Universal was the doom, none escaped! The rich and poor, the learned and the illiterate, the admired and the abhorred, the religious and the profane, the old and the young all sank in one common ruin!
Some had doubtless ridiculed Noah where were their merry jests now? Others counted him mad for his zeal where were their boastings and hard speeches now? The carper who criticized old Noah's work is drowned in the same sea which covers his sneering companions. Those who spoke patronizingly of Noah's fidelity to his convictions but did not share in them, have sunk to rise no more! And the workers who were paid to help build the wondrous ark, are all lost also. The flood swept them all away, and made no single exception!
Just so, final destruction is sure to every person outside of Christ! No rank, possession or character, shall suffice to save a single soul who has not savingly believed in the Lord Jesus. My soul, behold this wide-spread judgment and tremble at it.
How astonishing was the general apathy! They were all eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the dreadful morning dawned. There was not one wise man upon earth, outside of the ark. Folly duped the whole race, folly as to self-preservation, the most foolish of all follies. Folly in doubting the most true God, the most malignant of fooleries!
Strange, my soul, is it not? All men are negligent of their souls until saving grace gives them reason, then they leave their madness and act like rational beings, but not until then. All who in the ark were safe, no ruin entered there. All in Jesus are safe. My soul, are you in Him?
[Charles H. Spurgeon]
Matthew 24:37-39 … But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
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