Is God killing with kindness? - Exploring the ultimate conspiracy

Confusing sentence

I always thought Noah’s Flood was a negative thing, but I find that I was wrong, and that God was in reality, “killing with kindness”. I discovered this truth when I happened upon 1 Peter 3:20, where the Bible makes a very confusing statement, “God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.”

Did you get that last bit in the verse? The bit where it says, “eight souls were saved by water.” Because it is speaking about Noah of the Old Testament, the eight souls are referring to Noah, his wife, three sons, and three daughters-in-law.

Many are familiar with the biblical account of Noah, his ark, and the great flood. And that is what makes Peter’s statement so confusing. It says that Noah and his family “were saved by water”. Shouldn’t that have read, “saved by the ark?” Wasn’t it the water that threatened them and the wooden ark the device of their salvation?

Let’s seek a solution to this enigma by comparing it with a parallel incident that happened much more recently than Noah’s Flood. Killing with kindness is not unique to God. Perhaps a chemistry lesson about mustard gas is all that we need to help us understand Noah being saved by water.

Bad chemicals

Mustard gas is a chemical warfare agent, which can form large blisters on exposed skin and in the lungs. In its impure form, it is usually yellow-brown and has an odor resembling mustard plants, hence the name. However, the common name of “mustard gas” is inaccurate because the sulfur mustard is not actually vaporized but dispersed as a fine mist of liquid droplets.

Mustard agent was first used effectively in World War I by the German army against British and Canadian soldiers near Ypres, Belgium, in 1917. The Allies did not use mustard agent until November 1917 at Cambrai, France, after the armies had captured a stockpile of German mustard shells. It took the British more than a year to develop their own mustard agent weapon.

Good chemicals

During World War II, it was discovered that people exposed to nitrogen mustard, mustard gas, developed significantly reduced white blood cell count. This finding led researchers to investigate whether mustard agents could be used to halt the growth of rapidly dividing cells such as cancer cells.

In the 1940s, two prominent Yale pharmacologists, Alfred Gilman and Louis Goodman examined the therapeutic effects of mustard agents in treating lymphoma. The scientists found that the patients’ tumor masses were significantly reduced for a few weeks after treatment and although the patient had to return to receive more chemotherapy, this marked the beginning of the use of toxic agents for the treatment of cancer. The initial study was done in 1943 and the results were published in 1946. The use of nitrogen mustard for lymphomas gained popularity in the United States after the publication of this article.

Mustard gas which was first developed to KILL with horror was the foundation for chemotherapy which is now used for killing with kindness (killing the tumor to save the rest of the body). Now let’s take this bit of knowledge and apply it to the confusing statement in 1 Peter 3:20.

Over the next two decades, combination chemotherapy regimens started to gain popularity. The concurrent use of drugs with different mechanisms of action led to further improvements in patient survival and to a decline in mortality rates, which have declined each year from 1990 until now. This fall in death rates is due to both early detection and treatment with chemotherapy agents.

“God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.”

Good water

Currently, about 71 percent of the Earth’s surface is water-covered, and the oceans hold about 96.5 percent of all Earth’s water. If we could level the entire surface of the land by filling in the oceans and canyons with the soil and rock from the hills and mountains, the earth would be completely covered with water. There would be no land to see.

Earth is unique in that it has water, lots and lots of water. On top of that, it has lots of water in the clouds and in the air we breathe.

Water keeps our planet’s environment stable and keeps all life living. However, that same life-giving water can destroy the environment and kill all that is living on land. So many times, we witness the devastation of hurricanes, tsunamis, and floods. So much destruction, so much death!

Bad people

The Bible records in 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.”

There are many condemning words in that sentence. It says that early in human history people got to the point where they were wicked, and the wickedness was great. Not only was it extreme sin but it was only sin with no goodness to be mixed with. Not only was it extreme sin with no goodness mixed in, but that it was pure wickedness continually. There was no ceasing of it.

In other words, there was not one good thought nor deed occurring anywhere on the planet at any time! It was so bad that the God wished He had never created man in the first place. However, there was one exception. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Noah and his family were the last of the godly remnant to remain upon the land. For God, it was now or never. Either He destroy the earth now while there was still one family to start over with or wait another generation and wipe the world clean of all humans for all time. This presented the idea for killing with kindness.

Loving God

God saw the wickedness of mankind as a malignant tumor that was multiplying out of control. It was far too spread to surgically remove it so like our story of chemotherapy, God chose to infuse the entire world, not with mustard gas but with water.

By collapsing the water canopy that surrounded the earth at creation, God attacked the malignancy of wicked man. Previous to this, God made His plan known to Noah. He provided him with a design to build a boat-like structure that would hold at least two of every kind of air breathing creature and as many humans as who would be willing to repent and by faith enter into the ark.

Alas, only the builders of the ark entered in along with the chosen animals from God. Once sealed inside at an appointed time, God unleashed the nightmarish deluge upon the earth. For forty days and forty night it rained heavy upon the whole earth. In very short time all of the wickedness ceased as all human life had been snuffed out in God’s judgment. The waters remained covering the earth for one full year as the ark drifted at God’s mercy. Eventually, the ark landed in the mountains of Ararat. It was here that life started afresh owing its thanks to the principle of killing with kindness.

Valuable lesson

This is where the confusing statement “eight souls were saved by water” becomes understandable. You see, God’s flood like a dose of chemotherapy was strong enough kill the malignant wickedness of the masses. At the same time it was just weak enough to permit one godly family to survive for a year in an ark. When the “treatment” was over, there was enough good left to start a new healthy beginning.

The water from the Flood saved Noah’s family from becoming infected by the wickedness of everyone around them. In this capacity, they “were saved by water.” It proved the reality that some earthly events are the result of God killing with kindness.

So, what?

Oftentimes people are confused when God brings harsh judgment upon others in the Bible and in modern life. They don’t understand what God is working to accomplish. The catastrophe of Noah’s Flood is such an example. Through this event, however, we witness God’s grace, mercy, and love for Noah and the rest of humanity. He truly was killing with kindness.

Now we see that the second step in God’s DIVINE SCHEME (after the CURSE) is the CATACLYSM of Noah’s Flood. And the purpose behind this cataclysmic event came was to ultimately preserve the human race.

Defining moments

The following are words from Genesis 6:5 used to describe the moral state of the world’s inhabitants.

wickedness:
bad, disagreeable, malignant (i.e., like a malignant tumor or disease is out of control and likely to cause death)

great:
great with the idea of overflowing

imagination:
one’s intellectual framework

only:
emphasized as exclusively being the one and only

continually:
Yom (Hebrew)
a day or in this case daily

Care to comment on this?

What would have happened if God had not killed with kindness during Noah’s time? Do you think there was a better way than to destroy everyone except the eight passengers on board the ark?

Until the next post, keep searching the DIVINE SCHEME!

Regards,
Mike MacDonald

mike@divinescheme.com

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