Bobservations
by Pastor Bob Lawrenz
In Psalm 119 today, verse 90 states, “Thy
faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the Earth, and it
abideth.” Like every scripture passage, the depth of these few words goes far
beyond just what we read. To dig into them is to retrieve what the Lord refers
to as “the hidden manna,” from Revelation 2:17.
From Genesis, we understand that God made
the heavens and the Earth. But then God established them; He established the
physical laws of the universe, and those of the Earth itself during His creative
acts. Gravity, time, seasons, and the balance-in-nature. Evaporation, and rain
give us a cycle of renewal in our water resources, and the function of humans
and plant-life give us the renewal of oxygen and other gases in the air. He
established radiant heat from the sun to warm us, and gathered waters together
into rivers, lakes and oceans to cool us.
Colossians 1 tells us the Jesus made all
these things, and Jeremiah 31 tells us that He set the whole universe, the sun,
moon, and stars into motion. And within the ordinances of the movement of the
galaxies is where we find the seasons, and the night and day. It is the
spinning of the earth that gives us night and day. It is an ordinance of God, and
for our benefit. Beyond Earth, we find the entire star-field following
patterns, and again in Genesis, we are told that they are given to us for
signs. Job 38 refers to the movement of the heavens as the “Mazzaroth;” all
ordinances from God.
“If those ordinances depart from
before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before
me forever.” ~Jeremiah
31:36~
Therefore, the ordinances of God are tied
to the existence of Israel, and God’s chosen people. In “establishing”
the Earth, God ties the spinning of the planet to the survival of His people.
He set the world spinning, and it abides according to the intricacies of the movements
of the sun, moon, stars, and planets.
The prophecies of the End-Times are at the
forefront of the minds of many lately. If you want to know where we are in the
end-times time table, keep watch on Israel. God has apparently, made Israel the centerpiece of all Creation.
Psalm 119:90(b) ~
“…thou hast established the Earth, and it abideth.”
