When we woke up this morning and stepped out of the RV, I was right, the rock is huge and beautiful. It is a reddish color with streaks of lighter and darker colors. Beautiful!! Since it’s Sunday we had a wonderful devotion, prayer time, and worship as we sat outside looking at the beautiful surroundings.
We drove to Arches National Park just 3 miles down the road and the rocks became more vibrant and breathtaking.
After entering the gate, we parked in the visitor center parking lot and went inside to see the museum and the movie. Of course, the national park system states that it was millions of years ago that the rocks were formed in everything that they write or spoke in the movie. How in the world do they know that??? If they don’t have any written history or documentation from millions of years ago, how can they say with such confidence that it is millions of years ago?? And all of the millions of years are different. In the visitor center it said 50 million years ago; in the movie it said 25 million years ago; and in the brochure it says 100 million years ago!! For heavens sake, just get with God people!!
The Arches brochure explains that water and ice, extreme temperatures, and underground salt movement are responsible for the sculptured rock scenery of Arches National Park. We know from the Bible that there was the great flood and within 40 days the earth was covered in water. The flood completely explains that the violent rushing of water mixed with underground salt movement, ice, and extreme temperature created this beautiful area with the world’s greatest densities of natural arches. It seems so obvious to me and confirms Romans 1:20 where is says, “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.” When you see beauty and amazing land formations such as these arches, there is no excuse not to believe in a Creator.
There are over 2,000 arches in the park ranging in size from a 3 feet opening to the longest, Landscape arch, measuring 306 feet from base to base. In 1991, a rock slab 60 feet long, 11 feet wide, and four feet thick fell from the underside of Landscape Arch, leaving a thinner ribbon of rock. Delicate Arch, is an isolated remnant of a bygone fin, and stand on the brink of a canyon. Towering spires, pinnacles, and balanced rocks are perched on top of what seems like an inadequate base but are rare beautiful rock formations.
We had a wonderful day driving through the entire National Park and hiking through some of the canyons to view the beautiful arches. We watched the sunset from the Double O Arch, which was spectacular. Amazing that in the middle of the dessert of Utah beautiful, creative rock formations pop up out of nowhere. Only God could do that!!
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