He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. - Psalm 104:5
Disallowing for man’s fertile imagination and cinematic license, the very notion that our planet is vulnerable to destruction from a large asteroid or comet is the stuff of myths, pure science ‘fiction.’ One simply has to question, if the earth is truly as old as science declares it is, why do we not look like the moon? Keep in mind that the distance between the earth and the moon is a mere 238,900 miles, a ‘stone’s throw’ in cosmic terms. How could all of those impacts have left their marks on the moon, turning it into a barren dust ball in space and, somehow miraculously missed the earth? The answer, as most scientists explain, is a cluster of suppositions and theories, none of which can be confirmed.
According to the latest numbers, the earth is approximately 4.543 billion years old. And so is the moon. “And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars.” - Genesis 1:16.
Science insists, to the point of ridiculing Christian ‘young-earth creationism,’ that both the earth and the moon are of equal age. Yet, if the scientists are correct, the moon is pockmarked and scarred far beyond what it must have looked like in it’s cosmic infancy. In the meantime, for over four-billion years (according to man’s finite wisdom) the earth has gradually become vibrant and full of life, with barely a nick in its foundation. According to science, life not only manifested itself on earth but evolved into other life forms all the while the moon was being battered and cratered by celestial bodies which miraculously always seemed to ‘miss the earth,’ All this, despite its proximity to the moon. “But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.” - Job 12:7-10.
So what has kept the earth alive in its orbit around the sun for over four billion years? The simplest and most accurate answer is - the providence of God. To deny it is not only heretical but blasphemous as well. What on earth do we have that God has not provided for us? Even science tells us that the earth enjoys a ‘unique’ set of cosmic circumstances that allowed life to manifest itself after a period of time had elapsed. In fact, our most brilliant scientists have yet to discover even one other planet that has the same (or similar) life producing and life-sustaining conditions. To what do we owe this unique set of circumstances? “For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.” - Romans 11:36.
A careful reading of Holy Scripture reveals to us that in the end days we will, in fact, experience cosmic destruction at a level unheard of in the annals of mankind’s science. Rest assured that when the cataclysm of the heavens takes place, God is surely coming. “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.” - Luke 21:25-27. Such cosmic destruction will not mean the earth is destined to be struck and moved off its foundations. It will mean the coming of the Lord.
Many will scoff and laugh at the truths revealed to us in Holy Scripture but God’s holy word is truth, regardless of man’s insolent and arrogant temerity in his own science. The faithful need not fear man’s faulty equations or thinking. Man is man but God is God. “And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.” - Colossians 1:17. Regardless of the science, the earth was created and maintained by God’s hand and will remain firm on its foundation until God, not mankind, decides the end time has come.
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