Psalms 135:6

IV.

"Whatsoever Jehovah pleased, that hath he done,

In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps;

Who causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;

Who maketh lightnings for the rain;

Who bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries."

A fourth reason why God should be praised is that he is the "God of all creation." Heaven, earth, seas and all `deeps,' - everything that exists is subject to the will and the pleasure of the Almighty God. "As the universal sovereign, God is entitled to universal praise and worship."[14]

"Who causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth" (Psalms 135:6). This is not a question, but a declaration. The great and inexplicable mystery of the ascent of waters from the surface of the seas and their return to earth as rain is mentioned here because of the very mystery of what happens. As Job expressed it, "God bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them." (Job 26: 8).

Thirteen hundred millions of tons of water ascend into the heavens every minute of the day, contrary to the law of gravity. Who does this? God.

Spurgeon mentioned a certain scientist who calculated that from every square mile of the ocean's surface, every twelve hours, the process which we call evaporation, "Lifts 6,914 tons of water from the surface of the sea."[15] At least 135,000,000 square miles of the planet earth are oceans, to say nothing of about one third of a million square miles of lakes.[16] Multiplying this times approximately 7,000 tons of water each twelve hours gives almost a trillion tons. The meaning of this is simply astounding. It means that approximately 1,300,000,000 tons of water per minute enter the heavens via evaporation.

Here indeed are the "waters above the firmament," as God revealed in Genesis 1:7. Despite this truth, we read some recent so-called "interpreter" who actually wrote that, "`The waters above the firmament' was an ancient superstition founded upon a myth!"