Interesting read and straight out of the Bible. Yes, I’m sounding the alarm. Get ready or be left behind.
Genesis 6:8 – But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. Noah was a man that had faith in God. It was by faith that he obeyed God and built the ark. He was a preacher of righteousness, his life, his words, his deeds were a witness and a light in the darkness of the world. And then there came a day when God told him to enter into the ark with his family and the animals that God was saving. And then God shut him in. And then the raindrops began to fall. The flood saved Noah. The waters which poured down from heaven, and broke up from underneath the earth saved Noah. The waters overflowed the earth. 2 Peter 3:6 – Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished. 2 Peter 3:6 is not referring to a pre-Adamite destruction of earth, it is referring to Noah’s flood. Noah’s flood is perpetually scoffed at, mocked, ridiculed and disputed – it is because man choose to be willingly ignorant, because the flood is confronting and not what many of us want to hear. Noah’s flood stands as an eternal reminder of the fact that God has the right, the authority and the power to judge his creation. And there is nothing you or I can do about it. And God sees and knows his own, and he knows how to save his own, this is why we who are saved must never be fearful. 2 Peter 2:9 – The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished. 1 Corinthians 8:3 – But if any man love God, the same is known of him. And these waters which destroyed everyone and everything else are what saved Noah. Genesis 7:17 – And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. The waters which drowned the wicked world, are the same waters which lifted the ark to safety up above the earth!
Jesus said in Matthew 24:37 – But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Are we not living in a similar world to what Noah was? We are on a slippery slope. Look around you, look outside of whatever comfortable bubble you may exist in. Look at your own life, your own sinfulness, we are all sinful and unworthy and hell deserving. Wickedness is rife. The earth is corrupt. Sin and wickedness abounds. There is corruption everywhere. And it is getting worse. The Bible says in 1 John 5:19 that the whole world lieth in wickedness. While a flood of water is not coming, something else is coming. 2 Peter 3:7 – But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But you do not have to be destroyed like the old world was. You do not have to live in bondage to your sin, to your own flesh, to wickedness, to devils. You do not have to go to hell. You do not need to go to the lake of fire, which was not even designed to hold you, which the Bible says was prepared for the devil and his angels. Like Noah, you can be saved, and all it takes is faith in God. The Lord Jesus Christ is the ark, he is our ark, get in the ark! Believe and receive the gospel, which is the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ in your place, for you, and is what saves you. Receive the gospel, you must receive him personally, you must own what he has done for you. And it is a free gift. It is between you and God. 1 John 5:5 – Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? Noah overcame the world. You can overcome this wicked, doomed world as well. And like Noah did when he stepped out of the ark when the waters had abated, when God’s wrath is passed with you in safety, you will be able to step out into an eternity free from the ravages of pain, sin, suffering, sickness, slavery, darkness, evil and your feet will settle in a new world, an eternal world, an infinitely better world, a world consisting of new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. This is his promise. And God keeps his promises.
Jesus said in Matthew 24:37 – But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Are we not living in a similar world to what Noah was? We are on a slippery slope. Look around you, look outside of whatever comfortable bubble you may exist in. Look at your own life, your own sinfulness, we are all sinful and unworthy and hell deserving. Wickedness is rife. The earth is corrupt. Sin and wickedness abounds. There is corruption everywhere. And it is getting worse. The Bible says in 1 John 5:19 that the whole world lieth in wickedness. While a flood of water is not coming, something else is coming. 2 Peter 3:7 – But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But you do not have to be destroyed like the old world was. You do not have to live in bondage to your sin, to your own flesh, to wickedness, to devils. You do not have to go to hell. You do not need to go to the lake of fire, which was not even designed to hold you, which the Bible says was prepared for the devil and his angels. Like Noah, you can be saved, and all it takes is faith in God. The Lord Jesus Christ is the ark, he is our ark, get in the ark! Believe and receive the gospel, which is the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ in your place, for you, and is what saves you. Receive the gospel, you must receive him personally, you must own what he has done for you. And it is a free gift. It is between you and God. 1 John 5:5 – Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? Noah overcame the world. You can overcome this wicked, doomed world as well. And like Noah did when he stepped out of the ark when the waters had abated, when God’s wrath is passed with you in safety, you will be able to step out into an eternity free from the ravages of pain, sin, suffering, sickness, slavery, darkness, evil and your feet will settle in a new world, an eternal world, an infinitely better world, a world consisting of new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. This is his promise. And God keeps his promises.
