When the World Was Destroyed by Water
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“There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own
lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? for since the
fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning.”
2 Peter 3:3, 4
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Jesus asked the significant question, “When the Son of man cometh,
shall He find faith on the earth?”
Luke 18:8
. “The Spirit speaketh
expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.”
1 Timothy
4:1
. “In the last days perilous times shall come.”
2 Timothy 3:1
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When Probation Closes
As the time of their probation was closing, the antediluvians gave
themselves up to exciting amusements, engrossed with mirth and
pleasure. In our day the world is absorbed in pleasure-seeking. A
constant round of excitement prevents the people from being impressed
by the truths which alone can save them from coming destruction.
In Noah’s day philosophers declared it was impossible for the
world to be destroyed by water. So now men of science endeavor to
show that the world cannot be destroyed by fire. But when all regarded
Noah’s prophecy as a delusion, then it was that God’s time had come.
The Lawgiver is greater than the laws of nature. “As it was in the days
of Noah,” “even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is
revealed.”
Luke 17:26, 30
. “The day of the Lord will come as a thief in
the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise,
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... and the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.”
2 Peter 3:10
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When religious teachers are pointing forward to ages of peace and
prosperity, and the world are absorbed in their planting and building,
feasting and merrymaking, rejecting God’s warnings and mocking His
messengers—then it is that “sudden destruction cometh upon them, ...
and they shall not escape.”
1 Thessalonians 5:3
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