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Family Saved – Individuals Damned!
In today's sinful society many people see direct parallels to the stories in the bible that roused God's judgment, specifically the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, and Noah's Ark. In both of these stories the main element that people concentrate on is God's judgment. The larger point that goes unnoticed is that in each story God saved families, not just individuals. God found righteousness in both Lot and Noah AND their family!
I've gone to many churches and in each case all I'd see are single mothers and divorced individuals, BUT no whole families where a father and mother are present! In many cases these detached individuals were crying out to god for relief from the burdens of life. But in the stories were God provided PROTECTION and WARNING from his judgments against man's sin he found favor only with those who had whole families, both mother and father!
If there's a greater lesson to learn from all of God's judgments it is that God finds favor with those who hold their family together against all of the sinful and selfish forces that are trying to pull it apart. If we want God's protection in this day and age of increasing sin in society then work very hard to hold together your family! God shuns those who seek a life of individuality rather than building a family where both a mother and father are present. The family is the safety net that will harken God to our suffering and bring relief!
God Bless
note:
It should be noted that when God brought judgment upon mankind he did so because their sin eradicated the family from society. With Sodom and Gomorrah and Noah's Ark both societies were so sinful that only the righteous still maintained a 'true' family. Also notice that in Noah's time there was a lot of marrying but no families, just like it is in today's society! Our sinful society today clamors for ever more marriage but with no intention of ever maintaining a family. The disappearance of a 'true' biblical God fearing family from our society WILL eventually provoke God's judgment as in the days of Noah.......... but this time it will be the rapture!
Matthew 24:37-44
New International Version (NIV)
37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 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;39 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. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
42 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
In today's sinful society many people see direct parallels to the stories in the bible that roused God's judgment, specifically the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, and Noah's Ark. In both of these stories the main element that people concentrate on is God's judgment. The larger point that goes unnoticed is that in each story God saved families, not just individuals. God found righteousness in both Lot and Noah AND their family!
I've gone to many churches and in each case all I'd see are single mothers and divorced individuals, BUT no whole families where a father and mother are present! In many cases these detached individuals were crying out to god for relief from the burdens of life. But in the stories were God provided PROTECTION and WARNING from his judgments against man's sin he found favor only with those who had whole families, both mother and father!
If there's a greater lesson to learn from all of God's judgments it is that God finds favor with those who hold their family together against all of the sinful and selfish forces that are trying to pull it apart. If we want God's protection in this day and age of increasing sin in society then work very hard to hold together your family! God shuns those who seek a life of individuality rather than building a family where both a mother and father are present. The family is the safety net that will harken God to our suffering and bring relief!
God Bless
note:
It should be noted that when God brought judgment upon mankind he did so because their sin eradicated the family from society. With Sodom and Gomorrah and Noah's Ark both societies were so sinful that only the righteous still maintained a 'true' family. Also notice that in Noah's time there was a lot of marrying but no families, just like it is in today's society! Our sinful society today clamors for ever more marriage but with no intention of ever maintaining a family. The disappearance of a 'true' biblical God fearing family from our society WILL eventually provoke God's judgment as in the days of Noah.......... but this time it will be the rapture!
Matthew 24:37-44
New International Version (NIV)
37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 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;39 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. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
42 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
