What vivid imagery demonstrates what happens when Gods power “touches” the land and the sea?
Amos 9:5, 6. God’s fire melts the land as wax before the fire (see Mic. 1:3, 4). Along with the other natural catastrophes used to destroy the earth at the Second Coming, there may be many active volcanoes spewing forth magma from the interior of the earth. In some ways, these verses could represent, at least symbolically, what happens when Christ returns. Notice, too, the interesting contrast in verses 5 and 6 of Amos 9. Verse 5 talks about the Lord melting the earth, making it rise up like a flood; yet, verse 6 talks about His creative power, His putting His layers in the sky and His strata upon the earth. In one part He’s seen as the Builder, in other the Destroyer. What a contrast for the same Being! In many ways, this contrast fits with God’s role as depicted in Scripture. Though we like to view God as the Creator, that’s not His only role. God is both Creator and Destroyer. The crucial point is to understand just what it is that God creates, and what it is that God destroys. Insi
