As
in the Days of Noah
“And
as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of
Man: They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in
marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed
them all.” Luke 17:26-27
Before the flood in Noah’s day, most
of the people ignored the warning from Noah and his family. There were warning signs all around them
about what was going to happen, but they chose to not pay any attention because
they didn’t want change. They loved
living their lives apart from God.
Instead, they chose to party and continue their lives as if nothing
would ever happen to them.
Sound familiar? It’s exactly what is happening today; people
are ignoring all the signs of coming disasters.
I’ve talked with many who say, “I don’t want to think about it” or, “it
scares me so I don’t listen to any news or talk about it.” As I said in my blog last week; we are told
to “Watch” and be prepared. This is what
God saw before the flood. “And God saw that the wickedness of
man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his
heart was only evil continually” (Gen.
6:5) How
did people get so evil during the time of Noah?
Adam
lived to be 900 years old and following him men lived to be even older. After Cain killed Abel, Adam and Eve had
another son that they named, Seth and Adam said that God gave him Seth in place
of Abel to continue his heritage. The
sons of Cain were a bloodthirsty bunch and evil in God’s sight.
As
time went on and people lived so long, they began to multiply into
millions. As they advanced to become craftsmen in copper and iron and
developed instruments to make music such as the harp and the flute. They began to build cities and others dwelt
in tents and raised livestock. Their advancement grew quickly and so their evil
life styles; anything they wanted to do was ‘okay’. Finally, God had enough!
The earth
also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. (Gen. 6:11).
God regretted he had even made man, except for Noah and his family who
were found righteous.
In our time
knowledge increases so fast that technical information doubles in 72
hours. We now live in an information
overload that is more than we had in the last 5,000 years. In the book of Daniel 12:4, we read where God
gave him a prophecy for the end times, “But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal
the book until the time of the end when many shall run to and fro and knowledge
shall increase.” Are we living
in that time now? I believe we are.
There was a time after the flood that Noah’s sons went out with their wives and
increased to become nations.
At that time,
everyone who lived on this earth had the same language and some of them settled
in one place and built a city and began to build a tower to heaven. God was watching and decided that there was
nothing they couldn’t accomplish so He confused their languages so they
couldn’t understand one another. Then
they were scattered all over the earth.
After all these
thousands of years, could mankind become that evil again
so there are only a few righteous in the whole earth? Let me say this: The Muslim religion is the
largest growing religion in the world!
There are still many Christians in this world, but not all are following
Jesus. We cannot judge other Christians, but God knows and in the end he will
separate the “sheep from the goats’ [Matthew 25:32]; some to the Kingdom of God
and others to everlasting punishment.
“But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of
man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into
the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall
also the coming of the Son of man be”
(Matt.
24:37-39).
We
don’t have to stop our lives as we wait for Christ’s return. We should work, go to school, attend church
and go on with our lives, but stop searching out things that are not of God. Keep your head clear and your heart open to
hear direction from the Holy Spirit.
Call on God and he will hear and lead you on paths of righteousness. “Call to me, and I will answer you,
and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” Jeremiah 33:3
No comments:
Post a Comment