Was There No Rain Before the Flood?

Although there were farmers, Verse 6 is clear how everything was water until the rains came at the time of the flood. One must understand what God created prior to sin, then what happened to the planet after sin. Chapter 1 verse 1 speaks of when the Godhead was there alone with the man Christ Jesus and with the creation of the heavens came the angels who witnessed the creation of the physical part of the world.

 

Chapters 1 and 2 are speaking of a perfect world, both spiritual and physical, where everything was uniform. Chapters 3 through 6 describe the changes in the physical portion of the world. Although it resembles the nature of the perfect with the canopy above and fountains of the deep below, the ground, water, and air are now polluted. The Bible calls this pollution corruption.

 

Beginning in chapter 7, everything changed. The fountain of the deep was broken and the canopy (firmament) around the earth described as the windows of heaven was opened. This changed the earth’s environment and climate thereby causing men to die at a much younger age. The rains were now the main source of freshwater.

See the breakdown below.

1:6 firmament. The portion of God’s creation named “heavens,” that which man saw when he looked up, i.e., the atmospheric and stellar heaven.

 

1:7 under the firmament. Refers to subterranean reservoirs (cf. 7:11). above the firmament. This could possibly have been a canopy of water vapor that acted to make the earth like a hothouse, provided uniform temperature, inhibited mass air movements, caused a mist to fall, and filtered out ultraviolet rays, thus extending life.

 

2:6 mist went up. This should be translated as “flow.” It indicates that water came up from beneath the ground as springs and spread over the whole earth in an uninterrupted cycle of water. After the fall, the rain became the primary means of watering the earth and allowed for floods and droughts that did not exist originally. Rains also allowed God to judge through floods and droughts

Written By Brother Kevin