A TRIBULATION PREVIEW–THE DAYS OF NOAH, NO TIME FOR GOD & THE WORLD THAT PERISHED (GEN-19)

No time for God, what a dangerous condition.

Today we begin a study of the World that Perished in the Genesis Flood. The world had come to the dangerously deadly state of having no time for God. God has told us that one of the final stages of terminal cancer of the soul is when humans have no place for their Creator in their hearts, minds, or lives.

Why did The World that Perished in the Genesis Flood become a world that had no time for God? Paul explains this condition in Romans 1: " Because they were not willing to retain God in their minds, God gave them up." The World that Perished in the Genesis Flood suffered the fate that all who have no time for God will experience.

We can make some observations if you open with me to Genesis 4:24. Please stand with me as I read Genesis 4:24 through Chapter 5. Evaluated from merely a human point of view, Cain’s descendants are an admirable lot. Chapter 4 tells us about:

-Jabal (“wanderer”) founded the science of agriculture (v. 20);
-Jubal founded “culture”—music; and
-Tubal-Cain founded the metal industries.

From a worldly perspective, based on outward appearances, Cain’s “city” was a great success, but God made it clear that He had rejected the whole thing. In v. 25, God gave Adam and Eve another seed—Seth—which means “the appointed, the substitute” (taking Abel’s place).

God did not try to reform the Descendants of Cain, who had no time for God. He rejected them and ultimately destroyed them in the flood. As the Descendants of Cain gradually wandered away from God’s true worship, the Descendants of Seth returned to Him (v. 26) and re-established their worship of the Lord. The ultimate descendant of Seth is the hero of faith in Genesis 6-8, Noah, whom we shall study at length.

Isn’t our world today so much like those descendants of Cain? Both seem to have time for everything but have no time for God. We advance in agriculture, industry, arts, great cities, and religious unity, but our world lives in sin and darkened souls without faith in the blood of Christ. Also, like Cain’s old civilization, it will be destroyed. We still have boasting murderers like Lamech, and we still have people (like Lamech) who violate the sacred vows of marriage. “As the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of man be” (Matt. 24:37, NKJV). Men still reject divine revelation and depend on their own human resources. The true Christian does not belong to this “world system” that is passing away (1 John 2:15–17), and should not get involved with it (Rom. 12:1–2; 2 Cor. 6:14–7:1).

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