God says, “Look back to the time when Noah built the ark: Mankind was deeply corrupt, people had strayed from the blessing of God, were no longer cared for by God, and had lost the promises of God. They lived in darkness, without the light of God. Then they became licentious by nature and abandoned themselves to hideous depravity. Such people could no longer receive the promise of God; they were unfit to witness the face of God or to hear the voice of God, for they had abandoned God, had cast aside all that He had bestowed upon them, and had forgotten the teachings of God. Their heart strayed farther and farther from God and, as it did, they became depraved beyond all reason and humanity and became increasingly evil. Then they walked ever closer to death and fell under the wrath and punishment of God. Only Noah worshiped God and shunned evil, and so he was able to hear the voice of God and hear His instructions. He built the ark according to the instructions of God’s word, and there assembled all manner of living creatures. And in this way, once everything had been prepared, God unleashed His destruction upon the world. Only Noah and the seven other members of his family survived the destruction, for Noah worshiped Jehovah and shunned evil.”
We can see from God’s words that the reason why Noah could survive the flood was that he believed God’s words and listened to God’s instruction to build the ark and preach the news that God would destroy the earth with a flood. Eventually, he entered the ark and got God’s protection. Likewise, today’s people are also evil and corrupt: All scheme against one another and live in sin; no one takes the initiative to seek the truth, and even some openly deny and resist God; even the believers in the Lord also pursue the worldly trends and covet the pleasures of sin. The corruption of today’s people is worse than that of the people in the time of Noah. It is evident that the days of Noah have already arrived. The Lord Jesus once prophesied, “And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.” (Luke 17:26). The Lord’s words tell us an important message: When the people of the last days have become as corrupt and wicked as people in the time of Noah, the day of the coming of the Son of man has come and the Lord should come back.
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