Water and Fire
“They willfully ignore this: Long ago the heavens and the earth were brought about from water and through water by the word of God. Through these waters the world of that time perished when it was flooded.”
2 Peter 3:5-6 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/2pe.3.5-6.HCSB
The fact that water was on the earth before God started His work on the first day of creation still boggles my mind.
“Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.”
Genesis 1:2-3 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/gen.1.2-3.HCSB
God never made water He just used it to make the earth giving some of that water to each living thing from the plants on day third day. To the fish on the fifth day. To all the land animals and Adam and Eve on the sixth day. We continue to need water for life. Then God used that water to destroy the earth He had made because he found only one righteous person on the earth in Noah’s day. I believe that the rain that fell was the water that was above the earth and the water from within the earth was gushed out by the fountains of the deep.
“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,”
Genesis 7:11 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/gen.7.11.HCSB
God would continue his work with the water through Moses, Joshua, Elijah, Elisha, Jonah, and John. But then Jesus shows up.
“I baptize you with water for repentance, but the One who is coming after me is more powerful than I. I am not worthy to remove His sandals. He Himself will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn. But the chaff He will burn up with fire that never goes out.”
Matthew 3:11-12 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/mat.3.11-12.HCSB
For Jesus worked with the water but left us the fire. And God is getting ready to judge the world with the holy fire of His righteousness.
“But by the same word, the present heavens and earth are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.”
2 Peter 3:7 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/2pe.3.7.HCSB
Noah’s day was filled with all sorts of evil and God Judged them with the water. The fire was used in Sodom and Gomorrah as a testament to how the world will be judged in the last days. And I believe that the homosexual movement that we are seeing play out will be the sin that causes God to release His fire upon the earth to purify it of sin. That was the main reason for Sodom and Gomorrah, on top of others. And they have high-jacked God’s rainbow of His promise to not destroy the earth with water but to destroy it with fire.
“And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all future generations: I have placed My bow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, I will remember My covenant between Me and you and all the living creatures: water will never again become a flood to destroy every creature. The bow will be in the clouds, and I will look at it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all the living creatures on earth.”
Genesis 9:12-16 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/gen.9.13-16.HCSB
“They willfully ignore this: Long ago the heavens and the earth were brought about from water and through water by the word of God. Through these waters the world of that time perished when it was flooded. But by the same word, the present heavens and earth are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.”
2 Peter 3:5-7 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/2pe.3.5-7.HCSB
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