Something about Noah's time hit me the other day and I wanted to share it, even though it sounds totally crazy. I recently did a study about Genesis 4:16 through Genesis 5:32 and in that study the Bible talks about Cain's line and what they accomplished. In Genesis 4 it shows a huge population explosion, that they're living in cities and forged all kinds of tools, and weapons from metals, etc. In other words, contrary to what evolution would have us believe, they have a very advanced civilization and weren't living like cavemen in caves.
For some reason, as I was considering this the other day, Ecclesiastes 1:9–10 —What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. *Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. * and Ecclesiastes 3:15 — Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account. popped into my mind. I've always gotten a kick out of those verses...even as a child. I don't know why, I just thought they're really neat.
It just suddenly hit me the other night, what if that's literal? What if God is actually saying that everything we see as great inventions, have been invented before? I know they've discovered batteries and all kinds of things that shouldn't be there, things there's just no explanation for, in excavations of very ancient sites, so maybe it's not all that far fetched. In fact, it seems like I remember reading about something like that that was discovered around the sites of ancient Sodom - that they'd discovered something indicative of nuclear weapons and were suggesting that might have been what God used to destroy them.
(I'm not suggesting that's necessarily true, just throwing that in as something I've read about)
What got me thinking along these lines was that thread in Christian chat about What have we exchanged for TV? and how technology has grown so much and we've misused it so badly. I hadn't carried the idea as far as it is now when I first started that thread, so I was a bit surprised when I realized just how bad it's gotten and how vast it's influence has been on families especially which is the foundation of our society. While I realized some of the damage it's done, I guess I hadn't realized the full extent of how it's been used by Satan to destroy the family.
That reminded me of Genesis 4 and how they began to develop technology and became so evil that God had to wipe out the whole world!
In turn, that reminded me of how often it's been pointed out that we've come full circle since the founding of the Church, which is another point showing it's the last days of the end times. I'd forgotten, but I even posted a thread about that awhile ago: [I Coming Full Circle in yet another way (I just looked at it and it's about the letters to the churches like my last post lol)
That saying, "come full circle" kept going round in my head and I began wondering is we had maybe come full circle in yet another way too..... Perhaps, we've also come full circle in how we handle all the advancements of civilization, (such as technology) just as in the days of Noah.
Crazy? Maybe.... but then again, maybe not. It's a lot to chew on, that's for sure. But something tells me that we just may have hit on something important here. Something that the Lord wants us to see and realize.
So, what have we got? In Noah's day, people were just going on with their lives as normal. If you look at what Jesus says, it sounds a lot like today because it sounds like they had become very self centered, just as our society is today. They apparently didn't care about anything that didn't have to with them or didn't affect them. Neither did they want to hear about anything that might make them reconsider their way of life. We know that because we know that Noah preached and begged them to repent and be saved for 120 years and every one of them ultimately ignored him. Seems that they much preferred self help sermons to sermons about what God wants and expects. They preferred gathering like a social club instead of gathering to worship God. They were more interested in their football games and races then in attending a worship service. They certainly had plenty of idols and false teachers and false religions, worshiping both demons and the creation instead of the Creator.
Jesus said they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood actually happened. But how could that be when we know that Noah was preaching for all those years, and that they knew he was building a boat? That seems impossible until you think about how even many "Christians" are today. Many of them know nothing of what's going to happen soon either because they haven't bothered to study their bibles enough to even know what true salvation looks like or what God wants and expects of them, much less what He intends to do very soon. They're much to busy watching their favorite TV shows, and going to their favorite football games to consider that there just might be something important in the Bible they have on their shelf. Besides, they go to their church most every week and hear what their pastor says...(although they couldn't tell you if he's really a believer even) The one thing that strikes me about both groups is that they both seem very self centered and very shallow. But then I guess being self-centered leads to being shallow.
That brings up one final point. I've heard some pastors suggest that the human race is not evolving like many of today's scientists would have us believe. Instead they say that we're devolving - mentally, physically, and spiritually. The more I reflect on that, the more I have to agree that it certainly seems that way to me as well.
What do you think? Have I lost it? It's certainly a lot to chew on.
Matthew 24:37–39 —As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. *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; *and they knew 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. *
For some reason, as I was considering this the other day, Ecclesiastes 1:9–10 —What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. *Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. * and Ecclesiastes 3:15 — Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account. popped into my mind. I've always gotten a kick out of those verses...even as a child. I don't know why, I just thought they're really neat.
It just suddenly hit me the other night, what if that's literal? What if God is actually saying that everything we see as great inventions, have been invented before? I know they've discovered batteries and all kinds of things that shouldn't be there, things there's just no explanation for, in excavations of very ancient sites, so maybe it's not all that far fetched. In fact, it seems like I remember reading about something like that that was discovered around the sites of ancient Sodom - that they'd discovered something indicative of nuclear weapons and were suggesting that might have been what God used to destroy them.
(I'm not suggesting that's necessarily true, just throwing that in as something I've read about) What got me thinking along these lines was that thread in Christian chat about What have we exchanged for TV? and how technology has grown so much and we've misused it so badly. I hadn't carried the idea as far as it is now when I first started that thread, so I was a bit surprised when I realized just how bad it's gotten and how vast it's influence has been on families especially which is the foundation of our society. While I realized some of the damage it's done, I guess I hadn't realized the full extent of how it's been used by Satan to destroy the family.
That reminded me of Genesis 4 and how they began to develop technology and became so evil that God had to wipe out the whole world!
In turn, that reminded me of how often it's been pointed out that we've come full circle since the founding of the Church, which is another point showing it's the last days of the end times. I'd forgotten, but I even posted a thread about that awhile ago: [I Coming Full Circle in yet another way (I just looked at it and it's about the letters to the churches like my last post lol)
That saying, "come full circle" kept going round in my head and I began wondering is we had maybe come full circle in yet another way too..... Perhaps, we've also come full circle in how we handle all the advancements of civilization, (such as technology) just as in the days of Noah.
Crazy? Maybe.... but then again, maybe not. It's a lot to chew on, that's for sure. But something tells me that we just may have hit on something important here. Something that the Lord wants us to see and realize.
So, what have we got? In Noah's day, people were just going on with their lives as normal. If you look at what Jesus says, it sounds a lot like today because it sounds like they had become very self centered, just as our society is today. They apparently didn't care about anything that didn't have to with them or didn't affect them. Neither did they want to hear about anything that might make them reconsider their way of life. We know that because we know that Noah preached and begged them to repent and be saved for 120 years and every one of them ultimately ignored him. Seems that they much preferred self help sermons to sermons about what God wants and expects. They preferred gathering like a social club instead of gathering to worship God. They were more interested in their football games and races then in attending a worship service. They certainly had plenty of idols and false teachers and false religions, worshiping both demons and the creation instead of the Creator.
Jesus said they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood actually happened. But how could that be when we know that Noah was preaching for all those years, and that they knew he was building a boat? That seems impossible until you think about how even many "Christians" are today. Many of them know nothing of what's going to happen soon either because they haven't bothered to study their bibles enough to even know what true salvation looks like or what God wants and expects of them, much less what He intends to do very soon. They're much to busy watching their favorite TV shows, and going to their favorite football games to consider that there just might be something important in the Bible they have on their shelf. Besides, they go to their church most every week and hear what their pastor says...(although they couldn't tell you if he's really a believer even) The one thing that strikes me about both groups is that they both seem very self centered and very shallow. But then I guess being self-centered leads to being shallow.
That brings up one final point. I've heard some pastors suggest that the human race is not evolving like many of today's scientists would have us believe. Instead they say that we're devolving - mentally, physically, and spiritually. The more I reflect on that, the more I have to agree that it certainly seems that way to me as well.
What do you think? Have I lost it? It's certainly a lot to chew on.
Matthew 24:37–39 —As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. *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; *and they knew 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. *
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