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A Judgement From God — Summary of a Damaged Planet

THE SUMMARY OF A DAMAGED PLANET

And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Gen 7:1

When their survival vessel ran aground on the mountains of Turkey, the occupants would have recoiled in horror from the desolation that met their gaze. The world of almost perfect beauty which they had known was no more. Stones, ledges and jagged rocks covered the ground. There was virtually no vegetation. Hills had disappeared without trace; plains had given way to broken mountain ranges. Gashed and torn, the surface was desolate. All the luxuriant forests were gone. Green meadows and flowering trees were washed away or buried. Here and there clumps of growth had begun to re-establish, but the rich antediluvian world was largely plowed under, out of sight. The soil that remained was leached and relatively infertile. It would take centuries to rebuild enough soil to carpet large areas. Later exploration would confirm new, harsh climatic zones.

POST-FLOOD EROSION

Before plant cover would become re-established, erosion of unbelievable magnitude would occur on the planet. As the waters of the global Flood rushed off the continental areas to fill the newly expanded sea basins, violent land movements resulted in massive buckling, folding and tilting of the soft, newly-laid Flood strata. The enormous run-off of water rapidly eroded great gorges in the soft, exposed sediment. With the new temperature differentials, violent winds beyond anything known today were whipped up. The soft land suffered incredible erosion during those weeks of continuing, wind-driven waves, while the Flood was abating. Some new mountains with their soft strata, were reduced to mere hogbacks within weeks.

THE CRADLE OF CIVILISATION

Ararat, in eastern Turkey, was the stepping-stone between the former world and the new, post-Flood world. Here world civilisation was replanted. Here are found the earliest archaeological sites. And these show advanced technological knowledge.

RAPID MIGRATION

There is evidence that both human and animal migrations to the ends of the earth were undertaken rapidly. Two early dispersions of people across the world have been identified and recorded:

\(a\) from the Ararat region of Turkey: The dispersed population spoke one global language. Included among them were those who re-mapped the post-Flood world and who re calculated the calendar.

\(b\) from the Babel region of Turkey: These spoke many different languages and carried with them the tradition of a tower where their language had become suddenly divided. They migrated with much original knowledge, which enabled the new civilisations of Egypt, Sumeria and Indus Valley to spring up suddenly "out of nowhere".

HIGH CIVILISATIONS AND PRIMITIVES

Among these family groups which dispersed over the earth, some developed into prosperous nations. Others, edged out more and more to the fringes, became more primitive through loss of availability of technology. Broken communication lanes were later restored through the world trading explorations of the Phoenicians -( More on them to be discovered in our book on Israel) and others. While many societies lost all trace and memory of their beginnings, and thus resorted to a mythical history, there were others who kept accurate and independent records of their descent from Noah and his three sons.

RAPID RACIAL VARIATIONS

Genetic evidence shows that all races, with their different features, could have descended in a very brief time from one family. There has been no evolution of genes that did not previously exist. All that has occurred is the recombination and degeneration of pre-existing genetic information. And the differences did not take countless ages to produce. This is likewise true of animal species variation.

THE ICE AGE

In the aftermath of the Deluge, continuing volcanic activity, warm oceans and massive evaporation resulted in thickening clouds of dust, which blocked out the sun's heat. Atmospheric temperature dropped. Copious and rapid condensation of the vapours, instead of falling as rain, descended as snow. Large quantities of stranded water filled all continental areas. Volcanic activity evaporated enormous quantities of water into steam clouds. It also provided dust, which blocked solar heat and lowered temperatures. The warm oceans and cold air caused heavy precipitation of snow and ice. Ice rapidly piled up on the land. This brought on the "Ice Age". The evidence points to just one Ice Age, which lasted for several centuries.

GEOLOGICAL READJUSTMENTS

Many hundreds of years would be required for the planet to settle down to relatively stable conditions following the Deluge. The new layers of rock and mountain, as well as rearranged land and sea, produced tensions. These needed to find release and adjustment. The result was continuing earthquakes and volcanic lava flows. There were some massive local catastrophes. One short, violent burst of tectonic activity occurred soon after the Ice Age had begun. It was this violent upheaval that finally wrenched the continents apart and triggered sudden, violent mountain raising. The splitting of the continental mass also isolated various groups who had already migrated into the extremities. In the post-Flood adjustments, changes in ocean levels, volcanism, earthquake activity, weather, the earth's wobble, and the human life span, were at first exponentially great. All of these eventually settled down to a more stable condition.

INLAND WATERS DRY OUT

At the termination of the Deluge, large inland bodies of water lay trapped as inland areas. In time, vegetation took hold and people moved in. Cities sprang up in these well watered areas. But as these huge "Flood puddles" evaporated and the climate dried out, many of these regions became creeping deserts. This trend continues today. Civilisations also once thrived in areas that later reverted to jungle. For 4,000 years, the world's sea level has been inching up. This has been caused by (a) an influx of water into the sea from the melting of the post-Flood ice; and (b) the gradual evaporation or outflow of water from post-Flood basins to the sea.

DATING THE GREAT FLOOD

There are ten "clocks" all of which indicate to us that something very big happened to this planet just over 4,000 years ago -- and from which an adjustment process has been going on ever since. These are, Recovery of the earth's axis, Glacier growth and retreat , the age of inland lakes, River delta formation, the age of waterfalls , Coral reef growth, the age of oldest trees , the age of oldest desert , Written human records and Population increase.

BIBLICAL PROPHECIES

Ancient prophecies warn that, as the Great Flood was a divine judgment on a world gone mad, so a second and final cleansing of Planet Earth is imminent, this time by fire. There will emerge a renewed planet in many respects similar to the original paradise world that mankind spoiled. But this one will last forever - And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. Rev 21:3

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