Here we are in 2011,
A year closer to the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
He said:
Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me,
And I will give to everyone according to what he has done.
(Rev. 22:12, NIV)
We are in the same situation
As the people were before the flood of Noah's day.
They had no idea what was about to happen.
What A Person Of Noah's Day Might Have Recorded:
That crazy Noah spent his life building this wooden ark;
A huge thing that now stands in our midst.
You can see it from all over the land.
This man preaches righteousness, what is righteous?
Who is he to tell us what is righteous,
Although he seems to live a good life.
He is helpful and kind to all, even though there is violence
And wickedness going on all around him.
Over the past few months
He has filled the ark with all kinds of food and water;
That was a big job.
Over the last few weeks a pair of animals of each specie
Have been marched into the ark;
It was amazing that he could get them to do that
And stay in there without killing each other or him!
Yesterday, Noah and his family had entered into the ark
And the door to the ark was shut.
They have now been in there for seven days, what foolishness!
Strangely, today we have moisture coming out of the sky,
We've never seen that before.
Now it has “rained” for several weeks and everything is wet
We are wadding in water
Now the water is up to our waist; now we are swimming in it
I am so tired that I can swim no longer.
I expired and was ushered into hell. What an awful place.
There is no water at all here!
Jesus Compared The Days Of Noah To The Time Of The END
Jesus compared the days of Noah
To the “Season” preceding The Great Tribulation.
Noah preached to his generation for a long time prior to the flood,
Just as the Church of God has preached to every generation
Since the ascension of Christ Jesus.
By the time of Noah, Satan had deceived the whole world of that time.
The wickedness of man had reached the point of no return.
Mankind had become so wicked that it was irreversible;
They were “trapped” in their sin.
This is what happens at The Time of the END.
This is a testament to the effectiveness of Satan's deception.
God Made A Covenant With Noah
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time,
And he walked with God. (Genesis 6:9)
God made a covenant with Noah;
God promised to save Noah and his family through the ark.
Today, God has made a covenant with His people,
He has placed His laws in their minds
And written them upon their hearts (Jeremiah 31);
He has promised eternal life to those who “know” Him.
In God's New Covenant, those who receive His Christ,
Are washed in the blood of Christ, and their sins are forgiven.
God Instructed Noah How To Build The Ark Of Salvation
God gave Noah very specific instructions
As to how to build the ark of salvation.
Today, we have the teachings of Christ Jesus,
His apostles and all of Scripture.
Our salvation is found in following those teachings
By the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
Noah Knew That The World Of His Day Would Be Destroyed
God told Noah that He was going to bring a flood
That would destroy the world of Noah's day.
Today, God has told us that this world we are living in will be destroyed.
God Gave The World Of Noah's Day Many Years To Turn To Him
It took Noah many years to build the ark as his neighbors watched on.
The construction of the ark was in itself “preaching”
To those who watched.
God has given the world of our day two thousand years to turn to Him;
For two thousand years Christians have preached to this world
In word and deed.
The Season Before The Flood
Finally the ark was finished.
The completion of the ark
Is similar to the “Season” before The Great Tribulation.
It would have taken Noah sometime to collect and march
The great contingent of animals and supplies into the ark.
This time would be similar to the ministry of The Bride of Christ
For the three and one-half years preceding The Great Tribulation.
The Bride of Christ will invite whosoever will to the Christ of God.
Then will come the inescapable Tribulation.
The door to salvation, except to die for Christ, will be shut,
Just as surely as God shut the door behind Noah and his family.
When God shut the door to the ark,
To those outside, it was like any other day.
For seven days the door of the ark was shut
With Noah and his family and all of the animals inside.
Imagine the mocking of those outside.
However, on the seventh day it began to rain and did not stop.
The rains continued for forty days,
Until every living thing outside the ark was killed.
It will be like this once The Great Tribulation begins,
There will be no escape.
The Bride of Christ will be taken into the desert
To a place prepared by God.
The people of the world will wonder for a time where they have gone.
Shortly thereafter it will become clear to them
That The Great Tribulation has begun.
The difference with this time and Noah's time
Is that every living person
That finds themselves in The Great Tribulation
Will be given the opportunity to die for Christ and live eternally;
They will be given the opportunity to refuse the “mark” of the Beast
And be killed,
But live eternally in the presence of Christ Jesus.
The Wickedness of Man In Noah's Day
The Lord saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become,
And that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart
Was only evil all the time.
The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth,
And his heart was filled with pain.
So the Lord said,
'I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—
Men and animals and creatures that move along the ground,
And birds of the air--
For I am grieved that I have made them.'
But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. (Genesis 6:5-8)
Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence.
God saw how corrupt the earth had become,
For all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
So God said to Noah,
'I am going to put an end to all people,
For the earth is filled with violence because of them.
I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.'
(Genesis 6:11-13)
The Time Of The END Will Be As The Days Of Noah
Jesus said:
No one knows about that day or hour,
Not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
As it was in the days of Noah,
So it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking,
Marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;
And they knew nothing about what would happen
Until the flood came and took them all away. (Matthew 24:36-39)
Likewise The Great Tribulation will come
And “trap” virtually all of mankind into its terror and darkness.
Save yourself from this corrupt generation!
Turn to Christ Jesus, let Him wash you in His blood;
Receive His Holy Spirit;
Let Him live in and through you!
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