The End of the World Has Already Come? (and the Single, Most Important Thing You Must Learn From It)

Noah's ArkDOOMSDAY SCENARIOS

There’s a lot of talk about the world coming to an end in our day.

Doomsday scenarios abound whether in the media or movies or via ministers in the pulpit.

But I’d like to submit to you that the world has already ended. (Boom.)

Before you categorize me with the crazies, allow me to explain.

THE END OF THE WORLD HAS ALREADY COME?!

And let me just put it to you simply:

The world came to an end in Noah’s day. (“Well, duh.”)

It was a great Flood that ended the world the first time. (Thunderbolt. Splash.)

The Apostle Peter describes it like this…

[T]he patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the [great Flood]. (1 Peter 3:20bcd)

He goes on…

[God] did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly. (2 Peter 2:5)

And so you see the end of the world has already come (once).

THE SINGLE, MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU MUST LEARN FROM THE END OF THE WORLD

And while the men wearing white coats are putting on my straight jacket to haul me away, let me just emphasize the single, most important thing we learn from the end of the world as it happened in Noah’s day:

A person (and his family) can survive it. (Read the above verses again.)

So you, too, (and your family) can survive the second end of the world (which is coming upon us) through faith in God’s Son / Christ crucified for the forgiveness of sins. (He is the “Ark.”)

“[I]f you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9)

“‘[W]hen the Son of Man (Jesus Christ) comes, will He find faith on the earth?'” (Luke 18:8b)

(Noah’s Ark picture file above is in the public domain: click here. PD-US)

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