As we see the further effects of sin we need to start to view the chart and our textual evidence in the light of God beginning to use events with the mindset of bringing mankind back to the way it was in the garden. We come to a point where sin had risen to a point that is was on the hearts of man continually:

Genesis 6:5  And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

In the light of how this event in the scriptures finds its way to our chart we need only to look at the comparison that the bible makes between the days of Noah and the last days:

Luke 17:26  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.

Let’s compare what the scriptures further:

Genesis 6:8  But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

Genesis 6:9  These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Compare to the last days:

2 Timothy 3:1  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

So simply looking at the news, in our schools, through our politics and even in our churches we see how it was in the days of Noah because we see it today first hand. But just as God made a way to escape for Noah and those who would believe, God made a way for us today through Jesus Christ. The account of Noah is a great picture of Salvation. Let’s look at a few:

Noah was a preacher

2 Peter 2:5  And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

Jesus was a Preacher

Matthew 4:17  From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

There was only one door to get into the ark

Genesis 6:16  A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

There is only one way into heaven

John 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

 

NOTE: Why did God choose to use Gopher wood? Noah would need wood and his kids would go-fer it.