The Plan of the Ages

God’s Dispensational Dealings with Humanity

The Days Before the Flood

Lesson XI

July 31, 2005

 

 

I         Jesus said the days before He returns will be like the days before the flood

Matthew 24:37-44 before the flood

Luke 17:4-27 as it was in the days of Noe

1)      The preachers before the flood

Noah

2 Peter 2:5 preached righteousness

Hebrews 11:7 condemned the world

Enoch

Hebrews 11:5 pleased God

Jude 14,15 preached prophecy

2)      People on earth before the flood

Matthew 24:38 fully occupied with life

Matthew 24:39 ignored Noah

2 Peter 2:5 ungodly

Jude 15 ungodly

II      The days before the flood

Genesis 6:1 population multiplied

Genesis 6:2-4 invasion by fallen angels

Genesis 6:5 wickedness cf Psalm 9:17

Genesis 6:11 the earth, corrupt cf Hosea 4:1-4

Genesis 6:11 the earth- filled with violence (also vs 13)

III   Romans chapter one outlines the cause of violence

1)      Men who knew God, glorified Him not as God

Romans 1:21 glorified him not

Daniel 5:23 not glorified

Believer’s are to be different

Jeremiah 9:23, 24 glory in this

1 Peter 4:11 glorify God in all

1 Corinthians 6:20 glorify God

2)      Neither were they thankful

Romans 1:21 not thankful

Believers are to be different

Philippians 4:6 with thanksgiving

Ephesians 5:20 for all things

1 Thessalonians 5:18 in everything

1 Timothy 2:1 for all

Ephesians 5:2-4 rather giving thanks


3)      Became vain in their imaginations

Romans 1:21 vain

Genesis 6:5 every imagination before the flood

Genesis 8:21 every imagination after the flood

4)      Professing to be wise, they became fools

Romans 1:22 professors!

1 Corinthians 1:19-20 worldly wisdom

Luke 24:25 fools do not believe Scripture

Proverbs 20:1 not wise

5)      Then they became idolaters

Romans 1:23 man to creeping things

Isaiah 44:9-17 it is do foolish

Colossians 3:5 what is our nation?

6)      Then immorality

Romans 1:23-28 a long list

Ezekiel 16: 49-50 like Sodom

7)      Then murder and violence

Romans 1: 29-31 read the list

 

To teach “self-worth,” “self-esteem,” to wicked men can only increase more wickedness; in turn, it will produce more violence.  Iniquity shall abound Matthew 24:12