Unaware of God's judgement
For Sunday - The Noah's Ark Window in Tissington, Derbyshire (Photo credit: UGArdener ) “. . . And they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.” Matthew 24:39 Universal was the doom, neither rich nor poor escaped: the learned and the illiterate, the admired and the abhorred, the religious and the profane, the old and the young, all sank in one common ruin. Some had doubtless ridiculed the patriarch—where now their merry jests? Others had threatened him for his zeal which they counted madness—where now their boastings and hard speeches? The critic who judged the old man’s work is drowned in the same sea which covers his sneering companions. Those who spoke patronizingly of the good man’s fidelity to his convictions, but shared not in them, have sunk to rise no more, and the workers who for pay helped to build the wondrous ark, are all lost also. The flood swept themall away, and made no single exception. Even so, out ...