Is Creation to be kept, or subdued and ruled?

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New Warhorn Media post by Tim Bayly:

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Thank you for sharing this. A mentor of mine once told me the story of America will be God proving original sin.

The Jonathan Edwards’ quote on Hebrews 11 is great. Hard to get around what the author of Hebrews is saying: this entire current world is a spiritual wilderness, and God’s people are exiles. The patriarchs did not receive what was promised, not even David (Ps 39:12).

Seems to me the Noahic Covenant is key to understanding our duty to the earth and interpreting history. The Creation Ordinances are not negated just because we are exiles. This is because (and correct me if I am wrong) God doubled-down, so-to-speak, on the Creation Ordinances by adding the Noahic Covenant (the preserving of generations for redemption or judgment, cf. 2 Pt. 3). We work, rest, rule, and procreate on earth as God’s means of building His invisible Church and God’s filling hell (you can’t save souls if souls aren’t being born / and conversely God can’t judge men if there are no men to judge). The Noahic covenant bookends history just as the Garden/Creation Ordinances do:

Garden / Creation Ordinance (Gen. 1-2)
-----------Noahic Covenant given (Gen. 6-9)
------------------------------The Incarnation of Jesus
------------Noahic Covenant fulfilled (2 Pt. 3 / Matt. 24)
Garden / CO Culminated (Rev. 22)

Of course, our fulfilling the CO’s must be tempered by our submitting to the sovereign decree of God: we are not Federal Visionists, and we must not despair when we see few finding the narrow door… We keep the CO’s with the Noahic Covenant in mind, leaving the results to God, for Him to either save or damn.

God bless you Pr Bayly,

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Yes, that was, I think, my favorite part. Excellent observations, Matt. The Creation Mandates are part of the schoolmaster of the law that we preach to the lost as Gospel appeals, turning them from sin to Christ.

Love you,

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