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The Story of Jesus
warning from God to the people before the flood, so all who understand
the word of God are to give warning to the people of this time.
“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
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The people of Noah’s day abused the gifts of God. Their eating
and drinking led to gluttony and drunkenness.
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They forgot God, and gave themselves up to every vile and abom-
inable deed.
“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 contin-
ually.”
Genesis 6:5
. It was because of their wickedness that the people
of that time were destroyed.
Men are doing the same things today. Gluttony, intemperance, un-
tamable passions, evil practices, are filling the earth with wickedness.
In Noah’s day the world was destroyed by water. God’s word
teaches that it is now to be destroyed by fire.
“By the word of God, ... the world that then was, being overflowed
with water, perished: but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by
the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of
judgment and perdition of ungodly men.”
2 Peter 3:5-7
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The people before the flood mocked at God’s warnings. They
called Noah a fanatic and alarmist. Great and learned men declared
that such a flood of waters as he foretold had never been known, and
that it would never come.
Today God’s word is little heeded. Men laugh at its warnings.
Multitudes are saying, “All things continue as they were from the
beginning of the world. There is nothing to fear.”
At this very time, destruction is coming. While men ask in scorn,
“Where is the promise of His coming?” the signs are fulfilling.
“When they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction
cometh upon them; ... and they shall not escape.”
1 Thessalonians 5:3
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Christ declares: “If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on
thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon
thee.”
Revelation 3:3
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