“He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of His people shall He take away from off all the earth: For the LORD hath spoken it” (Isaiah 25:8).

“And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay His head” (Matthew 8:20).

“Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: For if ye do these things, ye shall never fall” (II Peter 1:10).

“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28).

What is the Gap Theory?

One of the popular devices for trying to accommodate the evolutionary ages of the geologists and astronomers in the creation record of the Bible has been the "gap theory"—also called the "ruin-and-reconstruction" theory.