In comparing our time on earth today to the “days of Noah,” which the Lord said it will be like at the end of the age when He next catastrophically intervenes into history, I believe we see absolute evidence of the lateness of the prophetic hour.

Violence, of course, marked that antediluvian era, and the world of humanity had been corrupted. We’ve looked in these columns at all the proliferating violence in just about every region of the planet. I can’t think of a time in my life when there have been more wars and rumors of war than today. And, with the nuclear factor possibly at play in many of the conflicts, the very existence of humanity, if not for God’s staying hand, would be questionable in considering the near future.

So, we can say that humankind, at this hour, fits within the “days of Noah” likeness in the matter of violence being in every direction we look.

However, it’s a bit more problematic to think about the second symptom of Noah’s day before the Great Flood. Corruption and violence went hand in hand with the Lord’s decision to destroy all He had created. Here is the account:

“The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth” (Genesis 6:12-13).

People had corrupted all of God’s order as He intended for human life on earth.

Mankind, after the Fall in Eden, embarked on a violence-ridden rebellion that included embracing genetic corruption through sexual union with fallen angels. The rebellion of humanity was so great that there was total rejection of Heaven’s order of life. The destruction was inevitable, with God making the exception of Noah and his family, those who had not corrupted their way on the doomed planet.

We can easily extrapolate from this terminal action that rebellion against God’s order reaches a point that He will end it—with great though righteous violence. There will always be, when this point of corruption is reached, reaction by God, who will exert His omniscient, all-powerful control.

Sometimes God’s control is executed instantly, like when Sodom and Gomorrah were decimated following the removal of Lot and his daughters to safety. At other times, such omnipotent controlling reaction is applied in an incremental way, such as when the Lord gave Nineveh forty days to repent. But when God’s order of things reaches an incorrigible level, He exerts His righteous judgment and wrath.

When it reached the time when humankind’s corruptive rebellion had come to the point that God the Father had to exercise His control over man’s incorrigibility—the Adamic, bloodstream sin-contamination that would destroy humankind for eternity—God placed all sin on the back of His Perfect Son, who became the scapegoat sacrifice: the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

God thereby displayed His love for His creation called “man.” He bestowed mercy and grace for all who will accept that great sacrifice.

The Lord Jesus Himself gave a heads-up on what happens when people rebel against God’s order of creation.

As He entered Jerusalem to become the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world, the people began to praise Him, just as God intended, because Jesus was indeed the Messiah and the very Son of God. The Judaizers—who had fought against Jesus at every opportunity and, eventually, would, at least they thought, achieve in getting Him crucified—scolded Jesus, telling Him to make those praising Him to be silent.

Jesus answered these spawns of the devil: “I tell you, if these [people] were to keep silent, the stones would cry out” (Luke 19:40).

The very planet–the geophysical elements—Jesus was saying would, if the people did not praise Him in truth and within God’s order of things at that moment, convulse in an earth-shattering demonstration of rebellion against the Creator’s holy will.

This brings us to the encompassing purpose of the title of this piece: “Defying God’s Order.”

Considering all the evil perpetrated against God’s order of life on the planet He flung into space, should we have to wonder whether the geophysical gyrations we are witnessing are likely the beginning of the Lord’s incremental infliction against rebellious mankind’s incorrigibility?

With homosexuality, transsexual insanity, abortions, and other atrocities against children by the tens of millions, and other things of defiance against God’s order that we could name if space permitted, is it any wonder that the God of Heaven is about to intervene in a catastrophic way?

As a matter of fact, in a single day’s coverage of our Rapture Ready News, in my opinion, is a reflection, possibly, even likely, proof of how the Lord’s geophysical creation is beginning to convulse, as Jesus warned that day He was about to die for our sins. Here are a few brief descriptions of such geophysical likely evidence:

• Isesaki breaks Japan’s all-time heat record with 41.8°C (107.2°F) on August 5

Isesaki in Gunma Prefecture recorded 41.8°C (107.2°F) at 14:26 LT on August 5, 2025, setting Japan’s highest temperature on record and marking the second time in one week that the national record was broken.

• Smoke from Canadian wildfires triggers air quality alerts in 10 U.S. states, 2025 nears second-worst year

Air quality alerts were issued across the U.S. Midwest and Northeast on Monday, August 4, 2025, and remain in effect on August 5, as over 740 wildfires burning across Canada send smoke to the U.S. Currently, 2025 is the third most destructive year for wildfires in Canada and is likely to become the second most destructive year, surpassing 1989 when wildfires burned over 17 million acres of land across the country.

• Hong Kong records highest August daily rainfall since 1884; four black warnings in 8 days

Hong Kong recorded its heaviest August daily rainfall since records began in 1884, with 355-359 mm (14-14.1 inches) measured by mid-afternoon on August 5, 2025, prompting a black rainstorm warning that lasted more than 11 hours, the second‑longest on record.

• Destructive floods hit southern Taiwan after 2,900 mm (114 inches) of rainfall in one week

Extremely heavy rainfall totaling nearly 2,900 mm (114 inches) from July 28 to August 4, 2025, caused severe flooding and landslides across southern Taiwan, killing at least four people, leaving three missing, and forcing nearly 6,000 to evacuate.

• Southern Kamchatka shifted 2 m (6.6 feet) during M8.8 earthquake on July 29, 2025

Preliminary data from KBGSRAS shows that the southern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula shifted southeastward by nearly 2 m (6.6 feet) after M8.8 earthquake (Rapture Ready News, August 6, 2025)

God’s ultimate order of things for everyone is that you, whoever you are, be saved from the sin that separates you forever from Him unless you repent and ask Jesus Christ for the salvation, the redemption, He offers. Here, again, is how to be saved from the judgment that God must send against those who reject His Son’s sacrifice on the cross.

“That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).