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The book is an urgent message to the Body of Christ - a completely revised and expanded version of this 12 part Message. To get a copy or to read it online, click here.
From the time of man's expulsion from the Garden of Eden, he continued on the path of self until a point was reached where “only evil” prevailed. 1 When God saw the wickedness of Noah’s day, He was sorry He had made man. There were tyrants 2 in the land who married the women, and fathered powerful men. 3, 4 The LORD told Noah that His Spirit would not strive with man forever, for he also is flesh, 5 and He said, "I intend to make an end of all flesh, for through men the land is filled with violence; and behold, I will destroy them and the land." (Genesis 6:13 Amp.)
The wickedness of man came as a result of his knowledge of good and evil. Man had become a full-fledged creature of flesh and blood, capable of every kind of evil imaginable. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD 6, and God called him and his family out, preserving them as a remnant while all other flesh perished in the flood.
The mortality of flesh was spoken of many times. "For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?" (Deuteronomy 5:26 Amp.) In Moses' day the people understood that God was a consuming fire. They were in awe that they had survived, but were fearful of being consumed if they were to go near enough to hear the voice of God speaking from the mountain.
Throughout the Psalms, the frailty of mortal man and the greatness of God can be seen. "He remembered that they were but flesh, a breath that passes away and does not come again."(Psalm 78:39 NKJ) David was constantly exalting the LORD God. He knew from personal experience the compassion of God toward frail and fallen man. "As a father pities his children, so the LORD pities those who fear Him. For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust." (Psalm 103:13-14 NKJ)
The prophet Isaiah spoke of the fleeting life span of mortal man. " All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever." (Isaiah 40:6b-8 NKJ)
Peter, the apostle, had the same understanding when he spoke similar words. "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away, but the word of the LORD endures forever." (1 Peter 1:24-25a NKJ)
When Jesus comes
Jesus is coming back to receive unto Himself the remnant who have been faithful to Him. Even He does not know when that day will be, but His Father does. He tells us that it will be just like it was in Noah's day, with people marrying and giving in marriage until He comes. 7 I believe Jesus was referring to how the people were taken up with flesh marrying flesh, and the wicked hearts of these carnal creatures was “only evil.” Once again as in Noah's day all flesh will perish, but not with a flood of water covering the earth, as the beautiful rainbow reminds us. This time the destruction will come with the arrival of Jesus the Son of God, a “Consuming Fire.” 8
If man is taken up with the things of this life in the flesh, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage: and if he is not consumed with a burning passion for God, he will be consumed by the burning passion of God.
1. Genesis 6:5
2. Hebrew #5303
3. Hebrew #1368
4. Hebrew #8034
5. Genesis 6:3a
6. Genesis 6:8
7. Matthew 24:36-39
8. Deuteronomy 4:24, Hebrews 12:29
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