Seize the Moment – Day 386
In the Days of Noah!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Wednesday, April 7.
Do you ever wonder what it would have been like to experience the flood in the days of Noah?
Genesis 7:21-23 describes the horrifying judgment that was the world-wide flood:
All flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind; of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died. Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.
I believe this was a real historic event—the judgment of God upon humanity’s rebellion against His rightful rule. I hold this conviction because of Jesus’ words. Jesus referenced Noah and the flood as a historical reality and used it to describe His second coming in Matthew 24:37-39,
For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Jesus not only referenced it; He was there for it as the sovereign God and the reason Jesus came from Heaven to earth was to create an ark by which all can be saved from God’s righteous judgment of sin. He made the way!
Seize the moment and get in the ark of faith in Jesus Christ today! You don’t have to face a world-wide flood to know that you are in need of a savior! Do you?
Let’s recite this week’s memory verse from John 11:25-26, when Jesus proclaims, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”