NOAH’S FAMILY WILL BE SAVED
Autor: Arlete Simões | Publicado: 2009-06-13T10:10:00-07:00

The Creator was totally disappointed with his creation. At that time, God judged and condemned human beings. Exception: one family. Noah’s. “Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. So, make yourself an ark of cypress ...” Gn 6:11/14God had decided to restart human history from the descendants of a person: Noah. Why God was not disappointed with Noah?What God had seen in Noah and he did not see in other people?“…Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God”. Gn 6:9Even living among the corrupt people of his time, Noah walked with God and had characteristics of his Creator. He was a righteous and blameless man. Although living in a generation full of violence, corruption, dishonesty, selfishness etc., Noah walked with God and still had something of the divine nature himself. So God wanted all the humans to be his descendants since then. The children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Noah should maintain his lifestyle. But ... the time went by ... Nowadays, we are living terrible days again. Nowadays, the heart of God hurts again, and our hearts should also hurt when we see those that were created to be the image of God on earth acting like animals or worse than animals. The apostle Paul said to Timothy: “But mark this: there will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God”. 2Tm3:1/4Nowadays, in the midst of this evil world, God wants us to be like Noah: righteous and blameless people. But we can only be so if we walk with God as Noah did. We were all created in the image and likeness of God, and the more we walk with God more that image is restored in us, but the more we walk away from God more that image is damaged in us, until not being human. The Bible says (Cl 1:15) that Jesus is the image of the invisible God. So Noah was similar to Jesus Christ. The theologians say that Noah is a type of Christ in the Old Testament. • Through Noah, a group of people has been saved - his family; • Through Jesus Christ, a group of people has been saved: his family. God is building another ark to the final judgment. And again it will only enter there one family: Jesus’ family - those people who were punished on the cross with Jesus Christ; those ones who repented of their sins and walk with God in the midst of a corrupt and perverse generation. Jesus Christ said: “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left. (Mt 24:37/39)Are you a member of God’s family already?