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2 Peter 2:5,9 "[I]f he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven other persons, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly ... then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment".

 

Peter gives other examples of God preserving the godly while punishing the unrighteous (which He has shown Himself to do over and over, so don't worry!), but it's interesting that I got Noah today. In the secular world, there is much talk lately about how there may really have been a cataclysmic flood in the ancient past that destroyed civilizations far older than current theories believe possible. Graham Hancock's Ancient Apocalypse on Netflix is one good place to start in exploring this. There are also Ethical Skeptic, who thinks the great pyramid is showing us "in plain sight" that waters once reached to just below the preserved cap (giving evidence, in his mind, of both the flood and the fact that the pyramids are much older than the Egyptian civilization to which we attribute them), and SpaceWeatherNews. Those sources are not coming at the flood from a Biblical point of view, but the "rogue archaeologist", Tim Alberino, is.

 

I don't know what is true or untrue in all of this, but I trust that the truth will come out if and when we are ready for it. What I find fascinating, though, is how God reveals things to us. He told us there was a flood, it is in the Bible for goodness' sake! However, those who believe it literally are often thought of as crackpots, and we are given a gentler, more watered-down story of a possible large but regional weather event that was meant to be symbolic. While we are sometimes called to do weird things for God, as Noah was, and we do all have "floods" in our lives at times, making the Noah story applicable in a symbolic way to many occasions in life, what if the story is also true? What if that is what God is allowing us to figure out, or at least question, with all of this new scientific interest?

 

A lot of truth is hiding in plain sight in the Bible, maybe the flood story is as well. That seems to be what these various scientists and thinkers are beginning to question, even though most of them are not looking at the Biblical story as a primary source. But who really cares? The truth is the truth, and if it is revealed through secular thinkers, that will make it all the more convincing to many. After all, we have always known the story of Noah and the flood, but in our "enlightened" state, we came to dismiss it as symbolic. So the path back to it as truth, if indeed it is, has to come from another source, and that seems as if it may be beginning.