WHO REALLY DESTROYS THE EARTH?

In the beginning, in the Garden of Eden, God gave Adam the earth to till, and He gave him authority over the animals, to the point where he named them. This was no small thing, because in those days, when words were truly words (and not corrupted and relatively meaningless as they are today) names determined the characteristics, personalities, and destiny of those named.

The devil accomplished a great victory from his point of view in that Garden, but he didn’t win the war he wants to win.

His goal was to gain control of the earth and all living things on it, which were given to Adam. He did, of course, manage to corrupt mankind, and gain a foothold in the world for that reason, which, as we, as Christians know, is the reason for the need for salvation through Jesus Christ.

In the…