Christ in the Old World

Peter's argument from history for the proposition that God knows how to keep His people separated from those who are not His people continued with the exposition of Noah's ministry in the years before the Great Flood. Peter never raises any doubt about the historicity of the Genesis account of the Flood, and in that approach, he modeled himself after the Lord Jesus Christ who spoke of Noah and his times as being clearly historical. Peter's whole point in the text is that Christ did make His message known in the world before the flood, and that the people of that world despised it and ridiculed the man who preached it. But the day came when the flood came and took them all away. Peter's point is that false teachers found their answer in the flood waters, and that they shall find their answer now in the fire that will accompany the coming of the Lord.