So why didn’t God stop this? I’m not going to take time now to clearly teach on the Sovereignty Myth. However, the simple answer is that God couldn’t. The earth was not God’s to have dominion over anymore. The door was not God’s to keep shut.
When God created the Heavens and the Earth it was chaos. It was formless and void and darkness covered the face of the deep (the abode of the dead). Then God begins to suppress chaos with creation. He makes light to subdue the existing darkness. He never gets rid of chaos and darkness He only creates order to subdue it. After He creates the entire perfect natural system He creates man and gives him authority to govern the entire planet and everything in it.
“God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”
The entire created order was made with word. If God were to make His own word void it would by default cause the integrity of the source of “word” to be void and it would no longer function. This would cause all of His creation to come apart.
Hebrews 11:3 “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.”
2 Peter 3:7 “But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.”
Mathew 24:23, Mark 13:31, Luke 21:23: “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”
Luke 16:17 “And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.”
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I wouldn't say God couldn't it would be better to say that God turned it over and decided he wouldn't interfere. He did destroy sodum and gomora and the Flood. He led his people out of Egypt so I wouldn't say he let everything alone.
ReplyDeleteGod didn't do anything on the earth without going through a man. God caused the Flood through the agreement of the man Noah.
ReplyDeleteHbr 11:7
"By faith Noah...condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith."
Noah condemned the world not God. Because God could not without a man. The earth was not his.
God had to send messengers to destroy Sodom. And required Moses to cause the Exodus. Everything He has done in the earth since Adam required a man's agreement. It's our planet.