Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain Isaiah 40:4I always wondered about this, but just today I came up with an answer that works for me. It may be full of holes, but here it is:
Those of us who believe the Bible means what it says and is true, understand that the world is only a few thousands of years old, and that there was a cataclysmic world-wide flood. It makes sense to me that if the fountains of the great deep were opened, and the sky let down more water than it ever had done, the roofs of what used to be water reservoirs (with fountains on top) would collapse under the pressure from all the water overwhelming the world. The surrounding geography would be uplifted. There we have mountains. Receding flood water cut the valleys. The mountains and valleys, crooked and rough places of the world are mute testimony to the flood. The flood caused by the abject sinfulness of mankind.
When He comes back and sets things to rights again, these witnesses and reminders will be leveled and smoothed out. I shudder to think how great an earthquake would be required to do it, but that's how I read it.
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