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258 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
that he will miraculously preserve his faithful
people through the world's end .
2 God will not undo his own good work of creation
by destroying this earthly planet . What he
will righteously destroy is the wicked organization
which Satan the Devil has built up since the
days of Noah's flood and with which that great
adversary has surrounded the earth in defiance
of Jehovah's universal sovereignty . Without destroying
this globe He will "bring to ruin those
ruining the earth" . Revelation 11 :18, NW How
he will do this he illustrated by flooding the entire
globe in Noah's day . That any animal and human
life survived that world-destroying deluge
was only a miracle of God Omnipotent . Four human
pairs and also pairs of the basic types of animals
and birds were preserved through that global
flood of more than nine months, to refill the
cleansed earth with creature life .
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Not only that destruction of the ungodly antediluvian
world was illustrative, but also the preservation
of some humans and beasts was . This illustrated
how some will be preserved when this present
evil world is destroyed . On the authority of
God's greatest Prophet, Jesus, "just as it occurred
in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days
of the Son of man : they were eating, they were
drinking, men were marrying, women were being
given in marriage, until that day when Noah en-
2. What will God destroy? How did he illustrate this
long ago?
3. What besides the destruction was illustrative? Why
so?