Fear No Fear

(All scripture from the World English Bible, ebible.org, all rights reserved)

“God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided. The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained. The waters continually receded from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters receded. The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains. The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.”
(Genesis 8:1-5)

God was not caught up with His judgment. God had not forgotten the remnant. God purposefully remembered them. He made SURE that the flooding would not be permanent. That they would not be in the ark beyond their resources. That their trust in Him was NOT misplaced. He remembered the HUMAN BEINGS and He also remembered the ANIMALS.

The waters had surged upwards for a hundred and fifty days (Genesis 7:24). Now they receded for a hundred and fifty days (Genesis 8:3). This was a total of three hundred (300) days.

God’s wind caused the waters to stop. It broke up the clouds. God also closed the ‘doors’ bringing water to the surface. They had welled up for a hundred and fifty days, but now they stopped. Since they were not flowing upwards, the gravity of the Earth started bringing them down again. As they did, the bottom of the ark settled on a specific mountain in the region of Ararat. It took three more months for the water to recede enough for the tops of those mountains (and presumably others around the globe) to be visible above the water (after the 300 days of waters rising and receding). The flood had lasted so far for five months. It started on the seventeenth day of the second month and now it was the first day of the tenth month.

If the waters had come from the layers of minerals under the mantle (ringwoodite), that would mean MAJOR shifts and cracks in the mantle and the tectonic plates covering the Earth. This would be catastrophic. So it is possible, if this is what was going on, that some of these mountains – even the ones the ark landed on – might have been brand new. It’s interesting to think of it. Not only did the Flood kill all the air-breathing animals, but it could have completely and totally re-shaped the world as they knew it into what we know today.