The days of Noah

“The Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. The Lord was grieved that He had made man on the earth, and His heart was filled with pain.” Genesis 6:5-6
In Matt. 24:37 Jesus says, “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.” So it makes sense for us to study what the days of Noah were like.
The similarity is in the impending judgement that has been prophesied to come (the Flood in Noah’s day, and the Great Tribulation in the end times), and the general mindset of indifference that people had toward it. “For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark” (Matt. 24:38). For them it was business as usual; on God’s calendar, time was up.
We look around the world today and see things moving into place as required to fulfil various prophecies concerning the end times. The technology is in place to establish a cashless society, the mark of the beast, a one-world government. But the social environment is also moving into place: our world is getting to the point that man’s wickedness seems to know no bounds, and every inclination of the thoughts of people’s hearts are only evil, all the time. People criticise the Christians for being kill-joys; they want to be left alone to indulge in their wickedness without someone telling them that what they are doing is wrong. One day, and I believe it will be soon, they will have their wish. “And they know nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.” (Matt. 24:39)