When you see someone on the streets preaching, do you pause for a moment and listen to them? Most people don't and perhaps there would be a few who would but at a far distant. Many people do think that these people who may be giving out warnings or "preaching" in the streets must be crazy.
Looking back at Noah in the book of Genesis in the Holy Bible, he preached for more than a hundred years. That is even more than the lifetime of the present man. He gave warnings about the coming flood. He was so passionate in telling the people about the coming flood, yet people may have thought he was crazy.
Could it be possible that people thought "Well, my father had already died, yet there is still no flood!" Isn't that the same reaction with people now who say, "Well, my parents and grand parents have already died, and they said Jesus is coming soon, but Jesus hasn't come yet!"
For more than a hundred years, Noah kept preaching and even continued building the ark as instructed to him by God. Perhaps, if that ark was built today, it could have taken Noah to build it for just a few months. Yet Noah persisted despite that no other people helped except his sons. He was so passionate and persistent in preaching about the coming flood and building the ark, yet no one believed him.
Building a big boat in the middle of a vast land, while the sea is miles away may indeed seem like a crazy idea. Could it be possible that, that was one of the reasons why people could have thought Noah was indeed crazy. Or perhaps, it did rain during the period that Noah was preaching, but it did not create even the slightest flood. Could this be one of the reasons why people may have thought Noah was crazy with his warnings without any scientific proof? Let us remember, Noah may be living in an uncivilized society yet, where science was not yet even a study.
Today, when warnings are given out by any weather bureau or other government agencies, many of us prepare ourselves with emergency supplies. In Noah's time, perhaps people did not have any emergency supplies, and their only hope if the flood ever came would be the ark. Yet, they did not believe and they did not make any necessary preparations either.
Today, many big boats are now available. Even private people have their own boats. Some even have an inflatable kayak. Some even have life vests. What about during Noah's time, people never knew nor owned any of those things. Yet they did not believe on Noah and they may have thought Noah was simply crazy. They did not even gave it a thought, how they could survive if the flood really came.
When the manufacturing process of the ark was finally done, and animals from different areas marched toward the ark without any guidance of any human being, why is it that the people who saw this event did not even wonder about Noah's message? They should have wondered - "could there be some truths in Noah's warning?" Or is it possible that some people started to believe but they just did not want others to make fun of them or them to be rediculed of their new belief.
Just as Jesus Christ had warned, as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man. The teaching about the coming of Christ has now been about 2000 years, but Jesus has not yet come. The very own disciples of Jesus had waited for him, yet He has not come. My grandma (who told me that Jesus is coming soon) had already died years ago, yet Jesus has not yet come.
Could it be possible that there would be people that would not believe that Jesus Christ is coming back? Could it be possible that there are people who believe it, yet are scared to profess it openly because people may laugh at them? Would you like to be one of them who would be caught unaware when Jesus comes back to take his children home?
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