Noah Part 3 – The Days Of Noah - And The Ark Is Security - Genesis 6&7 Series

NOAH PART 3 – THE DAYS OF NOAH - AND THE ARK IS SECURITY

This is Part 3 of Noah. Part 1 looked at the account of the flood, the people and the ark. Part 2 looked at a worldwide or local flood. Part 3 will look at the days of Noah in the Tribulation and our world today, and the pitching of the ark and a little of Matthew 24.

[1]. NOAH – THE SECOND COMING – AND NOAH’S DAY

What was it like in the days of Noah? Before that question is answered we must put it into context and here is that setting – {{Matthew 24:37-39 “The coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah, Matt 24:38 for as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, they were marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered the ark, Matt 24:39 and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away - so shall the coming of the Son of Man be.”}}

The Lord’s Olivet Discourse is entirely set in the Tribulation and the Second Coming, and what happens immediately after. I have argued that frequently and if people can’t see that, then I can’t help it. In verse 37 the coming is the Second Coming, NOT the Rapture, so what does that then tell us? The Lord makes the parallel, which is, His coming will be like the coming of the flood. Both are connected with judgement and a new order.

The flood was the greatest catastrophe to hit mankind since creation, and the Second Coming will be the greatest catastrophe to hit mankind since the flood. The two climaxes go hand in hand. The connection is so close and the NASB uses, “just like” when making the comparison. This is all about the wrath of God against sin, nothing whatever to do with the Rapture. With that established, what are the details we know about the days of Noah?

1. From Matthew, they were eating and drinking and marrying, so what does that mean? Only one thing, they continued in life with no regard to the future, no heeding the warnings of God, and probably mocked Noah (the believer). In the Tribulation they will persecute the preachers and blaspheme God’s servants. The 144 000 anointed preachers they will put to death (or most of them).

2. It says they did not understand until the tragedy overwhelmed them. The flood was the judgement, so after the Rapture, the Tribulation judgement will fall on the earth. In Noah’s time they did not understand. Our world is so sinful, it too won’t understand when the Tribulation judgements arrive. What they will not really understand, is that great climax coming which is the Second Coming along with Armageddon, for every nation has its army and troops in Israel, summoned there by the three frog spirits on Revelation 16. That is when final destruction falls on the world.

3. We have a verse from Genesis that tells of something so bad that we will never see the like of it again, not even in the Tribulation – {{Genesis 6:5 “Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”}} Great wickedness on the earth, yes, we will have that in the Tribulation and the makings of it are here now. However, the part, “every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually,” I don’t think that will ever happen again. It is hard to conceive of that, that the entire thought process of the human mind and nature, was continually evil without exception. Not even one “good” thought.

4. Consider these verses from {{Genesis 6:11-13 Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was FILLED WITH VIOLENCE, Gen 6:12 and God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. Gen 6:13 Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me for the earth is filled with violence because of them, and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.”}}

I know several others who have written on the wickedness that is taking over the world, but consider how it was in Noah’s day. As I read those verses the thought I get is that violence was just everywhere. It is as if the world was saturated in violence. Today we have the satanic Putin, Islamic violence frequently, civil wars around parts of the world, gangland violence but I do not think the world is overwhelmed by violence as it was in Noah’s time.