(CREATION/EVOLUTION – Pt. 1)
The Scopes’ Monkey trial took place in Tennessee in 1925, and was a very significant event in American history, but I don’t think the facts are well-remembered by a lot of people. It is commonly called a landmark victory for the theory of evolution. This “so-called” victory opened the door for evolution to be taught in American classrooms, and for this reason it is also often hailed as a victory for educational freedom.
But the reason I say that many people don’t remember what actually happened in Tennessee is because the same thing is happening again, right now, in classrooms all across this nation. The difference now is that the theory that is not allowed to be taught is the theory of creation. In fact, there may be less freedom in the public schools in the United States today than there is in many foreign nations whose governments were once totally Communist and anti-Christian.
The argument in the Scopes trial was that students should have access to all of the scientific information that was available, so that they could then judge for themselves which view was correct. Many people were opposed to that idea, but in retrospect, we can see that it makes sense to allow for the freedom of information. However, once again we have a situation where one side wants only “their” view to be heard, while they continually denigrate anyone who disagrees.
Of course this is completely unfair, as a certain biology teacher understood, –“Education….means broadening, advancing, and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole country will eventually have only one thought.” Those are the words of John Scopes, the biology teacher who wanted the freedom to teach evolution. Another very influential man said, …”A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.” This quote comes from the introduction to Charles Darwin’s, The Origin of Species. Even Clarence Darrow, the famous attorney who volunteered to defend Scopes said, “the theory of beginning should not be taught to the exclusion of the other.” So obviously, those on the side of evolution easily understood the concept of freedom back in the 1920’s, but that is exactly what is not happening today. We have come full circle, so that evolution is almost always the only view currently accepted in our popular culture today.
“Nothing is so unscientific as…seeking to suppress or conceal dissent rather than grappling with it.” (Eldra Pearl Solomon – 1974)[1]
The question is, how has this happened? Has evolution been proven beyond all doubt, so that everyone now agrees that this is so? This is what many leading evolutionists would have us believe, but as you will see, the facts do not support such a claim for several reasons.
To start with, despite the hold evolutionary thinking seems to have gained on our popular culture, many people still believe that the Biblical story of creation tells the true origin of the universe, and a large group of scientists are presently studying, researching, and writing books which refute evolution and reveal the scientific evidence for creation. But because most of our media outlets support evolution only, it is nearly impossible to get this information published in high-profile magazines and newspapers, or on television. And secondly, even within the ranks of evolutionists, a staggering number of scientists in recent years have repudiated much of what has been commonly taught about evolution. But this is another fact left virtually unreported by today’s liberal-leaning media.
Two of the more influential books written to reveal the flaws in evolutionary thinking are Evolution – A Theory in Crisis, by Michael Denton (1985), and Darwin’s Black Box, the Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (1990), by microbiologist Michael Behe. Also among the more well-known evolutionists who have gone on record to share their numerous doubts about many of the claims of Darwinism are the late Stephen J. Gould, the late Sir Fred Hoyle, a Nobel prize-winner, and a number of others.
So what are some of the evolutionary claims that are being questioned? First, I would bring to your attention the “ape-men” pictures we have all seen in science books. They usually start with some kind of a monkey or ape, and then progress through a series of more human-looking creatures until you arrive with modern man. The problem is that none of these ape-men have been proven to have existed, and almost all have been proven false – several have even been fakes and complete hoaxes! Have you ever heard that on PBS, or the evening news? Of course not! But it is a known fact that practically all scientists accept. Nevertheless, it doesn’t keep this kind of inaccurate information from being used in textbooks in our public schools. (many other instances of this kind of deception could be cited, such as Ernst Haeckel’s “faked” drawings of embryos[2], O.C.Marsh’s oft-used series of horse drawings[3], and Stanley Miller’s laboratory experiments,[4] which are dismissed by almost all scientists today.)
Another fact, which is well known in the scientific world, but rarely talked about in our popular culture, is that the fossil record does not prove evolution. Over and over, we are told that the proof of evolution is in the fossils, but that is just not the case. The fossil record does many things, but proving evolution is not one of them. In fact, Oxford University Professor of Zoology, Mark Ridley (1981), has said that no real scientist uses the fossil record to prove evolution.[5] You will probably still hear this fallacy (that the proof is in the fossils) often on television documentaries, but anyone who takes the time to study the fossil record will quickly find out that this whole argument is fraught with circular reasoning. The so-called “geologic column” (the chart with all the long, unpronounceable words – such as Pleistocene, Paleocene, Cretaceous, Jurassic, Triassic, etc., etc.), which you will find in most science textbooks, actually exists ONLY in the textbooks. It is entirely based on the “assumption” that evolution has occurred
One of the major things fossils do tell us is that animals appeared on earth very abruptly, and not as simple, one-celled organisms that slowly, over millions of years, changed into more complex organisms, and then into fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and man. The truth is, many of the same kinds of creatures that we find in the earliest sedimentary rocks, look just like many of the same animals we see running around today! Though there may be a small amount of variation, the species are basically the same. Charles Darwin himself admitted that in order for his theory to be confirmed, we must find evidence that it happened in the fossil record.[6] But one thing that virtually all scientists are agreed upon is that the missing links, examples of living things changing from one kind into another, are still missing! Gould even referred to this fact as being “the trade secret of paleontology.”[7] This is confirmed by David Raup (1979), who says, “we are now about 120 years after Darwin…and we have even fewer examples of transition[al] fossils than we had in Darwin’s time.”[8] Dr. Derek Ager (1976) agrees, -“if we examine the fossil record in detail…we find…not gradual evolution…but sudden explosion [of new species].”[9] David Kitts (1974) concurs, -“Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and paleontology does not provide them.”[10] Professor D.S. Woodruff (1980) says, “the [fossil] record fails to contain a single example of a significant transition,”[11] and Colin Patterson (1979) concedes, “if I knew of any [transitional fossils],…I would have included them [in my book, however], there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument…It is easy to make up stories of how one form gave rise to another…But such stories are not part of science–“[12] Finally, a quote from Soren Lovtrups’s book, Darwinism: The Refutation of a Myth, “it is a great misfortune if an entire branch of science becomes addicted to a false theory. But this has happened in biology…I believe that one day the Darwinian myth will be ranked the greatest deceit in the history of science.”[13]
Since fossils could not prove evolution, the next mechanism put forth has been mutations. This is one I truly cannot understand. A mutation is a mistake, pure and simple. I thought everyone accepted that. But somehow evolutionists have postulated that there could be some mutations that could have a “beneficial” effect. And if enough of these happened over time (millions and billions of years), then possibly natural selection could act upon these to bring macroevolution (macroevolution refers to changing from one species to another, as opposed to microevolution, which refers to adaptations within a species, which creationists do not disagree with). Common sense should be enough to disprove such nonsense, but when it comes to evolutionary theories, a large majority of them have little to do with common sense, or even with the observable laws of nature. It has been estimated, by George Wald (1967), that to establish one non-harmful mutation in the population of a species would take on the order of 10 million years![14] So, considering the fact that it would probably take millions or billions more mutations to see anything close to macroevolution, this process does not sound very promising as an evolutionistic mechanism. And this is why many scientists have abandoned it and are searching elsewhere. However, the chances for finding a new mechanism for evolution were dealt a severe blow in 1980, when 150 leading evolutionists met in Chicago and came away without agreement on any viable mechanism.[15]
I am certainly not a scientist, far, far from it, but I can tell you what many evolutionists have said about their own theory. Many will tell you that much of what is being taught as fact is much closer to fairy tales and imagination than true science. Quoting Michael Denton, “the myth [of evolution] has created a widespread illusion that the theory of evolution was all but proved one hundred years ago…Nothing could be further from the truth…Darwin himself had increasing doubts as to the validity of his views…[and] his theory…still is, as it was in Darwin’s time, a highly speculative hypothesis entirelywithout direct factual support and very far from that self-evident axiom some of its more aggressive advocates would have us believe.”[16]
The late Paul Lemoine, president of the Geologic Society of France and director of the Natural History Museum of Paris wrote, “the theories of evolution, with which our studious youth have been deceived, constitutes a dogma that all the world continues to teach but each in his specialty, the zoologist or the botanist, ascertains that none of the explanations furnished is adequate.”[17] Ronald Good, a botany professor from the University of Hull, said, “much of this [evolutionary] literature has something of the alluring but elusive quality of a mirage…which…gradually dissolves as it is more closely approached. [18]
Nobel prize laureate, Harold C. Urey, has admitted, “All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel it is too complex to have evolved anywhere. We all believe as an article of faith…[but] its complexity is so great, it is hard to imagine that it did.”[19] British zoologist, W.H. Thorpe (1974) has said, “The most elementary type of cell constitutes a mechanism unimaginably more complex than any machine yet thought up, let alone constructed by man.”[20] This kind of complexity has caused Hoyle to comment that “the notion that…the operating programme of a living cell could be arrived at by chance is evidently nonsense of a high order…”[21] And Denton is equally pessimistic saying, “The hold of the evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea which is more like a principle of medieval astrology…has become a reality for evolutionary biologists.”[22] Professor Robert Shapiro (1986) says, “We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact…and…contrary evidence is shunted aside. This condition, of course, describes mythology rather than science.”[23]
No doubt the “faith”-full in the evolutionary camp will not be too affected by all the deterioration within their ranks, but at some point the public must start to wonder how these evolutionists can continue to hold their ground in the face of such unsettling revelations. This is especially true when it is revealed that even some of the most ardent evolutionists have expressed their misgivings about the evidence which seems to point away from evolution instead of toward it. For example, Darwin, himself, admitted that the information content in the feather of a peacock’s tail is so vast that it made him sick just to see one.[24] He also wrote, way back in 1860, that “the eye to this day gives me a cold shudder,” and went on to exclaim that, “to suppose that the eye [because of its complexity]…could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.”[25] Another stalwart evolutionist, Richard Dawkins, has noted that “there is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Brittanica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over.”[26] And none other than the late Carl Sagan, of PBS fame, also said, “The information content of the human brain…would fill some 20 million volumes, as many as in the world’s largest libraries.”[27]So, how can these leading evolutionary figures look squarely into the face of an incomprehensibly immense and complex creation and still cling to their “highly speculative” hypotheses? Michael Denton calls this blind allegiance to evolution “anaffront to reason,” that “is accepted without a ripple of doubt..” because “the paradigm takes precedence.”[28] Or, as evolutionist Richard Lewontin once put it, “Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is….because we have a prior commitment….to materialism (the theory that physical matter is the only reality)….materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine foot in the door.”[29]
However, it is becoming obvious that, for many discerning scientific minds, patience for unsubstantiated theories is growing thin while the evidence consistently points in other directions. A growing number of scientists have come to the conclusion that the real scientific evidence points away from random chance and toward creation by intelligence. Behe’s book was definitely a breakthrough, taking the lid off the living cell to reveal an elaborate and intricate system of “factories,” “assembly lines,” “machines.” “sensors,” “gates,” “pumps,” “identification markers,” and even “rotary outboard motors[!]” Other features resemble “power plants,” “automated workshops,” “recycling units,” and “miniature monorails.” This kind of complexity clearly points to a super-intelligent Source, that is if what you are looking for is the truth, and not just a way to explain how evolution has happened.
Unfortunately, it seems apparent that something other than a common sense search for truth remains to be the priority within much of American society. Those who promote the dominant, anti-God philosophy of evolution by random chance continue to make sure that their “paradigm takes precedence,” regardless of whether or not the facts support it. Tyranny of thought, rather than freedom of thought, is now the rule, but truth will prevail in the end, I have no doubt. It simply takes too much energy to hide the truth forever, and many scientists, as well as non-scientists, are finally beginning to see the light.
Paul Davies, professor of theoretical physics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne has written, “Everywhere we look in the universe…we encounter order…central to the idea of a very special, orderly universe is the concept of information…where did all the information…come from originally?”[30] Physicist and Nobel prize recipient, Ernst Planck, also notes, “There is evidence of an intelligent order in the universe…”.[31] W. Press has ventured even further in using the dreaded “d” word, – “there is a grand design in the universe….”[32]
In 1981, astronomer Hoyle concluded that there had to be some kind of intelligence involved in the origin of our planet after he and Chandra Wickramasinghe’s mathematical analyses convinced them that life could not be the result of simply time, chance, and the properties of matter.[33] That is, at least, more of a common sense approach than most of the drivel we usually hear on PBS documentaries, and I pray that this kind of common sense and logic will lead the way back to a more honest and fair approach to the search for truth in our nation and the world.
Notes
[1] W.R. Bird, The Origin of Species REVISITED, Volume I, Regency (1991), p.9
[2] Ibid, p. 197
[3] Ibid, p. 223-225
[4] Ibid, p. 362-366
[5] Ibid, p. 2
[6] Ibid, Darwin on the fossil record, p. 50
[7] Ibid, p. 58
[8] Ibid, p. 48
[9] Ibid, p. 55
[10] Ibid, p. 59
[11] Ibid, p. 58
[12] Ibid, p. 59
[13] Ibid, p. 40
[14] Ibid, p. 88,89
[15] Ibid, p. 156
[16] Ibid, p. 142
[17] Ibid, p. 151
[18] Ibid, p. 151
[19] Ibid, p. 325
[20] Ibid, p. 299
[21] Ibid, p. 304
[22] Ibid p.202
[23] Ibid, p.329
[24] Ibid, p. 75
[25] Ibid, p. 73
[26] Ibid, p. 71
[27] Ibid, p.72-73
[28] Ibid, p.72
[29] Lewontin, Richard, quote from a New York Book Review, Jan. 1997
[30] Bird, p. 402
[31] Ibid, p. 402
[32] Ibid, p. 409
[33] Ibid, p. 82
Hi,
I wanted to share some very important news that has been spreading around the internet concerning our future well being.
We are approaching a future of a one-world cashless society in which they will mandate us to have an RFID microchip implanted in our body. This chip will contain all our personal information and we will lose much more of our privacy because of the tracking capabilities.
More importantly, did you know that this was all prophesied almost 2000 years ago by a man named Jesus? Don’t believe me? Keep reading…This may be the most important thing you will ever read.
“He (the false prophet) causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666” (Revelation 13:16-18).
Revelation 13:16-18 is speaking of the end times, and this could only be speaking of a cashless money society, which we have yet to see, but are heading towards. Why? Because we could still buy or sell without receiving the mark among one another if physical money was still currency. It logically deduces itself to this reason.
This mark could not be spiritual, because the word references two different physical locations stating one “OR” the other.
This is where it really starts to come together. It is shocking how accurate the Bible is concerning this RFID microchip. These are notes from a man named Carl Sanders who worked with a team of engineers to help develop this RFID microchip in the 90’s.
“Carl Sanders sat in seventeen New World Order meetings with heads-of-state officials such as Henry Kissinger and Bob Gates of the C.I.A. to discuss plans on how to bring about this one-world system. The government commissioned Carl Sanders to design a microchip for identifying and controlling the peoples of the world—a microchip that could be inserted under the skin with a hypodermic needle (a quick, convenient method that would be gradually accepted by society).
Carl Sanders, with a team of engineers behind him, with U.S. grant monies supplied by tax dollars, took on this project and designed a microchip that is powered by a lithium battery, rechargeable through the temperature changes in our skin. Without the knowledge of the Bible (Brother Sanders was not a Christian at the time), these engineers spent one-and-a-half-million dollars doing research on the best and most convenient place to have the microchip inserted.
Guess what? These researchers found that the forehead and the back of the hand (the two places Revelation says the mark will go) are not just the most convenient places, but are also the only viable places for rapid, consistent temperature changes in the skin to recharge the lithium battery. The microchip is approximately seven millimeters in length, .75 millimeters in diameter, about the size of a grain of rice. It is capable of storing pages upon pages of information about you. All your general history, work history, crime record, health history, and financial data can be stored on this chip.
Brother Sanders believes that this microchip, which he regretfully helped design, is the “mark†spoken about in Revelation 13:16–18. The original Greek word for “mark†is “charagma,†which means a “scratch or etching.†It is also interesting to note that the number 666 is actually a word in the original Greek. The word is “chi xi stigma,†with the last part, “stigma,†also meaning “to stick or prick.†Carl believes this is referring to a hypodermic needle when they poke into the skin to inject the microchip.”
Mr. Sanders asked a doctor what would happen if the lithium contained within the RFID microchip leaked into the body. The doctor replied by saying a terrible sore would appear in that location. This is what the book of Revelation says:
“And the first(Angel) went, and poured out his vial on the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore on the men which had the mark of the beast, and on them which worshipped his image” (Revelation 16:2).
The Bible tells us we cannot buy or sell without the mark of the beast, or the number of its name. This number is identified as 666. The Bible tells us to calculate the number 666. How do we calculate 666?
This is where it gets really interesting. Calculating the number 666 has been long debated throughout the centuries, but has now been revealed in these last days by God. What I will show you confirms itself with the Bible the true meaning to calculate 666.
Throughout the Bible, God uses the number 3 as confirmation of things. Here are a few examples:
“For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one” (1 John 5:7 NKJV).
“and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:4 NKJV).
“…Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!” (Revelation 4:8 NKJV).
Now what is interesting is the the mark of the beast is described in detail in three separate verses (Revelation 13:16,17,18), and each verse lists three different examples of the given topic. The last three being the number 6 being used three times in a row. This is a key point to unlocking how to calculate the number 666.
What does it mean to count? It means to add up. So how could we add up 666? Remember my previous point about God confirming in threes. So logically, what would be the best way to count the number 666? To count it equally in threes based off the number. We cannot count it equally as 600+60+6, this would also bring us back to the start. We cannot count it as 600+600+600, or 60+60+60, because there are no zeroes in between or at the end of 666. The only logical option is 6+6+6=18. What is interesting is that the verse that reveals for us to count the number itself is verse 18, being the third verse out of three verses that describe the mark of the beast. What is 18 divided by 3? 6. So 3×6=18, or 6+6+6=18.
Another interesting point is the only two other combinations (making a total of three possible combinations) for placing a “+” symbol in between the 6’s are 66+6=72, and 6+66=72. Add both 72’s together and you get 144. Why the number 144 is interesting is because the verse following Revelation 13:18 is the first time in the Bible where the 144,000 are being described in detail:
“Then I looked, and behold, a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s name written on their foreheads…” (Revelation 14:1).
Now if you add up all three numbers by counting 666 by moving the “+” symbol around in all three possible combinations, it would be 72+72+18=162. What is interesting about the number 162, is, if you divide 144,000 by 162, you get 888. The name of Jesus in Greek gematria adds up to 888. The New Testament was orignally written in Greek. Revelation 14:1 not only mentions the 144,000, but also the Lamb who is Jesus.
Now what is interesting about the number for Jesus, 888, is that if you apply this same formula, you get 8+8+8=24. Why the number 24? Revelation chapter 4 tells us there are 24 elders seated around the throne of God. This is the same throne where Jesus sits:
“Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne. And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald. Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white robes; and they had crowns of gold on their heads” (Revelation 4:2-4).
Now if you take 8+8+8=24, and 8+88=96, and 88+8=96, you get 24+96+96=216. Take 144,000 divided by 216 and you get 666. Remember that this was the same exact formula to get the number 162 out of counting 666 that brought about the number 888 when dividing 144,000 by 162. It is perpetual.
With using the same formula of counting by adding the “+” symbol in between the numbers, why do all these numbers relate in such a way?
Another interesting point to note is that if you add up all the numbers from 1 to 36, it totals 666. The number 36, as in three sixes? Could this be a hint that we should add up three sixes instead of perceiving the number as six-hundred sixty six?
So what could this mean? Well we know in this world we are identified by numbers in various forms. From our birth certificate to social security, as well as our drivers license, being identified based on a system of ruler ship. So it is possible that this RFID microchip will contain a new identification that has a total of 18 characters.
Could this be the name of the beast, the number of its name? The one-world beast system that is identified by 18 characters? This would fit scripture that speaks of a mark that we must have to buy or sell in our right hand or forehead, and that it also contains the number of the beast, during a future cashless money society.
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The Bible warns us in the end times that a false prophet will rise up doing miracles to deceive many to receive this mark:
“Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image” (Revelation 19:20).
No matter the cost, DO NOT TAKE IT!
“Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name” (Revelation 14:9-11).
We are living in very prophetic times with major Biblical prophecies being fulfilled. When Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as capital of Israel in December of 2017, this was a big step to bring about the Third Temple prophesied in the Bible.
The Bible tells us that the Antichrist will seat himself in this temple:
“…and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God” (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4).
In the Islamic religion, they have man called the Mahdi, known as their messiah who they are waiting to appear. There are many testimonies from people online who believe this man will be Barack Obama who is to be the biblical Antichrist. I myself have had strange dreams about him. He came on stage claiming to be a Christian with no affiliation to the Muslim faith, but was later revealed by his own family members that he indeed is a devout Muslim.
His real name is said to be Barry Soetoro, and he had his name changed to Barack Obama. But why?
Jesus says, “And He said to them, ‘I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven'” (Luke 10:18).
In Hebrew, the word Barack means “lightning”, and the use of Bama (Strongs Hebrew word 1116) is used to refer to the “heights” of heaven.
The day following the election of Barack Obama (11/04/08), the winning pick 3 lotto numbers in Illinois (Obama’s home state) for 11/5/08 were 666.
Obama was a U.S. senator for Illinois, and his zip code was 60606.
Regardless, whoever seats himself in that Third Temple in Jerusalem declaring himself to be God IS THE ANTICHRIST. DO NOT BE DECEIVED.
Why do we need Jesus?
“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23).
Our good works cannot save us. If we step before a judge, being guilty of a crime, the judge will not judge us by the good that we have done, but rather the crimes we have committed. If we as fallen humanity, created in God’s image, pose this type of justice, how much more a perfect, righteous, and Holy God?
God has brought down His moral law’s through the 10 commandments given to Moses at Mt. Siani. These laws were not given so we may be justified, but so that we may see the need for a savior. They are the mirror of God’s character of what He has put in each and every one of us, with our conscious bearing witness that we know that it is wrong to steal, lie, dishonor our parents, and so forth.
We can try and follow the moral laws of the 10 commandments, but we will never catch up to them to be justified before a Holy God. That same word of the law given to Moses became flesh over 2000 years ago in the body of Jesus Christ. He came to be our justification by fulfilling the law, living a sinless perfect life that only God could fulfill.
The gap between us and the law can never be reconciled by our own merit, but the arm of Jesus is stretched out by the grace and mercy of God. And if we are to grab on, through faith in Him, He will pull us up being the one to justify us. As in the court of law, if someone steps in and pays your fine, even though you are guilty, the judge can do what is legal and just and let you go free. This is what Jesus did almost 2000 years ago on the cross. It was a legal transaction being fulfilled in the spiritual realm by the shedding of His blood, with His last words being, “…It is finished!…” (John 19:30).
Now why did Jesus have to die for us?
Because God is Holy and just, the wrath that we deserve could not go unnoticed. Through the perfect righteousness and justice of God’s character, it must be dealt with, it must be quenched and satisfied.
For God has no pleasure in the death of the wicked (Ezekiel 18:23). This is why in Isaiah chapter 53, where it speaks of the coming Messiah and His soul being a sacrifice for our sins, why it says it pleased God to crush His only begotten Son.
This is because the wrath that we deserve was justified by being poured out upon His Son. If that wrath was poured out on us, we would all die and go to hell. God created a way of escape by pouring it out on His Son who’s soul could not be left in Hades, but was raised and seated at the right hand of God in power.
So now when we put on the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 13:14), God no longer see’s the person who deserves His wrath, but rather the glorious image of His perfect Son dwelling in us, justifying us as if we received the wrath we deserve, making a way of escape from the curse of death.
Now what we must do is repent and trust in the savior, confessing and forsaking our sins. This is not just a head knowledge of believing in Jesus, but rather receiving His words, taking them to heart. Where we no longer live to practice sin, but rather turn from our sins and practice righteousness:
“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Corinthians 6:9-11).
By doing so we may become transformed into the image of God through faith in His Son Christ Jesus Who is willing to give the Holy Spirit to those who ask of Him:
“Most assuredly, I (Jesus) say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ (John 3:5-7).
“But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His” (Romans 8:9).
What are you waiting for? Our Father in heaven only wants the best for us, restoring everything this world has stolen from us. This is what it means to be “holy”. To be made whole.
He is waiting to hear from you. That God given tongue to speak language, through faith, pray to Him, ask Him to forgive you by confessing your sins and be willing to forsake them; that you accept the sacrifice of His Son Jesus on the cross, and that you want His Holy Spirit living inside you transforming you into a child of God.
Jesus says, “but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him (the Holy Spirit) will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
Did you know that Jesus spoke more about hell than anyone else, even more than He spoke about heaven?! For this very reason He came to die for us, to rescue us from this place that we deserve.
He describes hell as a real place where,
“Their worm does not die
And the fire is not quenched” (Mark 9:44).
And where,
“There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth…” (Luke 13:28).
Jesus tells us who to fear,
“And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:28).
“Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, ‘Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.’
Then He who sat on the throne said, ‘Behold, I make all things new.’ And He said to me, ‘Write, for these words are true and faithful.’
And He said to me, ‘It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.'” (Revelation 21:1-8).
Out of all the world religions, how can we be sure the Bible got it right? The scientific data has established and continues to support that the universe once had a beginning in which space, time and matter were created. Many know this as the big bang.
“The non-biblical religions tell us that god or god’s create within space and time that eternally exist. The Bible stands alone and says that time and space don’t exist until God creates the universe.” – Astronomer (Phd) Hugh Ross
The Bible not only got it right that space, time and matter all came into existence at the beginning of the universe, it also states in 7 different places that the universe is expanding thousands of years before scientists discovered these things.
Did you know that the real Noah’s Ark was discovered in the location where the Bible told us it would be, as well as having the correct dimensions? As well as proof for the destruction of Sodom Gomorrah and the Exodus account of the Red Sea crossing?
The Bible is the most translated and read book in the history of the world, full of predictive prophecies, matching what we find in the book of nature. Wouldn’t you expect God’s word to be so?
This information and more can all be found here: http://voice-truth.com
God loves you!
Hi Melissa, I agree with most of what you say, but even I did not read it all (I will try to read it later when I have time). I would encourage you to make your posts more concise and to the point, so people will take a few minutes to read. This is hard to do, I know, but well worth it. Thanks for your comments -God Bless!