Family In Times of Violence and Corruption

Family

In Times of Violence and Corruption  

Noah raised his family in the end times before the flood

God said this about the times and condition when Noah was building his family

Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. Genesis 6:11

…all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. Genesis 6:12

for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Genesis 6:13

Noah was faced with raising and building his family

In a world of violence and corruption

Long before the ark Noah walked in righteousness

He did it with the respect of his family

With the violence and corruption we see in the news

We might think we are again in the last days

Be like Noah build your family

And when the times come, God will show you how to build an ark  

In Times of Violence and Corruption 

If you were to do a search for the first time

the word family appears in the

NIV Bible, you would find Genesis 7:1…

The LORD then said to Noah,

“Go into the ark, you and your whole family,

because I have found you

righteous in this generation.

You certainly cannot make a lot

out of this little fact…

But I find it interesting that Noah’s

family is first mentioned and Noah’s

family was the first family after the flood.

More important to us is…

 Noah was raising his family in

the end times before the flood.

God said this about the times and condition

when Noah was building his family…

Now the earth was corrupt in

God's sight and was full of violence.
Genesis 6:11

…All the people on earth had corrupted their ways.

Genesis 6:12

For the earth is filled with violence because of them.

Genesis 6:13

Noah was faced with raising and building his

family in a world of violence and corruption.

Long before the ark, Noah walked in righteousness.

He did it with the respect of his family.

Jesus compares the end times

of the earth to the times of Noah…

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

Matthew 24:37-39

It did not look all bad in the times of Noah

and in the time Jesus was talking about…

Normal things like eating and drinking and marriage.

Later Jesus says in this passage in Matthew 24…

 Jesus says the righteous will be working

together with the unrighteous.

 

How did Noah keep his family together?

Certainly the ark was a great accomplishment

of Noah, but it does not compare to his ability to

build his family in a time of violence and corruption.

I wish we had a video of Noah’s

life before building the ark. 

We get a picture of them building the ark

but not much of a picture of life before the ark.

So what do we know? …

Noah was a righteous man.

Noah lived by what was right while

the people around him were corrupt.

 The word corrupt means to “decay”

like fruit when it is ripe is good

but over time it begins to decay.

Noah’s fruits of Righteousness did not decay…

Blameless among the people of his time.

I can imagine the ridicule

Noah must have took.

Noah did not lower his standard to fit in.

Think of how the world pressures

us to accept language and actions

not becoming of Christ…

   

 And he walked with God.

    

Noah’s walk with God was

not like Adam’s face to face

Noah was like us, so what

did that daily walk look like? …

By faith Noah,

when warned about things not yet seen,

in holy fear built an ark to save his family.

Hebrew 11:7

I don’t think we can say Noah’s

building the ark saved his family.

It was his faith.

 If it was not for Noah’s faith long before

the ark, his children would have been like the

other children filled with violence and corruption.

  

Peter tells us…

…But protected Noah, a preacher

of righteousness, and seven others.

 2 Peter 2:5

Noah did not escape the flood by being

silent and sliding under the radar.

Noah proclaimed the Righteousness of God.

With the violence and corruption,

we see in the news, we might

think we are again in the last days.

Be like Noah…

 Build your family.

And when the times come,

 God will show you how to build an ark.  

Scripture Reading

Genesis 6:9-14 NIV

9 This is the account of Noah.

Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

11 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.

Genesis 7:1-2 NIV

7:1 The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

Matthew 24:36-41

36 "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah , so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 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; 39 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. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.