Messiah In The Old Testament Episode 30
Biblical Flood Story Part 1 The Three Phenomena
Welcome to Messiah In The Old Testament. We’re very excited to finally tell you the Biblical Flood Story. The reason I get so excited about the Biblical Flood Story is because over the next two episodes, as we tell you this story, I'm going to reveal to you seven new Messianic Prophecies. And that gets me very excited. Now, if you'll remember, over the last several episodes, we have been telling you flood stories from all the four corners of the Earth.
And remember, we put up that map to kind of show you our progress. And we revealed stories from every single continent, except for Antarctica, of course. And then we revealed stories from all the major ancient cultures. The only one that was missing was the Persian Culture. And we did not do that culture purposely because, if you remember, we talked about it in our episode about Satan, where Zoroaster the prophet came in and basically hijacked all their traditional stories and rewrote
the whole thing. So, we just did not tell any of those stories, for either the creation stories or flood stories.
Now, we wanted to compare all of these flood stories, so we came up with our eight flood elements. Now, these elements were created from the Biblical Flood Story, the story I’m going to tell this episode and the next episode. Those eight elements were created as a metric to compare all the other stories. In other words, we wanted to know how all these far-flung stories compared to our Biblical Story. So, as we went through the stories, we compiled this giant table and I revealed the table to you at the end of our last episode. And this giant table, which has 72 cells, we found that all the stories had these elements. There were only three boxes that were missing.
And I’m going to put it up so you can actually look at it. I don't want to go over any detail within the story other than to look at the three boxes that are missing. There are question marks. For example, let's go to the Aboriginal Flood Story. We’ll look at that, the missing box. The question mark means that there's not enough evidence in the story to adequately fill in that blank. So, the blank is under the event that happened in the Aboriginal Story. We do not know why Tiddalick the frog decided to start drinking all the water from the lakes, rivers, billabongs, oceans and took away all the water. There's just not enough detail in the story to determine that. And then the other two question marks are in the Egyptian Story which we told you is a little bit off because it was not a true flood story. But it actually had many of the elements of a flood story. So, think about it. We have 72 cells here. And we told you that the Biblical Flood Story will fit into this [table] because the chart was created based on that [story]. So, we’re going to have 80 cells and only three out of those 80 are missing. That to me is absolutely astounding.
There is only one conclusion that we can draw. And that is that all of these stories had a single source, a base from which all these stories came from. Now, we theorized that it was the Tanakh. Now, of course, the Assyriologists they say, “Well of course it is the Babylonian Flood Story, Gilgamesh blah, blah, blah, bluh blah.” But now, if you put into the mix not just this data from the flood story, but we also put in the data from the creation stories that we told you from around the world and the sacrificial systems that we told you from around the world. And remember we talked about the sacrificial system and the flood story
from of Papua New Guinea where they had zero contact with the outside world until after World War II. There can only be one conclusion. The Babylonian Flood Story does not explain the sacrificial systems. It does not go over the origin and the expansion of the sacrificial system.
There is only one source that tells you all that detail, and that is the Tanakh. And that is why I have decided to accept the authenticity and authority of the Tanakh. And going forward as we tell you all these Messianic Prophecies and we reveal them to you, we’re going to accept the authority. We’re going to accept that all these Messianic Stories are from Elohim to reveal Messiah.
Now, at the end of the episode right before we started all these flood stories, we left Noah, his three sons and their wives all standing at the entrance to the ark, waiting to get on the ark. So, let us continue our story. Now in order to do this, I think we need to go back, take a step back and look at the events that happened, leading up to the flood. Now, we spent a lot of time in multiple episodes [presenting this], but I'm just going to summarize it now in six events.
So, I’m going to put up for you these, the list of six events.
Number One: Sin Enters The World. Now, this obviously is referring to Adam and Eve in the garden. Where they disobey Elohim's order and they each the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. And as a result, they received punishment. Adam has to work the ground. By the sweat of his brow will he eat. The thistles and thorns will clog up the ground. Eve, her pain in childbirth is increased, she is given the fear of the snake. And more importantly, they are kicked out of the garden. And as a result, they do not have access anymore to the Tree of Life. In fact, specifically, the Word says that the path back to the Tree of Life was blocked by those guardian cherubim and the sword that was flashing back and forth. So, they could not go back and eat from the Tree of Life and live forever.
Number Two: The Earth Was Filling Up With Violence. And this is the episode, remember where we talked about the Righteous Line of Seth and the Unrighteous Line of Cain. We compared seven generations down and we found on Seth’s line there was this wonderful man whose name was Enoch. Enoch was blameless. He was righteous. He walked with God and at the end of his life God just took him away. He did not die, he was just taken away by Elohim up into heaven. And then on the
unrighteous line, we had seven generations down, Lamech, the guy who bragged that he murdered a young man for injuring him. The world was filling up with violence.
Number Three: Men Worship Starry Host. Now, this comes from Maimonides. And when Maimonides was envisioning the pre-flood period, he saw that men were going astray. He saw that men were abandoning Elohim and going and worshiping false gods. He said that there were these starry host. And that that these prophets from the starry host came and told the people that that they should worship the starry host, that they should build images of the starry host and they should worship those images and they should bow down and bring them offerings. And in this manner an entire generation of people were led astray. In fact, Maimonides said by the time the flood came there were only two righteous men that were calling on the name of the LORD. He specifically said Methuselah and Noah. Everybody else had fallen away. There were only these few righteous men.
Number Four: The Sons Of God Arrive On The Earth. And this was the episode where we talked about the fallen angels who came down to Mount Hermon. They swore an oath and then they went down and they took whatever daughters of men they wanted. And the act of them taking
the daughters of men and having babies with them was sinful and not only that, they brought sinful ideas and taught men things like enchantments and charms, astrology and constellations. And they led the men astray. So, evil came through these sons of God.
And then…Number Five: (an extension of that) Nephilim Are Born To The Daughters Of Men. Because of the interchange between the sons of God and daughters of men, babies were born. And those babies were the Nephilim. And the Nephilim were giants. The babies were very large. And that led to very large, giant toddlers, who turned into very giant children and giant adolescents and giant adults. Now, along the way these families ran out of food because these giants would have voracious appetites. And they literally ate their families out of house and home. And then they went out and started looking for animals to eat. And they started eating wild animals. They would eat reptiles and birds with their blood still in it. And this was defiling the generation. And then they went a step further and they started eating men. And this further defiled the generation. And then they started eating each other. So that an entire civilization was defiled by their actions. Now this was the state of the world when God made the executive decision to wipe out everything that had the breath of life from the surface of the earth.
Number Six: No Righteous Men Except For Noah's Family remained on the earth. The righteous remnant that Maimonides was talking about. The righteous remnant that the Tanakh talks about, Noah and his family. Now, God looked down, he saw Noah and he chose Noah. In fact, the Word says that earth would have been destroyed, but for Noah. God noticed Noah. So, God went to Noah, revealed his plans to him and in fact, we know from the writings of the Book of Enoch and the Sages that Methuselah also knew about the coming deluge. And that Methuselah and Noah teamed up and they preached for one hundred and fifty years to all these people saying that if you repent and God will relent and will not destroy the world. But nobody repented and the destruction ended up coming anyway.
So, we know that Noah is our hero. We’re talking about the flood elements now. Noah is our hero. He was singled out because of his blameless character. Now, let's fill in our line. So, we can fill in three blanks so far. So let’s put it up. Our hero is Noah. The event that happened was all this violence and sin men were committing, all these horrendous acts, the Nephilim, all this stuff that was going on. The cataclysm was the worldwide flood that Elohim was going to send on the earth. So, let’s continue our story.
We’re going to Genesis 6:14-16. And it says:
So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.
So, Noah and his sons and who knows how many workmen that he hired and recruited to help with the project, they built the ark.
Genesis 6:21-22 will bring us right up to today's story:
You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.” (talking about the animals) Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
So, they provisioned the ark. Now this brings up a huge point of controversy. All the naysayers who do not believe in the Biblical Flood Story will point to this and say, “Okay, all these people and animals
were on the ark. How on earth would you be able to store enough food for all those animals?” I do not have an answer for that, other than maybe God put all these animals into hibernation and they slept and did not need to eat. Maybe the provisions never ran out just like in the story of the widow of Zarephath, the oil never stopped. Maybe their food troughs never emptied they always stayed full. I don't know how Elohim did it. But what I do know is according to the Tanakh, the provisions were put in the ark and the provisions were enough for the animals and the people that were in there. And this has some Messianic importance and we’ll go over that in our next episode. We’re not going to talk about that right now.
So, let's fill in the next box in our eight elements. So far, we've got our hero Noah. The event was men committing violence and sin. The cataclysm was the flood. And now we have our means of escape, which is the ark made of cypress wood and coated with pitch inside and out. Now, God gave them, I'm sure, very detailed plans on how to put the beans together, how to put the planks on, and how to build this whole thing, how to make the pitch, how to put the pitch on. we are not given the blueprint or the exact plans. All we know is that Noah and his sons and whoever else helped them built this giant ark.
So now, let's try to put ourselves in the story, like that we like to do. We’re standing there on the gangplank or platform or whatever it is in front of the entrance to the ark. We know that there's a whole parade of animals that are coming through that door soon.
And we know that Noah, his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth, his wife and their wives are all going to get on the ark. So, we’re standing there outside looking at the ark. So, let's look up and see how tall this ark is. The Tanakh says this ark is 45 feet tall. That comes out to almost six stories. Now, if you drive the interstate in the United States and you stop at almost any exit, especially near urban centers, you are going to get hotels. Like the Holiday Inn Express or whatever hotel it is. And most of these hotels are on the order of five to six stories tall. So, now you can gauge how tall a six-story building is. Now you can't get the whole thing in your field of vision. So, if you're there with your iPhone trying to take a picture the ark you are going to have to back up, back up, back up, back up a long distance in order to get this 450-foot ark in your field of vision or in your iPhone field of view.
So, 450 feet, that in United States football terms is 1 1/2 football fields.
Now, if you’re European, you follow the European Leagues Soccer. A soccer field, it would be 1 1/4 soccer fields. So that's how long the ark is. Now the width is about half of an American Football Field. Or is like a third of the of the European Soccer Field. So, that gives you an idea how ginormous this ark is. There is one sailing ship that that is chartered to
sail at the time of this broadcast that is this exact size. And that is the Viking Cruise Ship,
The Mississippi Cruise Ship, the one that goes up and down the Mississippi River. Now, I'll show you a picture of it. This ship is exactly 450 feet long. It is 75 feet wide and it is five stories tall plus the hull down to the waterline. So, this is approximately the exact size of the ark. Now, people have endeavored to build like a re-creation of the ark, so you get a better idea [of its real size]. Now the Viking Mississippi is a flat bottom boat. You have to have a flat bottom boat to sail the Mississippi because it is narrow in spots and barges get run aground all the time on sandbars and they are constantly dredging the shipping channels. So, you would have to have a flat bottom boat to go up and down the Mississippi.
Now, there's a group that created a replica ark in the Netherlands. And I’ll show you a picture of that. Now that is a flat bottom boat as well. They just took a bunch of barges and welded them together, then built the superstructure on top of that. And then there's another group in the United States and this is just outside Cincinnati Ohio in Kentucky. There is the Ark Encounter. And this is a boat that has a rounded bottom. And it has a beam that goes down the middle, so it's got a keel. And it is a
timber frame construction. So, they envision this will be more like what Noah and his sons did to build the ark and what the ark would look like. And I will show you a picture of that as well. Now, let's move on.
Genesis 7:1-5. Now, this is the meat of the Biblical Flood Story.
The LORD then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
Now, this statement is very important. God is telling Noah and his family, “Go! Get in the ark, and the reason I'm allowing you to get in the ark, the reason I am saving you from the coming cataclysm, the reason you have the right, the ability to get on the ark, is because I have found you, Noah, righteous in this generation.”
This is a Messianic Prophecy. Noah was a type of Messiah. So, God is saying just like Noah was found righteous in his generation, so Messiah will be found righteous in his generation. There will be people and his generation that will say of him, “Truly, this was a righteous man. I find no fault in this man. This is a righteous man.”
So, think about it, all the righteous people preceding Noah are gone. Enoch is gone. Jared is gone. Methuselah is gone. Lamech is gone. All we have now is Noah and his three sons and their wives. That is the entire righteous remnant that is left. Reading on,
Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.” And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.
Now, what I want you to note here is that now that Noah and his kids and all their wives are getting on the ark, they have seven days in order to load up this ark and to get everybody ready for the journey. Seven days, now, the sages believe that Methuselah died on the day that Noah went into the ark. And they waited seven days for the flood to come out of reverence and honor to mourn, the seven-day mourning period for
Methuselah. So, Noah, his sons, everybody had seven days to get this ark loaded up.
And this last statement, “And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.” We see this over and over and over again. In Genesis Chapter 6, Genesis Chapter 7, Noah did all that the Lord commanded him. We’ve already included it in our Messianic Prophecies from before. I’m not going to include it again. Because it’s just a repeat of before. But it’s very important. For some reason Moses thought it was very important to point out that that Noah was obedient over and over and over. Everything God asked him, he was obedient. He did it. He did it. He did it. So, outside was this chaotic world full of violence and mayhem and murder and disaster. And inside we have obedience, obedience, obedience. Quite the contrast between the two.
Now let's move on. Genesis 7:6-10.
Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as
God had commanded Noah. And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.
So, over the seven days, the animals came. The animals came in pairs. They came to the ark. They came right to Noah. And when I stand here envisioning, we’re still in the story. The animals are coming, we’re watching them come. The animals are entering the ark in an orderly fashion. They are not charging the door. They're not ramming and pushing to try to get in ahead of all the other animals. It’s all happening in an orderly fashion. And, moreover, that the lions are not eating the wildebeest and the crocodiles are not eating the bunnies. It's everybody behaving themselves. It's an orderly procession. And you can imagine if all these animals started showing up and getting on the ark, that all the people in this whole area would want to come out and see the parade. They would want to come out and see what was going on. So, I imagine there's quite a crowd of people and they're just jabbering and trying to figure out what’s going on. And this parade of animals, two of every kind of unclean animal and multiples of the clean ones are all coming in. And they're getting in the ark, quite a sight to see.
So, let’s put up our chart and fill in what we have so far. Our hero, of course is Noah. The event was men committing sin and violence all over
the earth. The cataclysm was the flood that was coming. The means of escape, the ark made of cypress wood coated with pitch inside and out. The companions, Noah's wife, Noah's sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth and their wives. Who is saved, Noah, his wife and sons, their wives and all the animals. Now, the two blanks left: the rescue and restoration, we will fill those in as we get to them.
So, let's read on Genesis 7:11-12.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
So, let's look in detail, there are three phenomena in these two verses that happened on that fateful day: The six hundredth year, second month, seventeenth day. On that day three phenomena happened on the earth that had never been seen before. So, let's go into detail. And let’s look at the Hebrew. The first one, the first phenomenon: h$D;bår MwâøhV;t
‹tOnyVoAm_l`D;k ‹…woVqVbˆn hG‰zAh Mwâø¥yA;b
This says Mwâø¥yA;b is in the day. The next word hG‰zAh is an idiom the Ah is the hG‰z means this. So, it literally says the this. It’s an idiom that means I'm pointing to one specific object, one specific thing. In this case it’s pointing back to the day Mwâø¥yA;b. So, literally ‘in the day the this’ which is on a specific day. And the specific day is, of course, pointing back to the beginning of the verse where it talks about the six hundredth year, second month, seventeenth day.
The next word ‹…woVqVbˆn is a verb. And whenever you have a verb, you look for the three-letter root. In this case the root is the oåqD;b. That is the root oåqD;b. oåqD;b means to cleave, break open, split in half. And the concept is something that is that's being pent up and being released. So, in other words, if a dam would break open, all the water would be released. That would be the oåqD;b. Now the specific form of the verb the ‹…woVqVbˆn, that form makes it more visual. The visual is that we’re talking about something that is breaking through so it’s that breaking open. So, the water that's pent up is breaking through.
Now the next word l`D;k is the word for all. And then ‹tOnyVoAm is a noun. ‹tOnyVoAm is the word for, it's a plural and it means springs like a fountain or a spring or maybe even a body of water. The root of that noun is a three-letter word which is NˆyAo and that is the word NˆyAo. And that's the letter ע it's the word that means spring. well or fountain. That's what the letter ע means. So, if you're familiar with the Dead Sea, there is a reserve. It's the Ein Gedi Reserve. And there is the waterfall. And it's literally, it's the spring of the goat.
So, putting all this together, we’ve got our next word which is MwâøhV;t which you’re familiar with. We went over that in the first chapter of Genesis. MwâøhV;t means deep. It means like deep ocean or deep places. And then the last word h$D;bår, that is the word for many or [a] large quantity. So. it would be like [a] huge amount. So, hG‰zAh Mwâø¥yA;b in that specific day ‹…woVqVbˆn split open, burst open, water pent up broke through all the ‹tOnyVoAm all the springs, all the deep oceans, all the reservoirs that were under the earth. The h$D;bår MwâøhV;t ‹tOnyVoAm many or large. So, let's take a step back.
This is a picture of huge reservoirs of water under the earth, being held back by the earth. We have them today there are underground caverns full of water. There are rivers of water running underneath our feet. There is a lot of underground water that we never see or even know about. There are places where it comes rushing to the surface. For example, if you go to Mammoth Cave or one of the wet cave systems, eventually the river comes to the surface and in comes out in and turns into a river.
So, the deep waters, so these waters were held back. Before the flood happened, the world was watered by a mist that came up from the earth, up to the surface, watered all the plants and then went back down. I think these were the fountains of the deep that came through openings and watered the earth. So, we’ve got these reservoirs that were held back and on this specific day the reservoirs burst open and all the water starts pouring out. It's almost like an explosion when the water that is being held under pressure is suddenly released. So, I can imagine when this phenomenon happened that the earth would start shaking. Any time you open up the earth, you open up a crevice in the earth.
I mean when the San Andreas Fault opens up or shifts you get these massive earthquakes. I think this was probably happening all over the earth. We have no idea how many of these fissures opened up and let the water out. It could have been just one or it could have been multiples. It could've been 10 or 20 or 100, 1,000, 10,000. We have no idea how many fissures were opening up. But these fissures opened up and just let the water pour and gush out.
It was almost like a geyser. You’ve got his lake of water under pressure. And you've got this bunch of water being squirted out through the surface. And I imagine there was probably volcanic activity involved. There was probably lava moving, the magma moving up into the bottom of these caverns causing them to superheat and probably boil over. It’s like your tea kettle, when you heat your kettle so hot that the water just suddenly shoots out [of] the kettle. You’ve got a boiling kettle and the water shoots out. That is what I'm picturing, the fountains of the deep, when they break open all this water just shooting out. So, let's move on to our next phenomenon. This says in the Hebrew: …wj`D;tVpˆn
tñO;bürSaÅw This is a phrase that means the windows were opened. So, the first word tñO;bürSaÅw it’s a plural. It means windows. It could mean like a latticework with multiple openings. It could mean any kind of aperture that opens up. It's translated like a sluice gate that's holding back waters from a reservoir. It could be interpreted as a floodgate. That's how the translators translated this word. Floodgates or the windows or the latticework in the heavens.
MˆyAmDÚvAh is literally the heavens. And then finally, the last word the …wj`D;tVpˆn, that is a word that means to open up. If you look at the threeletter root, it's the jAtDÚp. That is the word jAtDÚp and that means to open up. So, it's like when you open up, for example, something under pressure, like a wineskin that is under pressure. That's jAtDÚp. You open it up and the wine shoots out because it's under pressure. Now, the specific form of the verb, it means to throw open, to suddenly open up rapidly, to throw open. It’s like when you're looking out your window and you see a loved one coming down the sidewalk or path to your house. And you’re so excited you go to the front door. And you throw the front door open to welcome them into the house. Or you want to yell at your
neighbor about something. You're excited. You throw open the window and you yell at your neighbor.
So, the picture here is like a champagne bottle that's been, that's shaken up. There's all these bubbles, all this pressure waiting to be released. You uncork it and then it's like that explosion of champagne flying everywhere. It's these windows of heaven holding back the flood. The flood that they're holding back is all this reservoir of water. Remember in the Genesis Creation Story.
God separated the waters above from the waters below. The waters below were the oceans, but also the deep reservoirs, the springs of the deep. The waters above are water in the atmosphere some feel this is probably like dense clouds that were being held back by these windows. Once you open up the window, all of this massive water vapor condenses and starts falling to the earth. Some believe that the earth was encased in a raquia. It says specifically that Elohim put the raquia in place. The raquia, some believe that is a huge reservoir of water, the waters above. And that raquia is made of a crystalline lattice of water molecules. It could be like ice or it could be some other form of polymerization. There are other ways to polymerize water molecules.
And this crystalline lattice which was intact, protecting the earth. This suddenly, it started disintegrating and as it disintegrated the water molecules just started falling and deluging out of the heavens. Now, it doesn't matter to me which model we’re talking about, what matters to me is that once these windows were suddenly thrown open, the water just started pouring out in the deluge.
So, I envision it like you're at a football game, your team wins. So, what do you do? You take the cooler and you dump the cooler full of you whatever your beverage is over your coach. Some call it the Gatorade Shower because they throw Gatorade on the coach. Or I think it's like a bucket, you know, if you go to a waterpark and there's his giant bucket filling with water, filling with water. And then the bell goes off or the gong goes off and you know it's time to go stand underneath because the bucket is going to tip and you're just going to get deluged with water. And the children just come back over and over to get deluged with the big giant bucket of water. That's how I envision this second phenomenon, where the windows are suddenly thrown open and the water just starts gushing and pouring out. Now, let's go to our third phenomenon.
This one says: hDly`Dl MyIoD;brAaw MwYøy MyIoD;brAa X®r¡DaDh_lAo MRvR…gAh y¶IhyìÅw
So, the first word here y¶IhyìÅw literally means and he was or he is. MRvR…gAh, MRvR…g the word means a rain shower or a downpour. When, like in Indiana, you get a thunderstorm and it’s just that downpour of rain where it’s coming down in sheets. You’ve got to pull your car over because you can't see the car in front of you. That's what MRvR…gAh is downpour or heavy, heavy rain.
The word lAo means on or upon. X®r¡DaDh is the earth. The next word is the word MyIoD;brAa, oA;brAa is the word for four and then if you put an My plural on the end of that, it means forty. And then forty MwYøy and forty hDly`Dl.
MwYøy is the word for day hDly`Dl is the word for night. So, and the rain showers, the downpours, the heavy rain continued on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Now this could be referring to the floodgates opening up, the water vapor coming down, condensing out of heaven. It could be referring to that, but I think it's something in addition. I think there's something more. It’s a third separate phenomenon from the other two phenomena.
This specific thing is, I think, a giant worldwide thunderstorm or giant worldwide hurricane or giant worldwide outbreak of tornadoes. Think about it, as the water is gushing up from below. It's pouring out of heaven. I don't know how many apertures there were, where the water was pouring down. Or if it was the entire heaven or just certain places. [If it were the entire heavens] You wouldn't really say window, you would say you the heavens emptied themselves out. So, I think there locations where there was more rain pouring down out of the heavens than other places. But I think in addition there were these downdrafts and updrafts of massive air shifts as the water was moving. and with all this air you’ve got circulation.
And if you know how tornadoes are formed: down draft, up draft, circulation. You get the condition just right, you get the tornado. If you're over a body water it would be a waterspout. So, I envision that there were these waterspouts that were tearing through the countryside, tornadoes when they’re on land. I envision a giant hurricane with the circulation, just circling the earth and never running into dry air to shear it. It would just keep going and going and increasing in intensity. So, I see this worldwide, horrific maelstrom of a storm that is taking out anything that’s left on the earth. Anything that is not drowning in the water would be taken out by the storm, by the wind, by the lightning, by the tornadoes. So, I see there is nothing outside the ark that's going to survive, that could possibly survive these three phenomena. So, literally all hell is breaking loose outside the ark with these three phenomena. Inside the ark, you’ve got Noah, the animals, everybody is safe and sound. Now at this point in the story, we have not yet shut the door on the ark. We’ve got to do that yet. These phenomena have not yet happened. We know that they're coming. I don't know if Noah knew if they are coming or not. But certainly, all the people and animals outside the ark had no clue what was coming. If they knew that, I think they would be rushing to the ark and begging Noah to get on. But at this point, I don't think they had a clue. They were just gawking at the at spectacle at this point. So, we’re going to pick up the story right there in our next episode. So, join us as we continue to tell you all these wonderful details of the Biblical Flood Story.
Thank you for watching our show today. We hope that you enjoyed watching it as much as we enjoyed bringing it to you. Now, after watching this episode you might be saying to yourself, “Who is this Messiah that Dr. Smith is talking about?
Is he talking about the Christian Messiah? Is he talking about Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was born of the Virgin Mary. And then lived a blameless and holy life on the earth, And then was tortured and crucified. And after he died he then was resurrected from the dead after three days. Then after people witnessed this, he was then taken up bodily by Elohim into heaven from the Mount of Olives.
Or is Dr. Smith talking about the Muslim prophet Isa. Isa Ibn Maryam, the messenger, who was sent by Allah to bring a message to the people. The Quran says he that lived a holy and blameless life, was born of the virgin Mary. He fulfilled all the Jewish prophecies in exact accordance. But one difference, instead of being crucified, he then was taken up by Allah into heaven before the Romans laid hands on him. And he awaits there now in the fourth heaven where at the end of days at the day of judgment he will be revealed to all.
Or is Dr. Smith talking about the Jewish Messiah? The Messiah who has not yet been revealed, that the entire Jewish world is waiting for his revelation. Now, the beautiful thing is that you can hold to any of these beliefs. And we can all still learn together about Messiah. We can learn about our Christian Messiah. We can learn about our Jewish Messiah. We can learn about our Muslim prophet Isa who will be revealed. It doesn’t matter what you believe. You can even be an atheist or agnostic and still learn from this program about Messiah. Now, I have to admit I am a Christian so I approach things, obviously, from a Christian point of view. And I promise you, as we reveal these prophecies, which I believe have all been fulfilled through Jesus Christ. Or will be fulfilled when he
comes back, returning in the clouds in the same way he was taken up. I believe that all of this is true, but I promise you I will do my very best to present these prophecies from a neutral point of view. And try to keep my Christian bias to a minimum. Obviously, it will pop up from time to time but I will try to stay only in the Tanakh and try not to get into the New Testament very often. Now, if you want more information about Messiah, we have resources for you.
We have a website which is findingmessiah.org. Now, on that website you are going to find several resources. You will find links to all the videos, all the episodes that we have created so far. You will find links to download the transcripts of any of these episodes. And then you will find a section where you can get more information about Messiah through frequently asked questions. And then there is a section for donation. If you want to come alongside our ministry at Finding Messiah.
Now, there’s going to come a time in this series where you are going to be confronted with the question: What are you going to do with Messiah? Who do you believe Messiah is? Which of these Messiahs do you believe Dr. Smith is talking about? And Messiah will become real to you if you look at all the information presented and come to your conclusions. So, join us as we continue our journey through the Old Testament Scriptures looking for all the Messianic Prophecies. And join us next time as we reveal those to you.
Thank you for watching our show today. We hope that you enjoyed watching it as much as we enjoyed bringing it to you. Now, after watching this episode you might be saying to yourself, “Who is this Messiah that Dr. Smith is talking about?
Is he talking about the Christian Messiah? Is he talking about Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was born of the Virgin Mary. And then
lived a blameless and holy life on the earth, And then was tortured and crucified. And after he died he then was resurrected from the dead after three days. Then after people witnessed this, he was then taken up bodily by Elohim into heaven from the Mount of Olives.
Or is Dr. Smith talking about the Muslim prophet Isa. Isa Ibn Maryam, the messenger, who was sent by Allah to bring a message to the people. The Quran says he that lived a holy and blameless life, was born of the virgin Mary. He fulfilled all the Jewish prophecies in exact accordance. But one difference, instead of being crucified, he then was taken up by Allah into heaven before the Romans laid hands on him. And he awaits there now in the fourth heaven where at the end of days at the day of judgment he will be revealed to all.
Or is Dr. Smith talking about the Jewish Messiah? The Messiah who has not yet been revealed, that the entire Jewish world is waiting for his revelation. Now, the beautiful thing is that you can hold to any of these
beliefs. And we can all still learn together about Messiah. We can learn about our Christian Messiah. We can learn about our Jewish Messiah. We can learn about our Muslim prophet Isa who will be revealed. It doesn’t matter what you believe. You can even be an atheist or agnostic and still learn from this program about Messiah. Now, I have to admit I am a Christian so I approach things, obviously, from a Christian point of view. And I promise you, as we reveal these prophecies, which I believe have all been fulfilled through Jesus Christ. Or will be fulfilled when he comes back, returning in the clouds in the same way he was taken up. I believe that all of this is true, but I promise you I will do my very best to present these prophecies from a neutral point of view. And try to keep my Christian bias to a minimum. Obviously, it will pop up from time to time but I will try to stay only in the Tanakh and try not to get into the New Testament very often. Now, if you want more information about Messiah, we have resources for you.
We have a website which is findingmessiah.org. Now, on that website you are going to find several resources. You will find links to all the videos, all the episodes that we have created so far. You will find links to download the transcripts of any of these episodes. And then you will find a section where you can get more information about Messiah through frequently asked questions. And then there is a section for donation. If you want to come alongside our ministry at Finding Messiah.
Now, there’s going to come a time in this series where you are going to be confronted with the question: What are you going to do with Messiah? Who do you believe Messiah is? Which of these Messiahs do you believe Dr. Smith is talking about? And Messiah will become real to you if you look at all the information presented and come to your conclusions. So, join us as we continue our journey through the Old Testament Scriptures looking for all the Messianic Prophecies. And join us next time as we reveal those to you.