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Luke
  
26"And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:27They 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.28Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;29but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed."


How will the world appear at Christ’s coming? Will the kingdom of God have changed the hearts of all men? No, on the contrary, the multitudes will be living without God, neglectful and concerned about themselves, except some watchful and cautious individuals who will expect the coming of their Lord impatiently.
Is it a sin to eat, drink, and make love? No! Is it unfair to buy, sell, plant, and build? Absolutely not. But the people who are preoccupied with these things are in fact sinners, for they do not think of God, but prove to be are slaves of their selfishness, thinking only of themselves, and not of the everlasting Creator. As sensuality prevailed exceedingly in the days of Noah and Lot, until God sent the flood of water and the rains of fire and destroyed the corrupt men, so the world multitudes live today criminal and impure like the first ones, but they belittle their crimes and impurities, having not known God in their hearts, or worshiped to him with respect and commitment. Thus they lost reverence, and fell into false freedom. They are senseless, becoming corrupt in an unimaginable way.
Since Jesus has described the time shortly before his coming, and likened it to the days of Noah and Lot, therefore we have to expect people, at the end of the world, to be overcrowded in big cities and capitals, with all kinds and forms of indifference, prostitution, and licentiousness spread among them, as initiated today.
It is to be mentioned that Noah and Lot were saved in the last day, at the last moment, when Noah entered into the ark with his family, and Lot, guided by the angel, fled out of Sodom into the wilderness. Even so will we expect to be caught up to meet Christ a few moments before his coming, in salvation and deliverance of the faithful, and in manifestation of their divine life residing in them.