FROM TODAY'S READING...
"[Noah] was a 'preacher of righteousness' (II Peter 2:5), though apparently no one responded to his preaching. The moral pressures must have been overwhelming. The temptations of a licentious and violent society, along with the continual rejection and ridicule of those masses who were 'disobedient in the days of Noah' (1 Peter 3:20), were no doubt inconceivably difficult for him to bear. So far as we know, he preached hundreds of years with no converts except some in his own family."
Henry M. Morris (1918-2006)
The Genesis Record, Baker Books 1976/2009
Institute for Creation Research
Genesis 6:5-6, 8 (NLT) The Lord observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil. So the Lord was sorry he had ever made them and put them on the earth. It broke his heart...But Noah found favor with the Lord.
Genesis 6:22 (NLT) So Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him.
Genesis 7:5 (NLT) So Noah did everything as the Lord commanded him.
2 Peter 2:5 (NLT) And God did not spare the ancient world—except for Noah and the seven others in his family. Noah warned the world of God’s righteous judgment. So God protected Noah when he destroyed the world of ungodly people with a vast flood.
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