17 Therefore "Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you."
18 "I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty."
1 Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
We have the promise of God's deliverance - Jesus is our rescuer, and we can experience His cleansing power. He has forgiven us and brought us out of sin's grasp! We can experience true freedom because we have come to know Almighty God through accepting Jesus as our Savior. He has called us and calls us to take Him at His Word and experience the pleasure of possessing a clean conscience before Him.
In 2nd Peter 2, we read about God's deliverance for Noah. He...
(5) ...did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;
6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;
7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked
8 (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)--
9 then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment...
In Genesis 7, the Bible tells the story of that massive flood from which Noah and his family were
delivered:
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
In the book, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne wrote about a massive ocean inside the core of the earth, according to a piece on the Answers in Genesis website, which states that Verne wasn't that far off, and new evidence was cited in a study last year. The AIG website says that:
The article references a FoxNews.com report quoting lead study author Graham Pearson of the University of Alberta in Canada, who said: "It's actually the confirmation that there is a very, very large amount of water that's trapped in a really distinct layer in the deep Earth," The findings were published in the journal Nature.
As Answers in Genesis relates, this diamond discovery was only 3 millimeters in diameter. With no commercial value, geochemists looking for a way to date diamonds purchased it from miners in Brazil. In the stone lurked a ringwoodite inclusion. Pearson is quoted as saying, “It's so small, this inclusion, it's extremely difficult to find, never mind work on, so it was a bit of a piece of luck, this discovery, as are many scientific discoveries." The AIG article says, "Just finding a natural terrestrial sample of ringwoodite was a landmark event, but even more momentous is the discovery that it contains about 1.5 weight% water."
Here is a quote from geologist Dr. Andrew Snelling of Answers in Genesis:
Dr. Snelling says this:
Some takeaways for us as we think about the discovery and what it could signify:
We can be reminded that the Bible is true. There is the mistaken notion out there that science and the Bible are competing with one another. But, the truth is that you would expect science to confirm the account given in the Bible - they are not incompatible. You are dealing with past history, for sure, but discoveries about the earth and the universe can help to reinforce what the Bible tells us.
We can also think about the significance of the flood. Certainly, the flood was a cataclysmic event, and as the Answers in Genesis piece states, the surface of the earth was remodeled. The event illustrates for us the attitude of God toward unrighteousness and the deliverance of those who are faithful to Him. 1st Peter chapter 3 teaches how the flood can be tied in to water baptism, which symbolizes the cleansing work that Jesus can perform in the human hearts. We recognize that, yes, there is judgment for every individual, and if we choose to live apart from God, we inherit eternal punishment, separated from Him for eternity. But, if we have chosen Christ, we will live with Him throughout eternity. The good news, is that Jesus has come to be our rescuer, our deliverer, who sets us free from the power of sin and death.
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In 2nd Peter 2, we read about God's deliverance for Noah. He...
(5) ...did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;
6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;
7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked
8 (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)--
9 then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment...
In Genesis 7, the Bible tells the story of that massive flood from which Noah and his family were
delivered:
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
In the book, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne wrote about a massive ocean inside the core of the earth, according to a piece on the Answers in Genesis website, which states that Verne wasn't that far off, and new evidence was cited in a study last year. The AIG website says that:
Analysis of a diamond volcanically coughed up from deep in the earth and recovered in Brazilian river gravel has serendipitously revealed water-containing ringwoodite, a testimony to the presence of both water and the elusive olivine polymorph under the earth.As the piece points out, "More than just a place of molten rock, earth’s mantle apparently harbors a watery zone able to hold an ocean of water."
The article references a FoxNews.com report quoting lead study author Graham Pearson of the University of Alberta in Canada, who said: "It's actually the confirmation that there is a very, very large amount of water that's trapped in a really distinct layer in the deep Earth," The findings were published in the journal Nature.
As Answers in Genesis relates, this diamond discovery was only 3 millimeters in diameter. With no commercial value, geochemists looking for a way to date diamonds purchased it from miners in Brazil. In the stone lurked a ringwoodite inclusion. Pearson is quoted as saying, “It's so small, this inclusion, it's extremely difficult to find, never mind work on, so it was a bit of a piece of luck, this discovery, as are many scientific discoveries." The AIG article says, "Just finding a natural terrestrial sample of ringwoodite was a landmark event, but even more momentous is the discovery that it contains about 1.5 weight% water."
Here is a quote from geologist Dr. Andrew Snelling of Answers in Genesis:
For a long time it has been known that the upper mantle is made up predominantly of the mineral olivine...but its lattice structure can’t hold much water within it. Experimental work had demonstrated that at pressures deeper in the mantle, between 410 km and 660 km (255–410 miles), as determined by seismic studies, the higher-pressure equivalent (polymorph) of olivine that was named ringwoodite must exist. However, no naturally occurring ringwoodite had been found.That is until this study. In fact, German geochemist Hans Kepler in a Nature “News and Views” column, wrote, “Most people (including me) never expected to see such a sample."
Dr. Snelling says this:
What is the profound significance of this discovery? It confirms the capacity of the mantle to have housed the water that was released when the fountains of the great deep were broken up to commence the Flood, and the huge volume of water that was released through these fountains for as much as 150 days, providing more than enough water to help submerge the whole globe, just as described in Genesis 7:11–24.The Answers article reminds us that, "Though we were not there at the time of the global Flood, God in His Word, primarily in Genesis chapters 6–9, has provided us with an eyewitness account of the violent events that remodeled the earth’s surface. The geology we see today has been strongly influenced by the global Flood, and Bible-believing geologists like Dr. Snelling note that what we see is consistent with biblical history."
Some takeaways for us as we think about the discovery and what it could signify:
We can be reminded that the Bible is true. There is the mistaken notion out there that science and the Bible are competing with one another. But, the truth is that you would expect science to confirm the account given in the Bible - they are not incompatible. You are dealing with past history, for sure, but discoveries about the earth and the universe can help to reinforce what the Bible tells us.
We can also think about the significance of the flood. Certainly, the flood was a cataclysmic event, and as the Answers in Genesis piece states, the surface of the earth was remodeled. The event illustrates for us the attitude of God toward unrighteousness and the deliverance of those who are faithful to Him. 1st Peter chapter 3 teaches how the flood can be tied in to water baptism, which symbolizes the cleansing work that Jesus can perform in the human hearts. We recognize that, yes, there is judgment for every individual, and if we choose to live apart from God, we inherit eternal punishment, separated from Him for eternity. But, if we have chosen Christ, we will live with Him throughout eternity. The good news, is that Jesus has come to be our rescuer, our deliverer, who sets us free from the power of sin and death.
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