BEING
WITH THE HEAVENLY FATHER -
.......DEVOTIONS
FOR LAMBS.
No.
74
From Wendy Howard [Editor of Despatch magazine],
Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia.
Access Online http://www.despatch.cth.com.au/Main/tabco_main
Getting
to know God together.
The waters of the great
flood covered even the highest mountains on earth.
How
do we know?
The mountains on earth
today are higher
than they were when God
first created them.
There are many layers
of mud, stacked on top of each other,
which has turned to rock
over the centuries.
This rock was stacked
that way in the flood of Noah’s day.
Something fantastic is
in those rock layers!
There are billions of
fossils of creatures that were killed during the flood in the rock! There
are plants, animals fish and insects in the rock layers.
They were buried in those
layers after the great flood.
Here is what John D.
Morris writes
“When
these layers (also called ‘strata’) were still soft mud,
they
could be bent like clay and pushed upward into huge mountains by earth
movements during Noah’s Flood.
Many
of the tall mountains we see now are volcanoes
which
erupted and grew tall after the flood was over,
so
we can see even though today’s mountains were made by the Flood,
they
were not as high during the Flood as they are now.”
(”Noah’s Ark and the
Lost World.” page 22).
All
right, you might say, where did all that water go to?
The Lord God caused the
awfully deep ocean floors to form. Scientists tell us that God may have
done this by separating the earth into continents. When the waters rushed
away, own earth of today was formed. It had a new shape. The massive canyons
that we have today were carved out of the soft muddy earth by water that
rushed off the land into huge ocean basins. Did you know that if there
were no high mountains and if there were no really deep oceans, then the
water on our earth would still cover it for nearly two miles!
Ever since the time just
after the great flood people have written about the Ark.
Or they have told stories
about the Ark.
Many people today claim
that they have seen the Ark
when they were climbing
Mt Ararat.
Some others say they
know people who saw the Ark.
And some say they have
seen it when they passed over that mountain in airplanes. The Bible says
“the Ark rested on the mountains of Ararat” (Genesis 8:4).
Do we know where people
have seen the Ark?
Yes, it is in an ancient
region called “Uratu” in Mt Ararat.
Hundreds of people have
seen the Ark,
most of them say it is
in Ahora Gorge, up near the snow line.
What
about the world after the great flood?
Noah and his family would
have lived in the Ark until the earth recovered!
There is evidence in
recent times of the house & graves of Noah and his family.
Found near Mt. Ararat
on the plains.
The pictures on the headstones
show they were taller than we are today.
Only God’s Word has the
true story of Noah’s flood.
But do you know that
people from many different parts of the world
tell stories about that
great flood.
They have changed the
true record,
but they still show that
many tribes remember the flood that covered the earth.
When Noah and his family
finally left the Ark,
after the waters had
gone down, they offered a sacrifice to the Lord.
You can read about it
in Genesis chapter eight.
This is the promise God
gave them, and all of us, after that terrible flood.
PRAISE THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY!
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