PROFITING FROM PROVERBS

“By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew” (Proverbs 3:20 KJV).

Okay, this one is a long one because there just wasn’t anywhere to cut it short.

“By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew” (Proverbs 3:20 KJV).

“In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights” (Genesis 7:11-12 KJV).

God controls the rain. “By his knowledge the depths are broken up,” what did He know? “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Genesis 6:5 KJV). That is what God knew, that man was evil continually. And because God knew that about man, he drowned them out.

“. . . the depths are broken up,” someone will say that that was the depths of the sea, but it’s going to take more water than what was in the sea to do what God did—to cover the mountain tops with water—a lot more water than the ocean has to offer. There had to be water from outside the earth’s sphere to accomplish the flood. Where did that water come from? “And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven . . .” (Genesis 1:6-8 KJV). Notice, He divides the waters from the waters, and in the midst of the waters is heaven. “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters” (Genesis 1:2 KJV).

“. . . the face of the deep,” now that’s some kind of water! When you get up to the third heaven, and you walk into the throne room, as Revelation chapter 4 describes it, before the throne is a “sea of glass,” crystal. Frozen, absolute ice. That thing is just a frozen solid body of water as big at one time as the universe. When He divided the waters from the waters, in the center of that or in the midst of that He put a firmament, and that firmament he called heaven.

If you have time, listen to this study on cosmology that Dr. Estep did which can be found here:

http://www.goodpreachin.com/ESTEP/estep.htm

It will help you to understand what the earth was in the beginning and it’s change and its relationship now to the universe. When it started out, when the earth was first you had this great deep, or huge body of water, and the earth was standing in the water and out of the water according to II Peter chapter 3. You read that very carefully and you’ll see that that flood he is talking about is not Noah’s flood, despite what many thinks. It is talking about the promise of the coming, and man’s view on uniformitarianism in verse 4, or the idea that all things continue now as at the beginning of the creation—which is not true.

“For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water” (II Peter 3:5 KJV).

Now, in Noah’s flood the earth did not stand in the water or out of the water, the earth was submerged under the water. It did not float on the water, as the ark did, it was under the water.

“Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now . . .” (II Peter 3:6-7 KJV).

“which are now . . .,” the heaven and earth we have now is the same one that was before the flood of Noah. So he can’t be talking about Noah’s flood. He is talking about a heaven and an earth that was before a flood that was before Noah’s flood. So when you go back to Genesis chapter 1, there was a world that then was. What does the word, “world” generally refer to? An organized system. We are told of a “world to come,” in the Millennium, or a new system which man will no longer rule it, but God will rule it.

Even though God drowned out millions of people the same world system that was then is still in effect now. The things that were happening before the flood are still happening now. There was a world system on this earth before man ever got on it. It is described in Job 38 and Ezekiel 28 as an angelic-type race that lived on this earth, or inhabited this earth, that was connected with Lucifer. They are called the “sons of God” in Job 38:7 and they were the first inhabitants of this earth. The ‘sons of God’ in the Old Testament, according to Psalm 82 are angels, they are not men.

There is only one man in the Old Testament that is said to be the “Son of God,” and that is Adam, no one else. Israel, corporately, is called the “son of God” but no one else. There aren’t any real sons of God until Jesus Christ shows up and is born of the Holy Spirit, and then after He is born of the Holy Spirit, others are born of Him as well. He is said to be “the firstborn among many brethren.” There isn’t anybody in the Old Testament that was “born again.” Don’t believe all that doctrine that you hear that says that people were born again in the Old Testament—that is not biblical.

Psalm 82 talks about the sons of the mighty one, the sons of God, an angelic host up before the third heaven—boy, this is getting so deep, I’m getting myself in deeper and deeper—it’s going to take forever to go through this. When you notice Lucifer in the original creation, the Bible describes him as a geologic being, not a botanical being. You and I are botanical beings, in other words, we are used to flowers, we like things soft—the earth is soft. We are used to soft habitation. The original earth wasn’t like that, it was geological—rocks, diamonds, rubies, pearls—everything was gorgeous, everything was pure, everything was pure, that wasn’t any dirt. So, when you read the description of Lucifer, it is one of a being that is made up of jewels. He fits his environment.

After the destruction of that earth, and its recreation, God gives it a soft environment for people. The shreds of evidence for that previous creation are down under the ground. That is where you find the diamonds and the rubies. They are still there.

So, you have the sons of God down there. They rebel. That is all described in Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28. What that happens, that world that then was perishes, being overflowed with water. How would you overflow this world in the position it is in? What would it have to do? It would have to sink down into the great deep. That body of water that is above the universe. I just read to you in 1:6-8 that when God recreated everything, He separated the waters from the waters and in the center of the water he placed heaven. There are waters above the heaven and waters below.

Some of you are looking at me like this is something new. It’s been in your Bible for years, the problem is that you haven’t been in your Bible for years! I mean, I just believe it like it is written.

“Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights. Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts. Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens” (Psalms 148:1-4 KJV).

“. . . praise him, all ye stars of light,” the context is of creation—outer space.

“Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens,” there is water up there. And you get so far up there where God is, you can see in the book of Job and the book of Psalms that when you get up there in heaven with no molecular activity or no time going one way or the other—it is absolute north. God’s breath genders ice and snow. It’s perfect for them, not for us. Our core temperature is 98.6. Look at fish, fish love cold temperatures. Their body temperature is around 32 degrees. They are not bothered by the cold at all. They are cold-blooded beings.

There is water above the heavens, so the earth sinks down into heaven and stays there, and that is where it is without form and void in Genesis 1:2 and then God comes along and recreates it, and when He recreates it and moves all that water.

Now, what do you have when you have water in an area and you move water—what do you have in that area? –a vacuum.

He did this by wisdom, by knowledge, and by understanding. The world by wisdom does not know God. The world is so smart, you try to tell them anything. One of these days when they have a telescope that can see all the way to the end of the universe, they are going to see the reflection of ice. Einstein says that all parallel lines meet together in infinity. The book of Hebrews says that the universe is shaped like a pyramid. The whole structure of the universe is in the Bible—the whole things. From the inside of the earth all the way to the throne room. The whole thing is laid out.

Anyway, when God needed some water to flood the earth, He didn’t have to go very far. It was all right there in the fountains of the deep. What does it say in Genesis 7:11? It says, “the windows of heaven.” Well, how are you going to get that off the earth? Where are you going to get enough clouds to form enough water to overflow Mount Everest so that the whole thing is covered with water? This will all fit like a glove if you just sit down and read the Word of God. And not only that, before the flood there was no rain whatsoever for a mist came up from the ground to water the earth. The system was so tight that there was only one weather system throughout the whole earth—a greenhouse effect—but after the flood, suddenly there are seasons.

What happens when you bring water from outside of our system, enough water to fill Mount Everest? Everest is 29,000 feet up or 5.5 miles above sea level. You force the atmosphere out. From that point on the whole system is changed. If you want more than this it is in that study on cosmology linked to above.

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