TODAY, LIKE NOAH'S DAY

Here we are in 2016, 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)

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.

In Holy Fear Noah Built The Ark

By Faith Noah, when warned about things not seen,

In Holy Fear built an Ark to save his family.

By his faith he condemned the world

And became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. (Hebrews 11:7)

Today, by faith we must build a relationship with Christ Jesus

Sufficient to save us from The Great Tribulation at hand.

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.

Christ Died Once For All

For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous,

To bring you to God.

He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit,

Through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison

Who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah

While the ark was being built.

In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water,

And this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also--

Not the removal of dirt from the body

But the pledge of a good conscience toward God.

It saves you by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at God's right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.

(Hebrews 3:18-22)

God waited patiently in the days of Noah.

During this time anyone could have turned to Him and saved themselves,

But in the end only eight had Faith and were saved out of the Whole World.

The eight were save through water;

And we are saved through water baptism,

Our pledge of good conscience toward God.

God Did Not Spare The Ancient World

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned,

But sent them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;

If he did not spare the ancient world

When he brought the flood on its ungodly people,

But protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;

If he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes,

And made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;

And if he rescued Lot, a righteous man,

Who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men

(For that righteous man, living among them day after day,

Was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--

If this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials

And to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment,

While continuing their punishment.

Likewise God has promised to save the Godly from The Great Tribulation

In The Time Of The END.

'Since you have kept My Command to Endure Patiently,

I will also keep you from the Hour of Trial

That is going to come upon the Whole World

to Test those who live on the Earth.'

(Revelation 3:10)