"In comparing Noah's days, and ours, the Lord continues:
How dark the features!
The people of the last generation will be like that before the flood, while the ark was preparing.
Noah preached and warned them of the coming flood, and they mocked.
He built the ark, and they scoffed and jeered.
He was a preacher of righteousness. His works were calculated to give edge to, and set home to the heart, what he preached.
---Every righteous sermon,
and
---every blow struck in building the ark,
condemned a careless, scoffing world.
As the time drew nearer, the people were more careless, more hardened, more bold and impudent, and their condemnation surer. Noah and his family were alone.
And could one family know more than all the world?
But eight believing souls were saved, while all the world besides sank in their unbelief beneath the waters of the flood.
--While those who have wished to believe, have ever found everlasting rock on which to rest their faith."
James White
"For as in the days that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be."A picture of the present condition of the mass of mankind is here drawn.
How dark the features!
The people of the last generation will be like that before the flood, while the ark was preparing.
Noah preached and warned them of the coming flood, and they mocked.
He built the ark, and they scoffed and jeered.
He was a preacher of righteousness. His works were calculated to give edge to, and set home to the heart, what he preached.
---Every righteous sermon,
and
---every blow struck in building the ark,
condemned a careless, scoffing world.
As the time drew nearer, the people were more careless, more hardened, more bold and impudent, and their condemnation surer. Noah and his family were alone.
And could one family know more than all the world?
But eight believing souls were saved, while all the world besides sank in their unbelief beneath the waters of the flood.
God has never revealed his truth to man in a manner to compel him to believe.
--Those who have wished to doubt his word, have found a wide field in which to doubt, and a broad road to perdition. --While those who have wished to believe, have ever found everlasting rock on which to rest their faith."
James White