True Believers Delivered (Noah) (2 Peter 2:5)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 04/05/2004

My Worship Time                                                                                          Focus:  Noah

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;”

            We are looking at the first sub-point under the main point “The True Believers Delivered,” and we will look at Noah this morning, and then we will look at Lot, which will take a couple of days in our next few SD’s.

            What happened during the life of Noah changed the world physically in a very large way as the earth was very much different when Noah was born, but after the flood the world was what we could say a different planet after the flood.  You see if you look at the life span of people before the flood it was much longer than after the flood as the planet had a water cover over it to protect the earth from the sun’s radiation and thus caused people to live much longer.  When the flood came that water barrier broke and fell upon planet earth along with the waters of the deep coming up thus causing a worldwide flood which has changed our earth physically very much.  It did not rain before the flood, as there was no need of rain as the water came up from the earth to water things so they could grow.  The entire earth had a tropical effect as even today tropical fossils can be found at the North and South polls.  This was the kind of world that Noah lived on for over five-hundred years and in the span of 40 days it all changed.

            It took Noah and his sons 120 years to build the ark that would save he and his family from the judgment of planet earth by the flood as they would tell other that judgment was on the way, but in the end no one would listen to them. 

            Dr. Wiersbe points out that this man of faith experienced a twofold deliverance.  The first deliverance was from the pollutions of the world around him.  As mentioned he preached righteousness for 120 years while the ark was being built, telling others that the world was going to be judged with a flood.  Dr. Wiersbe writes “Through Jesus Christ, we too have ‘escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust’ (2 Peter 1:4).”

            When we studied the 17^th chapter of John we read what Jesus prayed, “I pray not that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one” (John 17 15).  Keeping them from the evil one is keeping them from evil, and this is what the Lord dif for Noah and his family even finding believing wives for his three sons.

            Next we see that God also delivered Noah and his family from the judgment of the world.  Dr. Wiersbe writes “The flood waters that brought condemnation to the world only lifted Noah and his household up above the judgment.  They were secure in the ark of safety.  In his first epistle, Peter had seen in the ark a type of our salvation in Jesus Christ (1 Peter 3:20-22)  The world, as it is were, was ‘buried’ in the baptism of the Flood, but Noah was lifted up, a picture of resurrection and salvation.”

            Wiersbe continues, “Certainly Peter was assuring his readers that, when the great day of judgment does come, they will be kept safe.  Jesus Christ is our ‘ark of safety.’  He delivers us from the wrath to come (1 Thes. 1:10).  God has promised that the earth will never again be judged by water, but there is coming a judgment of fire (2 Peter 3:10ff).  But those who have trusted Christ will never face judgment (John 5:24), because He bore their judgment on the cross.”

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