Noah’s Appeal to the Wicked

November 01, 2011 [click to listen]

Please turn with me in your Bible, if you can, to the 2nd epistle of Peter, chapter 3, verses 3-7. Here the apostle is speaking of destruction of the earth both at the time of the flood and in the last days. The Bible gives us prophetic powerful stories like the story of the flood so that we will understand our own times. Listen carefully.

“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.”

The apostle speaks of the time before the flood and the time of destruction at the end of the world and ties them together. He is showing us that they are related. The scoffers that ridiculed Noah are a type of those that will ridicule the righteous at the end of time. Also, please notice that the heavens and the earth, which are now, and which are different than the heavens and the earth before the flood, are being upheld by the same word of God until it is time for the final judgment of fire. So, the destruction of Noah’s flood is a symbol or a type of the destruction of the world by fire at the end of time.

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