Is God About to Give Up on Us?

Is God about to give up on the human race? You will more than likely answer in your mind with either “I am surprised He has let us go this far,” or perhaps, “No, He will never give up on us.” You may know this and you may not but God did give up on the human race and wiped all of them out except eight people. Noah and his family were counted as the only family on earth that cared about God and what He wanted. We can only speculate how many people were on earth at that time but it was over 1,600 years after Adam and Eve. The speculations from scholars say over 100 million.  Noah did the right thing in God’s eyes. His family did as well. His sons were married to one woman. Not several wives and not same sex marriages. It is evident from the Scriptures that creature worship was at the center of God’s wrath. Man worshipping man by caring more about sensual satisfaction than spiritual satisfaction. “God is Spirit and is to be worshipped in spirit and in truth” Jesus told us. When humankind turned their attention to each other more than to Him, He put an end to them with a flood. Everything on earth died except the eight people who cared more about God than they did themselves or each other and the animals He chose to preserve. Jesus warned that those who love spouses, children, or parents more than they do God are in violation of His commandment to love Him with all our heart, mind, and soul. He used the strong word “hate” to emphasize the difference between worshipping each other instead of Him, and it was worship He was talking about. He knows we love our kids and parents and spouses but we are not to love them so much we worship them. Mankind has become obsessed with themselves again. From cereal commercials with gay guys to car commercials with old ladies the media appeals to our sensuality in order to get our attention. Sensuality can replace spirituality in our lives as it did those Paul talks about in his letter to the Romans, Chapter 1. From the time Masters and Johnson started their human sexuality studies in the name of science in 1957 the obsession with sexuality and sensuality has replaced being obsessed with God. The porn industry thrives on sensuality and has spread its sensual tentacles into the deepest depths of society today by way of the internet. Sexual addiction is rampant among society as is all other drugs that appeal to the human senses. Spirituality is perverted as well with ignorant practices such as grave soaking or mantle grabbing. Society puts more emphasis today on the creature than it does the Creator; which is what got the pre-flood bunch wiped out. He will give up on man again but this time He will wipe them out with fire, and the earth itself will be wiped out this time, (2 Peter, Chapter 3). He physically saved the righteous in Noah’s day by way of an ark. He will spiritually save the righteous next time by way of faith in Jesus Christ (Romans, Chapter 5). As a tee shirt I saw recently that read, “Jesus is coming back. It is about to get real.”