Was there an Ice Age?
Genesis 6:17 "And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
I was asked a question on whether there is such thing as an "ice age" in the Bible, when it began and when it ended. Those who follow my posts know that I believe in a young earth. Previously, I did a post on the 'Age of the Earth Study' and I concluded from the 1611 King James Bible that the earth is currently about 6,188.5 years old, counting from Genesis 1:1 all the way up to AD 2021:
Our earth is a young earth. Definitely not millions of years old, not even 10,000 years old, and we know from fossilized records and many ancient legends that there has been a catastrophic event which took place that destroyed the whole earth and practically wiped out every life on our planet. The Miao tribes, for example, regarded themselves as being descended from Japheth. They also remember some of the names of other early patriarchs whose names likewise appear in the Genesis record. When first encountered by early Christian missionaries, they were found to have already possess this knowledge in the form of ancient couplets. Moreover, they were found to be in possession of surprisingly accurate recollections of Creation and the Great Flood, and some of the close detail of their accounts coincides almost identically with the Genesis record. For more information, please refer to this article: Miao's account of Genesis.
Hidden in the Chinese character “船“ (chuán) is a story about the Great Flood of Genesis. See picture attached. So, what exactly took place? We know from some of the mammoth findings in Siberia and elsewhere that quite of few of these gigantic creatures were frozen in ice and relatively well-preserved in the state that we find them today. What killed them? How about those bones of other gigantic creatures that were excavated from the ground? What killed them? The Bible tells us that...
Genesis 7:11-24 "¶ 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. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. 15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in. 17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. 18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. 21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. 23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. 24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days."
According to my studies (see above), the Great Flood of Genesis happened some 4,532.5 years ago counting from AD 2021. The Bible tells us that:
In one day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up;
On the selfsame day the windows of heaven were opened;
Then rain fell from the sky, and it rained 40 days and 40 nights;
The Great Flood continued for 40 days upon the whole earth;
All the high hills and mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered;
All flesh whose nostrils was the breath of life died, and every living substance was destroyed upon the face of the earth;
The waters prevailed upon the earth 150 days;
Only Noah and his wife, Shem, Ham and Japheth and their wives (count: 8 people), and the animals they brought with them in the ark were saved in the Great Flood, hence the Chinese character "船".
I have come across many young earth creationists who believe that the fountains of the great deep broken up and the windows of heaven opened were two separate unrelated events. I am not disagreeing with that, but I tend to believe that these were connected events that happened in a sequence as the King James Bible tells us:
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."
The fountains of the great deep broken up is the cause of the windows of heaven opened. The water from underneath the earth actually burst up from the ground and shot up so high that it reaches unto the firmament of heaven and caused the windows of heaven to be opened. These two events happened one after the other on the same day according to Scripture. BTW, this would also explain why clumps of rocks and ice were found in outer space. These were debris and water launched up from earth into outer space when the fountains of the great deep were broken up and the windows of heaven were opened.
Looking from the space, we would find a huge "crack" in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. We call it the "Mid Atlantic Ridge" (see attached). The Bible is very clear that there was a global catastrophic event that took place some 4,532.5 years ago that destroyed the whole earth, and this is an evidence that such an event actually took place. When the fountains of the great deep burst open, water was mixed with the clay, the soil and the sand on the earth's crust to form large quantity of mud. What happened would be that animals that could not escape would be rapidly buried. This would account for the fossils that we dig up ever so often from the ground. The worldwide fossil record is evidence of rapid death and burial of plant and animal life by a worldwide catastrophic flood --- these things cannot happen slowly. An example of this was a dinosaur mummy recently discovered in Northern Alberta (see attached) with its skin and internal organs intact.
So, what happened to the climate when all the fountains of the great deep were broken up and the windows of heaven were opened? Could there have been a tremendous change of the temperature in some places that even animals were frozen alive? Of course! We find this evidence in the frozen mammoth carcasses in Siberia. In many of these carcasses, scientists found that the mammoths had flowers in their stomachs when they died (see attached), and we know that flowers don't occur in this kind of extremely cold places. At the same time, we know from Scripture that Noah and his family and all the animals with them were not frozen alive. Moreover, we only find the frozen places in the north pole and the south pole of the earth, and preserved mammoth carcasses are predominantly found in Siberia. There are also mammoth fossils found outside of Siberia, but these fossils were mostly just bones buried in the ground --- not intact with fur, skin and flesh. Recently scientists found an ancient fossilized forest in Antarctica. Forests don't occur in extremely cold climates. This tells us that Antarctica was once a warm temperate to subtropical rainforest, but it is no longer a forest and is now frozen in ice.
So, has there been an "ice age"? An ice age by definition refers to a period of extremely low global temperatures and recurring glacial expansion which covered the whole surface of the earth, and it lasted for a while. To re-iterate, we know from Scripture that Noah and his family as well as the animals in the ark were not frozen alive when the Great Flood hit the earth some 4,532.5 years ago. After the Flood, they left the ark and continued to populate the earth. Today, the only two regions on the earth that are predominantly frozen in ice are the north pole and the south pole, and in Siberia do we find the carcasses of frozen mammoths, and in Antarctica have scientists discovered frozen tropical rainforests. These regions remain in their frozen condition since 4,532.5 years ago. This ought to tell us that not every part of the earth was frozen suddenly, even though there might have been a tremendous change in temperature and climate during that time.
Isaiah 24:1 "Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof."
According to this passage, the LORD will turn the earth upside down in time to come. But we know from:
Ecclesiastes 1:9 "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun."
This verse tells us that the LORD has turned the earth upside down before. I believe it happened in the time of the Great Flood according to:
2 Peter 3:5-7 "For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men."
There will be a judgment by fire in the future, and that is when the LORD will destroy the earth as he did in the days of Noah by water. I believe the earth's axis has been changed since the Great Flood because we read in:
Isaiah 24:19-20 "The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again."
Applying the principle in Ecclesiastes 1:9, this passage tells us that the earth will be moved exceedingly in the future, but the same has also happened in the past. There is no new thing under the sun. Observations from outer space shows that the earth's axis is slanted by about 23.5 degrees as it makes its rotation relative to the orbital plane (see attached), and some months in the year are colder than others in most places because of the angle of the rotation, but the north pole and the south pole remain predominantly frozen throughout the year. Conversely, because of this tilt of 23.5 degrees, most places are hotter in some months of the year than other months. The fluctuation in temperatures in different places depends on how close these places are to the equator. In regions near the equator, temperatures remain relatively constant because of the spherical form of the earth.
Reel (v.i) "To stagger; to incline or move in walking, first to one side and then to the other; to vacillate."
The earth has been moved exceedingly by the Great Flood and is now vacillating unsteadily about a slanted axis like a drunkard. The "ice age" is a global event, and by definition, the whole earth was covered in ice for a prolonged period of time. Can that happen in an earth that is vacillating about a slanted axis? The answer is 'No'.
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 was right after Noah and his family and all the animals that were with them stepped out of the ark. It is very clear: "cold and heat, and summer and winter" shall not cease while the earth remaineth. This verse is proof of the cold and heat, summer and winter that we experience because of the motion profile of the earth. BTW, this is also to say that the climate before the Great Flood was very different. Compare Genesis 8:22 with:
Revelation 7:16 "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat."
Revelation 22:5 "And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever."
In the future to come, in the new earth, God will not only restore that which has been lost, but he himself shall be the light for us. There shall be no night no cold no sun no heat and no winter for ever and ever.
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