WEBVTT 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:12.000 Welcome to the Preaching the Cross Radio Podcast, featuring the radio ministry of Pastor James W. 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:14.800 Knox of the Bible Baptist Church of the Land Florida. 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:25.039 Our prayer is that these half-hour Bible study programs bring the lost to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ and enable the saved to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Savior. 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:27.359 Now here's your host, Pastor James W. 00:00:27.519 --> 00:00:28.079 Knox. 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:37.280 All right, thank you so very much. 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:38.159 I'm Brother James. 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:45.359 I greet you once again in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:51.200 And I welcome you to the Preaching of the Cross Radio Broadcast. 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:57.759 We are in the midst of a series of studies entitled The Bible as Science. 00:00:58.079 --> 00:01:00.079 This will be lesson number 21. 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:34.400 And on these studies we are showing you conclusively from science itself, from actual fact, not educational theory, but from actual fact that the Holy Bible, the Word of God, owes no apology whatsoever to modern science, and that anyone who rejects the Bible by saying it's not scientific is simply declaring a gross ignorance of science, the Bible, or both. 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:49.920 Martin Luther wrote these words The God that stopped the sun on high, and sent the manna from the sky, laid flat the walls of Jericho, and put to flight old Israel's foe. 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:54.560 Why can't he answer prayer today and drive each stormy cloud away? 00:01:54.879 --> 00:02:03.200 Who turned the water into wine and healed a helpless cripple's spine, commanded tempests peace be still, and hungry multitudes did fill. 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:05.840 So why not labor, watch, and pray? 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:09.360 His power is just the same today. 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:13.120 He conquered in the lion's den, brought Lazarus back to life again. 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:17.199 He heard Elijah's cry for rain, and freed the sufferers from pain. 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:22.800 If he could do those wonders then, let's prove our mighty God again. 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:37.759 Why can't the God who raised the dead gave little David Goliath's head, cast out the devils with the word, yet sees the fall of one wee bird, work wonderfully again today, in that same good old fashioned way? 00:02:38.159 --> 00:02:38.800 He can. 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:43.120 He's just the same today. 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:47.439 Now that's a wonderful poem, wonderful tribute to our God. 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:52.080 But you know something that's also a slap in the face at science? 00:02:54.159 --> 00:03:05.599 There wouldn't be a scientist in this world that would have the nerve to stand up and declare what scientists declared 100 years ago and say, Thank God we're just the same today. 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:19.919 There wouldn't be a scientist who would dare enter a college classroom with a textbook from 200 years ago in any field of science and teach that boldly to his students and say, Thank God we're just the same today. 00:03:20.719 --> 00:03:39.759 If science has all the answers, if science is the great answer, why is it that the science books are continually being revised and rewritten, and the science books of a decade or two ago are being thrown in the trash heap because they've been proven to be a great big pack of lies. 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:43.120 Now that's never happened with the Bible. 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:49.680 We still got the same old King James Bible that our forefathers brought over here in the 1600s. 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:52.240 We haven't had to revise one word of it. 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:56.560 We haven't had to buy an updated modern version because it didn't say what we wanted it to say. 00:03:56.719 --> 00:04:02.159 We haven't had to correct or amend one verse, one page, one passage, one word of the Bible. 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:16.959 No matter what science has discovered, no matter what modern theories of science have come off the press, we haven't had to change the Bible one time yet to make it suit the demands of modern science. 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:28.800 We just hold on to our Bible and stand on the Word of God and wait for modern science to apologize for last year's statements on the basis of this year's findings. 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:35.199 Science changes often and frequently because it's often and frequently proven to be an error. 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:36.480 God never changes. 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:49.360 God's word never changes, and the faith, the faith of the Bible-believing Christian, never changes because it's founded upon the absolute truth of the Word of God. 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:58.639 Now we've been discussing on the last two broadcasts the scientific proof for the flood. 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:03.839 There isn't any way we can cover this in three 30-minute programs. 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:17.199 I've got in my library books running six and seven hundred pages devoted to the scientific proof of a worldwide flood in the days of Noah. 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:31.120 We are just giving you the basic arguments that ethnology we have shown bears scientific proof to the fact of a flood. 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:46.560 Every race of people on the face of this earth has in their history the record of a universal flood in which a few men were saved, along with the animals, in an ark to repopulate the earth. 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:52.879 The science of archaeology also supports the Genesis account. 00:05:53.199 --> 00:06:01.519 There are fifteen particulars regarding the flood of Noah's day recorded in the book of Genesis. 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:12.240 Archaeologists have unearthed proof from the historical records of the past for every one of these fifteen particulars. 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:19.600 And now on the broadcast today, we're going to look at the science of geology. 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:27.839 The science of geology and how it adds its amen to the Bible record of the flood. 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:34.399 So the third science whose testimony we would introduce is geology. 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:40.720 The testimony of geology will be of great value, for geology is the science which deals with the physical earth. 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:47.199 If there was a great flood, then the earth will bear record of that fact. 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:52.240 And never doubt, never doubt that the earth does. 00:06:52.959 --> 00:07:08.399 There is harmony of opinion among geologists that characterizes the other scientists, uh other sciences, but most of them admit a world catastrophe, which was probably the deluge. 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:18.240 One authority claims that this was the cause of the glacial age, and builds a convincing and ingenious theory on the weight of water and its effect on the climate of the earth. 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:28.959 Several others, equally authoritative, disagree, and say the flood came as a result of the collapse of a giant ring of ice that once encircled this globe like a tremendous lens. 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:34.319 Others claim that the deluge was only local, and the merry battle goes on. 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:44.000 Science, as I said, always agreeing in their opinions, while criticizing Christians and saying, Well, if the Bible's true, how come there's so many denominations? 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:48.720 Well, if science is true, how come you can't ever find scientists that agree with each other? 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:55.439 Anyway, whatever theory geologists may hold, they almost all agree there was a flood. 00:07:56.399 --> 00:08:14.079 Geology textbooks uh are continually coming out with their great statements, but one after another they have to deal with this evidence for a flood. 00:08:14.639 --> 00:08:21.600 There were undoubtedly two causes for the flood, according to science, scientists and their textbooks. 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:23.920 The first was precipitation. 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:28.720 It rained, according to the Bible, for forty days and forty nights. 00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:34.879 The significance of this is seen when we remember that up to that time there had apparently been no rain upon the earth. 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:38.960 The Bible says a mist arose and watered the land. 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:49.200 How utterly incomprehensible must Noah's warning have sounded to the antediluvians when he said flee from the flood, the heavens will rain water. 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:51.279 But they never saw it rain. 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:54.080 They had absolutely no conception of it. 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:55.759 So men today. 00:08:56.159 --> 00:09:08.960 They won't heed the warning of Peter when he says under the inspiration of God's Holy Spirit that the earth is reserved for a day of judgment by fire that will destroy all flesh. 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:10.879 It never had rain. 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:20.399 According to Vale's theory, around the globe there was a protecting lens of ice that made the whole world an Eden of tropical splendor. 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:25.759 It was a firmament indeed, and rain could not come through it. 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:31.759 The rays of the sun that caused decay were strained out, and long life was the rule. 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:42.159 These rays also caused fermentation, and Noah, who was accustomed to drinking the juice of the grape in the days before the flood, was amazed when the fermented juice made him drunk. 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:50.480 In that wondrous atmosphere, life was so easily sustained that men ate no meat, but a vegetable diet was the rule. 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:53.120 Then the catastrophe came. 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:57.919 The great ring melted and descended in a torrent of water and ice. 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:03.120 In some sections it fell as water, and a flood was the result. 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:08.159 In other sections it collapsed as ice, and a condition of glaciation was a result. 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:14.080 The whole matter is set forth in these simple words, so filled with great depths of meaning. 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:19.919 The Bible simply says, and the windows of heaven were opened. 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:25.840 For forty days and nights the waters fell, and this was one cause of the flood. 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:27.039 It rained. 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:30.799 We saw it rain twenty two minutes one time. 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:36.240 Hundreds of thousands of dollars damage resulted in a downpour like that. 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:41.840 I have seen it rain right here, right here on our little farm out in the country. 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:43.120 I've seen it rain. 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:44.240 This is no exaggeration. 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:48.720 I have seen it rain four inches in 20 minutes. 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:52.720 I've seen four inches of rain come down in 20 minutes. 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:54.320 Can you imagine? 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:57.759 Take that 20 minutes, multiply it by three. 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:01.759 That'd be uh what, twelve inches of rain in an hour? 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:10.639 12, 24 hours in a day, you'd have 288 inches of rain in one day, it rained for 40 days and forty nights. 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:13.039 That rainwater sent by God. 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:24.799 Now, men said it was a cloud burst when it rained those uh that 20-minute uh swamping, if you will, that fell on our property out here. 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:28.720 In Noah's day it rained forty days and forty nights. 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:31.679 The second cause of the flood was geological. 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:39.120 There have been many upheavals of the earth's surface and slippages of its crust, and here was one of them. 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:43.679 The level of the land actually sank, and the bottom of the sea was raised. 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:54.320 This is implied in the statement the fountains of the great deep were broken up, the deep above of the firmament as well as the deep below the ocean, and the waters prevailed on the face of the earth. 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:59.519 The highest mountains were covered to a depth of fifteen cubits, and death was of course the result. 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:07.919 Now it's evident at once that this upheaval or slipping of the earth's crust was a main cause of the flood. 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:18.720 Noah began to build his ark in the valley near the mouth of the river, and when the waters had carried it to its final resting place it was up in the Armenian mountains in the Ararat range. 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:27.679 It is thus evident the drift was from the sea to the land, and this current would nominally be caused by the influx of seawater. 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:33.519 The common laws of nature were here directed, as always, to serve the will of God. 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:40.159 When the waters had prevailed a hundred and fifty days, God's thought turned again to Noah, and the flood was stopped. 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:43.759 First, a wind swept out across the waters. 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:48.399 Thus the rate of evaporation was greatly increased, and some waters lifted. 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:54.480 Then the windows of heaven were stopped, which provision kept the evaporated waters from precipitating again. 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:57.360 And finally the fountains of the deep were stopped. 00:12:57.679 --> 00:13:05.600 Now that can mean the land level was shifted again, so that the sea went back to its former place or nearly so. 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:10.639 Can this shifting of land levels be seen in the science of geology? 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:12.480 Indeed it can. 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:18.320 The unbelieving and materialistic scientist is hard pressed to understand this strange condition. 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:23.279 There are mountains and cliffs that have been literally stood on their heads. 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:29.840 The geologist claims that he knows the rock formations from the earliest to the latest and classifies them according to age. 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:35.600 The oldest rocks they say are on the bottom, of course, and the youngest rocks are on the top. 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:39.679 So we read the geological account like a calendar. 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:46.879 But this, of course, is an entirely gratuitous arrangement, and it's caused a tremendous amount of confusion and trouble. 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:50.960 What can any man know about the age of undated things? 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:57.759 He claims were made a hundred million years before there was a man to keep the record. 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:01.120 The whole idea is flawed from the start. 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:15.759 The confusion grows worse when we leave the textbooks and get out into field research, for then we see that the rocks with stubborn ignorance refuse to follow the chart laid down by the World Congress of Geology in their office buildings. 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:25.600 In many places, rocks which geologists say are a hundred million years old are laid down on top of rocks they say are only one million years old. 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:29.039 This according to the geologists' own way of reckoning. 00:14:29.279 --> 00:14:30.639 How did this happen? 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:32.480 How could it happen? 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:36.879 Why the only possible way was for the Earth's crust to slip and turn over. 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:48.000 In some of our California formations, notably the Eocene period, the strata of rock runs straight up and down instead of across the mountain. 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:49.440 Now I ask you, Mr. 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:54.480 Scientist, when did this tremendous shift take place? 00:14:56.639 --> 00:14:56.879 Dr. 00:14:57.039 --> 00:14:58.559 Price said, uh Dr. 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:09.600 McCready Price, who wrote an outstanding textbook for colleges on geology back in the 40s, he said it was at the time of the flood. 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:19.840 He said, while we're not advancing that as a dogmatic statement, we can at least contend that the earth shows that there was not only one upheaval, such as Genesis sets forth, but two at least. 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:23.600 Well, we knew that, having read 2 Peter. 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:38.080 Now, here's the next argument that comes up, and we get we get as much opposition from those that profess to be Christians as we do from the world. 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:40.240 There's no there's no question about that. 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:51.600 The the professing Christians of this Laodicean age have done more harm to the cause of Christ than all the agnostics and infidels combined. 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:54.559 But we've got to deal with this thing. 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:58.240 Was the flood universal in its extent? 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:05.200 That seems to be the big theme in the minds of all who are confused and are after some peg upon which to hang the faith. 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:09.279 There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever. 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:15.679 There is no evidence whatsoever that this flood was local and not worldwide. 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:22.399 The deluge was as universal as the human race. 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:25.039 That's absolutely certain. 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:33.120 You could argue and say if man was limited to the Euphrates Valley, then the purpose of the flood would be accomplished in a deluge limited to that area. 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:39.519 The object of the flood was judgment and death on the world of mankind, and the flood was as far reaching as human habitation. 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:41.519 That much is certain. 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:43.600 Now I want to ask you something. 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:55.840 You Christians that are always trying to work your Bible around so that you don't have to take a stand against modern science, I want to ask you something. 00:16:56.159 --> 00:17:00.000 Would you explain to me, please, maybe you can help me out. 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:18.079 Would you explain to me how water in the Euphrates Valley can rise to a height fifteen cubits above the mountains of Ararat and not flood the surrounding regions? 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:27.680 I want you to listen, if if the flood was local, you've got a greater miracle than any miracle in all the Bible. 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:32.559 You've got a harder time explaining a local flood than you do a universal flood. 00:17:32.640 --> 00:17:48.160 I want you to explain to me how water stacks up twenty thousand feet high in the Euphrates Valley and does not spill over into the surrounding regions. 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:59.359 I want you to explain to me the miracle that caused all of that water to pile up on top of itself and not and not seek a the lowest possible level. 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:01.200 I want you to explain that to me. 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:06.240 A local flood requires more faith than a universal flood. 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:08.000 There's no question about that. 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:11.599 You can look at philology if you want to. 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:13.359 Study the Hebrew text. 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:15.759 It won't help you one way or the other. 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:17.279 There's three Hebrew words. 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:19.279 First is eret, C-R-E-T-S. 00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:22.480 2,282 times in the Bible. 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:30.240 Translated Land 1356, Earth 686, Country 140, Ground 96, and World four times. 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:41.839 The use of the world's country, land, and ground are sometimes limited in extent and local in application, as the land of Palestine or country of the Jews, but the words earth and world are universal in their meaning. 00:18:42.160 --> 00:18:44.480 This word appears in Genesis often. 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:47.839 It's used in the world God created thirty times. 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:51.839 It's given to the extent of the flood forty-six times. 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:56.000 So if you're going to go to the Hebrew, you know what you come out with? 00:18:56.400 --> 00:19:04.640 The world that God created, the earth that God created, is what God flooded in Noah's day. 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:07.440 Maybe God just made a local earth. 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:13.519 Maybe just God just created the Mesopotamian Valley and then he made the rest later, if you know what I mean. 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:17.039 Well, you could look at the word Adama, A-D-A-M-A-H. 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:20.240 Occurs in the Bible 223 times. 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:27.200 Translated earth 53 times, ground 43 times, land 125 times, farmer one time, country one time. 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:32.240 This word is used nine times to denote the world, the deluge destroyed. 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:35.599 It's the ground, it's the earth, it's the land. 00:19:35.680 --> 00:19:38.079 Wherever you had land, it was underwater. 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:44.160 The word Tabel, T-E-B-E-L, appears in Hebrew Scripture 36 times. 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:48.240 It's translated world 35 times and habitation once. 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:51.519 It's a reference to the habitable world. 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:58.240 Now, an argument based on the Hebrew for a local flood won't help you either. 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:07.759 It's enough to know that the flood was as widespread as the race of man, they perished because of sin, the judgment of God, wherever there was a man, and not only that, see you got a problem. 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:12.400 Genesis said everything that had breath. 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:17.680 You can't limit that flood to just where you think men were living. 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:22.160 Why do you think God had to have two of every kind of animal on the ark? 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:31.440 Because they got breath in their nostrils and everywhere something was living and breathing, God sent the flood. 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:35.839 It's an amazing thing. 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:52.799 How how Christians Professing Christians will join with professing scientists to try and defend the Word of God by attacking the Word of God. 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:55.200 Isn't that an amazing thing? 00:20:56.480 --> 00:20:58.559 Now you're given a war a warning. 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:03.680 You're given a warning about a flood. 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:07.920 Next time it's going to be a flood of fire. 00:21:09.119 --> 00:21:10.640 Found in 2 Peter. 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:13.440 And you better heed that warning. 00:21:14.079 --> 00:21:20.240 The city of Los Angeles was builded by Spanish pioneers in a semi-arid region surrounded by veritable deserts. 00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:28.880 When the city began its phenomenal modern progress, it became necessary to expand vast fortunes for the impounding of water to serve the needs of the populace. 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:34.799 One of the great dams which the city engineers constructed was in the San Franquito Canyon. 00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:42.160 The mouth of this canyon opened up into a fertile and charming valley wherein were some of the loveliest homes and most prosperous farms in Southern California. 00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:48.720 The dam was a masterpiece of engineering skill and human ingenuity, but it had one unsuspected flaw. 00:21:49.359 --> 00:21:54.799 The bedrock, to which the dam was anchored, was a type of stone that is pervious to water. 00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:59.759 As the years rolled by, the water silently operated on the nature of this stone until it softened it like pipe. 00:22:01.119 --> 00:22:10.559 One night, in the deadest darkness, with no light but the stars to shine upon the scene of tragedy, the dam suddenly let go, all in one piece. 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:19.920 With a roar like the trumpets of doom, a wall of water forty feet high went surging down the canyon from wall to wall on the unsuspecting and sleeping populace in the valley below. 00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:25.039 Fortunately, a watchman on the ridge heard the roar and saw the dam go out. 00:22:25.200 --> 00:22:27.359 He ran to a telephone and called the operator. 00:22:27.599 --> 00:22:36.880 With the assistance of the other courageous members of the telephone staff, she alarmed the sleeping farmers and the small hamlets that lay in the path of the oncoming flood. 00:22:37.119 --> 00:22:44.480 The officers of the law went searching out through the darkness of the night with their sirens shrieking to carry the warning to all those who had no telephones. 00:22:44.799 --> 00:22:53.759 Now at that time, in Southern California, most of the itinerant labor consisted of the Mexican population, still does. 00:22:54.000 --> 00:23:04.799 These simple folk, whose wants are few and who are satisfied with almost as little as are the blacks of the South, they gather in temporary camps whenever there was work to be done. 00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:11.680 One little company of these humble folk had gathered in a depression in the valley to pitch their tents and to work upon the walnut crop. 00:23:11.920 --> 00:23:18.799 Into their midst in the dead of night the officers of the law came with their alarming clay, flee to the hills, a flood is coming. 00:23:19.039 --> 00:23:23.119 It happened that most of these Mexicans were not familiar with the English language. 00:23:23.359 --> 00:23:30.480 The spokesman who might have been called the Hafe Politico, stepped forward to bear the message to his compatriots. 00:23:31.119 --> 00:23:33.920 He asked for a repetition of the statement. 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:37.440 The officer said, Flee to the hills, a flood is coming. 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:41.279 Now this chap had a rare sense of humor and was noted for being somewhat witty. 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:44.000 He prided himself upon his logic and his reason. 00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:50.400 He turned his face toward the bright gleaming stars above, and with a quaint gesture held out his hand palm upward. 00:23:50.559 --> 00:23:58.160 Then he laughed in the face of the deputies and said, You big fool, she no rain and they all went back to bed. 00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:15.119 Forty minutes later, a wall of water, still twenty feet high, swept over the city where these unhappy carefree unbelievers were sleeping the sleep of doom, and the rescue party found scarcely a body of those who were swept out to sea. 00:24:16.799 --> 00:24:18.880 So it is in the day in which we now live. 00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:21.759 The word of God warns of judgment to come. 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:27.680 But Science looks around and says, Why? 00:24:28.240 --> 00:24:35.039 I see no rain, I see no storm, I see no judgment, you big fool. 00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:39.440 And little do they know, little do they know. 00:24:40.079 --> 00:24:48.240 Just as certainly as the ancient world perished in the flood, so this present age is reserved against that time when the fires of judgment shall smite and spare not. 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:59.039 Yet, when we today will have the gospel in our keeping, warn men of their danger, they laugh us to scorn, but we say to the lost, flee to the ark that is Jesus Christ, and escape the coming judgment. 00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:07.440 They lift up their faces to the blue sky of civilization, wherein the twinkle of the beaming lights of science and culture are, and they say, You're a fool. 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:10.079 We don't believe there's a judgment coming. 00:25:10.400 --> 00:25:13.200 My friend, you've been warned. 00:25:13.359 --> 00:25:17.759 There was a flood in Noah's day, there will be judgment in our last days. 00:25:18.400 --> 00:25:28.400 And you better enter the ark of salvation before the next disaster comes, when God smites man for his sin and his rebellion. 00:25:28.720 --> 00:25:29.359 Amen. 00:25:29.599 --> 00:25:30.559 And amen. 00:25:34.319 --> 00:25:35.680 Thanks for tuning in today. 00:25:35.839 --> 00:25:40.319 Join us every weekday for another episode of the Preaching of the Cross Radio Podcast. 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:46.079 For hundreds of hours of in-depth expository Bible teaching, please visit our YouTube channel, James W. 00:25:46.240 --> 00:25:53.359 Knox Sermons, our sermon audio page, Bible Baptist Land, or our website, Bible Baptisttheland.com. 00:25:53.599 --> 00:25:58.160 Until next time and throughout eternity, may Jesus Christ be praised.