Dear Editor,
Simon Marsh in January’s en says creation’s hope is Christ but he does not say how. In fact, creation needs Christ in the same way we do. We may try to feed the poor and cut down on pollution, but we are not able to stop fighting ourselves, let alone get lions to eat grass as they did in the beginning.
Christ is returning to clean Earth properly and make it a fit home for God with us; but to do this he must first burn it up as once he flooded it. Creation, like us, is fallen, as Paul explains in Romans 8, which means annihilation unless we are covered by Christ’s righteousness, as the animals were covered in the Ark.
Earth was not annihilated by Noah’s flood, just changed: the water was the same water as in the good beginning (2 Peter 3:5), but the mountains were new, and a rainbow shone as a sign of God’s promise.
Judgment Day fire is coming. Creation is safe: it is Christ’s inheritance (Heb. 1:2). But we are not safe unless, like the wise virgins, we are watching out for the bridegroom. That is to be our focus, as it is creation’s (Ps. 98:4).
Yours sincerely,
Catherine A. Olaussen Norway
