Genesis chapter 7. We're moving along. We're not in 6 anymore. We're in 7. So Genesis chapter 7, and we've been in a series called 8 is Enough. We've been looking at the main key or central covenants in the Bible. And we've already looked at the Edenic covenant. We looked at the Adamic covenant. You know, when we went through there, and I've had reason to think of those two here recently, it's unbelievable and it's just almost unfathomable how many basic truths and basic things that we're talking about today, this same-sex marriage and who's going to use what bathroom abortion, just all these things that have come up to all these social issues. If they just look at Genesis 1, 2, and a little bit of 3, if they just do that, we'd be okay. So everything is laid down in the Edenic and Adamic covenant, and if you just follow that, all the foundations of all the social issues that have ever been considered are covered in there and covered well. in just a very few short verses. But obviously today the folks don't want to look at the Bible too much. They think God's meddling in our lives or something. But anyway. But we've got to the Noahic covenant. We've been looking at it for a number of weeks now. And Genesis chapter 6 and verse 16, it says, "...and they that went in," talking about the ark, "...went in, male and female, of all flesh, as God had commanded him. And the Lord shut him in. And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth, and the waters prevailed." I don't think we're gonna get to that word today, but the waters prevailed. That word prevail or prevailed is used a whole pile of times in Genesis chapter 7. The water prevailed upon the earth. The name of it is, and the waters prevailed and were increased greatly upon the earth and the ark went upon the face of the waters. So we're looking at these covenants in the Bible. We've got this Noahic covenant. Now, in Noah's day, If you're going to describe Noah's day and the population that was there, the folks that lived there, you'd say this, they were only evil continually. That's the thing that sticks out in the Bible as you read through about the folks that are living in Noah's time. They were only evil continually. Verse 5 of chapter 6, it says, And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. I mean, just all the time, daytime, nighttime, all the time, 24-7, all people could think of was only evil continually. And so God reveals to Noah that he's going to destroy the earth. He's going to destroy everything upon the earth. Verse 12 of Genesis 6 says, And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt. and all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them, and behold, I will destroy them with the earth." It's interesting to me, verses 12 and 13, we've said this several times, but it won't hurt you to have it reiterated a couple times. The word corrupt and corrupted in verse 12, is the very same word that's translated destroy in verse 13. So the society of Noah's day, they were already destroying themselves. They were already corrupting themselves, and they would have come to an end even if God didn't intervene, because they already were corrupting. They already were destroying themselves from the inside. So the society was already doomed, and I guess God just said, I have enough, and we're going to take care of this. We're going to destroy them. And so God reveals to Noah that he's going to destroy the entire earth. Obviously, God finds one person, one man, one individual that stands head and shoulders above everybody else, and that one man, obviously, is Noah. Noah, Genesis 6, 8, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. And so the Noahic Covenant, this Noahic Covenant. We talked about the door last time. The door. The door of Noah's Ark. I've seen pictures of Noah's Ark and I didn't really think about it back then but all the pictures I've ever seen, they got this little bitty door on the Ark. That door was big. The door had to be big because, yeah, they had the little dogs and the cats and that kind of stuff, but they also had the big rhinos and the big elephants, and so they had to have a door that was big enough to accommodate all these huge animals that would go into this ark, and so there's a large, huge door, and that's interesting because, you know, the ark, that's the picture of salvation. I mean, God saved Noah and his family by that ark. And so God provides salvation through a big door. A big door. The idea is that God will save all that will come in, and the door's big enough for everybody. It's big enough for everyone. "...that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Revelation 22, 17, it says, "...and whosoever will, let him take up the water freely." So this door was huge. It was large. It was big, a big door. Then we said that the door would close. The door would close. Genesis 7, 16, we read it. And they that went in went in, male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him. And then it says this little phrase, and the Lord shut him in. And the Lord shut him in. Now, whenever I hear anybody preach about Noah's Ark and the Lord shutting him in, they always emphasize the people on the outside couldn't get in. That is not what God emphasizes. Now, that's what everybody else emphasizes, and we're going to get there today. We're going to emphasize it a little bit today as well. We didn't get there last time, but we did this part. The Lord shut him in. The Lord shut him in. Again, Noah and the ark's a salvation type. It's a redemption type. It's a deliverance type. And when God saved Noah and God saved his family, the Lord shut him in. He couldn't open the door because God shut him in, and he was inside and he was saved. He was rescued because God shut him in. Now, just like Noah was in the ark, we are in Christ. If you're saved, just like Noah's in an ark, we're in Christ. 2 Corinthians 5, 17, a pile above the verses, therefore, if any man be in Christ, in Christ. I like these verses. 1 Thessalonians 4, 16, you know the rapture passage, "...for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ." The dead in Christ shall rise first. So in Christ, just like Noah and his family was in the ark, we that are saved are in Christ, and we can't get out any more than Noah could get out because God shut us in. He shut us in salvation. So that's good stuff. Like I say, most time people preach on this, they always talk about everybody else trying to get in. That's not what God emphasized. God emphasized that Noah was shut in eternal security. Secondly, and we'll touch this on, others were shut out. Others were shut out. And I've tried to imagine the first day of that flood. the first day of the deluge, if you will, the surge, that water coming. And Noah was a good man. He was a great man, a grace-filled man. He looked for the grace of God. Noah found grace. He found grace because he was looking for it. So he was a grace-filled man, and he wanted all to be saved. He wanted all to be rescued. He wanted all to be protected and would have probably opened the door and cracked the door and let them in. Can you think with me a little bit about Noah inside this ark, this wonderful godly man that has been preaching now for 120 years to the people that warned them of the judgment to come? And now he's inside and they're outside this ark and this ark is made of wood. It's not soundproof. Can you imagine Noah there with all the shrieks and the screams and the moans and the groans that would be coming from the outside and banging on the door, scratching on that ark, trying to get in, trying to avoid being drowned? And finally, after all that comes, there's the dead silence. because everybody on the outside would have died. I've tried to imagine that. That's a little beyond what my mind can do, but for 120 years he preached and he warned and he asked and he begged for folks to be saved. 2 Peter 2.5 says, "...and spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person." Then it says this little phrase, "...a preacher of righteousness." a preacher of righteousness, and Genesis 6, verse 3 ends with, "'Yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.'" So you put that together. He was a preacher, and God, when he started talking to Noah, he said, "'It's gonna be 120 years,' and so for 120 years, Noah preached, and he tried to get folks to buy into this thing of coming in the door, and the door was huge. It was big. They could have come in at any time. I even believe it was a big, big up in Kentucky. They're building an ark right now, the deal over there. It's huge. I figure Noah probably hired some folks. Think about that a little bit. He probably hired some folks to help him build this ark. Now, they thought he was probably nuts. They probably thought he was crazy, but, you know, if they pay me a little money, I'll go, yeah, I'll help with the ark. I helped the old man with the ark. And so some of the same people that helped him build the thing would now die. Because they didn't buy into what Noah was saying was coming. So for 120 years, the door was open. The door was ajar. The entrance was available. It was accessible. It was obtainable. But God... shut the door and shut him in and then out. When flying, we flew to Florida and back here this past week. When flying, you know, there's a check-in time, there's a boarding time, and there's a take-off time. They got all these different times that they have for you. And if you're running behind, if you're held up, if you just oversleep, whatever it is that happens, and you get there late, the door closes, and guess what? You're out of luck. They take off without you. I was reading, when I was looking at this type of stuff I was reading, I found some stuff I didn't know. That's not hard because I don't know too much. But when you fly commercially, sometimes flights are delayed or postponed or late due to what they call factors out of their control. So if they have things that are out of their control, in fact, on the flight out, there was some bad weather in Florida, that rain that I was telling you about, and they thought they're gonna have to delay the plane, and about the last minute, they said, Oh, no, we're gonna go. Everybody come on. They made a big announcement, and, I mean, we got on there and they left. I mean, it was quick. But they were gonna hold it up for about an hour and a half because the plane's out of their control. But did you know this? Most airlines, they also have a plan to protect you from being late. Most of them. Not all, but most of them. And they have varying, I looked at several of them, they have varying rules. But they have a name or a title or a clause that they give to it. It's called the flat tire rule. Most of the airlines have it. You just Google flat tire rule airlines and you'll come up. It varies from one to the other, but if you can convince them that something happened to you that was out of your control, like having a flat tire or an accident or whatever happened, if you can convince them of that, what they'll do is they'll, and again it varies from one airline to the other, but most of them will put you on standby for the next flight going wherever you were going. So not only will they delay the flight because, you know, unintended things or unexpected things for them, for their part, they'll even help you. So if you go flying sometime and you get a flight on the way and can't get there in time, you say, but my son's school teacher, he told me there's this flat tire rule. I hope that'll help you. But anyway. But in Noah's case, in Noah's community, in the world that he lived in, the time he was in, there was no flat tire rule. There was no flat tire rule. And there's coming a day. And we don't know when it is. For the unsaved, the day will come. The end will come. It'll be over. And there'll be no more time, no more opportunities, no more prospects. It'll be over. The door will be shut. I was thinking about this, I was thinking about expiration dates. You know, everything has expiration dates these days. Stores, they can't sell anything beyond their expiration dates. My wife, she likes to go and look at expiration dates. If she finds one that's a little bit close, either close or just out, she'll go and say, will you give me this half off? Sometimes they do. H-E-B used to, years ago, they used to, if you could find something out of date, they'd give it to you free. I guess they lost too much money. They don't do that anymore. But, you know, they have expiration dates. Car registration, they got an expiration date. Drug prescriptions, they have expiration dates. We got all these different expiration dates that things come to an end. Well, as far as our lives go, our lives come to an end, as is appointed unto man once to die, but after this, the judgment. That's an expiration date everybody will be on time for, and there's no flat tire rule. When the end comes, if you're not saved, you won't be able to go to heaven. You have to go to the other place, and I don't want to go there, and that's why I got saved many, many years ago. I hope you would get saved as well. No expiration date more important than the date of our soul meeting God. because our soul is going to spend eternity either in heaven or hell, and it's up to us now looking to Jesus. If we get saved, he'll allow us to spend it in heaven. Otherwise, we have to go to the other place. I was thinking along these lines, Matthew 23, 37, "'O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings." Can you see Jesus in his compassionate side, in his almost internal, his soul internal, looking at all these folks that are going their own way? And Jesus says, how often? How often would I have gathered you together as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings? But then it says this, and ye would not. It's not that you could not. It's that you would not. And it's totally up to the individual, person by person, will by will, whether you'll look to Jesus for salvation or whether you won't. And so the Lord shuts him in and, in effect, shuts everybody else out. All right, so next thing, the flood. The flood, verse 17, and the flood was 40 days upon the earth, and the waters increased and bear up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth, and the waters prevailed and were increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark went upon the face of the waters. Now, my question is this, where did all that water come from? I mean, that was a lot of water. The water covered the entire earth. I mean, it was 15 cubits above anything that was there. I mean, that's a lot of water. The earth right now has, I can't remember, I think it's two-thirds, but the earth is covered with water, but the water's in its place. But in Noah's day, the water covered everything, all at one time. Where'd all that water come from? Well, verse 11 gives us a key to this, and I think this is the key that unlocks this question. Where did all that water come from? Verse 11 of chapter 7 says this, in the 600th year of Noah's life, in the second month, the 17th day of the month, the same day where, watch these two statements, the fountains of the great deep broken up and the windows of heaven were opened. So it says, "...the fountains of the great deep broken up and the windows of heaven were opened." So these are the two sources, the two origins, if you will, the two fountainheads of where all this water came from. The fountains of the great deep broken up and the windows of heaven were opened. So what does that mean? Well, we're going to look into that. Fountains of the great deep broken up. It'll help us if we look at some words. I like doing word studies. If you've been in here a time or two, you know that. But we're going to look at a couple of words. First off, the word fountain. The word fountain. It's only used 23 times in the entire Old Testament. Now, there's another word that's used quite often, meaning a well of water. But that's not what this word, fountain, means. In Genesis 7, it's a completely different word than when you think of like a well. You know, when they dig a well, that's an entirely different word and entirely different meaning. I'll show you a couple places. 1 Kings 18, 5. If you know your Bible, 1 Kings 18, that's Elijah and, you know, stopping the rain and so on and so forth. But verse 5 says, "...and they had said unto Obadiah, Go into the land unto all fountains of water." That word fountain, that's the same word. "...all fountains of water, and unto all brooks." per adventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts." So Ahab knows that there's this drought, and so he tells them to go to two different sources. He says, first off, go to the fountains and then all brooks. In other words, he's wanting to look at the fountains or the springs, try to find some springs where water's coming out, or go to the brooks or the rivers. And so there's these two type of water sources. One is a spring or an active water source. The other is a brook or river moving water. Psalm 114.8 adds to that, which turned the rock into a standing water. That's one type of water. The flint into a fountain of water. That word fountain there again. Do I hear a fountain opening up just as we're preaching about the fountain? God says, all right, son, I'll help you. I know you're having trouble down there, so we're going to help you. We're going to give you some water. The fountain of water. Maybe you can see the difference, which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of water. So there's standing water and fountain of water, and the fountain again is like a spring of water. It's something that's active. Standing water versus a fountain of water. The word is translated well a few times. The word well is translated a few times. Let me read you one of them. It's interesting, where God would use this verse and use this word that means a fountain, this thing that's springing out and called well. Isaiah 12, 3, "...therefore with joy shall you draw water out of the wells of salvation." the wells of salvation. Ain't that a blessing? It's not like a well like you dig. It's a well like something springing up. an active spring of water coming up because you know the verses. John chapter 7, when Jesus was there in the last day, the great day of the Lord, Jesus stood and cried, saying, "'If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.'" water, that springing water that comes out of this sphincter of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive, for the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified, but the flow of rivers of living water. the spring of water of salvation, this spring, this geyser, if you will, the source of water coming out. So that word fountain is like a geyser or a spring of water coming out, an active water source, something that's under pressure, that's spewing forth, that's erupting into the air. I was thinking about Old Faithful. Perhaps you've heard of the Old Faithful geyser. in Yellowstone National Park. I have never been there, but I've read about it, seen pictures of it. It's in Wyoming. We have some folks all the way from North Dakota. Every time I think of North Dakota, I think of... I'm from Michigan. I was going to say this later, but, you know, Michigan, the North Pole's not there, but you can see it from there. You can really see it from North Dakota. But anyway, cold. But up in Wyoming there's this thing called Old Faithful. It was named by Henry Washburn back in 1870, if you wanted to know. The eruption height is between 106 and 185 feet, so the water comes out, it goes up to 106 and 185 feet. I was reading, I was kind of laughing to myself, 106 to 185. Who thought 106 rather than 105? I mean, if I was to round it out, I'd say 105, but oh, no, 106. Somebody really did some measuring. But 106 to 185 feet is one of the most reliable timed events, which is a natural occurrence. And they say that there's different types of eruptions. Some of them last less than 2 1⁄2 minutes and some last over 2 1⁄2 minutes. These eruptions, as water comes up and springs up to 106 to 185 feet, and they happen, and some of them go longer than 2 1⁄2 minutes, some of them go less than 2 1⁄2 minutes. If the eruption goes less than 2 1⁄2 minutes, you can set your watch, in 65 minutes, it's going to do it again. If it's less than 2 1⁄2 minutes, in 65 minutes, it'll spew out again. If it spews out more than 2 1⁄2 minutes, it'll be 91 minutes. before the next one goes. And, I mean, it goes just like clockwork. These 65, 91 minutes, depending on how long the last eruption was. But you get the idea of this word fountain. It's like that. I mean, this blast, this eruption of water that came out from the earth. So, first off, there's that word fountain, which means like a geyser, this water coming out. Second off, the word deep. fountains of the great deep. When I was looking up the definition of this, one of the words that's used to define it is this, the abyss. The abyss. It's only used 36 times. In our Bible, we can read a few verses where it's used. The first use is in Genesis chapter 1 and verse 2. and the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep." It was upon the face of the deep and the Spirit moved upon the face of the waters. So there's these waters here and evidently these waters are deep because the word that's used to describe it is like the abyss. I mean, really deep, deep water. But this one, Job 41, 31, he maketh the deep to boil like a pot, he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. Now, that's the first time he uses the word deep in this verse, 31, but 32 uses the same word again, but it means something different. He maketh a path to shine after him. One would think the deep to be ory. Now, those two words, the deep in verse 31 and 32, they're different words. One means a shallow amount of water. He maketh it deep to bowl like a pot. That's a shallow amount of water. But the other one, he maketh a path to shine after him. One would think the deep to be ory or old. The deep there is deep, deep water. Again, it's that same word, the word that means very, very deep, abyss-type deep water. And so these two different words that you can see there that God uses, one, the deep there is just a shallow piece of water. The other is really deep. The word that he uses back in Genesis is the one that's really deep, really deep like coming out of the abyss. Another example where we can see the word deep used and they're different words, Psalm 69, 2, I sink in deep mire. I sink in deep mire." Now, that deep there is a shallowy, watery mire, but then it says, where there is no standing, I am come into deep waters, where the flood overflows me. That second word, that's the deep, deep water, the same one that's used back in Genesis 7. So hopefully you can see this idea that when it talks about deep, when God's talking about waters coming up from the deep, it's way deep. It's way down there. It's way down. So we're looking at deep, deep water which spewed out of the earth, which erupted out of the earth that was like a geyser coming out of the earth. Even today, scientists have been doing research on the different depths of the earth's surfaces. They call the outer core the mantle. Underneath the mantle, most scientists believe that there's oceans, not ocean, but oceans, plural, of water underneath there. Well, it appears what happened in Noah's day, the mantle turned a bit, though the pieces of the mantle turned a little bit, shook and broke open, basically what we call today an earthquake, and there was this great breaking of the ground all the way to the great deep, and when the mantle shifted and had this earthquake, if you will, the fountains of the great deep, they broke up and the waters came out. So one of the places where this water came from was underneath the earth, and the earth kind of came apart, an earthquake, and the water spewed forth. So that's one place where the water came from. Second thing, the second place it came, we read in verse 11, in the 600th year of Noah's life, in the second month, in the 17th day of the month, the same day where all the fountains of the great deep broken up, But then it says, and the windows of heaven were opened. The windows of heaven. Now, we're not going to get a chance to finish this whole thing. I don't believe I got too much, but we'll start into this. The windows of heaven were opened. First, the word windows. It's an interesting phrase or word usage, if you will. The windows of heaven. The windows of heaven. The word window there is only used nine times. in the entire Old Testament. It's only used nine times. In order to really understand this word window, we're gonna look at a different account in the Bible and help you see it, but in order to be able to see it right, we're gonna have to do a little background for it. So we're gonna look at another account in the Bible and give you a little background. Israel had some devastating times and some days and hours in the past, and the day had come upon when Israel, the northern tribes, were up around Samaria. And the Syrians were encamped against them, and it was at that time Elisha, the prophet of God, was there as well. 2 Kings 6, 24, and it came to pass after this that Ben-Hadad, king of Syria, gathered all his hosts and went up and besieged Samaria. And there was a great famine in Samaria, and behold, they besieged it until and the ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver and the fourth part of a cab of doves dung for five pieces of silver." Now, I don't really want to go ahead and describe the cost of this food other than to say this, this was very cheap, very disgusting food. It was very expensive because there was such a fad. Such a famine in the land that even a dove would defecate and they'd pick stuff out of the dove and they'd sell it for a high price because there's such a famine in the land. It's a very dire, awful, ominous famine in the land. In fact, we're told at that time that mothers were literally eating their children because they were just starving. It was a bad time. But in the midst of that, Elisha proclaims a prophecy. 2 Kings 7-1, then Elisha said, "'Hear ye the word of the Lord, thus saith the Lord, tomorrow.'" Now, he's not talking about, you know, ten years down the road. Tomorrow. Tomorrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Samaria." Now, that's an entirely different phrase. The first thing we were looking about food was really cheap, very disgusting food, but it'd keep you alive for very expensive. Now he's talking about good food, stuff you can make some really good stuff out of cheap. Really, Chief, well, there was a guy standing by, and he wasn't quite buying into this because he'd seen this famine, and again, this famine was so bad that women were literally devouring their own children. It was a bad time. People were starving to death. I mean, you know, we talk about, uh-oh, I'm starving to death, I could eat a cow. We ain't never been there. We ain't been to this level. These people were dying because they were literally starving to death. Well, verse 2, this guy, he wasn't buying into this. Then a Lord, on whose hand the king leaned, answered the man of God and said, Behold, the Lord would make windows of heaven, or if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it. This is Elisha saying, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not eat thereof. The windows of heaven. He said, if God would just open the windows of heaven, I mean, right into heaven, the very window in heaven, the very opening to heaven, if God would even do that, could this be? I mean, you see the famine we're in. This is a horrible famine. We're paying all these high prices for this disgusting food, and you believe that tomorrow we're going to have great food for cheap? If God would open the very opening of heaven, if God would open up the big hole in heaven and look down and we could reach up into heaven and pull stuff down, it still couldn't be. The windows of heaven. Well, this doubter, he's there and he's standing by and he's saying this thing. It's interesting, about that time, there was these lepers. Remember the story of the lepers, these four lepers that were living on the outside of the gate of Samaria. They weren't allowed to live inside the city because they had leprosy. And they're out there, and they're just like everybody else in Samaria. They're starving to death. And the Syrians are out there, and they've got all the food they want. And they get talking to each other and say, you know, if we go out there, the worst they can do is kill us, and we're going to die here anyway. Let's just go out and see what happened. So they go out there, and in the meantime, God had made the Syrians hear like there was an army coming. Verse 6 of 2 Kings 7, "'For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians hear a noise of chariots, and the noise of horses, even the noise of a great host. And they said once another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the king of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to come upon us. So the Syrians, they had bugged out, and they left in a hurry, and they left all their supplies, left all their food, left everything there. And these lepers, these 4 lepers went out there, and they were all gone, and there was all this food, and you can imagine, they're starving. They're going from tent to tent. And they're just, I mean, they're chowing down. They're having themselves a party, you know, eating all the stuff. And one of the great verses in the Bible, one of the, if you want to look at one of the mountain-type verses of the Bible, here it is, verse 9, then they said one to another, these lepers, we do not well. We do not well. I mean, we're eating all this food. The folks over there, they're dying. We gotta go let them know. And so they do. They go and they let the folks in Samaria know what's going on. And verse 18 says, And that happened. And the Lord answered the man of God, And that Lord answered the man of God, the doubter, said, Now behold, if the Lord should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof. And so it fell upon unto him, for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died." So this guy's holding the gate, and all these people were so rushing out there to get all that food for cheap, they mowed him over. But the point of that is the windows of heaven, if God would open up an opening into heaven itself. That's the picture this doubter was painting, and it's the same word, the same phrase that's seen back in Genesis 7 about the windows of heaven being opened. So we've got to stop. We'll continue next time when we're here, but we'll look more about these windows. But if you just get that idea of where this water came from, first off, the earth kind of shook a little bit, and underneath the water came bursting out. And so water came out, and not only that, the windows of heaven, we'll talk more about the windows of heaven next time, the windows of heaven opened up somehow, and the water came down from above. So it not only came from below, but it also came from above, and it covered the entire earth. So windows came from above and below. That's the short answer of where the water came from. And again, we'll look more at this idea of the windows next time, and we appreciate you coming. Boy, Noah was a great man, a man of great faith. A man who found grace in the eyes of God because he was living for it. Well, we need to take a page out of his life and put it in ours and think like Noah did. Noah had never seen rain and yet God told him destruction was coming and he built the ark and probably hired folks to help him. He got all that together and when the rain came, he was saved. Noah and his family was saved. The others, not so much. Anyway, let's pray and we'll be done. Father, I ask that you bless what's been said today. Help us to put these things in practice in our lives. Help us to be mindful of the situation we're in where folks, if they don't get saved, they can't go to heaven. Help us to be thankful for us that are. Bless the rest of the activities of the day. We need your help. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. We'll be back here in about 15 minutes. Thank you for coming.