(September 10, 2014 at 8:36 pm)professor Wrote: Stimbo, that is a good question.
Maybe I can answer it by looking at the experience of Lot.
Lot lived in Sodom.
Scripture noted the place was prideful, prosperous, and as everyone knows, a stronghold of homosexuals.
The angels told him, they could not do anything until he got out of there.
So apparently God could not do anything until Noah and clan left.
He made sure Noah left in time.
In another view of the time element- The long range plan of God is- much of heaven comes to here for a thousand years (the Millennium Rest) - then, after that we all enter the eternal state of the new earth - immortal perfection.
The Days of genesis are a picture of the thousand year spans.
Lot was such a good bloke too. Trying to save angels by offering his daughters to a mob of sexual perverts, good thinking.
His wife was pure evil though. How dare she look back when told not to.
She deserved to become a table condiment.
