The Days Of Noah
"It's not like it used to be in my day", is a phrase that we perhaps always associate with an old friend or relative who is prone to reminisce on their childhood. One who fondly looks back to the days when the summers were always warmer and longer, the winters colder and darker, the streets safer, when crime was neither so violent or widespread.
It's perhaps that last point that pulls us up short, because as we listen to the media we cannot fail to realise that we too can remember that time. It is a sad reflection upon our society that those who can remember only a few years back, can nevertheless recall a time when violence and crime was so much less.
But, it's always been the same you say, every generation has suffered and looks back to a better time. To a degree you may well be right, but some times are worse than others. The Bible tells of a time when man's wickedness was so great "that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time" and as a result God determined that He would "wipe mankind, whom I have created from the face of the earth". (Gen 6v7 NIV) That time was when Noah was alive, and only he and his family gave God any pleasure.
Is our time like that of Noahs'?
If you think that it might be then take note, because the Lord Jesus said, "As it was in the day's of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man" (Matthew 4 v 37 NIV)....It will be just like that when Jesus returns to the earth.
Paul the apostle described the last days as being terrible. "People will be lovers of themselves. . . abusive. . . without self control, brutal, not lovers of good, treacherous. . . conceited".
(2 Timothy 3 vv 2-4 NIV )
Those who trust Jesus' words are not therefore surprised at the things they see around them, they know that such a situation must exist before Jesus returns to this earth. It's for his return that they look and wait, because they know that it is only He who can rid the earth of the violence that they see, which he will do when He sets up God's kingdom on earth. When God's will shall be done on earth as it is in heaven.
"It's not like it used to be in my day", is a phrase that we perhaps always associate with an old friend or relative who is prone to reminisce on their childhood. One who fondly looks back to the days when the summers were always warmer and longer, the winters colder and darker, the streets safer, when crime was neither so violent or widespread.
It's perhaps that last point that pulls us up short, because as we listen to the media we cannot fail to realise that we too can remember that time. It is a sad reflection upon our society that those who can remember only a few years back, can nevertheless recall a time when violence and crime was so much less.
But, it's always been the same you say, every generation has suffered and looks back to a better time. To a degree you may well be right, but some times are worse than others. The Bible tells of a time when man's wickedness was so great "that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time" and as a result God determined that He would "wipe mankind, whom I have created from the face of the earth". (Gen 6v7 NIV) That time was when Noah was alive, and only he and his family gave God any pleasure.
Is our time like that of Noahs'?
If you think that it might be then take note, because the Lord Jesus said, "As it was in the day's of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man" (Matthew 4 v 37 NIV)....It will be just like that when Jesus returns to the earth.
Paul the apostle described the last days as being terrible. "People will be lovers of themselves. . . abusive. . . without self control, brutal, not lovers of good, treacherous. . . conceited".
(2 Timothy 3 vv 2-4 NIV )
Those who trust Jesus' words are not therefore surprised at the things they see around them, they know that such a situation must exist before Jesus returns to this earth. It's for his return that they look and wait, because they know that it is only He who can rid the earth of the violence that they see, which he will do when He sets up God's kingdom on earth. When God's will shall be done on earth as it is in heaven.
