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Luke 17:26

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The time when the Son of man comes will be like it was in Noah's day.

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The Lord saw how terribly evil people on earth had become—every single thought in their minds was evil all the time!

So the Lord said, “I'm going to wipe out these people I created from the earth, and not only them but also the animals, the creatures that run along the ground, and the birds, because I'm sorry I made them.”

But the Lord was pleased with Noah.

Instead, you go on happily partying! You slaughter cattle and sheep so you can have your feasts, eating meat and drinking wine, saying, “Let's eat and drink, because we're going to die tomorrow!”

Then Jesus told the disciples, “The time is coming when you'll long to see the day when the Son of man comes, but you won't see it.

The day when the Son of man comes will be just like lightning that flashes, lighting up the sky from one side to the other.

People went on eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day Noah went into the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

Say you have a servant who does plowing or shepherding. When he comes in from work, do you say to him, ‘Come in and sit down now for a meal’?

No, I tell you, he will give them justice quickly. However, when the Son of man comes, will he find people on earth who trust in him?”

Noah trusted God, and was warned by him about things that had never happened before. Because Noah paid serious attention to what God said, he constructed an ark to save his family. By trusting God, Noah showed that the world was wrong, and received the reward of being set right by God.

God didn't spare the ancient world either, but he protected Noah who told people about the God who did right. He was one of the eight who were saved when God sent a flood upon a world of evil people.

It was through water that the world that then existed was destroyed—through being flooded by water.




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