Your Last Day On Earth.

 Will your last day be one of regret or joy?

Eating, drinking, giving in marriage, marrying… all day to day occurrences. Is it safe to say that on any given day people around our world are being married?

In 2018  2,132,853 marriages took place in the USA, approximately 5800 a day. Of course that is an estimate, most assuredly there could have been 8000 on one day and only 2000 on another and so on. The fact remains that in the United States alone there were over 2 million marriages in the year 2018. Is it any wonder Jesus included those words- marrying and giving in marriage. I say that because it is an everyday happening and something people do as a matter of leading a life of future expectation. A marriage as a rule is a symbol of the future. You marry with the hopes of sharing a life together, a future together. Though I'm sure there are marriages of convenience and marriages that are forced, arranged marriages, and so on and so forth. Some people do get annulments quickly after marriage when they realize it's a mistake, but the majority of marriages are done in hopes for a future. 

Eating, drinking, marrying…  you eat, drink and get marry… no cares about the world ending, no concern for Jesus' returning and all that means.

Picture for a moment Noah's huge ark. You've lived in its shadow all the while it was being built. You listened to the crazy old ark builder's reasoning, people laugh about him all the time, you laugh about it often.  It was a great source of amusement since its beginning. While the ark increased in size slowly, the frame, and the filling of the frame, life went on as usual. Noah's and his ark was a story being told to little children as they grew up, people grew used to the presence of the ark and its builder- they became a part of their way of life. They were something to be ignore as of little consequence. The ark didn't affect their lives in any way really, why would it? Noah wasn't trying to get them to help build the crazy thing. Every now and again Noah's story, the reason for that monstrous contraption, would be told. The old man said there was a god that was going to destroy everyone with water because they didn't believe in that god and follow his ways. Being killed with water, while not unheard of, people had drowned in rivers, wells and such, but everyone being killed with water so that they would need huge boat to survive, that was preposterous. But that was the strange reason for the crazy old man and his crazy old family doing what they did. 

Noah was crazy, until he wasn't any longer, but the people who realized too late that he wasn't only did so in their final moments, on the last day of their lives.

It is going to be the SAME way when Jesus returns.

Many people are going to believe those who are waiting for Jesus' return are crazy. It won't be until their last day on earth that they realize they were wrong. 

Don't be among those who realize too late. Please. Accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior right now, repent, seek forgiveness and have faith in our Lord. He will return. This life isn't all there is because without Christ, this life is one of hopelessness. Christ is hope. Choose hope.

All by the grace of our Lord and Savior, through His mercy! Now and forever! Amen!!!!!!

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EXPOSITION OF MATTHEW XXIV  24  (((Written in 1890 - remember when reading the excerpt 131 years have passed since it was written. History does matter.))))

NOAH'S TIME AND OURS

VERSES 37-39: "But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."

A picture of the present condition of the mass of mankind is here, drawn. The people of the last generation will be like that before the flood, while the ark was preparing. This shows that we cannot innocently be ignorant on the subject of the Lord's soon coming. It will be a terrible calamity in that day to those who do not know, even as it was to the world in the days of Noah, because they did not know of the approaching time of the flood. If they had had no means of knowing, they would, of course, have been innocent, and have escaped destruction. But they might have known, for Noah warned them by his preaching, and yet more forcibly in building the ark. In this he "condemned the world." Heb. 11:7. He proved his faith by his works. They proved their unbelief, and were justly condemned. They turned away from his warnings, and forgot his words, and so the flood came when they did not expect it,–they did not know,– and took them all away. So will it be when the Son of man is revealed. Matt. 24:39. 

Noah preached and warned the people of the coming flood, and they mocked. He built the ark and they scoffed. He was a preacher of righteousness. His works were calculated to give point to, and set home to the heart, what he preached. Every righteous sermon, and every blow struck in building the ark, condemned a careless, scoffing world. As the time grew nearer, they grew more careless, more hardened, more bold and impudent, and their condemnation surer. Noah and his family were alone. And could one family know more than all the world? The ark was a matter of ridicule, and Noah was regarded as a willful bigot. But the Lord calls Noah into the ark, and says to him, "Yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth;" and by the hand of Providence the beasts are led into the ark, and the Lord shuts Noah in. This is regarded at first by the scoffing multitude as something wonderful; but it is soon explained away by the wiser ones, so as to calm their fears, and they breathe easier. But the day arrives. The sun rises as usual, and the heavens are clear. "Now where is old Noah's flood?" is heard-from a thousand impious lips. On this very day some are being joined in marriage. It is a day of unusual feasting and sports. The farmer is planting and sowing, and the mechanic is heard pursuing his work of building. And while all are looking over long years of future prosperity and happiness, suddenly the heavens gather blackness. Fear fills every heart. They think of Noah, and as they turn to look toward the ark, the windows of heaven open, and the rain descends in torrents. "The fountains of the great deep are broken up," and here and there come gushing up rivers of water. The valleys are fast filling, and thousands are swept away in death. Some flee to the highest point of land, but the waters fast follow them. Men bear their wives and children to the mountains, but are obliged to leave them there to drown, while they climb the highest trees. But soon they too are covered with water. Not a scoffer remains. All are still in death. Horrible death! made still more horrible by being the consequence of slighted mercy! But where is Noah?–Ah! safe in the ark, borne upon the billow. Safe from the flood, safe, for God "shut him in." (End Excerpt)