The short life span of humans (FT 24/11) is the result of God’s curse. In the beginning God created everything perfect in every respect but because of man’s sin, God placed a curse upon the earth ? Genesis – 1:31; 3:17-19.

The curse radically altered the nature of God’s original creation.

Instead of man exercising dominion over nature as originally planned, nature rose up in conflict with man, as poisonous plants, carnivorous animals and climatic changes ? Gen 1:26-28.

The vapour canopy so vastly depleted that ultraviolet radiation began to reach the earth in unprecedented levels resulting in greatly reduced life spans, first to 120 years (Genesis 6:3) and then to 70 years (Psalms 90:10).

Apostle Paul declares that the whole creation is in “slavery to corruption” that all of creation is running down, moving from order to disorder, that all of creation is in bondage to decay. Rom 8:18-23. He pictures the creation as a pregnant woman waiting anxiously for the moment of delivery when the curse will be lifted and the creation will be redeemed. He says that will occur at “the revealing of the sons of God”.

That is a reference to the resurrection of the saints. He says that the saints should yearn with nature for that same event because that is when each of us will receive “the redemption of our body”.

God loves His creation and He is determined to restore it to its original perfection ? Rev 22:3.