And the mark of this new creation became the assuaging of the waters and the emergence of the dry ground out of the waters of judgment (Gen 8:7, 13–14), just as God had caused the dry ground once before to come forth from the deep. In other words, the world suffered the judgment of the flood before the glory of its recreation out of the waters of Noah. The world suffered death and then underwent a glorious resurrection. Now the ark came to rest in the new world upon the mountains of Ararat on the