Blog #17 AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH SO SHALL THE LAST DAYS BE... PART 2 By Brandon Wyse

AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH SO SHALL THE LAST DAYS BE... PART 2

But let's stick to some milk. Noah and his family were all that was going to be spared because no one else believed what God said. All were continually on evil -- so that shows we do have a little time left because it's getting worse by the day down here, but not that bad yet.

All the clean and unclean animals were placed in the same Ark. Clean a representation of Israel, and unclean the gentiles that God makes clean.

Acts 10:15 But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

God told Peter He has made the Gentiles clean. Same as God allowed both the unclean and the clean animals to be in the same ark.

So that was a foreshadowing that one day God would save both Israel and Gentiles under the same covenant.

2) God said in Genesis that His spirit will not strive with mankind forever. A foreshadowing of...

2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

God will remove certain things, possibly the Holy Spirit as we know Him, making it much more difficult, if not impossible to be saved. The reason to say this is, all who were "sealed" up in the ark in Noah's day were protected by their salvation.

And God seals us by His Holy Spirit...

Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

So it is safe to say, once the door closes, as Jesus says about the wedding banquet...that's it. The rest will not have salvation available to them any longer, nor want it...

Revelation 6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

They would rather the wordly rocks fall and kill them than be broken to pieces by the Lord Jesus -- who is the only one that can put the shattered pieces of our lives back together again.

Many Christians today assume this is rapture, but the ark wasn't taken out of the world, just was protected from the water.

And God destroyed the earth by water the first time, and he'll destroy it by fire the second time...

2 Peter 3:7 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.

Sound familiar, water and fire? Jesus came doing the same things that He did, and will, destroy the world with.

Matthew 3:11 "As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Holy Spirit is analogous with the living eternal water...John 4:13-14, Jeremiah 2:13,Isaiah 44:3, John 7:37-39, Acts 2:33.

Luke 12:49 I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?

So the physical water and fire destroy, but the spiritual water and fire bring about the transformation of salvation by the regeneration of the Holy Spirit when we believe.

More coming up in PART 3...


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