When Noah built the arc as an act of obedience to God, the story is in Genesis 7. Verse 9 says “He obeyed God he took a male and a female of each kind into the boat with him. Seven days later a flood began to cover the earth. The water under the earth started gushing everywhere, the sky opened like windows, and rain poured down for 40 days and nights. All this began on the seventeenth day of the second month of the year. On that day Noah and his wife went into the boat with their three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives. They took along every kind of animal, tame and wild, including birds. Noah took a male and female of every creature with him, just as God told him to do. And when they were all in the boat, the Lord closed the door.” There was repeated instructions before the great flood happened, usually when God repeats himself it has importance. Even if people who were desperately screaming.” let us in”, it was too late, no one believed in what he was doing. God had shut the door, and no one else could get into the arc. Everyone else perished. You can read the whole story, but people thought Noah was crazy, they mocked him. The day and the hour that we are in concerns me and my spirit is very unsettled, “Are we ready?? Will we be ready when our King Jesus returns?” Matthew 25:10-12 says:” While the foolish ones were on their way to get some oil, the groom arrived. The five who were ready went into the wedding, the doors were closed. Later the others returned and shouted, ‘Sir, Sir open the door for us, but the groom replied, ‘I don’t even know you!’ If you read the whole story, you will see that the five who were wise were ready with their lamps filled with oil and extra oil to spare, while the other five “foolish” ones had just the oil in their lanterns while they waited for the groom to arrive and they ran out of oil.
Matthew 25:4 says: “But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.” This imagery symbolizes readiness for an important event, like the wedding of Christ. The oil represents the Holy Spirit. It’s so important to be vigilant and actively seeking God, seek His presence, seek to be filled with His Spirit which draws all men unto Him. You are a carrier of His presence, His light for others to see Christ in you. Bring others to Him by His Spirit.
Isaiah 43:18-19 says: “Forget what happened long ago! Don’t think about the past. I am creating something new. There it is, do you see it?” I sense the significance of not getting distracted by your past or even the multiple things, people’s voices, world events that are happening all around you, press into Him, into His presence. Psalms 91:4 says:” He will spread His wings over you and keep you secure. His faithfulness is like a shield or city wall.” Proverbs 16:9 says ” We make our own plans but the Lord decides where you will go.” This is so true, when we leave everything surrendered into the hands of God.
Are you ready? Do you keep your lamps filled with oil? Stay in His presence, stay filled with His Spirit.
For anyone who has never asked Jesus Christ to be your Lord, or have not yet accepted the sacrifice that He has made for you: He gave His life for you, He wants you to surrender everything to Him, He was crucified taking all sin, pain and suffering on the cross, then He rose again so that you can have the same chance at eternal life that He has as He is seated on the right hand of the Father as the scripture says. No one is too far gone from His forgiveness, you only need to believe in Him, ask Him to come into your life and be your faithful Lord! Ask Him to fill you with His Holy Spirit. He really loves you.
Luke 21:28 (NLT) Says:” So when all these things begin to happen, stand and look up, for your salvation is near!”
Do not wait until it’s too late.