The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
THE DELUGE EFFECT.

| THE DELUGE EFFECT.
Genesis 6:9-22: 7:11-2f-February 2.
| For the wages of sin is death; but the
gift of God is eternal life, through
| Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23.
/! Scientific Bible students find the Bible
| story of the Deluge corroborated by
| Geology, Astronomy and History. The
oldest records of Babylonia tell of the
Deluge. But no record compares with
/ the Genesis account or gives a connect
ed history of 1856 years from Adam to
| the Flood.
| Geology demonstrates that there have
been several great deluges. When we
! ask whence such floods could come,
Astronomy points us to Saturn ana
Jupiter with their rings" composed or
! minerals thrown off as gas when the
! planets were at white heat. These gases
cooled and formed various rings. The
rotation of the planets on their axes
causes these rings to spread out as
great envelopes, and gradually to thin
at the equator and thicken at the
poles, until they collapse, causing de-
luges.
The earth once had similar rings
precipitated one after another, at long
intervals during the Six Great Creative
Days God so timed His Plan that the
| last of earth's rings was still unbroken
when man was created. But it had
spread into a great canopy or veil.
There could be neither rain nor storm
under such conditions. Genesis 2:5.)
The temperature of the whole earth
was equable, the SUMS rays acting up
on the canopy as upon the white glass
of a dollhouse.
Why the Polar Ice?
Geology testifies to a Glacial Period,
when great icebergs, carried by floods
of water. rushed from the poles to-
rd he Scientists
traced great valleys cut by these ice
bergs during this period.
The collapse of the canopy caused a
deluge at both poles, a flow of great
sudden, intense cold at the poles The
water froze so rapidly that in recent
years animals with grass between their
teeth have been dug out of solid polar
ice.
The vertical rays of the sun kept the
equatorial atmosphere very hot until
the trade winds sprang up, distributing
the heat over the earth The equa-
toriaI waters were also very hot, until
the ocean currents set in. These, like
the Gulf Stream, carry the warm equa-
torial waters toward the poles. These
processes, going on for 400 years, are
gradually thawing out the polar reg
IONS and causing large numbers of
icebergs to break loose from the polar
glaciers, and distress mariners.
Professor George Frederick Wright
has dropped a suggestion which fits
we'll with the Bible narrative that
Noah's ark apparently remained near
the place where it was built. AS we
understand the professor the geolog-
icaI evidences are that swift currents
laden with icebergs and rocks visited
parts of America, Europe and Asia.
but seemingly avoided Mt Ararat,
where evidently an eddy formed, for
alluvial deposits there are eXtraordi-
narily thick.
The Cause of the Deluge.
Let us inquire, Why did not Divine
providence precipitate the last ring
before man was created? The answer
is that God foreknew the rebellion
of Satan and permitted the temptation
and fall of man solely because He
foresaw how ultimate good could be
accomplished and valuable lessons be
given both men and angels. All of
His dealings are along lines OF Justice
guided by Love Divine.
Before the Flood wickedness had
greatly increased, but not merely from
human depravity. Some of the angels
became disobedient to God, and by
their greater intelligence led mankind
into depths of iniquity.-Genesis 6:1-5.
The Bible cites many instances
where angels have materialized as hu-
man beings. This power appears to
have been possessed by angels before
daughters of men and lived as human
beings-different from Adams family.
We read that they were giants, men
of renown,'' who filled the earth with
violence. Finally Gods displeasure
blotted them out of existence in the
Deluge. God thus manifested His de-
termination to destroy sin.
Antediluvian sinners of Adams race
belong to the mass of mankind, with
whom Messiah will deal during His
MilIennial Reign of Righteousness.
After chastisement for willful disobe-
dience, they may be, if willing, recov-
cred from sin and death, and attain
human perfection-at Jesus cost.
For the sons of angels by human
mothers there is no hope. Their ex-
istence was not authorized by God.
They were not redeemed. They will
have no awakening. As for the
fallen angels, the Bible tells US that
for 4,400 years they have been re-
strained lin chains of darkness. I'M
til the Judgment of the Great Day."
Jude 6.
This subject is too large for salts
factory treatment here. We will sup