What happensPermalink
The Flood covers the whole earth, including the mountains, and all birds and land animals and people not on the ark die.
Why it mattersPermalink
The judgment proclaimed in Genesis 6:7 is completed. Total catastrophe is what happens when God destroys all the non-righteous, showing our desperate need for a savior.
Key versePermalink
He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.