E is for Earth
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E is for Earth

There are many verses that inspire us to teach about the earth from a biblical point of view.

  • God created the earth. (Genesis 1) 
  • Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and the world, from beginning to end, you are God. (Psalm 90:2)
  • The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.  The world and all its people belong to him.  (Psalm 24:1)
  • With my great strength and powerful arm I made the earth and all its people and every animal. I can give these things of mine to anyone I choose.  (Jeremiah 27:5)
  • “He is the God who made the world and everything in it. Since he is Lord of heaven and earth, he doesn’t live in man-made temples,  (Acts 17:24)

The roundness of the earth is implied in Scripture.

  • God sits above the circle of the earth.  The people below seem like grasshoppers to him!  He spreads out the heavens like a curtain and makes his tent from them.(Isa 40:22)
  • God stretches the northern sky over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing. (Job 26:7)

God provides for the earth

  • He gives rain for the earthand water for the fields.            (Job 5:10)

He laid the foundations

  • “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?  Tell me, if you know so much.  Who determined its dimensions and stretched out the surveying line?  What supports its foundations, and who laid its cornerstone as the morning stars sang togetherand all the angels shouted for joy?   (Job 38:4)
  • For he laid the earth’s foundation on the seas and built it on the ocean depths.  (Psalm 24:2)

 

He regulates the laws of the earth and is sovereign over it.

  • Do you know the laws of the universe?  Can you use them to regulate the earth?  “Can you shout to the clouds and make it rain? (Job 38:33-34)
  • “Without warning, he moves the mountains, overturning them in his anger.  He shakes the earth from its place, and its foundations tremble.  If he commands it, the sun won’t rise and the stars won’t shine. (Job 9:5-7)
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