AS IN THE TIME OF NOAH

   Understanding the times and the seasons in God’s prophetic timetable of the plan of redemption is crucial because it shows us what we ought to be doing (1 Chron. 12:32). We’ve spent a year and a half going through God’s times and seasons as declared in the New Testament, bringing us to the last book in our Bible. God Himself tells us that He is giving the revelation of His Son so that we may know the things that must shortly take place.
      We know from Jesus’ teaching on His coming and the signs of this age that His coming will be as the days of Noah were. “For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be” (Mt. 24:38-39).
     How is it that the people did not know what was coming? Wouldn’t a loving God warn them? Glad you asked. You see, it took Noah many years to build the Ark. Exactly how long we can’t say for sure because the Bible doesn’t tell us. We do know that Moses preached to the people throughout the entire building process.
        So the people had the opportunity to know. The Scripture tells us that the people were eating, drinking, and were too busy living their lives and doing their own thing. Sound familiar? Or they outright rejected the message. That, too, sounds familiar. Choices always have consequences. The bottom line is that the people could know and so they couldn’t say that they weren’t warned.
        Some interpret Jesus’ statement about the days of Noah to mean that there will be a return of the Nephilim in some form, for this is what made the first reset of the Flood necessary.  But this would mean that more angels would have fallen because the Word tells us that the original fallen angels are incarcerated in chains (Jude 6).
     Others, including a popular Christian author, contend that different ancient spirits have come back to earth, fostering a general atmosphere of lawlessness. Yet we don't find this in God's Word. Instead we have the government and media talking about aliens and extra-dimensional beings—what the Bible calls Satan’s evil forces (Eph. 6:12).
     End-Time Lesson: Such man-made interpretations of the Scriptures and the deceitfulness of this age through technology and AI, only serve to add to the confusion Satan intends for our time. This is why we must stick to the Word of God and not add or subtract from it. We need to stick with the definition Jesus gave us of the days of Noah.
        As we’ve seen through our journey of what God’s Word says about His times and seasons, and our Lord’s coming, we can know when He is coming. We can see the Day approaching (Heb. 10:25). The foundational disciples came to understand God’s prophetic timetable in the Great Week. They understood how God counts prophetic time (2 Pet. 3:8-9).
         They understood how the Day would come after the lawless one would rise up and the people would not receive the truth in God’s Word. Peter went so far as to warn us that people would scoff at the idea of the Lord’s return because it has been labeled as “soon” for so long that people would give up on the truth.
        Jesus assured His disciples that the Holy Spirit would bring to their remembrance what He had taught them and bring the necessary revelation as He always does when the appointed time draws near. Jesus also told them that it had been given to His disciples to know the mysteries of the ages. This is one reason why seekers are always rewarded with understanding (Heb. 11:6).
       In general, the Church has been left in the fog of confusion because we did not heed the one thing that Peter told the Church to pay attention to regarding Christ’s return—how God counts prophetic time differently. Now you see why we spent so much time recognizing God’s times and seasons in His Word. Now, it is time to see exactly what lies ahead—the things that must shortly take place.