Noah, The Flood and God's Promise

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,  by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,  who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. 

knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,  and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.”  For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;

By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men

when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,  when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed.

And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:  I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.  It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud;  and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”  And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

(1 Peter 3:18-20; 2 Peter 3:3-6; 2 Peter 2:4-5; Heb 11:7; 2Peter 3:7; 2 Thess 1:7-10; Genesis 9:12-17)

The rainbow is not a license for sexual immorality and an abomination. It is a sign from God Himself that the judgement to come will never occur again with a flood. Anything else is itself an abomination and blasphemy against a Holy and Righteousness God who gives us life, breath and all things.  For in Him we live and move and have our being. 

The Day of the Lord, The Day of God, The Day of Christ

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days, (Matt 24:29)

the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, (2  Thess 1:7)
“When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, (Matt 25:5)

The day of the Lord will come as a thief (unexpectedly)  in the night,
And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:  They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.  Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;  but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.  Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. ( (2 Peter 3:10;Luke 17:26-30)

But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.(Matt 24:3)

The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.  Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet,
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. ((Matt 24:29-31;1 Thess 4:16)

And they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. (Matt 24:31)

And the dead in Christ will rise first.
Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice  and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, ( (1 Thess 4;John 5:28-29)
and those who have done evil, (John 5:29)

The Lord Jesus returns with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.  (1Thess. 1:8)

to the resurrection of condemnation.(John  5:29)

these will go away into everlasting punishment,(Matt 25:46)
And  shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, (1 Thess 1:10)

but the righteous into eternal life.” (Matt. 25:46)
But we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.  (1 Thess 4:17)

Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. (2 Peter 3:11-13)

Therefore comfort one another with these words. ( 1 Thess 4:18)

 Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. and all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen. (Rev 1:7)