He was longing to eat the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples picked some heads of wheat, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them.

People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.