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FLOOD THEORIES

Many civilizations, races and religions speak of a variety of universal floods that happened at some unknown time in the past.  The details are different with each, but one thing they all seem to have in common is that a god or deity of some kind was unhappy with the way things were going so a flood was sent to destroy everything and everyone. 

 

For example, in Greek mythology a race of humans were at war all the time, which angered the Greek god, Zeus.  As a result, Zeus punishes humanity with a flood.  Prometheus, a Titan who is said to have created humans from clay, learns of Zeus’s plan to send a flood that will destroy humanity. In turn, he tells his son, Deucalion, advising him to build an ark so that he will be saved.  The waters receded and the ark lands on a mountain after about nine days and nights. 

 

In the Gilgamesh flood myth, the world is destroyed with a flood by the Mesopotamian god, Enlil, because humans have become too noisy.  Another god, Ea (Babylonian & Akkadian mythology), formerly known as the god, Enki, the god of water, who is said to have created humans out of clay and blood, warns another god, Utnapishtim, and provides instructions for building a boat. 

 

Hindu mythology has several texts, Satapatha Brahmana and Puranas, that speak of a great flood. The god, Vishnu, warns Manu, the first man, of a flood that is coming and encourages him to build a giant boat. 

 

Here we will focus on two universal floods that are referenced in the Bible – LUCIFER'S FLOOD and NOAH'S FLOOD.  This topic ties back to Gap Theory and the possibility of a pre-Adamic Civilization. 

FLOOD TIMING

During LUCIFER'S Time

You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. Psalms 104:6 (ESV)

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  • Pre-Adamic

  • Happened on the first earth before Lucifer and the Pre-Adamites (the race before Adam) rebelled against God - Between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2

During NOAH'S Time

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:11-12 (ESV)

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  • Adamic

  • Happened on the earth that God recreated after Lucifer's flood

FLOOD COMPARISONS

Dake's Annotated Reference Bible

Page 54, Columns 2-4 | Page 55, Column 1

LUCIFER'S FLOOD
Pre-Adamic

  • Earth was made waste - Genesis 1:2; Jeremiah 4:23

  • Earth made empty - Genesis 1:2, Jeremiah 4:3

  • Earth made totally dark - Genesis: 1:2, Jeremiah 4:23

  • No light from heaven - Genesis 1:2, Jeremiah 4:23

  • No days - Genesis 1:2-5

  • All vegetation destroyed - Genesis 1:2-12, Jeremiah 4:23-26

  • No continual abating of waters off earth - Gen 1:6-12

  • Waters taken off earth in 1 day - Genesis 1:10

  • Supernatural work of taking waters off earth - Genesis 1:6-12

  • God rebuked the waters - Genesis 1:6-12, Psalms 104:7

  • Waters hastened away - Psalms 104:7

  • God set a bound for waters - Psalms 104:9

  • All fish destroyed because sun withheld from earth - Genesis 1:2, 20-23, Jeremiah 4:23-26

  • No fowls left - Genesis 1:20, Jeremiah 4:23-26

  • No animals left - Genesis 1:24-25; 2:19

  • No man left - Genesis 1:26-28; Jeremiah 4:23-26

  • No social system left - 2 Peter 3:6, Jeremiah 4:23-26

  • No ark made to save those left - Jer 4:23-26, 2 Peter 3:6-8

NOAH'S FLOOD
Post-Adamic

  • Earth not made waste - Genesis 8:11-12, 22

  • Not made empty - Genesis: 6:17-22; 8:16

  • Not made totally dark - Genesis: 8:6-22

  • Light from heaven - Genesis 8:6-22

  • Days - Genesis 8:1-22

  • Vegetation left - Genesis 8:11-12, 22

  • Continual abating of waters off earth - Genesis 8:1-14

  • Months of abating off earth - Genesis 8:1-14

  • Natural work of taking waters off earth - Gen 8:1-14

  • No rebuke of the waters - Genesis 8:1-14

  • Waters gradually receded - Genesis 8:1-14

  • Bounds already set - Genesis 1:6-12; 8:2

  • No fish destroyed, only land animals - Gen 6:18 - 8:22

  • Fowls preserved - Genesis 6:20; 8:17

  • Animals preserved - Genesis 6:20; 8:17

  • 8 men & women saved - Genesis 6:18

  • A social system left - Genesis 6:18, 8:22; 2 Peter 2:5

  • An ark made to save life - Genesis 6:14-22, 1 Peter 3:20

FLOOD CAUSES

LUCIFER'S FLOOD
Pre-Adamic

CAUSE:  FALL OF SATAN

Isaiah 14:12-14 (NIV)
12 How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! 
13 You said in your heart, "I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon. 
14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.” 

Other related scriptures:  Jeremiah 4:23-26, Ezekiel 28:11-17, Luke 10:18

NOAH'S FLOOD
Pos-Adamic

CAUSE: WICKEDNESS & SIN OF FALLEN ANGELS

Genesis 6:1-4 (NIV)

1 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.” 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. 

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Other related scriptures: Genesis 6:5-13

FLOOD RESULTS

LUCIFER'S FLOOD
Pre-Adamic

RESULT: It became necessary to make new fish, fowl, land animals, man, vegetation (Genesis 1:3-2:25)

NOAH'S FLOOD
Post-Adamic

RESULT: No new creations made. All things were preserved.  (Genesis 6:18-8:22)

RESOURCES, RESEARCH & REFERENCES

Check out the Flood Theories section of our Resources, Research & References page for books, documentaries, DVD’s, articles, biblical and extra-biblical information on this topic

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