8:1
¶ 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.[1] 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.[2]
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.[3]
[1] University Of California - Davis.
"When The Earth Dried Out." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/02/020208075438.htm
(accessed August 2, 2016).
[2] 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).
[3]
Carol Marie Tang, “Tethys Sea,” Encyclopaedia
Brittanica. https://www.britannica.com/place/Tethys-Sea. (accessed August 2, 2016).
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