March 14th, 2018
A Vapor Barrier
Genesis 2:4-6 (KJB) These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, 5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
These verses are a great example of the complexity of biblical based Science divinely recorded in God’s Word a few thousand years ago.
Did you know that there was no such thing as rain in ancient biblical times? Prior to the flood, God had never sent rain to the earth, but when the oldest man to ever live died, Methuselah, God sent rain showers to the earth for forty days and nights.
Is this incidental, I think not, his name Methusula means when he dies it will come. God is certainly in charge of nature and weather.
That “it” points directly to rainwater and when he died the flood came upon the earth.
Before this event how did water, necessary for supporting life on this earth come to this earth? Inquiring minds would certainly ask this great question because mankind, creatures, and plants have to have water for sustaining life.
There is and always was a vapor barrier at work in the atmosphere for providing vital water on this earth. It is continuous cycle that causes moisture in the air to fall to the earth and be swept up again in the air according to atmospheric conditions. In ancient times, necessary moisture fell onto the ground only in the form of dew and dampness rather than also as rain drops, which we all are very familiar with today.
Today we have dew, dampness, and rain falling from the sky as God elects for providing necessary water for mankind, creatures, and plants alike. Rain can and is used by God both as a blessing, life sustainment, and as a judgement. However, God promises in the book of Genesis never to send a worldwide catastrophic flood as did happen in the time of Noah as a sentence of God upon this world.