Reading Through The Bible: Number 25
I’m still grazing in Genesis chapter 6 this morning and I find many thoughts coming to mind as I read.
What great sadness the events recorded there must have caused Jesus our Creator and Friend. His perfect creation was in a mess! ManKIND had become almost completely UNkind as violence became the way of dealing with each other.
These were not ignorant “cavemen” as many would imagine them to be, but men with huge intellect and physical ability. When they set their mind to doing wrong you can rest assured that it became an art form! Choosing to have no connection with God, their conscience was dead and their thoughts “only evil continually!”
Many, watching the evil events on earth today ask: “Why doesn’t God do something!?” Maybe the ancients who DID have a connection with God, asked the same question back then too! God’s answer to those questioners THEN and NOW was and is: “My spirit shall not always strive with man…” (verse 3)
Jesus has a warning and a promise for us this morning. Speaking of these ancient people, He said: “And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all… Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. Luke 17:26-30
Later, in a clear prophecy of our day, the Apostle Peter writes in his 3rd epistle: “3knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, 4and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” 5For this they wilfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, 6by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. 7But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.…”
But this passage also explains WHY God seems to be doing nothing about the evil we see around us. It is because of His wonderful Grace and mercy:

“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”
Then Peter gives a repetition of the warning that God IS going to deal with the evil we see around us!
“10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.” (2 Peter 3:9,10)
Sobering thoughts to begin the day with, but full of hope for those who love and serve God; Soon Jesus is coming to deal with sin and take His children home to glory! Bring it on I say!
Have a great day!