Noah's Ark: An Invitation to Faith — Page 59
NOAH'S ARK manifested upon the earth. Is God so weak that His Kingdom and power and glory are limited to heaven alone, God-forbid, or is it that some other deity possesses authority over the earth? The Christians should not emphasise that God's Kingdom operates only in heaven and has not yet been established on earth, for they hold that heaven is nothing. It is apparent that if heaven, where God's Kingdom should operate, is nothing, and God's Kingdom has not yet arrived upon earth, this would mean that His Kingdom does not rule anywhere. We observe with our own eyes that God's Kingdom is in operation on the earth. According to His law, our lives come to an end and our conditions change continuously. We experience hundreds of types of comfort and pain. Thousands of people die by God's command and thousands are born, prayers are accepted, signs are manifested and the earth produces thousands of varieties of vegetables, fruits and flowers by His command. Then does all this occur without the Kingdom of God? Rather, heavenly bodies seem to follow a chartered course at all times and no apparent change or alteration is perceived in respect of them, which should indicate the existence of a being who brings about change in them. The earth, however, is continuously undergoing thousands of changes, alterations and transformations. Every day tens of millions of people depart this world and tens of millions are born. In every way and respect the control of a Powerful Creator is felt. Is there still no Kingdom of God on earth? 59