The Modern Days of Noah

When moral bankruptcy reigns

When Jesus Christ spoke of what the world will look like in the days directly preceding his return, he revealed that the end-time world will resemble an ancient time: "As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be with the coming of the Son of Man." (Matthew 24:37)

What was the ancient world of Noah like that directly preceded the global flood that destroyed all life on earth? Those days were extremely wicked; so wicked that the Lord lamented: "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 the birds of the air--for I am grieved that I have made them." (Genesis 6:7-8) After the Lord commissioned Noah to build an ark that was large enough to house two of every animal that existed on the ancient earth, he kept his word and destroyed the world with a flood that lasted 40 days and 40 nights.

The Lord destroyed that ancient world because its people were utterly reprobate and beyond any hope of repentance and redemption. Wickedness prevailed in the form of every imaginable evil--murder, violence, witchcraft, sexual perversion, idolatry etc. Of all the people that existed in that ancient world, only Noah and his family were judged by God to be righteous. Though that ancient world certainly didn't have the population the modern world has, it's still mind-boggling to try to imagine an entire world that was as morally depraved as that ancient world was.

And so, when Christ likened the end-time world to that ancient world just before the flood, he was hardly exaggerating. As the Son of God, Jesus prophesied an end-time world that will be utterly depraved and completely blind to its iniquity. Tragically, evil people rarely consider themselves to be wicked and depraved unless they open their hearts to God and allow His word to convict their consciences of sin. Without that conviction, there can be no repentance, change of lifestyle and certainly no redemption through Christ's death on Calvary's Cross for their sins. 

And certainly, there's always a cause for wickedness and the inevitable effect that it has upon people and the world. Much of the blame for that cause can be traced to Christendom's abandonment of the biblical gospel in the 18th century for Universalism and Ecumenism that reduced Christianity to just another world religion and Jesus Christ to an ancient Gandhi. The Christian Church failed to heed the apostle Jude's words to "contend for the faith" (Jude 1:3) by remaining loyal to the gospel and confronting the monstrous lies of Darwinism. If the Church could no longer convince the world that Jesus Christ was the only exclusive path to  God and eternal life (John 14:6) then it could no longer provide a strong moral foundation that would instill love for God and fear of his divine judgment.

A weak Church has become an irrelevant Church that has effected wickedness and depravity throughout the western world. Murder, violence, witchcraft, idolatry, sexual perversion etc. prevail because fewer people today believe that they are morally accountable to a Holy God for their thoughts and actions. And even more tragically, the Church has become an accessory to evil by promoting it in the form of sexual perversion, witchcraft, idolatry and greed behind the facade of love and tolerance.

Here's the apostle Paul's description of what the last days on earth will look like and his description isn't pretty: "But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God--having a form of godliness but denying its power." (2Timothy 3:1-5)

That sounds just like the ancient days of Noah. The question that needs to be asked is this: If we are living in modern days that rival the ancient wicked days of Noah, then what kind of global judgment does God have planned? And just who is going to be destroyed in that judgment? Stay tuned.