Friday, February 05, 2010

The Days of Noah

Luke 17:26"Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will
it be in the days of the Son of Man.

Matthew 24:37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

The Lord has given me a troubling question for all the naysayers who would have us believe that we will all go through part, most or all of the time of Jacob’s trouble.


That troubling question is, how much “tribulation” did Noah endure in his days? If the days ahead are going to be just like the days of Noah AND naysayers are right that we will all go through at least part of the tribulation,then we should see some “tribulation” that Noah went through comparable to what we see in the book of revelation, but do we? Where exactly do we see in Noah’s experience plague, famine, the righteous being hunted down and slaughtered etc? If we are to believe the naysayers that tell us there is no escape from the coming days of hell on earth, shouldn’t we see the things that will happen during the tribulation in Noah’s experience as well? Well, we don’t. The fact is, we see nada, zip, zero, NOTHING about the description of the days of Noah that would in ANY WAY compare to the days of the Daniel’s 70th week/time of Jacob’s trouble.

Here’s another troubling fact, Noah was in the ark, a place of physical safety while the rest of the world was punished with the flood. So again, I ask you, where was Noah’s “tribulation?” The mid-trib/pre-wrath/post-trib crowd can only respond with a stunning silence. It’s the same with Lot, where were Lot’s “tribulation” events? If the naysayers are right shouldn’t we see tribulation kinds of events happening to both Noah and Lot? Yea, we should but we don’t, so what can we conclude? The mid-trib/pre-warth/post trib crowds are wrong, dead wrong.

The coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah, and in the days of Noah life went on as usually for everybody right up to the very day that NOAH ENTERED THE ARK. Then all hell broke loose, but not a moment before:

Luke 17:27
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.


Noah entered the ark, THEN the flood came and destroyed them all. What part of that don’t people understand? If the coming of the Son of man is going to be just like the days of Noah, then we will enter our “ark” and THEN the “flood” of judgment will come and destroy the world. If Jesus said it he meant it. If the days ahead are going to be just like the days of Noah, then life will go on as usual until the very day we are physically separated from this world by the walls of our “ark” whatever that is. Since we use the bible to interpret the bible, does this jive with what we are told in Luke 21:36?

36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Yes, it fits like a glove. Noah escaped ALL, Lot escaped ALL and those of us found worthy will escape ALL as well. The how and when of all this are the Lord’s department, but the “what” has been clearly spoken to us. The wise virgins will keep their lamps full of oil, WATCHING for the Lord and praying in obedience to the command we were given to pray that we may be counted worthy to escape all that’s about to happen and stand before the Son of Man.

It’s going to be a very very bad day for those foolish virgins who only come later, after it is painfully obvious that the bible means what it says in plain language, to knock on the Lord’s door asking to be let in. He will tell them “I don’t know you.”

Today is a day for watching and warning. The Lord dropped these words directly into my heart yesterday. Ask the naysayers to prove their point by comparing the days of Noah and Lot to the days of the tribulation. If there was no plague famine or flood inside the ark, NONE, then how exactly is it that we should expect these things for ourselves? If people want to argue until they are blue in the face that they will go through Daniel’s 70th week, then perhaps they personally will get what they argue for.

Every day the facts continue to stack up in support of what the bible says at face value. There is an escape from all and we should pray for it. Many will likely not be watching and ready when the escape shows up, so they will go through part or all of the tribulation. As far as they personally are concerned, they are right to argue that they will go through the tribulation because they probably will, but not everybody will….according to your faith it will be done unto you.

Just imagine what it will feel like to know that some people did escape just as the bible teaches, but you were left behind because your faith and belief placed you in the middle of the tribulation. How will you feel then? How will all the people feel who bought into the idea that there was no escape even though the bible clearly teaches there is one? Perhaps people need to spend a lot less time listening to their “pastors” and spend more time listening to the Holy Spirit. I could truly care less about what most men have to say about God. I want to know what God has to say about God. There’s just way too much deception in this world to be listening to naysayers at this late hour. Determine for yourself what you believe and why you believe it. It would be a pity to miss an escape from the worst days this world has ever seen because some man talked you out of it….

Grace and peace