Jim Bakker Show - An Important Lesson About Noah's Ark
Aired: 2021-03-15
Duration: 08:55


=== Noah's Family on Rooftops (07:01) ===

[00:00:00]  It's just mind-boggling to think that in Noah's day, not one person came into that ark for a refuge, for a safe place.
[00:00:10]  Not one.
[00:00:11]  Nobody, except for his family.
[00:00:15]  Isn't that, I mean, and you help us understand that more in this book, but that just blows my mind.
[00:00:21]  And I guess that's that's what we have to expect right now.
[00:00:24]  Is that what you're saying to us?
[00:00:26]  Yes.
[00:00:27]  And he also said it'll be just like the days of Lot.
[00:00:29]  And the same thing was true.
[00:00:30]  Lot and his family were the only ones that escaped.
[00:00:33]  Now, I make a point in the book, and I show scholarship, biblical scholarship from the classical days to the first century, all the way up to our own time.
[00:00:42]  Modern scholars agree, not all of them agree, but a ton of them do.
[00:00:46]  And I quote a bunch of them, that Noah and his family and Lot and his family, if you will, represent the church of the last days, represent God's people.
[00:00:55]  They're God's people.
[00:00:56]  They're the eklesia.
[00:00:57]  Noah and his family were the eklesia, the called out ones.
[00:01:00]  They were the ones living for the Lord.
[00:01:02]  They were the ones calling others to repent.
[00:01:04]  They were the ones building the ark.
[00:01:06]  And in our day, that's building the kingdom through sowing the seed.
[00:01:10]  In Lot's day, they were the ones living for the Lord while the world was going to hell in a handbasket around them.
[00:01:16]  They were the ones that had evil come up to their doorsteps, filth and evil, yet they preach love and compassion and repentance.
[00:01:25]  Please, men of the city, don't do this thing.
[00:01:27]  Please turn to God and repent.
[00:01:30]  So they represent the church.
[00:01:31]  This is what we're supposed to be doing.
[00:01:34]  So it doesn't mean that in the last days there will only be, you know, eight people on the ark.
[00:01:40]  I mean, eight people that are saved, like in Noah's day or the four or five, six that came out of Lot's family, but they represent.
[00:01:48]  But this just like it, that's what it means.
[00:01:51]  It means in the last days, the world itself, by and large, will just reject the things of God, the word of God, God's offer of salvation through Jesus Christ, but the faithful ones will be protected and caught up in the ark above the wrath of God being pouring out, poured out, and the death and destruction and the judgment that will come.
[00:02:11]  We will be like Noah's family.
[00:02:14]  The angels will come and get us.
[00:02:16]  In fact, Jesus ends Matthew 24 with that.
[00:02:19]  He says, and the Son of Man will, at the sounding of a trumpet, will call for his angels and they will gather his elect from the four corners of the earth.
[00:02:27]  You know, and some people think, well, that's the Jews, but it doesn't say that.
[00:02:30]  The word elect can mean the Jews, but all through the New Testament, it means those that are under the blood, the elect, the church, the called out ones.
[00:02:39]  Those are God's chosen elect.
[00:02:41]  Those are God's people.
[00:02:43]  And so when Jesus said it's going to be just like the days of Noah and the days of Lot, I mean, and you said a moment ago, Brother Jim, about the evil in America, and I'm not trying to parse your words, but here's the deal.
[00:02:56]  That same evil is pretty much ubiquitous around the globe now.
[00:03:01]  We're the first generation to be globally connected 24-7.
[00:03:06]  The new tower of Babel has been built.
[00:03:08]  The new Nimrods are on their thrones, and they think that they're just going to run us all.
[00:03:14]  They're going to run.
[00:03:15]  They're going to set themselves up to be the God of the church, to be the God of our lives, to be the God of our homes, our marriages, our wombs, our children, everything.
[00:03:26]  And they can communicate.
[00:03:28]  We can communicate 24-7 in real time.
[00:03:31]  I mean, no other generation has seen anything like this.
[00:03:35]  And so there's another picture of the days of Noah and the days of Lot, because God says in the days of Noah, he said, look, every inclination of their heart, they could do whatever they wanted.
[00:03:45]  And we're watching that happen now through technology.
[00:03:48]  And so that's a big chunk.
[00:03:52]  I could go on and on for another hour or so.
[00:03:55]  Again, I won't, but there are all of these connections.
[00:03:58]  Think about this.
[00:03:59]  In Matthew 24, he talked about in those days, what is done in secret will be shouted from the rooftop.
[00:04:05]  Now, in Jesus' day, when he was speaking those words, there was a practical fulfillment of that, even in his day, because the homes in the Middle East, a lot of them had flat rooftops.
[00:04:16]  You know, they didn't have air conditioning, so that served as a place of sleeping in the summer heat of the night.
[00:04:21]  It also served as a porch, and people would go up and lounge, and some of them would have dinner and cook out, if you will, on the grill, you know.
[00:04:30]  And a lot of the homes, depending upon the cities and the villages, were built fairly close to each other.
[00:04:34]  You could shout from rooftop to rooftop.
[00:04:36]  And so the gossip mill kind of took place there.
[00:04:39]  So that was a picture his disciples could understand.
[00:04:42]  But now, shove it into our day because this is the day Jesus was talking about in those days of Noah, in those last days, after the fig tree has bloomed, right before the angels of God come and gather his elect, before the wrath of God falls.
[00:04:56]  It'll be just like the days of Noah.
[00:04:59]  But prior to that, he's speaking about, yeah, what's done in secret will be shouted from the rooftop.
[00:05:03]  Guys, think about our world.
[00:05:06]  Everything we do, every place we go on the internet, everything we type in tweets and Facebook and all of these other social media, it not only goes straight out to the whole world that anybody can get, but what we think we're doing privately-cell phone calls, emails, tweets, browsing on the internet-all of that is being recorded.
[00:05:29]  All of that is being kept.
[00:05:31]  All of it is being digitized.
[00:05:32]  The metadata at least is kept so that it can all be shouted from the rooftops.
[00:05:37]  Well, when you think of rooftops, now think of what that means.
[00:05:42]  Usually, people have Wi-Fi connections or cable hookups coming in or satellite dishes on their rooftops or in their yards.
[00:05:50]  And what's it doing?
[00:05:51]  It's communicating with satellites in deep space.
[00:05:54]  What's it doing?
[00:05:55]  It's gathering, collecting information for what?
[00:05:58]  To be shouted from the rooftops.
[00:06:01]  I mean, I could go on and on with this, but guys, we it.
[00:06:05]  And here's the deal: so I just explained that.
[00:06:08]  And there are some people going, wow, I've never thought about that before.
[00:06:11]  And there are other people saying, oh, he's stretching that.
[00:06:14]  I'm not stretching it.
[00:06:16]  That's the technology.
[00:06:18]  Those are the words of Jesus parsed down in the original languages that fit with our day, the day of the days of Noah and the soon-coming return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
[00:06:27]  And so for people that would sit around and say, well, dad, there's nothing to that.
[00:06:31]  Well, then you're fulfilling the prophecy of Peter.
[00:06:34]  In the last days, scoffers will come and you're fulfilling the prophecy of Jesus about it'll be like the days of Noah.
[00:06:40]  People just went on with life as though they didn't see the signs around them.
[00:06:44]  So we're living right in the midst of that.

=== First Generationispers (02:08) ===

[00:06:47]  And we're the first generation to be right on the other side of the return of Israel, 72 years.
[00:06:53]  The blooming of the fig tree Jesus prophesied about.
[00:06:56]  We're the first to see all of this technological explosion.
[00:06:59]  We're the first to see the Tower of Babel to be rebuilt.
[00:07:01]  We speak to each other all over the world.
[00:07:03]  We don't need to learn languages now.
[00:07:05]  Just go to Google or something like that, put it in a translator, and we can communicate instantly with anybody in the world.
[00:07:13]  And it's like the borders, you know, that was the problem at the Tower of Babel.
[00:07:16]  God came in and had to set borders and national boundaries and scattered the people and scattered their languages.
[00:07:24]  Satan was trying to bring about his coup way back then, and God intervened because Jesus had to come.
[00:07:30]  The resurrection had to happen.
[00:07:32]  The church had to be born.
[00:07:34]  You guys had to be born.
[00:07:35]  I had to be born.
[00:07:36]  God knew all of this.
[00:07:37]  So he would not let Satan win.
[00:07:40]  So what did he do?
[00:07:41]  He scattered the people.
[00:07:42]  He confused their language.
[00:07:43]  And he set them in the nation and put borders around them.
[00:07:46]  Borders are God's idea.
[00:07:47]  But look at our world now.
[00:07:49]  All that the leftists and the globalists talk about, eliminating borders and eliminating language barriers.
[00:07:57]  And we can do that now with technology.
[00:07:59]  And the whole world will come together under one head, whether it's the United Nations or whatever, some body, a governmental body.
[00:08:08]  And then eventually someone will rise to the top.
[00:08:11]  Apparently, is what the scripture seems to indicate that it'll be embodied in a person and Satan will inhabit that person.
[00:08:18]  And it will be as though Satan in the flesh is sitting on a throne saying, now it's all mine.
[00:08:25]  Well, you know, speaking like I'm just speaking now, if I was speaking like that 20 years ago from pulpit, most people in churches would say, yeah, amen, amen.
[00:08:35]  But their mind couldn't fathom it.
[00:08:36]  Now, just a few, you know, 20 years later, I'm saying all that.
[00:08:40]  And a lot of your listeners and viewers are thinking, you know, that could happen next week.
[00:08:46]  Well, we're the first generation to be able to say that.
[00:08:50]  So that's some of what is wrapped up in the meaning of the days of Noah and the days of Lot.