
You expect a lot of erosion
then, in fact so much erosion
503
00:30:42,048 --> 00:30:46,677
that the whole record should be
gone a long time ago.
504
00:30:46,678 --> 00:30:51,723
Average rates of erosion are
about 61 millimeters
505
00:30:51,724 --> 00:30:53,141
per thousand years.
506
00:30:53,142 --> 00:30:55,978
With the same rate of erosion of
61 millimeters per
507
00:30:55,979 --> 00:30:58,313
thousand years, we should not
be looking for
508
00:30:58,314 --> 00:30:59,940
300 feet of erosion,
509
00:30:59,941 --> 00:31:04,695
not 3,000 feet or erosion, but
30,020 feet of erosion
510
00:31:04,696 --> 00:31:07,615
over a period of
150 million years.
511
00:31:08,449 --> 00:31:11,368
All the sedimentary layers in
the Grand Canyon combined
512
00:31:11,369 --> 00:31:13,495
should have eroded
six times over,
513
00:31:13,496 --> 00:31:15,831
and yet, these layers are flat,
514
00:31:15,832 --> 00:31:18,750
telling us these layers were
deposited rapidly
515
00:31:18,751 --> 00:31:21,587
in quick succession.
516
00:31:21,588 --> 00:31:25,299
So is it realistic to think that
150 million years passed
517
00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:27,426
and nothing
happened to this layer.
518
00:31:27,427 --> 00:31:32,097
It was not eroded out into
serious gulleys, and it looks
519
00:31:32,098 --> 00:31:35,642
likely that there wasn't that
time in between
520
00:31:35,643 --> 00:31:37,227
those different layers.
521
00:31:37,228 --> 00:31:38,562
The weather is always changing
522
00:31:38,563 --> 00:31:41,106
and the surface of the earth is
always changing with it.
523
00:31:41,107 --> 00:31:44,568
Thunderstorms, floods,
hurricanes, earthquakes and wind
524
00:31:44,569 --> 00:31:45,861
among other factors
525
00:31:45,862 --> 00:31:47,863
are always changing
and sculpturing
526
00:31:47,864 --> 00:31:49,615
the surface of our planet.
527
00:31:49,616 --> 00:31:52,743
These elements are always
depositing sediment or eroding
528
00:31:52,744 --> 00:31:55,913
sediment, resulting
in irregular surfaces.
529
00:31:56,664 --> 00:31:59,875
If you have time, then you're
going to have change.
530
00:31:59,876 --> 00:32:02,961
So when we look at the contact
points between these layers of
531
00:32:02,962 --> 00:32:06,465
sediment and see no evidence of
erosion and no evidence
532
00:32:06,466 --> 00:32:10,385
of deposition, this idea that
millions of years went by and
533
00:32:10,386 --> 00:32:14,973
nothing happened to the surface?
It just doesn't add up.
534
00:32:14,974 --> 00:32:20,354
These are turbidite layers,
often graded coarse to fine,
535
00:32:20,355 --> 00:32:24,149
which defies
uniformitarian principles.
536
00:32:24,150 --> 00:32:27,110
It had to be rapid deposition.
537
00:32:27,111 --> 00:32:31,031
When you a gap of 100 million
years you'd have a couple miles
538
00:32:31,032 --> 00:32:35,952
of erosion. Yet, you look at
the gap and it's flat.
539
00:32:35,953 --> 00:32:36,870
If it had taken a lot of time
540
00:32:36,871 --> 00:32:40,207
you should have irregular
erosion at the gaps.
541
00:32:40,208 --> 00:32:44,920
So the erosional feature is
saying, uh oh, hey,
542
00:32:44,921 --> 00:32:48,048
short time, not long time.
543
00:32:48,049 --> 00:32:50,801
The flatness of the layers and
so on, tells you about a past
544
00:32:50,802 --> 00:32:52,427
that is entirely different.
545
00:32:52,428 --> 00:32:53,428
And this is the kind of data
546
00:32:53,429 --> 00:32:55,890
you'd expect from the
Genesis Flood.
547
00:32:56,891 --> 00:33:00,310
Millions of years of erosion is
missing, because it was never
548
00:33:00,311 --> 00:33:03,021
there. This is what the
rocks are telling us.
549
00:33:03,022 --> 00:33:05,482
But erosion is not the only
thing missing,
550
00:33:05,483 --> 00:33:08,402
in fact, entire layers of
sediment representing tens of
551
00:33:08,403 --> 00:33:11,656
millions of years
are also missing.
552
00:33:38,850 --> 00:33:40,976
Here in the Grand Canyon you can
see right behind me this light
553
00:33:40,977 --> 00:33:43,061
colored rock, that's
Coconino Sandstone.
554
00:33:43,062 --> 00:33:46,314
It's sandwiched right on top of
this darker color here
555
00:33:46,315 --> 00:33:47,941
it's called Hermit Shale.
556
00:33:47,942 --> 00:33:50,736
There's a layer of sediment
missing between
557
00:33:50,737 --> 00:33:51,987
the Coconino Sandstone
558
00:33:51,988 --> 00:33:56,074
and the Hermit Shale, called
the Schnebly Hill Formation.
559
00:33:56,075 --> 00:33:59,119
Here we can see the lighter
colored Coconino Sandstone and
560
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,788
sitting beneath that is the
Schnebly Hill Formation
561
00:34:01,789 --> 00:34:04,166
that was missing
from the Grand Canyon.
562
00:34:04,167 --> 00:34:07,252
Beneath the Schnebly Hill
Formation is the Hermit Shale,
563
00:34:07,253 --> 00:34:10,715
though somewhat obscured by the
vegetation in the valley.
564
00:34:12,049 --> 00:34:15,927
This is the Schnebly Hill
Formation. It's more than 800
565
00:34:15,928 --> 00:34:20,181
feet of rock, representing
about six million years.
566
00:34:20,183 --> 00:34:25,020
And the problem that science
has, is that it cannot just
567
00:34:25,021 --> 00:34:30,442
remove that rock layer because
in the mind of the modern
568
00:34:30,443 --> 00:34:34,571
geologist each rock layer is
associated with time.
569
00:34:34,572 --> 00:34:39,201
So removing a rock layer means
you've removed a block of time.
570
00:34:39,202 --> 00:34:42,871
So the solution to them
would be, well,
571
00:34:42,871 --> 00:34:47,208
the bottom layers formed, the
missing ones must have been
572
00:34:47,210 --> 00:34:49,085
there because the
time was there,
573
00:34:49,085 --> 00:34:52,839
but here in this area there must
have been a period of erosion
574
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:54,090
that took them away
575
00:34:54,091 --> 00:34:58,053
to the previous layer. Thus not
leaving a trace and
576
00:34:58,054 --> 00:35:00,388
then the next one was
deposited on top.
577
00:35:00,389 --> 00:35:05,685
The problem with that is that
the contact is absolutely flat
578
00:35:05,686 --> 00:35:08,522
like one glass sheet on
top of another one,
579
00:35:08,523 --> 00:35:12,651
leaving no evidence of those
erosional features which would
580
00:35:12,652 --> 00:35:17,572
show deep leeching, washouts,
any one of those scenarios,
581
00:35:17,573 --> 00:35:19,115
they're not there.
582
00:35:19,116 --> 00:35:22,869
Why are they a challenge to the
long geologic ages?
583
00:35:22,870 --> 00:35:26,374
Because there
is no erosion there.
584
00:35:27,750 --> 00:35:30,210
The Schnebly Hill Formation is
missing from between these two
585
00:35:30,211 --> 00:35:33,588
layers and there is no evidence
of any erosion.
586
00:35:33,589 --> 00:35:36,258
This tells us that there was
little to no time between
587
00:35:36,259 --> 00:35:37,759
the formation of these layers
588
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:41,638
and that they were deposited
rapidly in a catastrophic event.
589
00:35:41,639 --> 00:35:44,474
This is why the Schnebly Hill
Formation is missing in-between
590
00:35:44,475 --> 00:35:46,560
these layers in the Grand Canyon
591
00:35:46,561 --> 00:35:51,481
and is seen yet, in another
location only 90 miles away.
592
00:35:51,482 --> 00:35:55,110
So the Grand Canyon is a
beautiful geological example
593
00:35:55,111 --> 00:35:57,070
of catastrophism
594
00:35:57,071 --> 00:36:01,700
and it defies modern theories
595
00:36:01,701 --> 00:36:05,912
as to how these
unconformities came about.
596
00:36:05,913 --> 00:36:07,539
Here is the Redwall Limestone
597
00:36:07,540 --> 00:36:10,041
sitting on top of the
Mauv Limestone.
598
00:36:10,042 --> 00:36:12,419
Between these two layers we
should see the Temple Butte
599
00:36:12,420 --> 00:36:17,257
Formation representing up to
155 million years of time.
600
00:36:17,258 --> 00:36:19,467
Instead, it's
completely missing.
601
00:36:19,468 --> 00:36:24,139
There's no evidence of the 5.8
miles of erosion we would expect
602
00:36:24,140 --> 00:36:27,601
to see over this period of time.
603
00:36:27,602 --> 00:36:31,563
There's no evidence of erosion,
no evidence of deposition.
604
00:36:31,564 --> 00:36:34,900
Just a flat contact.
605
00:36:34,901 --> 00:36:38,069
But you cant have an area
606
00:36:38,070 --> 00:36:43,033
of 30 or 40, 50,000
square kilometers
607
00:36:43,034 --> 00:36:45,410
that have a flat surface
608
00:36:45,411 --> 00:36:48,997
that sits there for 100
million years.
609
00:36:48,998 --> 00:36:52,709
A hundred million years after
all is enough time to erode
610
00:36:52,710 --> 00:36:57,797
North America down from its
current elevation to base level,
611
00:36:57,798 --> 00:37:01,635
to sea-level, 6-7 times.
612
00:37:01,636 --> 00:37:04,554
And here the contact between the
Redwall Limestone and the
613
00:37:04,555 --> 00:37:08,266
Mauv Limestone is flat, telling
us there was little or no
614
00:37:08,267 --> 00:37:12,354
passage of time between their
formation. The 150 million years
615
00:37:12,355 --> 00:37:15,398
missing from between these two
layers does not conform
616
00:37:15,399 --> 00:37:18,693
to the geological column. And
for this reason a sign has been
617
00:37:18,694 --> 00:37:21,655
placed here by the park service
marking it as yet,
618
00:37:21,656 --> 00:37:23,574
another unconformity.
619
00:37:26,035 --> 00:37:29,079
We've looked at just a few of
these unconformities and in each
620
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,915
instance there was no erosion
or deposition taking
621
00:37:31,916 --> 00:37:35,043
place in the supposed periods
of millions of years.
622
00:37:35,044 --> 00:37:37,462
These are serious problems
for evolutionists,
623
00:37:37,463 --> 00:37:39,547
but they pale in comparison
to what is called
624
00:37:39,548 --> 00:37:41,299
the Great Unconformity,
625
00:37:41,300 --> 00:37:43,885
a gap of over a billion
years of missing time.
626
00:37:43,886 --> 00:37:46,638
And guess what. The contact
between these two layers
627
00:37:46,639 --> 00:37:49,307
is flat, just like the others.
628
00:37:49,308 --> 00:37:53,603
It is interesting as we go down
to the level of the Colorado
629
00:37:53,604 --> 00:37:58,776
river we find what we
call the Precambrian.
630
00:38:00,778 --> 00:38:03,905
The volcanic material sits there
and it's pretty rough and
631
00:38:03,906 --> 00:38:08,910
pretty jumbled and then the
Cambrian sediments that come in
632
00:38:08,911 --> 00:38:13,790
over that, lay over that. And
then now they become very
633
00:38:13,791 --> 00:38:17,419
non-jumbled layer after layer.
634
00:38:17,420 --> 00:38:22,716
I became keenly aware of that
Great Unconformity that lies
635
00:38:22,717 --> 00:38:26,511
between the Precambrian
and the Cambmrian
636
00:38:26,512 --> 00:38:30,015
there in the Grand Canyon.
You can't miss it,
637
00:38:30,016 --> 00:38:32,143
it's with you all the time.
638
00:38:33,060 --> 00:38:35,520
The Great Unconformity in the
Grand Canyon represents
639
00:38:35,521 --> 00:38:38,940
1.2 billion years of time that
is missing between the
640
00:38:38,941 --> 00:38:42,652
Precambrian and the Cambrian
layers. Over this amount of time
641
00:38:42,653 --> 00:38:46,072
we should see up to 45
miles of uneven erosion.
642
00:38:46,073 --> 00:38:49,784
That's nearly enough erosion to
erode away the entire 25 miles
643
00:38:49,785 --> 00:38:52,370
of the earth's crust, twice.
644
00:38:52,371 --> 00:38:56,249
Yet, the Cambrian sits flat on
top of the Precambrian layer.
645
00:38:56,250 --> 00:38:59,586
And once again, the contact
point between these two layers
646
00:38:59,587 --> 00:39:00,837
is horizontal,
647
00:39:00,838 --> 00:39:03,798
telling us that the deposition
of these layers is not the work
648
00:39:03,799 --> 00:39:06,801
of 1.2 billion
years of erosion,
649
00:39:06,802 --> 00:39:10,013
but empirical evidence for a
widespread water-based
650
00:39:10,014 --> 00:39:12,098
catastrophe that
occurred rapidly
651
00:39:12,099 --> 00:39:15,269
in a short period of time.
652
00:39:16,645 --> 00:39:21,566
Then you come to the Cambrian
layer, and all of the sudden
653
00:39:21,567 --> 00:39:23,651
things change dramatically.
654
00:39:23,652 --> 00:39:28,990
Most of your animal phyla
appear all of the sudden
655
00:39:28,991 --> 00:39:31,367
in that Cambrian layer.
656
00:39:31,368 --> 00:39:37,415
Not only isolated species but
whole phyla appear suddenly.
657
00:39:37,416 --> 00:39:39,584
Now that's mind-boggling.
658
00:39:39,585 --> 00:39:43,671
If you take a phylum that's a
huge category of creatures.
659
00:39:43,672 --> 00:39:50,136
A phylum Mollusca for example
is every single snail and slug
660
00:39:50,137 --> 00:39:55,016
down to squids and Octopi
and all the creatures
661
00:39:55,017 --> 00:39:59,521
that belong to this group.
662
00:39:59,522 --> 00:40:02,816
And they all appeared
simultaneously?
663
00:40:02,817 --> 00:40:05,193
At the same time?
664
00:40:05,194 --> 00:40:10,115
That doesn't leave much room for
slow evolutionary processes.
665
00:40:10,116 --> 00:40:13,785
This is a double problem for
evolution here that we have,
666
00:40:13,786 --> 00:40:16,162
and evolutionists are aware of
this and they call this
667
00:40:16,163 --> 00:40:17,622
the Cambrian explosion.
668
00:40:17,623 --> 00:40:20,959
The Cambrian explosion is the
period referred to in the
669
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:24,087
Cambrian layers where animals
appear fully-formed in the
670
00:40:24,088 --> 00:40:27,090
fossil record. These
fully-formed fossils
671
00:40:27,091 --> 00:40:29,342
consist of the data we observe.
672
00:40:29,343 --> 00:40:32,846
Since the Precambrian layer
does not contain fossils of
673
00:40:32,847 --> 00:40:35,682
animal phyla or
intermediary species,
674
00:40:35,683 --> 00:40:38,935
this leaves the concept of
origins from interconnected
675
00:40:38,936 --> 00:40:43,816
evolutionary steps, ever to
exist in the realm of theory.
676
00:40:45,401 --> 00:40:48,778
So what does that talk about?
Is that about evolution?
677
00:40:48,779 --> 00:40:51,823
Hardly. It's about creation.
678
00:40:51,824 --> 00:40:55,535
This Precambrian layer often
called the basement rock, only
679
00:40:55,536 --> 00:40:58,496
contains fossils of
single-celled organisms and some
680
00:40:58,497 --> 00:41:01,124
soft-bodied creatures such as
worms or jellyfish.
681
00:41:01,125 --> 00:41:04,127
This fits the Biblical record,
because, before the Flood
682
00:41:04,128 --> 00:41:07,338
there was no severe weather
patterns or large catastrophes
683
00:41:07,339 --> 00:41:09,924
to bury and fossilize
larger animals.
684
00:41:09,925 --> 00:41:13,595
The Cambrian layer however
right above it, is the first
685
00:41:13,596 --> 00:41:16,014
sedimentary layer
deposited by the Flood.
686
00:41:16,015 --> 00:41:19,392
And this is why in it, we see
whole phyla of animals appearing
687
00:41:19,393 --> 00:41:22,062
suddenly, and fully-formed.
688
00:41:23,439 --> 00:41:26,274
There are no traces of
intermediary species or slow
689
00:41:26,275 --> 00:41:30,445
evolutionary processes because
no such things ever occurred.
690
00:41:30,446 --> 00:41:33,448
These sedimentary layers in the
Grand Canyon are not evidence
691
00:41:33,449 --> 00:41:34,616
for evolution.
692
00:41:34,617 --> 00:41:38,036
They are unbiased testimonies
of a catastrophic flood.
693
00:41:38,037 --> 00:41:41,164
And when we look at the size of
these deposits, they tell us
694
00:41:41,165 --> 00:41:44,877
that this catastrophic flood
was a global event.
695
00:41:50,883 --> 00:41:55,345
The Grand Canyon is there and
you can see the layers on the
696
00:41:55,346 --> 00:41:58,014
side of it but all those layers
go hundreds of miles
697
00:41:58,015 --> 00:42:03,519
up through Arizona and Utah and
Wyoming and Montana
698
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:06,147
and even into Canada,
the same layers.
699
00:42:06,148 --> 00:42:09,526
The Tapeats Sandstone at the
bottom of the Grand Canyon was
700
00:42:09,527 --> 00:42:11,903
the first layer
deposited by the Flood.
701
00:42:11,904 --> 00:42:15,782
It spans all the way from Mexico
up across North America and
702
00:42:15,783 --> 00:42:17,408
even into Greenland.
703
00:42:17,409 --> 00:42:20,620
The Morrison Formation
covers 400,000
704
00:42:20,621 --> 00:42:24,582
square miles from New Mexico to
Canada and the St. Peter's
705
00:42:24,583 --> 00:42:29,879
Sandstone covered approximately
500,000 square miles.
706
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:33,675
When I thought about looking at
those layers the way they are,
707
00:42:33,676 --> 00:42:38,304
they're all flat. There are no
cuts between them.
708
00:42:38,305 --> 00:42:41,808
Not only are the layers
themselves laid down rapidly but
709
00:42:41,809 --> 00:42:44,812
there's not millions of years
between them for erosion.
710
00:42:46,897 --> 00:42:50,233
The lack of erosion between the
sedimentary layers in the Grand
711
00:42:50,234 --> 00:42:52,944
Canyon shows they were
deposited rapidly
712
00:42:52,945 --> 00:42:56,155
in a catastrophe, but the fact
that these layers extend for
713
00:42:56,156 --> 00:42:59,242
hundreds of miles, spanning
several states and even up into
714
00:42:59,243 --> 00:43:03,579
Canada shows the scale of the
catastrophe was much larger than
715
00:43:03,580 --> 00:43:07,668
anything the world has witnessed
in modern times.
716
00:43:23,726 --> 00:43:28,563
In terms of worldwide Flood
evidence, we look at the
717
00:43:28,564 --> 00:43:32,775
sediments and looking at the
structure of the sediments,
718
00:43:32,776 --> 00:43:35,236
the fossils that are found in
the sediments and what not, we
719
00:43:35,237 --> 00:43:39,991
have what we call the
geologic column.
720
00:43:39,992 --> 00:43:45,455
And we find the Cambrian, the
Ordovician, the Silurian, the
721
00:43:45,456 --> 00:43:50,043
Devonian, the Carboniferous
and the Permian.
722
00:43:50,044 --> 00:43:53,921
Those are just some of the major
structures that we see. We can
723
00:43:53,922 --> 00:43:56,674
find those in the United States.
We can go over to
724
00:43:56,675 --> 00:44:01,471
Europe and guess what, we find
the same sequences, we go to
725
00:44:01,472 --> 00:44:04,265
Asia we find the
same sequences,
726
00:44:04,266 --> 00:44:06,642
we go to Australia we find
727
00:44:06,643 --> 00:44:10,396
the same sequences. Not only do
we find the same sequences in
728
00:44:10,397 --> 00:44:16,361
structure, and content, but
also the fossil content.
729
00:44:16,362 --> 00:44:25,411
To me this says, something had
to happen worldwide, if not
730
00:44:25,412 --> 00:44:30,416
simultaneously, awfully
close to simultaneously
731
00:44:30,417 --> 00:44:33,336
for all of this to happen and
all of the sedimentary
732
00:44:33,337 --> 00:44:34,879
structures to come down.
733
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:40,218
I try to focus on those things
in the record that make us aware
734
00:44:40,219 --> 00:44:43,221
of the global
aspect of the Flood.
735
00:44:43,222 --> 00:44:47,767
For example what we call the
Cretaceous chalks that are found
736
00:44:47,768 --> 00:44:49,102
all over the world.
737
00:44:49,103 --> 00:44:54,357
And a chalk layer is deposited
in water. And it's the calcium
738
00:44:54,358 --> 00:44:58,694
carbonate skeletons of
Foraminifera, marine
739
00:44:58,695 --> 00:45:03,783
organisms, and you have masses
of these creatures.
740
00:45:03,784 --> 00:45:06,285
And you have this layer
and it spreads
741
00:45:06,286 --> 00:45:09,497
continent wide to continent
742
00:45:09,498 --> 00:45:14,043
to continent and it can only be
deposited under water, therefore
743
00:45:14,044 --> 00:45:16,546
the whole world must
have been under water
744
00:45:16,547 --> 00:45:18,548
at the same time.
745
00:45:18,549 --> 00:45:23,970
This is such compelling evidence
for a universal flood, that you
746
00:45:23,971 --> 00:45:28,474
have to really, really have to
stretch the imagination
747
00:45:28,475 --> 00:45:32,687
to make it a periodic
incursion or regression.
748
00:45:32,688 --> 00:45:36,732
And those are just one of the
kinds of deposits that tell us
749
00:45:36,733 --> 00:45:39,902
you had things happening on a
worldwide scale,
750
00:45:39,903 --> 00:45:42,488
because you have chalk in a
number of parts in the world,
751
00:45:42,489 --> 00:45:45,741
all at the very same place in
the geologic record.
752
00:45:45,742 --> 00:45:51,122
We will find that they sit on a
iron containing sand, that we
753
00:45:51,123 --> 00:45:56,294
call Glauconitic Sandstone.
And we will find the
754
00:45:56,295 --> 00:46:00,590
Glauconitic Sandstone in
England. We can find the same
755
00:46:00,591 --> 00:46:05,344
structures here in the United
States in Alabama
756
00:46:05,345 --> 00:46:10,558
and that area, we can find them
in Australia and guess what,
757
00:46:10,559 --> 00:46:13,728
they're all sitting on
Glauconitic Sandstones,
758
00:46:13,729 --> 00:46:15,271
they all have the
same types of fossils,
759
00:46:15,272 --> 00:46:17,815
the whole business, it's there,
760
00:46:17,816 --> 00:46:23,947
but it's evidence there was
continuity across the world.
761
00:46:25,240 --> 00:46:27,950
I'm here at the south rim of the
Grand Canyon at an elevation of
762
00:46:27,951 --> 00:46:30,161
7,200 feet above sea level.
763
00:46:30,162 --> 00:46:32,079
I'm currently standing
on what is called
764
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:34,582
the Kaibab Limestone Formation.
765
00:46:34,583 --> 00:46:38,586
This sedimentary rock is found
all over Nevada, Utah, Arizona
766
00:46:38,587 --> 00:46:40,922
and even as far away as the
state of California,
767
00:46:40,923 --> 00:46:45,009
and it's teeming with marine
fossils. The fact that you find
768
00:46:45,010 --> 00:46:47,428
fossils here tell us that this
layer had to be laid
769
00:46:47,429 --> 00:46:50,973
down rapidly in order for
fossilization to occur.
770
00:46:50,974 --> 00:46:53,184
There are certain kinds of
limestone formation,
771
00:46:53,185 --> 00:46:55,561
characteristic limestone
formations you find in the Grand
772
00:46:55,562 --> 00:46:59,315
Canyon and other areas in the
Paleozoic. You find those in
773
00:46:59,316 --> 00:47:02,652
Europe and in Asia and in other
parts of the world.
774
00:47:02,653 --> 00:47:06,322
You find these
limestones very typical
775
00:47:06,323 --> 00:47:09,158
of being global in
their distribution.
776
00:47:09,159 --> 00:47:11,369
As you go up the record there
are things that are
777
00:47:11,370 --> 00:47:13,955
characteristic here, that are
around the world.
778
00:47:13,956 --> 00:47:15,998
You go up a little higher you
have different things that are
779
00:47:15,999 --> 00:47:18,668
characteristic around the
world, you go up a little higher
780
00:47:18,669 --> 00:47:20,545
and you have other features of
the rocks that are
781
00:47:20,546 --> 00:47:24,173
characteristic around the world
and we could go on.
782
00:47:24,174 --> 00:47:25,841
There are many
examples of this.
783
00:47:25,842 --> 00:47:30,054
And so why are those things so
global? I think it's best
784
00:47:30,055 --> 00:47:33,224
explained by a global
catastrophe.
785
00:47:33,225 --> 00:47:36,602
The widespread distribution of
chalk and other sedimentary
786
00:47:36,603 --> 00:47:39,772
layers is consistent with what
we would expect to see
787
00:47:39,773 --> 00:47:43,651
in a worldwide catastrophe. But
the fossils themselves, which is
788
00:47:43,652 --> 00:47:46,028
often thought to be
evidence for evolution,
789
00:47:46,029 --> 00:47:50,492
are in reality, further evidence
for the Genesis Flood story.
790
00:47:51,201 --> 00:47:55,997
Finding the same fossils in the
same layers worldwide to me
791
00:47:55,998 --> 00:47:59,166
is another strong salient point
792
00:47:59,167 --> 00:48:04,005
that there was a global flood,
a global phenomenon.
793
00:48:04,006 --> 00:48:09,885
And when we look at the fossil
record, we will find smaller
794
00:48:09,886 --> 00:48:16,892
less complex fossils at the
bottom, and as we traverse up
795
00:48:16,893 --> 00:48:18,144
the geologic column we will
796
00:48:18,145 --> 00:48:22,273
find larger and
larger complexity.
797
00:48:22,274 --> 00:48:25,985
And this has led many people to
believe that there is an
798
00:48:25,986 --> 00:48:27,778
evolutionary progression
799
00:48:27,779 --> 00:48:32,283
from simple to complex
in the fossil record.
800
00:48:32,284 --> 00:48:33,868
Actually there's no such thing.
801
00:48:33,869 --> 00:48:35,953
There's no such thing
as a simple animal.
802
00:48:35,954 --> 00:48:41,459
Every animal, every creature
ever found, is highly complex.
803
00:48:41,460 --> 00:48:44,962
And a lot of people talk
about those as
804
00:48:44,963 --> 00:48:46,965
the first
appearances of life.
805
00:48:47,549 --> 00:48:50,593
I would like to propose that
we're looking not as a record of
806
00:48:50,594 --> 00:48:53,721
life, but as a record of death.
807
00:48:53,722 --> 00:48:55,306
It's the first appearance of
808
00:48:55,307 --> 00:48:58,309
the preservation of
things that are dying.
809
00:48:58,310 --> 00:49:02,438
We have this complex
aqueous destruction
810
00:49:02,439 --> 00:49:06,317
the Flood occurring, and as
these sediments are settling,
811
00:49:06,318 --> 00:49:08,319
they are also settling
812
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:14,116
and trapping the life-forms as
they die, simple to more complex
813
00:49:14,117 --> 00:49:15,576
to more complex.
814
00:49:15,577 --> 00:49:19,163
Obviously if you're going to
cover an environment with a
815
00:49:19,164 --> 00:49:22,750
turbidite that which lives at
the bottom will be buried at
816
00:49:22,751 --> 00:49:26,796
the bottom, that which swims at
a higher level will be buried
817
00:49:26,797 --> 00:49:29,715
at a higher level, that
which is on the top
818
00:49:29,716 --> 00:49:33,552
will be found on the top. And
this is exactly what we find.
819
00:49:33,553 --> 00:49:37,348
We find fish that
are fossilized
820
00:49:37,349 --> 00:49:39,642
in their position of swim,
821
00:49:39,643 --> 00:49:43,855
sometimes with food in their
mouth. That's instantaneous.
822
00:49:44,523 --> 00:49:47,191
Fossils are only created when
they're rapidly buried.
823
00:49:47,192 --> 00:49:51,487
In order to have rapid burial,
you need to have a catastrophe.
824
00:49:51,488 --> 00:49:54,615
A mudslide from
heavy rain or a flood
825
00:49:54,616 --> 00:49:56,242
can cause such a condition.
826
00:49:56,243 --> 00:49:59,870
The fact that there's so many
fossils found all over the world
827
00:49:59,871 --> 00:50:03,290
and in the same layers is
evidence of rapid burial
828
00:50:03,291 --> 00:50:07,378
on a global scale. Another
strong give away that this was
829
00:50:07,379 --> 00:50:10,756
the result of a global flood,
is the fact that many of these
830
00:50:10,757 --> 00:50:13,384
animals have been washed
together by strong currents,
831
00:50:13,385 --> 00:50:16,930
into what is called
fossil graveyards.
832
00:50:25,355 --> 00:50:28,232
Fossil graveyards
are something that
833
00:50:28,233 --> 00:50:30,568
most people probably
aren't familiar with.
834
00:50:30,569 --> 00:50:33,320
It's the idea you have
a mass mortality.
835
00:50:33,321 --> 00:50:37,783
That means a large number of
animals were destroyed
836
00:50:37,784 --> 00:50:41,871
and buried, pretty much
at the same time.
837
00:50:41,872 --> 00:50:44,081
And probably the most popular
838
00:50:44,082 --> 00:50:47,169
of these types of deposits
are the dinosaurs.
839
00:50:47,961 --> 00:50:51,756
But there are areas of
concentration, which have always
840
00:50:51,757 --> 00:50:55,217
made me wonder, let's look at
what the sediments were doing.
841
00:50:55,218 --> 00:50:58,012
Maybe this is a low area and
these things were being washed
842
00:50:58,013 --> 00:51:00,514
in and deposited in kind of
little low areas
843
00:51:00,515 --> 00:51:02,892
and concentrated
in that way by waters
844
00:51:02,893 --> 00:51:04,518
that were moving these bodies.
845
00:51:04,519 --> 00:51:09,733
We find things like this all
over the globe.
846
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:13,444
For example there are layers in
central Utah where there are
847
00:51:13,445 --> 00:51:16,405
Brachiopods. Brachiopods
are like clams.
848
00:51:16,406 --> 00:51:21,786
There are, I don't know,
billions of these organisms that
849
00:51:21,787 --> 00:51:26,248
make up these layers.
That's a fossil graveyard.
850
00:51:26,249 --> 00:51:31,545
It's unconscionably high count
of fossils. I'm working on a
851
00:51:31,546 --> 00:51:36,134
bone-bed in Wyoming right now
where we have the remains of
852
00:51:37,344 --> 00:51:39,804
10,000 or more dinosaurs.
853
00:51:39,805 --> 00:51:41,722
It certainly speaks
of catastrophe.
854
00:51:41,723 --> 00:51:46,143
You don't get bone-beds forming
without catastrophes. We found
855
00:51:46,144 --> 00:51:50,439
out in our deposit at least, the
bones are not as we would
856
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:52,107
expect them to be if
a bunch of animals
857
00:51:52,108 --> 00:51:53,818
had died over a period of time.
858
00:51:53,819 --> 00:51:56,946
Instead the bones are
dis-articulated and
859
00:51:56,947 --> 00:51:59,073
they're sorted
according to size.
860
00:51:59,074 --> 00:52:02,117
So they have big bones on the
bottom and little bones on top
861
00:52:02,118 --> 00:52:04,495
and the only way you can get
that to happen is if you
862
00:52:04,496 --> 00:52:08,791
transported the whole mass of
bones as a debris flow, very
863
00:52:08,792 --> 00:52:12,962
rapidly into deeper water and
bones sorted themselves
864
00:52:12,963 --> 00:52:14,673
as they traveled.
865
00:52:17,509 --> 00:52:22,763
Take the Karoo basin, I mean,
it's massive. And the dinosaurs
866
00:52:22,764 --> 00:52:25,766
and the creatures are
orientated in the direction
867
00:52:25,767 --> 00:52:31,063
of stream flow. And the modern
thinking would be well, it would
868
00:52:31,064 --> 00:52:33,858
had to have been river basins
where these creatures
869
00:52:33,859 --> 00:52:36,902
were deposited, stretching over
virtually the entire continent.
870
00:52:36,903 --> 00:52:39,446
That's some river.
It doesn't happen today.
871
00:52:39,447 --> 00:52:41,782
You have to imagine
such a totally
872
00:52:41,783 --> 00:52:43,576
different world in the past.
873
00:52:43,577 --> 00:52:48,206
There are so many things which
point to a universal flood.
874
00:52:54,796 --> 00:52:58,799
The violent forces of the Flood
washed thousands of animals into
875
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:01,218
large areas where they later
become fossilized.
876
00:53:01,219 --> 00:53:03,804
However, under different
conditions the same plant and
877
00:53:03,805 --> 00:53:06,390
animal debris turned into coal.
878
00:53:06,391 --> 00:53:11,228
Coal is masses of plant material
that have been deposited in a
879
00:53:11,229 --> 00:53:14,690
unit and they've been sort of
compacted and changed
880
00:53:14,691 --> 00:53:19,361
chemically into coal. Coal
deposits could be very extensive
881
00:53:19,362 --> 00:53:20,362
they can be very thick,
882
00:53:20,363 --> 00:53:23,407
up to a thousand feet thick for
an individual bed.
883
00:53:23,408 --> 00:53:29,538
We find it in these very flat
seams that have usually very
884
00:53:29,539 --> 00:53:33,417
sharp tops and bottoms to
them and so on,
885
00:53:33,418 --> 00:53:35,961
which is not the way plants
normally grow. This looks
886
00:53:35,962 --> 00:53:40,883
transported. Obviously
water deposited.
887
00:53:40,884 --> 00:53:45,596
You find marine organisms in
coal fields, which are
888
00:53:45,597 --> 00:53:47,681
terrestrial deposits.
889
00:53:47,682 --> 00:53:52,478
This belies any story
that would contradict
890
00:53:52,479 --> 00:53:53,896
the Biblical scenario.
891
00:53:53,897 --> 00:53:59,151
We find massive amounts of coal.
We have over in Wyoming
892
00:53:59,152 --> 00:54:05,449
millions and millions of tons of
coal. In Australia we have
893
00:54:05,450 --> 00:54:08,953
millions and millions of tons of
coal in Europe we have
894
00:54:08,954 --> 00:54:12,122
and back in Pennsylvania and all
these sorts of things.
895
00:54:12,123 --> 00:54:15,876
They cover thousands of square
miles and you find the same kind
896
00:54:15,877 --> 00:54:18,796
of coal deposits the same place
in the geologic record
897
00:54:18,797 --> 00:54:21,715
widespread into Europe
going over into Russia
898
00:54:21,716 --> 00:54:24,761
and we could go on.
899
00:54:25,261 --> 00:54:28,305
The widespread distribution of
these coal beds is global in
900
00:54:28,306 --> 00:54:32,351
nature and irregardless of their
location, these coal beds
901
00:54:32,352 --> 00:54:36,271
also appear in the same place
in the geological column,
902
00:54:36,272 --> 00:54:38,857
which shows they were
deposited at the same time.
903
00:54:38,858 --> 00:54:42,569
Therefore logic necessitates
the conclusion that the
904
00:54:42,570 --> 00:54:46,031
formation of these coal beds is
the result of a water-based
905
00:54:46,032 --> 00:54:50,495
catastrophe that occurred
globally about the same time.
906
00:54:51,913 --> 00:54:55,499
It's estimated that two to three
feet of vegetation is required
907
00:54:55,500 --> 00:54:58,043
to form one foot of coal.
908
00:54:58,044 --> 00:55:01,588
Some coal beds are more than 100
feet thick which would require
909
00:55:01,589 --> 00:55:04,341
more than two to three-hundred
feet of vegetation
910
00:55:04,342 --> 00:55:08,596
while covering an area of tens
of thousands of square miles.
911
00:55:09,055 --> 00:55:11,181
When scientists look at the
amount of coal we have on earth
912
00:55:11,182 --> 00:55:14,435
today, they realize there's no
way all the vegetation on the
913
00:55:14,436 --> 00:55:17,896
planet could produce that amount
of coal, and I agree.
914
00:55:17,897 --> 00:55:21,066
The difference is they believe
the coal formed is millions of
915
00:55:21,067 --> 00:55:24,945
years of accumulated vegetation,
but the Bible tells us that the
916
00:55:24,946 --> 00:55:29,074
earth before the Flood was a
lush green planet.
917
00:55:29,075 --> 00:55:35,539
It's not implausible to have
this come from just the
918
00:55:35,540 --> 00:55:38,918
vegetation that existed just
before the Flood.
919
00:55:39,669 --> 00:55:43,088
Many scientists for example
believe that the firmament in
920
00:55:43,089 --> 00:55:46,967
its construction allowed the
earth to be under a little over
921
00:55:46,968 --> 00:55:51,680
two atmospheres of pressure.
And these two atmospheres of
922
00:55:51,681 --> 00:55:57,811
pressure would engender
significant growth.
923
00:55:57,812 --> 00:56:01,523
Where we now see vast deserts,
mountain ranges and frozen
924
00:56:01,524 --> 00:56:05,110
continents, there was once
before the Flood fertile land
925
00:56:05,111 --> 00:56:08,781
and vast forests unlike anything
now seen. We find large amounts
926
00:56:08,782 --> 00:56:10,949
of oil in the deserts
of the Middle East,
927
00:56:10,950 --> 00:56:15,037
a remnant of it's former green
landscape, and from drill cores
928
00:56:15,038 --> 00:56:18,332
in Antarctica scientists have
found the continent once
929
00:56:18,333 --> 00:56:21,960
was a tropical forest covered
with palm trees. The vast
930
00:56:21,961 --> 00:56:24,755
forests buried in the earth at
the time of the Flood
931
00:56:24,756 --> 00:56:28,550
which have now since changed to
coal and oil, form the extensive
932
00:56:28,551 --> 00:56:30,594
deposits we see today.
933
00:56:30,595 --> 00:56:35,015
These evidences are among many
that testify of God's love for
934
00:56:35,016 --> 00:56:39,228
man in the creation of a
beautiful lush green planet,
935
00:56:39,229 --> 00:56:43,315
one that was destroyed by a
global water-based catastrophe
936
00:56:43,316 --> 00:56:45,819
as recorded in the Bible.
937
00:56:49,114 --> 00:56:53,158
The Flood is the event that
harmonizes what we see in
938
00:56:53,159 --> 00:56:56,912
geology in terms of a recent
creation by God
939
00:56:56,913 --> 00:57:00,165
in just six days, a few
thousand years ago
940
00:57:00,166 --> 00:57:02,836
as described in the Bible.
941
00:57:11,344 --> 00:57:14,138
There's so much evidence we
could not possibly investigate
942
00:57:14,139 --> 00:57:17,182
it in such a short time, but if
we step back and look at the
943
00:57:17,183 --> 00:57:21,563
big picture, the earth itself is
it's own witness.
944
00:57:35,952 --> 00:57:39,830
We saw how the flat horizontal
sedimentary layers in the Grand
945
00:57:39,831 --> 00:57:42,124
Canyon with no
erosion between them,
946
00:57:42,125 --> 00:57:45,836
testify to the fact that these
layers were laid down rapidly
947
00:57:45,837 --> 00:57:48,547
and not over millions of years.
948
00:57:48,548 --> 00:57:51,633
We saw the size of this
catastrophe had to be at least
949
00:57:51,634 --> 00:57:54,845
as large as some of the layers
they form which are larger than
950
00:57:54,846 --> 00:57:58,974
some continents affirming its
global impact. We saw how
951
00:57:58,975 --> 00:58:02,811
hundreds of millions or even
billions of years of expected
952
00:58:02,812 --> 00:58:06,565
deposition or erosion is
completely missing between these
953
00:58:06,566 --> 00:58:09,818
sedimentary layers showing that
what we see, does not
954
00:58:09,819 --> 00:58:14,072
conform to the evolutionary
model. We saw in the first
955
00:58:14,073 --> 00:58:17,117
sedimentary layer containing
animal fossils that they were
956
00:58:17,118 --> 00:58:23,040
found fully-formed, not in
incremental evolutionary steps.
957
00:58:23,041 --> 00:58:26,126
We see how the existence of
fossils in these layers is
958
00:58:26,127 --> 00:58:29,796
evidence of rapid burial as
some fish fossils are found with
959
00:58:29,797 --> 00:58:33,508
food in their mouths or in
positions of swim.
960
00:58:33,509 --> 00:58:35,510
We saw how massive fossil
graveyards
961
00:58:35,511 --> 00:58:37,846
are strong evidence
that thousands
962
00:58:37,847 --> 00:58:42,309
of dead animals, fish, mammals
and even birds were all washed
963
00:58:42,310 --> 00:58:45,103
together and deposited in
low-lands where they were
964
00:58:45,104 --> 00:58:49,483
buried and fossilized. We saw
how the massive coal and oil
965
00:58:49,484 --> 00:58:52,903
deposits found today could only
be formed by compressed
966
00:58:52,904 --> 00:58:57,366
vegetation from a lush green
earth that was destroyed and
967
00:58:57,367 --> 00:59:01,036
buried. We saw how the
cretaceous chalk layer formed by
968
00:59:01,037 --> 00:59:04,456
the Flood covers every continent
as one would expect from a
969
00:59:04,457 --> 00:59:07,501
global catastrophe. When we sit
back and look at our
970
00:59:07,502 --> 00:59:11,213
planet, what do we see? The
earth itself tells us it was
971
00:59:11,214 --> 00:59:16,719
once decimated by a global
water-based catastrophe.
972
00:59:49,210 --> 00:59:53,088
So why is it with a world full
of evidence, that the story of
973
00:59:53,089 --> 00:59:54,756
the Flood as found in the
Bible is rejected
974
00:59:54,757 --> 00:59:57,050
by some of the brightest minds
in the scientific community
975
00:59:57,051 --> 00:59:58,427
in general?
976
00:59:58,428 --> 01:00:02,098
I'll give you a clue. It has
little to do, with the evidence.
977
01:00:44,307 --> 01:00:47,392
The Bible gives us an
explanation of history
978
01:00:47,393 --> 01:00:50,562
that the earth and
life were created,
979
01:00:50,563 --> 01:00:54,483
were created perfect and then it
has changed because of sin.
980
01:00:54,484 --> 01:00:58,111
If that's true, why are so many
scientists fully opposed
981
01:00:58,112 --> 01:00:59,196
to that point of view?
982
01:00:59,197 --> 01:01:02,115
And the reason has more
to do with worldview
983
01:01:02,116 --> 01:01:03,909
than it does with data.
984
01:01:03,910 --> 01:01:06,036
Leaving religious
perspectives out of it
985
01:01:06,037 --> 01:01:07,496
doesn't solve that problem.
986
01:01:07,497 --> 01:01:10,624
Bias is not a religious problem
it's a human problem.
987
01:01:10,625 --> 01:01:13,293
No matter what we profess,
whether we say I'm a Christian
988
01:01:13,294 --> 01:01:15,462
and I reject
evolutionary biology
989
01:01:15,463 --> 01:01:18,173
or I'm a evolutionist and
990
01:01:18,174 --> 01:01:20,967
I reject Christianity, or if
I'm someplace in the middle
991
01:01:20,968 --> 01:01:22,427
muddling around here,
992
01:01:22,428 --> 01:01:24,888
nonetheless,
everything that we do,
993
01:01:24,889 --> 01:01:27,224
everything that we see,
everything we say and
994
01:01:27,225 --> 01:01:31,978
understand, our entire
worldview, the way we formulate
995
01:01:31,979 --> 01:01:34,689
our concepts, our thoughts
of what we see
996
01:01:34,690 --> 01:01:39,277
and know in the world around us
are unalterably or unavoidably
997
01:01:39,278 --> 01:01:41,696
affected by these two views.
998
01:01:41,697 --> 01:01:44,699
And that worldview has a very
strong influence on what we
999
01:01:44,700 --> 01:01:47,077
notice and the kind of
questions we ask.
1000
01:01:47,078 --> 01:01:50,831
If you restrict the number of
interpretations that you can put
1001
01:01:50,832 --> 01:01:53,625
on the data with your worldview
1002
01:01:53,626 --> 01:01:57,421
then obviously that's going to
restrict the kind of theories
1003
01:01:57,422 --> 01:01:59,047
that you can come up with.
1004
01:01:59,048 --> 01:02:06,430
So, for example if you're
looking at the materialistic
1005
01:02:06,431 --> 01:02:11,601
worldview and you're looking at
these amazing molecular
1006
01:02:11,602 --> 01:02:15,689
machines that I enjoy studying
or the information that's
1007
01:02:15,690 --> 01:02:20,902
recorded in DNA. There are any
number of theories that you
1008
01:02:20,903 --> 01:02:26,533
come up with based on that data
that you've collected.
1009
01:02:26,534 --> 01:02:29,119
But, if you're a materialist,
1010
01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:31,455
none of your
theories could suggest
1011
01:02:31,456 --> 01:02:38,587
suggest that an intelligent mind
wrote that information in the
1012
01:02:38,588 --> 01:02:42,967
DNA. That's a theory
that's not allowed.
1013
01:02:43,301 --> 01:02:51,016
Evolution belies the laws of
physics. Everything moves from a
1014
01:02:51,017 --> 01:02:54,978
higher to a lower grade. There
is always a regression.
1015
01:02:54,979 --> 01:02:59,357
There is never the reverse. That
is the law of thermodynamics
1016
01:02:59,358 --> 01:03:03,278
and life defies the law of
thermodynamics.
1017
01:03:03,279 --> 01:03:07,866
So here you have a theory which
basically violates
1018
01:03:07,867 --> 01:03:12,245
every single physical law,
1019
01:03:12,246 --> 01:03:18,460
and yet it is one of the basic
theories which is even enshrined
1020
01:03:18,461 --> 01:03:21,839
in legislation.
That's mind boggling.
1021
01:03:23,090 --> 01:03:26,676
Science is defined as "a
systematic enterprise that
1022
01:03:26,677 --> 01:03:29,679
builds and organizes knowledge
in the form of testable
1023
01:03:29,680 --> 01:03:32,682
explanations and predictions
about the universe."
1024
01:03:32,683 --> 01:03:34,559
The problem evolution has,
1025
01:03:34,560 --> 01:03:37,395
is that it is not a
testable explanation.
1026
01:03:37,396 --> 01:03:40,982
Evolution necessitates that in
some way, somehow,
1027
01:03:40,983 --> 01:03:44,152
something that is not
alive, could by itself,
1028
01:03:44,153 --> 01:03:46,988
create something that is alive.
1029
01:03:46,989 --> 01:03:50,700
This mysterious event has not
been observed anywhere in nature
1030
01:03:50,701 --> 01:03:53,662
or in the laboratory and
therefore it does not pass
1031
01:03:53,663 --> 01:03:56,540
the scientific method so it
cannot be established
1032
01:03:56,541 --> 01:03:58,333
as scientific fact.
1033
01:03:58,334 --> 01:04:01,044
All life consists of DNA
1034
01:04:01,045 --> 01:04:04,381
which is very complex
organized information.
1035
01:04:04,382 --> 01:04:07,676
The reason why natural
processes cannot and
1036
01:04:07,677 --> 01:04:11,513
will never produce life, is
because natural processes do not
1037
01:04:11,514 --> 01:04:14,307
create or organize information.
1038
01:04:14,308 --> 01:04:17,269
Organization
requires intelligence.
1039
01:04:17,270 --> 01:04:19,688
And where we see
evidence of organization,
1040
01:04:19,689 --> 01:04:22,232
we see evidence of God.
1041
01:04:22,233 --> 01:04:25,485
Therefore the most supreme
revelation the study of science
1042
01:04:25,486 --> 01:04:28,446
and the natural world can ever
grant mankind, supernatural.
1043
01:04:28,447 --> 01:04:32,618
is a discovery of the existence
of the supernatural.
1044
01:04:34,287 --> 01:04:37,289
In-spite of this, the pride of
human bias and man's commitment
1045
01:04:37,290 --> 01:04:38,707
to a godless worldview,
1046
01:04:38,708 --> 01:04:42,335
still influences our courts and
educational institutions
1047
01:04:42,336 --> 01:04:43,795
which to this day,
1048
01:04:43,796 --> 01:04:48,426
mandate by law, evolution be
taught as an infallible fact.
1049
01:04:50,636 --> 01:04:55,682
People have asked me a question
about, why is that science seems
1050
01:04:55,683 --> 01:04:58,393
to be coming more and more
confident in their
1051
01:04:58,394 --> 01:05:02,772
commitment to a completely
evolutionary ex-origin of life.
1052
01:05:02,773 --> 01:05:07,402
Is that because we've got more
data? Well no it really isn't.
1053
01:05:07,403 --> 01:05:10,780
It's because there is becoming
increasing confidence,
1054
01:05:10,781 --> 01:05:12,782
increasing commitment to a
worldview
1055
01:05:12,783 --> 01:05:16,244
and I think part of that is
because of the political battles
1056
01:05:16,245 --> 01:05:18,747
over what's going to be taught
in public schools.
1057
01:05:18,748 --> 01:05:23,793
When they say that you have to
teach that, then you are
1058
01:05:23,794 --> 01:05:26,630
basically saying,
in my personal opinion,
1059
01:05:26,631 --> 01:05:32,427
that every teacher has to be a
liar, because he has to proclaim
1060
01:05:32,428 --> 01:05:37,891
that which is a theory of
modern science,
1061
01:05:37,892 --> 01:05:42,228
when there are better theories
to explain what we see
1062
01:05:42,229 --> 01:05:44,189
which are excluded.
1063
01:05:44,190 --> 01:05:49,361
If they were to put them both
before the students as a matter
1064
01:05:49,362 --> 01:05:53,698
of comparison and choice that
would be fair.
1065
01:05:53,699 --> 01:06:00,289
But the way in which it is today
belies comprehension.
1066
01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:04,542
You don't talk about God in our
textbooks, science textbooks,
1067
01:06:04,543 --> 01:06:06,127
scientific articles and so on.
1068
01:06:06,128 --> 01:06:07,963
God is out of the picture.
1069
01:06:09,173 --> 01:06:13,760
But what if God exists? This is
no way to find truth.
1070
01:06:13,761 --> 01:06:19,182
So that's how a worldview can
constrict things.
1071
01:06:19,183 --> 01:06:25,271
One of the things I really
appreciate about the Biblical
1072
01:06:25,272 --> 01:06:31,319
worldview that Christians
embrace is that it's liberating.
1073
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:35,365
We can't say that all reality is
only what I can see
1074
01:06:35,366 --> 01:06:37,534
mechanistically and so on.
1075
01:06:37,535 --> 01:06:40,161
There's nothing that tells us
that that's all to reality.
1076
01:06:40,162 --> 01:06:43,832
I prefer a broader approach,
well let's include God in the
1077
01:06:43,833 --> 01:06:47,794
possibilities here and look at
the scientific data.
1078
01:06:47,795 --> 01:06:52,424
And the scientific data tends to
point us towards God.
1079
01:06:52,425 --> 01:06:57,512
When you say, well no, I'm not
going to get involved with
1080
01:06:57,513 --> 01:07:01,266
religion or the Bible because
that's not science, I think
1081
01:07:01,267 --> 01:07:04,894
you're being unnecessarily
restrictive and you are
1082
01:07:04,895 --> 01:07:06,980
eliminating the possibility
1083
01:07:06,981 --> 01:07:10,818
of you investigating that
which might be true.
1084
01:07:16,323 --> 01:07:20,952
But science has a certain appeal
to the independence of the
1085
01:07:20,953 --> 01:07:22,620
human mind and heart.
1086
01:07:22,621 --> 01:07:27,375
Science is the
realm of the human.
1087
01:07:27,376 --> 01:07:33,298
This is what we've done, this is
what we know. Whereas religion,
1088
01:07:33,299 --> 01:07:39,345
faith, Christianity, that's the
realm of God.
1089
01:07:39,346 --> 01:07:43,391
I think the main impediment to
accepting the Biblical account
1090
01:07:43,392 --> 01:07:47,980
of origins is the consequences
of accepting it.
1091
01:08:00,993 --> 01:08:05,789
Now, the problem of bringing God
into the discussion,
1092
01:08:05,790 --> 01:08:09,584
is that it inevitably, it
brings back in the question of
1093
01:08:09,585 --> 01:08:11,504
moral accountability.
1094
01:08:13,047 --> 01:08:17,592
And to say that there's
morality in an evolutionary
1095
01:08:17,593 --> 01:08:22,389
paradigm is to fool yourself.
1096
01:08:23,389 --> 01:08:31,981
You can't have a supreme being
and lower beings, without
1097
01:08:31,982 --> 01:08:34,609
defining that
relationship somehow.
1098
01:08:34,610 --> 01:08:40,240
And intuitively, we recognize
that that's a moral law.
1099
01:08:40,241 --> 01:08:44,786
And we may not look very good
examined in that light, and so
1100
01:08:44,787 --> 01:08:48,790
to escape the concept of
judgment, to escape the concept
1101
01:08:48,791 --> 01:08:52,752
of moral accountability there's
a natural tendency to want
1102
01:08:52,753 --> 01:08:55,046
to forget the creator.
1103
01:08:55,047 --> 01:08:59,634
And consequently, things like
the story of the Flood, the
1104
01:08:59,635 --> 01:09:03,012
evidences that are still
visible on the earth,
1105
01:09:03,013 --> 01:09:07,892
these are things that maybe
subconsciously at times, we're
1106
01:09:07,893 --> 01:09:10,478
pretty happy to find an
alternative explanation.
1107
01:09:10,478 --> 01:09:12,522
We're comfortable
1108
01:09:12,523 --> 01:09:15,776
moving away from the idea of
moral accountability.
1109
01:09:19,196 --> 01:09:22,198
Eliminating moral accountability
meant re-writing the history of
1110
01:09:22,199 --> 01:09:24,993
the world, and this is exactly
what happened.
1111
01:09:24,994 --> 01:09:27,996
A new worldview was adopted, in
particular, a worldview that did
1112
01:09:27,996 --> 01:09:29,621
not include the
history of the Flood,
1113
01:09:29,622 --> 01:09:31,958
thus trying to
eliminate God's judgment
1114
01:09:31,959 --> 01:09:34,585
and therefore any moral
accountability.
1115
01:09:34,586 --> 01:09:36,712
But how could such a
dramatically different worldview
1116
01:09:36,714 --> 01:09:39,424
catch on? Well, the
perfect opportunity
1117
01:09:39,425 --> 01:09:44,430
arose towards
the end of the dark ages.
1118
01:10:03,282 --> 01:10:06,910
If we look at popular culture
today, the Flood story is not
1119
01:10:06,911 --> 01:10:10,746
one that is commonly accepted
as literally true.
1120
01:10:10,748 --> 01:10:15,710
And so it's easy to look at it
and say nobody believes that.
1121
01:10:15,710 --> 01:10:19,630
Well, that sort of begs the
question a little bit, what
1122
01:10:19,632 --> 01:10:21,883
about the last few
thousand years?
1123
01:10:21,884 --> 01:10:25,053
And the answer is,
everybody believed it.
1124
01:10:25,054 --> 01:10:28,973
In fact, the universal Flood
story has been noted time after
1125
01:10:28,974 --> 01:10:31,517
time in cultures scattered
around the world.
1126
01:10:31,518 --> 01:10:34,938
Every culture it seems has a
story of a flood
1127
01:10:34,939 --> 01:10:38,191
and they all drew some lessons
from it, the lessons may vary
1128
01:10:38,192 --> 01:10:40,652
here and there
but they believed it.
1129
01:10:40,653 --> 01:10:43,071
So why don't we believe it now?
1130
01:10:43,072 --> 01:10:46,032
Students will sometimes ask me
how did science come to the
1131
01:10:46,032 --> 01:10:49,661
point of view that they have
now, that denies miracles
1132
01:10:49,662 --> 01:10:54,874
and are passionately unwilling
to believe in creation, and you
1133
01:10:54,875 --> 01:10:57,377
have to go through a little
history to explain that.
1134
01:10:57,378 --> 01:11:02,590
Our society has been subjected
to a whole fabric
1135
01:11:02,591 --> 01:11:06,094
of intellectual ideas
1136
01:11:06,094 --> 01:11:10,598
set to undermine the history of
the Flood, the history of the
1137
01:11:10,599 --> 01:11:13,059
world and the
history of creation.
1138
01:11:33,539 --> 01:11:35,832
The entire surface of the earth
had been changed by a
1139
01:11:35,833 --> 01:11:37,625
water-based catastrophe.
1140
01:11:37,626 --> 01:11:40,628
And this overwhelming evidence
can't be erased or removed, so
1141
01:11:40,629 --> 01:11:43,589
in the minds of those that
rejected the Flood story,
1142
01:11:43,590 --> 01:11:45,550
it needed to be re-interpreted.
1143
01:11:45,550 --> 01:11:48,429
And this, is how it happened.
1144
01:11:49,596 --> 01:11:57,978
All during the Middle Ages, some
factors in society were very
1145
01:11:57,980 --> 01:12:02,567
autocratic and dogmatic and
persecuting people,
1146
01:12:02,568 --> 01:12:05,361
making life very hard for
people, suppressing them,
1147
01:12:05,362 --> 01:12:07,864
and what were those agencies
that were doing that?
1148
01:12:07,865 --> 01:12:09,991
Well, it was
governments and the church.
1149
01:12:09,992 --> 01:12:13,286
One of the greatest
things that man
1150
01:12:13,287 --> 01:12:17,749
wants to have
over man, is power.
1151
01:12:17,750 --> 01:12:22,170
In the Middle Ages, the
church ruled the world.
1152
01:12:22,171 --> 01:12:26,507
So, during the dark ages, the
medieval time period, for 1500
1153
01:12:26,508 --> 01:12:31,721
years you had this nearly
monolithic universal,
1154
01:12:31,722 --> 01:12:36,309
well throughout Europe anyhow,
rule of the Catholic church.
1155
01:12:36,309 --> 01:12:41,481
One of the arenas of conflict in
the developing new freedom of
1156
01:12:41,482 --> 01:12:47,320
thought with the existing
structures of the Catholic
1157
01:12:47,321 --> 01:12:49,530
church over the last 1500 years
was of course the area of
1158
01:12:49,531 --> 01:12:54,202
science. And the stories are
fairly well known of all these
1159
01:12:54,202 --> 01:12:59,040
scientists from Galileo to
Newton to Copernicus to
1160
01:12:59,041 --> 01:13:02,293
Francis Bacon who came into
conflict with the church.
1161
01:13:02,294 --> 01:13:07,340
Probably Galileo is the one
that is most famous. He promoted
1162
01:13:07,341 --> 01:13:10,468
the heliocentric, or the
sun at the center
1163
01:13:10,469 --> 01:13:13,346
and all the little planets going
around, but the church didn't
1164
01:13:13,347 --> 01:13:16,389
like that for a variety of
philosophical reasons.
1165
01:13:16,391 --> 01:13:20,269
To have the
earth at the center was
1166
01:13:20,270 --> 01:13:22,480
important philosophically.
1167
01:13:22,481 --> 01:13:26,359
That was a mark of the
perfection of God's creation,
1168
01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:28,986
and to have the idea
kicked around that
1169
01:13:28,987 --> 01:13:30,905
the earth wasn't where we
1170
01:13:30,906 --> 01:13:33,991
thought it was and that these
other planets weren't going in
1171
01:13:33,992 --> 01:13:36,160
perfect circles, that
wasn't popular.
1172
01:13:36,161 --> 01:13:39,956
So Galileo was called up by the
inquisition, placed under house
1173
01:13:39,957 --> 01:13:43,668
arrest, threatened with
serious punishment,
1174
01:13:43,669 --> 01:13:48,255
possibly death. We use that
story now, unfortunately,
1175
01:13:48,257 --> 01:13:53,678
many times, to create an
unworkable antagonism
1176
01:13:53,679 --> 01:13:59,934
between
Christianity and science.
1177
01:13:59,934 --> 01:14:02,603
And that's not what ought to be
learned from that lesson,
1178
01:14:02,603 --> 01:14:05,481
because, when we look at the
teachings of the church through
1179
01:14:05,482 --> 01:14:10,403
the dark ages, in many cases,
it's not what the Bible says.
1180
01:14:10,404 --> 01:14:19,871
The world had been subjected to
a very rigid religious thinking
1181
01:14:19,871 --> 01:14:24,459
and anything that was
slightly out of that
1182
01:14:24,460 --> 01:14:32,341
tight box was regarded as
contra-truth, contra-God,
1183
01:14:32,342 --> 01:14:36,554
contra-Bible and had to be
eradicated by force
1184
01:14:36,555 --> 01:14:41,225
and by inquisition
and by death penalty.
1185
01:14:41,226 --> 01:14:45,188
And it came finally to a point
in history where
1186
01:14:45,189 --> 01:14:48,316
the people were tired of that.
1187
01:14:48,317 --> 01:14:51,861
They were weary of it, the
church was losing it's
1188
01:14:51,862 --> 01:14:53,279
credibility because of that,
1189
01:14:53,280 --> 01:14:55,615
because of the way they had
treated people.
1190
01:14:55,616 --> 01:14:58,826
The governments, the people were
tired of the way governments
1191
01:14:58,827 --> 01:15:03,206
had treated them and this led to
a movement
1192
01:15:03,207 --> 01:15:07,251
among scholars to move away from
authority and from any of these
1193
01:15:07,252 --> 01:15:09,879
autocratic agencies.
1194
01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:18,638
The view of God was one of this
wrathful deity who was lurking
1195
01:15:18,639 --> 01:15:22,892
in the woods just waiting for
the transgressor
1196
01:15:22,893 --> 01:15:24,519
to put a foot wrong.
1197
01:15:24,937 --> 01:15:28,856
And the kings rules, not of love
but out of greed.
1198
01:15:28,857 --> 01:15:31,734
Controlled not out of love,
but out of fear,
1199
01:15:31,735 --> 01:15:32,735
including the church.
1200
01:15:32,736 --> 01:15:37,073
In seeing the abusive power that
had prevailed over Europe for
1201
01:15:37,074 --> 01:15:42,119
1500 years, they utterly
rejected the Catholic church,
1202
01:15:42,120 --> 01:15:44,621
which of course, in their mind,
1203
01:15:44,623 --> 01:15:48,125
meant that they utterly
rejected Christianity.
1204
01:15:48,126 --> 01:15:53,255
So that gave rise to a more
atheistic minded society.
1205
01:15:53,257 --> 01:15:56,384
And the mindset
of man says, well,
1206
01:15:56,385 --> 01:15:59,303
what was this restricting force?
1207
01:15:59,304 --> 01:16:06,269
The restricting force to any
mind expansion was God.
1208
01:16:06,270 --> 01:16:10,064
And therefore let's get rid of
Him. Let's get rid of God
1209
01:16:10,065 --> 01:16:13,025
so that we can grow
intellectually.
1210
01:16:13,026 --> 01:16:15,153
And that's what they did in the
French Revolution.
1211
01:16:16,196 --> 01:16:20,282
Instead of holding the masses in
blind submission to her dogmas,
1212
01:16:20,284 --> 01:16:23,035
Rome's work resulted in
making them infidels and
1213
01:16:23,036 --> 01:16:24,745
revolutionists.
1214
01:16:24,746 --> 01:16:27,540
They regarded her greed and
cruelty as the fruit of the
1215
01:16:27,541 --> 01:16:29,791
Bible and they would
have none of it.
1216
01:16:29,793 --> 01:16:33,587
Rome had misrepresented the
character of God and now
1217
01:16:33,588 --> 01:16:36,841
men rejected both the
Bible and it's author.
1218
01:16:36,842 --> 01:16:40,177
This led to the French
Revolution and ultimately, the
1219
01:16:40,178 --> 01:16:42,680
complete removal of the
church's power that it had
1220
01:16:42,681 --> 01:16:46,058
maintained over the people for
more than a thousand years.
1221
01:16:46,059 --> 01:16:49,645
In the French National Assembly,
the mob of revolutionaries
1222
01:16:49,646 --> 01:16:52,648
declared only reason
should be worshiped.
1223
01:16:52,648 --> 01:16:56,068
They revealed a beautiful woman
adorned in blue drapery
1224
01:16:56,068 --> 01:17:00,239
and proclaimed her the
goddess of reason.
1225
01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:06,120
And they enshrined the
goddess of reason.
1226
01:17:06,121 --> 01:17:11,959
And reason took the
place of faith in God.
1227
01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:15,087
They carried this woman on a
car to Notre Dame,
1228
01:17:15,088 --> 01:17:17,673
destroyed the church and
preached atheism to
1229
01:17:17,674 --> 01:17:20,718
the masses inside the
church every week.
1230
01:17:20,719 --> 01:17:23,888
The French people responded to
the many centuries of Roman
1231
01:17:23,889 --> 01:17:26,182
Catholic oppression
and persecution
1232
01:17:26,183 --> 01:17:28,476
by establishing a new
form of government.
1233
01:17:28,477 --> 01:17:31,270
Instead of a nation with a
Christian worldview, howbeit,
1234
01:17:31,271 --> 01:17:33,898
perverted and ruled by the
Catholic church at the time,
1235
01:17:33,898 --> 01:17:36,776
a society was formed with an
atheistic worldview,
1236
01:17:36,777 --> 01:17:40,112
absent of any Christian
influence, and this was
1237
01:17:40,112 --> 01:17:42,782
called 'The Age of
Enlightenment.'
1238
01:17:45,035 --> 01:17:46,994
They didn't want to have
anything else to do with God.
1239
01:17:46,995 --> 01:17:49,871
They saw that
God was tyrannical.
1240
01:17:49,873 --> 01:17:54,043
People were forced to believe
and so now, let's remove
1241
01:17:54,044 --> 01:17:56,670
God from the equation
altogether.
1242
01:17:56,671 --> 01:18:00,508
And that's what happened in the
French Revolution, we moved from
1243
01:18:00,509 --> 01:18:02,968
a God-centered environment
1244
01:18:02,969 --> 01:18:06,722
to a reason-based environment.
1245
01:18:06,723 --> 01:18:10,434
Atheism arose, you know,
tremendously in France. Look
1246
01:18:10,434 --> 01:18:13,978
what happened in France.
The Bible was burned.
1247
01:18:13,980 --> 01:18:15,314
It was destroyed,
1248
01:18:15,315 --> 01:18:17,900
and that's called the
'Age of Enlightenment.'
1249
01:18:17,901 --> 01:18:21,362
And so we see this
idea of enlightenment,
1250
01:18:21,362 --> 01:18:24,698
totally removing
God from the picture.
1251
01:18:24,699 --> 01:18:29,370
Out of all the segments of
French society,
1252
01:18:29,371 --> 01:18:31,205
it was the Catholic
priests who suffered
1253
01:18:31,206 --> 01:18:33,791
the highest per capita
mortality rate.
1254
01:18:33,791 --> 01:18:37,294
There was a lot of animosity and
they took it out on the church.
1255
01:18:37,295 --> 01:18:38,546
And in most cases
1256
01:18:38,547 --> 01:18:41,382
that means they took
it out on Christianity.
1257
01:18:41,383 --> 01:18:43,925
In an effort to
defend science and reason
1258
01:18:43,927 --> 01:18:46,344
as the new ideals for society,
1259
01:18:46,346 --> 01:18:49,682
the atheistic endeavor went
about to de-Christianize France
1260
01:18:49,683 --> 01:18:53,059
in what become known as the
'Reign of Terror.'
1261
01:18:53,061 --> 01:18:56,522
Priests were imprisoned or
executed. Churches and religious
1262
01:18:56,523 --> 01:18:59,483
monuments were
vandalized or destroyed.
1263
01:18:59,484 --> 01:19:02,445
The word saint, was removed
from street signs.
1264
01:19:02,446 --> 01:19:05,156
The worship of a
deity was forbidden.
1265
01:19:05,157 --> 01:19:08,617
Bible were burned publicly
and the rallying cry of
1266
01:19:08,618 --> 01:19:11,912
the French infidels was
"crush the wretch,"
1267
01:19:11,913 --> 01:19:14,999
referring to Christ in the
form of His church.
1268
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:17,501
Christians became the
objects of public hatred.
1269
01:19:17,502 --> 01:19:18,669
Many were shot dead while on
their knees in prayer
1270
01:19:18,670 --> 01:19:20,754
dead while on
their knees in prayer
1271
01:19:20,755 --> 01:19:22,630
and their bodies
left where they fell
1272
01:19:22,632 --> 01:19:24,341
at their places of worship.
1273
01:19:24,342 --> 01:19:27,969
In the forests where Christians
gathered, bodies hung from trees
1274
01:19:27,971 --> 01:19:30,181
and scattered the
ground everywhere.
1275
01:19:30,182 --> 01:19:33,309
All this was the result of the
atheistic movement called
1276
01:19:33,309 --> 01:19:36,437
'The Great Enlightenment'' and
those who thought to dethrone
1277
01:19:36,438 --> 01:19:38,772
the Catholic church for it's
centuries of torture and
1278
01:19:38,773 --> 01:19:43,028
bloodshed were now themselves
guilty of the same crimes.
1279
01:19:44,446 --> 01:19:47,031
The culminating events coming
out of the enlightenment and
1280
01:19:47,032 --> 01:19:49,032
then up to the French Revolution
1281
01:19:49,034 --> 01:19:52,329
which seemed to indicate the
death of Christianity.
1282
01:19:52,996 --> 01:19:55,664
All this was as
Satan would have it.
1283
01:19:55,665 --> 01:19:57,625
His policy is deception
1284
01:19:57,626 --> 01:20:00,585
and his purpose is to bring
wretchedness upon men,
1285
01:20:00,587 --> 01:20:04,965
to deface the workmanship of
God, to mar the divine purpose
1286
01:20:04,966 --> 01:20:07,843
of love and to thus
cause grief in Heaven.
1287
01:20:07,844 --> 01:20:11,805
Then, by his deceptive arts, he
leads men to throw the blame on
1288
01:20:11,806 --> 01:20:14,808
God as if all this misery were
the result of the
1289
01:20:14,809 --> 01:20:18,145
Creator's plan. When the people
found Romanism to be a
1290
01:20:18,146 --> 01:20:22,148
deception, he urged them to
regard all religion as a cheat
1291
01:20:22,150 --> 01:20:25,736
and the Bible as a fable.
1292
01:20:25,737 --> 01:20:29,949
The Papacy was... looked like it
was going to die.
1293
01:20:29,950 --> 01:20:33,285
Society was freed to consider
a different alternative.
1294
01:20:33,286 --> 01:20:34,119
Let's put it that way.
1295
01:20:34,120 --> 01:20:37,790
This 'Age of Enlightenment' this
free-thinking, actually was
1296
01:20:37,791 --> 01:20:40,543
the beginning of what I would
call modern science.
1297
01:20:40,544 --> 01:20:44,004
This movement away from
authority really, we think of it
1298
01:20:44,005 --> 01:20:46,966
in terms of the period of time
called the 'Enlightenment.'
1299
01:20:46,967 --> 01:20:52,388
You don't have this bridle on
you and you can begin to explore
1300
01:20:52,389 --> 01:20:54,431
and you can begin to look
1301
01:20:54,432 --> 01:20:57,601
and you can begin to
use human reason.
1302
01:20:57,602 --> 01:21:00,688
People were in fact moving away
from their confidence in
1303
01:21:00,689 --> 01:21:04,066
governments and in the church
and wanted to think for
1304
01:21:04,067 --> 01:21:09,572
themselves and bring out more
human freedom and this freedom
1305
01:21:09,573 --> 01:21:11,574
went many different directions
1306
01:21:11,575 --> 01:21:15,829
including moving away
from belief in God.
1307
01:21:17,789 --> 01:21:20,791
If it hadn't been for the
French Revolution
1308
01:21:20,791 --> 01:21:29,967
and the mindset that God is not
involved in the process,
1309
01:21:29,968 --> 01:21:33,679
reason takes the place of God,
1310
01:21:33,680 --> 01:21:36,264
then there wouldn't
have been a fertile soil
1311
01:21:36,266 --> 01:21:39,434
for the development of
evolutionary thinking.
1312
01:21:39,436 --> 01:21:46,984
The new generation if you wish,
of earth science individuals,
1313
01:21:46,985 --> 01:21:52,072
most notably Lyell and Darwin,
came to the for in the 1800's.
1314
01:21:52,073 --> 01:21:58,454
Charles Lyell was a geologist
who for the first time
1315
01:21:58,455 --> 01:22:04,043
introduced the concept of
long periods of time
1316
01:22:04,044 --> 01:22:07,212
in the development of
geological features and then he
1317
01:22:07,213 --> 01:22:11,300
wrote this work, "The
Principles of Geology."
1318
01:22:11,300 --> 01:22:14,469
These geological views Lyell
espoused in his book became
1319
01:22:14,471 --> 01:22:17,639
known as uniformitarianism.
1320
01:22:17,641 --> 01:22:23,520
Uniformitarianism
is the belief that
1321
01:22:23,521 --> 01:22:28,484
things as they unfold
and happen today
1322
01:22:28,485 --> 01:22:31,779
were no different from what
they were in the past.
1323
01:22:31,780 --> 01:22:36,825
So if something takes a very
long time to develop today,
1324
01:22:36,826 --> 01:22:40,413
it must have taken a very
long time in the past.
1325
01:22:42,248 --> 01:22:44,791
Uniformitarianism is
basis for believing in the
1326
01:22:44,793 --> 01:22:46,251
millions of years of time
1327
01:22:46,252 --> 01:22:49,630
so critical to the theory of
evolution. The widespread
1328
01:22:49,630 --> 01:22:52,424
acceptance of the principle
behind uniformitarianism
1329
01:22:52,425 --> 01:22:55,302
was foretold in the Bible to be
one of the prevailing reasons
1330
01:22:55,303 --> 01:22:56,719
why people at the end of time
1331
01:22:56,721 --> 01:23:00,224
would deny both creation
and the global Flood.
1332
01:23:00,225 --> 01:23:04,144
"There shall come a time in the
last days scoffers, walking
1333
01:23:04,145 --> 01:23:07,564
after their own lusts, and
saying, where is the promise of
1334
01:23:07,565 --> 01:23:11,318
His coming? For since the
fathers fell asleep, all things
1335
01:23:11,318 --> 01:23:15,864
continue as they were from the
beginning of the creation."
1336
01:23:15,865 --> 01:23:19,076
This is what uniformitarianism
teaches, that all things have
1337
01:23:19,077 --> 01:23:22,414
continued at the same rate
since the beginning.
1338
01:23:30,213 --> 01:23:32,798
But what if there's a
catastrophe?
1339
01:23:32,799 --> 01:23:38,554
What if you have a major storm
and all of the material
1340
01:23:38,555 --> 01:23:42,391
that uniformitarianism said
would eventually disappear,
1341
01:23:42,392 --> 01:23:46,103
disappeared just like that?
And that's what we see.
1342
01:23:50,900 --> 01:23:53,277
The view that things have
remained the same since the
1343
01:23:53,278 --> 01:23:56,739
beginning of creation, is a
philosophy God warned would
1344
01:23:56,740 --> 01:23:59,074
characterize a belief
system in the last days,
1345
01:23:59,075 --> 01:24:01,577
and this mindset we're told
would lead people
1346
01:24:01,577 --> 01:24:04,371
to be "willingly ignorant of"
the fact, that
1347
01:24:04,371 --> 01:24:08,959
"the world that then was being
overflowed with water perished."
1348
01:24:08,960 --> 01:24:12,755
The prophecy says they will be
"willingly ignorant," meaning
1349
01:24:12,755 --> 01:24:16,633
they'd be unwilling to consider
any evidence for the Flood.
1350
01:24:16,634 --> 01:24:21,013
And this is exactly how Charles
Lyell described his own views.
1351
01:24:21,014 --> 01:24:24,057
Lyell wrote regard fossils
saying, "we cannot account for
1352
01:24:24,058 --> 01:24:26,977
their present position by the
universal deluge.
1353
01:24:26,978 --> 01:24:30,731
I hold in utter abomination,
most learned Academicians! those
1354
01:24:30,732 --> 01:24:33,400
system which are built with
their foundations in the
1355
01:24:33,401 --> 01:24:37,821
air, and cannot be propped up
without a miracle."
1356
01:24:37,822 --> 01:24:39,156
As a naturalist, Charles Lyell
1357
01:24:39,157 --> 01:24:41,617
rejected all miracles
as an explanation.
1358
01:24:41,618 --> 01:24:44,244
But it was not his observations
in science that led him to
1359
01:24:44,245 --> 01:24:48,791
this conclusion. It was his
commitment to his own worldview.
1360
01:24:48,791 --> 01:24:51,293
He revealed his bias against the
Biblical Flood story
1361
01:24:51,294 --> 01:24:53,253
when, in a letter, he wrote,
1362
01:24:53,254 --> 01:24:57,508
these views of geological ages
will "free science from Moses."
1363
01:24:57,509 --> 01:25:00,803
These ideas then, were passed
from Charles Lyell, to the young
1364
01:25:00,804 --> 01:25:03,932
22 year old seminary student,
Charles Darwin.
1365
01:25:05,850 --> 01:25:09,937
When Charles Darwin was
commissioned to travel on the
1366
01:25:09,938 --> 01:25:13,232
Beagle, one of the
books he took with him
1367
01:25:13,233 --> 01:25:17,736
was Charles Lyell's book on
"Principles of Geology."
1368
01:25:17,737 --> 01:25:20,823
And here he was reading this
information and he comes to the
1369
01:25:20,824 --> 01:25:25,911
Galapagos Islands and he sees
these finches and the finches
1370
01:25:25,912 --> 01:25:31,291
are of such a broad variety so
the idea comes, that
1371
01:25:31,291 --> 01:25:36,588
obviously these finches must
have evolved from a pair
1372
01:25:36,589 --> 01:25:39,550
that happened to get to the
islands and all the varieties
1373
01:25:39,550 --> 01:25:41,343
evolved thereafter.
1374
01:25:41,344 --> 01:25:45,264
And then, these geological
ideas fit in, this must have
1375
01:25:45,264 --> 01:25:50,059
taken time. And Lyell's ideas
start kicking in.
1376
01:25:50,061 --> 01:25:55,440
He therefore says, if this
variety that I see here
1377
01:25:55,441 --> 01:26:00,737
developed over time and change
took place by natural selection,
1378
01:26:00,737 --> 01:26:02,823
then God did not create.
1379
01:26:02,824 --> 01:26:06,743
Charles took the ideas of long
ages of time that Lyell applied
1380
01:26:06,744 --> 01:26:10,121
to geology, and then applied
them to biology.
1381
01:26:10,123 --> 01:26:13,584
Then he had given biological
evolution something it didn't
1382
01:26:13,585 --> 01:26:18,255
previously have -- a scientific
method by which to operate.
1383
01:26:18,255 --> 01:26:21,800
Darwin came up with this, the
new theory, the natural
1384
01:26:21,800 --> 01:26:24,928
selection, and that was kind of
the magic bullet of the day.
1385
01:26:24,929 --> 01:26:27,180
That's what gave plausibility,
1386
01:26:27,181 --> 01:26:31,309
that now we've
found a mechanism,
1387
01:26:31,311 --> 01:26:35,689
that can account
for this change
1388
01:26:35,690 --> 01:26:37,773
over long periods of time.
1389
01:26:37,775 --> 01:26:40,611
Darwin later become close
friends with Lyell,
1390
01:26:40,612 --> 01:26:43,739
and it's been said by some that
he was the most influential
1391
01:26:43,740 --> 01:26:45,991
person in Darwin's life.
1392
01:26:45,992 --> 01:26:49,119
Darwin commented on Lyell's view
of the Flood and said
1393
01:26:49,120 --> 01:26:53,123
"Lyell is most firmly convinced
that he has shaken the faith
1394
01:26:53,124 --> 01:26:56,585
in the Deluge far more
efficiently by never having said
1395
01:26:56,585 --> 01:27:00,505
a word against the Bible, than
if he had acted otherwise."
1396
01:27:00,505 --> 01:27:03,383
In the middle of
the 19th century,
1397
01:27:03,384 --> 01:27:06,469
things started changing.
1398
01:27:06,471 --> 01:27:12,225
Towards the end of that century
the scientific community started
1399
01:27:12,226 --> 01:27:15,478
excluding God from its
interpretations.
1400
01:27:15,480 --> 01:27:20,943
Now God has been
expelled from the explanatory
1401
01:27:20,943 --> 01:27:23,446
menu of the
scientific community.
1402
01:27:32,371 --> 01:27:35,123
The theory of evolution is
become the foundation of our
1403
01:27:35,124 --> 01:27:38,418
global society today and the
catastrophic results of such a
1404
01:27:38,419 --> 01:27:40,963
belief can be seen everywhere in
the denial of moral
1405
01:27:40,964 --> 01:27:43,340
accountability, the
denial of God
1406
01:27:43,341 --> 01:27:45,800
and therefore the
denial of the Flood.
1407
01:27:45,802 --> 01:27:48,887
But perhaps more than any other
belief, evolution has pushed our
1408
01:27:48,888 --> 01:27:51,682
society closer to the magnitude
of the wickedness
1409
01:27:51,683 --> 01:27:54,226
that existed
in the days of Noah.
1410
01:27:54,227 --> 01:27:58,230
"And God saw that the wickedness
of man was great in the earth,
1411
01:27:58,231 --> 01:28:01,023
and that every imagination of
the thoughts of his heart
1412
01:28:01,025 --> 01:28:03,986
was only evil continually."
1413
01:28:03,987 --> 01:28:06,154
Wickedness and evil is how God
defined the thoughts of man
1414
01:28:06,155 --> 01:28:08,991
before the Flood. This is all
the more applicable to us
1415
01:28:08,992 --> 01:28:10,534
when we consider what
the Bible has to say
1416
01:28:10,535 --> 01:28:12,786
about the
thoughts of the wicked.
1417
01:28:12,787 --> 01:28:15,789
"The wicked, through the pride
of his countenance, will not
1418
01:28:15,790 --> 01:28:21,210
seek after God: God is not in
all his thoughts."
1419
01:28:21,212 --> 01:28:24,673
When the Bible says that God is
not in all his thoughts,
1420
01:28:24,674 --> 01:28:27,925
what is really being said is God
is not in any of his thoughts.
1421
01:28:27,927 --> 01:28:30,178
The wickedness that was great in
the earth in the days of Noah
1422
01:28:30,179 --> 01:28:32,556
was a godless society that did
not seek after Him
1423
01:28:32,557 --> 01:28:35,142
or think of Him. With this in
mind, we can see a direct
1424
01:28:35,143 --> 01:28:37,019
fulfillment in Jesus' prophecy,
1425
01:28:37,020 --> 01:28:38,520
that as it was
in the days of Noah,
1426
01:28:38,521 --> 01:28:40,480
"so shall it also be in the days
1427
01:28:40,481 --> 01:28:42,148
of the coming
of the Son of man."
1428
01:28:42,150 --> 01:28:44,527
[Take it home for
the touchdown!]
1429
01:28:46,320 --> 01:28:48,697
[Woah! Here we go!]]
1430
01:28:48,698 --> 01:28:49,948
[Buzzer]
1431
01:28:49,949 --> 01:28:50,866
[Applause]
1432
01:28:50,867 --> 01:28:55,996
We are getting to the point in
this world today, where God is
1433
01:28:55,996 --> 01:29:01,460
being so marginalized, even in
political systems and laws
1434
01:29:01,460 --> 01:29:05,797
that are being made that for all
intents and purposes, He's
1435
01:29:05,798 --> 01:29:12,429
being written out of human
existence and human psych.
1436
01:29:12,430 --> 01:29:14,973
So we're at the
same point today.
1437
01:29:14,974 --> 01:29:18,059
Some of the things that were
happening before the Flood
1438
01:29:18,061 --> 01:29:22,773
in particular the Bible tells
us the land was full of violence
1439
01:29:22,773 --> 01:29:24,858
and people were
evidently were not
1440
01:29:24,859 --> 01:29:27,443
only guilty of
committing violence,
1441
01:29:27,445 --> 01:29:30,237
it sounds like they were
entertained by violence,
1442
01:29:30,239 --> 01:29:32,866
which is something that's going
on in the world today.
1443
01:29:32,867 --> 01:29:38,455
And a lot of sophisticated and
kind people would just be
1444
01:29:38,456 --> 01:29:40,749
shocked at the idea they would
be guilty of murder,
1445
01:29:40,750 --> 01:29:43,418
but they don't think twice about
being entertained by watching
1446
01:29:43,419 --> 01:29:45,462
other people commit murder.
1447
01:29:45,463 --> 01:29:48,924
Same thing with the law of
adultery. People would say I
1448
01:29:48,925 --> 01:29:51,927
would never commit adultery,
but they're entertained by
1449
01:29:51,928 --> 01:29:54,304
watching and the Bible
talks about it's not
1450
01:29:54,305 --> 01:29:55,555
just those that do them,
1451
01:29:55,556 --> 01:29:59,392
but those that have
pleasure in those that do them.
1452
01:29:59,393 --> 01:30:02,896
The do whatever
you please mindset,
1453
01:30:02,897 --> 01:30:05,315
is what we have with us today.
1454
01:30:05,316 --> 01:30:10,362
The loss of integrity of the
word of God began in the late
1455
01:30:10,362 --> 01:30:13,281
1700's and into the 1800's.
1456
01:30:13,282 --> 01:30:17,369
The rise of evolution
took away the sense of
1457
01:30:17,370 --> 01:30:20,413
God is our Creator,
that we have a Creator,
1458
01:30:20,414 --> 01:30:24,835
that we have a personal God and
that there is judgment.
1459
01:30:24,835 --> 01:30:27,337
If you believe in evolution,
1460
01:30:27,338 --> 01:30:31,758
it's absurd to believe
in a judgment.
1461
01:30:31,759 --> 01:30:35,221
But if we do
not believe that God had
1462
01:30:36,848 --> 01:30:39,224
the Flood in the beginning,
1463
01:30:39,225 --> 01:30:41,309
why am I going to believe
1464
01:30:41,309 --> 01:30:45,522
that He's going to
destroy the world by fire?
1465
01:30:45,523 --> 01:30:47,065
Doesn't make sense.
1466
01:30:47,066 --> 01:30:49,568
So if I can get you to
deny the Flood,
1467
01:30:49,568 --> 01:30:53,737
then basically I've got a leg
up on you in denying
1468
01:30:53,739 --> 01:30:58,327
the eternal destruction of the
world as we know it.
1469
01:31:00,246 --> 01:31:03,165
As our global culture moves away
from the idea of moral
1470
01:31:03,166 --> 01:31:06,251
absolutes and our culture shuns
the need for a standard of
1471
01:31:06,252 --> 01:31:09,421
morality, we see suffering crime
and misery increasing
1472
01:31:09,422 --> 01:31:13,049
proportionately until life
itself is not respected.
1473
01:31:13,050 --> 01:31:16,052
As things continue to get worse
in our world it becomes all the
1474
01:31:16,053 --> 01:31:19,472
more apparent why a judgment of
justice is necessary
1475
01:31:19,473 --> 01:31:22,434
and why it was necessary
in the days of Noah.
1476
01:31:22,809 --> 01:31:26,730
Evil had perpetuated
itself to such an extent
1477
01:31:26,731 --> 01:31:29,398
that there was no
solution anymore.
1478
01:31:29,400 --> 01:31:34,029
It would've continued at that
rate for ever and ever and ever.
1479
01:31:34,030 --> 01:31:36,656
Which would mean a
universe of eternal misery.
1480
01:31:36,657 --> 01:31:40,118
Who would want to live
in a universe like that
1481
01:31:40,119 --> 01:31:42,287
for all eternity?
1482
01:31:42,288 --> 01:31:48,168
If you look at parents at
their children's graves,
1483
01:31:48,169 --> 01:31:51,338
and the agony and the pain that
is associated with that.
1484
01:31:51,339 --> 01:31:58,094
There must be a judgment. And so
God set a limit, before all
1485
01:31:58,094 --> 01:32:03,433
mankind should've been engulfed
in this and no witness
1486
01:32:03,434 --> 01:32:10,357
remained to the love of God and
the original intent of Creation,
1487
01:32:10,358 --> 01:32:13,943
to live in peace and
harmony and love together
1488
01:32:13,945 --> 01:32:20,282
with God, then there would've
been nothing left to continue
1489
01:32:20,284 --> 01:32:24,913
the story about the love of God.
So God had to intervene.
1490
01:32:24,914 --> 01:32:30,502
God is loving, God is patient,
but as He told Moses, while He
1491
01:32:30,503 --> 01:32:33,755
is long-suffering and abounding
in forgiveness and mercy,
1492
01:32:33,755 --> 01:32:35,715
He will by no
means clear the guilty.
1493
01:32:35,716 --> 01:32:38,885
That there is a
time of judgment.
1494
01:32:38,886 --> 01:32:41,888
"And the Lord said, My spirit
shall not always strive with
1495
01:32:41,889 --> 01:32:44,766
man, for that he also is flesh:
1496
01:32:44,767 --> 01:32:48,228
yet his days shall be an
hundred and twenty years."
1497
01:32:48,228 --> 01:32:51,982
It tells us that there were a
hundred and twenty years of
1498
01:32:51,983 --> 01:32:54,901
warning, and pleading.
1499
01:32:54,902 --> 01:32:59,948
Judgment does not come out of
the blue, although those who
1500
01:32:59,949 --> 01:33:03,952
have chosen to ignore all the
warnings for 120 years in
1501
01:33:03,952 --> 01:33:06,746
Noah's case may think it did.
1502
01:33:09,208 --> 01:33:13,712
Judgment is always, always has
been tempered with mercy.
1503
01:33:13,713 --> 01:33:18,842
But mercy, does not make
judgment avoidable.
1504
01:33:18,843 --> 01:33:22,594
There comes a time
when the rain will fall.
1505
01:33:22,596 --> 01:33:26,808
And He destroyed this
world with a Flood.
1506
01:33:26,809 --> 01:33:34,273
And this destruction stands a
guarantee for another judgment
1507
01:33:34,275 --> 01:33:36,901
that must come later on.
1508
01:33:36,902 --> 01:33:42,157
And the Bible says that the
later judgment will be by fire.
1509
01:33:42,157 --> 01:33:44,576
It will not come by Flood again.
1510
01:33:44,577 --> 01:33:48,246
There might be intermittent
Floods, but the final judgment
1511
01:33:48,246 --> 01:33:50,332
will come by fire.
1512
01:33:50,333 --> 01:33:53,460
"Whereby the world that then
was, being overflowed with
1513
01:33:53,460 --> 01:33:55,085
water, perished:
1514
01:33:55,087 --> 01:33:57,505
But the heavens and the
earth, which are now,
1515
01:33:57,505 --> 01:34:00,008
by the same
word are kept in store,
1516
01:34:00,009 --> 01:34:02,719
reserved unto fire against the
day of judgment and
1517
01:34:02,719 --> 01:34:05,305
perdition of ungodly men."
1518
01:34:05,306 --> 01:34:09,351
The world was baptized by
water in the days of Noah.
1519
01:34:09,352 --> 01:34:11,436
2 Peter 3, says
it will be baptized
1520
01:34:11,437 --> 01:34:14,481
by fire when the Lord returns.
1521
01:34:14,482 --> 01:34:17,359
And then He's going to make a
new Heaven and a new earth, so
1522
01:34:17,360 --> 01:34:19,693
the earth is born again you
might say after it goes through
1523
01:34:19,695 --> 01:34:22,739
this water baptism from Noah's
time, but He protected Noah
1524
01:34:22,740 --> 01:34:24,782
and his family.
1525
01:34:24,784 --> 01:34:27,452
It's going to be baptized with
fire at the second coming but He
1526
01:34:27,452 --> 01:34:29,537
will once again
protect His people.
1527
01:34:29,538 --> 01:34:34,291
So the same message that we have
here in the Genesis account
1528
01:34:34,293 --> 01:34:37,171
must be preached at the
end of time as well.
1529
01:34:42,843 --> 01:34:45,844
At the end of time the days of
Noah will be repeated,
1530
01:34:45,846 --> 01:34:47,097
and the rocks and the fossils
1531
01:34:47,098 --> 01:34:49,182
of the earth
bear witness to this fact.
1532
01:34:49,183 --> 01:34:51,518
Like the story of Genesis,
the earth itself is
1533
01:34:51,519 --> 01:34:54,145
both a record and a prophecy,
1534
01:34:54,146 --> 01:34:56,689
warning us of another
judgment still to come.
1535
01:34:56,690 --> 01:34:58,692
But when?
1536
01:34:59,026 --> 01:35:01,903
At the end of time there are
three warnings given to man that
1537
01:35:01,904 --> 01:35:04,531
immediately precede the
second coming of Christ.
1538
01:35:04,532 --> 01:35:06,657
These warnings are
given by three angels
1539
01:35:06,659 --> 01:35:10,662
and have become known as the
Three Angels' Messages.
1540
01:35:10,663 --> 01:35:13,039
In the days of Noah when the
message of judgment was being
1541
01:35:13,040 --> 01:35:16,291
given, was the world's
first judgment hour,
1542
01:35:16,293 --> 01:35:19,295
and now at the end of time,
the first angel's message
1543
01:35:19,296 --> 01:35:20,964
echoes Noah's warning
1544
01:35:20,965 --> 01:35:24,844
by announcing "the hour of His
judgment is come."
1545
01:35:25,928 --> 01:35:28,805
In part two of "The Days of
Noah," we will investigate these
1546
01:35:28,806 --> 01:35:31,433
messages and even
discover the very year
1547
01:35:31,434 --> 01:35:33,852
when this judgment hour
announcement is made, and when
1548
01:35:33,853 --> 01:35:37,440
the days of Noah for the last
generation will begin.
1549
01:35:42,068 --> 01:35:43,862
The story of the Ark basically
1550
01:35:43,862 --> 01:35:47,323
parallels the
Three Angels' Messages.
1551
01:35:47,324 --> 01:35:49,826
The Three Angels' Messages
of Revelation 14
1552
01:35:49,827 --> 01:35:51,870
are God's last
message to the world.
1553
01:35:51,871 --> 01:35:55,206
It is a end time message and it
is a message that actually
1554
01:35:55,207 --> 01:35:57,709
prepares the world for the
coming of Christ.
1555
01:35:57,710 --> 01:36:01,171
Noah followed God's instructions
in the preparation of the Ark
1556
01:36:01,172 --> 01:36:03,715
and we will see how the Three
Angels' Messages
1557
01:36:03,716 --> 01:36:06,843
point us back to an ancient
structure of God's design,
1558
01:36:06,844 --> 01:36:10,430
that reveals the instructions
God's people are to follow
1559
01:36:10,431 --> 01:36:14,851
in preparation for His second
coming at the end of time.
1560
01:36:14,852 --> 01:36:18,771
The first angel's message points
us to truth, the second angel's
1561
01:36:18,772 --> 01:36:21,023
message points
us to the counterfeit
1562
01:36:21,025 --> 01:36:23,651
and the third angel's message
says choose.
1563
01:36:23,652 --> 01:36:25,778
And Noah called
a people to a choice.
1564
01:36:25,779 --> 01:36:29,115
You know, choose.
Make your decision,
1565
01:36:29,116 --> 01:36:31,452
but know that these
decisions are final.
1566
01:36:32,702 --> 01:36:35,621
An hour of judgment is coming,
people are being warned in
1567
01:36:35,623 --> 01:36:39,334
advance because God loves man
and wants to save them.
1568
01:36:39,335 --> 01:36:43,713
And God will once again see the
wickedness of man and say that
1569
01:36:43,714 --> 01:36:47,717
the thoughts of his heart and
mind are only evil continually
1570
01:36:47,718 --> 01:36:49,427
and He will once again
bring judgment.
1571
01:36:49,428 --> 01:36:52,388
So it's a message of warning,
it's a message of love, but it's
1572
01:36:52,389 --> 01:36:54,934
a message also that there's
impending judgment.
1573
01:37:56,870 --> 01:38:00,790
When I came into
contact with Biblical truth,
1574
01:38:00,791 --> 01:38:04,168
I came into
contact with a choice.
1575
01:38:04,169 --> 01:38:09,716
I was an atheist, and prophecy
told me there was a God.
1576
01:38:09,717 --> 01:38:12,885
So I've had to make choices
and choices cost you.
1577
01:38:12,886 --> 01:38:18,641
When I made the choice no longer
to believe in evolution, but
1578
01:38:18,642 --> 01:38:22,228
but to preach Creation.
It had consequences
1579
01:38:22,228 --> 01:38:25,064
because I was a zoologist,
1580
01:38:25,065 --> 01:38:28,359
and I was in a
secular university
1581
01:38:28,360 --> 01:38:30,820
in a zoology department.
1582
01:38:30,821 --> 01:38:35,617
So the consequence
was that I resign.
1583
01:38:35,618 --> 01:38:38,369
No longer willing to compromise
1584
01:38:38,370 --> 01:38:42,291
that which I now believe
for the sake of financial gain.
1585
01:38:45,502 --> 01:38:48,171
You know there's some
both encouraging and sobering
1586
01:38:48,172 --> 01:38:50,380
things in the Flood
story for me.
1587
01:38:50,382 --> 01:38:54,802
One is that, you can't wait
until a message is popular.
1588
01:38:54,803 --> 01:38:56,387
If it's the truth you
need to embrace it
1589
01:38:56,388 --> 01:38:59,349
no matter what everyone
else in the world does.
1590
01:38:59,350 --> 01:39:03,061
Someone once said that a
dumb idea is still a dumb idea
1591
01:39:03,062 --> 01:39:05,438
even if a million
people believe it.
1592
01:39:05,439 --> 01:39:08,484
And even though
Noah was in the minority,
1593
01:39:09,109 --> 01:39:11,736
it's clear today he was right.
1594
01:39:11,737 --> 01:39:13,571
And God is looking for
people who will stand up
1595
01:39:13,572 --> 01:39:15,991
even though the
truth is not popular.
1596
01:39:18,619 --> 01:39:23,373
My Christian faith is not
dependent on my science.
1597
01:39:23,374 --> 01:39:28,294
Yet one can't help wondering
if the two shouldn't coincide
1598
01:39:28,295 --> 01:39:32,507
if God is the author of both
then why shouldn't the
1599
01:39:32,508 --> 01:39:35,843
natural world coincide
with the Biblical account?
1600
01:39:35,844 --> 01:39:39,639
I'm looking to see if we
can't do good science
1601
01:39:39,639 --> 01:39:44,227
and make breakthroughs
in the world around us by
1602
01:39:44,228 --> 01:39:47,522
using the Bible
as a starting point.
1603
01:39:47,523 --> 01:39:53,653
So it has encouraged me, it has
certainly developed confidence
1604
01:39:53,654 --> 01:39:55,987
in God's word.
1605
01:39:55,989 --> 01:39:58,826
And for that I am grateful.
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