Wednesday after Oculi + 1 Peter 3:1-22
In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. I think it’s self-evident, to Christians at least, that our day is very similar to the patriarch Noah’s day. Genesis 6:5 says, “T he LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually .” That sounds familiar, doesn’t it? We live in an age in which everyone does what is right in their own eyes. They’ve cast off the true God, their Creator, and His will in order to be their own gods, living according the desires and imaginations of their hearts. In the days of Noah the Lord put a time limit on mankind’s wickedness of one hundred and twenty years. That’s how long they had to repent or they would face destruction. Noah, the “ preacher of righteousness ” ( 2 Peter 2:5) proclaimed this to the unbelieving world while building his ark as the Lord had commanded him. His preaching only hardened them all the more. They rejected repentanc...