"WHAT JESUS SAID" PART 2

Hello everyone and welcome back to another look at "What The Lord Said" in His Word concerning His return.


Now the Lord tells us next what the days will be like before He returns to judge the living and the dead. Those days that make us long to see His coming again. He instructs us by comparing those days with the days of three people; Noah, Lot, and Lot's wife. First, for our time today, the Lord spoke of the days of Noah.

THE DAYS OF NOAH AND THE DAYS OF THE SON OF MAN.

As it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. What was it like in the days of Noah? Moses said, "And 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 then, "The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence."

Peter says Noah was a preacher of righteousness and it is evident as we look at the scriptures that no one paid any attention to his warnings, much like today many times. These words give us some insight as to the spiritual conditions of the people in the days of Noah. What were they like? For one thing they were violent.

1. Violence is one of the characteristics of people just before Christ returns. Remember, these people did not have any atomic bombs. They had no gunpowder or any of our modern day methods of killing each other yet they were so violent, even in their thoughts, that God brought the flood on the world of the ungodly.
Evidently the laws we make regarding the sale of guns are a moot question. If we took all of the bombs and other weapons we have and threw them in the ocean, that would not stop wars between people, individuals, or family members. Men would still go to war and fight if they had to use sticks and rocks, or simply words and actions (or lack of actions). Is there any serious question in anyone's mind that we live in perilous times?

Martin Luther thought they had perilous times in 1522. He said in one sermon he preached in that year that the end must come soon because they had invented gunpowder and the printing press. Luther thought the world was so hi-tech that they had gone about as far as they could go. How much more is our potential for violence today? As it was in the days of Noah so shall it be in the days of the Son of man.

Until next time...