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The Days of Noah … Surprise! It’s Jesus!

  • Mar 27
  • 7 min read
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“As the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.” (Matthew 24:37) “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man.” (Luke 17:26)

 

Hey, gang! Let’s have fun.

 

How about a dive into End Times prophecy? Aw, c’mon. Don’t be shy. You’re already living in the midst of prophecy being fulfilled right now.

 

Doubt me? Well, check out these four major prophetic markers that have been fulfilled since the late 1800s.

 

  • Jews returning to their Land: After nearly two thousand years of exile among the nations, the Jewish people, driven from their biblical homeland by the Romans in A.D. 70, are returning home, and have been doing so in waves since the rise of Zionism in the late 1800s. Zionism is the belief that the Jewish people have a divine right to return to the land of Israel.

 

Here is God’s prophetic promise: “I will honor the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations—the name you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am the Lord—this is the declaration of the Lord God—when I demonstrate my holiness through you in their sight. For I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries, and will bring you into your own land” (Ezekiel 36:23-24, italics author in all scripture references).

 

Yes, this prophesied return of the Jews to their God-given land has been going on for over one hundred and forty years.

 

  • The rebirth of the nation of Israel: After nearly two thousand years of exile among the nations, the land of Israel, the biblical home of the Jewish people, was reconstituted as a nation in 1948. 

 

Here is God’s prophetic promise: “Who has heard of such a thing? Who has seen such things? Can a land be born in one day or a nation be delivered in an instant? Yet as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her sons” (Isaiah 66:8).

 

The rhetorical answer to Isaiah’s inspired questions is an absolute, “Yes!” The reborn land of Israel came into being on one day, May 14, 1948. The nation of Israel is seventy-eight years old as of this writing.

 

  • After nearly two thousand years of exile among the nations, Jerusalem returned to Jewish control in 1967.

 

Here is God’s prophetic promise from Jesus’ own lips: “Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled” (Luke 21:24, italics author).

 

This phrase goes all the way back to the Book of Daniel, where the prophet describes a line of Gentile dominions on earth over a long course of human history—the Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Greek, and a final unknown, horrendously beastly Empire. It means that Jerusalem will remain under Gentile authority until the Jewish Messiah, Jesus, returns to defeat Israel’s enemies, gather His Jewish people, and sit on His father, David’s throne, in Jerusalem, from where He will lead the nations. Considering that Daniel’s prophecy was given over 2,500 years ago, and Jerusalem has been in Gentile control for almost 2,000 years, we should sit up and take notice.

 

  • After nearly two thousand years of exile among the nations, many Jewish people are turning to Jesus for salvation.

 

Here is God’s prophetic promise: “Look, the days are coming”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah … this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days”—the Lord’s declaration. “I will put my teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know me, from the least to the greatest of them”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “For I will forgive their iniquity and never again remember their sin” (Jeremiah 31:31,33-34).

 

On the day of Pentecost, a new movement was born, a new sect of Judaism based on God’s promised New Covenant, whose followers believed Jesus was Israel’s Messiah. This movement began to spread throughout Rome’s province of Judea, then Samaria, and eventually throughout the Roman Empire. However, many Jews rejected Jesus as the Messiah and continued in the Mosaic Covenant rather than Jesus’ proffered New Covenant. But many Gentiles began to enter this new Jewish movement.

 

The Jewish Apostle Paul explained that God knew that His chosen people would reject Jesus, which was part of His foreordained plan to save both Jews and Gentiles. Paul saw God’s unique purpose for this—to bring the Gospel to the Gentiles (Romans 11:11-12). “I don’t want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you will not be conceited: A partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in” (Romans 11:25). In other words, God allowed His Jewish people to resist His plan so that the Gentiles would be saved. But a time would come when God’s work would once again turn toward His chosen people, and “all Israel will be saved” (Romans 11:26). Mind you, it’s not that Jews couldn’t be saved. They could, but the majority of New Covenant believers would come from the Gentiles.

 

Gee, I wonder if that’s happening in our day? According to Beyneynu (“together we will prevail”), a non-profit counter-Christian missionary organization that monitors missionary activity in Israel, Jews are turning to Jesus in increasing numbers today (blogs.timesofisrael.com). Jews For Judaism confirms this same thing (jewsforjudaism.ca).

 

With Jerusalem coming back under Jewish control and increasing numbers of Jews embracing Jesus for salvation and affirming His messiahship, it appears that this fourth prophetic marker is being fulfilled rapidly.

 

Based on these four prophecies, I’m convinced that the time of the Gentiles is drawing to a close, and the time of the Jews, with Jesus returning and ruling from Jerusalem, is nearing.

 

So what does this have to do with the Days of Noah and the coming of the Son of Man?

 

Jesus gave us clear indicators of His return in His End Time talk on the Mount of Olives just a few days before He died. His lesson focused not on the Gentiles, but on the Jews and the nation of Israel. Jesus did this so that none of His followers living at the time of His return would be unprepared for the Big Event.

 

Matthew records Jesus saying, “For in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah boarded the ark. They didn’t know until the flood came and swept them all away. This is the way the coming of the Son of Man will be.” (Matthew 24:38-39, italics author). In a literal sense, this is easy to interpret. Many people on earth will be oblivious to the oncoming freight train of Jesus’ return as the Father’s Judge, and to them, Jesus’ return will be sudden, taking them by surprise.

 

Luke records the same thing. “People went on eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage until the day Noah boarded the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.” (Luke 17:27, italics author). Again, people will be oblivious until it’s too late.

 

The astounding thing to me is that Jesus teaches that the conditions and events on earth will be 1) absolutely crazy, and 2) impossible to miss. I can only conclude that people will be so wrapped up in themselves that they’ll miss supposedly unmissable signs of Jesus’ return. Yes, for the last two millennia, there have been fakers who claim to be Jesus, “wars and rumors of wars … famines and earthquakes in various places” (Matthew 24:4-7). Jesus said that those would be part of earthly life and also part of the start of the lead-in to the End. You can see how people will dismiss those things with, “Yeah, but it’s always been that way.”

 

However, as humanity nears the End, persecution of Jesus followers will become greater than in previous times, and many will abandon their relationship with Jesus. Many false prophets will lead the way away from Him and into deception. A hallmark of societal breakdown will be a lack of love due to rejecting God and His ways. The good news is that the Good News will be spread throughout the globe, so no one is without an excuse before their approaching Judge.

 

Finally, just before Jesus shows up, the Antichrist will appear. See? The epitome of satanically driven human evil gets the first crack at global domination. But then, SURPRISE! Jesus suddenly appears, smashes down the global insurrection, rescues His people, and begins His earthly reign.

 

The keyword here is suddenly. This is what “the Days of Noah” means at face value. “For in those days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah boarded the ark. They didn’t know until the flood came and swept them all away. This is the way the coming of the Son of Man will be” (Matthew 24:38-39)

 

We already have the big four prophecies fulfilled.

 

Does Jesus have your attention?

 

In the next part, I want to extrapolate a little about the conditions on earth based on what it was like in the Days of Noah. Is Jesus’ return just about it happening suddenly, taking many by surprise, or are there other indicators that are implied but not explicitly stated?

 

Stay tuned.

 

 

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Pastor Jay Christianson

The Truth Barista, Frothy Thoughts

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