Psalm 8 Essay

In Psalm 8, the reference to creation points at the context of a song of worship. This psalm refers much about creation – all the earth (vs. 1a), the heavens (vs. 1b), the moon, the stars (vs. 3), all flocks, herds, beasts of the field (vs. 7), birds of the air, fish of the sea (vs. 8). The mention of children and infants are appeared here (vs. 2). God is mindful of humans, care for them, made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honour (vs. 5), making him ruler over the works of God’s hands and put everything under his feet (vs. 6). Peter C. Craigie says that Psalm 8 may be classified as “a psalm of creation” (106). In Psalm 8, the place of human beings is emerged clearer than in Genesis. Humans are given

James is concern that the people of God will live a life of perseverance (Jas. 1: 12), a righteous life, their faith to show in deeds (2: 14 ff). Peter too is concerned about ethical admonitions with the view of second coming. He writes that those “who deny the second coming of the Lord are mistaken about creation, mistaken about the Lord and mistaken about discipleship” (Wilkinson 247). In response to those who has mistaken about creation, in 2 Peter 3: 3-16, Peter reminds about the beginning of creation (vs. 4b, 5), how by God’s word the heavens existed and that by the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire for the day of judgment (vs. 7). Peter connects the Lord’s second coming with the disappearance of the heavens and the earth (vs. 10). So therefore the people of God ought to live holy and godly lives, to make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with God (vv. 11b, 14) as they look forward for the new heaven and new earth, which Peter says as a home of righteousness (vs. 13). The theme in the Catholic Epistles reminds is of God’s concern for the ethical life of his people in OT. The theme of creation here is not only about God creating life but also how that life is shaped and lived

The use of the new Jerusalem seems to refer to the city of Jerusalem mentioned in the Old Testament (Ps. 122), a place for the people of God where God established his temple and dwell, a prophesied city called the Throne of the Lord (Jer. 3: 17), City of Truth (Zech. 8: 3-8). The new Jerusalem John saw in his vision in the book of Revelation is much like the one in the Old Testament. However, in the book of Revelation, it is a new heaven and earth. Wilkinson says that “the risen Jesus is the beginning of the new creation” (261). He argues that “the link between new creation following the pattern of the resurrection occurs in a number of passages” like Isa. 65: 16-17 alluding to 2 Cor. 5: 14-17 and Col. 1: 15-18; Rev. 3: 14 alluding to Isa. 65: 17 (Wilkinson 261). He also explains that the passing away of the sea in Rev. 21: 1b refers to “the passing away of the tribulations of human beings” (Wilkinson 263). In that sense, the new creation will also be “better