The Flood

I have these questions: How was the “Flood” worked? What is the meaning of the text at (Gen.) 7:11? Was the “Flood” universal? There is first the question of how God worked the flood. The text at 7:11 states, “And all the fountains of the great deep were opened” or broken up, suddenly cleaved, Heb. baqa, “and the lattices of heaven were opened”. What is to be understood by the deep? —Heb. tehome. The word appears in several other places in the Old Testament Scriptures. Prov. 8:27, 28,...