The Old World (2 Peter 2:5)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 04/02/2004

My Worship Time                                                                                        Focus:  The Old World

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                           Reference:  2 Peter 2:5

            Message of the verse:  “5 and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;”

            The first thing that I wish to say is that I believe that the Bible is true, all of it, including the account of the flood over the entire earth spoken of in Genesis chapter six. 

            We see in Genesis 6:3 that God waited for 120 years for people to repent, as it took Noah and his sons that long to build the ark, and so God waited that long before He brought the judgment of the flood onto the earth.  The man who has the longest life span in the Bible, Methuselah who lived 969 years, his name means in the Hebrew “when I die it will come.”  The flood of Genesis came after the death of Methuselah. 

            Noah preached for 120 years that God was going to judge the world, but no one believed him.  In the 17^th chapter of the book of Luke where Jesus speaks of this judgment of the flood by saying that everyone was living their normal lives right before the flood came and took them all away.  The people were evil and one of the things that John MacArthur has stated is that there were demons who were having sexual relations with women making very large people and so a race of people was being born whom could not be redeemed by the Lord Jesus Christ and this is why God judged the world at this time.  “4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown (Gen. 6:4).”   This term “sons of God” is used in the book of Job to talk about demons and that is one of the reasons MacArthur states this belief.

            Dr. Wiersbe concludes “When you compare our world with Noah’s world, you see some frightening parallels.  The population was multiplying (Gen. 6:1), and the world was filled with wickedness (Gen. 6:5) and violence (Gen. 6:11, 13).  Lawlessness abounded.  True believers were a minority, and nobody paid any attention to them!  But the flood came and the entire population of the world was destroyed.  God does indeed judge those who reject His truth.”

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