The timeline from Genesis to the Flood is significant because it marks the first great dividing point in God's dealings with humanity: roughly 1,600 years from Adam to Noah's flood, followed by a fresh start with Noah.
Les Feldick places Adam's creation around 4004 B.C. and the flood around 2400 B.C., making the flood the next major event after Adam in God's timetable. These are presented as general, round figures rather than exact dates. The flood becomes the dividing point between the earlier world and the new beginning with Noah and his three sons.
Genesis 6:5 — This verse shows the moral condition of the human race by the end of the pre-Flood timeline, which is why the flood became the next major event in Les's timeline.
Genesis 6:11 — This verse directly describes the world at the time of the flood — corrupt and filled with violence — matching Les's description of the timeline leading to Noah's flood.
Scripture does not give the BC dates Les Feldick uses. The biblical timeline from Adam to the Flood comes through the genealogies in Genesis 5 and the flood narrative in Genesis 6–7. By the time of Noah, the Bible records that "the earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence" (Genesis 6:11). It also states 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).
Les Feldick places Adam's creation around 4004 B.C. and then identifies the flood as the next big event in God's timetable, about 1,600 years later, around 2400 B.C. He stresses that these are general or round figures, not exact year-by-year dates.
Les gives approximately 1,600 years from Adam to the flood. He places Adam at 4004 B.C. and the flood at about 2400 B.C. In another clip he says the period was about 1,650 years. He repeatedly emphasizes that these are general terms rather than exact figures.
According to Les, the pre-flood era had no civil government, no organized worship, and no religion as far as Scripture reveals. The human race had opportunity to know God through the blood-sacrifice format given to Cain and Abel, but by around 2400 B.C. the world had become morally corrupt and violent. Scripture says the earth was corrupt and filled with violence.
Les calls the flood the next big event after Adam in God's timetable. It ends Adam's race and begins a new stage with Noah and his three sons. Everything is different after the flood, making it a central dividing point in Genesis.
After the flood, Les places about 200 years to the Tower of Babel and about another 200 years to the call of Abraham at approximately 2000 B.C., which he calls the midpoint between Adam and Christ. He also says that from Adam to Abraham, God dealt with one race of people.
What Does It Mean to Be "All Things to All Men"? — 1 Corinthians 9
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Adam to the Flood as the Next Big Event
Les marks Noah's flood as the next big event in God's timetable, roughly 1,600 years after Adam and around 2400 B.C.
The 1,600 Years and Human Accountability
During the 1,600 years before the flood, every person had opportunity to know God through the blood-sacrifice format given to Cain and Abel, yet most of the human race rejected it.
Why the Church Age Is Hidden in the Old Testament
It's just simply the progression of time all the way from Adam at 4004 B.C., and then in round figures put it halfway between Abraham at 2000 B.C. We had the Flood, it isn't quite that far, it's about 1400 B.C. But nevertheless remember that these first 2000 years of human history are covered in the first 11 chapters of Genesis.
The Pre-Flood World
Les describes the pre-flood world as a populated planet with no civil government, no organized worship, and no religion as far as Scripture shows.
The Moral Decline Leading to the Flood
By about 2400 B.C., the human race had become so morally degraded and violent that God said He would have to destroy them, bringing the flood.
Post-Flood 200-Year Intervals
Les places about 200 years from the flood to the Tower of Babel and about another 200 years from the Tower of Babel to the call of Abraham.
Adam at 4004 B.C. and Abraham at 2000 B.C.
Les uses round figures: Adam at 4004 B.C., Abraham at about 2000 B.C., and the flood about 400 years before Abraham.
Genesis 6:5: And 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.
This sets the moral scene just before the flood, showing why the pre-flood world ended in judgment.
Genesis 6:11: The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
This verse summarizes the condition of the world at the end of the Genesis-to-Flood timeline, which Les points to as the reason for the flood.
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 gives the biblical marker for when the flood actually began, anchoring the timeline in Noah's lifetime.
In Les Feldick's timeline, about 1,600 years. He places Adam around 4004 B.C. and the flood around 2400 B.C., noting these are general or round figures, not exact dates.
Because after Adam's creation, the human race ran about 1,600 years until Noah's flood. The flood then begins a completely new stage with Noah and his three sons.
Les says there was no civil government, no organized worship, and no religion as far as Scripture shows. By 2400 B.C., the race had become so morally degraded and violent that God said He would have to destroy them.
After the flood, Les places about 200 years to the Tower of Babel, and about another 200 years from the Tower of Babel to the call of Abraham at approximately 2000 B.C., the midpoint between Adam and Christ.
Watch the Teaching: What Does It Mean to Be "All Things to All Men"? — 1 Corinthians 9