NOAH'S DAYS PROPHECY What Jesus Said About the End Times Will SHOCK You!
God's Word: Treasure of Faith
[{'start': '0.080', 'end': '4.160', 'text': 'What if I told you that an entire'}, {'start': '2.000', 'end': '6.480', 'text': 'generation was destroyed not because'}, {'start': '4.160', 'end': '8.360', 'text': "they weren't warned, but because they"}, {'start': '6.480', 'end': '10.800', 'text': 'ignored the truth staring them in the'}, {'start': '8.360', 'end': '14.200', 'text': 'face? Imagine a world where people went'}, {'start': '10.800', 'end': '16.720', 'text': 'about their daily lives working, eating,'}, {'start': '14.200', 'end': '18.720', 'text': 'celebrating, planning futures while'}, {'start': '16.720', 'end': '20.960', 'text': 'ignoring repeated warnings that'}, {'start': '18.720', 'end': '23.519', 'text': 'everything was about to change forever.'}, {'start': '20.960', 'end': '25.439', 'text': "This isn't the plot of a disaster movie."}, {'start': '23.519', 'end': '28.720', 'text': "This is the biblical account of Noah's"}, {'start': '25.439', 'end': '31.840', 'text': 'time. A story Jesus himself pointed to'}, {'start': '28.720', 'end': '34.160', 'text': 'as a mirror of our own future. As it was'}, {'start': '31.840', 'end': '36.399', 'text': 'in the days of Noah, so it will be at'}, {'start': '34.160', 'end': '38.160', 'text': 'the coming of the son of man. These'}, {'start': '36.399', 'end': '40.320', 'text': 'words from the gospel according to'}, {'start': '38.160', 'end': '42.719', 'text': 'Matthew chapter 24 might be the most'}, {'start': '40.320', 'end': '44.640', 'text': 'overlooked warning in human history. But'}, {'start': '42.719', 'end': '47.280', 'text': "what exactly was happening in Noah's"}, {'start': '44.640', 'end': '49.360', 'text': 'day? And why of all historical events'}, {'start': '47.280', 'end': '52.000', 'text': 'did Jesus specifically choose this'}, {'start': '49.360', 'end': '53.760', 'text': 'moment as the parallel to the end times?'}, {'start': '52.000', 'end': '56.079', 'text': 'The ancient world before the flood'}, {'start': '53.760', 'end': '58.719', 'text': "wasn't just spiritually lost. It was"}, {'start': '56.079', 'end': '61.440', 'text': 'broken at its core. The book of Genesis'}, {'start': '58.719', 'end': '63.680', 'text': 'chapter 6 describes it in stark terms.'}, {'start': '61.440', 'end': '66.080', 'text': 'The Lord saw how great the wickedness of'}, {'start': '63.680', 'end': '67.920', 'text': 'the human race had become on the earth'}, {'start': '66.080', 'end': '70.000', 'text': 'and that every inclination of the'}, {'start': '67.920', 'end': '72.720', 'text': 'thoughts of the human heart was only'}, {'start': '70.000', 'end': '76.159', 'text': 'evil all the time. Think about that'}, {'start': '72.720', 'end': '79.280', 'text': 'phrase, only evil all the time. Not'}, {'start': '76.159', 'end': '81.920', 'text': 'occasionally evil, not mostly evil with'}, {'start': '79.280', 'end': '84.080', 'text': 'some good moments. The text describes a'}, {'start': '81.920', 'end': '86.720', 'text': 'society where moral corruption had'}, {'start': '84.080', 'end': '88.520', 'text': 'become total and complete. Scripture'}, {'start': '86.720', 'end': '91.119', 'text': 'tells us the earth was filled with'}, {'start': '88.520', 'end': '93.600', 'text': 'violence. The word used in the original'}, {'start': '91.119', 'end': '95.680', 'text': 'Hebrew is Hamas, signifying not just'}, {'start': '93.600', 'end': '98.320', 'text': 'physical brutality, but a complete'}, {'start': '95.680', 'end': '100.240', 'text': 'breakdown of justice, compassion, and'}, {'start': '98.320', 'end': '102.720', 'text': 'social order. Remember, this was the'}, {'start': '100.240', 'end': '105.439', 'text': "world Noah lived in. He wasn't in some"}, {'start': '102.720', 'end': '108.000', 'text': 'isolated religious commune. He and his'}, {'start': '105.439', 'end': '110.399', 'text': 'family breathed the same air, walked the'}, {'start': '108.000', 'end': '113.159', 'text': 'same streets, and interacted with the'}, {'start': '110.399', 'end': '115.200', 'text': 'same society that God declared beyond'}, {'start': '113.159', 'end': '117.439', 'text': 'redemption. Now, let us consider'}, {'start': '115.200', 'end': '119.360', 'text': "something peculiar about Noah's world."}, {'start': '117.439', 'end': '121.520', 'text': 'Despite their wickedness, people were'}, {'start': '119.360', 'end': '124.240', 'text': 'not huddling in fear or aware of'}, {'start': '121.520', 'end': '125.920', 'text': 'impending doom. Jesus specifically'}, {'start': '124.240', 'end': '127.840', 'text': 'mentions that they were eating and'}, {'start': '125.920', 'end': '130.200', 'text': 'drinking, marrying and giving in'}, {'start': '127.840', 'end': '133.520', 'text': 'marriage until the day Noah entered the'}, {'start': '130.200', 'end': '135.360', 'text': 'ark. This was not a society in panic.'}, {'start': '133.520', 'end': '138.160', 'text': 'These were people living normal,'}, {'start': '135.360', 'end': '140.319', 'text': 'confident lives, making plans, pursuing'}, {'start': '138.160', 'end': '142.879', 'text': 'pleasures, building futures, right up'}, {'start': '140.319', 'end': '145.680', 'text': 'until the moment everything changed.'}, {'start': '142.879', 'end': '149.360', 'text': 'Sound familiar? The scriptures call Noah'}, {'start': '145.680', 'end': '151.440', 'text': 'a preacher of righteousness. For 120'}, {'start': '149.360', 'end': '153.360', 'text': 'years longer than most of us will live,'}, {'start': '151.440', 'end': '156.920', 'text': 'he warned his generation of coming'}, {'start': '153.360', 'end': '159.280', 'text': 'judgment while building the ark. That is'}, {'start': '156.920', 'end': '162.080', 'text': '43,800 days of being the neighborhood'}, {'start': '159.280', 'end': '164.239', 'text': 'eccentric. The doomsday prophet building'}, {'start': '162.080', 'end': '167.280', 'text': 'a massive boat where no flood had ever'}, {'start': '164.239', 'end': '170.879', 'text': 'been seen. Imagine the mockery, the'}, {'start': '167.280', 'end': '173.040', 'text': "dismissal, the laughter. Noah, it's"}, {'start': '170.879', 'end': '175.599', 'text': "another beautiful day. Where's this"}, {'start': '173.040', 'end': '178.319', 'text': 'flood you keep talking about? A boat in'}, {'start': '175.599', 'end': '180.080', 'text': 'the desert? Have you lost your mind? To'}, {'start': '178.319', 'end': '182.720', 'text': 'them, the idea of a flood sounded'}, {'start': '180.080', 'end': '185.680', 'text': 'absurd. Life carried on as if nothing'}, {'start': '182.720', 'end': '188.400', 'text': 'could ever go wrong. Day after day, year'}, {'start': '185.680', 'end': '190.879', 'text': 'after year, the warnings continued and'}, {'start': '188.400', 'end': '192.560', 'text': 'the people continued ignoring them.'}, {'start': '190.879', 'end': '195.200', 'text': 'Second Epistle of Peter chapter 2'}, {'start': '192.560', 'end': '197.120', 'text': 'affirms this role, describing Noah as a'}, {'start': '195.200', 'end': '199.200', 'text': 'herald of righteousness in an era of'}, {'start': '197.120', 'end': '201.040', 'text': "corruption and disbelief. What's"}, {'start': '199.200', 'end': '203.280', 'text': "striking about Noah's story isn't just"}, {'start': '201.040', 'end': '205.680', 'text': "the catastrophic flood. It's the"}, {'start': '203.280', 'end': '207.360', 'text': 'normality that preceded it. The Bible'}, {'start': '205.680', 'end': '209.920', 'text': "doesn't describe people cowering in fear"}, {'start': '207.360', 'end': '213.120', 'text': "of God's judgment. It describes business"}, {'start': '209.920', 'end': '216.319', 'text': 'as usual. Weddings were planned. Meals'}, {'start': '213.120', 'end': '218.000', 'text': 'were enjoyed. Deals were made. Lives'}, {'start': '216.319', 'end': '220.480', 'text': 'moved forward under the assumption that'}, {'start': '218.000', 'end': '222.799', 'text': 'tomorrow would be just like today. In'}, {'start': '220.480', 'end': '224.840', 'text': "the biblical account, this wasn't merely"}, {'start': '222.799', 'end': '227.280', 'text': 'ignorance. It was willful'}, {'start': '224.840', 'end': '229.840', 'text': "blindness. Noah wasn't building the ark"}, {'start': '227.280', 'end': '231.760', 'text': "in secret. The warnings weren't hidden."}, {'start': '229.840', 'end': '234.159', 'text': 'The people simply refused to adjust'}, {'start': '231.760', 'end': '236.959', 'text': 'their reality, continuing in patterns of'}, {'start': '234.159', 'end': '239.519', 'text': 'life that felt secure and predictable.'}, {'start': '236.959', 'end': '242.159', 'text': 'And then the rain began. Genesis tells'}, {'start': '239.519', 'end': '244.319', 'text': 'us that on that day all the springs of'}, {'start': '242.159', 'end': '246.720', 'text': 'the great deep burst forth and the'}, {'start': '244.319', 'end': '248.879', 'text': 'floodgates of the heavens were opened.'}, {'start': '246.720', 'end': '251.360', 'text': 'The text describes how the waters rose'}, {'start': '248.879', 'end': '253.200', 'text': 'and covered even the highest mountains.'}, {'start': '251.360', 'end': '255.760', 'text': 'Every living thing outside the ark'}, {'start': '253.200', 'end': '257.359', 'text': 'people who just hours before had been'}, {'start': '255.760', 'end': '259.840', 'text': 'planning weddings, building homes, and'}, {'start': '257.359', 'end': '262.320', 'text': 'pursuing dreams perished. The normality'}, {'start': '259.840', 'end': '264.479', 'text': 'they clung to vanished in an instant.'}, {'start': '262.320', 'end': '266.560', 'text': 'When Jesus said as it was in the days of'}, {'start': '264.479', 'end': '268.479', 'text': "Noah, he wasn't making a casual"}, {'start': '266.560', 'end': '270.000', 'text': 'comparison. He was highlighting a'}, {'start': '268.479', 'end': '272.560', 'text': 'pattern of human behavior that'}, {'start': '270.000', 'end': '274.800', 'text': 'transcends time, the capacity to ignore'}, {'start': '272.560', 'end': '277.040', 'text': 'overwhelming evidence when it threatens'}, {'start': '274.800', 'end': '279.520', 'text': 'our comfort and assumptions. But what'}, {'start': '277.040', 'end': '281.440', 'text': 'exactly was Jesus warning about? What'}, {'start': '279.520', 'end': '284.160', 'text': "parallels did he see between Noah's"}, {'start': '281.440', 'end': '285.759', 'text': 'generation and the end times? First,'}, {'start': '284.160', 'end': '287.840', 'text': 'Jesus points to the same willful'}, {'start': '285.759', 'end': '290.880', 'text': 'blindness in the Gospel according to'}, {'start': '287.840', 'end': '293.600', 'text': 'Matthew 24. He describes people carrying'}, {'start': '290.880', 'end': '295.360', 'text': 'on with normal life, eating, drinking,'}, {'start': '293.600', 'end': '297.600', 'text': 'marrying oblivious to the signs around'}, {'start': '295.360', 'end': '299.680', 'text': 'them. Not because the signs are not'}, {'start': '297.600', 'end': '301.600', 'text': 'there, but because acknowledging them'}, {'start': '299.680', 'end': '304.320', 'text': 'would disrupt the illusion of permanence'}, {'start': '301.600', 'end': '306.240', 'text': "we all crave. Second, like Noah's time,"}, {'start': '304.320', 'end': '308.800', 'text': 'Jesus describes a world where moral'}, {'start': '306.240', 'end': '311.039', 'text': 'corruption becomes normalized. In the'}, {'start': '308.800', 'end': '313.280', 'text': 'second epistle to Timothy, Paul writes'}, {'start': '311.039', 'end': '316.080', 'text': 'that in the last days, people will be'}, {'start': '313.280', 'end': '319.680', 'text': 'lovers of themselves, lovers of money,'}, {'start': '316.080', 'end': '323.199', 'text': 'boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to'}, {'start': '319.680', 'end': '326.639', 'text': 'their parents, ungrateful, unholy,'}, {'start': '323.199', 'end': '329.840', 'text': 'without love, unforgiving, slanderous,'}, {'start': '326.639', 'end': '332.800', 'text': 'without self-control, brutal, not lovers'}, {'start': '329.840', 'end': '335.039', 'text': 'of the good, treacherous, rash,'}, {'start': '332.800', 'end': '337.280', 'text': 'conceited, lovers of pleasure rather'}, {'start': '335.039', 'end': '339.680', 'text': 'than lovers of God. This is not'}, {'start': '337.280', 'end': '341.520', 'text': 'describing isolated pockets of evil. It'}, {'start': '339.680', 'end': '343.759', 'text': 'is describing societies where these'}, {'start': '341.520', 'end': '345.919', 'text': 'qualities become acceptable even'}, {'start': '343.759', 'end': '348.639', 'text': 'celebrated where good is called evil and'}, {'start': '345.919', 'end': '351.360', 'text': 'evil good. Third, Jesus points to the'}, {'start': '348.639', 'end': '353.120', 'text': 'sudden unexpected nature of judgment. In'}, {'start': '351.360', 'end': '355.280', 'text': 'both accounts, the shift from normal'}, {'start': '353.120', 'end': '357.840', 'text': 'life to judgment does not come with a'}, {'start': '355.280', 'end': '360.479', 'text': 'gradual transition. It arrives like a'}, {'start': '357.840', 'end': '363.280', 'text': 'thief in the night, sudden, decisive,'}, {'start': '360.479', 'end': '365.840', 'text': 'and final. But here is where many miss'}, {'start': '363.280', 'end': '367.919', 'text': 'the heart of Jesus warning. He was not'}, {'start': '365.840', 'end': '369.919', 'text': 'trying to terrify us with apocalyptic'}, {'start': '367.919', 'end': '371.759', 'text': 'imagery. He was calling us to a'}, {'start': '369.919', 'end': '373.840', 'text': 'vigilance that Noah embodied a'}, {'start': '371.759', 'end': '375.680', 'text': 'willingness to live differently even'}, {'start': '373.840', 'end': '378.080', 'text': 'when everything around us encourages'}, {'start': '375.680', 'end': '380.479', 'text': 'spiritual sleep. Noah did not just'}, {'start': '378.080', 'end': '382.880', 'text': "believe God's warning, he acted on it."}, {'start': '380.479', 'end': '385.800', 'text': 'He reoriented his entire life around a'}, {'start': '382.880', 'end': '388.479', 'text': 'truth others could not or would not see.'}, {'start': '385.800', 'end': '390.960', 'text': 'For 120 years, while others built their'}, {'start': '388.479', 'end': '392.000', 'text': 'lives on temporary foundations, Noah'}, {'start': '390.960', 'end': '394.560', 'text': 'built according to a different'}, {'start': '392.000', 'end': '397.440', 'text': 'blueprint. The ark represents more than'}, {'start': '394.560', 'end': '399.759', 'text': 'physical salvation. It symbolizes the'}, {'start': '397.440', 'end': '402.240', 'text': 'life built on spiritual vigilance,'}, {'start': '399.759', 'end': '403.880', 'text': "attentive to God's voice, even when it"}, {'start': '402.240', 'end': '406.080', 'text': 'contradicts the chorus of cultural'}, {'start': '403.880', 'end': '408.240', 'text': 'assumptions. Today, we face our own'}, {'start': '406.080', 'end': '409.919', 'text': "version of Noah's challenge. Our world"}, {'start': '408.240', 'end': '411.919', 'text': 'is not lacking information, we are'}, {'start': '409.919', 'end': '414.319', 'text': 'drowning in it. What we lack is'}, {'start': '411.919', 'end': '416.880', 'text': 'discernment, the ability to distinguish'}, {'start': '414.319', 'end': '419.039', 'text': 'signals from noise, eternal truth from'}, {'start': '416.880', 'end': '421.199', 'text': "temporary distraction. Like Noah's"}, {'start': '419.039', 'end': '423.280', 'text': "generation, we're experts at normalizing"}, {'start': '421.199', 'end': '425.280', 'text': 'the abnormal. Things that would have'}, {'start': '423.280', 'end': '428.080', 'text': 'shocked previous generations barely'}, {'start': '425.280', 'end': '430.240', 'text': 'register on our moral radar. Violence,'}, {'start': '428.080', 'end': '432.880', 'text': "corruption, and dehumanization don't"}, {'start': '430.240', 'end': '434.800', 'text': 'alarm us. They entertain us. The'}, {'start': '432.880', 'end': '437.199', 'text': 'foundations shake while we scroll'}, {'start': '434.800', 'end': '439.199', 'text': 'through our feeds. Jesus warned that the'}, {'start': '437.199', 'end': '441.599', 'text': 'days before his return would feel'}, {'start': '439.199', 'end': '444.000', 'text': 'misleadingly normal. For in the days'}, {'start': '441.599', 'end': '446.240', 'text': 'before the flood, he said, people were'}, {'start': '444.000', 'end': '448.639', 'text': 'eating and drinking, marrying and giving'}, {'start': '446.240', 'end': '450.720', 'text': 'in marriage up to the day Noah entered'}, {'start': '448.639', 'end': '452.720', 'text': 'the ark. And they knew nothing about'}, {'start': '450.720', 'end': '455.520', 'text': 'what would happen until the flood came'}, {'start': '452.720', 'end': '458.240', 'text': 'and took them all away. The phrase they'}, {'start': '455.520', 'end': '460.880', 'text': "knew nothing is telling. It wasn't that"}, {'start': '458.240', 'end': '462.800', 'text': "information wasn't available. Noah was"}, {'start': '460.880', 'end': '465.440', 'text': 'literally building a massive boat and'}, {'start': '462.800', 'end': '467.199', 'text': 'preaching repentance. The problem was'}, {'start': '465.440', 'end': '468.720', 'text': 'their unwillingness to integrate'}, {'start': '467.199', 'end': '471.120', 'text': 'uncomfortable truth into their'}, {'start': '468.720', 'end': '473.599', 'text': "worldview. But Jesus doesn't leave us"}, {'start': '471.120', 'end': '476.800', 'text': 'with just a warning. He offers himself'}, {'start': '473.599', 'end': '478.720', 'text': "as the ark for our time. In Noah's day,"}, {'start': '476.800', 'end': '481.360', 'text': 'physical salvation came through entering'}, {'start': '478.720', 'end': '483.360', 'text': 'a physical ark. In our day, spiritual'}, {'start': '481.360', 'end': '485.759', 'text': 'salvation comes through entering into'}, {'start': '483.360', 'end': '488.400', 'text': 'relationship with Christ, allowing his'}, {'start': '485.759', 'end': '490.599', 'text': 'life, death, and resurrection to become'}, {'start': '488.400', 'end': '493.120', 'text': 'the foundation of our identity and'}, {'start': '490.599', 'end': '495.599', 'text': "security. Noah's ark protected those"}, {'start': '493.120', 'end': '497.759', 'text': 'inside from waters of judgment. Christ'}, {'start': '495.599', 'end': '500.319', 'text': 'protects those who trust in him from the'}, {'start': '497.759', 'end': '503.199', 'text': "final judgment. Noah's family entered"}, {'start': '500.319', 'end': '505.639', 'text': 'through one door. Jesus said, "I am the'}, {'start': '503.199', 'end': '508.319', 'text': 'door. Whoever enters through me will be'}, {'start': '505.639', 'end': '510.280', 'text': 'saved." The comparison between Noah\'s'}, {'start': '508.319', 'end': '512.640', 'text': "day and our own isn't meant to create"}, {'start': '510.280', 'end': '515.039', 'text': "paranoia. It's meant to awaken us from"}, {'start': '512.640', 'end': '517.519', 'text': 'spiritual slumber to help us recognize'}, {'start': '515.039', 'end': '519.440', 'text': 'that normaly can be deceptive. That'}, {'start': '517.519', 'end': '522.159', 'text': "majority opinion isn't always aligned"}, {'start': '519.440', 'end': '524.159', 'text': 'with eternal truth. Just as Noah built'}, {'start': '522.159', 'end': '526.560', 'text': 'the ark one plank at a time over'}, {'start': '524.159', 'end': '528.880', 'text': 'decades, spiritual vigilance is built'}, {'start': '526.560', 'end': '531.040', 'text': 'through daily choices. Moments when we'}, {'start': '528.880', 'end': '532.959', 'text': "choose God's perspective over cultural"}, {'start': '531.040', 'end': '535.200', 'text': 'assumptions, eternal values over'}, {'start': '532.959', 'end': '537.440', 'text': "temporary comfort. Jesus didn't compare"}, {'start': '535.200', 'end': '539.680', 'text': "our times to Noah's to condemn us, but"}, {'start': '537.440', 'end': '542.480', 'text': 'to call us to the same radical obedience'}, {'start': '539.680', 'end': '544.640', 'text': "that saved Noah's family. Noah built an"}, {'start': '542.480', 'end': '546.399', 'text': 'ark when there was no sign of rain.'}, {'start': '544.640', 'end': '548.320', 'text': "We're called to build lives of faith"}, {'start': '546.399', 'end': '550.720', 'text': 'when everything around us encourages'}, {'start': '548.320', 'end': '553.360', 'text': 'doubt. There is a haunting detail in the'}, {'start': '550.720', 'end': '555.519', 'text': 'book of Genesis that is easy to miss.'}, {'start': '553.360', 'end': '557.760', 'text': "After Noah's family entered the ark,"}, {'start': '555.519', 'end': '561.279', 'text': 'scripture says, "Then the Lord shut him'}, {'start': '557.760', 'end': '564.080', 'text': 'in. Not Noah, not his sons. The Lord'}, {'start': '561.279', 'end': '566.560', 'text': 'himself sealed the door." Once judgment'}, {'start': '564.080', 'end': '569.040', 'text': 'began, the opportunity for others to'}, {'start': '566.560', 'end': '572.240', 'text': 'enter was over. The same hands that had'}, {'start': '569.040', 'end': '574.399', 'text': 'extended invitation for 120 years now'}, {'start': '572.240', 'end': '577.600', 'text': 'closed the door. The time for decision'}, {'start': '574.399', 'end': '580.080', 'text': 'had passed. Jesus uses this same imagery'}, {'start': '577.600', 'end': '582.320', 'text': 'when speaking of his return. Two men'}, {'start': '580.080', 'end': '584.640', 'text': 'will be in the field, one will be taken'}, {'start': '582.320', 'end': '586.800', 'text': 'and the other left. Two women will be'}, {'start': '584.640', 'end': '589.600', 'text': 'grinding with a handmill, one will be'}, {'start': '586.800', 'end': '592.080', 'text': 'taken and the other left. The separation'}, {'start': '589.600', 'end': '594.480', 'text': "isn't arbitrary. It's the natural"}, {'start': '592.080', 'end': '597.279', 'text': 'conclusion of choices made in warnings'}, {'start': '594.480', 'end': '599.519', 'text': 'heeded or ignored over a lifetime. So'}, {'start': '597.279', 'end': '601.839', 'text': 'what do we do with Jesus warning? How do'}, {'start': '599.519', 'end': '604.560', 'text': 'we live as spiritual descendants of Noah'}, {'start': '601.839', 'end': '607.200', 'text': 'in a world that like his continues in'}, {'start': '604.560', 'end': '609.519', 'text': 'willful blindness? First, we cultivate'}, {'start': '607.200', 'end': '611.120', 'text': "awareness. Noah wasn't deceived by the"}, {'start': '609.519', 'end': '614.320', 'text': 'normaly around him because he walked'}, {'start': '611.120', 'end': '616.959', 'text': 'closely with God. Genesis says simply,'}, {'start': '614.320', 'end': '618.800', 'text': 'Noah walked faithfully with God. This'}, {'start': '616.959', 'end': '621.519', 'text': 'daily communion gave him perspective'}, {'start': '618.800', 'end': '623.399', 'text': 'that transcended cultural assumptions.'}, {'start': '621.519', 'end': '625.519', 'text': 'Second, we build according to different'}, {'start': '623.399', 'end': '627.920', 'text': "blueprints. Noah didn't just believe"}, {'start': '625.519', 'end': '630.240', 'text': 'God. He reoriented his entire life'}, {'start': '627.920', 'end': '632.160', 'text': "around God's warning and promise. Faith"}, {'start': '630.240', 'end': '634.160', 'text': 'without action would have left him as'}, {'start': '632.160', 'end': '636.160', 'text': 'vulnerable as his neighbors. Third, we'}, {'start': '634.160', 'end': '638.240', 'text': 'accept the social cost. Scripture'}, {'start': '636.160', 'end': '640.240', 'text': "doesn't specifically mention it, but"}, {'start': '638.240', 'end': '643.120', 'text': 'Noah must have faced ridicule,'}, {'start': '640.240', 'end': '644.959', 'text': 'opposition, and isolation. Building an'}, {'start': '643.120', 'end': '647.600', 'text': "ark in a desert isn't the way to win"}, {'start': '644.959', 'end': '649.600', 'text': "popularity contests. Following God's"}, {'start': '647.600', 'end': '653.600', 'text': 'direction often means stepping out of'}, {'start': '649.600', 'end': '656.240', 'text': 'social conformity. For 120 years, Noah'}, {'start': '653.600', 'end': '658.320', 'text': 'did not just build, he preached. He'}, {'start': '656.240', 'end': '660.560', 'text': 'offered his generation the opportunity'}, {'start': '658.320', 'end': '662.480', 'text': 'to join him in salvation. Though none'}, {'start': '660.560', 'end': '664.480', 'text': 'outside his family accepted, the'}, {'start': '662.480', 'end': '667.040', 'text': 'invitation remained open until the door'}, {'start': '664.480', 'end': '669.720', 'text': "was shut. The story of Noah isn't"}, {'start': '667.040', 'end': '672.240', 'text': "primarily about destruction. It's about"}, {'start': '669.720', 'end': '674.560', 'text': 'preservation, about a God who provides a'}, {'start': '672.240', 'end': '677.519', 'text': 'way of escape even as judgment becomes'}, {'start': '674.560', 'end': '679.440', 'text': "necessary. It's about a faithful man who"}, {'start': '677.519', 'end': '681.320', 'text': 'believed God enough to live differently'}, {'start': '679.440', 'end': '683.760', 'text': 'when everything around him encouraged'}, {'start': '681.320', 'end': '686.720', 'text': 'compromise. Jesus compared our times to'}, {'start': '683.760', 'end': '689.279', 'text': "Noah's not to frighten us but to wake us"}, {'start': '686.720', 'end': '691.760', 'text': 'up to help us recognize that spiritual'}, {'start': '689.279', 'end': '694.480', 'text': 'vigilance matters that the majority can'}, {'start': '691.760', 'end': '697.360', 'text': 'be catastrophically wrong that normaly'}, {'start': '694.480', 'end': '699.440', 'text': 'can be dangerously deceptive. The waters'}, {'start': '697.360', 'end': '702.079', 'text': "that destroyed Noah's world also lifted"}, {'start': '699.440', 'end': '703.760', 'text': 'the ark to safety. The same events that'}, {'start': '702.079', 'end': '705.839', 'text': 'brought judgment to some brought'}, {'start': '703.760', 'end': '708.000', 'text': 'salvation to others. The difference'}, {'start': '705.839', 'end': '710.399', 'text': "wasn't the circumstances. It was their"}, {'start': '708.000', 'end': '713.120', 'text': 'response to the warning. Today, Jesus'}, {'start': '710.399', 'end': '715.839', 'text': 'offers himself as our ark, the place of'}, {'start': '713.120', 'end': '718.880', 'text': 'safety in a world ripening for judgment.'}, {'start': '715.839', 'end': '722.040', 'text': 'Not a physical structure, but a person.'}, {'start': '718.880', 'end': '724.160', 'text': 'Not a temporary refuge, but an eternal'}, {'start': '722.040', 'end': '726.480', 'text': "salvation. The question isn't whether"}, {'start': '724.160', 'end': '728.720', 'text': "we'll face the waters. The question is"}, {'start': '726.480', 'end': '731.279', 'text': "where we'll be when they come. Will we"}, {'start': '728.720', 'end': '734.160', 'text': "be like Noah's generation, eating,"}, {'start': '731.279', 'end': '736.399', 'text': 'drinking, marrying, building, planning,'}, {'start': '734.160', 'end': '738.959', 'text': 'blind to the spiritual reality breaking'}, {'start': '736.399', 'end': '741.920', 'text': 'into our physical world? Or will we be'}, {'start': '738.959', 'end': '743.680', 'text': "like Noah, attentive to God's voice,"}, {'start': '741.920', 'end': '746.480', 'text': 'willing to look foolish in the eyes of'}, {'start': '743.680', 'end': '748.920', 'text': 'our generation, building our lives on'}, {'start': '746.480', 'end': '751.760', 'text': 'eternal rather than temporary'}, {'start': '748.920', 'end': '754.160', 'text': 'foundations. Jesus said, "As it was in'}, {'start': '751.760', 'end': '756.560', 'text': 'the days of Noah, so it will be at the'}, {'start': '754.160', 'end': '758.480', 'text': 'coming of the Son of Man. The warning'}, {'start': '756.560', 'end': '760.880', 'text': 'has been given. The ark door stands'}, {'start': '758.480', 'end': '760.880', 'text': 'open.'}]