As the days of Noah.
In OUR last article we saw that men are left ignorant of the day and hour when the Lord will come again: But in the verses before us He tells us the moral state and condition that will exist at that time, and that the day will come upon the ungodly when they are, not looking for it. Here are His words: “But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days 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.”
Noah lived in a day of awful wickedness and corruption. You will find an account of this in the sixth chapter of Genesis. There we read: “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.” And again: “God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted His way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, the end of all flesh is come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth,” verses 5, 12, 13.
This is indeed a dark picture. But it is just a picture of what will be on the earth when Jesus returns to it again. God saved Noah and his family in the ark, and the wicked perished in the flood. And so will it be when the Son of man comes; the few, suffering, persecuted, godly ones among the Jews will be delivered, as Noah was; but the ungodly will perish, as they did in the flood. The flood came upon them unawares. They did not expect it. They did not believe it would come. Noah told them it would, but they did not believe. They had never seen a flood, for there had been no rain hitherto: there had only been a mist to water the earth. And when they heard of the coming flood, they thought it was all foolishness, and would not have it. And so will it be at the end. They will not believe that Jesus is coming, and they will go on in their terrible wickedness till it is too late. But when they see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory, and with myriads of His mighty angels, to execute judgment against the ungodly, terror will seize them, and their scoffing will be turned into wailing. Alas! alas! for the rejectors of Christ then, for there will be no remedy, and no escape.
Even now there are many scoffers, who do not believe in Jesus, nor believe that He will come again. Perhaps some who read this little paper do not believe. Oh! let me solemnly warn such before it is too late. If you wait till Jesus comes, it will be too late. There will be only judgment for unbelievers then. Now is the day of salvation. Tomorrow may be one day too late for you. Believe today. Accept Jesus today. Trust in His precious blood today. Do not be like the scoffers of Noah’s day who waited till the Lord shut the door of the ark. When the Lord shut Noah and his family in, the rest were shut out, and perished in the flood. Christ is the true Ark. Enter the open door of that Ark now. Believe in Jesus, and you will be saved from the storm of coming wrath which will overtake the ungodly.
ML 08/07/1904