Don't Be A Fool

Genesis 7. Here's an excerpt from one of the British commentators: "For a hundred and twenty years the wits laughed, and the 'common sense' people wondered, and the patient saint went on hammering and pitching at his ark. But one morning it began to rain; and by degrees, somehow, Noah did not seem quite the fool. The jests would look rather different when the water was up to the knees of the jesters; and their sarcasms would stick in their throats as they drowned.
So it is always. So it will be at the last great day. The men who lived for the future, by faith in Christ, will be found out to have been the wise men when the future has become the present, and the present has become the past, and is gone for ever....[These scoffers]...will awake too late to the conviction that they are outside the ark of safety, and that their truest epitaph is, 'Thou fool'." [Expositions of Holy Scripture, by Alexander Maclaren].
Christ is coming again, and this earth will be destroyed by fire in a future day. But the scoffers are still with us. "...knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, 'Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.' For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, by which the world that men existed perished, being flooded by water. But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men...." 2 Peter 3:3-7.
I've just quoted a portion of 2 Peter 3. Take the time to read that entire chapter. Man may think that God is not going to return and that He is not going to destroy this old wicked world one day, but he had better think again. Christ is coming and is coming soon! And just like in Noah's day, these scoffers will awake too late to the conviction that they are outside the ark of safety, and that their truest epitaph will read: 'Thou fool!' Don't be a fool. Trust Christ today.