Noah's Ark 2

INTRODUCTION
People everywhere can sense the changes. Things are happening too fast and in an uncontrollable and unstoppable manner. There is an increasing air of foreboding. Wherever we look we see serious problems crowding in; each one with its own potential for total catastrophe. There is growing tension and shrinking security in the lives of everyone. Command of events is slipping from our feeble hands, and reason is no longer reasonable.
Something is very, very wrong.
Politicians, intellectuals, scientists and false prophets in their thousands voice their opinions and ideas, but nothing really helps. Nothing eases the fear that something very big and very unwanted is coming our way.
This unseen monster has been marching toward us for a long time. Now he has our scent, and what was a few years ago just a steady jog, is today turning into a determined run. He'll be here soon.
Can we escape? Can we find a safe place to hide? Is there anywhere this monster cannot reach us? Relax! There is one safe hiding place---only One. We'll talk more of this singular Safe Haven in the following chapters.
For some reason many of us would prefer to hear anything but the truth, and the world is full of false prophets (I use this term very generally to include all the many experts and professors of most things) who tickle our ears, and their own vanity, with countless feathers of fanciful notions; and this while the true story has been lying around, gathering dust, for centuries. But will anyone who is in charge pick it up and say, "Hey! This is what it's all about! This is where we are going wrong!" No such luck.
Of course, I'm referring to the Holy Bible, the record of which, for telling it like it is and as it will be, is unbeatable and incomparable.
For thousands of years the Bible has foretold events that later happened, not in vague generalisations, but in exact detail. A truly great amount of prophetic Scripture has already been fulfilled to the letter, and that which remains, as yet unfulfilled, informs us where the world is now heading.
There is no book like it, and whether we agree or disagree, every jot and tittle of Bible prophecy will be perfectly realised.
I am aware that many people have been turned off Bible eschatology (the study of end-time events), and don't wish to discuss it or read about it, because of the sad abundance of ridiculous and plainly unscriptural interpretations put out by those who are misled or misleaders or both. But, where there is a great prize to be won, there will always be much purpose-built confusion clogging the pathways.
This book is, in many ways, frightening, and some may accuse me of scaremongering. However, it has not been written with the intention to frighten just for the sake of it, but rather to shake some out of their complacency and unbelief, and enable them to do something about it. To warn them of the possible danger they are in---to be forewarned is to be forearmed, someone said. We all do a similar thing: we tell our children about the dangers of going with strangers, and the police visit schools to warn our kids of the same.
We hope this will have a powerful enough effect on the children to cause them to fear having anything to do with strangers and thereby save them from possible harm.
Campaigns against drinking and driving deliberately set out to shock some sense into us, as do many similar campaigns like those against drug and solvent abuse, smoking, cruelty to children and animals, and those opposed to exploitation, poverty and disease throughout the world.
Jesus Himself did not hesitate to speak words which can be very scary, depending upon our relationship with Him; and all the words of Scripture in the following chapters are His not mine.
The topics covered within the pages of this book are in no way claimed to be complete or exhaustive in subject detail or in Scripture examples---far from it. Whole volumes could be written on the subject matter of each separate chapter. My desire for this book is to give the reader a general feel of things and to give, hopefully, a true and impressive picture of where we (the world and its history) are at and where we are going. I hope to do this with God's help and with the light and backing of Scripture.
I pray that this book will bless, encourage and strengthen many who already know the Lord, and help lead others to a saving faith in Him.
I pray that this book will testify to, and glorify, my Lord and Saviour---Jesus Christ.
"Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know when that time will come. It's like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with his assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch.
"Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back---whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the cock crows, or at dawn. If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping. What I say to you, I say to everyone: 'Watch!"

Mark 13v33-37

A few thousand years ago 8 people were kept safe above the floodwaters of God's wrath in a physical, wooden ark.
Everything was 'business as usual'---up to the time Noah entered the ark.
And again, many years later, life went on as normal---until the day Lot left Sodom.
At some time in the not too distant future, multitudes will be taken 'aboard' and kept safe from a time of terrible tribulation, in a type of heavenly ark.
Once again, 'Noah' will enter the 'ark'---
Once again, 'Lot' will leave 'Sodom'---