They did not seek to understand the will of God by seeing the signs of the times, but only pursued visible signs that came down from heaven. At that time, Jesus rebuked them as an evil and adulterous generation saying unto them to give only the sign of Jonah. They needed most was the sign that God Himself who came down from heaven to die for their sins and rise again on the third day like Jonah. He spoke for them to need to believe in him to be saved. But they became to be blinded spiritually so that they could not understand at all and did not believe in Jesus, and they were unto destruction in hell.
Jesus spoke of them who practice lawlessness not preaching the gospel of Christ through the sign of Jonah, but try to show only visible signs:
The text given to us today is about the day when the prophesy of David through Holy Ghost will come when the powerful men in the world must give glory and power to the Lord giving him the glory worthy of his name, and worship the Lord with the beauty of holiness. (Psalm 29:1-2)
David prophesied of the signs of the times when it is to come:
Given the unimaginable floods and pestilence that have struck many countries in the past two years, millions of people have lost their lives, and the reality that is still going on today. We should not think that these things happened by accident. These phenomena should not be viewed simply as extreme disasters.
In the old days of Noah, when the world was judged with the flood, people saw too much rain in forty days and forty nights, and they must have thought as a extremely bad weather, and did not pay any attention to the message of judgment delivered by Noah. Up to now, God has given warning messages to most countries as a taste, but none of the authorities in any country have said that it is the voice of God’s warning.
The Bible testifies about the rain that fell forty days and forty nights during the flood that occurred in the days of Noah. But God gave the rainbow as a token of his promise that the final judgment would not be done by flood:
However, in the future, when the Lord Jesus Christ appears and judges the world at the end of the great tribulation, it has been foretold through the prophets that the LORD God will judge with fire, not flood. Therefore, seeing the recent disasters and realizing that it is God’s ultimatum asking to return to God. As Noah and his family entered the ark and were saved, in order to enter the body of Jesus Christ who died for the sin of the world. It is right time for all men to repent thoroughly for not believing in Jesus; and believing on him to be born again by the Holy Ghost to enter the kingdom of God in the body of Christ, which is greater than the ark.
If not listening to the testimonies of the prophets who prophesied about the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, who will soon appear to judge the world by fire, then shall be judged like Sodom and Gomorrah that were judged by brimstone fire that fell from heaven not by the flood.
God set Sodom and Gomorrah as an example by judging them with fire happening on the Lord’s day, the day of judgment by fire. At that time, the Bible says that only one man, Lot, was a righteous man and his soul was broken in spirit. Even in this day and age, it is sad to see just few people preach the gospel with their hearts broken looking at carnal Christians like the people of Sodom and Gomorrah who were judged:
The Apostle Peter witnessed and testified of the scene in which God completely melting the heavens and the earth with fire before the end of the Millennium and before the new heavens and the new earth appeared, and before the eternal new world that God cleans the heavens and the earth finally for eternity. :