Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
Job 38:16 (KJV)
Director James Cameron has recently descended into God's Ocean to someplace only two men have gone before
— to to the ocean's deepest point. Yet 5,000 years ago a man named Job sitting in the middle of what we now call Saudi Arabia saw through God's eyes this same trench, "the springs of the deep", or sea. Old Job had probably never even seen the ocean and certainly had no super submarine with 6 inch compound steel walls. Yet he saw in God's brilliantly painted picture the springs boiling a nutrient rich soup (the root meaning here translated ointment).
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
Job 41:31 (KJV)
Job knew that in God's earlier judgement of earths people, God had opened these springs of the deep and allowed the new invention of rain from above, and the underground floods to cover the earth and rid it of the sin that had caused the Creator to almost regret His Creation. But God in His Mercy left Job's 8 ancestors floating high above the waves and later gave them a Rainbow in the sky to remind man of God's mercy.
Job saw not only the springs but the Leviathan, or the sea monster of earthly legend, something modern man has only had fleeting glimpses of except for a Japanese trawling crew who brought one up in a fouled net, so decomposed they took only a couple of poor photographs and cut the net, loosing the find of a scientific lifetime back into the sea to end the overwhelming stench. No man is poorly equipped to see much less understand the depth of God's ocean or His Love. God has to draw us mental and Spiritual pictures.
I am sure Director Cameron will have exciting stories to tell, 3D photos they say, and precise readings of depth and location. But not as exciting as the story God has already given us in His Holy Bible, no Cameron will only add verification of God's greatness, His Omnipresence, Omnipotence, and Love.
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