more on Genesis chapter 8

Hi,

I'm back and it's the middle of the night. Why is that? I noticed something, reviewing that last chapter, that deserved a note.

Matthew 24:37 tells us that the end times will be like the days of Noah. The last chapter we read defines what those days were like.

Mankind was becoming entirely corrupt. His heart dwelt always on evil. Violence filled the earth.

Corruption is an insidious thing. It creeps up without being noticed. We tend to give it nice names like "situational ethics".

Here's the thing. The ethical man knows the difference between right and wrong. The moral man chooses good.

Situational ethics is just a fancy way of saying we make the rules up as we go along. The ends justify the means and the wrong can be right if it's done for the right reason. That pretty much describes corruption. We do anything we want as long as we can justify it as accomplishing good. Then we define good as what we see as good.

God deals in absolutes. Good is good, bad is bad and bad can never equal good. Doing the wrong thing for the "right reason" is still doing the wrong thing and that is bad. All the world is being corrupted by situational ethics.

Man's mind is always on evil. Statistics say that a man thinks about sex more than once a minute. I think the last measure I heard was something like every 45 seconds on average. How many of those thoughts do you think fall under the heading of lust and covetousness? We regularly watch programing and read books that tell us bad can be good. Vampire heroes and witches who fight demons make great TV but serve the wrong side of the battle. Our popular programs and movies make heroes out of gangsters, mob bosses and scum and even have us cheering for a serial killer.

Speaking of serial killers we have begun to glorify violence in our pop culture while legitimate violence is seen as wrong. The world is filled with violence. Terrorists and criminals and power hungry governments attack, rape, pillage, murder and destroy every day. Our response has been to seek vengeance on those who use violence only as a last resort and to defend others and themselves. By outlawing self defense and vigilance we make ourselves victims and the violence increases. We stick our heads in the sand and say it just wasn't reported before but if that were true and this has always been this bad we would long ago have ceased to exist.

The bible shows us what the days of Noah were like and they are a lot like now. Are you ready for the return of the King Of Kings? Are you sure? Take the "Good" test and learn to be sure