Genesis 8:22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. I. A TESTIMONY FOR GOD'S FAITHFULNESS. The return of harvest speaks to you in language not to be mistaken. "Hold fast the profession of your faith without wavering; for He is faithful that has promised." "My covenant will I not break, saith the Lord; nor alter the thing that has gone out of My lips." "But," you will say perhaps, "it is not God's faithfulness I question — I doubt His mercy. The Word of the Lord, that shall stand; but 'His mercy is in the heavens.' It reacheth not to me." And why not? What but mercy, infinite mercy, so prevailed with the Almighty that He should promise "seed time and harvest" so long as the earth endureth! II. THE HARVEST IS A FIGURE OF THE CONSUMMATION OF ALL THINGS. 1. The end of the world is as sure as the harvest. 2. As in harvest the reaper casts aside the weed, so every false professor will be "cast into outer darkness," while the righteous will "shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father." "Whoso hath ears to hear, let him hear." 3. Again, it is in harvest we receive of that we have sown; and it is in harvest we see the end of the husbandman's labour — why he hath so long "waited for the early and latter rain." And so in the end of the world. Then is it that we shall see the purposes for which the world was made, and wherefore it has been sustained so long. Then we shall see the long suffering of God, and wherefore He hath borne with us so long. (W. M. Mungeain, B. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. |
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