Ponder This... (Since the Flood)

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Have you ever pondered the role water plays in the most significant transitions in life? 

--Childbirth

--Baby dedications

--Adult baptisms

--Dead bodies washings

--Can you think of others?

 

What about the role of water in the start of so many other species of life on our planet whose ‘water breaks’ to signal birth? ¹

Consider water’s role in ending the pre-diluvian age, and beginning the post-diluvian age in which we live. The flood waters came from the breaking up of the fountains of the deep, and the windows/floodgates of the heavens. What waters, you wonder? Genesis reports how The Lord separated waters into those above and those below a firmament, then gathered the waters below the firmament into one place, and dry land appeared. ²

Literally all across the world, in every hemisphere, on every continent, all islands, every body of water, there is increasing evidence that Earth’s climate (weather patterns, temperatures and especially her water systems) is essentially out of sync. Unprecedented floods and extreme droughts are often occurring in the same places! We quite myopically label this as ‘climate change’, and conclude it is the result of too much carbon in the atmosphere. Focusing only on the scientific basis for climate change, with eyes wide shut, we are guaranteed to miss the higher, broader reasons for what we and the entire animal, insect and plant kingdoms are experiencing.

Water played pivotal roles in creation of Earth, and later in the flood that punished mankind’s gross sinfulness. He Who sent those waters has promised never again to flood the entire Earth. ³ However, He has promised to judge our persistent sinfulness in other ways, including with negative impacts on Earth’s water systems and the cascading/resulting impacts of famines, wars, pestilence and wild beast attacks. Water is the ‘pivotal plug’ in all of this. Pull that plug, and our entire ‘house of cards’ collapses.

The Lord God has clearly outlined for us how water will, once again, play a critical role in transitioning to our next historical age, yet most of us flat out ignore His promises, while stressing out about how to deal with climate change. Trying to get the entire world to reduce carbon emissions is like focusing on a gnat buzzing your sweaty face, while ignoring the most serious and impactful issues of our time, from Heaven’s perspective.

Just like many women reportedly experience temperature increases during pregnancy and just before labor, what if Earth has long been ‘pregnant’ with the next extended age The Lord has promised - His Millennial Reign, that will follow the short fourth age of human history - the tribulation?? What if her waters are about to break, giving birth to this new age? We are very experienced in failing to ‘connect-His-dots’, thus we fail to envision climate change is a mere symptom, not the cause of these most significant global environmental issues ….since the flood.

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¹ See: Giant panda’s water breaks

² See: Genesis 1: 6-10. Also, 'In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep [subterranean waters] burst open, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened. (Genesis 7:1, AMP) Now do you perceive what ever happened to the ‘waters above the firmament’?? ;o)

³ For as I have sworn That the waters of Noah would no longer (never again) cover the Earth… (Isaiah 54:9)