I read a book called The Prophetic Significance of the Changing Climate by Arthur E. Bloomfield some years ago. Passing by I happened to see it in my library and my mind began thinking of the different ages our earth has been through. With the end of one age a new one began.

It is that way in the Bible, too. You have a certain period of significance that might be called an age, and then something significant happens to change the whole climate of mankind. This is dealing in particular with those who become God’s people. A period of time will go by, and the downward pull of their human nature wraps them up in wickedness again. Then judgment comes, kind of like the Ice Age, where everything is wiped out and starts over anew. Each time, though, there is a little remnant that makes it through. This is what Isaiah talks about. ...more