The flood changed the earth's climate from a constant, seasonless environment to one governed by weather and four seasons.
Les teaches that before the flood the earth had one constant spring-like temperature and never rained. After the flood, the earth came under weather and climatic changes, and Scripture records that while the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Genesis 8:22 — This is the post-flood promise that the new climate would be marked by recurring cycles of seedtime, harvest, cold, heat, summer, and winter.
Genesis 8:22 is the key post-flood statement: "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." This promise follows Noah's coming out of the ark and describes a new, repeated pattern of climate and seasons. The flood narrative also records the moment that initiated this change: "the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened" (Genesis 7:11). These verses together show that the flood interrupted the former order and that a new seasonal order would continue as long as the earth remains.
Les teaches that the pre-flood world was a beautiful, constant spring-like environment. A vapor belt created a greenhouse effect, diffusing sunlight around the globe, so there was no weather, no storm clouds, and no rain — the earth was watered from beneath. He says the Bible can accurately say it never rained before the flood. After the flood, Les explains, Noah came out onto a completely different earth. The old constant climate was gone, and the earth came under weather and climatic changes, including what we understand as the four seasons. He adds that, from a scientific point of view, this may be when the Lord instigated the tilting of the earth, though he explicitly calls that only speculation.
Les describes the pre-flood earth as having a constant tropical temperature. A vapor belt, placed during creation/restoration, created a greenhouse effect and diffused the sunlight, so there were no shifts in temperature, no increase in atmospheric pressure, and no weather. It never rained; God watered the ground from beneath.
Les says that after the flood it was a completely different earth and climate. Instead of one constant spring-like temperature, the earth came under weather and climatic changes, including the four seasons. This new order is the one Genesis 8:22 says will not cease — seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.
Les offers a scientific speculation: at the time of the flood, the Lord may have instigated the tilting of the earth. That tilt, he says, would account for the seasonal changes from spring to summer and on through the year. He explicitly labels this as speculation.
Les emphasizes that the flood was not a simple rising of rainwater. It was tumultuous and cataclysmic, erupting instantaneously to such a degree that the evidence of the pre-flood civilization was all but totally removed, leaving only the fossil record. This cataclysm is the context for the earth's new climate and way of life.
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After the Flood: A Different Climate
Les explains that after the flood the earth was no longer a single spring-like temperature; it came under weather, climatic changes, and the four seasons, possibly beginning with a tilt of the earth.
Pre-Flood Greenhouse Climate
Les describes a vapor belt that created a greenhouse effect, giving the whole earth one constant tropical temperature with no weather and no rain.
No Rain Before the Flood
Les says God placed the water in a vapor belt, producing a constant spring-like climate with no storm clouds, which is why the Bible can accurately say it never rained.
A Whole New Ballgame After the Flood
Les notes that after the flood Noah and his family entered a whole new set of circumstances, making life after the flood totally different from life before it.
Evidence of a Constant Pre-Flood Climate
Les points to archaeological evidence that the world once had a constant climate from pole to pole, the environment into which Adam was brought.
The Flood Was Cataclysmic
Les describes the flood as tumultuous and cataclysmic, erasing almost all evidence of the pre-flood civilization and leaving only the fossil record.
The Flood Begins
Les reads Genesis 7:11, showing that the flood began when the fountains of the great deep broke up and the windows of heaven were opened on the same day.
Genesis 8:22: While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
This verse is the post-flood promise that defines the new seasonal and climatic pattern for the earth.
Genesis 7:11: In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
This verse describes the beginning of the flood, the event that brought about the change in the earth's climate.
According to Les, it never rained before the flood. A vapor belt created a constant spring-like climate, and God watered the earth from beneath. There were no storm clouds and no weather as we know it.
Yes. Genesis 8:22 says that while the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Les offers the speculation that the Lord may have tilted the earth at the time of the flood, which would produce the seasonal changes we experience today.
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