Genesus 8:22, God's Promise That The Seasons Won't Cease

Genesis 8:22, “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” Ecclesiastes 1:4, “One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.”

I love the boldness of God's promises in the Bible. As long as there is an earth, the seasons will not cease. We read in Ecclesiastes 1:4 that the earth will abide FOREVER! That is another promise from God. The earth will be burned over with fire at the end of the 1,000 year Millennium (a time when Jesus reigns as King over the earth), which will be a time of remodeling. 2nd Peter 3:12-13, “Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.” Everything in this world is going to burn baby! Sorry, I've been watching too much TV. 

Think about it friend. This world is going to become a giant bonfire! Every industry music recording will be burned. Every Hollywood movie will be burned. All of the recorded talent will be gone in a day. The Beatles' music will all be burned up, ceasing to exist. Everything that any human being ever wrote, built, recorded or preserved will be BURNED UP!!! The only things that will last is what we do for Christ, which brings eternal rewards. I love these quotes from some famous missionaries...

“Only one life 'twill soon be past, only what’s done for Christ will last.” —Missionary Charles T. Studd (1860-1931)

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.” —Missionary Jim Elliot (1927-1956)

Did you know dear reader that the Bible contains 7,487 promises from God to man? In his classic 1962 book titled “All The Promises Of God,” Dr. Herbert Lockyer (1886-1984) says that Professor Everett R. Storm concluded that the Holy Bible contains 7,487 PROMISES made by God to man:

The word “promise” appears more than 100 times in sacred scripture. One thousand promises are listed in “What the Bible Says about Praise and Promise.” Thousands more are listed in Samuel Clarke's two-hundred-year-old classic, “Precious Bible Promises.” Some have suggested that there may be as many as 30,000 promises contained in Scripture. Herbert Lockyer, in his volume “All the Promises of the Bible,” tells the story of Everett R. Storms, a schoolteacher in Canada, who made a detailed study of promises.

According to “Time,” Storms, of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, reckoned the figure of 30,000 to be too high (since it is roughly the number of verses making up the Bible: 31,173). During his twenty-seventh reading of the Bible, a task which took him a year and a half, Storms came up with a grand total of 8,810 promises (7,487 of them being promises made by God to humankind).

SOURCE: Knowles, Victor (1998); "Promise and Fulfillment: Believing the Promises of God"; “Leaven: A Journal Of Christian Ministry” (Volume 6, Issue 3, Article 4).

My friend, when life gets difficult, and bad things happen, and you feel like you cannot face another day, and you cannot see your hand in front of your face, and it seems that all hope is gone—CLAIM THE PROMISES OF GOD!!! Friends will betray you. Family will let you down. Money will fail you. You cannot even rely on yourself, because you will get discouraged at times. But God will NEVER disappoint you. That is what the Bible means in Romans 10:11, “For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.”

When we come to the New Testament, all the promises of God are fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth. 2nd Corinthians 1:20, “For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.” The genius of the gospel is that everyone can share in the promise by faith alone in Christ. Hallelujah! Ephesians 3:6, “This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus.” God is more than awesome!

Our text passages is a PROMISE from God that day and night will continue, cold and heat will continue, summer and winter will continue, and seedtime and Harvest will continue. There was an insane article which appeared in the national news in March of 2021, saying that the U.S. government over the next 5 years will spend upwards of $200,000,000 to explore ways to block the sun's light, in an effort to combat the alleged 'Climate Change' problem. Personally, I agree with John Coleman (the Weather Channel's founder) that Global Warming is a big hoax.

According to the U.S. government's Housing And Urban Development department, there are roughly 600,000 homeless people in the country. Think of how much help $200 million could give the homeless! The government could buy each of them a full sized home at market price! I think it is shameful and a travesty of justice that our federal, state and local governments always have money to spend on everything except help for those who need it most. What is wrong with our country? And then hypocritical Americans sing, “God Bless America!”

Genesis 8:22, “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” I think of this promise in the Bible from time to time, remembering that God always keeps His promises. I love rainbows, which are a frequent reminder that God keeps all His promises. Foolish scientists are worried about the earth's temperature continuing to rise. Historical patterns of El Nino (ocean cooling) and El Nina (ocean warning) have shown 100 year periods of above or below average temperatures. The so-called “proof” of Climate Change is ridiculous. Weather extremes began being recorded a couple centuries ago, and were made to be broken. So it shouldn't be surprising that we see new records being broken here and there. Wacky liberals exploit these norms in setting new records in a lame attempt to cry that “the sky is falling.” They are LIARS!

The Holy Bible promises that the seasons would always continue. Day and night will continue. Heat and cold will continue. Summer and winter will continue. The changes that we see in weather patterns is normal. God said that these changes would continue, as long as the earth exists, and the Bible says that the earth will stand FOREVER!!! Seedtime and Harvest will continue. When you plant a seed, it will grow, and then be ripe during Harvest. God made creation that way.

The wonderful and amazing science of genetics proves the existence of God. When I go to the grocery store, I marvel that anyone could ever foolishly deny the existence of God. Only an ungrateful person toward God, sanctions the junk science of evolution. The teaching and acceptance of evolution is a serious crime against God and the truth (1st Timothy 6:20). You have to choose dear friend, whether you are going to believe the PROMISES of God in the Holy Bible, or whether you are going to believe the lying claims of ungodly evolutionists. Our God is such a good, loving and wonderful God. The Lord has made the gift of eternal life free, easy and simple, so that the only proper punishment for those who reject His free gift of love, is for God to allow them to go to the only other place they can—eternal damnation in HELL.