The Days of Noah

I am sensing the name, Noah, in my spirit a great deal lately. It doesn't take much imagination to recognize that we may well be living in the last days. So I decided to investigate what was going on in Noah's time.

Luke 17:26, 27 tells us, "Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all." That doesn't sound so bad, does it? Life going on all around them just as it is today.

We read in Genesis 6 that Noah was a good man. The Bible refers to him as the most innocent of his time. On the other hand, people of that day did what God called evil and violence was everywhere. Violence. That sounds like what is happening in our world today. About 37 million babies aborted since Roe v Wade. Terrorism. Persecution of believers around the globe. Rampant domestic violence. Trafficking of women and children as sex slaves. Addictions of every kind. Pornography. Violence.

This is what I think about our time right now. I think that when we take our focus off of our creator God and off of the spiritual kingdom of God, we get evil and we get violence. I think we are too focused on eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage. I think we need to turn our eyes upon Jesus. I think we need to speak God's word and truth to all. May His kingdom come and His will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.