THE EARTH WAS CREATED TO BE INHABITED
The earth is not a mistake. The earth is a planet. It is not an accident, not a construction of chance, not a temporary platform for a vanishing species. The earth was formed, and it was formed deliberately, and it was formed with a purpose spoken aloud by the Creator Himself: to be inhabited.
Isaiah heard Him speak it. He said He created it not in vain. He said He formed it to be inhabited. He said, I am the Lord; and there is none else. The earth is a habitation. The earth is an inheritance. The earth is a school, an altar, a field, a witness. And the earth has been violated.
The violation is not primarily ecological, though that grief is real. The violation is covenantal. Men have forgotten the Maker. Families have overturned the order of the house. Governments have crowned folly. Churches have forsaken their first love. Nations have taken up arms against their brother nations. The tongue has become a fire, the hand has become a snare, and the planet groans for the manifestation of the sons of God.
This book is written for the groan. It is written for the weeping in the siege. It is written for the prophet whose head is demanded at the banquet. It is written for the teacher made to sit under his student. It is written for the mother who has lost her son to the battlefield. It is written for every place where the creature has been worshipped in place of the Creator. It is written, above all, for every man and woman who is ready to be part of the mending.
The earth shall yet be full of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. But not without witness. Not without naming the errors. Not without proclaiming the solutions. That is the labour of this book.