The floodwaters rise to cover all the high mountains under the entire heavens — a statement of universality that is difficult to read as anything other than a global event. The mountains — those great ancient markers of permanence and stability — disappear under the water. What seems most fixed in the created order is submerged. Psalm 90:2 reflects on the eternal God who precedes even the mountains — the flood that covers the mountains is an event that only the eternal God transcends. The physical height of the flood (verse 20 will specify the depth above the mountains) is the narrator's way of saying: nothing in the old world survived. The complete submersion of the high mountains creates a blank-canvas earth from which God will begin again. Revelation 21:1–5 describes a new heaven and new earth where the old things have passed away — the flood is the typological precursor of that final new beginning. Today, what 'mountains' in your life — things you assumed were permanent and immovable — might God be preparing to submerge in order to build something new?

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