| AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, AND AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF LOT |
| By Matt Ravenhouk |
“And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.They did eat, they drank, they married
wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the
same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be
in the day when the Son of man is revealed.” (Luke 17:26-30)
The above Scripture passage means nothing to the average American, because he is Biblically illiterate. He has no idea of what Human
Society was like in the days of Noah, or in the days of Lot in Sodom. He may know that homosexuality was rampant in those days, and
suppose that was the only reason that God chose to destroy those societies, but he is way off base in this assumption. Homosexuality
was the end result of a much deeper sickness of the soul, not the primary infection.
What was it like in the days of Noah, before the great flood? The Bible spells it out in detail, if we take the time to read it.
“And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,that the sons
of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.And the LORD said,
My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There
were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they
bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.” (Genesis 6:1-4)
The process of decay in society did not happen overnight, but was gradual, and incremental. The first mistake that occurred was when
intermarriage between worshippers of God, who were descendants of Seth, and the pagan women of the Cainitic society, who were
descendants of Cain, the first murderer.
The ”giants” referred to in this passage, were not physical giants, but as the text plainly states, they were heroes, ”Mighty men, and men
of renown.”
The Hebrew word that is translated as giants is the word Nephilim, and refers to what we call today a superstar, mogul, or a magnate.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are giants of the film industry. Henry Ford, Bill Gates, and Armand Hammer are called giants of the
manufacturing industry. George H.W. Bush and T. Boone Pickens are giants of the oil industry, and Warren Buffet is a giant of Wall
Street. If the reader will take the time to read the book of Genesis, the section that describe the descendants of Cain, and the
descendants of Nimrod, lists those giants by name, both before and after the flood .
But whenever Christian men marry women of other faiths, the result is without fail, a general apostasy on the part of the Christian. The
earthiness and sensuality of exotic women will always turn the heart of the Christian man to a pagan god. He may call himself a believer,
but his faith is contaminated and defiled with the precepts of worldly society, which makes him an apostate.
The Word of God explicitly warns against such marriages (Exodus 34:14-16).
”And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually”; (Genesis 6:5)
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
“And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said
unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy
them with the earth.” (Vv. 11-13)
That is the way society is today. All have corrupted their way upon the earth, and violence is the norm, not the exception. If you doubt that,
just read the papers or watch the evening news. The imagination of the heart of modern man is only a continuous outpouring of evil, and
that applies not only to the powerful, the rich, and the famous, but to the man on the street --- Especially the man on the street, because if
the man on the street was not possessed of an evil imagination, he would not elect evil men and women to office, or patronize industries
that promote lasciviousness, decadence, depravity, and malice.
Think about that the next time you watch a reality TV program, or play one of those idiotic and evil video games that promote violence,
killing, and mayhem. Who do you suppose watches Cage Fighting? It sure isn't the rich and famous, but the ordinary man on the street.
We have no love for God, but only for that which indulges the absolute depravity of the human heart..
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins,
even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.” (Jeremiah 17:9-10)
That “Gut Feeling” you follow probably originates in the pit of Hell .That's the condition of society during the days of Noah, but what was
the condition of society in Sodom, during the days of Lot?
We know that sadism, and sexual perversion prevailed, but those were only the symptoms of a much deeper depravity of the soul of
society as a whole. The Word of God delineates the descent into perdition very clearly in the book of the prophet Ezekiel:
“Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her
daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination
before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.” (Ezekiel 16:49-50)
The society of Sodom was one of affluence, idleness, callousness, and arrogance. That describes American Society perfectly.
Americans claim that they have a huge segment of poor people in their society, but they do not even have the remotest idea of what
constitutes poverty.
In California, a family of four that earns $58,000 per year is considered to be impoverished. That is so absurd! When we consider an
income of 1,000 bucks per week to be the poverty level, then we need to be horse whipped! We don't know what poor is! In many third
world countries, people do not even earn $500 per year, let alone $58,000. The so-called poor people in America live in houses and
apartments; they own cars; they wear shoes, and are able to eat a double cheeseburger at McDonald's. They should try to tell a bushman
from Botswana, who lives on nothing but manioc root, and drinks dirty water that they are poor.
Americans have bread to the fullest. Why do you suppose that the greatest number of obese people are in the class that is described as
poor? Go to the local welfare office and see for yourselves how many of those in line are as fat as hogs, waiting to be butchered. Go to
the 99 Cent Store and see how many people there are that ride those electric scooters, when the only thing wrong with them is that they
are too fat to walk!
America has bread to the fullest, and an abundance of idleness and leisure time. The standard work week is 40 hours, out of 168 hours
in a real week. That translates into less than 25% of our time devoted to earning a living.
Compare that to a worker in Cairo, Egypt, who has to work 16 hours per day, and even then can barely feed his family. If you doubt that
Americans have an abundance of leisure time, just take a drive on the freeway, and observe all of the motor homes, travel trailers, pickup
trucks pulling trailers filled with dirt bikes, Quads, Ski-Doos, and pleasure boats. Try telling God that you were too poor to help thy
neighbor on the day of Judgment, which all of us will face one day, sooner or later. Americans will do nothing to strengthen the hand of the
poor.
Americans complain and bewail the deplorably high rate of unemployment these days, but refuse to petition their government to allow
people to go into business for themselves in order to feed their families.
In order to even go into business as a handyman, one has to have a Contractor's License, and that costs a minimum of $3,500. In
addition to the Contractor's License, he has to have a minimum of $500,000 worth of liability insurance, and that costs big bucks. Then
he has to have city, county, and state business licenses, which add up to thousands of dollars more. In order to earn enough to barely
feed one's family, one has to already be rich: That is an abomination, and a stench in God's nostrils, and we are all going to answer for
that atrocity against the working man.
God absolutely hates those that oppress the worker. And since we Americans have bread to the fullest, an abundance of leisure time, do
nothing to strengthen the hand of the poor, we have become proud, arrogant, and high-minded. We think we know what's best for “the
greater good of society,” but yet we exempt ourselves from the very ordinances we pass, and then we imagine that we can indulge in
immorality and perversion with impunity.
America has not only legalized homosexuality and lesbianism, but actively promotes it in the workplace, and in the school system. You
may not understand the reason why, but the inescapable, plain fact of life is that when you have indulged in sexual immorality to the fullest,
you become jaded and look for new thrills, so you try homosexuality and lesbianism, and your goose is cooked.
”Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made
like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to
uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the
truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is
against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another;
men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things
which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full
of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil
things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have
pleasure in them that do them.” (Romans 1:22-32)
Americans claim to live in an ”enlightened” society. They profess themselves to be wise, but cannot see that they are in reality, just fools.
They have exchanged the glory of the Living God for a corruptible image of humanity, which will one day be eaten by worms. They serve
the creature rather than the Creator, and declare that the Bible is made up of lies, by men who sought only to oppress others.
They have no bounds to their depravity, as evidenced plainly by their choices in entertainment and sports, and they are rapidly
degenerating into a nation of closet queens, hedonists, and savages. The days of Noah, and the days of Lot are right now.
But Americans have a choice: They can bow the knee to Jesus Christ, and submit to him as Lord, or they can perish in the fires of eternal
torture.
American justice does not understand the concept of repentance. Under American Law, every single thing you ever do is recorded on a ”
rap sheet,” and stays their even after you are dead. Even if you serve your time and pay your penalty, there is no such thing as
forgiveness under American Law.
But the Law of God, and the Supreme Judge of all heaven and earth (Genesis 18:25) is not like American Justice at all. When God
forgives, he forgives completely, and the record is forever erased.
“But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and
right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto
him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord
GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?” (Ezekiel 18:21-23)
God is not interested in what any of us did in the past: He wants to know where our heart is today. He understands and accepts the
concept of repentance, and is willing to forgive in a New York Minute. Jesus did not come to damn us into eternal Hell, but to rescue us
from the wages of sin, which is death.
”For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
have everlasting life.For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be
saved.
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in
the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved
darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved .But he that doeth
truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.” (John 3:16-21)
The time to repent is now. Now is the day of Salvation.
Let the world go to Hell in a handbag, but save yourself. Salvation is not collective, but individual. But Salvation is not for the timid. It
requires raw guts. One has to have the intestinal fortitude that Joshua had in 1,500 B.C. If you're afraid of going against the grain, and
afraid of ridicule from your so-called peers, you may as well put your head between your knees and kiss you precious butt good-bye
.”And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your
fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and
my house, we will serve the LORD.” (Joshua 24:15)
wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the
same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be
in the day when the Son of man is revealed.” (Luke 17:26-30)
The above Scripture passage means nothing to the average American, because he is Biblically illiterate. He has no idea of what Human
Society was like in the days of Noah, or in the days of Lot in Sodom. He may know that homosexuality was rampant in those days, and
suppose that was the only reason that God chose to destroy those societies, but he is way off base in this assumption. Homosexuality
was the end result of a much deeper sickness of the soul, not the primary infection.
What was it like in the days of Noah, before the great flood? The Bible spells it out in detail, if we take the time to read it.
“And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,that the sons
of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.And the LORD said,
My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There
were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they
bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.” (Genesis 6:1-4)
The process of decay in society did not happen overnight, but was gradual, and incremental. The first mistake that occurred was when
intermarriage between worshippers of God, who were descendants of Seth, and the pagan women of the Cainitic society, who were
descendants of Cain, the first murderer.
The ”giants” referred to in this passage, were not physical giants, but as the text plainly states, they were heroes, ”Mighty men, and men
of renown.”
The Hebrew word that is translated as giants is the word Nephilim, and refers to what we call today a superstar, mogul, or a magnate.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are giants of the film industry. Henry Ford, Bill Gates, and Armand Hammer are called giants of the
manufacturing industry. George H.W. Bush and T. Boone Pickens are giants of the oil industry, and Warren Buffet is a giant of Wall
Street. If the reader will take the time to read the book of Genesis, the section that describe the descendants of Cain, and the
descendants of Nimrod, lists those giants by name, both before and after the flood .
But whenever Christian men marry women of other faiths, the result is without fail, a general apostasy on the part of the Christian. The
earthiness and sensuality of exotic women will always turn the heart of the Christian man to a pagan god. He may call himself a believer,
but his faith is contaminated and defiled with the precepts of worldly society, which makes him an apostate.
The Word of God explicitly warns against such marriages (Exodus 34:14-16).
”And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually”; (Genesis 6:5)
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
“And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said
unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy
them with the earth.” (Vv. 11-13)
That is the way society is today. All have corrupted their way upon the earth, and violence is the norm, not the exception. If you doubt that,
just read the papers or watch the evening news. The imagination of the heart of modern man is only a continuous outpouring of evil, and
that applies not only to the powerful, the rich, and the famous, but to the man on the street --- Especially the man on the street, because if
the man on the street was not possessed of an evil imagination, he would not elect evil men and women to office, or patronize industries
that promote lasciviousness, decadence, depravity, and malice.
Think about that the next time you watch a reality TV program, or play one of those idiotic and evil video games that promote violence,
killing, and mayhem. Who do you suppose watches Cage Fighting? It sure isn't the rich and famous, but the ordinary man on the street.
We have no love for God, but only for that which indulges the absolute depravity of the human heart..
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins,
even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.” (Jeremiah 17:9-10)
That “Gut Feeling” you follow probably originates in the pit of Hell .That's the condition of society during the days of Noah, but what was
the condition of society in Sodom, during the days of Lot?
We know that sadism, and sexual perversion prevailed, but those were only the symptoms of a much deeper depravity of the soul of
society as a whole. The Word of God delineates the descent into perdition very clearly in the book of the prophet Ezekiel:
“Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her
daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination
before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.” (Ezekiel 16:49-50)
The society of Sodom was one of affluence, idleness, callousness, and arrogance. That describes American Society perfectly.
Americans claim that they have a huge segment of poor people in their society, but they do not even have the remotest idea of what
constitutes poverty.
In California, a family of four that earns $58,000 per year is considered to be impoverished. That is so absurd! When we consider an
income of 1,000 bucks per week to be the poverty level, then we need to be horse whipped! We don't know what poor is! In many third
world countries, people do not even earn $500 per year, let alone $58,000. The so-called poor people in America live in houses and
apartments; they own cars; they wear shoes, and are able to eat a double cheeseburger at McDonald's. They should try to tell a bushman
from Botswana, who lives on nothing but manioc root, and drinks dirty water that they are poor.
Americans have bread to the fullest. Why do you suppose that the greatest number of obese people are in the class that is described as
poor? Go to the local welfare office and see for yourselves how many of those in line are as fat as hogs, waiting to be butchered. Go to
the 99 Cent Store and see how many people there are that ride those electric scooters, when the only thing wrong with them is that they
are too fat to walk!
America has bread to the fullest, and an abundance of idleness and leisure time. The standard work week is 40 hours, out of 168 hours
in a real week. That translates into less than 25% of our time devoted to earning a living.
Compare that to a worker in Cairo, Egypt, who has to work 16 hours per day, and even then can barely feed his family. If you doubt that
Americans have an abundance of leisure time, just take a drive on the freeway, and observe all of the motor homes, travel trailers, pickup
trucks pulling trailers filled with dirt bikes, Quads, Ski-Doos, and pleasure boats. Try telling God that you were too poor to help thy
neighbor on the day of Judgment, which all of us will face one day, sooner or later. Americans will do nothing to strengthen the hand of the
poor.
Americans complain and bewail the deplorably high rate of unemployment these days, but refuse to petition their government to allow
people to go into business for themselves in order to feed their families.
In order to even go into business as a handyman, one has to have a Contractor's License, and that costs a minimum of $3,500. In
addition to the Contractor's License, he has to have a minimum of $500,000 worth of liability insurance, and that costs big bucks. Then
he has to have city, county, and state business licenses, which add up to thousands of dollars more. In order to earn enough to barely
feed one's family, one has to already be rich: That is an abomination, and a stench in God's nostrils, and we are all going to answer for
that atrocity against the working man.
God absolutely hates those that oppress the worker. And since we Americans have bread to the fullest, an abundance of leisure time, do
nothing to strengthen the hand of the poor, we have become proud, arrogant, and high-minded. We think we know what's best for “the
greater good of society,” but yet we exempt ourselves from the very ordinances we pass, and then we imagine that we can indulge in
immorality and perversion with impunity.
America has not only legalized homosexuality and lesbianism, but actively promotes it in the workplace, and in the school system. You
may not understand the reason why, but the inescapable, plain fact of life is that when you have indulged in sexual immorality to the fullest,
you become jaded and look for new thrills, so you try homosexuality and lesbianism, and your goose is cooked.
”Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made
like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to
uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the
truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is
against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another;
men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things
which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full
of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil
things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have
pleasure in them that do them.” (Romans 1:22-32)
Americans claim to live in an ”enlightened” society. They profess themselves to be wise, but cannot see that they are in reality, just fools.
They have exchanged the glory of the Living God for a corruptible image of humanity, which will one day be eaten by worms. They serve
the creature rather than the Creator, and declare that the Bible is made up of lies, by men who sought only to oppress others.
They have no bounds to their depravity, as evidenced plainly by their choices in entertainment and sports, and they are rapidly
degenerating into a nation of closet queens, hedonists, and savages. The days of Noah, and the days of Lot are right now.
But Americans have a choice: They can bow the knee to Jesus Christ, and submit to him as Lord, or they can perish in the fires of eternal
torture.
American justice does not understand the concept of repentance. Under American Law, every single thing you ever do is recorded on a ”
rap sheet,” and stays their even after you are dead. Even if you serve your time and pay your penalty, there is no such thing as
forgiveness under American Law.
But the Law of God, and the Supreme Judge of all heaven and earth (Genesis 18:25) is not like American Justice at all. When God
forgives, he forgives completely, and the record is forever erased.
“But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and
right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto
him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord
GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?” (Ezekiel 18:21-23)
God is not interested in what any of us did in the past: He wants to know where our heart is today. He understands and accepts the
concept of repentance, and is willing to forgive in a New York Minute. Jesus did not come to damn us into eternal Hell, but to rescue us
from the wages of sin, which is death.
”For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
have everlasting life.For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be
saved.
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in
the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved
darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved .But he that doeth
truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.” (John 3:16-21)
The time to repent is now. Now is the day of Salvation.
Let the world go to Hell in a handbag, but save yourself. Salvation is not collective, but individual. But Salvation is not for the timid. It
requires raw guts. One has to have the intestinal fortitude that Joshua had in 1,500 B.C. If you're afraid of going against the grain, and
afraid of ridicule from your so-called peers, you may as well put your head between your knees and kiss you precious butt good-bye
.”And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your
fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and
my house, we will serve the LORD.” (Joshua 24:15)