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"HE wiped out every living thing that was on the surface of the ground,
from mankind to livestock, to creatures that crawl, to the birds of the
sky, and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, and those
who were with him in the ark!" Genesis 7:23
In that period before the flood, when the age of man was more than
900 years, the temptation to put death out of view was great. A Church
there was—but by intermarrying with the wicked world it had become
corrupt, and at last almost extinct. This was the first illustration of the
fatal consequence of too close a connection between the Church and the
world. By these means the Spirit of God was provoked to depart, and
general licentiousness ensued. The Church became reduced to a single
family, and the rest of the world sunk into infidelity and vice. "The LORD
saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that
every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time."
Genesis 6:5