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Bible Question: What
happened to the flood waters of Noah's day? Could the North and South
Poles be where half or most of the water could have ended up? Does
scripture say anything about it?
Bible Answer: According
to Genesis and Proverbs 8:24-29, God placed a water canopy above the
earth at the same time He created subterranean springs and oceans
of water on the earth. It is these three sources of water that God
used to cause the flood.
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Then
God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the
waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”
And God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were
below the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse;
and it was so. (NASB) Genesis 1:6-7
When
He established the heavens, I was there, when He inscribed a
circle on the face of the deep, when He made firm the skies
above, when the springs of the deep became fixed, when He set
for the sea its boundary, so that the water should not transgress
His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth
. . . (NASB) Prov. 8:27-29 |
The Flood. God caused the flood
- Noah's Flood -
to occur by releasing the water canopy above the earth and the springs
below the earth. With the oceans and seas of water on the earth, the
waters covered the face of the land.
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In
the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month,
on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the
fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of
the sky were opened. (NASB) Genesis 7:11
Also
the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were
closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained . . . (NASB)
Genesis 8:2 |
When
God decided to bring the flood to an end, He had to do something with
the water. Scripture says that He then raised the land to form mountains
and dropped the land to form valleys.
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Thou
didst cover it with the deep as with a garment; The waters were
standing above the mountains. At Thy rebuke they fled; At the
sound of Thy thunder they hurried away. The mountains rose;
the valleys sank down To the place which Thou didst establish
for them. (NASB) Psalm 104:6-8 |
This
caused the waters to form oceans and seas. The scientists tell us
that with the water canopy removed, the poles would be cold and ice
would form. Here is a statement from Whitcomb and Morris.
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As
we have already seen, there is strong evidence that the climate
of the entire world prior to the Flood was uniformly mild and
pleasant. This snow, falling primarily in the arctic and Antarctic
regions, was . . . derived via the hydrologic cycle from the
waters which only recently were covering the earth. Great amounts
of snow also accumulated in the mountains which had just been
uplifted. In this way, large amounts of water were removed from
the oceans and stored in the polar regions in the form of great
ice caps, which in some instances are believed by glacial geologists
to have attained the immense size of continental ice sheets
thousands of feet thick and thousands of square miles in area.
This agency [was the] . . . cause of the retreat of the globe-encircling
waters off the continents. Whitcomb
and Morris,The Genesis Flood, Baker Book house, Grand Rapids,
MI. p. 292. |
Conclusion:God
created the world out of nothing by his command.
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By
faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word
of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which
are visible. (NASB) Heb. 11:3 |
God
caused the flood by His command. We do not need a natural event to
explain it. After the flood, He formed high mountains and deep valleys.
The waters that naturally covered the earth would have gravitated
to the poles to form snow glacial ice caps. The ice caps are reminders
of God's power and God's hatred of sin. The rainbow that was established
after the flood is a reminder of His splendid love for us! |
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