{"id":769,"date":"2019-09-08T14:23:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T19:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/?p=769"},"modified":"2019-09-08T14:23:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T19:23:03","slug":"watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/08\/watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cWatch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come\u201d <\/strong>(Matthew 24:42) <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In some of Jesus\u2019\nfinal teachings to His disciples, He gave them a specific warning that we must\nheed today.\u201c37. But as the days of Noe\n(Noah) were,<\/em> so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38. For as\nin the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying\nand giving in marriage, until the day that Noe (Noah) entered into the ark, 39.\nAnd knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the\ncoming of the Son of man be. \u2026 42. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour\nyour Lord doth come<\/strong>\u201d (Matthew 24:37-39, 42).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember back\nfor a minute to Noah. You can read the events in Genesis 6-8. \u201cGod saw that the wickedness of man was\ngreat in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was\nonly evil continually<\/strong>\u201d (Genesis 6:5). God said He would destroy man and\nbeast. \u201cBut Noah found grace in the eyes\nof the Lord<\/strong>\u201d (Genesis 6:8). We can read that God described him as just, and\nNoah walked with God. God told Noah to build an ark for his family and two of\nevery animal. Noah obeyed. It took him 100 years to build that ark. That means\nthat everyone around saw what he was doing. See what we can read in 2 Peter 2:5:\n\u201cAnd spared not the old world, but saved\nNoah the eighth person,<\/em> a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the\nflood upon the world of the ungodly.<\/strong>\u201d This means that while he was building\nthat ark, he was warning people (preaching) of what was coming. Notice that in\nGenesis, God revealed that \u201cthe\nwickedness of man was great in the earth \u2026 only evil continually.<\/strong>\u201d Jesus\nhelps us understand that in this wickedness \u201cthey were eating and drinking, marrying and given in marriage<\/strong>\u201d\nuntil the day that Noah entered into the ark. They were just living their normal\nlives. But God told us that they were living wickedly. And they had no idea\nthat a flood was coming to destroy them and the whole earth. But Noah knew. And\nwhile he was building that ark, he warned people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, think of\ntoday. We know that when Jesus went back into heaven after His resurrection, we\nhave the promise that He would return in like manner (Acts 1:11). Right before\nthat promise, Jesus told those that had trusted and believed in Him to be\nwitnesses. Christians are to proclaim the Gospel message (that Jesus lived a\nsinless life, died for sinful man, rose from the dead, and will one day take us\nto heaven with Him) to a lost world. A world full of people that eat, drink,\nare married and given in marriage \u2014 just living normal lives. But a life\nwithout Jesus is a life that God sees as one who is wicked, and that every\nimagination of the thoughts of the hearts are only evil continually (remember\nGenesis 6:5). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What did Jesus\ntell us (Christians \u2014 those who belong to Jesus) to do? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWatch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come<\/strong>\u201d (Matthew 24:42). Watch<\/em> means to \u201ckeep awake; be vigilant; awaken; figuratively to rouse from inactivity.\u201d \u00a0From what are we to awaken? From what inactivity are we to rouse? In what are we to be vigilant? We must do just as Noah did. Wake up and become preachers of righteousness! How do we do that? A preacher in this context is just one who delivers a message. All we need to do is warn people of their eternal separation from God by sharing with them the Gospel message of Jesus. For we hold the truth that Jesus is the only Way to heaven! \u201cJesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.<\/strong>\u201d (John 16:6).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you watching? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you warned anyone today? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In some of Jesus\u2019 final teachings to His disciples, He gave them a specific warning that we must heed today.\u201c37. But as the days of Noe (Noah) were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[334,333,159,322,80,332,336,255,93,339,335,338,271,337],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-with-verse-and-blog","tag-awake","tag-come","tag-evil","tag-grace","tag-jesus","tag-lord","tag-noah","tag-preacher","tag-righteousness","tag-teachings","tag-vigilant","tag-warn","tag-watch","tag-wickedness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}