Genesis 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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