NOAH'S FLOOD AND PETER'S FIRE.
By Dwight Lyman Moody
"The world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished; but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire [or, 'stored with fire,' margin], being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men." 2 Pet. 3:6, 7, Revised Version. "Do you really think that that Book means what it says, and that Noah did build an ark, and that there was a flood which swept everything away?" I believe in Noah's ark and the flood just as much as I do in the cross and Jesus Christ. I would throw out the cross and Jesus Christ and his teaching just as soon as Noah and the flood. And I will tell you why: "As it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man." They were marrying and giving in marriage until the flood came. Luke 17:26, 27. Christ has attached his own testimony to that. I have no doubt about this story, and I have no more doubt that the world is going to be burnt up at the appointed time than that I stand here to-night. God is going to deal shortly in judgment with this world. Men may laugh as much as they like, but I tell you God has said that this world is to be destroyed by fire, and all your unbelief and skepticism does not make it any the less true. Because those antediluvians did not believe God was going to destroy the earth by the flood, it made no difference; the world was destroyed; and the flood came and took them all away.—D. L. Moody.