How was it in Noah's day? "God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." Gen. 6:5. The inhabitants of the antediluvian world turned from Jehovah, refusing to do His holy will. They followed their own unholy imagination and perverted ideas. It was because of their wickedness that they were destroyed; and today the world is following the same way. It presents no flattering signs of millennial glory. The transgressors of God's law are filling the earth with wickedness. Their betting, their horse racing, their gambling, their dissipation, their lustful practices, their untamable passions, are fast filling the world with violence.

Hvordan var det da i Noas dage? "Men Herren så, at menneskenes ondskab tog til på jorden, og at deres hjerters higen og tragten kun var ond dagen lang." 1Mos. 6,5. Beboerne i verden før syndfloden vendte sig fra Jehova og nægtede at gøre hans hellige vilje. De fulgte deres egne ugudelige forestillinger og fordærvede tanker. Det var på grund af deres ondskab, at de blev tilintetgjort; og i dag går verden i samme retning som de. Den frembyder ingen smigrende tegn på et tusindårsriges herlighed. De, som overtræder Guds lov, opfylder jorden med ondskab. Deres væddemål, deres hestevæddeløb, deres spillelidenskab, deres nydelsessyge, deres vellyst, deres utæmmelige lidenskaber er ved hastigt at fylde jorden med voldshandlinger.