I

Look back to the time when Noah built the ark:

Mankind was deeply corrupt, deeply corrupt,

people had strayed from the blessing of God,

were no longer cared for by God,

were no longer cared for by God, and had lost the promises of God.

They lived in darkness, without the light of God.

Then they became licentious by nature, licentious by nature

and abandoned themselves to hideous depravity.

Such people could no longer receive the promise of God;

they were unfit to witness the face of God or to hear the voice of God,

for they had abandoned God, for they had abandoned God,

they had cast aside all that He had bestowed upon them,

and had forgotten the teachings of God.

II

Their heart strayed farther and farther from God

and, as it did, they became depraved beyond all reason and humanity

and became increasingly evil. Then they walked ever closer to death

and fell under the wrath and punishment of God.

Only Noah worshiped God and shunned evil,

and so he can hear the voice of God and hear His instructions.

He built the ark according to the instructions of God’s word,

and there assembled all manner of living creatures.

And in this way, once everything had been prepared,

God unleashed His destruction upon the world.

Only Noah and the seven other members of his family

survived the destruction,

for Noah worshiped Jehovah and shunned evil.

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Appendix 2: God Presides Over the Fate of All Mankind