Just Like the Days of Noah, People Remain Unaware of What's Coming

[StaceyLovesJesus]

When we think of the many signs telling us we live in the season of Jesus' appearing to take us home, it's easy to overlook that of the unawareness of so many people to the rapidly approaching seven-year Tribulation. It's also a sign we live in the last days.

In Matthew 24:37-39, Jesus warned that similar to Noah's day, in the last days most people would be unaware of the approach of another time of judgment upon the earth, that of the Day of the Lord. Sadly, a great many believers also remain oblivious to it.

The article below is an expanded version of my article that first appeared on the Rapture Ready website.

Jonathan Brentner

Just Like the Days of Noah, People Remain Unaware of What's Coming — Jonathan Brentner

Jesus warned that such blindness would characterize humanity before His return. In Matthew 24:37-39, He compared the days of Noah to a future time when people would be unaware of the approach of another time of worldwide judgment, that of the seven-year Tribulation.

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[Tall Timbers]

It's said that only about 1 in 20 churches spends any time covering eschatology, so a great many church goers are likely unaware of the end times scenario and the accompanying signs. It's unfortunate. In my own life eschatological knowledge brings much hope. Watching for His coming for the Church gives special meaning to each and every day.

 

[Andy C]

I seldom found anyone in all the churches I have attended who studied or even knew anything about eschatology. For me, I was drawn to studying end times shortly after I was saved 20 years ago.

 

[Kaatje]

In my own life eschatological knowledge brings much hope. Watching for His coming for the Church gives special meaning to each and every day.

This is it exactly!

 

[Kaatje]

I seldom found anyone in all the churches I have attended who studied or even knew anything about eschatology. For me, I was drawn to studying end times shortly after I was saved 20 years ago.

Your first statement made me sad, the second glad. So I liked with a "care"-emoji.

 

[Amethyst]

Lee Brainard made a comment in a recent video that he thinks,, your average evangelical has a 'secret love' for the world, and they don't want it to be destroyed/judged. They don't really want this world to end. They like giving lip service to Christ reigning soon but they really just want this world to keep going and going. And thats why they don't want to hear or talk about Eschatological things. It puts a chink in their love for the world.

 

[Andy C]

Lee Brainard made a comment in a recent video that he thinks,, your average evangelical has a 'secret love' for the world, and they don't want it to be destroyed/judged. They don't really want this world to end. They like giving lip service to Christ reigning soon but they really just want this world to keep going and going. And thats why they don't want to hear or talk about Eschatological things. It puts a chink in their love for the world.

That’s really sad. I try and make the most of the my time left in this world, but I always have my “go bag” packed.

As I heard Andy Woods say, more than a few times “There’s no problem I have that the rapture can’t fix”

 

[Baby Yoda]

Watching for His coming for the Church gives special meaning to each and every day.

So true!

 

[Hol]

Lee Brainard made a comment in a recent video that he thinks,, your average evangelical has a 'secret love' for the world, and they don't want it to be destroyed/judged. They don't really want this world to end. They like giving lip service to Christ reigning soon but they really just want this world to keep going and going. And thats why they don't want to hear or talk about Eschatological things. It puts a chink in their love for the world.

In the west we’re pretty comfortable and still building the American/Dutch/Canadian/Australian/Scottish, etc. dream.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

It's said that only about 1 in 20 churches spends any time covering eschatology, so a great many church goers are likely unaware of the end times scenario and the accompanying signs. It's unfortunate. In my own life eschatological knowledge brings much hope. Watching for His coming for the Church gives special meaning to each and every day.

I seldom found anyone in all the churches I have attended who studied or even knew anything about eschatology. For me, I was drawn to studying end times shortly after I was saved 20 years ago.

All of the individual churches of my denomination that I have been to make eschatology an important and integral part of preaching and teaching Law and Gospel. There were over 300 Messianic prophecies fulfilled by Jesus the first time around, so lots and lots and lots of fodder for the Pastors I find it ironic that so many pre-Trib churches don't spend much time on eschatology, especially with what's going on in the world today, and that we're watching prophecy happen in front of our very eyes and on the news every single day

The church I go to covers eschatology as it comes up in the Bible readings IAW the lexicon (schedule of Bible readings for 1, 2, or 3 years, depending on Congregation needs), plus as it pertains to Law and Gospel in other readings and in apologetics (defense of the faith and the accuracy of the Bible, historicity of events, etc.), so it's very frequent. Most of the eschatological preaching and teaching is the prophecy that Jesus fulfilled when He came the first time, and will fulfill at The Second Coming. Some of it is The Great White Throne Judgment, what happens to satan and his demons, the unsaved, and the saved. Some of it is what it will be like in Heaven and Hell. Since the denomination is amillennial, no literal 7-year Tribulation or Rapture. However, there is great anticipation that Jesus is coming any minute now (Second Coming), since the world is so much like the times of Noah, and it's so evil, it's hard to see how we're any better than Sodom and Gomorrah, so judgment must be imminent, along with Jesus coming back.

The Pastor included eschatology in his Sermon at Dad's funeral as part of The Gospel, along with Heaven and Hell, the Great White Throne Judgment, etc. While not fire-and-brimstone, the Pastor made it very clear the different places believers and non-believers go when they die. If not the best, one of the best Sermons I ever heard (I'm probably definitely very biased because of the occasion

During Confirmation, the New Testament book I chose to read and report on was Revelation, and the paper ended up having a literal Tribulation before Jesus comes back (Second Coming). I didn't know that wasn't IAW my church taught, and evidently neither did the parent, who was teaching the class Obviously way before the internet and I didn't know about commentaries, etc., so being a literal kid, and having been taught and believing that the entire Bible is literally true, I simply took the entire book of Revelation as literal at face value

I first learned about the pre-Trib Rapture and got interested in eschatology to study it on my own after reading Hal Lindsey's Late Great Planet Earth as a teenager, well after I was Confirmed. It wasn't until later that I learned about the differences in eschatological interpretation between denominations.