1. Now that I realized creation was not that long ago – what more do I want to know?

2. Creation – it just took 6 days Day1: light; day and night Day 2: expanse: “sky” separated water above and below Day 3: land and seas; from the land → vegetation Day 4: lights in the sky to separate day from night and to mark seasons; sun, moon, and stars Day 5: living creatures from the waters and birds in the sky Day 6: creatures from land, domestic and wild; and man Day 7: God “rested” – and He blessed the 7 th day

3. Then? God created the Garden of Eden Placed MAN in it with full responsibilities as master over all creation Everything was in harmony No death

4. Was there just one continent? Genesis 1:9-10 9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

5. Was there just one continent? http://the-latter-rain.com

6. What changed? Sin came Time started ticking No more harmony Death came Everything and everyone became evil God regretted – He wants to wipe everything out using water: The Flood

7. After Sin Years After CreationBornDiedAge (years)Reference(s) 0AdamGen 1: 26-27 130Seth (Adam=130y)Gen 5: 3 235Enosh (Seth=105y)Gen 5: 6 325Kenan (Enosh=90y)Gen 5: 9 395Mahalalel (Kenan=70y)Gen 5: 12 460Jared (Mahalalel=65y)Gen 5: 15 622Enoch (Jared=162y)Gen 5: 18 687Methuselah (Enoch=65y)Gen 5: 21 874Lamech (Methuselah=187y)Gen 5: 25 930Adam930Gen 5: 5 987Enoch365Gen 5: 23 1042Seth912Gen 5: 8 1056Noah (Lamech=182y)Gen 5: 28-29 1140Enosh905Gen 5: 11 1235Kenan910Gen 5: 14 1290Mahalalel895Gen 5: 17 1422Jared962Gen 5: 20 1558Shem (Noah=502y)Gen 5: 32 Gen 11: 10 1651Lamech777Gen 5: 31 1656Methuselah969Gen 5: 27

8. Was there a mother of all floods? Yes!!! - it came after Methuselah died Genesis 6 11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. Genesis 7 4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”... 10 And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.

9. Did everyone know about the flood? They did: – Noah told everyone about it – Lamech, Methuselah heard about it and told their children, their children’s children and grandchildren – and they did not believe it – Including Shem Ham, Japheth’s friends and their wives’ family and relatives No one listened; anyway Lamech died trying and Methuselah did not live to see it

10. Then the Flood came Genesis 7 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights... 18 The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. 19 They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. 20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.

11. Before the Flood http://the-latter-rain.com

12. After the Flood http://the-latter-rain.com

13. How long did the flood last? One year Genesis 7: 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights... 17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth... 24 The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days. Genesis 8 2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. 3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, 4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

14. How did the Ice Age occur? Genesis 8 1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

15. How did the Ice Age occur? The “wind” The temperature changes The water redistribution The meterologists, paleo and current, can explain more → the issue is it just took one year → today the ice are further melting Only one event triggered it all

16. Then what followed? Man moved on It took just around 1,700 years from the time of creation to the flood