But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
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… let us make by the way a reference to the trinitarian nature of God here but it's personal let us make man in our image after our likeness and then did you notice in Genesis 2 6 how the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a living creature. Like how close and intimate is that? God breathing life into man's nostrils, sharing breath with man. And then if you'll notice, the first thing God does after that is God blesses them in verse 28 and he gives them everything in creation. He uses that word twice. I've given you all these things. And then verse 31 says, God saw everything that he had made. And up until this point, God saw all that he made and it was good. On this day, God saw everything that he had made and behold, it was what? It was really, really, really good. This picture of people created for intimacy with the creator, unlike anything else in all creation. …
… personally, let us make. A reference, by the way, to the Trinitarian nature of God. Let us make man in our image after our likeness. And then check this out. Genesis chapter 2, verse 6, describing how God created man. We read, then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. How close, intimate is that? God breathing life. God sharing breath with man. And then the first thing God does after he makes man and woman is he blesses them, and he gives them all these things. We see that word give twice. I give you all these things. And then God, looking at humanity, says, I saw everything that I made, and behold, up until now, God saw what he made, and it was good. God saw what he made, it was good. This day, God saw what he made, and it was what? Very good. Like, really, really, really good. See it. God made you and me for close, unique, special relationship with him, unlike anything else in all creation. Just let this soak in. The God who spoke the world into being, the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, infinitely holy, just, righteous, loving, sovereign creator and sustainer of everything has personally made you for close relationship with him. You've been made for intimate relationship with God. That's awesome. …
10. All the elements (taking that word in the common sense, for the principles of which all natural beings are compounded) will be new indeed; entirely changed as to their qualities, although not as to their nature. Fire is at present the general destroyer of all things under the sun; dissolving all things that come within the sphere of its action, and reducing them to their primitive atoms. But no sooner will it have performed its last great office of destroying the heavens and the earth; (whether you mean thereby one system only, or the whole fabric of the universe; the difference between one and millions of worlds being nothing before the great Creator;) when, I say, it has done this, the destructions wrought by fire will come to a perpetual end. It will destroy no more: it will consume no more: it will forget its power to burn, — which it possesses only during the present state of things, — and be as harmless in the new heavens and earth as it is now in the bodies of men and other animals, and the substance of trees and flowers; in all which (as late experiments show) large quantities of ethereal fire are lodged; if it be not rather an essential component part of every material being under the sun. But it will probably retain its vivifying power, though divested of its power to destroy. 11. It has been already observed that the calm, placid air will be no more disturbed by storms and tempests. There will be no more meteors, with their horrid glare, affrighting the poor children of men. May we not add, (though at first it may sound like a paradox,) that there will be no more rain? It is observable that there was none in Paradise; a circumstance which Moses particularly mentions: (Gen. 2:5, 6:) “The Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth. — But there went up a mist from the earth,” which then covered up the abyss of waters, “and watered the whole face of the ground,” with moisture sufficient for all the purposes of vegetation. We have all reason to believe that the case will be the same when paradise is restored. Consequently there will be no more clouds or fogs; but one bright, refulgent day. Much less will there be any poisonous damps, or pestilential blasts. There will be no Sirocco in Italy; no parching or suffocating winds in Arabia; no keen north-east winds in our own country, …