27 May '14 06:36>1 edit
Originally posted by BigDoggProblemThe apostle Peter tells us that Noah was a preacher of righteousness. Therefore, it is a logical asumption that he must have preached to those wicked people at some point during his 600 years before the flood. Certainly people would have inquired why he was building such a large boat.
People keep talking about Noah preaching to the lost. Reading Genesis, I see absolutely no mention of Noah preaching whatsoever.
It is quite clear from the story that God does not intend to save any human outside the family of Noah. There never is a chance to repent.
If someone can find the preaching part in some other biblical passage, then let ...[text shortened]... and the flooding begins. Nary a mention of any intercession of any kind on behalf of the damned.
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
(2 Peter 2:4-5 NASB)
Also Jesus said the following:
For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
(Matthew 24:37-39 NASB)
What was it they did not understand? Maybe they did not understand that judgment was coming upon them just like it will be at the coming of Christ when He returns with power and great glory. Surely preachers have been warning of the coming of the Lord in judgment long before it will occur just like Noah, the preacher of righteousness, must have done in his time.