Emphasis Preaching Journal
A new heaven and a...
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"A new heaven and a new earth": It's hard enough for people to get used
to living in relation to the old heaven and even to understand the old earth. In the 1930s,
J. Harlen Bretz proposed a new geological theory. He deduced that near Helena,
Montana, a giant inland sea, in some places 2,000 feet deep and 200 miles long, formed
behind an ice dam. The dam broke and drained as many as 100 times over thousands of
years and water from the glacial lake would sweep west at ninety miles an hour all the
way to the Pacific. Bretz's theory was resisted and reviled.
