How did the flood happen according to the Bible?
Scripture indicates the flood came suddenly and unexpectedly. It was not merely rain gradually rising, but an instantaneous breaking up of the fountains of the deep. The people were unaware until it arrived, and it brought instantaneous destruction, serving as a pattern for the coming of the Son of Man.
Les explains that the flood was not just water coming up gradually from rain, but an instantaneous breaking up of the fountains of the deep. It was instantaneous destruction. The people never knew what hit them. He connects this to the verse that says they knew not until the flood came, and he uses it as an indication of how it will happen again at the coming of the Son of Man. The events leading up to the end time follow that same pattern.
And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
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Why did the flood take the people of Noah's day by surprise?
The people of Noah's day were unaware of coming judgment until the flood came and took them all away, because they were absorbed in daily materialistic activity, and Luke 21 adds 'and they builded' to that same list.