as the witnesses that certify the charges being made. In other words, creation is here personified and plays a historical role in court.
The apocalypticists, the heirs of the prophets who rehabilitated the language of mythology, then felt free to predict the destruction of creation and history. They took a major step into the future by distancing the creation from its Creator. According to them God is free to break the covenant with creation and revoke the order of the sun, the moon and the stars. The prophets considered creation God’s identity card. The apocalypticists saw it as infected by The Fall. Paul heard it groaning for redemption, but John the theologian saw it ready for destruction. But we must not get ahead of our story.
What is to be taken into account is that the first descriptions of the how of creation in the Bible used the mythological language of the neighboring cultures. To create, Yahve cut Rahab in two, pierced the dragon, put limits to the primordial ocean. But that is not what counts. What counts is that the God of Israel is the creator and sustainer of the natural order in which Israel lives. Since the natural order is firm and sustained by Yahve, the future of Israel is garanteed.
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