Do you remember singing cute little kids' songs about the rain that fell for 40 days on the

ark?

Well, that doesn't give the true picture.

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Those huge reservoirs of water that were stored under the earth were unleashed.

And they poured forth like this powerful volcano just erupting from the earth.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Monday, August 10th, 2015.

If you ever thought of Noah and the Ark as a cute story about a gently floating zoo, Nancy began painting a more vivid picture last week. She'll pick up her teaching series again today and tomorrow. It's called Noah and the Flood, the Gospel in the Old Testament.

Well, we come to that section in our study of Noah today, Genesis Chapter 7, when having witnessed the wickedness of the world, having warned the ungodly, having waited patiently for centuries for men to repent,

God finally sends his judgment.

And an entire generation, save eight who were in the ark, is destroyed in the flood.

Genesis chapter 7, verse 11, in the 600th year of Noah's life,

120 years after God first gave this warning and word to him,

in the 600th year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the 17th day of the month,

on that day, all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the windows

of the heavens were opened, and rain fell upon the earth 40 days and 40 nights. The flood itself,

which, by the way, has been a subject of enormous debate among scholars. We'll talk later in this series about why it

matters so much to some people to prove that there was not a flood. But I just take God's

word at face value. It says there was, and there's much reason and evidence scientifically and

archaeologically to back that up. But the flood was caused by huge reservoirs of water

erupting from under the earth as well as a deluge of water falling upon the earth. I was sitting

in my room studying the other day, studying on Noah, and it was raining here in Little Rock. It had

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