Did you know that there is enough water on Earth to cover Mount Everest? Neither did I until I read the seventh chapter of Genesis. In fact, it says that the water sat twenty feet above the mountains.
What did this accomplish? The Message puts it bluntly: "Everything died. Only Noah and his company on the ship lived." God doesn't play around.
But God has compassion. He allowed the flood waters to recede and the land to dry out. when Noah and his family worshiped and thanked him for his protection, God was pleased with them. In the ninth chapter, he made this promise: "I'm setting up my covenant with you that never again will a flood destroy the Earth".
He made this promise after having acknowledged in the previous chapter that "they have this bent toward evil from an early age." In fact, at the end of the ninth chapter, Noah fell asleep naked after getting drunk. His youngest son tried to make sport of his father's nudity with his older brothers.
Sin continues, but God's love will outlast it.
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