KFLCC Kingdom Economics

C HAPTER 3

3 T HE C ODE OF THE L AST D AYS OF N OAH AND L OT

But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. M ATTHEW 24:37 (NKJV) hrist himself indicated that the days prior to His return would parallel the days of Noah, whose story is found in the Torah in Genesis. In the well noted Olivet discourse of Matthew 24, Christ stated that the events prior to Noah’s flood would be repeated in the last generation before He would return again. The writer Luke mentions the days of Noah and also Lot as patterns to review in order to understand the many signs that will occur prior to the Messiah’s second appearing. C And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise, as it was also in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. L UKE 17:26-30 (NKJV) After hearing hundreds of messages preached using the days of Lot and Noah as a preview of the days prior to Christ’s arrival, it seemed the emphasis was always on the sins of those two time periods and the fact that the judgments came as a sudden surprise to the disobedient people. There is also an emphasis on the fact that the world was destroyed by water in Noah’s day (Genesis chapter 7) and cities by fire in Lot’s time (Genesis chapter 19). Something that is often

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