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What is so interesting about the context of this verse is that we are told that Judgment Day and
the coming of Jesus Christ will be "as it was in the days of Noah," because immediately after
we read that "no man knows that day and hour," Christ says, "as it was in the days of Noah, so
shall also the coming of the son of man be." This comparison with the coming of Christ and
the end of the world with how it was in the days of Noah is a consistent teaching in the Bible as
in Luke 17:26 where we read once again, "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in
the days of the son of man." And similarly, we read, in II Pet. 3:6-7, "Whereby the world that
then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now,
by the same word are kept in store, are reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and
perdition of ungodly men." Through such comparisons between the judgment of the flood
and the final judgment of this world, it is clear that God wants us to look at how it was
in the time of Noah in order to learn about how it will be at the second coming of Christ
and the end of the world.