Genesis 6:3,4
FROM THE LORD’S own words in Matthew 24:37-39 we can plainly see that the story of Noah and the flood looked on to a judgment that is still future. “For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe 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.”
No doubt the mixing the people of God with the world in Noah’s day has its parallel in the many strange mixtures and unholy alliances about us in our day. The things of God have been tampered with so greatly and adulterated with the imagination, schemes, and promotions of men that they frequently are no longer actually identified with God at all. The great religious systems in the world for the most part bear no faithful testimony to His word of truth, but compromise, reject, or adorn it with rituals and fanciful “doctrines of men.” All of this appeals to the natal heart and often attracts great followings, so that such a company may boast of great numbers and world prominence — “giants” and “mighty” systems. But what does God say of such? “That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.” Luke 16:15.
The true child of God, seeking to hear His voice, will not be long found going on with such. He will soon realize that “Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: but God hath chosen the... weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are: that no flesh should glory in His presence.” 1 Corinthians 1:2, 29.
The departure from God that marked the intermingling of the people of old could not go unnoticed by Him, and such venturing from His ways could not go unjudged. Yet a period of grace was extended for 120 years. “And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, lot that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.” v. 3.
The “world system” that started then is all around us today and is headed for judgment. Let us who know the Lord as our Saviour have no part of it. James 4:4 tells us: “Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?”
Memory Verse: “LOOK UNTO ME, AND BE YE SAVED, ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: FOR I AM GOD, AND THERE IS NONE ELSE.” Isaiah 45:22.
SCRIPTURE VERSE
“AND A HIGHWAY SHALL BE THERE, AND A WAY, AND IT SHALL BE CALLED THE WAY OF HOLINESS; THE UNCLEAN SHALL NOT PASS OVER IT; BUT IT SHALL BE FOR THOSE: THE WAYFARING MEN, THOUGH FOOLS, SHALL NOT ERR THEREIN.
“BUT THE REDEEMED SHALL WALK THERE.
“THEY SHALL OBTAIN JOY AND GLADNESS, AND SORROW AND SIGHING SHALL FLEE AWAY.” ISAIAH 35:8-10.
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