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Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Deluge, The

Content:

• Sent as a punishment for the extreme wickedness of man -- Ge6:5-7,11-13,17.
  
  Called the
  
  Flood. -- Ge 9:28.
  
  Waters of Noah. -- Isa 54:9.
  
  Noah forewarned of -- Ge 6:13; Heb 11:7.
  
  Long-suffering of God exhibited in deferring -- Ge 6:3; 1Pe3:20.
  
  The wicked warned of -- 1Pe 3:19,20; 2Pe 2:5.
  
  Noah, &c, saved from -- Ge 6:18-22; 7:13,14.
  
  Date of its commencement -- Ge 7:11.
  
  Came suddenly and unexpectedly -- Mt 24:38,39.
  
  Produced by
  
  Forty days' incessant rain. -- Ge 7:4,12,17.
  
  Opening up of the fountains of the great deep. -- Ge 7:11.
  
  Increased gradually -- Ge 7:17,18.
  
  Extreme height of -- Ge 7:19,20.
  
  Time of its increase and prevailing -- Ge 7:24.
  
  Causes of its abatement -- Ge 8:1,2.
  
  Decrease of gradual -- Ge 8:3,5.
  
  Date of its complete removal -- Ge 8:13.
  
  Complete destruction of whole earth effected by -- Ge 7:23.
  
  Entire face of the earth changed by -- 2Pe 3:5,6.
  
  Traditional notice of -- Job 22:15-17.
  
  That it shall never again occur
  
  Promised. -- Ge 8:21,22.
  
  Confirmed by covenant. -- Ge 9:9-11.
  
  The rainbow a token. -- Ge 9:12-17.
  
  A pledge of God's faithfulness. -- Isa 54:9,10.
  
  Illustrative
  
  Of the destruction of sinners. -- Ps 32:6; Isa 28:2,18.
  
  Of baptism. -- 1Pe 3:20,21.
  
  (Unexpectedness of,) of suddenness of Christ's coming. -- Mt24:36-39; Lu 17:26,27-30.