"Forty Days and Forty Nights" - Conclusion

 Noah must have been thankful-not only for his safety and that of his family but also for Jehovah's mercy in using them to warn the people who perished outside the ark.  Those years of hard world may have seemed unrewarding at the same time. People were so unresponsive!  Think of it-Noah likely had brothers, sisters, nephews, and nieces alive before the Flood came; yet no one except his immediate family listened to him. (Genesis 5:30) Now, as those eight souls clung to safety in the ark, they surely drew comfort from thinking back on all the time they had spent giving people a chance to survive. 

Jehovah has not changed since Noah's day.  (Malachi 3:6) Jesus Christ explained that our times today are much like "the days of Noah." (Matthew 24:37) Ours is a marked era, a time of great trouble that is due to end in the destruction of a corrupt world system of things. Today, God's people are likewise delivering a warning message to all who will listen. Will you respond to that message?  If you have already accepted the truth of that lifesaving message, will you join in sharing it with others? Noah and his family set the example for all of us.

Next time: "CARRIED SAFELY THROUGH THE WATER"

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