The Global Flood Timeline

We’ll begin with Year 1656 since the creation of the universe.

Second month

·      10th Day - Noah and his family entered the ark.

·      17th Day - The flood began: the fountains of the great deep split open, the floodgates of the sky were opened, and the rain fell on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights.

Third Month

·      26th Day - The rain stopped.

Seventh Month

·      17th Day - The water stopped rising and the fountains of the great deep were closed. By this point the entire earth was covered, even the highest mountains. What we might call the first half of the flood — the deluge phase — had come to an end. It is likely that many of the sedimentary layers were laid down during this phase, and the dead creatures were buried within those layers, forming the fossils we find today. In many places today, we can observe the boundary where the floodwaters stopped eroding the original landscape and where sediment deposition began; this boundary is known as the Great Unconformity (see Newsletter #4 from 6/20/25).

Ninth Month

·      17th Day - The ark came to rest on land.

Tenth Month

·      The mountains became visible and the water decreased steadily until the tenth month. As the water decreased steadily it would carve much of the newly deposited soil layers, with some flows reaching hundreds of miles wide.

Eleventh Month

·      10th Day - Noah opened the window on the upper level.

First Month of the next year, 1657 years since the creation

·      1st Day - The surface waters had dried up.

Second Month

·      27th Day - The earth was fully dry, and God instructed Noah to leave the ark with his family and all the animals (370 days after the flood began, 377 days since they entered the ark.)

Noah lived another 350 years after the flood, and he died 2,007 years after the Creation of the Earth.

After the Flood

Let’s continue the narrative through the rest of Genesis, which serves as the foundational account of the world, nations, and all humanity. Look at the many foundational key events of the world and notice how closely they followed after the global flood, and the resulting enormous global scar. The Bible also records where the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth traveled and settled as they spread across the earth, mostly after the tower of Babel incident that occurred only a couple hundred years after the flood. For our brief overview we’ll only follow the line from Shem to Jacob:

·      Shem was 98 years old when they left the ark, and he lived another 500 years.

·      The dispersion from Babel took place during Peleg’s lifetime (he lived from 101–340 years after the flood). This was where God created the different languages and caused people to spread out from Babel (Babylon) based on their language groups.

·      Abraham was born 351 years after the flood while Shem was still alive. This was 2,008 years after the creation, and two years after Noah died. Shem died in year 2158, so he and Abraham overlapped by 150 years.

·      Isaac was born when Abraham was 100 years old, and 451 years after the flood, so Shem and Isaac’s lives overlapped by 50 years.

·      Jacob was born when Isaac was 60 years old, placing his birth 511 years after the flood. His 12 sons formed the nation of Israel — the very same nation we hear so much about today. Jacob lived 147 years and died in Egypt 658 years after the flood and 2,315 years after the creation of Adam and Eve.

The next major phase in the Biblical narrative begins with the birth of Moses, by which time the Israelites had grown into a numerous and formidable people living under the shelter of Egypt.

That is the foundation of a Biblical Worldview. Why was all of this recorded with such specificity? The Bible doesn’t give a direct answer, but it seems clear that God wants us to know when these events occurred and to have a truly reliable source of information as we look back through history, knowing that mockers will one day establish a different understanding of time. And here we are, one of the greatest debates of our day concerns the nature of “time.” Perhaps the reason God was so precise is that He foresaw the challenges that would arise in the 1800s AD. In the New Testament, in 2 Peter 3:3–6, this was predicted: “Knowing this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying, ‘Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.’ For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, through which the world at that time was destroyed, being deluged with water.”

These verses written some 2000 years ago anticipate a time when skeptics would claim that uniformitarianism is the proper lens through which to view history, while the Bible affirms that catastrophism is actually the correct framework as demonstrated by the worldwide flood. Let us not be among those skeptics who fail to notice that the original world was destroyed by water. We at Scargazers want to help you see the evidence so you can correct the mockers. Notably, the very same source from which we learn of the flood is also the source from which we derive the Biblical timeline of origins, and it is that same message which faces such scrutiny today. Below is a chart of the Biblical Timeline from the Creation through the three patriarchs of the nation Israel.

Below is a visual timeline to help you see the overlaps between people and key events of the foundations we read about in Genesis.