This question comes up often in relation to pre-flood geology and, for that matter, everyday life in Pre-delugian times. So, had it ever rained before the Flood? Or was the only precipitation a mist that God caused to rise up from the ground?
Genesis 2:4-6 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
From that we know that, when God made plants, grass, trees, etc, (Day 3 of Creation) He made a mist to come up out of the ground to water the ground, and the plants God had just made. But how long did it do this? Did it continue to rise every morning for the 1656 years until the flood of Noah? And had it never rained anywhere on Earth until that happened? Read the rest of this entry »