Two Books Reveal God's Glory: Creation and Scripture

Isaiah 45:12 declares, "I have made the earth," establishing Yahweh as Creator. Joseph S. Exell (1887) observed that nature and Scripture together form two revelatory books: creation displays God's dynamis (power), while Scripture unveils His salvation.

The study of nature reveals five immutable laws. First, the law of dependence: all creatures rely upon provision; the soul arrogant enough to deem itself independent of Christ discovers the truth, "He that hath not the Son of God, hath not life." Second, the law of cultivation: every living thing improves through care. The human soul, bearing faith, prayer, virtue, and charity, flourishes under spiritual cultivation. Third, the law of deprivation: the eyeless fishes dwelling in Kentucky's lightless caves—descended from sighted ancestors—demonstrate that neglected faculties atrophy. Use a sense, and you increase it; neglect it, and it dies.

Fourth, the law of termination: "The grass withereth and the flower fadeth" (Isaiah 40:8). Leviathan's bones whiten the ocean depths; mortality claims all flesh. Yet Scripture and nature jointly proclaim a fifth law—the law of continuity. This eternal principle persists beyond the present creation's dissolution (2 Peter 3:10).

Thus Elohim's dual revelation proves comprehensive: nature witnesses to His creative power; Scripture witnesses to His redemptive salvation.