The 2026 hurricane season officially began about 6 weeks ago, on June 1. As of this writing, I am not aware of any impending storms brewing in the Atlantic…yet.

Now if you are like me, when those storms begin to form, your interest level begins to rise, especially if you live in the path of those destructive storms, or any violent weather for that matter. I’m using hurricanes today because we tend to get much more advance warning on them in order to prepare and take proper action to avoid the potential coming danger.

And as you probably know already, when serious weather begins to arise, the Weather Channel, and other weather related news organizations go on ‘high alert’ as they begin to broadcast of the impending threats. They ‘live for this’ and because of the media access we have these days, the coverage is usually non-stop, or 24/7, as we like to say. Extreme weather is a ‘media magnet’ for sure.

So imagine if you would, how odd it would be to sit down this evening to catch the nightly news, and you hear a 30 second blip in the broadcast that a major category 5 hurricane has formed in the Atlantic and is barreling towards the US, showing no signs of weakening, and is about 5 days out from landfall; and then you hear NOTHING about it in the days to come. You might even begin to question if you even heard the initial report correctly, because you would expect increasing coverage as the storm nears.

Now suppose you do a quick internet search and find an article or two to confirm that this huge storm has not gone away nor changed its path and is getting closer, so you contact your local media outlets to ask why you’ve not seen nor heard of any follow up coverage on the Cat 5 storm. How do you respond if they inform you that they have changed their storm coverage policy and don’t want to tire people with reporting over and over on the ‘same old story’? Apparently, they were affected by all the criticism they received for giving too much coverage to such weather related events and only felt a need to announce it one time, and if people were curious or interested, they could look further into it on their own. They did tell you though that there might be a follow up mention of the storm the day before it hits.

Anyone see where I might be going with this, today? Yes…there is always a risk that ‘overkill coverage’ will numb the ears of those who need to hear what’s coming; so what is a news station to do? I remember when the local stations in Dallas use to come under great fire for interrupting people’s TV shows with extended live coverage because tornadoes were sweeping through the area. It sets up a classic case where you’re ‘damned if you do and damned if you don’t’.

I often think about what the conversations had to be like back when Noah was working on his little ‘boat project’. We know he also was a ‘preacher of righteousness’, but clearly… his words fell on deaf ears.(2 Peter 2:5; 3:1-9). I’m sure his family was appreciative of the fact that he kept doing what God told him to do, despite the lack of response he received. As I’ve heard in years gone by…God does not call us to be successful, He calls us to be faithful.

These days, there are no shortage of preachers who probably would have advised Noah to ‘change up’ his message and project, given it was producing zero results in his community. Perhaps he should ‘pivot’ and build an elaborate Air B&B instead…as it might bring in more folks. And what was the statement made by Jesus, when He continued on with His message pertaining to ‘signs of the end of the age’ in Matt. 24, which we touched on yesterday? He said: “As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be when the Son of Man returns…” (Matt. 24:37-39).

Friends…I am not here to tell you Jesus is about to ‘show up any day’, or to paint out some timeline as to if/when the ‘rapture’ will occur. Could any of that happen at any moment? Of course it could, and I’d be foolish to suggest otherwise. But let’s remember…when it comes to ‘timelines’, Paul made it clear back in his time that they were living at the ‘end of the age’ (1 Cor. 10:11), and John implied they were living in the ‘last hour’ (1 John 2:18).

I’m simply wanting to explain why ‘my message’ has remained unchanged for these past five years. I know…what I have seen and learned from the very same pages that you have, and I’m still waving a banner of warning…many of us were ‘deceived’, and taught things that ‘sounded good to the flesh’ and carnal minds, but a ‘storm is coming’ and will prove otherwise.

What kind of ‘storm’ am I speaking about? Honestly, I couldn’t tell you, be it natural or physical or economic; but I fear we tend to look for those ‘natural events’ and are missing the more ‘serious picture’. This coming storm, which is here already…is ‘spiritual in nature’. Yes, Noah was looking for a ‘natural flood’, and it came and destroyed the world. But this coming ‘flood’ will be different. How do I know? Well, God’s promise to Noah is note-worthy in Genesis 9:11. But that did not mean ‘another kind of storm/flood’ wouldn’t come; which is probably why Jesus referred to a coming ‘flood’, even talking about how this ‘flood’ took or carried people away to ‘destruction’ (Luke 17:26-27)

Take a look at Luke 6:46-49, a companion text to Matt. 7:24-27. It speaks to the difference between a ‘wise man’ and a ‘foolish’ one, in how they respond to God’s words. I kind of left off in yesterday’s message with a similar thought on how one can tell if they are ‘deceived’ or not, which was the main point of my lesson yesterday. If we are not putting the word of God into practice, the way God wants it obeyed, then we are in danger of being destroyed, period (Luke 13:3,5; 2 Pet. 3:9). In this word picture Jesus shares in Luke 6…both ‘houses’ were subject to the same ‘flood’, but only one withstood the onslaught, and remained intact. And what was the difference between the two men and how they responded to what Jesus had to say? Yeah…it should be easy to spot when you read through that short text.