The beginnings of change began in the third chapter of the Bible. It started with mankind - created in the image and likeness of God. ( See Gen. 2:27) We can read the tragic account of the fall of man in Genesis chapter three. Rebellion against God resulted in the man and women being expelled from the Garden of Eden. A gate was shut and an angel provided to guard the entrance. But life carried on - until Noah.

"When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the Lord said, "My spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years....The Lord saw how great man s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. So the Lord said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth - men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air - for I am grieved that I have made them." But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord." (Gen.6:1-8)

While saving righteous Noah and his family in the famous ark, God destroyed the earth with a flood. How did he create the flood? Probably by bringing down the firmament (water canopy).

What does the Bible say "I am going to bring flood waters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish." (Gen. 6:17) "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." (Gen.7:11) "Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts...." (Psalm 46:6)

In summary, due to the advanced and intolerable state of man s rebellion on the earth, God decreed that the creation would be destroyed by a flood. Also, that he would preserve mankind through the family of Noah with man s life span reduced to 120 years as a result of the great changes that would take place on the earth.

According to the above record, the flood was likely accomplished by two actions. First: the bursting forth of the ‘springs of the deep . Second: by the opening of the floodgates of heaven. It could also be imagined this happened simply by God uttering his voice ‘and the earth melted . Could this be an allusion to the melting of the metallic and ice canopy. If the thermonuclear energy from the center of the earth blew hot water into the firmament, it could melt the ice and metallic hydrogen canopy causing all the water originally separated to return to the earth as the floodgates of heaven were opened up.

If the original creation in Genesis came about by the command of God (i.e..and God said, let there be light, and there was light.) then it could be reversed just as easily by the command of God.

When the waters abated the earth was different. We have already mentioned how the life span was reduced. But a new phenomenon occurred. There was now a rainbow in the heavens. This could only be there under the new atmospheric conditions as we experience them today. Today we live in a fallen world. But the reoccurring theme of the Bible is that paradise will be restored. And the new world will resemble the world of the primal creation.

This restored world is portrayed in countless prophesies in the Old and New Testaments.