Gen 9:11-16
(11) And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
(12) And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
(13) I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
(14) And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
(15) And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
(16) And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
Four times the Lord mentions a covenant that He has made with every living creature on earth; that He would not destroy it with a global watery flood. So it is quite evident that because God cannot lie we can rest assured that the earth will continue to stand out of the waters and that they would no longer prevail against the dry land.
The Lord Jesus speaks again of that flood in Matthew chapter twenty four.
Mat 24:36-41
(36) But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
(37) But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
(38) For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
(39) And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
(40) Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
(41) Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
The Lord speaks of the times leading up to his return as the “days of Noah” which in the past I have inferred to mean of the moral decay of the society; which I believe is still the case but when examining the flood in its type in scripture, I believe, brings deeper understanding of the events the Lord is speaking of.
It could be that the flood of Noah’s day is overwhelming persecution both from Satan and heaven itself. Both for the nation of Israel and the world.
Rom 2:9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
“In the present parable of Noah and the ark, Jesus answers to Noah: the time of His presence [coming], to the days of Noah; and the ark to the wilderness. The flood of Noah’s day was composed of two great divisions; the waters from below, and the waters from above. Concerning the waters from beneath, we read–“All the fountains of the great deep were broken up;” and concerning the waters from above–“The windows of heaven were opened:” Gen. 7:2. Even thus in the day before us, the bottomless pit is opened, and thence come forth Abaddon the destroyer, and his locusts; while Euphrates sends up from beneath its millions of spirit-horsemen: Rev.9. And beside this, heaven pours down from above its vials of consuming wrath. Together these constitute the destroying flood of the day of Great Tribulation.”
Robert Govett; The Prophecy on Olivet. Pg 97
Flood waters are a type of overwhelming persecution or tribulation. The bible speaks of the persecution of ungodly men as a flood.
2Sa 22:4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
2Sa 22:5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
Of the Jew because of their disobedience and national rejection of the Messiah:
Isa 8:6-8
(6) Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;
(7) Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
(8) And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
Isa 28:1-2
(1) Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
(2) Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
Isa 28:14-15
(14) Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
(15) Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
Dan 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Michael the great prince..
The twelfth chapter of Daniel and the twelfth chapter of ‘The Revelation of Jesus Christ’ offer a complete view of the battle that takes place in the heavens and the affect on the inhabitants of the earth.
It is the author’s view that Michael the Arch Angel is the same that is currently holding back the forces of evil from unleashing upon the nation of Israel. Since Israel became a nation the Muslim countries surrounding her have wanted nothing more than to drive her into the sea. War after war, and battle after battle Israel has remained strong. When you see the multitudes of enemies that have outnumbered Israel and see how she has remained undefeated in the midst of such numbers, there has to be a heavenly host protecting her. There can be no humanly logic to explain it. This hast to be what Paul speaks of in his second letter to Timothy.
2Th 2:1-8
(1) Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
(2) That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
(3) Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
(4) Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
(5) Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
(6) And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
(7) For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
(8) And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Daniel chapter 12 gives us insight into this time period when Michael is taken out of the way, which allows Satan and his “son of perdition” to wreck havoc upon the nation of Israel.
Dan 12:1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Rev 12:12-16
(12) Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
(13) And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
(14) And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
(15) And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
(16) And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
Michael will stand up. He will fight and defeat the great dragon, Satan, and will then cast him down to the earth. It is then that Satan will unleash his “flood” upon Israel and the people of earth.
“Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.” Rev.12:12
The first people of the earth to experience the wrath of Satan is the nation of Israel. She is the woman who gives birth to the man child. The man child in my opinion are the 144 thousand from all tribes that have been preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ and holding to the word. They are taken up into heaven before the consuming 3 1/2 years of Jacobs trouble. Rev.12:5; 14:1-5.
See also Ezra 3:1, and Nehemiah 8:1 that reveals that a remnant of the nation of Israel can be referred to as “one man”
The Jewish people were the first to experience the blessings of God and therefore they must also be the first to experience tribulation and anguish. They received the oracles of God and were partakers of God’s presence before any other nation. God calls Israel His “first born” Exodus 4:22. They must first be partakers of God’s wrath and judgment. But not until the Devil is cast to the earth and the “man child” has finished their work on the earth and are taken up into heaven, will Israel be thrown into “Jacob’s trouble”.
And because of their rejection of God’s grace during the “times of the gentiles”; Isaiah 24, Psalms 2; the gentiles will also drink of the cup of God’s wrath.
We will continue this at a later date when a much thorough look is made at the division of days in Noah’s flood.