Dr Paul Allen

Can you imagine being Noah and seeing that first rain drop?  What do you think he felt? Relief? Surprise? Joy? Maybe a mix of all three. Perhaps he felt great sorrow as well, as he realized that the people he so faithfully preached to, for around a hundred years, were about to be crushed by the wrath of God. I think about Noah often.  He was all alone. Just him, his wife and his three boys.  He was the only man on earth who had a relationship with God. The whole world lived in utter rebellion against Him. (Gen. 6:11).  They must have thought he was crazy. He was building a huge boat, he was saying that rain would make the whole world flood, he was calling people to repentance. He was warning the world about the wrath of God.  And yet no one listened. No one repented. Everyone mocked. Yet Noah kept the faith. And the writer of Hebrews encourages his readers to have faith like Him. He says, By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built a...

Image via Wikipedia "For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure." ( Job 28:24-25 )   It was only discovered by scientists in modern times that the air actually has weight. This passage in Job, however, written thirty-five or more centuries ago, indicated that the two great terrestrial fluids of air and water forming earth's atmosphere and hydrosphere are both "weighed" by God 's careful "measure" to provide the right worldwide balance of forces for life on earth.   Another remarkable "weighing" act of God is noted in  Job 37:16 . "Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds , the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?"  Clouds are composed of liquid drops of water, not water vapor, and water is heavier than air , so how are they "balanced" in the sky? "For he maketh small the drops of water...