The last element is the FLOOD. As an 11-year-old Jr. High student, I sat at the feet of Dr. John Whitcomb as he said:
We have been living in an age of deep skepticism. A century of evolutionary philosophy, with its seeds of naturalism and atheism, has yielded the bitter fruits of revolution, non-moralism, and despair. Nevertheless, even in this age, God has "left not himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rain from heaven, rains and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness" (Acts 14:17).
There is also another silent yet eloquent witness in the very rocks of the earth’s crust. In every nation, in the land beneath our feet, and in the hills and valleys through which we travel–reposes a vast cemetery. Therein lie the bones and shells, the teeth and trails of innumerable animals, and the compressed and carbonized remains of immense forests that once filled a beautiful world. Here and there, scattered widely throughout the rocks, artifacts or other fossil evidence can be found, even of human life from long ago.
Modern speculation has managed to distort the testimony of this sedimentary graveyard into a fictional record of slow evolutionary development over a billion years of imaginary earth history. This strange notion has indeed become accepted and taught as a scientific fact in most of our educational institutions worldwide.
Fossils, however, speak of death-not development! Their witness is one of extinction evolution. The God who created all things is a God of both power and mercy. He need not and would not have used the principles of suffering and death (especially the massive and violent death implicit in this fossil witness) as implements of creation.
Fossils speak of death, which speaks of sin and judgment, not creation and development. When correctly interpreted, whether theologically or scientifically, this worldwide witness in the earth itself testifies of a sovereign Creator who controls and judges His creation. Rather than evolutionary progress over many ages, these stones cry out concerning a judicial termination of one age.
The Biblical record is complete with a first-hand account of that great hydrodynamic convulsion with which God judged the wickedness of the antediluvian world. Whatever geological problems may be suggested, there can no longer be any question that, if the word of God is true, the Genesis Flood was a world-covering, cataclysmic judgment imposed by the strong hand of God.
LIVING IN A
WORLD OF SCOFFERS
Now join me in II Peter 3. The Lord tells us what do do when you find yourself in a world that denies their Maker!
TRUST THE WORD v. 2
EXPECT THE SCOFFERS v. 3
As people run amok in sin and every form of evil and ungodliness, they will become more and more impervious to God’s truth and resentful of His standards of righteousness. They will be so vile, wretched, and preoccupied with sex, drugs, alcohol, materialism, and pleasure-seeking that they will believe every explanation for the end–time signs except the one given in Scripture. Rather than turning to God in repentance, they will curse Him (Rev. 9:21).
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