“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.”
In the 600th year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, the deep springs burst open and the floodgates of the sky pour down — the precise date is given as if this is a document of historical record, not a legend. Two sources of water combine: the subterranean depths (the 'fountains of the great deep') and the atmospheric heights (the 'windows of heaven'). Both the below and the above contribute to the flood — the created order that God separated in Genesis 1 is now reversed. The waters above and below the expanse, divided on day two of creation, now recombine. This is creation being unmade. 2 Peter 3:6 interprets the flood as the world being destroyed by water, in contrast to the coming judgment by fire. Psalm 29:10 declares that the LORD sits enthroned over the flood — even in the unmaking, God is sovereign. Today's reflection: when the foundations seem to be giving way and the sky seems to be falling simultaneously, the God who separated those waters is still enthroned over them.
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