From the Huge Elephant to the Tiny Mouse

And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away:

so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Matthew 24:39

"Universal was the doom,

neither rich nor poor escaped:

the learned and the illiterate,

the admired and the abhorred,

the religious and the profane,

the old and the young,

all sank in one common ruin.

Some had doubtless ridiculed the patriarch--where now their merry jests? ... The critic who judged the old man's work is drowned in the same sea which covers his sneering companions.

Even so, out of Christ, final destruction is sure to every man of woman born; no rank, possession, or character, shall suffice to save a single soul who has not believed in the Lord Jesus. My soul, behold this wide-spread judgment and tremble at it.

How marvellous the general apathy! they were all eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, till the awful morning dawned. There was not one wise man upon earth out of the ark.

Folly duped the whole race,
folly as to self-preservation--the most foolish of all follies.
All, blessed be God, were safe in the ark, no ruin entered there. From the huge elephant down to the tiny mouse all were safe. The timid hare was equally secure with the courageous lion, the helpless cony as safe as the laborious ox. All are safe in Jesus. My soul, art thou in him?"
Charles Spurgeon