The Flood and the End Times Aspect

The flood has to be understood in connection with creation itself, he says. God is not some kind of capricious deity who does things on a whim or for no reason whatsoever, argues the preacher. He warns about the flood before it comes and then gives him instructions how to build an arc of salvation that will save Noah's family. And this deliverance or this redemption is the work exclusively of God - one who initiates it but also carries it out.