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Chapter 6: The Days Of Noah
Jesus said that in the end times conditions on Earth would be like they were during the time of Noah. Luke 17:26-27 "Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. Matthew 24:37-38 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. In order to more fully understand what world conditions will be like in the end times, we will look at how things were during "the days of Noah." Genesis 5:22-25 & 28-29 And after he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Enoch lived 365 years. Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away. When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech. When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son. He named him Noah and said, "He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the LORD has cursed." Noah was the great grandson of the illustrious Enoch, whom God took off of the Earth before the flood occurred. Enoch being taken off of the Earth before the flood is a picture of the first resurrection, and Noah being brought through the flood in the ark is similar to the preservation of the one hundred and forty four thousand Israelites who will be sealed and survive through the pouring out of God's wrath of on the Earth. Genesis 6:5-7 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." Before the flood mankind turned wholly to evil. The book of Jasher recounts some of the things that they were doing at that time. The book of Jasher is a Jewish historical book that is mentioned in the bible. (see Joshua 10:13 & 2 Samuel 1:18) Jasher 4:16-20 And all the sons of men departed from the ways of the Lord in those days as they multiplied upon the face of the Earth with sons and daughters, and they taught one another their evil practices, and they continued sinning against the Lord. And every man made unto himself a God, and they robbed and plundered every man his neighbor as well as his relative, and they corrupted the Earth, and the Earth was filled with violence. And their judges and rulers took their wives by force from their husbands according to their choice, and the sons of men in those days took from the cattle of the Earth and the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and taught the mixture of animals of one species with the other, in order to therewith provoke the Lord; And God saw the whole Earth and it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon Earth. According to another source of ancient history, the book of Enoch, the people before the flood were also practicing astrology, making swords and knives to kill one another, practicing sorcery, and learning all forms of evil from the fallen angels. The Flood
Genesis 6:8-14 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. 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. So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. Genesis 6:17-18 & 22 I am going to bring floodwaters on the Earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. everything on Earth will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark--you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you. Noah did everything just as God commanded him. Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet 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. Genesis 7:1 & 4 & 7 The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. Seven days from now I will send rain on the Earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the Earth every living creature I have made." And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the Earth. 1 Peter 3:20 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, God waited patiently while Noah built the ark and then poured out his judgment on the Earth. Genesis 7:15-16 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in. The book of Jasher gives a more detailed account of Noah entering the ark and the reaction of the people outside of the ark. Jasher 6:15-26 And Noah and his household, and all the living creatures that were with him, came into the ark on account of the waters of the flood, and the Lord shut him in. And all the sons of men that were left upon the Earth, became exhausted on account of the rain, for the waters were coming more violently upon the Earth, and there were other animals and beasts still surrounding the ark. And the sons of men assembled together, about seven hundred thousand men and women, and they came unto Noah to the ark. And they called to Noah saying, open for us that we may come to thee in the ark, wherefore should we die? And Noah, with a loud voice, answered them from the ark, saying, have you not all rebelled against the Lord, and said that he does not exist? And therefore the Lord brought upon you this evil, to destroy and cut you off from the face of the Earth. Is this not the thing that I spoke to you of one hundred and twenty years back, and you would not hearken to the voice of the Lord, and now do you desire to live upon the Earth? And they said to Noah, we are ready to return to the Lord; only open for us that we may live and not die. And Noah answered them, saying, behold now that you see the trouble of your souls, you wish to return to the Lord; why did you not return during these hundred and twenty years, which the Lord granted you as the determined period? But now you come and tell me this on account of the troubles of your souls, now also the Lord will not listen to you, neither will he give an ear to you this day, so that you will not succeed in your wishes. And the sons of men approached in order to break into the ark, to come in on account of the rain, for they could not bear the rain upon them. And the Lord sent all the beasts and animals that stood around the ark. And the beasts overpowered them and drove them from that place, and every man went his way. Genesis 7:20-24 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet. every living thing that moved on the Earth perished--birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the Earth, and all mankind. everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. every living thing on the face of the Earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the Earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark. The waters flooded the Earth for a hundred and fifty days. Genesis 9:18-19 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the Earth. The Earth was repopulated after the flood by the three sons of Noah and their wives. 2 Peter 2:4-9 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting 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. Just as he did in Noah’s day, the Lord is able to deliver the Godly from his wrath, and he will do so for his church when he spares them from his wrath during the tribulation period. |