"The flood is put in the same list as the creation of the world and the general judgment.
The apostle Peter says that they who scoff at the promise of the coming of the Lord are willingly ignorant of the fact 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." 2 Peter 3:5-7. Whoever discounts the story of the flood, thereby discounts the story of creation, and also the promise of the coming of the Lord to judge the world.
The same word that brought the flood upon the earth, created the earth, and will make it new again."
E.J. Waggoner
