Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Friday, August 17, 2007 9:54:06 PM
Is a global and life threatening catastrophe possible in the Biblical framework of history?
After the Genesis Flood, God made a promise to Noah saying, ‘The waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.’ [Genesis 9:8-17]
The prophet Jeremiah links the constancy of the earth’s functions necessary to maintain physical life with the permanence of the Covenant of Grace; the promise that God will have a people in every generation to worship Him in spirit and truth...
Thus says the LORD: ‘If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that there will not be day and night in their season, then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levites, the priests, My ministers. As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.’ [Jeremiah 33:19-22]
Calvin comments on this passage and addresses the complaint of the Jewish church from God’s perspective…
‘It is as though you sought to pull down the sun and the moon from the heavens, and to subvert the difference between day and night, and to upset the whole order of nature; for I am the same God, who has settled the succession of day and night, and has promised that the Church shall continue for ever: you can, therefore, no more abolish my covenant with David than the general law of nature.’ [Calvin on Jeremiah]
Peter says that the earth is ‘reserved for fire until the day of judgment.’ [2 Peter 3] Would to God that men were as concerned with the reality of this catastrophic event as they seem to be about global warming.