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Genesis 8:22 – Cold Weather Is Fulfilled Prophecy
Did you know we saw a fulfilled prophecy this week? Before the flood, cold and heat, summer and winter, are not mentioned. This is new due to the flood changing the world’s climate. The other time markers, dealing with farming and the sun and moon, are all mentioned in Genesis 1-2. That the flood changed the entire earth, and earth’s climate is evidenced by human ages starting to decrease after the flood. Noah is the last human to live over 900 years. Noah’s son Shem lived only to the age of 600. Abraham lived “a ripe old age” (Genesis 25:8), but at that time such a distinction was drastically reduced to only 175 years.
Time is a creation of God as seen in Genesis 1:5; 14-18. Both old and new time markers are seen in the chiastic arrangement of Genesis 8:22. In the middle are the new markers: cold and heat; summer and winter. Even those are listed chiastically: 1 – Cold; 2 – Heat; 2’ – Summer; 1’ Winter. These will continue until the end of time. Like the rainbow, they are promises from God.
(Gen 8:22 [HCSB])
A – TIME: As long as the earth endures,
B – TIME MARKERS OLD: seedtime and harvest,
C – TIME MARKERS NEW: cold and heat,
C’ – TIME MARKERS NEW: summer and winter,
B’ – TIME MARKERS OLD: and day and night
A’ – TIME: will not cease.”
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