Glory to Jesus Christ, y'all, on this Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist! (Both Byzantine and Roman calendars.)
St. John the Baptist was thrown into prison and later beheaded because he spoke the Truth about the evil of the grave sin of adultery.
Many saintly folks since the Fall of Adam and Eve have spoken out against grave evil in their own times and places. Some received the treatment analogous to that of St. John, but many were merely mocked or even simply ignored. The latter was the case with Noah, whose calling of others to turn to God, as is implied in 1 Peter 3, was not believed.
This incredulity is chilling in the context of Our Lord speaking later in the Gospel about folks marrying and being given in marriage and about them engaging in ordinary activities…until THE FLOOD TOOK THEM AWAY.
A look at the opening photo of this short essay reveals ordinary everyday activity at a section of Gyirong Port near the one discussed in the last post. Trucks, buses, cars, and vans are parked atop and next to what appears to be a parking garage adjacent to what appears to be a small office building, or perhaps a dormitory given the relatively remote location of this border control complex in Tibet at the edge of Nepal.
The opening photo here is a still from a cctv video that was on the same “2026 Nepal Floods” article on Wikipedia as the other video from which the stills in the last post were taken. Things look routine.
However, when viewing the roughly minute-long video in its entirety, one sees that the tiny human figures are running. Running from something sudden: that hideous, turbulent rock and mudlide that was about to overtake them…to take them away. Its dark, heralding muddy mist is already in view near the left edge of the photo.
Within seconds of that first still, the garage is flipped violently sideways at the valley wall.
Vehicles and all.
Other vehicles are briefly seen before the moment of that second still, and then they vanish into the chaos.
Further on, with jawdropping rapidity, truck trailers are ripped open and their cargo containers spilled out and scattered before disappearing into the dark violence.
Again, given the tiny percentage of the folks there being baptized, we can only sorrowfully commend their souls to God.
The place was obliterated. Though a few bodies may yet be recovered, many more will be pulverized, small random pieces eventually recovered somewhere deep in Nepal or even in India.
This ghastly scenario would have unfolded on a much broader scale during Noah's Flood: people doing everyday things when suddenly startled by shaking ground, torrential rain, and the terrifyingly rapid, pulverizing advance of a broad-fronted rock-filled tsunami from a Fountain of the Great Deep.
Some would have little time to react. Some, further away, would flee, with the same horror pursuing them repeatedly as the global water level rose as well as the thickness of the sediment that these waves left on the land until the water covered everything, with no more place to escape to. In each case, there would be time for repentance because God brought about the Flood as a last-ditch effort to shock an incorrigibly sinful mankind into repentance. Imagine the deep grief of Noah during that time, knowing that so many had to perish, people he knew. But there may have been deep comfort in his heart knowing that this destructive overturning of their world may finally turn them to God, Whom he so loved.
It is asked why are there no fossils of humans from the Deluge, and where are their artifacts?
Because mankind was so evil, there were relatively few people around: murder (Genesis 6) and contraception (Book of Jasher 20). The tsunamis would have pulverized many near the Fountains, while the rest would flee until swept away by water and eaten by sea creatures. There is a human fossil worth looking at…
…a fossilized human finger found near Glen Rose, Texas and now on display at the Creation Evidence Museum of Texas in the same North Central Texas town. (Photo courtesy of author.) As for the rest of the person to whom this finger belonged? Look at Gyirong Port.
As for man-made objects, there are a number of them, but they will be covered in the next post, which will be for paid subscribers only.
The Great Flood was real, horrific. The Tibet-Nepal Floods just now give a miniscule taste of its terror. The Ark was an amazing construction, given what it had to endure and remain intact. It certainly wasn't the cutsie-poo bathtub with smiling Noah and beasts towered over by a smiling giraffe!
Our Lady of Guadalupe, guide us to all Truth!