August 28, 2025 4:00 am
The Earth's population is far from being filled, despite vast deserts and inaccessible regions. However, it may have been filled in a more habitable world before the flood, which was destroyed due to violence. A future kingdom of God will fill the whole earth, and the knowledge of the Lord will cover the sea.
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Yeah. Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. How the Earth is Filled For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. Habakkuk 2.14. The very first command given to Adam and Eve was, be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.
This might seem to imply that there had been a previous population, so-called pre-Adamites, but the word replenish, Hebrew male, means simply fill. Actually, in the King James Old Testament, it is translated by the Old English word replenish only seven times, whereas it is translated fill. Filled or full some two hundred and fifty times. The precise meaning is fill. Even today with our so-called population explosion, the Earth is far from being filled with people.
Consider our vast deserts, inaccessible mountain ranges, or the frozen wastes of Antarctica, for example. It might, however, once have been filled in the much more habitable world before the flood, but it also was filled with violence through them. This, in fact, was the very reason God sent the great flood to destroy them with the earth. The time is coming, however, as seen in Nebuchadnezzar's prophetic vision, as interpreted by Daniel the prophet, when a great stone representing the future kingdom of God will have filled the whole earth. Daniel 2, 35.
then the great doxology of the psalmist will be reality. And blessed be his glorious name forever. And let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and amen. Psalm 72, 19.
The prophet Isaiah also spoke of this time. They shall not hurt Nor destroy in all my holy mountain. For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. The later prophet Habakkuk in our text beautifully echoed these words of Isaiah. If you've enjoyed today's devotional, be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.
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