Just as the world experienced a Flood anciently, "because all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth" and "the earth was filled with violence" (Genesis 6:11-13), and just as God saved Noah and his family from the Flood, because "Noah was a just man, perfect in his generation" (Genesis 6:9), so, when the same end-time conditions occur, God sends a Flood and saves "just men made perfect." The new Flood, however, isn't by water (signifying the earth's baptism by water) but by fire (signifying its baptism by fire): "For with fire and with his sword shall Jehovah execute judgment on all flesh, and those slain by Jehovah shall be many" (Isaiah 66:16).
Personifying the Flood is the king of Assyria, who resembles "an inundating deluge of mighty waters" (Isaiah 28:2). His evil allies, who "rage like the raging of the seas-tumultuous nations, in commotion like the turbulence of mighty waters!" (Isaiah 17:12), overrun the earth like "a flooding scourge" (Isaiah 28:17-22). Still, the destruction they cause is by fire: "Whole nations have been burned like lime, mown down like thorns and set ablaze" (Isaiah 33:12); "Wickedness shall be set ablaze like a fire, and briars and thorns shall it consume; it shall ignite the jungle forests [cities], and they shall billow upward in mushrooming clouds of smoke" (Isaiah 8:18).
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