“But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.” (Hebrews 11:6-7 KJV)
“But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe 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.” (Matthew 24:37-39 KJV)
“And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.” (Luke 17:26-27 KJV)
There is going to be a repeat of Noah’s day just preceding the return of Jesus Christ. In other words, Jesus is saying that just before I come again, you are going to see the characteristics of that age repeated again.
When we think of Noah’s day and all that went on, we usually think of world-wide violence, youthful rebellion and sexual perversion. But very few folks think when Jesus says, “as it was in the days of Noe,” about a family that lived by faith; that is what I want to center our thoughts on today.
In the Word of God, it speaks of there being just a few who live by faith in the final days. For example, (Luke 18:8 “…nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” Not very many really live by faith today. It is usually, “Oh, God, what are we going to do? How are we going to pay our bills? What will we do if Obama or Hillary gets elected (or for that matter, McCain)? What if the bottom falls out of the economy?” One has never seen such agonizing and insecurity among God’s people as we see today. It is no wonder why our kids are the way they are. Laodicean Christians live by job, instead of like Job…by checking account instead of by a settled account…by Social Security instead of eternal security. I am not against those things as long as we are willing to turn all matters over to God.
But here in Scripture is a family that God says they lived by faith. That includes Noah, his wife and sons and daughters-in-law. May I say, they are not going to get on that ark unless they have faith. I heard another preacher say once, “They sure were a mess of a family.” Well, they may have been a mess, but they had faith enough to get on that boat. I am just saying that according to the Scriptures, this is going to be repeated in the last days.
Therefore, there are going to be a few families on this earth before Jesus comes that will be families of faith like Noah’s family, who will condemn this rotten world and look to God for redemption and trust Him to get them through this life into the next.
Will yours be one of the few?
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