Psalms 104:1-4 "Bless the LORD, O my soul, O LORD my God, you are very great: you are clothed with honor and majesty. 2. Who covers thyself (Yourself) with light (illumination) as with a garment: who stretches out the heavens like a curtain: 3. Who lays the beams of His chambers in the waters: who makes the clouds His chariot: who walks upon the wings of the wind: 4. Who makes His angels spirits; His ministers a flaming fire:"
Psalms 104:5-6 "Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever. 6. You cover it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains." And of course we go back to Genesis 1:2 for that:
Genesis 1:2b "…And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Now back to Psalms 104, and drop down to verse 7.
Psalms 104:7-8 "At your rebuke they fled; at the voice of your thunder they hasted away. 8. They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys to the place which you have founded for them."
Psalms 104:8 “They (the waters) go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys to the place which you have founded for them." (back to the ocean). That’s just plain ole geography. Now let’s drop on down to verse 10.
Psalms 104:10-11a "He sends the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. 11. They give drink to every beast of the field:…"
This is Paul’s agreement with Psalms chapter 104.
Acts 17:24-25 "God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of Heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands; 25. Neither is worshiped with man’s hands as though He needed any thing seeing He gives to all life, and breath, and all things;"
What does that mean? Just exactly what it says. The food we eat even here in 2012 AD, Who provides it? The Creator! All the things we enjoy, and the clothes on our back, who provides it? The Creator! The roof over your head, who provides it? The Creator! See, this is what God wants us to understand, that He is the provider of everything, and not just to the believing world, but the whole world. Paul is even telling these pagan Athenians that God had provided everything they needed, and they didn’t know it. Even today many don't know that it is the Lord who provides all things for our enjoyment and pleasure. So everything that has ever been made, everything up in the Heavens and on the earth are the works of His hands.
Hebrews 1:11a "They shall perish;…"
Everything that God has created, everything that God has made for man’s use and privileges and for his comfort, one day it’s all going to disappear! "They shall perish;..." Earlier we went back and correlated the Biblical account of creation with the first two laws of science, do you remember what they were? They’re called the two laws of thermodynamics. The laws of heat and energy. Well the first law of thermodynamics says in plain English: "There is now nothing else being created." Now that’s our first law of heat and energy. And that’s the law that functioned while Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden. There were no deaths and everything was set for all eternity. They could have lived there forever if they had not disobeyed. The simple command "do not eat of it."
When God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden, they could have lived there forever. There was no stipulation. But of course what Adam and Eve didn’t know, and God did, was that Adam would disobey and end that glorious habitation in the Garden of Eden. But until Adam disobeyed the spoken command which became the first law,
thermodynamics was in full control. Everything that was needed to carry everything on and its purposes was completed, and nothing more was needed and it could go forever. But as soon as Adam chose to disobey, what came in? Sin leading to Death! And now when we have death in the picture, the second law of thermodynamics kicks in, and that laws says, "That even though nothing more is being created, yet everything that has been created is constantly going into a less useable state." And science calls that entropy. What does that mean? Everything is in the process of dying (IT IS SEPARATED FROM THE POWER OF ENDLESS LIFE but the incorruptible seed carries that power within itself). We are in that process - at the moment we’re born, we start dying. And that applies to everything on the planet. The moment they’re born, the seeds or law of death are already working, and that’s not only for the animal world, but also for the non-animal world. In other words, just as soon as a tree falls in the forest, it begins to rot; it just simply goes back to the dust it came from.
Hebrews 1:11 "They shall perish; (all the things God has created) but you (the Creator) remain; and they all shall wax old as does a garment;" What a beautiful illustration. Now a garment doesn’t wear out overnight. That’s something that is accomplished over a process of time, and so is creation. Both of which are governed by Eternity and the power of an Endless Life as there is no decay or dying there in them. But as the eons of time are going by, everything is in entropy, it’s all going into a less useable state, until finally God will undo the whole thing because of sin. All because of the disobedience of one man, Adam.
Hebrews 1:12 "And as a vesture shall you (the Creator) fold them up, and they shall be changed: (we think a clearer word there would be exchanged. The Heaven and earth are not going to be changed from this to that, but they’re going to be totally destroyed, and we’re going to have everything New.) but you (Creator) are the same, and your years shall not fail." Remember that Eternity is not limited to nor does it have time within it as a governing factor. Now let’s go back once again to the Old Testament to Isaiah chapter 51, then we’re going to look at Psalms again.
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