2 Peter 2:5: “…He did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly.”
Question ⁉️wouldn’t there be more archeological evidence if truly there were a billion people at the time of the flood
What little I’ve read about population in history these numbers seem very high…. Honestly curious?
At the time of Christ He could have called on 1 legion of angels usually established as 6000.
And if one angel slew 185000 when 2 Kings 19:20 KJ21 - states that Sennacherib king of Assyria spoke against The Lord God of Israel
So 185000x 6000 =1,110,000,000 if that would have been the possible population of the earth when Jesus lived and He could have called on The Lord and not taken up His cross for The Father gave Him that commandment which is thankfully did not choose
And since there was no blood shed with The Lord’s second option therefore no salvation for mankind and like it would seem when The Lord offered Moses the same option to raise up his seed and denying rebellious Israel … the total earth would have been wiped out …. Just curious about the contrast of the same population stats
Thanks for the inquiry. I quoted the estimate from Bishop Ussher’s 17th-century chronology. However, the issue is not the massive number or lack thereof. The real issue of this post is what went wrong if one believes that salvation is a work of man's free will. Let's just assume only 100,000 people inhabited the world around the time of Noah. Still, only eight were saved.
The same thing occurred with Sodom and Gamora. Scholarly estimates suggest each city may have had between 1,000 and 3,000 inhabitants during the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550 BCE). According to Genesis 19, only Lot and his two daughters survived the destruction. In this situation, assume only 4,000 people lived in the two cities, yet only three people were saved and believers. That seems oddly low.
The point is that salvation is a sovereign work of the Trinity, and that is the only logical reason so few were saved in both of these situations. Man's free can not and will not ever save you. It is the divine work of a Father who elects, a Son who sacrifices, and a Holy Spirit that effects.
Conversely, if God so willed, 100% of a population could be saved. Proof of this is the Book of Jonah, where the entire city of Nineveh was saved after its people repented in response to Jonah's warning. Historical estimates suggest Nineveh had around 600,000 inhabitants at that time, based on Jonah 4:11, which mentions "more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left (which referred to children)."
Again, this can only be explained by God's sovereign will and not by man's free will.
Thank you Thad. I marvel at YAH’s creation every day, and lament that its eternal glory will only be for a remnant. The flood was an archetype of the second coming of Christ. Maranatha!
Great post... There is also a massive body of geological evidence that points to a global flood — evidence that cannot be ignored by any thinking person. Marine fossils have even been found in multiple locations in the Himalayas!
Thanks for the comment JIm. Exactly right, yet they will still forget as 2 Peter 3:5-6 states, "For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished."
Question ⁉️wouldn’t there be more archeological evidence if truly there were a billion people at the time of the flood
What little I’ve read about population in history these numbers seem very high…. Honestly curious?
At the time of Christ He could have called on 1 legion of angels usually established as 6000.
And if one angel slew 185000 when 2 Kings 19:20 KJ21 - states that Sennacherib king of Assyria spoke against The Lord God of Israel
So 185000x 6000 =1,110,000,000 if that would have been the possible population of the earth when Jesus lived and He could have called on The Lord and not taken up His cross for The Father gave Him that commandment which is thankfully did not choose
And since there was no blood shed with The Lord’s second option therefore no salvation for mankind and like it would seem when The Lord offered Moses the same option to raise up his seed and denying rebellious Israel … the total earth would have been wiped out …. Just curious about the contrast of the same population stats
Yes thankfully it is always His grace … otherwise we would not be having this conversation…,appreciate your feed back
Thanks for the inquiry. I quoted the estimate from Bishop Ussher’s 17th-century chronology. However, the issue is not the massive number or lack thereof. The real issue of this post is what went wrong if one believes that salvation is a work of man's free will. Let's just assume only 100,000 people inhabited the world around the time of Noah. Still, only eight were saved.
The same thing occurred with Sodom and Gamora. Scholarly estimates suggest each city may have had between 1,000 and 3,000 inhabitants during the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550 BCE). According to Genesis 19, only Lot and his two daughters survived the destruction. In this situation, assume only 4,000 people lived in the two cities, yet only three people were saved and believers. That seems oddly low.
The point is that salvation is a sovereign work of the Trinity, and that is the only logical reason so few were saved in both of these situations. Man's free can not and will not ever save you. It is the divine work of a Father who elects, a Son who sacrifices, and a Holy Spirit that effects.
Conversely, if God so willed, 100% of a population could be saved. Proof of this is the Book of Jonah, where the entire city of Nineveh was saved after its people repented in response to Jonah's warning. Historical estimates suggest Nineveh had around 600,000 inhabitants at that time, based on Jonah 4:11, which mentions "more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left (which referred to children)."
Again, this can only be explained by God's sovereign will and not by man's free will.
Thanks for the comment.
it wasn't an earth cataclysm
it was only a local thing
if it ever happened at all
but Harry potter Won the Tri-Wizard tournament 👏🏻🤣😂
Thank you Thad. I marvel at YAH’s creation every day, and lament that its eternal glory will only be for a remnant. The flood was an archetype of the second coming of Christ. Maranatha!
Great post... There is also a massive body of geological evidence that points to a global flood — evidence that cannot be ignored by any thinking person. Marine fossils have even been found in multiple locations in the Himalayas!
Thanks for the comment JIm. Exactly right, yet they will still forget as 2 Peter 3:5-6 states, "For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished."