The Funny Old Man.
There was an old guy who did something so funny for the onlookers.
He built an ark atop a mountain so far away from the sea. And he keeps telling people "because God commanded me".
So he toiled and toiled, day in and day out, for some 50 or so years, it was a very big ark. Luckily his family did not make fun of him and instead helped him do his "project".
People would come and inquire, "what would you do with that ark of yours?" And he would reply: "I will collect animals and people who would like to be safe from a coming deluge." And the people would laugh, almost to tears. The scene is indeed funny, and it is made funnier by saying that the building guy is expecting a flood so high, that it will somehow reach this altitude! To think that, a new generation has been born already and are now in their mid 40's, just gave them another reason to believe in the absurdity of this whole affair.
The situation of the communities around the ark building guy is actually dismal, because some people wield unimaginable superpowers, while some grew so large, they needed to eat other people to survive. People are confused on what is really going on. They are seeing hybrids of animals that are both curious and hideous. There are some people who are now able to make fantastic things, wonderful things that no one knew or seen before, indeed the time is exciting and terrifying at the same time. For some the future from that point on is just so promising, for others, the time just got too dangerous to live.
Yet no person has any clear idea on what is really going on. Things are happening so fast and fun new things keep popping up from different workers. Bright, enchanting, and shiny new things.
The old man, just kept on working. The people keep on laughing.
Then one day, the rain started. There seems to be nothing unusual about this rain. Not in strenght nor in size and its still water. The old man and his family along with the animals they collected are now inside the ark. Waiting for what will happen next. The people on the other hand, keep telling to one another, this is just rain, there is nothing to worry about. Let's keep on living! Day after day after day.
Until, it came to a point that, the people from the lower ground have to move up, and they are now noticing that the "usual rain" is slowly becoming unusual. It has been days and it is still raining. They have to continually move up. Slowly, people are caught where there is no more place to move up to. They now recall the "funny old man". Is his words actually true? They ask one another.
The water is continually rising, some have finally moved up to where the NOW closed ark is located. The water is now knee deep even here. So they knocked on the ark, calling out; "hey old man, let us enter the ark, YOU MUST HELP US!" But the old man yelled back, that he was not the one who closed the ark, and have no way to open it for anyone, even for close relatives and friends. The time to enter the ark was before the rain begun. In short, it is now too late.
So the funny old man and his family, remained inside the ark for over a year, maybe longer, although the rain lasted only for 40 days and nights without stopping, its water filled and overflowed the highest mountain. Every non-aquatic life outside the ark died, either by being drowned, or by famine because until the water subsided, there is no food to be found, anywhere but inside the ark.
Why? What is the reason that God has to kill everyone, all except the "funny" old man's family? Was it because their God was violent? Was He, somehow vengeful?
Nope, none of the above. The reason, although it is of so much importance is contained in a very short sentence found in the book of Genesis. Look at chapter 6 verse 2. Humanity's DNA has been contaminated by the rebel spirits being(usually called angels). Cleansing is needed. The magnitude of contamination through the DNA and mind is too much, that God knows, a deluge is the best way to cleanse it.
From the time of Eve, where God pronounced the war between Eve's seed (human seed) and the serpent's seed (rebel spirits seed), until now, THIS WAR IS GOING ON.
This is the reason why, although everyone wants peace and love and happiness, humanity fail to achieve them. Because we are casualties of war. Those people who are still contaminated by the serpent's seed are still here, their FATHERS are still here. You and I have a decision to make. Join the winning side of God or remain under the evil system of the serpent's seed?
You may wonder, why will the serpent seed survive if God cleansed the earth by the deluge? One possibility is thru the wives of the sons of the "funny" old man. Another possibility is that, after the deluge, before the rebel spirits were bound, they descended once again to have more sex with some human women.
For those who are contaminated, there is no offer of atonement or salvation. Destruction is the only thing waiting for them.
Because our present life is under their system, this very system will EVENTUALLY collapse. It's politics, its commerce and finances, its hypocritical religious organizations and every thing in between. But that thought can be FUNNY too.
Everything about God and His plans can be funny too. And people may laugh and deride and instead upvote things that are in direct opposition to God. And the funny old man will keep on building the ark...Matthew 24:37
There will probably be giants, and superpowers, shiny new things and exciting-confusing-dangerous time ahead.
And people will laugh...
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As it was in the days of Noah, so will it 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.… -- Matthew 24:37-38
Glad to see you here sir.
Some people thought, that marrying or being married was the "sign" Christ is pointing out when He said those words...Actually the sign was the beginning of His sentence "As it was in the days of Noah"...
Being married is ALWAYS going on, on Earth, that alone, will in no way POINTS US to anything.
But if people would realize HOW THINGS WERE GOING in those days of NOAH, then they will come to appreciate SOMETHING VERY VERY DIFFERENT.
Indeed. Everything else, and in the parallel verse about Lot, was - "people were just going about their lives without a care in the world when... BAM!" The message is that the general public had no warning.