When the Waters Ran Deep.
A Psalm by the Watchman Dana G Smith
Keywords: waters, Noah, God, Lord, Jesus Christ, wickedness, repent
Genesis 7:6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
Genesis 7:10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
Genesis 7:17 ¶And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
Genesis 7:18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
Genesis 7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Genesis 7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Thus it was, that they ran, full and deep,
Such waters that had never been seen before.
We had been an unrighteous generation,
We had known better, for all had considered this God,
But also decided to cast off his truths for better, we thought.
It was a bitter time of judgment, one that we did not escape.
There was one, though, a righteous man, named Noah.
His was a manner after this eternal LORD he said,
One in whom the Fathers had taught him,
One in whom, this God did speak and say unto him,
‘Build a boat, Noah, for I will flood the earth’,
‘For I will destroy this wickedness upon the earth, the generation of rebellion’.
The water did come, but not before a time of witnessing the building,
For Noah and his sons did build this great boat, of wood, gopher the type,
Such was one so large, the people did mock the size thereof,
But this did not stop him nor his call to finish the work before the waters came.
When the rain first started, the mocking increased, for even these did not understand,
nor did they consider at the time what was happening.
Rain came, the first day, soft at first, then after five days, continued hard,
Such as had not been seen before, all the city gathered to play hard in the melee,
For water began flooding the streets, but we continued in our own ways, again,
We did not consider this God whom Noah warned about,
We did not think to do as our hearts beat within us led us too,
For we were about the rebellion of the day.
Genesis 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
The floods began in earnest after 15 days or so, the time is not exact, I was aware,
Yea, that these would not let up, just as Noah had said, but then I was there,
Yea, again listen fast, understand, I saw the finger of God close the door,
Stunned in the looking of it, I saw this hand, very large, with a finger,
Such did close fast the doorway to the great boat that Noah had built.
We even ignored and mocked when he gathered the animals as he was to do.
They also came, two by two, as if led by some strange force,
They came, neither fighting nor clawing their way,
But all animals, both fierce and tame, walked as friends on that day,
Into the great boat, that Noah built.
Even this did not pursuade a soul to seek the truth Noah spake.
The water came in rivers of torrents from the mountains and into the valleys,
Down the corridors of the plains, violent, white caps of death that came,
All who had ignored it still climbed to higher peaks, holding fast to what they could,
But as they climbed higher, so the waters moved up abruptly,
Moving in gigantic swells of white turbulent death, these came toward all,
There was no escape, but even as these did come, nether man nor women did tell,
Yea, of their reasons for ignoring the warnings of the righteous man Noah,
It was a generation void of understanding and rebellion was their seed,
and in their days, wickedness became their crop which they did reap from.
The waters became huge tall mountains, so tall, I have never seen before,
At the top, the height of a mountain, and moving as a giant swathe over the lands,
It came at all before it, swamping it in huge waves of white foamy death upon those,
Yea the souls had no leaway to escape, they had nowhere to run,
The activities of the people in all quarters gave way to surviving,
NO thought was given to previous things they had been doing, nay,
These now gave thought only to escaping these ‘Waters that ran deep’.
The white boiling mass, moving fast upon the land, heaved and gave way again,
Then regrouped itself to rise again and run upon the surface of all the liquid,
It did not stop, for days it rose, days it had rained, first ignoring it,
Yea, then later giving ourselves to escaping the brunt of it, but nowhere to run.
It was then, as the waters came past the knee’s, to the waist, then the neck,
where life and breathe are at risk, it was at the last possible moment…
The very last, as cries rang out, as people went under, as the water covered it all,
Yea, that this generation understood the judgment of God, as the ‘Waters ran deep.’
Matthew 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
So now, be warned oh generation, be aware of sons of men,
be still oh stubborn hearts, this God, the One true LORD has given his call,
First to repent, second to change heart, and third to obey his ways,
Ignore the wickedness and the ones who charge in their stubborness,
Yea in their proud hearts, saying that this is not so!
But be warned oh proud hearts, neither soul, nor flesh, nation, nor people,
Nor any power on earth can sway this from the coming portion which is due.
For just as the ‘Waters ran deep’ on that day, so will this generation suffer its own,
Again, the judgment will ‘run deep and hard’, against the backdrop of proud hearts,
Willfully wicked persons who deny the One True God, and his Son Yeshua, The Christ, Jesus, Who came to save all men from the fate of such judgment!
Yea, all it is for you to do this day?
Repent with good motive in heart and soul, giving all thy heed to this God who calls to you!
