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The earth was CORRUPT before God, and the earth was FILLED with
violence
(as it is today).
So God looked upon the earth
(as He would later with
Sodom and Gomorrah and then destroy those
cities, Genesis
19.),
and indeed it was
CORRUPT; for ALL FLESH
(mankind)
had
CORRUPTED their way on the earth
(corrupted their God-given minds).
And God
said to Noah
(who had found grace in His
eyes, verse 8),
the end of all flesh has come
before Me, for the earth is filled with
violence through them; and behold, I will
destroy them with the earth (Genesis 6:5-13).
Same
Problems to Exist at the End ofthis Age
Speaking to His disciples, Jesus Christ made reference to that world while making
known the same problems would again exist before His return to this earth:
"But as the days of Noah were so also will be the coming of the Son of Man
be. For as in the days BEFORE the Flood, they were eating and drinking,
Marrying and Giving in Marriage, UNTIL the day Noah entered the Ark, and
did NOT know UNTIL the Flood came and took them all away, so also will be
the coming of the Son ofMan be" (Matthew 24:37-39).
It
is interesting to focus on what Jesus Christ said about the problems of Sodom and
Gomorrah and find there is some variation with what He said about the pre-Flood
world:
"Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank
(but nothing
said about marriages as it was said with Noah-undoubtedly due to the wholesale acts
of deviate sexual relations)
they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but
on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained
fire and brimstone
from
heaven and destroyed them all" (Luke 17:28).
History records the marriages at the time of the pre-Flood world of Noah were
predominantly interracial between man and woman.
In contrast it was not the same with Sodom and Gomorrah, though there must have
been marriages, they were predominantly of the same gender for those cities were
known for being homosexual
(Jude
7). That is possibly why Jesus Christ said nothing
about marriage.
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