ENTROPY DEFEATED
For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope
Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.
And: ” You, LORD, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth,
And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
They will perish, but You remain;
And they will all grow old like a garment;
Like a cloak You will fold them up,
And they will be changed.
But You are the same,
And Your years will not fail.”
God never ceases to amaze me. Even in my science class (I’m an undergraduate) His word came alive. We were learning about energy and the laws that are associated with it (thermodynamics), my notes were full of things being taught as well as there place or possible connection to the scriptures. When my teacher went over Entropy, what came to light will stick with me forever.
Entropy, simply put (by my Biology teacher)- “The whole universe is bent towards chaos.” Entropy is a concept that describes the laws of energy on a microscopic level, Here is an excerpt and quote from HyperPhysics.edu that gives a good example of entropy with a larger scale…
“One of the ideas involved in the concept of entropy is that nature tends from order to disorder in isolated systems. This tells us that the right hand box of molecules happened before the left.” R. Nave
So what does this have to do with energy? Well, let’s put it this way…
In order to clean up the pile of bricks tossed off the truck in the diagram, it would take up energy (from your body) but after a serious amount of time, no amount of energy could keep the bricks nicely stacked, they would have broken down and slowly joined the dirt under them, becoming dust. Every cell and every substance will some day decompose and lose its energy, even the great stars of the universe die.
Proverbs 27:20 “Death and Destruction are never SATISFIED, and neither are human eyes.”
This explains the concept of entropy, there will never be enough to sustain life and order. The bible pretty much named entropy before any scientist on earth, it was first named the grave or sheol…
Proverbs 30:16 “There are three things that will not be satisfied, Four that will not say, “Enough”: Sheol (the grave), and the barren womb, Earth that is never satisfied with water, And fire that never says, “Enough.””
But we know that life in this world was not always meant to have a law or concept of entropy, that the universe wasn’t always doomed for chaos…
Genesis 3:1-4 ESV “Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” 4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.”
For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol; Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.
Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.
BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT ABANDON MY SOUL TO HADES, NOR ALLOW YOUR HOLY ONE TO UNDERGO DECAY.
He who is too impoverished for such an offering Selects a tree that does not rot; He seeks out for himself a skillful craftsman To prepare an idol that will not totter.
“Sell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves money belts which do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near nor moth destroys.
We all know how the story goes and how it ends. The fall of man. But enough of gettin all “spooky”. The word of God didn’t just give us a bunch of history that doesn’t help us today. God answered the law of entropy with God’s own son, crushing the head of the snake that caused it in the first place! (Genesis 3:15)
1 Samuel 2:6 “The Lord kills and brings to life;
he brings down to Sheol and raises up.”
I do not think it was random that Jesus chose to crush the head of our enemy Satan (as it was prophesied in Genesis 3:15). The meaning there is simple but very powerful. The head of the serpent represents the mind of the enemy, who was so crafty and subtle, he deceived the first man and woman into bringing death, the grave or entropy if you will, into paradise.
Satan’s deceptive powers have been crushed! And through Christ’s resurrection entropy has been defeated. “Entropy’s been defeated, and death couldn’t hold you down.” (a play on words of one of my favorite worship songs). So when your going about your day, keep it tucked in the back of your mind, that the resurrection power of Christ lives in you and that chaos, that entropy holds no power over a child of the King. Amen ❤ ❤
Romans 8:5 “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh,could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,“
- Hebrews 1:3
who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, - Genesis 2:15
Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. - Deuteronomy 8:3
So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD. - Psalm 102:11-12
My days are like a shadow that lengthens,
And I wither away like grass. But You, O LORD, shall endure forever,
And the remembrance of Your name to all generations. - Matthew 24:36
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. - Ephesians 2:10
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. - Colossians 3:15
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. - 2 Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.Psalm 90:3-10You turn man back into dust And say, “Return, O children of men.” For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it passes by, Or as a watch in the night. You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep; In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.read more.
Psalm 49:8-9For the redemption of his soul is costly, And he should cease trying forever– That he should live on eternally, That he should not undergo decay.
Matthew 6:19-20“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. “But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal;
Psalm 102:26“Even they will perish, but You endure; And all of them will wear out like a garment; Like clothing You will change them and they will be changed.
Matthew 5:13“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.
Luke 12:33“Sell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves money belts which do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near nor moth destroys.
Luke 14:34“Therefore, salt is good; but if even salt has become tasteless, with what will it be seasoned?
1 John 2:15-17Do not love the world nor the things in the world If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.
Acts 2:24-31“But God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power. “For David says of Him, ‘I SAW THE LORD ALWAYS IN MY PRESENCE; FOR HE IS AT MY RIGHT HAND, SO THAT I WILL NOT BE SHAKEN. ‘THEREFORE MY HEART WAS GLAD AND MY TONGUE EXULTED; MOREOVER MY FLESH ALSO WILL LIVE IN HOPE;read more.
Acts 13:34-37“As for the fact that He raised Him up from the dead, no longer to return to decay, He has spoken in this way: ‘I WILL GIVE YOU THE HOLY and SURE blessings OF DAVID.’ “Therefore He also says in another Psalm, ‘YOU WILL NOT ALLOW YOUR HOLY ONE TO UNDERGO DECAY.’ “For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and was laid among his fathers and underwent decay;read more.
1 Corinthians 15:42So also is the resurrection of the dead It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body;
Hebrews 13:14For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.
Revelation 21:4and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.”
Leviticus 26:14-16‘But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments, if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant, I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up.
Numbers 5:20-22if you, however, have gone astray, being under the authority of your husband, and if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has had intercourse with you” (then the priest shall have the woman swear with the oath of the curse, and the priest shall say to the woman), “the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people by the LORD’S making your thigh waste away and your abdomen swell; and this water that brings a curse shall go into your stomach, and make your abdomen swell and your thigh waste away.” And the woman shall say, “Amen. Amen.”
Deuteronomy 32:24‘They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts I will send upon them, With the venom of crawling things of the dust.
Job 18:13“His skin is devoured by disease, The firstborn of death devours his limbs.
Psalm 32:3When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away Through my groaning all day long.
Psalm 112:10The wicked will see it and be vexed, He will gnash his teeth and melt away; The desire of the wicked will perish.
Isaiah 5:24Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble And dry grass collapses into the flame, So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust; For they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 17:4Now in that day the glory of Jacob will fade, And the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
Lamentations 2:6And He has violently treated His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His appointed meeting place The LORD has caused to be forgotten The appointed feast and sabbath in Zion, And He has despised king and priest In the indignation of His anger.
Hosea 4:3Therefore the land mourns, And everyone who lives in it languishes Along with the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky, And also the fish of the sea disappear.
Isaiah 51:6-8“Lift up your eyes to the sky, Then look to the earth beneath; For the sky will vanish like smoke, And the earth will wear out like a garment And its inhabitants will die in like manner; But My salvation will be forever, And My righteousness will not wane. “Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, A people in whose heart is My law; Do not fear the reproach of man, Nor be dismayed at their revilings. “For the moth will eat them like a garment, And the grub will eat them like wool But My righteousness will be forever, And My salvation to all generations.”
2 Corinthians 5:1-5For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven, inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked.read more.
