Whiter than snow! Job 38:22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, It is interesting that this book, the oldest in the Bible, contains more references to snow, ice, and frost than any other book of the Bible. This is despite the fact that Jobs homeland was in what is now essentially a desert region. Possibly the effects of the post-Flood Ice Age were still strong in Jobs day. In any case, the beautiful phrase treasures of the snow is both appropriate and prophetic. Its crystal structure, though mostly in the form of delicate six-pointed stars, is endlessly varied and always intricately symmetrical and incredibly beautiful. The snow is a treasure in other ways as well. The winters snowpack in the mountains is often called white gold because of its indispensable water storage capacity, released in the melting season each spring to provide life to teeming cities and irrigation in the desert for needed food supplies. The snow also aids in maintaining the planets chemical cycles by returning various elements in the nuclei of its flakes back from the ocean to the lands from which they were leached and transported by rivers to the oceans. When the snowpack becomes a glacier, it can greatly assist in the breakup of rocks to form fertile soils. In the Scriptures, its pure white color is often used to symbolize the cleansing of a sinful heart that trusts the Lord. Wash me, said David, and I shall be whiter than snow. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow the Lord promises those who come to Him for salvation in Isaiah. As the snow comes down from heaven, so comes the Word of God to ask the soul as in todays text: Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? h/t: ICR
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 11:50:14 +0000
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