How was there enough water to flood the earth?

Sovereign Grace Family Church

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February 21, 2021

00:03: Hello, welcome back to Coffee with a Calvinist.
00:07: This is a daily conversation about scripture, culture and media from a Reformed perspective.
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00:21: Here's your host, Pastor Keith Foskey.
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00:27: I'm Keith Foskey and I am a Calvinist.
00:31: As most of our listeners know, along with being the host of this program, I am also the pastor of Sovereign Grace Family Church of Jacksonville, Florida.
00:40: On today's program, I'm going to feature a portion of a recent sermon from SGFC.
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01:07: Now, without further delay, here is a clip from a recent message.
01:12: I hope you enjoy.
01:13: One of the questions that often arises when you talk to people about the flood is the question of where did all the water come from? And many, many secular arguers have come at this text and they've said there's just not enough water in the sky to produce enough rain to cover the earth.
01:42: And how do you respond? You're right.
01:46: The text doesn't say all the water came from the sky.
01:49: In fact, I would argue that most of the water didn't come from above, but from below.
01:57: Because it actually tells us in the text, it says all the fountains of the great deep burst forth.
02:07: Have you ever seen a geyser? Now, I've never seen one in person.
02:13: I've seen a lot of cartoons where somebody sits on one and it shoots them up in the sky.
02:18: And I've seen, of course, pictures of the old faithful, which is no longer as faithful as it used to be.
02:24: It's not as accurate as it used to be, like you could nail it, but he's getting less and less faithful as he gets older, aren't we all? But the old faithful, the geyser, it's water pressurized underneath the earth and it comes out in a great mass of hot steaming water.
02:43: Now, imagine if all the water that is currently underneath us burst forth the earth in just that way.
02:55: By the way, you understand there's water under you right now, right? There's something called the water table, which I don't understand.
03:02: But as I've moved to Callahan, I've learned more about it because apparently Callahan is three inches lower than the water table.
03:09: Because every time it rains, we have a lake in our yard.
03:14: I tried to dig a hole when it was dry.
03:17: I just needed some dirt.
03:18: I was like, I'm going to dig this hole and put the dirt over there.
03:20: I got two feet into the hole and the water filled the hole, the most amazing thing I've ever seen.
03:26: It wasn't even raining.
03:27: It's just water in the hole.
03:29: So it's like there's water everywhere, right? You know that because if you need water, what do they do? They come out with a big pipe and a big drill and they drill into the ground until they hit the well that is underneath us, that water, and they suck it up through a pressurized pump.
03:47: So we understand there's water underneath us.
03:50: Well, the Bible says at this moment, again, in the 600th year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the 17th day of the month, all of the water that was inside came out.
04:03: And I don't think it came out as a trickle.
04:09: I don't even think it came out as a spring.
04:13: I think it came out like a geyser, pressurized, powerful, unimaginably cataclysmic upheaval of water comes up from the earth.
04:33: There's also something else to consider from the text.
04:35: It says all the fountains of the great deep.
04:39: I want you to consider something about that.
04:41: I do think that that's referring to water under the earth, but I also think that that could be referring to what was at that time the oceans.
04:52: Now again, I'm going to talk about this more next week, but I do believe that the earth before the flood was one continent.
04:57: So I would agree with modern scientific explanation of a single continent or what's called Pangaea, the supercontinent, and prior to the flood, the waters would have been surrounding that, if you will.
05:13: And had those waters been disturbed by fountains underneath the deep bursting forth, then not only would it bring water up, but it would push water in.
05:25: A good example of that would be Christmas 2004.
05:30: Now most of us were alive for that.
05:34: On December 26th, the day after Christmas in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake ruptured a 900-mile stretch of fault line where the Indian and Australian tectonic plates meet.
05:49: This megathrust quake, which is what it's called, caused the ocean floor to rise as much as 40 meters, which triggered a massive tsunami.
06:01: And within 20 minutes, the first of several 100-foot waves hit Banda Ake, the shoreline, and it killed more than 100,000 people and crushed cities into rubble.
06:19: Worldvision.org says this, it goes on to say, quote, then in succession, the tsunami waves rolled over coastlines in Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, killing tens of thousands of people.
06:30: Eight hours later and 5,000 miles from its Asian epicenter, the tsunami claimed its final casualties on the coast of South Africa.
06:39: In all, nearly 230,000 people were killed, making it one of the deadliest disasters in modern history.
06:47: That was only a 900-foot or 900-mile fault line that cracked.
06:52: A 900-mile fault line, that's not very long in the grand scheme of the world.
06:58: But one 900-mile fault line cracked, and due to the cracking, shifted the underwater so much that it created a tidal wave above it that killed 230,000 people, 5,000 miles away.
07:21: Here's the thing, if there was a boat, like a ship, that was sitting on top of that fault line when it cracked, the boat wouldn't even have known it happened.
07:38: Maybe the waves would have increased some, but it wouldn't have done much to the boat.
07:45: But what it did do was it shoved a massive wall of water, rolling walls of water, onto the earth, and crushed and destroyed 230,000 people in one day.
08:05: Now, that's just one earthquake.
08:07: That's just one massive wall of water.
08:10: Imagine if all of the earth shook.
08:13: Imagine if all of the earth's waters were disturbed.
08:18: Imagine if all of the fountains of the great deep burst forth at once.
08:27: That's what the text describes.
08:29: You see, the thing that drives me crazy is people say, it just couldn't happen.
08:35: Okay, we see a localized flood, like the Christmas tsunami of 2004.
08:41: A localized flood can kill this many people, but there couldn't be a flood that would kill everyone? Oh, it's just not possible.
08:54: Here's what's funny.
08:57: Popular culture absolutely believes this, as long as you don't talk about God.
09:04: Back in 2011, there was a huge fear.
09:10: Does anyone know what the huge fear was in 2011? The Mayans, right? What did you say, brother? 2012.
09:17: 2012.
09:18: Everybody was afraid of the Mayans, right? Because the Mayans had predicted that 2012 was going to be the end of the world.
09:27: And they even made a movie about it.
09:30: And in the movie, there's this great scene where this guy is, he's ringing a bell of alert.
09:36: He's over in India somewhere.
09:38: You can tell by the way he's dressed and the atmosphere.
09:41: He's ringing a warning bell on the side of a hill, and behind him the water is just coming over the mountain and crashing down all around him.
09:50: Because again, the whole idea was, well, how would the world end? How do we think the world would end? Well, according to pop culture, it would have to be a flood.
09:59: That's the only thing that would kill everybody at once.
10:03: Where do you think they got that idea? It's right here.
10:10: See, as long as you don't say God did it, as long as you don't believe it came from scripture, it's like this, I've said this for a long time, people will believe anything as long as it's not God.
10:22: People believe in aliens, people believe in like people that dwell in the earth, like center of the earth type crazy stuff.
10:30: People do not believe it if it's in the Bible, but people will believe it if some crazy scientist says it.
10:37: Here's the thing, you know what they believe about Mars? I'm going to read this to you, this is interesting.
10:44: The argument about Mars is that Mars was once completely flooded with water.
10:52: This is from discoverymagazine.com, listen to this.
10:56: Scientists believe Mars was shaped by epic flooding.
10:59: By the way, Mars has 0% water.
11:04: We have 70% water that we can see.
11:09: Mars has 0% water, but yet scientists believe that more than 3.5 billion years ago, water flowed freely across the surface of Mars forming lakes and seas and new research shows how these lakes may have overflowed and burst at their sides causing flooding so severe it carved out canyons in the Martian surface over the course of just a few weeks.
11:36: Do you hear that? All the canyons on Mars that we can now see because we actually sent a probe out there and we got, it looked like an iPhone camera.
11:44: Did you see the camera that took pictures from Mars? How are you going to get me to black bars? I'm sorry, you might not know what I'm talking about, but honestly.
11:51: They sent a camera and it was like an iPhone in portrait mode and they've taken pictures of the Martian landscape and it looks like, honestly, if you've ever been out to Arizona, it looks like Arizona.
12:03: And you know what their answer is? It was flooded.
12:06: Okay, so Mars could be flooded, doesn't have any water.
12:10: We couldn't be flooded and we have 70% water.
12:16: You see what I say when I say they'll believe anything as long as it's not the Bible? Can't believe the Bible.
12:25: It's just too much.
12:31: The Bible describes what happened in the days of Noah as a deluge.
12:39: A massive, sweeping, unyielding torrent of water which came from above and from below.
12:52: And it covered the face of the water.
12:55: And the only ones who survived were the ones in the ark.
12:59: I hope you enjoyed that short sermon clip from Sovereign Grace Family Church.
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