Aloha! And welcome to our live stream midweek Bible study. I'm starting that way for a reason

and I'll explain what that reason is. So on Sunday at the end of the, I said, thank you, Aloha.

And would you believe that we had a number of people, actually numerous people, email

and comment and ask, did I just say thank you, Allah?

I did not say thank you Allah. I said thank you, aloha. Not

Allah. I want that to be very clear. I'm going to also be mentioning this on Sunday. So that's why I dragged it out and said, Aloha. Okay. Also, by the way, I had someone

comment. This was a while back. Pastor J.D., why are you making the hand signal, which is the

sign of the devil? All right. This is not the sign of the devil. This in

Hawaii is known as Shaka and it means how's it bra? Translated, how is it going brother?

How's it bra? It is not, that's Shaka. So, okay, I'm not here tonight to give you a

cultural lesson of Hawaiian culture. I am certainly not qualified to do that, but I did want to

clear that up before we get started. All right, let's get to it. What I'm hoping to do in our time together

tonight in God's word is answer this question of whether or not our lives will ever return to normal.

And in order to do that, we're going to need to revisit two passages

of Scripture, the first of which is in Matthew's Gospel, chapter 24, verses 36 through 44,

and then the second is Luke 17, verses 26 through 37. So you can follow along

as I read. Let's start with Matthew 24, beginning in verse 36. Jesus is speaking. He's actually

answering a question that the disciples asked concerning his return and the end of the age.

And after answering that question, he then says in,

pardon me, verse 36, but of that day and hour, no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but my father only.

But, verse 37, as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the son of man be.

For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered the ark,

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