"A Flood is Here!"; Genesis 6:3

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Have you ever felt sorry for the people who lived during Noah’s time? </span> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Have you ever wondered if they might have repented if Noah had preached just one more time?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I have!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But Genesis 6:3 gives us a timeline of just how long Noah’s peers were given to repent before the flood came.  It says, “And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man. . . yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Did you catch that?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Noah didn’t just preach for a couple of weeks or months.  No, he preached for years– decades– to people who simply would NOT</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">listen.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Talk about a frustrating calling!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now it’s easy to look back and shake our heads at the people of Noah’s day.  How could they be so stubborn?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But let’s consider this: how many times have our prophets warned us to study our scriptures, to learn to recognize the Spirit, to strengthen our homes, or to pray more?  And have we really listened and obeyed yet?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The fact is, we are being warned just like the people of Noah’s day were!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While there won’t be a physical flood we are definitely facing a deluge of sin and temptation unlike the world has ever known.  So it’s up to us to listen to the prophet so we can be ready for the downpours of temptation that surround us!</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Music courtesy of bensound.com</span></p>