".....Thus the closing scenes of this present age will be a reproduction of the days
of Noah: the same intense worldliness, and at last positive inability to care for the things of
God, which was displayed by the antediluvians, will also be characteristic of our world
when Christ begins the judgments that will quickly culminate in the glory of His
appearing. It seems fair, then, to infer that.......
The seven great causes of the antediluvian apostasy have been already noticed, and may be summed up as follows.
I A tendency to worship God as Elohim, that is, merely as the Creator and Benefactor, and not as
Jehovah the covenant God of mercy, dealing with transgressors who are appointed to
destruction, and finding a ransom for them.
II An undue prominence of the female sex, and a disregard of the primal law of marriage.
III A rapid progress in the mechanical arts, and the consequent invention of many devices whereby
the hardships of the curse were mitigated, and life was rendered more easy and indulgent. Also a
proficiency in the fine arts, which captivated the minds of men, and helped to induce an entire
oblivion of God.
IV An alliance between the nominal Church and the World, which speedily resulted in a complete
amalgamation.
V A vast increase of population.
VI The rejection of the preaching of Enoch [and Noah], whose warnings thus became a savour of
death unto the world, and hardened men beyond recovery.
VII The appearance upon earth of beings from the Principality of the Air, and their unlawful
intercourse with the human race.
These causes concurred to envelop the world in a sensuous mist which no ray of truth
could penetrate. They brought about a total forgetfulness of God and disregard of His will;
and thus, by removing the great Centre Who alone is able to attract men from themselves,
rendered the dwellers upon earth so selfish and unscrupulous that the world was presently
filled with lewdness, injustice, oppression, and bloodshed. It remains, therefore, for us to
consider whether similar influences are now acting upon society.
And certainly we cannot but confess that the first-mentioned cause is eminently
characteristic of our times. For in all the professing Churches of Christendom, as well as
among Jews, Mahometans, and Pagans, there are countless and ever-increasing multitudes
who go in the way of Cain (Jude II), acknowledging the Supreme Being, but not
recognizing His holiness and their own depravity, and so denying all necessity of a
Mediator between God and man. Many of these are willing to look upon Christ as some
great one, and will talk of His wise philosophy and exemplary life: but they neither confess
Him to be the Only Begotten Son of the Father, nor feel the need of His atonement.
Consequently, they reject His revelation, as an absolute authority at least, trusting rather to
the darkness within them which they call light; and thus, closing their eyes to the true
relations of man with his Creator, form their own conceptions both of the Deity and of
themselves. This involves nothing less than a claim on their part to supreme wisdom and
authority: it is moulding an idol out of their own imagination before which to fall down
and worship. Nor need we wonder that it leads to a virtual deification of men of
transcendent intellect or great renown. Who has not detected the working of this leaven in
his own circle? Who has not observed this” pure Theism,” as it is called, rising to the
surface in all the sects of Christendom?......."
http://www.stevequayle.com/Giants/days.of.noah.pdf
