[News] March 13, 2014 - Christian Media Communique - The Other Side Of The Flood

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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FLOOD

As most know, Jesus Christ compared the days preceding His return to
the time of Noah – a fact which focuses many commentator’s
attention on the conditions which were prevalent in Noah’s
timeline. A few prophecy teachers recognize the flood analogy as
describing a discriminating destruction, in which “the one shall
be taken” in judgment (Matthew 24:40), and “the other
left” – read preserved – the unscriptural Rapture
Cult doctrine notwithstanding.

Others see hints of another Nephilim incursion, as the pivotal event
triggering the “wickedness of man” (Genesis 6:5) in
Noah’s era, was closely related to the fallen one’s
intervention in world affairs (Genesis 6:4). Unfortunately, very few
have recognized the issue of longevity, and how those born, as Joshua
put, “on the other side of the flood,” saw lengthy life
spans, whereas the world populace born after the flood saw their term
of physical existence plummet.

Recognizing the significance of prophetic metaphor, and the phenomena
of Twice-Speak, where key phrases and words are repeated twice as a way
to point us to the deeper meaning of a given text, we note how Joshua
doubled the phrase “the other side of the flood,”
twice: 

“Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in
truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other
side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord. And if it seem
evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will
serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the
other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye
dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord”
(Joshua 24:14, 15).

This is actually a rare occasion, for the doubled phrase “the
other side of the flood” is doubled twice by Joshua in his 24th
chapter, in verses 2 and 3, as well as verses 14 and 15; and there is
certainly great significance in what actually occurred before the
flood, even without such a supernatural marker. The reader will
remember that the Scriptures plainly state that, even before He
engineered the great deluge, God purposed to shift the time allotted
for a human life to a much shorter period:

“And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man,
for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty
years” (Genesis 6:3).

Although a relative few think about such things, the transition to a
radically shorter lifespan means that Noah, his wife, and his sons and
their wives, all had remarkably longer lives than those who were born
after the flood. In such an unusual mixture of individuals, this would
mean that the seniors in the post-flood society outlived their
children. Furthermore, this ordained change was not limited to the
occupants of Noah’s Ark, for the lifespans were progressively
shortened, so that many who were born just after the flood, survived
those who were born even later.

Since JESUS described the conditions of the end times “as it was
in the days of Noah” (Luke 17:26), we might ask ourselves if
there are any indicators of parents surviving their children in our
timeline.

However, before asking such a question, we need to realize the flood
event was a similitude which must have a contemporary parallel. To
precisely locate the modern equivalent, we can simply recognize that
before the flood, there was a societal infiltration by evil spiritual
beings, the fallen angels, who sought to corrupt the physical lineage
of the chosen of God. In this regard, many see that Satan realized the
LORD was going to bring salvation, as He declared in Genesis 3, and it
would occur via the agency of the physical seed of a woman:

“I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy
seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his
heel” (Genesis 3:15).

It is self evident the serpent realized, well before the advent of
Christ, that God would dispatch His redemption to the world through the
physical offspring of an unidentified woman. Thus, the effort to
corrupt the seed of the people the LORD was to choose in this task, was
not dissimilar to Herod’s effort to murder the Christ child in
Bethlehem. In Herod’s case, he had no way to determine which male
child was the chosen Holy One of Israel, so he murdered all of them.

So too, that wicked one could not foresee who the Lord’s chosen
people would be at that juncture, so he sought to corrupt the entire
bloodline of mankind, through the mingling of the fallen angelic
essence, with the general population:

“And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of
the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw
the daughter of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of
all which they chose” (Genesis 6:1, 2).

Many believers have been blessed to learn that when the Scripture tells
us that Noah was “perfect” in his generations, the Word of
God is actually describing the fact that Noah’s seed – or
his genetics (“generations” in the KJV), was uncorrupted:

“Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah
walked with God” (Genesis 6:9).

Knowing that everything in prophecy occurs twice (or is doubled as
noted previously, as well as in prior studies), when we seek to locate
events or phenomena in the contemporary timeline which would indicate a
modern parallel to “the other side of the flood,” we are
immediately led to the conclusion that a great falling away from the
truth of God would suffice. After all, the Genesis record tells us that

“God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and
that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually” (Genesis 6:5).

Need we ask if there is any evidence that such conditions are being
repeated in our timeline?

-- James Lloyd

Next: Pinpointing the generation which falls away, as well as the
Remnant which collectively personifies the person of Noah

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