The Shaking of Nations - A Harvest Tsunami Is On Its Way....

The apostle Peter refers to the ark and the great flood as

representing not only salvation from judgment but also of

baptism (1Peter 3:20). Like Christian baptism the flood waters

buried the perverted and sinful life of the ancient world but also

lifted Noah and his family to a new life in covenant with God.

This picture is consistent with Paul’s teaching that Christian

Baptism is the picture of burying the old life of sin and raising a

believer to new life in resurrection power (Rom. 6:1-6).

But Jesus added one other element to this story. Jesus

declared:

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; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away …..That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. (Matt. 24:37-39,42)

Jesus adds the element of urgency. At the time of the flood people were going about their regular life with little regard to what Noah was preaching. They ignored God’s message up to the day the flood came. Jesus is saying that the same spiritual resistance for many will be there in the last days, just before Jesus comes again. So He tells His disciples and the crowd: