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tered into the ark, and the flood arrived and destroyed
them all . Likewise, just as it occurred in
the days of Lot : they were eating, they were
drinking, they were buying, they were selling,
they were planting, they were building . But on the
day that Lot came out of Sodom it rained fire and
sulphur from heaven and destroyed them all . The
same way it will be on that day when the Son of
man is to be revealed ."-Luke 17 :26-30, NW.
The normal eating, drinking, marrying and
building by the people in Noah's day was indicative
of their lack of interest in his message and
their not taking note of the great sign of the
times. There was another kind of building going
on, too, and that was Noah's building. But this
was indicative of his faith in God's warning of a
flood, for it was the building of a huge boat at
God's command and according to his specifications.
By this act of faith Noah condemned that
old world and acted for the preserving of himself
and his household. Hebrews 11 :7 "Certainly if
God . . . did not hold back from punishing an
ancient world, but kept Noah, a preacher of righteousness,
safe with seven others when he brought
a deluge upon a world of ungodly people ; . . .
Jehovah knows how to deliver people of godly
devotion out of trial, but to reserve unrighteous
people for the day of judgment to be cut off, especially,
however, those who go on after flesh with
the desire to defile it and who look down on lord-
4. a How did Noah condemn that preflood world?
b What deliverance did God then show himself able
to bring about?