Any Price

... and if He didn't spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others, when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly.... - 2 Peter 2:5

In his second letter, Peter continued to build his case that God is a righteous Judge. In the previous verse, he wrote of the punishment of angels and in this verse he mentioned the flood.

Many modern "scholars" struggle with the historicity of Noah, the ark, and the flood, but Peter, who was 2,000 years closer to it than we are, certainly had no such reservations. For Peter, the great flood was a historical fact and concrete evidence that God would not (could not) tolerate sin. If the Creator was willing to go to such lengths to preserve the holiness of His Name, then Peter argued that God would continue to do whatever was necessary to protect it in the future.

God will pay any price to preserve His Name and His people, and He did just that when He sent His Son to die for our sins.

At the Cross I learn what creation could never tell me, who God is and what He is to me, a guilty sinner. God is love; therefore, He is both light and life. A Savior-God! What marvelous grace and glory. - William Hallman