We were always meant to inherit a perfect Earth. To understand this, we need to understand creation. Genesis shows us this, Psalms remind us of this, and in Matthew, Jesus directly tells us this. It is a beautiful thing to know and one I hope to encourage Christians to remember and hold onto.
Genesis 1:31, “God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. […]”
Psalm 37:11, “But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.”
Matthew 5:5, “Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.”
In Genesis, we often see the words “very good” used. I’m of the personal opinion that when they translated “very good,” they did not do the original Hebrew words the poetic justice they deserved. Without the full depth and scope of those two words, we generally breeze through those phrases when reading Genesis and, unfortunately, we don’t stop to think on the perfection of creation.
The transliteration of “very good” is “meod towb.” Without a full lecture on the Hebrew language, each word always has multiple meanings in Hebrew. Meod can mean: very, exceedingly, much, and ...
