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The Great Flood Wasn't the Last - What Adam Told Seth Would Come After It

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What if Adam warned Seth that Noah’s Flood would not be the last great destruction?

The ancient historian Josephus recorded a tradition of two coming catastrophes: one by water, one by fire. Discover why Seth’s descendants were said to preserve their knowledge on pillars, how the story compares with Genesis and 2 Peter, and what we can actually verify about Adam’s warning.

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Sources: - Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, Book 1 - Genesis, chapters 4–11 - 1 Enoch, translated by George W. E. Nickelsburg and James C. VanderKam - Second Peter, chapter 3 - Richard J. Bauckham, Jude, 2 Peter - John J. Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination

00:00 The Warning Beyond the Flood 04:18 Adam and Seth in the Genesis Account 13:13 Josephus and the Two Destructions 21:42 The Knowledge Seth’s Descendants Feared Losing 30:51 The Pillars Built to Survive Water and Fire 40:10 The Flood That Came First 48:23 God’s Promise After the Waters Receded 57:56 A New World That Did Not Stay New 1:06:51 Fire in the Wider Ancient Imagination 1:16:10 Other Jewish Visions of Catastrophe and Judgment 1:24:43 Water and Fire in Second Peter 1:33:30 What the Prophets and Revelation Add 1:42:01 How Much of the Adam Tradition Can Be Verified? 1:51:03 Three Ways to Understand the Warning 1:59:58 What Survived the Story of the Flood

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