The Lord sat as King at the flood; yes, the Lord sits as King forever. Psalm 29:10
Do you ever wonder how a log of wood can be turned to stone? What force converted plant and animal matter into the fossil fuels that lie buried in the earth’s crust? Do you ever wonder why marine fossils exist on top of the highest mountains? What caused the multiple layers of sedimentary rock found everywhere on earth? What force caused the uplift of vast mountain ranges and the bending of vast sedimentary layers?
Sedimentary rock layers are found on every continent distributed over vast areas. Many of these layers are traceable across continents, and even between continents. In many canyon and mountainous areas there are sedimentary rock layers thousands of feet thick that have been bent without fracturing. How can hard and brittle rock layers bend in this manner if they were laid down over millions of years? Since there is no known natural process observed today that would account for the layering of sedimentary rock, the Biblical record provides the only realistic explanation. Sediments were laid down during the Genesis Flood and the subsequent mountain uplift that occurred while the sedimentary layers were still pliable account for what is observed today. “The Lord covered the earth with the deep as with a garment; the waters were standing above the mountains. At Thy rebuke they fled, at the sound of Thy thunder they hurried away. The mountains rose; the valleys sank down to the place which You established for them.” (Psalm 104:6-8)
Over the last 200 years many have mocked the Genesis Flood account recorded in chapters 6-9 as a fairy tale. Others have minimized it by turning it into a local flood with minimal consequences. Why is it so difficult to accept the Biblical account of the Genesis Flood? Because the flood is about the judgment of sin. The Bible states, “The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually … Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.” (Genesis 6:5,11) “God brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly.” (2 Peter 2:5)
The Lord Jesus Christ declares, “The coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be.” (Matthew 24:37-39) “The Lord is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in His faithfulness.” (Psalm 96.13) Since Jesus Christ is returning in this manner, satan seeks to disguise the reason for the obvious catastrophic condition of the earth’s crust. It is his desire to blind the eyes of humanity to the realities and truths of Scripture.
The Bible Declares that the Genesis Flood Engulfed the Entire Earth
In the King James Version of the Bible the word “earth” is used 51 times in Genesis 6-9 to describe the breadth and scope of the flood. Examples: “Behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh.” (Genesis 6:17) “I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.” (Genesis 7:4) “The waters were on the face of the whole earth.” (Genesis 8:9) Other Scriptures state: “This is like the days of Noah to Me, when I swore that the waters of Noah would not flood the earth again.” (Isaiah 54:9) “By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which He condemned the world.” (Hebrews 11:9) “God did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah…The world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.” (2 Peter 2:5;3:6)
The explanation for how the present earth became fractured and scarred cannot be understood by the processes of the Genesis Flood alone. Even the effects of a massive flood cannot explain every nuance observed today, such as the Delicate Arch. Just as in Genesis chapters 1 & 2 God supernaturally brought forth the universe from nothing, so the recreation of the earth during and after the flood requires the supernatural handiwork of the Creator.