He said: ‘Those people were eating. They were drinking. They were getting married.’ It is not wrong to eat and to drink or to get married. But they were so busy doing those things that they did not take time to listen to God. That was bad.

Jehovah told Noah to preach. So during all the years that the ark was being built, Noah warned the people about the coming flood.

Did any of them listen?⁠— Only Noah’s family did. All the rest were just too busy doing other things. They did not think they were so bad, and they did not take time to listen.

Matthew 24:37-39.