God shuts Ark door on 6-plus billion

“Before the Flood there was a population explosion because men and women were living to be almost a thousand years old,” explains Noah W. Hutchings in his 1998 classic God Divided the Nations. “There would have been a minimum of six billion souls on Earth.”

Referring to God, II Peter 2:5 says, [5] And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.

“When Peter says Noah was the eighth person, he’s not saying the eighth from Adam because Enoch was the seventh from Adam, according to the Book of Jude, and Noah is a couple of generations after Enoch," explains Jordan.

“It isn’t hard to figure out. I Peter 3:20 says, [20] Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.  

“How many people got on the Ark? Eight. Noah was the last guy to get inside, folks. You remember Genesis 7 when Noah finally gets on? Who shut the door? The verse says God shut the door!

“Genesis 8:1 says, ‘And God remembered Noah.’ That was a great comfort to know, I bet. Noah’s already got his wife and family--the boys and their wives—onboard. He’s a preacher of righteousness so Noah no doubt stood one more time on the deck of the porch going in and offered the invitation for others to come.

“Of course, nobody followed. Folks, the majority seldom ever follows a preacher of righteousness. If you ever feel like you’re a few of many, well you’re like the one who told Jeremiah, ‘That’s who we are; the faithful few of the many who’ve gone away.’

“God extends the invitation of salvation ’til the very moment He personally shuts the door and shuts Noah in and then the Flood comes and destroys the world of the ungodly.

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"II Peter 2:6 says, [6] And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

“Now, the world in Noah’s day was ungodly in a different sense than Sodom & Gomorrah was. Sodom & Gomorrah, found in Genesis 19, was a hotbed of liberalism. They were in a place where sin ran rampant and, as you know, sin always goes in a downward spiral to 'that which is against nature.'

“II Timothy 3 says that in the ‘last days’ perilous times shall come and that one of the characteristics is people will be ‘without natural affection.’ Something so twisted and perverted, the thinking process, with such selfishness, to satisfy their own economic, social and personal whims. The consequences of sin is to be self-oriented in a self-fixated life all about me, my problems, my abilities, my lack of abilities, etc.

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In Luke 17, Jesus Christ details for the Pharisees the days of Noah and the Flood and of Lot and Sodom & Gomorrah. The chapter’s end reads, [33] Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
[34] I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
[35] Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
[36] Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
[37] And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.

Jordan explains, “I had a guy use verse 34 on me once to try to prove to me that homosexuality was going to be practiced among the saints. I looked at him and said, ‘Say what?’ and he said, ‘It says there’s going to be ‘two men in one bed.’ What’s the answer?’ I said, ‘What you need to do is quit acting like a yo-yo, that’s what the answer is.’ I mean, how do you answer something that’s that stupid? But anyway, people are nuts.

“You know what the answer to that is? ‘Evil communications corrupt good manners.’ You’re mind’s been in the gutter so long you can’t even read something without imputing evil to it.

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“People say that passage is about the Rapture, but that’s the Second Coming of Christ. That’s not the Rapture when the Body of Christ is called out and we meet ‘here, there or in the air.’ That’s Christ coming back to the earth to establish His kingdom and the one who’s taken here is not taken to ‘meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord.’ The one taken here is in verse 37.

“You write down by that verse Revelation 19:11-21 and go home and study that and you’ll see John says, [11] And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

“You see Him on the white horse coming back at the Second Advent and He’s got the sword and rides the horse and comes to tread the winepress of the fierceness of wrath of Almighty God.

“At the very end of that coming, at the end of that battle associated with Christ’s return, there’s a great supper and He invites all the fowls of heaven, the birds, to come to that great feast.

"All the people who want to talk about the ‘marriage of the Lamb,’ and you being ‘the bride of Christ’ and going to down to the marriage supper, you know what that supper’s made of? The dead bodies of people He’s destroyed when He ‘reserved the wicked to the day of judgment.’ That’s where this guy who’s taken is taken! He’s taken in the judgment.

“You know, Jesus says back in verse 27: ‘They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.’

“You look at the comparative passage in Matthew about that and it says the Flood came and took them all out of the way; took them in judgment. The one in the field is taken in judgment and one is gathered into the kingdom. As John the Baptist said, ‘Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.’ “