THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION!

THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION!

          If you were God, which sin would prompt you to destroy mankind? If you say adultery, you forget that King David was an adulterer and added murder to it yet God said he was a man after His own heart. If you say murder, you forget that Moses was a murderer yet God used him to lead his people out of slavery. Twice God was moved to act in destruction. Let’s take a look and see if we can see His reasons.

1. THE FLOOD!

Luke 17:26-27

26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

Their sin seemed to be eating, drinking and marrying! Their mind’s focus was on social and family things. What could have been so bad about that?

2. THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM!

Luke 17:28-30

28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

The frightening thing about these two destructive events is that our days are spent in the same pursuits! We eat, drink, enjoy family life, watch sporting events, build houses, go to work, come home and go to bed. These pursuits hardly seem worthy of destruction except for one small fact. In all these things we exclude God. He is not part of our family or our social lives. He is given no consideration in any of our decisions. We ignore Him altogether.

Ps 10:4

4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

Acts 17:27-31

27 [We] should seek the Lord, if haply [we] might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; [allowed it to continue unchallenged] but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness…

Dear Lord, help me to include you in all my plans, all my thoughts and all my activities. AMEN