To be frank (mind if I call you Frank?), operating an online creation science ministry and writing weblogs gets mighty frustrating. While attacks by atheopaths go with the territory (it is who they are and what they do), unprepared and apathetic Christians are hard to take.
I have prayed many times if the Lord wants me to continue. Lack of response by readers is cumbersome, but prophets in the Old Testament were told to preach repentance. Few people listened. We can only speculate on details, but Noah was a herald of righteousness (2 Peter 2:5).
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| Noah Offers up Thanks / Joseph Anton Koch, 1814 |
God promised that he would be saved along with his family in the Ark, which may have been in the back of his mind that preaching repentance was in vain. It is probable that he tried to convince people to repent and come along — there was plenty of room. People were constantly wicked which is probably why there were no takers.
Preaching and teaching may appear to be futile, whether repentance to sinners or to to motivate lazy Christians. We do our part, the results are on their heads. Messages may reach a few, or even have an impact that we do not know about — even after we are gone.
We know that Noah was described as a preacher (or herald) of righteousness (2 Peter 2:5), and that the act of preparing the ark was a witness in and of itself of coming judgment. Especially since Hebrews 11:7 states: “By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.”
You would do well to read the rest at "Did Noah Warn People About the Coming Flood?"