THE END IS COME

Seven days. These seven days allowed Noah and family time to settle in and adjust to life on the ark before the storm hit. These seven days allowed them time to settle into the daily routine of caring for the many animals in their charge before the storm hit.

Using the Hebrew calendar, their first full day on the ark would have been on the 10^th day of the month of Tisri, which corresponds with the latter half of September and the first half of October by our calendar. It was not until the time of the Exodus that the beginning of the year was shifted by six months to begin in the spring of the year. (Exodus 12:2) Thus by our reckoning it would have been near the end of September when Noah and family boarded the ark. And very early October when the rains began. However it would be a mistake to assume that the seasons of the antediluvian world corresponded to the seasons we have today. All indication is that they experienced a mild climate year around.

Jesus tells us that the wicked of Noah’s day did not have a clue about what was happening until the flood actually came and swept them away. Such is the blindness of the wicked.

They had heard Noah’s preaching. They saw the animals coming from all over the earth entering the ark. They saw the angel close the door of the ark. The signs of the times were all around them, yet though they saw it all, they were blind to it all.

God will blind the eyes, darken the understanding, of those who reject Him, all the while allowing them to believe that they are the very essence of wisdom.

To those who by their lives have long been crying out to God to cease from before them - God gives them what they want - He steps out of their lives and lets them live in their carnal blindness, all the while believing themselves to be wise.

To those who love spiritual blindness - God says, "Very well, let it be as you wish. Be blind."

Isaiah 6:9 And He said, "Go, and tell this people: 'Keep on hearing, but do not understand; Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.' 10 "Make the heart of this people dull, And their ears heavy, And shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And return and be healed."

But know this, all who are so blinded will be held fully responsible for all that they could have known and understood had they sought God with all their heart. God will not allow them to use this blindness as a excuse in the judgment because this is a blindness that they willfully chose for themselves.

And this strange blindness of the wicked is something that is seen in all ages. It was especially manifested in the days of Christ. As Jesus hung on the cross, the religious leaders mocked him - but in their blindness they did not realize that every move they made, even the very words coming out of their mouth had been scripted in prophecy centuries beforehand. Now these religious leaders could quote the Scriptures to you forward and backwards. But for all their professed knowledge of the Scriptures they were blind to what it said. They were following the script to the letter, and yet for all their vast knowledge of the Scriptures, they were utterly blind to it all.

And so it is in these last days. The wicked are literally following to the letter the script written out for them in Prophecy. The signs of the times are manifesting themselves in plain sight all around them, and yet just as the antediluvians were, just as the religious leaders in Christ’s day were - they are utterly blind to it all. But that blindness is a blindness of their own making. It is a blindness of their own choice. God had merely given them what they have always wanted. And just as it was in Noah’s day, so it is today. The wicked will not know anything is amiss, won’t have a clue, until they are swept away by the coming storm of God’s wrath.

Matthew 24:37 "But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 38 "For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 "and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

Romans 1:22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, . . . 24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, . . . 26 [and] God gave them up to vile passions. . . . 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, ("and [they] did not know until the [storm] came and took them all away�?Matthew 24:39)

Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.