Welcome to EBible Fellowship’s Bible study in the Book of Genesis. This is study #10 of Genesis, chapter 7 and we are going to read Genesis 7:6:

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

Because God opened up information in the Bible regarding the Biblical calendar of history, we have a built-in calendar from creation and down through history. We can know the exact year Noah was born. He was born in the year 5590BC and, therefore, we can know the date of his 600th year, which was 4990BC. That year is significant because God gives us that spiritual timeline when He says, “And yet seven days,” which He tied in with Judgment Day through the statement in 2Peter 3:8: “one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”

The understanding that seven days represents seven thousand years would be useless unless we knew the year the flood began. And by God’s grace He did open up this information concerning the date of creation in 11,013BC and the year of the flood in 4990BC, exactly 6,023 years from creation. That number “6,023” is also significant. It is not random – it is not 5,842 or 6,430 or any other number that lacks significance. The number “6,023” indicates the fullness of the “thousands” that are in view, which in this case is 6,000 years, and then it has “23” years attached to it, representing “tribulation.” This is a pattern we find in the Bible. For example, going from 4990BC to the time when Jesus went to the cross in 33AD is a timeline of 5,023 calendar years. The number “5” relates to atonement, so “5,000” would represent the fullness of that number, plus “23” calendar years. God can demonstrate these kinds of timelines with actual years or calendar years. The “5,023” years takes us to the cross where the Lord Jesus Christ demonstrated His atoning work from the foundation of the world. Again, there is the “fullness” in thousands of years, plus the number “23.”

In regard to creation in 11,013BC, the timeline that takes us to the year 2011AD is 13,023 actual years, so we reached the fullness of “13,000” and the Bible connects the number “13” with the end of the world and 1988 was the 13,000th year of earth’s history and then there was a 23-year Tribulation that brought us to the beginning of Judgment Day on May 21, 2011, the very day that was 7,000 years from the flood and which had the equivalent underlying Hebrew calendar date of the “seventeenth day of the second month.”

Also, this date of 4990BC is significant in another way. If we go 7,023 calendar years from 4990BC, it takes us to the year 2033AD. There is the “fullness” of seven thousand years, plus 23 calendar years. This is interesting because we can see that this is exactly how God worked out the timeline from the flood to the cross. There was “5,000” years pointing to the atonement, plus 23 calendar years. The 7,023 calendar years point to the fullness of perfection, plus “23” calendar years and this takes us to 2033AD, a date we are coming across more and more. We are seeing there is much evidence pointing to that date as the likely end of the world. This is something for us to think about, but when the Bible gives us a timeline, “And yet seven days,” it can have a dual meaning or dual purpose as far as the Biblical calendar of history. First of all, the exact 7,023-year period takes us to the very date of Judgment Day itself, the beginning point. Secondly, following the pattern of these other dates, we have 7,023 calendar years and that can take us to the conclusion of time, the end of the overall judgment period.

For instance, when we look at the number “11” in the Bible, we realize that it points to the Messiah coming after 11,000 years of history. This is especially seen in the life of Joseph when his 11 brothers bowed down to him. Joseph was the 11th son of Jacob and he died at the age of “110,” which is “10 x 11.” He is also a type of Christ in the Bible. There is also other information in the Bible, including a timeline that is given in the Book of Deuteronomy. It says in Deuteronomy 1:2:

(There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)

We have to look at this spiritually. We are looking at the eleven days, spiritually, and “one day is as a thousand years.” Basically, God is saying there are “11,000” years from Horeb, where the Law of God was given. Originally, the first time God gave the Law was in the Garden of Eden in regard to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil: “For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” This was the Law of God, so the Law was given at the beginning of the creation in the year 11,013BC, so it is a timeline from Horeb by the way of mount Sier unto Kadeshbarnea, which represents the Promised Land. It was the Messiah that would come and lead the people of God into the Promised Land, so in a strong way Kadeshbarnea identifies with the coming Messiah after 11,000 years of history, as represented by the 11 days’ journey. But when we go 11,000 years from 11,013BC it does not take us directly to the date of the birth of Christ. Instead, it takes us to 13BC and from 13BC we do have another option because God will sometimes tack on a 23-year Tribulation as represented by 2,300 days instead of a 23-year Great Tribulation period. For example, from 11,013BC to 1988, it was 13,000 years, but there was added on 2,300 days to the point of the pouring out of the Holy Spirit the second time in 1994. From creation to 1994 was 13,006 years and almost four months. From creation to the birth of Christ was 11,000, plus 2,300 days.

The reason I’m saying this is to show that we can have a time path that is based on days – 11 days as 11,000 years or 7 days as 7,000 years – that can also be modified with an added Tribulation period of 2,300 evening mornings, which is six years and almost four months. So we must consider when God tells us, “And yet seven days,” or 7,000 years to the final judgment of mankind, is that the time path may be modified by 23 years. It may be modified by 23 actual years or 23 calendar years. We find that when we use calendar years it falls on a very significant year of 2033AD and that year is important because it is exactly 2,000 years from the time Jesus went to the cross. That is a major time path in itself, from 33AD until 2033AD, an even two thousand years from the birth of Christ in 7BC, a Jubilee Year that identifies with the pouring out of the Holy Spirit forty years later in 33AD. Then we have 1994, also a Jubilee Year, and it is forty years inclusive to 2033AD, which may be the next grand step in God’s salvation program as He will equip His people with new resurrected bodies. Again, this is evidence that needed to be mentioned.

Let us go back to Genesis 7:6:

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

The Hebrew word translated as “flood” is Strong’s #3999 and it is found 13 times in the Old Testament and 12 of those times it occurs in Genesis, chapters six through eleven, in regard to the flood account. Then it also appears once in the Psalms where it says, “JEHOVAH sitteth upon the flood.” The word “flood” identifies with the historical flood that overcame the world.

The word “waters” is a common word found throughout the Old Testament. For instance, the word “waters” is seen in Psalm 69:1-2:

Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

This Psalm is a Messianic psalm that reveals the Lord Jesus suffering under the wrath of God. There is no question of that. Just look at Psalm 69:21:

They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

This is exactly what happened when Jesus was on the cross. This Psalm speaks of waters coming in unto His soul and deep waters and floods overflowing Him. It also says in Psalm 69:14-15:

Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

Here, the “deep waters” and the “floods” and the “pit” are all synonymous with being under the wrath of God. It is the same thing as experiencing “hell,” which is “death.” It is experiencing the judgment of God for sin, which is what Christ did in order to pay for the sins of His people at the point of the world’s foundation and it is what He demonstrated by going to the cross. He began to suffer in the Garden of Gethsemane all the way to the cross. It was a tableau or manifestation of when He actually paid for sin at the point of the world’s foundation. In other words, to be under the wrath of God is likened to having “waters” come in unto your soul or to be in “deep waters” that overflow you.

It is also found in this context in Psalm 124:2-5:

If it had not been JEHOVAH who was on our side, when men rose up against us: Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

Part of the wrath that Jesus experienced was His being turned over into the hands of sinful men, so here the wicked enemies of God are likened to “waters” that overwhelm and “proud waters” that go over the soul.

We find similar language in Jonah 2:1-5:

Then Jonah prayed unto JEHOVAH his God out of the fish's belly, And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto JEHOVAH, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

Jonah is a type of Christ here. Jesus confirmed that when He said, “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” Jonah’s experience pictures what Christ experienced and that is why we find the language of “hell.” Historically, it was a fact that Jonah was in the depths of the sea and waters compassed him all about – literally. But it is a picture of the wrath of God, so when we read in Genesis 7, verse 6 concerning the “waters” that fell down from heaven and the “waters” that came up from beneath, we see the tremendous deluge of waters that overflowed the earth until the highest mountain was covered fifteen cubits upward. If we could see Noah’s world from satellite cameras, it would have been all “blue,” indicating the earth was 100% overflowed with water all over the earth. It would have been an incredible sight to behold. There would have been one little “speck” of brown, the ark that floated above the waters. A portion of the ark would have been submerged, but most of it would have floated on the surface of the flood. It was that tremendous amount of “waters” that destroyed everything in the world with the breath of life because it signified the wrath of God that drowned all the inhabitants of the earth outside the ark. It drowned all the animals with the breath of life on the face of the whole earth and the only living people and animals were in the ark. It was an historical parable that painted a picture of what God would do at the end of the world when He destroys the world. God will destroy unsaved mankind and all the animals and the entire creation that has been corrupted by the curse as a result of man’s rebellion and fall into sin. Everything will come under the wrath of God.

God has really given us quite a blessing in providing this historical picture of what He has done already in our time at the end of the world by bringing judgment upon sinful mankind. That judgment began on May 21, 2011, so as we read of things pertaining to the flood, we should be learning how it relates to the final judgment of the world.