How greatly I enjoy the humming birds coming to the feeder on my front porch, just outside my study window, but sometimes they distract me a little bit. I can hear their wings as they hover, and it nearly always causes me to look up. And they are there quite a lot now. I get angry with them, though, because they are so territorial. There are four little perches on the feeder where four birds could feed at the same time, but not these little buggers. They chase each other all over the place. Very antisocial.
It amazes me what I am finding on the internet. On the subject of evolution the most outstanding thing is the complete lack of documentation or evidence given for what people write for the attention of others.
Psalm 104 is another in our study of the psalms having in them references to the creation. In this psalm there is a verse which evolutionists have used to prove their assertions that the Bible teaches that the sky overhead is a metal canopy, or a canopy of some other material. Verse 2 says, “Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain.“ The Bible is at once a book for the simple and the scholar alike, but it seems to me like that statement could be made of many books which are well written and have substance. Shakespeare is studied by high school children as well as the post graduate student, and their teachers. All the various elements of good writing are found in Shakespeare: metaphors, irony, metonyms, and other types. The Bible, more so, is a literary product of supreme excellence, using all the various elements of good writing. Though the Bible was written for the simple and the unlearned, it seems obvious that the more educated one is, the more he can glean from it.
Of course, we understand and appreciate what the writer is saying. It is necessary, however, to know enough to know that when the Bible says, “And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.“, it is not saying that Jesus Christ is a shaggy-mained, four footed cat on an African plain.
It also helps if the reader understands that the Lion of the tribe of Judah is not the same lion as the one in I Peter 5:8 who “. . . as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:. . . .” That lion, of course, is Satan. Or the lion in II Timothy 4:17, “Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.“ Some say that refers to wicked men, and it may, but I believe it refers to an actual lion Paul fought with in Ephesus. Evolutionists know full well that the Bible, as a superior piece of literature (and they also admit that), that the reader must distinguish between the literal language and the metaphorical. Evolutionists, and I speak of the evolution philosophers, or evolution priests (super aggressive evolutionists), are educated enough to know that such a statement as Psalm 104:2 is a metaphorical statement, and not a statement to be taken literally. The statement is one of beauty and elegance, and poetically speaks of the creation work of the Lord God. The Bible is not primarily a science book. It was not intended to be. The Bible is intended to prepare man for eternity. Yet the Bible is always accurate when it addresses matters of science, or any other discipline. The Bible is especially poetic in the book of Psalms because the psalms are hymns.
On the internet, a lady named Sarah Oleszycki stated that the Bible is allegorical. Let me read her full statement. She said, “Personally, I do not see how anyone could not believe in evolution. The bible (sic) is allegorical. How can you see the process of natural selection and not believe in evolution? Do you think new species or cross breeds just come out of thin air?” This statement raises quite a few thoughts in my mind that deserve comments, but what I wanted you to note is that she says the Bible is “allegorical.”
It is not honest to state that the Bible is allegorical, without some qualifying words. It would probably be more accurate to say “It is ignorant” rather than to say “not honest.” It is true that there are a number of allegories in the Bible, but these are easily recognized even by people who cannot define the term “allegory.” Pilgrim’s Progress is an allegory. Some of my own books are allegories. Allegories can be very valuable and effective teaching tools. Allegories are not dishonest, and they are not misleading. Genesis 49:11 and 12 are an allegory. They make absolutely no sense if taken literally. Let me read these words from old Jacob as he lies a-dying, surrounding by his twelve sons, to whom he is giving their blessings. These words are Judah’s inheritance, or blessing. “Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes; His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk,“
It was from Judah’s line, of course, that Messiah came, and these words are prophecies of Messiah, veiled in allegory. The Bible is not understood by the natural mind, no matter how brilliant it might be. The Word of God is spiritually understood, as I Corinthians 2:14 reveals: “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” The Word of God can never be fully understood by any mortal. The Bible is the eternal Word of God, and has width and depth and height that no man can measure. It is like standing beside a great ocean with a tea cup. We glean little drinks from it – yes sometimes, we are overwhelmed by it and feel we are about to drown – but to drink it dry is beyond any man. Some of the passages that are as dark as midnight may contain some of the most glowing truths if we could only enter into them. Most diamonds are deep in the earth.
God’s Word is settled in Heaven, and I believe that there we will spend a great deal of time being fed from its rich and lively truths that we could not, or at least did not, see here in this present world. The wide blue curtain that stretches from horizon to horizon during the day was put there by the Creator’s hand. Of course, we shoot rockets through that curtain, but anyone on board that rocket would declare, “There is no curtain up here!” because that space man could not tell when he went through the blue from daylight on Earth to the darkness of space.
Verse 5 speaks again of the “. . . foundation of the earth . . . , “ and adds “. . . that it should not be removed for ever.“ The universe is running down, slowing down, wearing out, but it is sustained by the voice of the Son of God, according to Hebrews 1:3 and Colossian 2:17. Though Earth will be burnt to a crisp some day, it will be right here for ever. It is going to be made new by the Creator so that it can once again be inhabited. I am wondering if it will be the same size. Something tells me it may be a whole lot bigger. After all, the new Jerusalem will have a foundation of about fifteen hundred miles square (Revelation 21:16).
The curtain of the sky does not cut from man’s view or access, the person and work of God. When the vail, or curtain, in the temple was rent down when Jesus died, the priests went in and sewed the thing back together, and hung it back up. God opened the way to Himself, and man closed it back up. So it has been from the beginning. Man erects curtains for himself and others, and God will not tear down another curtain in this world. In our world today there is mass confusion. There is a thing on public TV about seeking God in America. What a jumble of voices! It sounds like Babel all over again.
Many times I have observed my dear wife as she hung curtains on her windows in a house we had just moved into, or after she had washed them. It was a simple thing for her to run a rod through the curtain, and then hang them up, and with a stroke of her hand stretch them out and smooth them out. The room would suddenly be more attractive and liveable.
Even more easily did the Lord Creator stretch out the heavens like a curtain to make the world more attractive and liveable. The heavens are still being stretched out. Scientists have perceived this, and credit the stretching to a “big bang” rather than to the Creator.
That great expanse above the head of every human wherever he may be on Earth makes his life much more liveable, and reminds him that there is a God in Heaven.
