Are You Watching?

"Sinners are not, as a general rule, punished here. Their sentence is reserved until the dy of judgment. Some people regard every accident as a judgment, but we do not agree with them at all, else should we have frequently to condemn the innocent. This is not the time of judgment. Judgment is yet to come." Charles Spurgeon

Matthew 24:37-39 - But as the days of Noah, so also will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as they were in the days before the flood: eating. and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah went into the ark - and they did not know until the flood came and took all away - so also will the coming of the Son of man."

"They were sensual and worldy; they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage. It is not said, They were killing and stealing, and whoring and swearing (these were indeed the horrid crimes of some of the worst of them; the earth was full of violence); but they were all of them, except Noah, over head and ears in the world, and regardless of the word of God, and this ruined them. Note, Universal neglect of religion (True Religion) is a more dangerous symptom to any people than particular instances here and there of daring irreligion. Eating and drinking are necessary to the preservation of man's life; marrying and giving in marriage are necessary to the preservation of mankind; but These lawful things undo us, unlawfully managed. - They were eating and drinking when they should have been repenting and praying; when God, by the ministry of Noah, called to weeping and mourning, then joy and gladness. This was to them, as it was to Israel afterwards, the unpardonable sin, especially because it was in defiance of those warnings by which they should have been awakened. "Let us Eat and Drink, for tomorrow we die, if it must be a short life, let it be a merry one." The apostle James speaks of this as the general practice of the wealthy Jews before the destruction of Jerusalem; when they should have been weeping for the miseries that were coming upon them, they were living in pleasure, and nourishing their heart as in a day of slaughter, Jam. 5:1,5. - Note, What we know of the things that belong to our everlasting peace, if we do not mix faith with it, and improve it, is all one as if we did not know it at all. Their not knowing is joined with their eating and drinking, and marrying. Note, the reason why people are so eager in the pursuit, and so entangled in the pleasures of this world, is, because they do not know, and believe, and consider, the eternity which they are upon the brink of. - They were so taken up with things seen and present, that they had neither time nor heart to mind the things not seen as yet, which they were warned of. - Those who will not know by Faith, shall be made to know by feeling, the wrath of God revealed from heaven against their ungodliness and unrighteousness. Judgments are most terrible and amazing to the secure, and those that have made a jest of them." Matthew Henry