The Witness of Creation
"Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the
shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night:
that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the
face of the earth: The LORD is his name." (Amos 5:8)
This striking exhortation is inserted in the midst of a prophetic
rebuke by God of His people Israel. They were rapidly drifting into
pagan idolatry, and Amos was trying to call them back.
His exhortation, given almost 3,800 years ago, is more needed today
than it ever was before. Modern pagan scientists have developed
elaborate but absurdly impossible theories about the chance origin of
the universe from nothing, and the evolution of stars, planets, and
people from primordial hydrogen. But the mighty cosmos and its galaxies
of stars—even the very constellations, such as Orion and Pleiades (the
"seven stars"), as well as the solar system—were made. All of these
had to be made by an omniscient, omnipotent Creator, who had a glorious
purpose for it all. Similarly, the global evidences that
waters once covered all the earth's mountains (i.e., marine fossils and
water-laid sediments at their summits) cannot possibly be explained—as
evolutionary geologists try to do—by slow processes acting over aeons
of time. God the Creator had to call massive volumes of water forth
from their original reservoirs and pour them out on the earth in His
Flood judgment on a rebellious world. All of these
witness to the fact of creation and judgment, not to impotent "gods"
personifying natural forces. Men urgently need to seek the true God of
creation and salvation before judgment falls again, for "it is a
fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God" (Hebrews 10:31).




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