# 80 The Day God Put the Earth In A Blender

The Book of Genesis Day 80 Ge 7:4 "For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made." 5 And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him. 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth. 7 So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth, 9 two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all he fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights. Again, we read the words, “And Noah did according to ALL that the Lord commanded him.” This is the secret of walking in faith. This is the secret of powerful living. As we step out in obedience to God’s simple commands, (for Noah, that meant “build and load,”) He meets us with His supernatural power and provision. This is how mountains are moved! Another way that mountains are literally moved is when water rages at them. This is the picture captured in verse 11. The first day of the flood saw the fountains of the great deep uncapped, and the windows of heaven opened up. Remember back to Creation? The Lord had created a canopy of water above the earth, “Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament.” On this first day of the flood, the windows of heaven were opened and this canopy of water rushed out. That kind of rushing water will do an awful lot of altering and reshaping of the landscape. In addition, the fountains of the deep were uncapped. They gushed forth like giant waterpics, sculpting even more of the earth’s surface. As scientists dig and make discoveries on this earth and try to put an age on the various layers of sediment, they would do well to consider the natural effects of this flood as recorded in Scripture, and admit, that with all this swirling and gushing of water, they really can’t tell much about the earth as it was before the flood. It would be like trying to figure out the makeup of a milk shake after it had been put into a blender. We have had enough catastrophic floods in our lifetime to grasp a small portion of the power of raging water against a landscape, and when talk of “millions of years” of glacial activity comes around, I just reflect on verse 11 and the power of a milk shake. That’s enough to explain any rock formation to me. Pray: Lord, be with those today who have recently experienced catastrophic flooding. Let it serve as an opportunity to remind us of the power of water, and may it move our hearts with compassion for those whose worlds have been turned upside down to the effects of raging waters.