EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/05/2025/9:15
PM
My
Worship Time Focus: “The Case of the Ancient World”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: 2
Peter 2:5
Message of the verses: “and did not spare the ancient
world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when
He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;”
I have
to say in the beginning of this SD that the second chapter of 2 Peter is one of
my favorite chapters in the Word of God, ya I know I have a lot of favorite
chapters, but this one ranks pretty high.
Not
only did God judge certain fallen angels as we have learned, but he also did
not spare the ancient world. Now in
fact, He wiped out the full breadth of earth’s population by drowning all of
the ungodly in the flood, which is called the Noahic flood. The ancient world refers to the people
living at the time of the Flood, all of whom were wicked. The world was destroyed because:
The Lord saw that the wickedness of
man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually. The Lord was
sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. The Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I
have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things
and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.” (Gen. 6:5-7)
God, however,
preserved Noah, who was righteous, a true worshiper of God immersed in a
wicked and corrupt society. Resisting
the suffocating evil around him, Noah walked with God, along with his wife, his
sons, and their wives, who constituted the seven others whom the Lord preserved
from destruction in the ark. It was
more than a century before the Flood actually came, as God revealed to Noah His
plan to send judgment:
“But Noah found favor in the eyes of
the Lord. These are the records of the
generations of Noah. Noah was a
righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God. Noah became the father of three sons: Shem,
Ham, and Japheth. Now the earth was
corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence. God looked on the earth, and behold, it was
corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh
has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and
behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.” (Gen 6:8-13)
Now while building the ark, Noah also labored as a preacher
of righteousness, warning people of impending death and divine retribution
and calling them to repent. Years
earlier, Enoch had preached a similar message:
It was also about these men that
Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the
Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones, to execute judgment upon all,
and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done
in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have
spoken against Him.” (Jude 14-15). We looked at this when I was
studying Jude right before I began this study of 2 Peter.
John MacArthur writes:
“Flood translates kataklusmos, from which the English cataclysm
derives. The Genesis account, along with
current geological evidence, indicates that the Flood truly was cataclysmic in
every sense (cf. Gen. 7:10-24). Because
of man’s sinfulness, God destroyed every person and every land animal (except
those in the ark), covering the entire planet with water—even the peaks of the
highest mountains (Gen. 7:19-20).
“Ungodly
(cf. 2:6; 3:7; Jude 4, 15, 18), from the Greek asebeia is the
one-word characterization of ancient humanity—a term that refers to a complete
lack of reverence, worship, or fear of God (cf. Matt. 24:11, 24; 1 John 4:1-3;
2 John 7). The early church fathers used
to describe atheists as heretics. Like
the false teachers of Peter’s time, the ungodly of Noah’s day—through their
rebellious immorality—eventually brought God’s judgment upon themselves.”
Now I
am going to quote a small portion from MacArthur’s commentary as he writes talks
about some godly men who wrote about the flood.
“For a detailed biblical and scientific examination of the Flood, see
John C. Whitcomb, Jr., and Henry M. Morris, The Genesis Flood [Grand
Rapids: Baker, 1961]: for a concise defense of the biblical doctrine of a
worldwide flood, see Morris, Science and the Bible, rev. ed. [Chicago:
Moody, 1986], chap. 3, “Science and the Flood.”)
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