The Days of Noah

 A popular YouTuber made the following statement along with a question:

I get emails, literally by the hundreds, from people telling me the Nephilim story, the story of the Bible. We get dozens of comments in the comment section, dozens and dozens of emails saying, "It's all in the Bible. All you have to do is read the Bible." All I have to do is accept the name of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, on and on and on. Multiple times. Hundreds of times. Thousands of times. What I'm commonly hearing people says is, "It's all in the Bible! It's all right there in the Bible. You just gotta read the Bible." Now ... I am asking an innocent, honest question. Don't get offended and don't run away thinking you are being insulted or offended in any way. This is just questions and answers time at the roundtable. Now my question is, "If all of the answers are in the Bible, and everything is in the Bible, you just have to put faith in the Bible ... okay. Now, I am looking at the planet. I am seeing for myself that I would think it would be safe to say that at this point in time society ... around the world, and across the board, are possibly at their darkest times right now. Maybe. Possibly. Alright. That is just from my observation of watching the different countries around the globe and their interactions with each other, what they are doing to each other, what's being done to each other, what's happening to all of our societies today across the board, and I'm seeing the absolute darkest of times. I've seen a lot of evil go down. A lot of very, very, bad people in power. And I don't see any change coming to that anytime soon. So my question would be to people who lay faith in the Bible ... if everything is right there and it is so simple, how come nothing's changing? That's my honest question. Why is nothing changing? There is literally, possibly, hundreds of millions of people who read and put their faith in the Bible and I know many of them. Many of them are my friends. I love them, respect them, and would protect them with my life. But, my honest question is, "Why is nothing changing for the better?"

My question to this gentleman would be simple. Have you read the Bible? If he had, he may have come across Acts 17:11. It says, "Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true." It is my observation that he has never read the Bible. Because if he had, then he would know not to take people's word at face value that they are correctly interpreting the scriptures. Like a Berean, he should read the Bible for himself. The conclusion he makes that comes across in his question is that the world should be "changing for the better." What "better" looks like, he never defines and is open to interpretation. If he would read the Bible he would notice that the "darkest of times," the evil going down, and the "very very bad people in power" are foretold by the Bible.

Interestingly, he mentions the Nephilim. The Nephilim briefly appears in Genesis 6. Just after their mention, we read, "The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them (Genesis 6:5-7).” The wickedness and evil that God saw caused Him to say that He regretted making humanity. So much so, that He flooded the entire earth destroying all of mankind. What does this have to do with the YouTuber's comments about the state of the world? 

In Matthew 24, Jesus Christ was talking about His Second Coming and that nobody would know the day or the hour. However, He did say something about the condition of the world at that time. "But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 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 ... (Matthew 24:36-38)" Jesus said that at the time He would come it would be "as it was in the days of Noah." If God flooded the globe because of the wickedness and evil in it at the time, that means that there will be wickedness and evil in the world at the time Jesus Christ returns. This confirms what the gentleman was lamenting over regarding things not appearing to get better in the world. They are not supposed to be getting better. Unfortunately, they will get worse as time goes on. 

2 Timothy 3:1-5 says, "But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people." Nothing is changing for the better because the Bible isn't geared towards changing the world for the better. The Bible is about God's plan of salvation for mankind through faith in Jesus Christ. The Bible predicts times will be bad. That is a good thing from a salvation point of view because when the world falls apart people turn toward God and hopefully will believe in the Lord. Furthermore, one day there will be a new heaven and earth. The only question is will you be there or not?