How old is the earth?

Let's talk about that. And here to discuss this remarkable question, a wonderful question is author Jack Langford.

And Jack, welcome back to Prophecy Watchers.

Glad to be here and glad to be a part of sharing the truths from the Word of God.

And we're going to discuss something that is in some circles kind of controversial.

I don't think of it as controversial.

I think of it as, let's put it this way, a deep study of biblical history,

a deep study of the story of redemption, taking that story back a long time

farther than a lot of people would. Most people don't realize that the first account in the

book of Genesis of the earth in the second verse being a desolation,

and then the next verse, God calling light, that is the first type used by the Spirit of God in the Bible.

And it's used repeatedly in the New Testament as a picture of not only salvation, where God calls us

out of darkness into the light of salvation and grace. And it's beautiful. In Paul's letter

to the Corinthians, he says in chapter four and verse 6, for it is God who commanded

light to shine out of darkness, who has shown in our hearts to give the light of the

knowledge of the glory of God as reflected in the face of Jesus Christ. In other words, that's a little picture of salvation.

Now, everybody believe, every Christian should believe that. We all believe that, whether we

believe in an old earth or a young earth, we believe that that is a beautiful picture of salvation.

But earlier Paul associated with it and elaborated on it as a larger. In

verse 3, if our gospel is veiled or hidden, it is veiled to those who are perishing,

whose minds the God of this age has blinded who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel

of the glory of Christ who is the image of God,

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