As it was in the days of Noah before the flood, so it is and will be in this age before the soon return of Christ and the tribulation to follow (Luke 17:28). In the days of Noah the people were eating, drinking, marrying, and were given in marriage, until the day of the flood when all the known world was destroyed with the exception of Noah and his family. It is “life and death” for people to realize that the spirit of this world, its fleshliness, self-serving -ness, and the sorrow and destruction associated with it (which are so evident in international news: murder, rape, terrorism, theft, slavery, war, etc.), is going to be judged. You may say, “well I haven’t partaken in any of those things.” However, we have all fallen short of God’s expectations; we have all sinned (Romans 3:23), we have all partaken in that spirit of the world (Ephesians 2:3); Christ is the only way out the innate (that we are born with), unregenerate spirit of the world. As Jesus told Nicodemus, a man cannot see the kingdom of heaven unless he is born again (John 3:7). Escape imminent judgment to come, realize the big picture and the finiteness of your temporal life, and be who you were born to be (Jeremiah 1:5, Jeremiah 29:11).