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Answer
The writings of Ellen White draw a clear parallel between the moral depravity of the pre‑flood world and the conditions in the last days of earth’s history. As before the Flood, today godlessness, unbridled passions, violence, and the disregard of divine laws shape society, especially in the big cities.
It is emphasized that everyday things such as eating, drinking, or marrying are not sinful in themselves, but their excessive abuse to satisfy selfish desires is. This increasing lawlessness and moral numbness, according to the texts, signal the approaching judgment of God over the modern world.
Moral conditions like in the days of Noah
»Today's society is corrupt, just as it was in the days of Noah. ... They banished God from their thoughts, despised His law, and trampled His character standard into dust. They wallowed in sinful pleasure, defiled their ways before God and defiled one another. Violence and crime filled the earth. ... The same principles of disregarding God and His law, the same love of pleasure, selfish satisfaction, as well as pride and vanity are at work in the present time.«
Lawlessness and perversion of legal institutions
»The sins that demanded vengeance against the pre‑flood world exist today. ... Their transgression was to receive these gifts without gratitude toward the giver and to debase themselves by indulging the appetite without limit. They were permitted to marry. ... But these instructions were forgotten, and marriage was perverted and abused to serve passions. A similar condition now prevails. What is lawful in itself is driven to excess.«
Comparison of wickedness and violence in cities
»Just as in the days before the Flood, the time now stands immediately before when the Lord God must reveal His almighty power. ... Our God is a God of compassion. ... Yet the great ruler of the universe today cannot look upon the godless cities, where violence and crime reign, with pleasure.«
Gluttony and intoxicating drinks as cause
»The same sins exist in our days that brought God's wrath upon the world in the days of Noah. Men and women today indulge in eating and drinking to gluttony and drunkenness. This prevailing sin ... inflamed the passions of people in the days of Noah and led to general depravity, until their violence and crime reached the heavens.«
Increasing corruption and the end of grace
»I then saw the corruption of these last days. Even some of those who claim to have the truth are corrupt, and the same sins now exist that existed before the destruction of the old world by a flood. The world is now almost ripe for destruction, as it was then.«
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