I would imagine that all my cyberspace friends know I absolutely believe the Bible’s history of the world, especially and including the account of a worldwide flood that took place during the days of a man named Noah.[1]
This week I continued looking at how Noah’s life of faith encourages God’s children to this day and something surprising stood out.
The reason for the worldwide flood of four-plus millennia ago was that “the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”[2]
Hold it a minute! Who were all these wicked and evil people?!
As it turns out, every one of these wicked and evil people were Noah’s RELATIVES!
Yes, that wicked and evil generation included Noah’s brothers and sisters, his uncles and aunts, and every description of cousins that we could imagine.[3]
What’s the lesson?
When we read that, “By faith Noah… became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith”,[4] we are hearing of what a man did in the midst of a family that was full of wicked and evil people.
In the negative, Noah’s example shows us that wicked and evil people of any kind, particularly those among our own immediate relatives, cannot stop us from having the life of faith in Jesus.
In the positive, Noah’s pursuit of faith in the midst of a family of wicked and evil people exemplifies how we can pursue knowing God by faith in Jesus Christ no matter what anyone in our family is doing.
While I would never claim that my faith is as exemplary as Noah’s, I still know this to be true, that we absolutely NEED to know Jesus as our Savior, Lord and Master, no matter what anyone in our families thinks or does. In HIM is life, and THAT life is the only light that sets us free.[5]
We are clearly “in the days of Noah”
that Jesus talked about a couple of millennia ago.[6]
Salvation from the coming judgment is no longer for the few who entered the
ark, but for the multitudes who come into Christ by faith. Just like Noah.
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[1] Note: the historical
sciences affirm all the worldwide evidence of a worldwide flood and debunk all
the claims and explanations of the evolutionary religion to get away from the
obvious conclusions.
[2] Genesis 6:5
[3] I can never remember
all the meanings of the numbers to cousins (first, second, third, etc) and when
to use the “once removed” and its variations! However, with how long people
lived back then, it would have been a crazy mess of trying to identify how everyone
was related. It’s just that they were ALL Noah’s relatives in a way that
doesn’t stand out to us quite so much in our day (even thought we are all
related as direct descendants of Adam through Noah).
[4] Hebrews 11:7
[5] John 1:4
[6] Luke 17:26
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