March 13, 2005

• After church my daughter decided she wanted to run the 2 mile Shamrock Run, so I took her to do that and cheered her on as she did it in 18 minutes. This is the first I have had to sit down by the computer. I am going to write the next bit about Noah.

  
  

  What brought this to mind was the passage in Matthew 24-25 where Jesus points out that just in the days of Noah…

  
  

  And I got to thinking about what it was like in the days of Noah and discovered this Bible study that I took notes about 3 years ago. What do you think, seems that Noah had a lot in common with us today.

  
  

  Four things wrong in Noah’s Day (the last days)

  
  

  1. POPULATION EXPLOSION At the time of Noah people lived a very long time, Adam was a contemporary of Methusalah and a contemporary of Noah, (Genesis 5 & 10). Remember they lived to be about 800-900 years. So in five genereations of children if each person had 4 kids and those 4 kids had 4 kids, 96 kids in 5 generations, 3,070 in 10 generations. In 20 generations 3 million 120 thousand, and 30 generations 3 billion 220 million.

  
  

  From the time of Noah til 1867 it took the earth to reach the one billion mark in population., due to plagues, wars, health conditions and the reduced life span mentioned in Psalms.
  1867-1935 population to reach 2 billion
  1935-1965 population to reach 3 billion (way reduced amount of time)
  1965-1995 populatoin to reach over 6 billion, and now that is doubled in 1998

  
  

  Our population is growing exponentionally with about 250,000 added every 24 hours.

  
  

  If you put rats into overcrowded cnditions, there is no maternal instinct, the mom rats did not take care of their babies and rats ate each other even though there was an adequate food supply.

  
  

  If you look at our lack of regard for human life today you see similar patterns, we seem to have lost the sense of the value of human life.

  
  

  2. SEXUAL ABBERATION In Noah’s day the sons of God and the daughters of men gave rise to giants, nephalim, fallen ones. The legendary figures of old. We don’t really know what they produced, but there are theories. One of which is that the fallen angels overstepped their boundaries with human creation. The end result was giants on the earth. Every culture on earth has stories of the flood and stories of giants.  That was why God picked Noah for he had pure roots.

  
  

  From Genesis 3:15 Satan knew the promises of the redeemer to come from the seed of woman to crush the head of the serpent, so through demonic intervention satan tried to pollute mankind and prevent the Messiah from coming.

  
  

  Today we have abberant behavior, porn, incest, teen pregnancy, homosexuality, divorce, and much that keeps us from the sanctity of marriage and sex as God conceived it.

  
  

  3. EVIL IMAGINATIONS Images in the mind that go against the Word of God. Today we have the same with the images we receive from the media and the messages we hear from the false prophets, teachers and new age.

  
  

  4. THE EARTH WAS FILLED WITH VIOLENCE, enough said about that, just pick up a newspaper.

  
  

  One thing people talk about today is that Noah was a nice myth such as many of the other flood myths, etc. But if you think about it, Jesus talked about Noah. Jesus was the Word who was there at the beginning, and if He talks about a person from the past, then that person is real and existed. As did the flood.

  
  

  Genesis 6:8, Noah  found grace in the eyes of God, in the midst of a corrupt world, but Noah wasn’t perfect, he just obeyed God. He is listed in God’s Hall of Faith in Hebrews 11, for his faith.

  
  

  If you count out the years, God gave grace to everybody on the earth. It took Noah over 100 years to build the Ark. As we saw, it was not a tiny ark, the neighbors had to notice and ask questions. Think about what you would think if your neighbor started building something of that magnitude. There was time for people to repent, to ask questions, to seek answers. So in a sense, they drowned in their own sin.

  
  

  Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord in the same way as the Israelites did when they looked at the serpent on the cross and we look to the cross for salvation. The others did not look to God. They went around their daily activities, as Christ said, marrying, working, etc.

  
  

  One last acronym, for tonight, then I will research my notes some more for  tomorrow, but this is great.

  
  

  G-God’s
  R-riches
  A-at
  C-Christ’s
  E-expense.

  
  

  Christ paid the price for sin so God can pour out riches towards us. The Law of Moses, but Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ. No other religion or philosophy offers Grace, all have works that you must do to earn salvation.

  
  

  Given all that is going on in the world today, and how closely we parallel what occurred in the time of Noah, we really need to look to the Grace of God and to the cross.

  
  

  Hope you had a great day. Just one bit of a comment, right now I could use some prayer, as there are a lot of hurting issues that are coming up from my past. When I spend tons of time in the Word it is sometimes to hide from the pain. And right now depression is rampant, memories and feelings are becoming linked, and I am scared of the feelings – what a better way to hide than behind studies. So please keep me in prayer.

  
  

  And I am also getting a bit worried about my upcoming trip with my Girl Scout troop to Washington DC, hoping for good weather, travelling mercies, and all the dads who are left behind do ok with the remaining kids. A lot of responsibility. Also, I will try to remind you, but March 20 though the 24th is the dates of our trip, so if you don’t hear from me during those days, don’t worry.

  
  

  Heather.

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