9:8
¶ And God spake unto Noah, and to his
sons with him, saying, 9 And I, behold,
I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; 10 And with every living creature that is with
you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from
all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. 11 And I will establish my covenant with you;
neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither
shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
9:12
¶ And God said, This is the token of the
covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with
you, for perpetual generations: 13 I do
set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me
and the earth. 14 And it shall come to
pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the
cloud: 15 And I will remember my
covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh;
and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will
look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every
living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. 17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of
the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon
the earth.
God
made a covenant with Noah, his sons, and all of the creatures with Noah, that
He would never destroy the earth with a great flood again. All of those waters
under the surface of the earth that I referenced earlier will stay under the
earth and although devastating floods are possible none like this one that
reduced life on earth to a precious few will be permitted again.
The
rainbow we see in the sky is an ever-present reminder of God’s covenant that
the world will never be destroyed by a great flood. A rainbow is an optical
phenomenon that happens when the sun shines through water droplets in the
atmosphere. Its existence is verification that the atmosphere of the pre-Flood
earth was very different from that of the post-Flood earth. The fact that it was
possible after and not before the Flood might be evidence of the vast
difference between the conditions. Just as Mount Saint Helens’ eruption showed
us that geological events that were thought took hundreds of millions of years
to occur took place in the span of hours and that formations like the Grand
Canyon and The Scablands also could have been formed quickly are evidences of
the Great Flood of Noah, so the rainbow, God’s sign of a covenant not to cause
the Flood again, is evidence of the great change between old and new earth.
We
see evidence of the Great Flood all around us. We run our civilization on
petroleum products that resulted from a tremendous biomass being crushed under
great pressure. Fossil fuels are just that. We find fossils of creatures that
have modern representatives and creatures that are extinct as fossils. A fossil
doesn’t occur when something just falls out on the ground, is eaten, rots,
decays, and disappears. A fossil occurs when a creature dies in a sudden
cataclysm and is preserved in rock by great pressure. Scientists will use
terminology like a fossil is formed when a plant or animal dies in a watery
environment and is covered with mud or silt or they will just say they were
buried quickly. But, this is explained very readily by the Flood of Noah given
to us in the Bible, a primary source with God relaying what happened to Moses,
who wrote it down.
Evidence
of the flood includes fossils of trees that extend through many geological
strata or levels so that they are called polystrate fossils as in Yellowstone
Park with fossil trees formed by rapid sedimentation and violent volcanic
action. What modern scientists say are geological strata laid down over long
ages were laid down rather quickly during the Flood, an example of which we saw
in Mount Saint Helens’ eruption. Another evidence is that fossils often are
found in strata that is reversed or lacking in continuity. In other words, the
supposedly older strata are over the younger.
But,
if you trusted the Bible you wouldn’t need this proof. Still, it is out there
as the most reasonable explanation of the conditions of the earth in which we
live, if you believe God. The evidence, the facts, don’t change but the
interpretation of the evidence does as the conclusions of modern theoretical
science are based on ideology and the way they view the world, not
incontrovertible truth.
Think
of the logic of it for a moment. Modern scientific theories fall under the
uncertainty that, “To be accepted as a paradigm, a theory must seem better than
its competitors, but it need not, and in fact never does, explain all the facts
with which it can be confronted.”[1] For example, “Copernicus’ more elaborate
proposal [a sun centered solar system] was neither simpler nor more accurate
than Ptolemy’s [a fixed earth as the center].”[2] The truth is simply that, “We now know that
the difference between a heliocentric theory and a geocentric theory is one of
relative motion only, and that such a difference has no physical significance.”[3]
And
yet, Christians have, for the most part, bought into modern scientific theory
and denied the Bible’s literal statements where it is convenient to do so. When
a scientist makes a declaration that appears to attack some point of the Bible,
like the great catastrophe of the Flood, consider what they are saying, why,
and how. The theoretical scientist of today is not a prophet getting a
revelation from God. He is a modern priest only receiving a revelation from his
own reasoning ability which God points out in His word is damaged and
unresponsive to the truth of God.
[1]
Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of
Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962),
18.
[2]
Ibid., 76.
[3] Fred Hoyle, Astronomy and Cosmology: A Modern Course (San
Francisco: W.H. Freeman & Co., 1975), 87.
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