“I will  never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.” –Genesis 8:21

God’s promise back then is a foreshadow of that day still to come when the curse will finally be eradicated from the earth, from pole to pole and from east to west. God’s plan of redemption is gigantic. The vision he has for the world, then, is not destruction, as some Christians foresee, but redemption, restoration. “For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea,” Habakkuk 2:14 tells us. We will be flooded again but this time with living water!

–Matt Chandler, The Explicit Gospel, p. 136