What does it mean that the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea?

As it did in the garden, it means people.

God covers the dry land with his glory by covering it with people, redeemed, glorious, renewed,

grace renovated, Christ reformed people.

The people are the water in this ocean of glory. So the picture is this. As God multiplies

regenerate image bearers of Christ on the face of the earth, the earth itself is

slowly set apart as Holy of Holies, the place where his very presence dwells.

No more will the divine presence be confined to a 15-foot by 15-foot room.

It will be coextensive with the entire earth, with every cubic meter of land inhabited by his redeemed

people from every tribe and tongue and nation.

As in the garden, marriage plays a central role in God's mediated fulfillment of Habakak's promise.

This becomes especially clear as you continue making your way through the minor prophets

and arrive in Malachai 215, where God

God rebukes the people of Israel in part for their failure to faithfully produce a disciple godly offspring in their marriages.

Instead, walking in covenant abandoning fecklessness,

destroying their marriages through divorce. Right there, staring out at

us from the Prophet's rebuke, we see that one of the central means by which God intends

to thus cover the earth is marriage.

Marriage?

And I mean your marriage, my marriage, every Christian marriage,

joins in with the project of Habak-214

as it sanctifies its members. It joins in as it produces and disciples godly offspring

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