Second World Ecosystem
From Eco-Bible 1
These are notes for an incomplete "Concept" page.
- Information is being added as the Bible Pages are added. In the end, everything will be compiled, further information added (as necessary), broken links connected, etc.
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Continuity and discontinuity
- Same rivers, natural resources, etc., that they had been familiar with.
- But now there would be brokenness - decay, eventual scarcity, futility in one's efforts to work with creation, problems with interpersonal relationships, etc.
- This brokenness will continue until Jesus Christ makes "all things new" (Revelation 21:5), beginning even now in the hearts of his redeemed new race of humanity (2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 6:15).
(Add comments about the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics?)
Scripture Pages that Link to Here
(See also Genesis 1 & 2. The geology doesn't change. Rivers, gardens, natural resources, etc., are still there... and will be, until the end of this Second World Ecosystem.)
- The judgment that resulted in the Second World, which describes the "broken" conditions that would exist from that point on. (See First World Judgment.) (Most of these conditions will continue to exist until Jesus Christ returns.)
(See also Genesis 4 & 5. Various sins & conditions; probable population increases.)
(See also Genesis 7 & 8. The "fountains of the deep" were not burst, etc.; and various other implications.)
Genesis 9:1-29
- By looking at what happened when the Third World Ecosystem began, we can interpolate some of the conditions that existed (or in some cases, might have existed) in the Second World Ecosystem.
- Plants are still the only permitted food source.
- There is less revelation of God's will about various matters (such as capital punishment).
- Animals apparently have less "fear of man" than they do today.
(See also Genesis 11 - the people have one language and speech.
Unless otherwise noted, all notes and comments are © by Dennis Hinks.
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