Thank you, Dr. Nicholas, and welcome, friends. At the beginning of the last day of this particular conference, we will carry happy memories of what God has taught us. And this may be hard for you to believe, but even speakers learn by reviewing and presenting these precious truths that God has entrusted to us in his infallible word. Our topic this hour, as you've just heard, is the Genesis flood. and the final judgment of the world. And our textbook for this session and the one to follow, which is the follow up at the late morning hour on the Genesis flood and modern geology. Our textbook is called The Genesis Flood, the Biblical Record and its Scientific Implications, co-authored with my friend Henry M. Morris, with whom I worked for 50 years on creation science publications and ministries. And I'll be happy to autograph your book, but I'm sorry to announce that he cannot. A year ago, he entered the presence of the Lord. So please take your copy with you to heaven. And he'll do it there. Seventeen major opponents to our Genesis flood book presentations, arguments, evidences, were answered, at least in part, in my sequel to the book called The World That Perished, An Introduction to Biblical Catastrophism. And this is a book that updates the flood book, which was written in 1961. And this one was revised and expanded in 2005. So we have an update of catastrophism issues and how to respond properly and biblically, and I hope lovingly and helpfully to those who criticized our book. I have deep sympathy, frankly, for people who can't believe in the magnitude of the deluge, because I was one of them. Can you imagine a flood covering all the mountains of the world for months? I can't either. And we're trying to learn very, very carefully these days It really is irrelevant what we can imagine happened or how it happened. Everything has to do with just saying to the Lord, thank you, Lord, for telling us what you knew we needed to know. Help us to trust you because you can't deceive us in these enormously significant globe transforming events. Well, the story of those 50 years together with Henry Morris is on DVD, Fireside Chats. This is the last time I ever saw him. In 2003, we sat together in front of a fireplace near San Diego and reminisced for 70 minutes together over the things we had done and experienced in the whole creation science movement worldwide. Hope that will be of interest to you. And then last year, I presented the story of how our book was written, called The History and Impact of the Genesis Flood. This is also a DVD with a bonus feature, Remembering Dr. Morris. We hope those will be of interest and help to you, friends, and to your family. Please turn with me to Genesis chapter 7 verse 11. Here the amazing story is told in words that are very important for us to memorize in terms of the basic statement that's being made here. And it's a little surprising, frankly, how Genesis 7 11 begins. Listen to this. In the 600th year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the 17th day of the month, you say, wait a minute, why do we have to have chronology all the time in the Bible? Years, months, days, who can possibly remember? And furthermore, what difference does it make? See, that was one question we were prohibiting yesterday in our question and answer time. Don't ever say, well, what difference does it make? If God reveals it, he must have a purpose. He does not waste a single word in his book, does he? Now, again, here's how it works. You ready? What would happen if it started like this? Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a man named Noah. Which really means what? There never was such a person. That's how you introduce a legend, a myth, or a fable. God isn't into that. He wants to lock Noah into history, which is founded upon chronology, which is the frame of reference for all theology. Yes, thank you, Lord. Here's a real person who lived in a real world at a real time. So the Bible begins with six days. Ends with a thousand years, you remember, and Jesus rose the third day for the dead. Listen to the chronology. That's God's way of saying true history, reality, real people, real world, real time. Now what happened on that amazing day in his life? Are you ready for this shocker? The same day, all the fountains of the great deep burst open. And the floodgates of the sky were opened, and the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. Wait a minute. The fountains of the great deep burst open. You remember about two and a half years ago, what happened in the Indian Ocean? One fountain of that great deep, west of Sumatra, collapsed. Maybe ten feet. And since water cannot be compressed, it created a shockwave 500 miles an hour that swept over the Indian Ocean and destroyed a quarter of a million lives in 17 countries within hours. Wow. But you know something? This is amazing. If you were on a ship in the middle of the Indian Ocean, when the tsunami went under you, it wouldn't even affect you at all. Why not? Because although that wave was moving 500 miles an hour, it was 500 miles long. And therefore the ship would just rise, you know, maybe 10 or 15 feet, and then sink back down to the level it was, and you wouldn't even notice it. But the place not to be in a tsunami is where? On the shoreline. As all of a sudden, the ocean sort of like retreats, and then comes back, and you're absolutely overwhelmed. You know, there's a mysterious thing about that tsunami. Animals didn't die. Just people. Because the animals had a premonition of what was coming and fled to the hills. It's almost like God has a special love for animals. They're the only sinless beings that walk the earth. Thank you. Think about it. Now friends, this was not just one tsunami. All the fountains of the great deep were broken up for months all over this planet. As tsunami waves crisscross each other day after day, week after week, month after month, and Noah's Ark, you know, just on top of it all, with eight people in it. You say you'd expect me to believe this? Well, friends, watch the details. God is very concerned that we understand exactly what he meant by what he said. The floodgates of the sky were open and that pre-flood vapor canopy condensed and created an enormous mass of water that came down in torrents all over this planet day after day for six weeks to augment the uplift of ocean basins from below. And I say, Lord, tell me about this. All right. Verse 17. Listen. Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days. That's phase one. Forty days. And the water increased and lifted up the ark. Note those words. The ark. And so that it rose above the earth. Verse eighteen. And the waters prevailed. Specially powerful Hebrew verb meaning to overcome all opposition like in a battle. It was inescapable. Prevailed. greatly upon the earth, and the ark, see those words, the ark, floated on the surface of the water. Verse 19, and the water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered. Stop there. I come from a state where mountains are conspicuous for their absence. It's called Indiana. We have a few hills in southern Indiana down toward the Ohio River. And let me make this announcement for you. To have a global catastrophe today, all you'd have to have is one hill in Indiana covered with water for one week. The crushing force of gravity would demand equal depth all over this planet, and every city from Shanghai to London would be wiped out. Millions would die, millions. But that is not what the flood was. It wasn't one high hill covered with water for a week. It was all the high mountains under the whole heaven for months. You say, really? How deep was the flood then? Verse 20. 15 cubits upward did the waters prevail, and the mountains were covered. Why 15 cubits? That can't mean that the flood was only 15 cubits deep. That's 22 feet. It means that's the minimal depth measurement of the deluge. You see, friends, Noah's Ark was exactly twice that high. Remember? 30 cubits, 45 feet. So when this gigantic barge was filled with its precious cargo, it sank about half its height into the water and had a 15 cubit draft. So God saw to it the highest mountain in the world was covered by at least 15 cubits of water. So the ark could float over the top without being destroyed. Not one square foot of this planet covered by less than 22 feet of water. The flood covered the world. Well now, just stop for a minute. Remember those key words? The Ark. If the flood didn't cover the world, why have Noah spent 120 years building a gigantic barge with a capacity, as we saw last night, of nearly 1,400,000 cubic feet to escape a local river flood? The whole account collapses into absurdity. Why, given a two-month warning, Noah could have gone a long way if he's properly motivated with his family to escape a regional flood in Mesopotamia. To say nothing of birds and animals. And the whole account is ridiculous. The key is the Ark. The Ark. I don't know about you, but I get a little tired sometimes of seeing cartoons of Noah's Ark. always some ridiculous shaped thing with, out of the top window inevitably, the necks of a couple giraffes and then a funny joke. I'd like to make an announcement. Noah's Ark was no joke to those who survived the flood. It was the exclusive 100,000 square foot bridge over which pre-flood air breathers, including people, could move into the post-flood world in which we live today. The Ark was an enormous testimony by the living God to the magnitude of the deluge. But friends, we do have some problems with the Ark. We might as well face them. Here's a good place to face problems in the Bible, where we have a basic reverence for scripture. And I trust by the Spirit of God a patience to search the Scriptures daily to see if these things are so. These are not easy things to talk about. But I was told yesterday by Dr. Larson that this group at 8 a.m. is the elite of the elect. You people are masters of Holy Scripture. totally dedicated to getting up early in the morning to study everything that God has written in this precious book. Thank you. Congratulations. Problems with Noah's Ark? Yes. Number one, how could primitive people thousands of years ago have constructed such a gigantic barge? Did you hear an important word there? Primitive people. That's the perspective I was raised on. That the farther you go back in history, the more stupid people were, you see, until you get to animals. Ape-like. I mean, anthropoid apes, right? That is the basic presupposition of the whole theory in world and life view of evolutionism. But wait a minute. What's wrong with the word primitive? It comes from the Latin word what? Primus, first. You know, Great Britain has a prime minister. Does that mean an ape man? No, friends, it doesn't mean the first human being who ever lived, who evolutionarily speaking would be ignorant, stupid beyond description. It means the highest in position. So let's look at it this way. According to the Bible, primitive people were the best people who've ever lived they were genetically pure they were long-lived hundreds and hundreds of years they lived on the average and they were extremely intelligent to be able to what put to good use the things that God provided for them to excavate and to process engineering and science technology of that day oh friends no problem no problem for Noah and his workers, and later his own sons, to build this gigantic barge according to divinely revealed specifications in the blueprint that he gave to Noah. But wait a minute. Look at this problem. As the ark building project neared completion, look what it says in Genesis 6 verse 19. I'm sure this shocked Noah to the core of his being. God said to him, do you have it? 619, of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark to keep them alive with you. They should be male and female. I'm sure his heart is beginning to sink. You mean I have to collect all the animals to bring into the ark, Lord? Well, it gets worse at the beginning of verse 20. Of the birds after their kind. of the animals after their kind. Now guess what the next statement says? Every creeping thing of the ground after its kind. What does that include? Dinosaurs. Thank you. I'm sure by now Noah is in a state of total shock. I have to go and collect these animals and bring them in, Lord? How do you solve the problem? Well, here's a good rule. Look at the context. Look at the words that follow or precede here or throughout the Bible. Now look at the words that immediately follow. Are you ready for these? Put this in purple. Two of every kind shall come to you to keep them alive. Oh, thank you, Lord. You will bring them. I don't have to. You will. My job is to build the ark. You bring the animals. Do you know what this is? A marvelous example of the economy of miracle in scripture. What's that mean? That means that God will never do for a human being what he can do for himself. Given enough time, and the God-given blueprint, and available tools, technology, and help, Noah could build the ark. God could have said, Noah, watch it. I'll do it for you. Walk in. That's a fiction that God would never tolerate. See? Now Jesus functioned the same way. Now watch how he did things. How did he get Lazarus out of his tomb at Bethany? Well, Lazarus had at least three problems to get out of the tomb. The first one was there was a huge stone blocking the entrance. I mean, big one. Second, he was all wrapped up. you know, spices like an Egyptian mummy. But his biggest problem was, please agree with me, he was dead. And Jesus only solved one of his three problems. He said to the man, you move the stone. I mean, no small job. Don't you think it would have been nicer for Jesus to say, watch me, I'll do it for you. You think he could have? Several people agree. And Jesus could have said, look, Unraveling him, loosing him, is a sticky, time-consuming job. Watch me. New suit of clothes. That's fakie. See? But let's agree there's one thing they could never have done to get Lazarus out of the tomb. Namely, to give him life. Lazarus, said Jesus, to this rotting corpse, come forth! And he did. And I'm impressed. How about you? My! Think of it! He solved the biggest problem of all. He gave life to a dead corpse. Economy of miracle, okay? A few months later, 5,000 men and their families out on the desert, and they were hungry, and Jesus fed them. Watch how he did it. He said to the men, Have them all sit down and you distribute all this food. When everyone's finished, you pick up every piece and put it in a basket. Don't you think Jesus could have done that for them? But one thing they could never have done was what? Multiply the loaves and the fishes miraculously. And I just say, well, Lord, I'm amazed at this. You are consistent. You created men in your own image and likeness, and therefore you honor their what? Capacity, capability, responsibility to do things within their creative limitations. But what they can't do, you do. And that's how we do evangelism, isn't it? You know how this works? You tell people the gospel, but only God can change their heart. Now this is a deep... if you don't tell them, he can't change their heart. I mean, this is like serious. You tell you make disciples of all nations, you teach them, but I only can change them. OK, look, think of sanctification, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, because what? It is God who works in you to will and to do of his good pleasure. Watch the synergism here. This is amazing. It is consistent. The whole Bible is like consistent as if one mind offered it. Thank you. So Noah, you build the ark, but watch me, I'll bring in the animals. I mean, I want a video of this someday. I want a DVD. Thank you. Thousands of animals started coming from what was possibly just one great continent before the flood, because they could all walk to the ark. And guess what happened? This is absolutely amazing to me to think about. Perhaps a billion people, Henry Morris and others have calculated the population growth rate before the flood was absolutely astronomical. I mean, people lived hundreds of years and had many, many, many, many children. And by the time of the flood, perhaps a billion people. And they had laughed and laughed at the ark building project as Noah built this huge barge up on this high plateau. And you know what the Apostle Peter says about it? The long suffering of God continued while the ark was being prepared. That was a visible, a visual aid, a fantastic testimony to the absolute assurance the flood was coming and only those in the ark could escape. They laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed. But what was Noah doing? Second Peter. He was a preacher of righteousness. He was telling people, come! Come into the ark! Be saved! People laughed and laughed. Guess what? One week before the flood struck the earth, all the laughter ended. As people, gripped in total terror, saw these animals, these mammals, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds, moving toward the ark, led by an unseen hand. And they all must have thought to themselves, We're out of here. These animals must have a premonition of something disastrous. Surely, however, the catastrophe will be limited in extent and very temporary. But let's not take chances. Let's climb the hills and escape the flood. Famous last thoughts. The higher they climbed, the higher the waters rose and picked them off by hundreds, thousands and millions. And they all drowned. everyone. More on that at the second session. Well, Lord, thank you. That is not an infinite problem, getting the animals into the ark. You could handle that. Thank you. But now we've got a bigger problem. How could Noah and his wife Their three sons, their wives, eight people, have handled a floating menagerie of 35 or 40 thousand animals for months in this barge. I mean, can you visualize the trauma of all of this? Calming the animals, feeding them. Can you imagine the cleanup problem in there? Don't you think a week after the flood began, Noah would have been sorely tempted just to end it all? No. The calmest place on planet Earth was Noah's Ark. How do you know? Look at this amazing statement in Genesis 8, verse 1. I'm just amazed at this one. As the scene opens in chapter 8, verse 1, how many months has the flood raged over this planet? Look at the previous verse. And the water prevailed upon the earth 150 days, 5 months of global catastrophism. Don't you think by now everybody in the ark was either dead or wished they were? But look at verse 1 of chapter 8. But, I like that word when the previous statements are sad. But, especially when it says, but God, Name all your problems, frustrations, fears, and then add this, but God. Like that? I do, thank you. But God what? God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. You say, now wait a minute, how does that solve anything? God remembered them. You mean God was so busy bringing the flood that five months later he woke up and said, oh yes, there's Noah and the animals and he remembered them. That's blasphemous. You mean your God can't think of two things at once? No Jew would ever have assumed that interpretation because that verb is zakar. Remembered, when God is the subject, is a powerful verb meaning God takes total care of the object of his remembering and provides all the needs, all of them. There's a great Old Testament book called Jehovah Remembers, Zachariah. And think how great that word was for one of the thieves on a cross next to Jesus that day, who said to him in his dying moments, what, Lord, Remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And he certainly didn't mean when you enter your kingdom, please recall I was here. What comfort would that have brought him? You know what that request was? Lord, take total care of me now. And Jesus said, this day shalt thou be with me in paradise. A powerful request, a magnificent response. And that's what it means here. Let's read it the way a Jew would read it, okay? I might make an announcement if I may. This is originally written in what language? Hebrew, thank you. Now listen. But, God took special care of Noah, providing for all his needs. And special care of all the beasts and all the cattle in the ark and cared for their needs. I mean, Noah didn't have to lift one finger to take care of a single animal. through the year of the flood. Now friends, I confess to you this is very hard to imagine, but think with me for a moment about this. As these thousands of animals were brought by God, as we have seen, into this ark, the sole place of refuge in the world, He led them into these thousands of nests, that's the Hebrew word for the compartments, staterooms, boxes, cages that God told Noah to design for the animals. And they found food in those places prepared for them, as the text says God told Noah to do. And can't you just imagine this? After their long walk, they were so hungry. They gorged themselves on the food they found. And then God put them all to sleep. in a supernaturally imposed hibernation experience that animals are capable of under extreme conditions, and they had a winter sleep. They hibernated the entire year of the flood. You say, really? How do you know that? Well, just think of it. Just think. The animals came into the ark, with rare exceptions, two by two. A year later, they came out two by two, including the rabbits. Now that suggests control. They didn't come in by twos and come out by hundreds. The ark was just big enough for two of each. And I say, well, thank you, Lord. Thank you. Because that fits some things that you are telling us today about the marvelous complexities of the animal kingdom and how you relate to them. I'll never forget a conference I had In Rochester, Minnesota, that's where Mayo Clinic is, perhaps you remember. And one of the deacons said to Norma and me, would you like to come with me? I want to just show you some things at Mayo Clinic. I work there. So we have 50 buildings and two of the buildings are for us, top floor. We have animal experimentation labs up there and we have thousands of animals. Not big ones, you know, small animals, but 30,000 animals. By the way, do you know who's targeting them? The animal rights movement. You can't touch those animals because they're equal to us. They're developing persons. Thank you. How many would prefer animals to be experimented on? Thank you. Two hands. But as he led us around those corridors he said, you know, There are two things we'll never ever understand about the animals. Number one, migration. How do they migrate around the world? Now, can you imagine a golden plover hatching from mommy's egg in Alaska and a few months later takes off in a V formation with other golden plovers with exactly the right amount of body fat buildup? and travel, are you ready, 2,300 miles to the Hawaiian Islands and never miss. They've never been there. Now if you can figure that out, please tell me afterward. Don't rush, just one at a time, please. Amazing, friends. Okay. And hibernation. A great big fat bear gorges himself in the autumn, building up a large extra percentage of body fat waddles into a cave and practically drops dead. I mean, the heartbeat, the breathing, everything almost down to the realm of death. And he just sort of remains dead for months. And come spring, he wakes up, moves out of the cave, And life begins again. Don't you try that. Think of it. I'd like to ask you a question. Do you think God knows how to take care of animals? Eleven. Think of it. God knew how to take care of the animals in the ark. Let's eliminate that from our worry list. Lose no more sleep over that problem. Please. Thank you. Thank you, Lord. In fact, that sheds new light on verse 17, doesn't it? See, chapter 8, verse 17, look what happened when the flood ended. God said to Noah, bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. There are those dinosaurs again. That three things will start happening to them now. One, that they may be abundantly on the earth, not in the ark. See? And be fruitful and multiply upon the earth. Here's the threefold great commission of God to the post-flood animal kingdom. And trust me, friends, every animal totally obeyed God. No animal has ever disobeyed God. Not once. They started moving out in ever-widening concentric circles of what? Population explosion, migrating across continents and across oceans and the islands and the sea. And I have a question to ask you. When Europeans first arrived at the Hawaiian Islands in the late 1700s, this is Captain Cook and his crew. By the way, when he landed there, the natives killed him. That was the end of his career. But my question is, what animals do you think were on those islands when he arrived? Well, only animals that could get there by migrating, by flying and swimming and floating. It's the most remote land mass in the world from a continent. 2,300 miles out there. Okay? You say, now wait a minute, sir. Why couldn't animals have been created there? Answer, because every air breather on this planet was wiped out except those in the ark and they had to migrate from Mount Ararat to the Hawaiian Islands. Amazing. Well, then why couldn't they have evolved there? Because as we'll see, God willing, in the next hour, no animal has ever evolved from another kind. Ever. Thank you. They migrated there. Amazing. Well, friends, as I mentioned last night, I spent four years studying everything the Bible says about the flood in Genesis, in the Psalms, in Isaiah, in Jeremiah, in Matthew, in Luke, in 1st and 2nd Peter, And it is absolutely overwhelming, friends. The flood covered the world. Absolutely global in its magnitude and extent. And if it covered the world, and it did, God is going to bring another flood to cover the world at the end, and it's not going to be water this time, it'll be what? Fire. Turn to 2 Peter 3. Look at this. Look what's coming. The final judgment of the world. Second Peter, the last chapter that Peter ever wrote. Second Peter chapter three. And let's begin with verse number three. Knowing this, first of all, that in the last days, scoffers will come with their mocking, their scoffing, walking after their own lusts and saying, where is the promise of his coming? What's all this talk about Armageddon, tribulation, judgment, hell, heaven? Impossible? Why? Because they say ever since the fathers fell asleep, ever since people have been on this earth, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. Nothing significant has ever happened catastrophically and never will. That's what we call uniformitarianism. Oh yes, a volcano can explode over here, an earthquake there, tsunami here, you know, tornadoes. But all that can be explained. We're talking about supernatural catastrophism. Never was, never will be. That mentality dominates every major university in the world today. And what's God's answer to that? Verse 5, this they willingly are ignorant of. They don't have to be, they want to be. Ignorant of what? Two things. The truth about creation of the heavens and earth by God's word. And what? The Genesis flood. Do you see that? Verse 6, through which this water of verse 5, the world that then was being overflowed with water, perished the flood. There's God's twofold response to uniformitarianism. The miracles of creation, the miracle of the deluge. And friends, if God destroyed the world by water because of human sin at the dawn of earth history, then he's going to destroy it again by fire at the end of world history, verse 7. But the present heavens and earth, by his word, are being reserved for fire. kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. You say, what kind of fire, sir? Verse 10, but the day of the Lord will come like a thief in which the heavens will pass away with a roar, the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in all holy conduct and God is looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, on account of which, are you ready? Watch it, the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat. Guess what? Scientists used to laugh at that. Elements destroyed with intense heat? Impossible, because they believed in the atomic theory of matter. We say, what's wrong with that? Do you know what atom means in Greek? Atom, no split. Like, ah, Theist, no God. Ah, Millennial, no Millennium. Ah, Tom, no split. Nothing, nothing can ever split. In the what? The fundamental building blocks of the physical universe are solid and permanent and indestructible. Oh really? Guess what happened? I'll never forget it. I was a soldier in Germany in 1945 when the war ended over there. And in the month of August, we were electrified. by messages from Japan that two cities evaporated in nuclear fire. The nuclear age began and the scientists aren't laughing anymore. They're terrified. Why, one of the most brilliant physicists in the history of this world was a refugee from Germany named Albert Einstein. And when I got back from Germany and re-entered Princeton University. Our little Christian group, the Princeton Evangelical Fellowship, rented a film from Moody Institute of Science with Erwin Moon called The God of Creation, and we invited the faculty and students to come to the laboratory auditorium of Frick Chemistry Lab, and 200 showed up, including Albert Einstein. He heard the gospel. As he left, I gave him the gospel of John. And I say, well, Lord, thank you. Thank you. He was not an atheist. Whether he became a born-again Christian, we'll never know this side of heaven, but here's the point, friends, I'd like to make. He was a depressed person because he had a part in the atomic bomb preparation design, and he thought the end of the world is coming. By the way, you know what it would take for the world to end? You know what God would have to do? Nothing. Just stop doing what he is doing, namely holding it together a little longer. And there's only one thing that's holding us alive. And that's an invisible thread between us and the third heaven called the long suffering of God, who's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Oh, friends. If it weren't for Bible prophecy taken literally, namely there's a seven-year period in which God is going to prepare the church and Israel and the nations, and a thousand-year period in which he's going to give final demonstrations of fantastically significant truths, we could fully expect the world to end today in nuclear fire. Some maniac in Iran, ever heard about anybody over there that might want to do that? To the great Satan, who's that? That's us, thank you. Oh friends, how awful it would be to be a scientist who's an unbeliever. Oh. Well now friends, just think of it this way. It's sort of the way it was just before the flood struck the earth. Hebrews 11 says, Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, built an ark to save his family, whereby he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness according to faith." Faith in what? Listen again. Things not seen as yet. Now picture, if you can, a final interview between Noah and a delegation of pre-flood scientists as they approach him and say, Sir, what are you doing up here building this ark on top of a plateau You're out of your mind. Well, gentlemen, this is the only place in the world where you can survive because God said he's going to destroy the world with water. Water is going to fall from heaven above and water is coming up from the oceans beneath and only those in this ark can be saved. Water coming up and falling down. Sir, you're out of your mind. Don't you realize that all things have continued as they were from the beginning of the creation? No water ever came up and down. Gentlemen, I know exactly where you come from. I have not lived 600 years for nothing. I know a lot about what's never happened. I'm telling you things not seen as yet. How many believed Him? None. Why not? Did you know what Jesus said about those people? This is awful. He said, as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be when the Son of Man returns. You say it couldn't have been that bad, because now we know, we've been reminded. What's it going to be like when Christ comes back? Global catastrophism, global demonism, global disaster, the like of which Jesus said the world has never yet known or ever shall. Oh, it was that bad? Oh yes, you remember Genesis 6, 5, God saw the wickedness of man was great upon the earth and every thought of the imagination of his heart was only evil continually and you can't be that bad unless you're demon-possessed. The demonic world before the flood. Then listen to what he said about them. He said, for those days men were, you ready? Eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage. And knew not until Noah entered the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all. You see, I've never understood that. What's wrong with eating and drinking and marrying and giving and marriage? Nothing. Except if that, friends, is your sole, exclusive purpose in living. Just to, you know, feed and multiply. Feed and multiply. Remember this, please. Animals can do that too. And God didn't create people to do nothing but feed and multiply. There's no thought for him. No love. No prayer. No obedience. Ever. Except one family. And I say, Lord, I'm amazed. I'm amazed at what you did at the deluge. They were all destroyed. Good news. There's a new ark that God has graciously provided for us today. This time it's not made of wood, it's a person, because it's going to be a fire flood. And Jesus is the person. He's the ark. He said, I'm the door, by me if any man enter in, he'll be saved. No man comes to the Father but by me. Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, I will give you rest. And if you believe that Jesus died in your place on the cross, dear friends, and rose bodily from the grave alive forevermore. And that he meant what he said when he said on the cross, it's finished. It's all paid. It's done. Guess what will happen to you? God the Father will put you into his son, Jesus Christ, and close the door of his securing hand on your soul in Jesus Christ. And when the fire flood comes, in Christ will rise above the highest flames and be landed on the shores of a new earth in which there's righteousness forever. But outside of him will never make it. That's the message of what? The Genesis flood. The final judgment of the world. and the Lord Jesus Christ, the Ark of Salvation. Let's pray. Father now, I just thank you for this precious book. Amazing things you have entrusted to us to read, to ponder, to meditate on, to master, to live after, to speak. that people may not any longer sink into despair, but might have the assurance of eternal salvation through Christ our precious Lord, in whose name we pray, amen.