Psalm 33:7
7 He gathereth [kanac] the waters [mayim] of the sea [yam] together
as an heap [ned]: he layeth up [nathan] the depth [tahowm] in
storehouses ['owtsar]. KJV-Interlinear
7
He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses. ESV
Not only did God design
and create all that exists by the command of His word, but he continually manages
creation. Jesus Christ controls history.
The word for gathers, ‘kanac,’
means gathering or to continually gather on a repetitive course of action.
The seas and especially the
troubled seas, are often used in scripture as symbolisms for mans rebellious
ways and attempts to control his own history.
And yet the seas, when
they storm, always fall back into the confined areas assigned to them. God assigned the seas to their respective boundaries,
and God keeps them there despite their rebellious nature.
The depths in storehouses,
refers to the vast reservoir of ocean waters that are stored up in the depths
of the seas.
But the word for
storehouses, ‘owtsar,’ also refers to treasure, or armory, or storehouse. And God does not just have a vast amount of
water stored on planet earth in the depths of the oceans, He has vast
treasures, resources, supplies, raw material stored throughout the planet,
placed in strategically located places.
A storehouse is a place
that when something is needed or required, then one goes to the storehouse and
gets what they need from there. And so
God not only controls history, He manages history, revealing resources and such
in the time and place of His choosing.
In the prior verse, God
commands. In this verse God manages.
There is nothing that
escapes His attention, nothing that was left out or overlooked in His divine design.
God provided for plenty
of food sources, plenty of seeds, plenty of fish, plenty of natural resources,
plenty of plant life, plenty of bird life and animal life and air and water and
on and on. He likewise provides people
in history, born into history at the proper time, in order to perpetuate mans
discovery and innovation and such, so that humanity will survive and continue
in history.
Often times man remains
in one place and gets himself into trouble.
God provided for frontiers to where man can go to escape trouble, to
discover new things, to promote their own identity.
The tower of babel was
disrupted with multiple languages forcing man to move away to the four corners of
the world. Frontiers were made available
so that man could escape abuse and seek out their own freedom. The new world was discovered at the correct
time in history. People were born into
history in order to discover and innovate and invent innumerable things.
The vastness of Gods
resources and the power of His foresight and ability to manage, are virtually
infinite and error free.
Man has proven over and over
again in history, that he cannot manage himself very well. Were we left to our own devices, then human
life would have disappeared long ago.
And yet God has brought
into history probably well over a trillion people since Adam, and the resources
of this planet are still vast. And even
as humanity looks at dwindling resources with negative remarks, God still has a
plan.
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When Christ returns at
the Second Advent, He will begin a thousand year reign, the likes of which
history has never seen. Populations will
explode, life spans will be extended well into the hundreds of years, families
will be huge and our current population of over seven billion will be but a drop
in the ocean if compared to the populations of the Millennium.
And the resources will still
be vast and humanity will lack for nothing in a perfect environment world.
The only resource that
humanity is really running out of, is knowledge of Bible doctrine, because as a
general rule, people do not want to learn it.
And not learning doctrine puts you into a trap of your own making.
