Precepts

Isaiah 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

I have this photograph of a mountain in Glacier National Park that I use as wallpaper for my computer. It is a monument of time and how the elements expose its structure, layer upon layer, revealing how this great rock came into being.

There are some curious colors to certain layers. They are very pronounced, distinctive, and easy to remember. As we traveled around North America we would see this same layer of color within the exposed rocks of other mountain ranges. It was consistent to the extent that it was obvious that whatever happened to cause this layer was universal, that it happened everywhere you looked.

How curious it is to look at that mountain and seen layer upon lay which have only slight and insignificant variations which blended together so well that only a close examination could indicate the formation of one line upon another. There they were, layer upon layer of consistent, repetitive occurrences and then the sudden drastic color shift, a new and different deposit upon the history of time.

This mountain so accurately represents the Word of God in its formation and revelation of its creation.

Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

“Shall ye not know it?” That new thing, the variation, that deposit in history, is significant in that it was for all to see, everywhere.

Revelations 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,

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