In Genesis 8:1–22 the Lord tells us what happened after the flood reached its highest point. It had now been raining for forty days and the water had also come from the earth itself covering the dry part of the earth.
God did not let it continue like this. He remembered Noah and all the animals in the ark: he did what he had promised. The Lord loves his creation. That is why he made sure that there is no more or no longer water covering the earth.
The Lord proved that he is God and rules over all creation. He has everything in his hand—even the rain. This shows how wrong and sinful it was of Israel to start serving Baal later. Baal was the god who was supposed to bring rain (see 1 Kings 18:1–46). The account of the flood shows that the rain and the water are also in the hands of the Lord!
The Lord now used the wind to lower the water level. This is one of the details where the story of the flood in the Bible differs from other narratives about the flood. The Sumerian version tells that the sun, as a god, took care of it. The truth is that nothing and no one in creation is God or divine. The Lord, as the only God and Creator, caused the waters to disappear again in his way.
1 But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.