SEPTEMBER 10

EARTH FILLED WITH HIS GLORY

“Truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.” (numbers 14:21)

“And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.” (Isa. 40:5)

Throughout the ages past, over and over again, the prophets have declared there shall be a time when God’s glory would be revealed in such magnitude that all creation would behold it, and be blessed thereby. They beheld, in their spirit, a time when “the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.” (Isa. 55:12). Then shall the rocks cry out to magnify Him. Then will the animals be restored to the tranquility and harmony of His kingdom, and give forth praise unto Him.

While on this presently cursed earth, we think of life as being limited to the animal and vegetable kingdoms, and often ignore the mineral realm. But locked within the mineral “stones” are the nuclear energy forces of great power from which the others take their sustenance. So let every kingdom, animal, vegetable, mineral, release their praise to the Lord our God.

There are new dimensions of fulfillment awaiting even for Psalm 19:1, how that “the heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handiwork.” The work of His hands, which He hath afore prepared unto glory, these shall declare and show forth His glory – living manifestations of His glory.

But while all these lesser kingdoms shall be restored and “loosed” to give forth their expressions of praise to the Creator. The crowning work of His hands is to be found in man. “For a man… is the image and glory of God.” (1 Cor. 11:7). Not a man in his unregenerate state, but that NEW MAN “which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created Him.” Col. 3:10) This new man is to the glory of God, indeed, becomes the very manifestation of the glory of God in the earth.

Ray Prinzing