So this forty days and forty nights of rain caused by God during Noah's time, was a probationary period for His whole creation. These examples are all to make sure we know Jehovah is in control. How does this forty days and forty nights, meaning probation, relate to us today? As the time Noah and his family were in the Ark upon the waters for 'five months', the tribulation time of trial and temptation by Satan is also to last 'five months', as written in... Rev.9:

     The phrase 'will I destroy' is the Hebrew word 'machah' meaning 'to stroke or rub; by implication, to erase' (Strong's no. 4229). It simply means to blot out, as in no longer exists. That is also the proper meaning of what happens to those who go into the 'lake of fire' at the end of Christ's thousand year reign on earth. They are simply 'erased', as if they never ever had any existence.

Gen 7:5   And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

     This is why Noah was righteous in God's Eyes. He obeyed our Heavenly Father's commands, and that is our work before us also today, being in Christ Jesus.
     As the heathen around Noah at the time probably thought the whole building of the Ark very silly, today many without an understanding in God's Word, or a non-believer, will think our Holy Bible and following God to be outdated, or as being 'old fashioned'. They treat following Him as foolishness. God used to be a 'force' to them, and now even that false idea of theirs is wearing down. Gaia, or earth worship, is replacing their old false ideas of God. Isn't their type of thinking silly? Especially from groups who claim to be enlightened and super educated. Actually, it is 'sottish', a sign of rebellion against Jehovah and His Son Jesus Christ.

Gen 7:6   And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

     This 'flood of waters' during Noah's time is also a symbol for us today. Rev.12:15 mentions water 'as a flood' cast out of the serpent's mouth. That means a 'flood of lies', since it comes out of Satan's (serpent) mouth.
     Satan's flood of lies today, make up the four dynasty system of controls he is given over the whole earth. These are control over the economic systems, educational systems, political systems, and religious systems.

 

Isaiah 8 Read All. Mahal-shalal- hash-baz (Hurry eagerly to the spoil Strong’s 4118, 7998, 2363, 957)

For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

 

Speaks of the Assyrian who comes in with the 'waters of the river, strong and many'. The joining of the multitude of nations, and the false controls, are mentioned there.

 

 Isaiah 28: Read All.1 Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet. 2 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying “I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.” 15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, “Hear now, Hananiah; The Lord hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie. 16 Therefore thus sayeth saith the Lord; “Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth:  this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the Lord.” 17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

 

Isaiah 59:19: So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.