"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” - Genesis 8:22
Cosmology
All components of the universe have heavenly/spiritual meaning and earthly/material support.
The spirit that animates life and breath are the same. Breathing involves the ability to speak.
(The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis - A Commentary by Matthieu Pageau, 2018. Pages 51-53)
The Story of the Earth
Creation
And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. - Genesis 1:9-10
God told the waters to gather and reveal the dry land, which He named Earth. God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:9-10)
Man's Dominion
God gave man dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. He told man, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” (Genesis 1:26-31)
Corruption
The Lord God planted a garden in Eden and set the man in it to work it and keep it. Man disobeyed God's command to not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that was in the midst of the garden. Because of this, the ground is cursed and will bring forth thorns and thistles as man works it until he ultimately returns to it. (Genesis 3)
The Lord drove Adam and Eve out of Eden, and later, their son Cain murdered his brother Abel. The Lord tells him, "The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground. And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth." Cain settled in Nod, east of Eden. (Genesis 4)
When man began to multiply on the face of the land, sons of God began having offspring with daughters of man. Nephilim were also on the earth in these days and afterwards. The Lord saw the wickedness of man and the corruption of the earth, and He regretted making man on the earth. He found Noah to be righteous, though, so He told him, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth. ... For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die." (Genesis 6)
The Flood
The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were opened, and rain fell on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights. The waters rose 15 cubits over the high mountains, and the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days. (Genesis 7)
The Lord resolves to never again curse the ground because of man
God remembered Noah and the ark's beasts and livestock, and the waters abated after 150 days. By 10/10, the mountaintops emerged. By the 27th day of the 2nd month of Noah's 601st year, the earth dried out. God led Noah and those with him out of the ark, and Noah offered burnt offerings of every clean animal and some of every clean bird. When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” (Genesis 8)
Noah's covenant
God set the rainbow in the clouds as a sign of the covenant that He will never again destroy the earth with a flood.
God told Noah, "I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
(Genesis 9)