The old world was filled with pandemonium. It was a time marked by unrestrained passions, a decadent society reveling in excess and indulgence, with humanity steeped in unbounded immorality and wickedness. The era was reminiscent of a Goya painting, where darkness subsumed all light, evil thoughts perpetually flooded the minds of men, and wickedness was as bountiful as the air that filled their lungs. This was the world of Noah—the pre-flood age—when the indulgence in sin became so rampant that it elicited a response of divine justice and wrath.
Matthew 24:37 chronicles Jesus' proclamation, "As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man." The profoundness of this statement captures the essence of a world rife with rebellion and sin, drawing a parallel to the conditions that preface the Second Coming of Christ.
The contemporary world certainly seems to resonate with this biblical prophecy. Today's America, a modern-day Noah's society, bears striking parallels to that epoch of divine judgment, from unrestrained sexual anarchy to widespread corruption and sin.
In the days of Noah, sexual immorality was pervasive and, one might venture, normalized. An alarming resemblance is observed in contemporary American society where sexual decadence is rampant, progressively eviscerating the sacred boundary of one man-one woman marital covenant. Homosexuality, promiscuity, pornography, and fornication have become commonplace, remorselessly eroding the moral fabric of society, much like the days of Noah.
The sin of murder, too, holds a mirror up to our era, specifically the widespread and normalized practice of abortion. The biblical injunction of Exodus 20:13, "You shall not murder," is unambiguous. Yet, our society has contrived justifications for the termination of the unborn. The rampant abortive culture of modern America bears an uncanny similarity to the violence and bloodshed that marred Noah's time.
The encompassing wickedness prevalent in the time of Noah finds its echo in our society's idolatry of self, materialism, and secularism. Our culture worships at the altar of hedonism, valuing pleasure above righteousness, and convenience above moral responsibility. Our generations, not unlike those of Noah's era, are driven by relentless pursuit of temporal pleasures, often in complete disregard for divine law and moral obligation.
But as the wisdom of Proverbs 14:12 warns us, "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death." The consequence of unmitigated rebellion against God, of the flagrant disregard for His divine laws, is judgment. In Noah's day, this judgment manifested as a world-engulfing flood, a divine deluge eradicating the wickedness that had saturated the earth.