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The Key of David, with Gerald Flurry.

GERALD FLURRY:
Greetings, everyone.

What was it like in the days of Noah? And why should we be concerned? Why is it so
important to us? Jesus Christ said that “[A]s it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also
in the days of the Son of man” or just before the coming of Jesus Christ, the Second
Coming. It would be just like it was in Noah’s day.

Now, most people don’t realize just how bad it was in the days of Noah. It was worse
than probably what you could ever even imagined, unless you read it in the Bible. Noah,
it says in II Peter 2 and verse 5, was a preacher of righteousness. He was giving the world
God’s message at that time, and perhaps it was never needed more any time on this Earth
than then, except perhaps probably this very end time.

Let’s take a look at Matthew 24 where Christ said that, and I’ll give you just a little bit of
background before we get into that prophecy. Verse 3 of Matthew 24, “And as he sat
upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when
shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the
world?” Or the end of the age.

(4) “And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.” You’d
better all be careful about deception. Why?

Here’s why. (5) “For many,” MANY, “shall come in my name,” in the name of Christ,
“saying,” that Christ is Christ, or “I am Christ; and shall deceive many.” So many people
in the end of this age are going to be deceived about Christ's message. These men are
going to be talking about the person of Christ, these leaders, but they’re not going to be
accepting the message of Christ. MANY people are going to be deceived it says here.
That is the first warning that Christ gives here leading up to this prophecy about the times
of Noah, and how it would be today.

So Christians today are deceived, many of them, and God says, Himself, they’re going to
“come in my name saying I’m Christ,” talking about the person of Christ, but they’re not
going to accept His message. Now, that’s what He’s saying, and that’s very clear if we
think about it. So each one of us, surely, needs to realize how we need to pay attention to

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this message and to what Christ, Himself, said. This is in red letters, and these are His
own words. His own words.

So are you sure? Are you sure you know what Christ is talking about here? And are you
sure you’re not deceived? Am I? Well, we can know. We absolutely can know.

Notice verse 6, “And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not
troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. (7) For nation shall
rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and
pestilences, and earthquakes, in [different] places.” Yes, we’ve just seen one of the worst
earthquakes ever in Haiti, one of the worst ones in the western hemisphere.

And Christ prophesied that these earthquakes would intensify in this end time. That
would also be one of the signs, one of the many signs that Jesus Christ said would show
us what it was going to be like just before His Second Coming. Christ gave us major
signs, but it’s all leading up to one of the key signs, and that of Noah and what it was like
in the days of Noah it would also be—well, that way in this end time.

So let’s look at that prophecy that Christ made here in Matthew 24 about the days of
Noah. Notice verse 38 and 39. Verse 38 and 39, “For as in the days that were before the
flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that
Noah entered into the ark, (39) And knew not,” they didn’t know, you see, that this was
the message of God, “And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so
shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” You see what He’s saying? They didn’t
know that this was really a message from God until Noah began to climb on that ark, and
all of a sudden the rains came and the water came up from the deeps, and they knew it
was all happening just like Noah had said. And He said now it’s going to be the same
way in this end time, that people are not going to know until Christ is there, and then
they’re going to know that this message really was from God.

They were eating, see, eating and drinking, and marrying and giving in marriage. That
means, well, they just married anybody they pleased, and married many times, and
whatever they lusted for, they got. Everything was being done unlawfully, though, and
their eating and their drinking was all just pleasure-seeking, and they were wrapped up in
themselves, and they ignored Noah’s warning. They didn’t get it, you see, because they
were so wrapped up in their own evil lifestyles that they didn’t understand Noah’s
message, and all of them were drowned and killed in various ways in that flood.

So let’s take a closer look at what it was really like in the days of Noah. Why did Christ
use that example? Why did He use it to show us how it was going to be just before His
Second Coming? That’s critical to understand.

Notice Genesis 6 and verse 1. Genesis 6 and verse 1, “And it came to pass, when men
began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,” so they
began to multiply, and that is—there was just a massive population explosion. They were
multiplying, and there are, even the most conservative estimates, I think, of how many
people there were at the time of the flood, that the population had grown to some six
billion people! Well, I guess not many people know that, but that was the population
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explosion and all kinds of wars, we’ll see here, famines, pestilence, and yes, even
earthquakes because they weren’t receiving the blessings of God; quite the contrary.

But notice verse 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.” Can
you imagine a time when men were just—the imagination of their thoughts, the thoughts
of their hearts were just on evil continually, all the time? They were TOTALLY
DEPRAVED, the way God looks at it. By His standard totally depraved. And now do you
see why it’s important to us today? Christ said, “Do you know it’s going to be the same
way,” just before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. They’re going to be TOTALLY
depraved; everybody is just going to be wrapped up in himself.

Daniel 8 talks about it as “when the transgressors are come to the full.” I mean, they’ve
just filled it up. They can’t transgress any more, and that is the way it is on this Earth
right now. Though we like to talk about, well, we like to talk about Christ, and we like to
talk about how righteous we are, but God doesn’t agree. God says the whole world is
deceived, but how many religious people believe that? Well, it’s what God says. He says
it about the secular people and the religious people, all of them, but He says this world
would be filled with madness and total depravity and hatred and all kinds of evil human
nature. And when crises really do break out, you’re going to see how depraved they
really are.

Notice verse 11. Well, excuse me, I’ll read verse 6 first, “And it repented the LORD that
he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” I mean, think about this.
God! God created us, and even had second thoughts about what He had done because
man had become so evil in a relatively short amount of time. And it was so bad that He
decided, “Well, okay, I’m going to destroy all flesh.” And if it hadn’t been for Noah and
his family—mainly Noah, his family wasn’t as righteous as he was, but because of Noah,
his righteousness, He saved Noah and his family to begin a new world on this Earth,
which, well, shamefully, would lead on down to the time just before Christ comes, and
the same conditions would be extant.

Well, there is good news, you see, because Noah led them into a new world, and it’s a
type of what Jesus Christ is going to do. He’s going to come back, He’s going to lead us
into a new world, the Wonderful World Tomorrow that He’s going to rule, and show man
how to live, and where it all went wrong, and why they had all of these terrible crises.

But notice there it says God was grieved at his heart. He was just so grieved about this.
We think of God as being just something like a, I guess, a big cold stone, but this is God.
He’s the one that gave us emotions and built those emotions into us, and He was grieved
at His heart because of the way, the evil of mankind. And He is GRIEVED at His heart at
the way it is right now on this Earth, and the way it is in America and Britain and the
other countries around the world. God is grieved at all of the evil. He is, after all, our
Creator. And today, you see, it’s just like it was in the days of Noah.

Notice verses 8 and 9, “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. (9) These are the
generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah
walked with God.” Noah found grace, and he walked with God, and he warned the world.
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One man against six billion, one man walking with God when nobody else did, except his
family in a limited way. But God was really impressed by Noah. God was inspired and
encouraged by Noah and what Noah did. Noah walked with God, proclaimed God’s
message (as it says in II Peter 2), he was a preacher of righteousness. He preached God’s
righteousness when all of this was going on, and everybody on the Earth (except his own
family, his own biological family) scoffed and scorned everything that he said and
everything that he did.

Let’s go on down to verses 11 and 12. Verses 11 and 12, “The earth also was corrupt
before God, and the earth was filled with violence.” See, now how many of us could
stand alone in something like that, in all that violence and all that hatred, and walk with
God, and live by every word, as Christ said. We ought to live by every word of this. How
many of us could do that when everybody around us was doing just the opposite? Here
was truly a great man having an impact on the world that is hard to even measure! This
was the great Noah! And he walked with God. Now how many Christians today walk
with God? How many walk with God? That’s what we need to understand.

I’ll tell you this, we have a marvelous Correspondence Course with 36 lessons that will
show you in detail how to walk with God the way Noah did. And we can do it as well,
and God commands us to do so. But not many people heed God’s warning.

Verse 12, “And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had
corrupted his way upon the earth.” It was just filled with corruption. Race hatred, race
riots, race wars—and they're coming today. We already have some, but more are coming
because, well, men can’t solve these social problems, and they're just exploding before
our eyes, and it’s about to get a lot worse.

But Noah is going to be rewarded for proclaiming God’s message at that time and
warning those people. He’s going to be rewarded by God in being able to bring the
human family together when he’s resurrected and made a great ruler on this Earth. God is
going to resurrect him and let him—well, straighten out the thinking of all humanity, and
we’ll have the one thousand year millennium, and then at the end of that, God is going to
resurrect all these people who’ve never known God, and give them a chance to know
God, and let Noah show them how to get along, and how that we’re all one family
created by God, Himself, and ought to love each other, and help each other, and serve
each other, and not just the opposite. That’s the way it ought to be. Noah at that time is
not only going to teach God’s way of life, he’s going to ENFORCE it when it comes to
race relations.

And you need to get our Wonderful World Tomorrow booklet, and that will explain how
all that is done. Not only Noah but Abraham and David and Paul and all the others are
going to be there to rule with Jesus Christ. God is preparing rulers on this Earth today if
we will let Him. He wants to make us rulers. He wants to let us be the very bride of Jesus
Christ and help Him to rule in that Wonderful World Tomorrow when He is going to rule
with a rod of iron, and He’s going to enforce the way of God. And if people don’t want it,
well, they can go their own way, but they're going to just die and that will be the end of
them.

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But how many people understand the scripture over in Isaiah 66 and verse 8? It’s actually
a prophecy for this end time, and it says a spiritual nation is going to be born in a day! In
a day! And you’re going to see this resurrection—Noah, David, and all these other great
men of God, the twelve Apostles, and all of those men are going to be resurrected to rule
with Jesus Christ on this Earth.

Now, that’s what’s happening, and see, you, YOU—God wants YOU to have that
opportunity, but we have to be—well, courageous like Noah was, we have to be willing
to walk with God, and as Christ said, live by every word of God (Matthew 4 and verse 4).
How many Christians do that? Well, I think if that question were answered, it would be
most embarrassing. Live by every word of God; that’s what Christ said. But He said it
wouldn’t be that way when He returns. He said they’d be living like they did in the days
of Noah.

Notice verse 24 of Luke 17. Let me read that to you; give you Luke’s version. That was
Matthew’s I read before, but now here’s another one of the Apostles and they have their
version of it, and had some details that Matthew did not. Verse 24, “For as the lightning,
that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under
heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.” Yes, I mean His return is just going
to be like a flash of lightning all across the world, and all across the heavens. And all of a
sudden here He is, and people are shocked, just like they were when the flood came. It’s
going to be just like it was in the days of Noah. They’re going to be stunned! Well, He
really did come, just like He said He would do! And the flood really did come! Just like
He said it would, and just like Noah prophesied it would.

Do we have the faith to believe as Noah did? You know people are scoffing as they’re
shocked by what God does. But they scoff, and then they say all kinds of terrible things
about God. But nevertheless, men like Noah just keep right on teaching and preaching
God’s truth. And in the end, everybody sees, well, Noah was really right! And in the end,
you see the message that’s going out from God today to warn the world, they’re going to
say, “That really WAS the message of God!” Because, well, here’s the Tribulation, just
before Christ returns, and then lo and behold, there’s Jesus Christ! Just flashing across the
heavens like a bolt of brilliant lightning! And He really IS going to come back. Every
prophecy He has made in this Bible has been fulfilled.

Notice verse 25. Verse 25 of Luke 17, “But first must he suffer many things, and be
rejected of this generation.” Christ had to suffer, as sometimes we do.

Verse 26, “And as it was in the days of Noah, 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 Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.”
It destroyed all of them.

(28) “Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought,
they sold, they planted, they builded; (29) But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it
rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. (30) Even thus shall it be
in the day when the Son of man is revealed.” Well, there’s another sign right along there
with the one that Noah gives us. But as in the days of Lot, as in the days of Lot, what
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happens? What goes on then? What happens at that time? Well, God says there was fire
that came down from heaven and devoured them, and that’s also a very great prophecy.
Matthew 24, verses 21 and 22 says that if Jesus Christ didn’t return, that there would be
no flesh saved alive. So it’s going to get awfully bad. We’re going to see nuclear wars;
that’s what it’s really talking about.

Here’s an article here, you just see one every day in the newspapers, and usually quite a
large number. But it says, “War With Iran Nears,” and it’s all over they’re building a
nuclear bomb, and they’re almost there. Maybe within months or even less, who knows
for sure? But this is from the Washington Times, January 13, 2010, “If true, such short-
of-war methods could be seen as a means of preventing a larger conflict or paving the
way for more deadly operations.” I’m just breaking into a thought here.

“But time is running out.” Time is running out! “And the Jewish state is receiving
significant behind-the-scenes encouragement from Sunni Arab states wary of the
possibility of Iranian regional hegemony.

“Preparation for possible conflict is ongoing.” They’re preparing! They know that war is
coming. Iran’s going to get nuclear bombs. It looks very much like they will because
nobody yet has shown the willingness to stop them. And they're going to give those
bombs to terrorists, and they're going to spread that nuclear proliferation all over this
Earth, and it’s going to be one horrifying sight just like Jesus Christ said it would be. As
it was in the days of Lot—see, the same as it was in the days of Noah.

Verse 33, “Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose
his life shall preserve it.” Isn’t that amazing? If you try to go around saving your life and
protecting yourself, you’re going to lose your life. And God says just very simply, “If you
do My work and you help proclaim this message, and you just give your life to that, that
I’m going to save your life. I’m going to save you physically and spiritually.” God says
He will do that if you just lose your life in His work, and He always keeps His word.

See, Noah built an ark and it protected them and saved them from being destroyed. God
says, “Okay, I’m going to have a means to save My people in the end time if they just
lose themselves in this message and help get it out to this dying, evil, wretched world.”
That’s what He says.

Verse 34, “I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be
taken, and the other shall be left. (35) Two women shall be grinding together; the one
shall be taken, and the other left. (36) Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be
taken, and the other left.” In other words, there are two churches. There’s a Philadelphia
Church, and a Laodicean church in this end time—both are God’s churches, but one is
lukewarm. The Laodiceans are lukewarm, they’re not excited about God’s message, and
they’re not getting it out to the world, and God says they’re going to be grinding—they’re
going to have a work—but He’s going to leave them behind, and one is going to be taken,
the other left to go through the Great Tribulation.

But you see, if we do God’s work as the Philadelphians do, well, He says, “I’m going to
protect you, and I’ll see to it that you are taken and you escape all this terrible, terrible
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suffering that’s coming upon the world.” Now that, just of itself, is a great, great reward.
So let’s make sure that we live and walk with the great God.

Until next week, this is Gerald Flurry. Goodbye, friends.

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