As In the Days of Noah

Dedication

Dedicated to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, to whom I owe everything including all thanks, glory, honor and praise, for without Him I would be lost forever.  He surely is my strength and my hope in all circumstances throughout my life.  He has shown to be a very constant presence and source of comfort and strength in my life as He continually gives me the means possible to be able to accomplish anything. 

My dedicated thankfulness to God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is for every moment of my life, in all circumstances of my life.  It truly is amazing how our Father weaves all of our life experiences for a greater good for all, as well as for His Own Glory.

This is also dedicated to my wonderfully loving husband and remarkable children with a very special and heartfelt thanks full of love for all of their support.

C. Rae Johnson

Preface

As In The Days Of Noah...

Could This Be It?

But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.  Matthew 24:37

Are you now ready, in this era of time in which we are now living, if the Son of man were to come, today?  As you ponder on our world around us and take notice of all the corruption that is taking place within these vast lands, even within own governments, you may also witness a wide range of the population has essentially devolved, living in an essence of moral decay.  Society as a whole has developed a warped moral compass, consisting of degrading social economic values in regard to human life, family, work ethics, and faith.

Systems that have been long set in place for everyone’s own protection, have become backwards in their approach, further compromising one’s virtues.  All too frequently there is a lack of dignity, respect, honor, integrity, morality, decency and purity.  In its place has been the indoctrination and instilling of a type of bondage that includes fear, anger, confusion, deception, despair and helplessness in the forms of strongholds, with its design to encompass an entire society. 

We are losing our liberties and freedoms in growing proportions ranging from freedom of speech, employment and business ownership with regard to beliefs, worship, and healthcare, to also including the monopoly of our food supply; how it’s being grown and processed with the adaptation of genetic manipulation through various unhealthy processes.

We even have an epidemic in the sexual slave trade industry that targets our children, no matter how young or where they live.  Our safety and the freedoms to protect ourselves along with our families are being stripped away daily.  One may argue that slavery is over with, but it just includes the whole world now, only more deceptive and sometimes clever in its disguises and approach.

This should raise some concern for everyone’s overall safety, inquiring of just who governs our choices and protects our freedoms in order to maintain any assurance.  It starts with us and branches out to our elected officials that we entrust with our tax dollars.  With the incidences of violence growing worldwide as is evidenced in the many unfortunate planned attacks on the innocent, we the people that form our societies need officials who are morally sound in both heart and mind. 

Wars & Rumors of Wars

There are wars, and rumors of wars increasing, not only with weaponry, but also by proxy involving unintentionally aligned groups of people, along with the cyber industry; anything that will cause a buckling of society, economic failure and finally government collapse.  World disasters, whether in the form of natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, uncontrolled fires and droughts to even unexplained sink holes, or perhaps, man-made disasters, beckon the attention of every person in the world in its entirety, to take notice of just how misaligned we really are.

And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars:  see that ye be not troubled:  for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.  For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:  and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers’ places.  All these are the beginning of sorrows.  Matthew 24:6-8

Our jobs are decreasing while poverty is increasing here in the United States, which in turn gives rise to more government control of the mass population.  With open borders and manufacturing being shifted to other countries, our workforce suffers as it is further depleted, causing a further increase upon government assistance for food and shelter expenses.  There has been a decrease in the exportation of products from this country to others due to high taxes for American run businesses, forcing them to move their locations overseas.  The many products that are imported into the United States are contaminated with toxins poisoning our families and animals alike.

Borders are such easy access for the crossing of illegal aliens from other countries, to the extent that they are getting more help in the form of public assistance and healthcare than our own citizens who were born and raised in this country, not to mention those who fought for our freedoms.   With this country’s high debt, lack of Social Security benefits for those who both paid into and earned it, topped with the rise in healthcare, our legal citizens, retired, injured, veterans, et cetera, do not have enough to live on, hence the high homeless and poverty rates.   

With the upsurge in border crossings, it has given rise to an influx of terrorists coming both into this country and abroad; bringing in a whole new dynamic of fear to cripple the entire world.

Morals & Values

Our children are taught a degrading sense of values in some of our school systems with an ever-increasing downgrading of the education being offered, with the indoctrination of the self-demoralizing and very discouraging Common Core Agenda in some states, along with the lack of grade level appropriate structure for spelling, cursive writing, and real historical events.  There has been the disallowance of faith in God in the classroom or public school system for some time now, but ironically there is the possibility of a satanic after school club coming to a school near you.  It is sickening what is deemed acceptable.  If students still wish to worship God in a school setting for instance by bringing a Bible to school, to read on their own, some are actually ridiculed and sent home, just as in the work force, all because it is not ‘politically correct’. 

Also being offered within the curriculum of select schools as well as universities, an exposure to the world’s view on sexual education, which includes explicit sexual acts for children to view; in the form of artful expression and freedom.  If at a university level wasn’t bad enough, it is currently being presented to young children at an age that is highly inappropriate and should not even be a consideration for viewing, let alone to have them even thinking or worrying about sex.  Presented also to children as young as preschool age is gender orientation; to cause a child to question their own gender and then choose which one they identify with. This can plant the seed of confusion by allowing these school administrations to support this absurd notion by playing along and further demoralizing and frustrating a child’s development.  It is beyond backwards and just simply borders upon evil intent, enslaving our children by causing some to be trapped in something not God given.

Modern Day Slavery

But in a world where slavery is at such an all-time high, even though some may think it to be obsolete, is actually capturing and enlisting people of all ages for slavery in a work/labor force or the sex trafficking industry, being worldwide for the exploitation of humans; most disturbingly involving young children.  There is big money exchanging hands at the hurt and pain of the innocent. 

This is not just an epidemic abroad, but in our own backyards in the United States; home of the free.  Older victims are lured by ways of romantic connections, online ads, promises of employment, modeling or dancing.  Younger children are kidnapped and even sickeningly sold into the trade by their own parents.  Individuals frequently targeted are those of social discrimination, victims of domestic violence, runaways, homeless and young children without supervision.  Sometimes when they occur locally, they even return to their homes as if nothing out of place or evil is even happening to them.  Popular venues for the interactions include residential brothels, fake massage business, truck stops, motels, even sports arenas such as football stadiums; as the location of the Super Bowl is one of those such places.  It is a modern-day slavery of astronomical proportions.  Long gone are the days of presumed innocence that many have been fortunate enough to be born into, but is soon being replaced with the gross knowledge of just how this world operates.

The disturbing gender debate, which soon includes the forced position by the government to allow the sharing of restrooms and locker rooms in public schools nationwide for both genders, is a playground for such trafficking activity and any sexual abuse to occur.  This would allow boys to be able to enter into a girl’s restroom or locker room, just because they may ‘feel’ like it or think that they may have female tendencies and/or identify themselves with being of the opposite sex; which not only uncomfortably and immorally exposes girls to boys, but also exposes male gender organs to girls.

A man can cross dress as a woman, or even possibly not, but just identify himself as a girl and then enter a public ladies room (as some businesses are already on board with the gender identity restrooms), where young girls may be utilizing the facilities in public; putting any girl at risk if any man were to be a pedophile or of the sex trafficking trade.  There have already been a few incidences where men have tried to apprehend young girls.  Ironically though, if any resistance is felt among them, they quickly resort to discrimination and claim it to be a hate crime.  This allowance just leaves too much room for attempted sexual crimes to be committed. 

For the minority, the majority are essentially at risk.  For a few who want to act upon their feelings, many are now being put in very uncomfortable, potentially dangerous situations; causing them countless distressing feelings.  A lady’s room is a private place for a female to go as she should feel comfortable about being in one, especially with the female only health issues that we face; which would pose great discomfort if any man were to be in a lady’s room, locker room and shower.  Public school locker rooms and showers are a place of privacy where a female should not have to feel exposed if a boy happens to identify as a girl.  A girl can forever feel victimized with shame and ridicule by a boy in a private unwelcomed situation that a bathroom or locker room can provide. 

Whether in schools, stores, or any public restroom, the idea of allowing such a thing is most disturbingly discomforting; probably more so for females as we need more privacy and this infringes upon it.  Isn’t it why we’ve had separate restrooms all along?  The implications of this forced government choice, to tell people where they can relieve themselves, can make anyone wonder of their true intent.  I mean, it was not an issue all along at all, but suddenly now it is.  What does the government care about where we go to the bathroom?  Can you just imagine the conflict this is all starting to cause this entire country with such a huge breach of privacy throughout everywhere?  Can you even wonder what such a huge distraction this is, to get the entire country involved in an uproar?  It should make you just a little bit curious as to what is really going on and what might be snuck into existence while US citizens are busy arguing and just plain outraged over gender identity?  What if this is all just a big distraction?

Transgender, Transhuman, Trans-what?

If the transgender debate isn’t enough today where boys want to be girls and girls want to be boys, to the point of having surgeries that artificially make it possible, along with hormone manipulation, for both sexes to experience physical abilities or sensations that should still pertain to one’s own unique gender.  There also is now the transhuman platform.  It is no longer just enough to remain how we were created, or to change genders to the opposite sex, but now we want to mingle with the animal kingdom.  Oh, you read that right!  We are creating a whole new species of something that is no longer human.  We’re diving headfirst into trans-species.

Not only do we have genetically modified food to continually be concerned with, but a genetically modified race of non-humans, to blend into society, to perhaps intermingle with the rest of us.  That should rightfully be a huge concern that provokes the question for potential mates, What species are you? Instead of just, What nationality are you?  And it doesn’t stop there with the consideration of choosing a potential mate as anything now goes including animals and plant life, such as trees.  Acceptance of the obscure and the inconceivable is quickly becoming commonplace as we so casually add the prefix trans to almost anything.

Sex, Disease, & Inconvenience

We have an increase in wrongful diseases caused not only by diets but also the increase of sexual promiscuity, presenting with many complicated and harmful sexually transmitted diseases, which go beyond just affecting the sexual organs, but in turn negatively affects overall health of the entire body, as well as the person’s entire future; all of which we are forewarned of in the Bible.  Just like God had said that He would not bring on any of these diseases, if only we followed in His ways.  But just like in Egypt, they followed other gods, worshipped idols and practiced in unsafe hygiene and sexual promiscuity that brought to them many diseases, many plagues.

And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians:  for I am the LORD that healeth thee.  Exodus 15:26

If pregnancy does happen with the rise in promiscuity, it’s treated as a disease as well and terminated at any stage of fetal development, even upon birth.  Where does it all end or go from here, when life is turned this upside down and the sacred value of life is only determined upon any man’s viewpoint?  We no longer go to God.  It’s a strange world where it seems we are evermore becoming the stranger just visiting, because the world’s ways are exceedingly not our own.  We start to open an eye or two as we are forewarned that we are heading straight into, if not already there, the last days; the days of Noah.  If we do not see any of this, then we must still be asleep within the matrix weaved upon this planet we call earth.  Even though it may sound depressing when we start thinking about just how our world is, do not despair because there is still hope.  There is hope in the light of Christ.  Even back in Noah’s day, when the world was exceedingly bad and sinful, grace was upon him.  Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and so can we!

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.  Genesis 6:8

The Fall

As we take a look at how all this came to pass, how it all started, we look at the beginning of humanity’s fall and we start by noticing that they, Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, had dominion over all the land and of all the creatures in and on it, that either walked, crawled, flew or swam.  They also had a responsibility in honoring and obeying their Creator.  They were free within their purity that God had originally given to them, before they sinned and saw their raw nakedness being revealed through their shame.  Then they had to answer to God. 

They were originally free with pleasures of true joy.  They had freedom to choose to eat of any good tree in the Garden of Eden, as every tree was pleasant and good for food, all except one, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  That was a direct commandment from God, to not eat of that one tree.  Just one commandment, one rule was given for the purpose of their protection; just as we do for the protection of our own children.  One rule was given to them to keep; to keep their life, to keep their innocence.  One rule was quickly broken by deception.  Then sin slithered in. 

Out of that choice to disobey God, came spiritual death.  A great barrier was then formed, separating all mankind for future generations to come, from God.  Adam and Eve felt alone as they felt their shame.  They knew their wrong in which they tried to cover up, to blame, as do we still today, ever since then.  We all needed a Savior ever since the beginning of time.

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:  But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it:  for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.  Genesis 2:16-17

In the beginning of the world, at the time of its formation with all of creation both in the heavens and of the earth, the world was made perfect and was filled with peace and every pleasant good thing.  It was filled with living creatures of the land, sky and waters, bountiful plant life, and mist that came up from the earth to water the ground.  It was a creation of paradise as it was all good. 

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew:  for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.  But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.  Genesis 2:5-6

When God formed man, he had dominion over the world and all of the creatures that lived in it as he was made in the image of God.  So man would not be alone, God made him a companion in the form of a woman, his wife.  She was formed right from his very own rib, to be always by his side.  She was to be his helpmate, she was to complete him.  They were to be the perfect example of unity; one under God.

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.  Genesis 2:7

And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.  Genesis 2:18

And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept:  and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.  And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh:  she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife:  and they shall be one flesh.  And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.  Genesis 2:21-25

We get to read that part again, later in the gospels about the unity of a man and a woman, that the man and the woman become one flesh.  How easily we as a culture have both forgotten and dismiss that fact, even right up unto our own present time frame.  Rather than being as one, married couples have become at odds with each other with comparisons, competitions, selfishness and blame getting in the way.  Divorce rates are high as marriage becomes more of a novelty, exceedingly ever more easily expendable.  The idea of even getting married in the first place has shifted to merely living together; perhaps for an easier out if need be.

How exactly did this paradise start to turn sour?  We can think about that now and just wonder, because we all would just love to live in paradise.  But the devil which was cast upon the earth had different plans as he made the first deception recorded unto man.  He approached Eve in the form of a serpent and deceived her into going against God’s ultimate word.  He tempted her with the lie that if she did eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, that she would surely not die.  She succumbed to the deception and ate.  First, she took and ate of the tree in the form of an apple, she then proceeded to give the same unto her husband Adam.  Instead of obeying God, he also disobeyed and went against God’s commandment for them and ate of it as well. 

Now Adam first forsook his head of the house responsibilities of protecting his house, protecting his wife, as men continue to do so today, by allowing the serpent’s deception to begin and come in between.  As he agreed to the request of his wife, who initially gave into the temptation, he ate of the apple, then knew full well of his wrong.  They suddenly became as naked and shamed filled amongst themselves and to God, as sin fell upon them; upon us all.  

Their oneness immediately became separate as blame started a void between them.  No longer would they get to enjoy the life that God had originally intended for them.  For from that point on, they would experience the pains of life through sweat, work and childbearing, coupled with bents of frustration and heartache related to each other’s personal gender traits.  The man and all men to follow from this point on will then neglect his wife and in return, she will nag him.

Our Continued Battle of the Sexes

They, now we as well, will be at odds with each other, rather than together as one.  We will then be filled with lusts of the flesh in the form of individual prides and selfishness.  Further in the struggle of a man and a woman to stay as one flesh, uniqueness becomes thorns as it constantly divides them.  In their conflicting attempts to acknowledge their own independence, their separate exclusive features including gifts or talents which encompass all physical, emotional and mental capabilities, along with each individual characteristic temperaments, strengths and weaknesses, they become burdens to each other; ignored, rather than admired and encouraged.  Competition and envy arise swiftly through pride, covetousness and blame shifting along with unending attempts to control each another as they lack submission or respect for one another.  We in a sense continue to drive each other crazy and often wonder how or even why we are together.  All this we experience, yet we don’t understand why.

When we don’t have the fruits of the Spirit in our lives to live by and to act on, (the fruits of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control), then evil finds a chink in our armor and hence produces some pretty prominent and very observable sin.  We then begin to display anger, harshness, bitterness, impatience, meanness, hatred, selfishness, et cetera; not unlike the seven deadly sins portrayal of lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride.  Does this sound like the men and women of today? 

We see this in couples as we live it in our own relationships, and we can’t even help it.  It’s as if they are inherently ingrained, a sin nature so to speak that we’re just born with.  We may not want to behave with such mannerisms, but yet we find them controlling us.  If we do not recognize them for what they are, they will rule our lives and grow like a rotten seed infecting our entire being; ruining our relationships, destroying our lives.  We each have something, if we think about it for a moment as no one is immune, that becomes a thorn to us, a controlling vice in a sense that tries to run our lives. 

We’ve Fallen Too

We have fallen into sin the moment we were born, as a result of a decision that our first parents on the earth made when they disobeyed God.  We can see it as we all know that a two-year old’s first few words will contain the word, no.  We, at least most of us, did not teach them that word, at least on purpose but they know it nonetheless.  Of course, we don’t teach our children to disobey us.  It’s inherent. 

We act and do what and how we would rather not and we don’t behave as we should or as we would really like to.  We all want happiness, but we are all part of the cause of our own misery, just most of us are too prideful to even realize that fact and so refuse to take any of the blame upon ourselves.  We see it as always being someone or something else as the cause.  The root of our behaviors are hidden deep within us so only through acknowledging that we even have them and recognizing the cause of them, while releasing blame, along with repenting and seeking forgiveness through God’s help are we ever free of them; free of ourselves.

As with the first man and woman, we really are no different.  Just think, in all these years we still inherently behave the same way.  Contrary to popular belief, we have not evolved.  We, from the beginning of time as with Adam and Eve, have brought sin upon ourselves and still live in it today.  Just as quickly as when we think it won’t happen, deception can and still does come in between.  The sin that one man brought into this world, to affect every person, every generation thereafter was taken away by one man.  Adam and Eve’s falling for the devil’s deception was the starting point of sin and the starting point for our need of a Savior from the death that results from sin.

Spiritual Battle

From the time of their children being spread and multiplied throughout the Earth, generation upon generation, so also was the evil in it.  It has been written that one third of Heaven’s angels fell with Satan and they are roaming the Earth seeking whom to devour, even unto this day.

We are in a spiritual battle that most people know nothing about.  We react to the person seemingly causing our problem, but don’t really realize just what is behind it.  We are so caught up in this life in which we now live in this world, while being completely oblivious to other realms perhaps causing our distresses and trying to hinder our eternity.  If we are not wise to the attempts of the enemy, as he is behind the battles we face, and all the overwhelming deceptions going on, we can easily become lost for all eternity.  We are not fighting other people per se, or our problems, circumstances, governments, illnesses, et cetera, but a fallen angel; Satan. 

We do have a way however to be free from all of this, free from the grips of the enemy.  We have a way to be saved from sin, to be released from its hold, to live a more peaceful life and to live out our eternity in paradise with our Creator.  Just as one of the criminals that hung on a cross next to Jesus was reassured of this, because of his acceptance and faith in Him, we too can have that assurance, if we believe.  Jesus invites us also to accept His offer of love and complete forgiveness.  The question to ask ourselves is, Are we ready and willing to accept His offer?

And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.  Luke 23:43

Jesus is our life-giving water.  Just as in the midst of the Garden of Eden, among the trees, was the tree of life, Jesus is our tree of life.  He is our rock in which we build upon.  He is our redeemer, our Savior.  Once we confess with our mouths that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe in our hearts that He has risen from the dead, we too will be saved.  Our fear in this world diminishes as our faith in God grows.

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.  Romans 10:9

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.  1 John 4:4

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Tainted Genealogy

As generations grew, so did the evil along with it.  In the days of Noah, the Earth had become so corrupt, so filled with evil because of an inter mingling of sexual breeding, creating a hybrid race.   The sons of God (fallen angels) came down and took daughters of man (human females) and mixed their seed (had sexual relations) with humans. 

We may have all heard of such stories in Greek mythology, perhaps even studied them in school, watched movies pertaining to the stories and maybe even thought it was pretty cool; enough to even develop some actual belief in it with some even idolizing it, without however fully understanding the origin of what came first, Greek mythology or the Bible.  Let’s not be fooled though as once our eyes are opened and we begin to dive in, read and grasp Scripture, we learn and grow as it becomes our nutrition spiritually speaking.  We learn the basis of not only Greek mythology, but also the unsettling truth behind it.  Then our perspective changes entirely.  Something once seemingly so intriguing, can suddenly change to downright horrifying.

The same goes today for all of the extra-terrestrial alien talk, giants, or anything typically ‘out there’ in origin or not fully explainable; but yet the stories still exist.  Could there be a gene pool problem today as well, with both the mingling of and manipulation of genes by various means?  Are there hybrids walking among us today, infiltrated and hidden yet occasionally visible to the eye? 

That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.  Genesis 6:2

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bear children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.  And 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.  Genesis 6:4-5

With all of the mixed sexual relations happening, there had become a gene problem within the human race, and not only so, but within the animal kingdom as well.  There was no longer a pure race of anything, including humans, only a profoundly tainted race mixed with evil seed; all except for Noah and his family which included his wife, three sons and their wives.  Only the eight of them were considered to be clean, as they still had an unblemished and untainted genealogy. They were God’s people.  Only these eight humans were saved on the ark.  Because the earth had become so corrupt, so evil, God would then send rains to cause a flood, to essentially wipe out the evil flesh that walked upon it.

Just like today in the world, we witness all kinds of wrongs growing in countless and numerous ways, as sin is very rampant and evil is in the land once again.  We are strangely losing any normalcy of structured contentment and peace.  Each day seems to bring on yet another chaotic event that grows in mass proportions around the world.  There is hardly ever any news considered good and Samaritan-like towards our fellow man, but instead mostly destructive, fear inducing, if not horror filled that brings about much confusion and chaos.  It seems that with each passing day the entire world lives in a state of fear, as each new day brings horrors unimaginable as well as incomprehensible.

How did evil get back into the land again?  Could it have survived the flood?  There are theories that since the fallen angels have an enormous amount of knowledge as witnessed through technological advances and deceptions of many kinds, they could have devised a way to escape the flood; at least some of them.  Could they have started anew