I Can Only Image What My Eyes Will See...
Being the grandson of a farmer, I sympathize with small farmers. I feel sorry for people who are no longer able to make it on their 200 acre farm. How can all those money-mongering corporations just take over their land?
While this seems to be a Biblical concern - looking out for families - the evil seems to be located in the wrong place. It is not wrong to increase efficiency. It is not wrong to become more productive. It is not wrong to reap an abundant harvest. In fact, these large farms seem to be one step in undoing the curse found in Genesis after the fall of man. Adam sinned and one effect was that man would work hard for a harvest and find food scarce.
The Word created the world in six days in the beginning, then he came to earth, died, recreated the world, and rose on the third day. This new creation (both man and the world) is one that is constantly being sanctified. Justification has occured, sanctification continues.
And so we come to today. We have airconditioned combines (by the sweat of your brow you shall eat of it), epiderals (pain in child birth), life (death, the punishment for eating of the tree of life), and victory in Christ (you shall strike his heel and he shall crush your head). Christ is undoing the curse, and he is doing this with the same tools he uses to defeat all his enemies: the Gospel.
The Gospel will spread to all nations. It will change world. Weeds will disappear, glorious churches will dominate the sky, lions will lie down with lambs, and men will live to the ripe old age of 900. We are only in the very beginnings of taking up the task given to Adam in the garden - to multiply, to cultivate the earth, and to protect it. I can only imagine what my eyes will see, when 500,000 years from now, I look down from heaven on a cultivated earth. The large farms may very well have disappeared by that time, but I doubt small family farms will have taken their place. Christ is King and he has assured us victory and his pressence from now till the end of the age.
While this seems to be a Biblical concern - looking out for families - the evil seems to be located in the wrong place. It is not wrong to increase efficiency. It is not wrong to become more productive. It is not wrong to reap an abundant harvest. In fact, these large farms seem to be one step in undoing the curse found in Genesis after the fall of man. Adam sinned and one effect was that man would work hard for a harvest and find food scarce.
The Word created the world in six days in the beginning, then he came to earth, died, recreated the world, and rose on the third day. This new creation (both man and the world) is one that is constantly being sanctified. Justification has occured, sanctification continues.
And so we come to today. We have airconditioned combines (by the sweat of your brow you shall eat of it), epiderals (pain in child birth), life (death, the punishment for eating of the tree of life), and victory in Christ (you shall strike his heel and he shall crush your head). Christ is undoing the curse, and he is doing this with the same tools he uses to defeat all his enemies: the Gospel.
The Gospel will spread to all nations. It will change world. Weeds will disappear, glorious churches will dominate the sky, lions will lie down with lambs, and men will live to the ripe old age of 900. We are only in the very beginnings of taking up the task given to Adam in the garden - to multiply, to cultivate the earth, and to protect it. I can only imagine what my eyes will see, when 500,000 years from now, I look down from heaven on a cultivated earth. The large farms may very well have disappeared by that time, but I doubt small family farms will have taken their place. Christ is King and he has assured us victory and his pressence from now till the end of the age.
posted by Charlie at 9:26 PM
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