1
¶ And God remembered Noah, and every
living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a
wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; 2 The fountains also of the deep and the
windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; 3 And the waters returned from off the earth
continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were
abated.
And
God remembered Noah does not say, in this context, that God
forgot about him but that God revisited him, brought him back into play, turned
His attention to him. In pre-1611 dictionaries something remembered was
something worthy to be mentioned, thought about, or spoken of, not as it is
often today, something I had forgotten but has now come to mind.
Genesis
19:29 And it came to pass, when God
destroyed the cities of the plain, that God
remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he
overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
Genesis
30:22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her
womb.
After, or even during, the hundred and fifty days God
causes a wind to pass over the earth and the waters asswaged meaning, as this context states, abated. The wind caused the waters to diminish much as wind now
causes wet ground to dry out. This would have been a powerful wind as the speed
of the wind flowing across the water also affects how fast it will dry. This
drying out process did not stop with the emergence of dry land again.
Some modern scientists theorize a time when the earth
was nearly covered in water although, as with most of modern theory they put
this time in a remote, unapproachable, and I might add, unproveable distant
past. They talk about an explosion of life and the appearance of dry land but
they put it in a different order and at a different time than God’s testimony
in the Bible reveals.(29) Of course, as with all pursuits dependent upon a
philosophy, in their case atheistic materialism, the evidence is interpreted in
accordance with one’s worldview unless the light of the Holy Spirit shines
through one’s clogged thinking. God says one thing, they say another. Believe
God.
The earth has been undergoing a drying out period for
the last several thousands of years as indicated by the formation of such
places as the Sahara Desert which is thought by some to have gone, about 5,000
years ago, from a very wet place to a very dry place, and it is growing
yearly.(30)
Nevertheless, volumes of fossils that had once been
ocean life have been found in the heights of mountain ranges around the world,
showing that those peaks were once under water and while that evidence is
interpreted differently by an atheist it clearly shows the veracity of the Bible
to anyone with an open mind.(31)
(29) University
Of California - Davis. "When The Earth Dried Out." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/02/020208075438.htm (accessed August 2, 2016).
(30) Becky Oskin, “Sahara went from Green to
Desert in a Flash,” LiveScience. April 5, 2013.
http://www.livescience.com/28493-when-sahara-desert-formed.html.
(accessed August 2, 2016).
(31)
Carol Marie Tang, “Tethys Sea,” Encyclopaedia
Brittanica. https://www.britannica.com/place/Tethys-Sea.
(accessed
August 2, 2016).
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