“If he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;  if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.”

2 Peter 2:5,9

This morning I listened to a podcast featuring two scientists discussing the state of modern science which often refers to the consensus of conclusions to dismiss other ideas and criticize the minority.

They mentioned the work of Galileo, who challenged the teaching of the Roman Catholic church and other astronomers with his theory that our Sun is stationary and the planets, including the Earth, orbit the sun. He was outnumbered, but when something is true, the other notion is necessarily false.

The same was true for Noah. In the verses above, Peter mentions that Noah was more than a builder of the ark describing him as a “preacher of righteousness.” No doubt that when the people of the earth saw his work, there were questions and apparently Noah explained the necessity of the ark and the coming flood as a judgment for mankind’s pursuit of all that was evil and dark in their time.

Noah’s view was a minority view, but the truth prevailed. It always does, even when it appears that darkness is encroaching.

Jesus said that the time of His return will be like those days. Let’s remember that truth today.