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THE ARK OF SAFETY

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 3, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 18.

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THE ARK OF SAFETY.

By C. W. S.

One hundred and twenty years did Noah proclaim to a faithless world that God had purposed to destroy the world by a flood. But “the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” They ridiculed the idea of a flood, and would not listen to the preaching of faithful Noah. The doctrine was very unpopular.
But this did not prevent the coming of the flood. When all things were ready, the Lord said unto Noah, “Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.” They went in, and God shut the door of the ark. The religion that had so long been unpopular now began seriously to occupy the attention of the people. Rich and poor, high and low, old and young,—all very soon began to be deeply interested. They gathered around the ark, and begged to be admitted. But it was too late; their day of grace was ended, and God had shut the door.
Peter informs us that the heavens and the earth that now are, are to be destroyed by fire as the old world was by water. The evidences are multiplying that the time for this event is near. The warning has gone to nearly every nation on the earth—the ark is being built, even the ark of truth which applies to this time. “Seek righteousness; seek meekness; it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord’s anger.”
“Oh! but this idea that the Lord is coming is so very unpopular.” Yes, so it is; and that is one good reason for thinking it to be true. Peter said that there should be a class of men in the last days, who would scoff at the doctrine of the second coming of Christ; and the prophets have warned us that the Saviour should come right in the midst of this peace-and-safety cry.
Our Lord himself has said that it should be in the last days as it was in the days of Noah. But the ark waiteth for us now, and if we would have an invitation in that great day to come into the ark, it becomes us to seek earnestly that righteousness which alone will prove our shield from the wrath of Him that shall come in the clouds of heaven. C. W. S.