On Tuesday, January 18, 2022, at 4 o'clock Eastern time, a significant asteroid approximately 3,400 feet across, flew very close to the Earth.

It was larger than our tallest buildings. For scale, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai is

2717 feet. That would have been an explosive impact if it hadn't missed us by 1.23 million miles.

A more dramatic close encounter will be Friday, April 13, 2029, when the asteroid

Apophis at 1,120 feet across will pass within 19,000 miles of Earth. Astronomers once thought Apophis would hit us, but that fear has been

mitigated. What is interesting is all the potential for danger around us that we do not see.

Tectonic plates that move unannounced until they split the earth, underwater volcanoes that seem to erupt

out of nowhere, sending tsunamis to crash with destruction upon the shore. Things are happening

around us silently, steadily that we do not see while we live blithely and blindly, assuming we are safe.

The greatest potential for danger is one that we cannot afford to close our eyes to and miss.

That is the growing wickedness around us that is seeping into our lives without announcement or warning

flare. It just crawls on clawed feet into the hearts of ourselves and our children,

as quietly as that asteroid did that swept close to Earth. But wickedness is not a near miss. It is targeted upon us and more

destructive than we have ever supposed. Hello, we are Scott and Maureen Proctor, and welcome to

Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast, where we talk today about Noah and the Flood,

described in Genesis 6 through 11 and in Moses, chapter 8. It's easy to dismiss this as a child's story,

the stuff of legend, because, after all, it was one of the first stories we heard.

We did puzzles or had models of an ark with lions, tigers, and elephants walking two-by-two

into the door, and we may have understood this event with childlike mind.

Dr. Hugh Nibbley said,

The stories of the Garden of Eden and the flood have always furnished

unbelievers with their best ammunition against believers, because they are the easiest to visualize,

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