SIN:
SEARED CONSCIENCE; JUDGMENT OF GOD: FUTURE; MAN: SINFULNESS OF

Noah decided to find out from the bird if there was dry ground below. He wanted to know if the waters of judgment had abated. He opened the window and pushed the raven out.…

The evidence of death and judgment should have been a repulsive and horrible sight, but the raven was built for it. Something in his dark heart loved it, because he lived on it. He immediately sailed down and lighted on a near and likely corpse. He began to tear hunks of half-rotten flesh with his strong claws and beak. He tore away and ate until he was stuffed and sleepy with overeating. Then, fastening his claws down into the floating thing, happy and restful, he went to sleep croaking a goodnight word. The happiness that he had found was what his heart wanted. Corruption and desolation, silt and dirt, rotten flesh and dead things—all fitted his disposition and his temperament. He fed on the floating dead.…

The great judgment of God is upon mankind, all the stock of mankind—red, yellow, black, white, educated and uneducated, cultured and uncultured, cave men and learned men around the world. Yet it does not seem to bother people because man has in him that thing we call sin. It does not bother him at all, because he is just as the raven was—at home in the desolation. His dark heart had an affinity for judgment and desolation. Man also finds himself at home in a world under the judgment of God.

Genesis 8:6; Romans 1:20–23; Hebrews 9:27

The Counselor, 154, 155, 156.