And the Spirit & the bride say, come.... Reveaaltion 22:17

And the Spirit & the bride say, come.... Reveaaltion 22:17
And the Spirit & the bride say, come...Revelation 22:17 - May We One Day Bow Down In The DUST At HIS FEET ...... {click on blog TITLE at top to refresh page}---QUESTION: ...when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? LUKE 18:8

Friday, June 29, 2012

Tent Maker draws into God's tent

Interesting that God used a tent maker to draw the gentiles into His "tent".....Wasn't the Sanctuary (plan of salvation) originally in a tent?

After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
Acts 18:1,3

IN the NEWS - TV viewing can SHORTEN your life

"Researchers from University of Queensland, in Brisbane Australia suggest that avid television watchers may have a shorter lifespan.
In research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine for every hour of TV watched after age 25 ones life is shortened by 22 minutes.
The reason for this link between television watching and a shorter life is controversial. Dr. David L. Katz, director of the Prevention Research Center at Yale University School of Medicine suggests that it may be due to the sedentary lifestyle required to watch a lot of television. He said:
“As a rule, the more time we spend watching TV, the more time we spend eating mindlessly in front of the TV, and the less time we spend being physically active, More eating and less physical activity, in turn, mean greater risk for obesity, and the chronic diseases it tends to anticipate, notably diabetes, heart disease and cancer.”
Katz also noted that the connection could be due to loneliness. He said that many who watch excessive amounts of television “are lonely, or isolated, or depressed, and these conditions, in turn, may be the real causes of premature mortality.”
In related news, On Monday, another study from the journal Lancet found that 15 minutes of physical activity a day could increase one’s lifespan by three years." PowerNewsNetwork
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; Psalm 119:37

William Secker says - (kisses)

"There is a kiss of subjection and obedience, that is the subjects kiss; there is a kiss of wantonness and temptation, that is the harlot's kiss; there is a kiss of dissumulation, that is the traitor's kiss;... There is therefore a kiss of pity and forgiveness, and that is the Christian's kiss:"
The Nonsuch Professor p.2

Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet. Luke 7:45

IN the NEWS - Vietnam & Hmong churches

"LOS ANGELES, June 27 (Compass Direct News) – Vietnamese officials in Muong Cha district, Dien Bien Province, destroyed two new church buildings of ethnic minority Hmong Christians this month and threatened to tear down a third.
The Ho He Church, erected in April by the unregistered Vietnam Good News Mission, was demolished on June 17. The Phan Ho Church of the registered Evangelical Church of Vietnam (North) was destroyed on June 13, 2012. The church threatened with demolition, The Cong Church, also belongs to the Vietnam Good News Mission.
HMONG
These congregations of 500 to 600 people, which began as house churches, had long outgrown even the largest home, so the Hmong had sacrificed and worked to erect wooden worship buildings. As local police, paramilitary forces and other authorities descended on the church buildings by the dozens, the Christians could only watch with deep sadness and frustration as the houses of worship were reduced to rubble and government promises about freedom of religion were again broken, area sources said.
The Hmong Christian movement in Vietnam’s Northwest Mountainous Region has grown from nothing to some 400,000 believers in the last two decades. The Hmong Christians remain under heavy government suspicion and are regularly objects of harassment and sometimes outright persecution."
Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
Psalm 119:161

Creation Moment 6/30/2012 - Chicken or the Egg?

If we evolved-which came first? The chicken or the egg?
Evolutionists will say the egg....why? Because they think they came from dinosaurs, via reptiles who lay eggs....so a reptile laid a bird/chicken egg at some point?
A creationist will say the chicken since they were created as is...

....and every winged fowl after his kind: Genesis 1:21

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Verse 43? Are we getting close?

He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt (secular world) shall not escape. But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, (money) and over all the precious things of Egypt (secular world):
Daniel 11:42,43
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Revelation 13:17

"VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican called Monday for radical reform of the world's financial systems, including the creation of a global political authority to manage the economy.
A proposal by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace calls for a new world economic order based on ethics and the "achievement of a universal common good." It follows Pope Benedict XVI's 2009 economic encyclical that denounced a profit-at-all-cost mentality as responsible for the global financial meltdown.
The proposal acknowledges, however, that a "long road still needs to be traveled before arriving at the creation of a public authority with universal jurisdiction" and suggests the reform process begin with the United Nations as a point of reference.
Vatican pronouncements on the economy are meant to guide world leaders as well as the global church. United States Roman Catholic bishops, for example, have released a voter guide for the 2012 election that highlights social concerns such as ending poverty.
While past Vatican pronouncements have condemned unfettered capitalism, the latest criticized "an economic liberalism that spurns rules and controls."
It also attacked "utilitarian thinking," saying what is useful to the individual does not always favor the common good."
FOX News

So What IS Theology?

"Theology is the first activity of thinking and speaking about God (theologizing),

 and second the product of that activity (Luther’s theology, or Wesley’s,etc.)

As an activity, theology is a cradle of interrelated though distinct disciplines:
elucidating texts (exegesis),
synthesizing what they say on things they deal with (biblical theology),
 seeing how the faith was stated in the past (historical theology),
formulating it for today (systematic theology),
finding its implications for conduct (ethics),
commending and defending it as truth and wisdom (apologetics),
stockpiling resources for life in Christ (spirituality)
and corporate worship (liturgy),
and exploring ministry (practical theology). " Concise Theology

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines.
Hebrews 13:9

Recieving False Prophets: Micaiah Case Study with Ahab

And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even what my God saith, that will I speak.

I saw the LORD sitting upon his throne,
and all the host of heaven standing
on his right hand
and on his left.

And the LORD said,
Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel,
that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead?
And one spake saying after this manner,
and another saying after that manner.
Then there came out a spirit,
and stood before the LORD,
and said, I will entice him.
And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith?
And he said, I will go out,
and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.
And the LORD said,
Thou shalt entice him,
and thou shalt also prevail:
go out, and do even so.
Now therefore,
behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets,
and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.
2 Chronicles 18:13,18-22


Thus, receiving a false prophet, reveals two things: (1) you have rejected God’s truth and have no desire to hear truth (2) as a consequence of unbelief and rebellion, a trap door is opened and God sends a strong delusion upon you to prevent you from recognizing truth when it is presented.

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 2 Thessalonians 2:8-11

Facebook Seminary

Facebook Seminary....?
“Technology should ultimately be an enhancement, not a replacement, for gathering in person for worship, discussion, debate and service to others,..."   Drew Goodmanson

“A digital preacher will not preach your funeral. The deep limitations of digital technologies become evident where the church is most needed. Don’t allow the Internet to become your congregation. YouTube is a horrible place to go to church.” Al Mohler 

FACT's national survey of 11,077 of the nation's 335,000 congregations, released in March, found seven in 10 U.S. congregations had websites, and four in 10 had Facebook pages by 2010

When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Matthew 8:1-3

Soul Winner

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life;
and he that winneth souls is wise.
Proverbs 11:30

William Secker says - (Cicero/Homer)

"Cicero complains of Homer, that 'He taught the gods to live like men;'
but grace teaches men to live like gods"
The Nonsuch Professor p.3

Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,...
2 Timothy 1:9

Waste of Time & Thoughts

"It is wrong to waste our time, wrong to waste our thoughts.
We lose every moment that we devote to self-seeking."
Ministry of Healing p.208 E.G.W.

Seek ye the LORD while he may be found,
call ye upon him while he is near:
Isaiah 55:6

Creation Moment 6/29/2012 - Where did earth's Water come from?

“Where did all the water on Earth came from? This is a particular problem for planetary scientists because the Earth simply should not have the amount of water that it does. The Earth is relatively close to the Sun, and water, a volatile, should have been expelled from the early inner solar system before the Earth formed. As such, the Earth should really be a much drier planet. So where did all the water that is so crucial to the biosphere of this planet originate?
Up until recently the leading theory was the notion that the oceans were deposited by comets impacting the newly formed Earth This bombardment occurred over a billion years (and might also explain how life appeared on Earth so early in its geo-history). Recent data from comets has overturned this possibility. The problem is that the isotopic ratios of terrestrial water and cometary ice are quite different."
U-M.com

And the earth was without form, and void;
and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Genesis 1:2

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Husbands......

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Colossians 3:19

IN the NEWS - Juanita Bynum sells out for $$$$

The false self proclaimed prophetess, Juanita Bynum, who was allegedly beaten bloody by her fellow pentecostal preacher & husband, Bishop Thomas Weeks, has now come out in support of homosexual ordination in the church. Of course the church she spoke to in support of this position also was a gay church that has been paying some of her bills as her money flow has slowed over several problems she has been embroiled in. $$$$$$$$$$ Talks for Juanita.

And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. Matthew 24:11

William Secker says - (Living 4 Heaven)

"Those who look for a heaven made ready,
will live as though they were already in heaven."
The Nonsuch Professor p.3

And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven:
and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Matthew 16:19

Gather up the Fragments

"Christ bids us Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost." Ministry of Healing p.207 E.G.W./John 6:12

Creation Moment 6/28/2012 - Shrinking Earth & Flood

"Shrinking Earth. The liquid outer core has a volume of 4.1 × 1011 miles3 (1.7 × 1011 km3). Its density is about twice that of the mantle rock from which it came. Therefore, before the core formed, the preflood earth’s volume was almost 4.1 × 1011 miles3 greater, and the earth’s radius was about 100 miles larger than today. In other words, the earth has shrunk.

Undoubtedly, most of this shrinkage occurred during and soon after the flood, as the mantle lost twice the volume that the dense core gained.

Among the many crustal features they felt this would explain were ocean trenches, tablemounts, and the dropping of the Pacific basin as one huge block. Most of those geologists believed that a molten earth shrunk as it cooled over millions of years. However, because they could not provide convincing details, their idea has fallen into disfavor.

What caused the shrinkage? The rising Atlantic floor would have produced the greatest movement at the center of the earth, because, geometrically, large movements near the center of a circle or sphere are needed to adjust for smaller movements near the broader circumference. As the Atlantic side of the inner earth rose, the Pacific side of the inner earth had to collapse onto the magma forming and shrinking near the center of the earth. This runaway subsidence, melting, and shrinkage would have fractured and distorted much of the region on the Pacific side of the earth—especially the Pacific crust.

Gravity always tries to make the earth more compact (or spherical). If you suddenly removed a bucket of water from a swimming pool (or even a 10-mile-thick layer of rock lying above what is now the Atlantic floor), gravity would tend to smooth out the irregularity. Because massive volumes of rock inside the earth do not flow as fast as water in a swimming pool, mass deficiencies, which we might think of as slight partial vacuums, still exist under trenches. Today, especially at low tide (when the water’s pressure on the ocean floor is a minimum), mantle material flows in very slightly under trenches to reduce these “partial vacuums.” This stretches the crust above, produces extensional earthquakes near trenches, shifts plates toward trenches, and makes the earth measurably rounder.

  The mean radius of the earth has shrunk about 100 miles since before the flood. The earth is still shrinking, but at a much slower rate." by Dr. Walt Brown

For we know that the whole creation groaneth
and travaileth in pain together until now.
Romans 8:22


Tuesday, June 26, 2012

William Secker says - (Saul & Trees)

"Believers are among others, as Saul was among the Israelites, the tallest by the head and shoulders. What are such earthly shrubs, compared with heavenly cedars? Those trees which have their top branches of hope in heaven, will have their lower boughs of activity on earth."
The Nonsuch Professor p.3

And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he:
from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.
1 Samuel 9:2

Mother Earth or Father God?

Should we worship Mother earth or the Father God?
The creation or the CREATOR?
The Green Gospel of man or the Everlasting Gospel of Revelation?
Who changed the truth of God into a lie,
and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator,
Romans 1:25

Useless?

"It is selfishness, self indulgence, that bars the ways to our usefulness."
Ministry of Healing p.206 E.G.W. ....if riches increase, set not your heart upon them. Psalm 62:11

Creation Moment 6/27/2012 - Earthquakes:Aftermath of the Flood

"An earthquake involves one or more of the following three mechanisms:

1. Migrating liquids within the earth lubricate faults, causing slippage. The liquids can be tiny amounts of the remaining preflood subterranean water or magma produced by frictional heat that melted rock.

2. A large block, bounded on all lateral sides by faults, is sometimes lifted on one or more sides by a growing amount of magma forcefully injected below. Examples include the blocks that comprise plateaus. On a much larger scale are blocks as tall as the mantle is thick, bounded by thousands of faults that extend through the entire mantle. These blocks are precariously wedged (locked by friction) against adjacent blocks. Magma draining down these faults and into the outer core slowly increases the volume of the liquid outer core, so periodically the least-locked mantle block will be suddenly lifted. A disturbance large enough to vertically shift one weakly anchored block can suddenly shift—and frictionally heat—adjacent blocks.

3. Frictional heat generated by slippage along a fault will increasingly melt, deep within the walls of the fault, mineral grains with the lowest melting temperatures. The solid rock encasing the liquid droplets is stretched by expanding droplets above the crossover depth and compressed by shrinking droplets below the crossover depth. As heating within a large volume of rock increases, more liquid droplets form, merge, and eventually escape along faults. The remaining solid rock may collapse as an earthquake, while the slow drainage allows continental movement,...

If piezoelectric minerals, such as quartz, are among those stressed, voltages can build up for hundreds of miles around what will become the impending earthquake’s point of origin (the focus). Such voltages and the resulting electromagnetic effects are known earthquake precursors. They are even detected in the ionosphere, about 40–600 miles above the solid earth.

In other words, researchers now know that there can be significant electromagnetic signals in the ionosphere directly above a future epicenter and, at times, large heat emissions nearby, all a few days before a major earthquake;: by Dr. Walt Brown

...yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee. Zechariah 14:5


Monday, June 25, 2012

William Secker says - (Hypocrite/Christian)

"A hypocrite may move beyond a sodomite;
but a Christian moves beyond them both."
The Nonsuch Professor p.3

Flee also youthful lusts:
but follow righteousness,
faith,
charity,
 peace,
with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 2 Timothy 2:22

Household of Faith

As we therefore have oppurtunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. Galatians 6:10  "......ministering to the sick, supporting the weak, teaching the ignorant, training the inexperienced, so is the household of the faith to care for its needy and helpless ones." Ministry of Healing p.201 E.G.W.

Pets or the Children?

"Instead of giving attention to pets, lavishing affection on dumb animals, let them give attention to little children, whose characters they may fashion after the divine similitude." Ministry of Healing p.203 E.G.W.
Leave thy fatherless children,
I will preserve them alive; Jeremiah 49:11

Creation Moment 6/26/2012 - Plate Tectonics & Flood

"The distinction between drifting and shifting is subtle but important. A box drifts on the sea, but a box shifts on a ship’s deck. Drifting is a continuing movement on or in a fluid, often for a great distance, while shifting is usually a slight, but limited, lateral movement on or in a solid. Drifting is caused by a steady, unyielding, outside force, while shifting is typically caused by gravity and a change in equilibrium. Drifting requires a continuing energy source, but shifting requires a disturbance. The plate tectonic theory says that continents steadily drift. The hydroplate theory says crustal plates drifted rapidly, but briefly, on a layer of escaping, high-pressure water near the end of the flood. This drifting produced imbalances. Since then, these and other imbalances caused by the flood sporadically shift continents and everything below.
Surprisingly, trenches contain shallow-water fossils.

Materials [like fossils] which are usually supposed to be deposited only in shallow water have actually been found on the floor of some of the deep trenches.
Why are such unlikely fossils in a remote part of the ocean—a thousand times deeper than one would expect?

Today, most of the earth’s crust is vertically balanced, like blocks floating in a pan of water. Less dense blocks “float” higher up, while denser blocks sink deeper. This is called isostatic equilibrium. However, ocean trenches are earth’s most glaring departure from this equilibrium and may be an important clue for how trenches formed. As various authorities have written:

... trenches are characterized by large negative gravity anomalies. That is, there appears to be a mass deficiency beneath the trenches, and thus something must be holding the trenches down or else they would rise in order to restore isostatic equilibrium.
The most striking phenomenon associated with the trenches is a deficiency in gravity ... Measurements of gravity near trenches show pronounced departures from the expected values. These gravity anomalies are among the largest found on earth. It is clear that isostatic equilibrium does not exist near the trenches. The trench-producing forces must be acting ... to pull the crust under the trenches downward!
In other words, something has pulled, not pushed, trenches down. Today, the downward pull of gravity in and above trenches is less than expected even after adjusting for the trench’s shape and depth, so less mass exists under trenches than one would expect. It is as if something deep inside the earth “sucked” downward the material directly below trenches. This would reduce the mass below trenches.

Today, crustal plates move an inch or so each year toward trenches, so this “partial vacuum” is slowly being filled in modern times. Clearly, this “filling in” has not been going on for millions of years. A technique called seismic tomography has shown that rock in the upper mantle is denser under continents than under oceans.

Plate tectonic theory claims that earthquakes occur when plates rub against each other, temporarily lock, and then jerk loose. If so, why are some powerful earthquakes far from plate boundaries? Why do local earthquakes sometimes occur when water is forced into the ground after large water reservoirs are built and filled?
Earthquakes near a trench are almost always due to horizontal tension (at the trench location) perpendicular to the trench axis.1 Measurements also show that microearthquakes on the ocean floor tend to occur at low tide.

Furthermore, if slippage has occurred along the San Andreas Fault for eons, friction should have greatly heated the sliding surfaces. Drilling into the fault has not detected that heat. Evidently, movement has not occurred for millions of years and/or the walls of the fault were lubricated.
Almost 90% of all earthquake energy is released under trenches. Earthquakes often occur near sloping planes, called Benioff zones, that intersect a trench. These earthquake zones enter the mantle at 30°–60° angles below the horizontal and extend to depths of about 410 miles.
A prominent feature on all ocean floors is the Mid-Oceanic Ridge. One characteristic of the ridge figures prominently in two competing theories for how trenches formed. As explained in the preceding chapter, the ridge is cracked in a strange pattern. Some cracks are nearly perpendicular to the ridge axis, while other cracks are parallel to it. Their shapes and orientation are best explained by the stretching of the ridge. What would stretch the ridge in two perpendicular directions?

More than 40,000 submarine volcanoes, called seamounts, litter the Pacific floor. Some rise higher above the seafloor than Mount Everest rises above sea level. Strangely, the Atlantic has few seamounts. If, as the plate tectonic theory claims, one plate dives (subducts) beneath another, why aren’t seamounts and soft sediments scraped off the top of the descending plate?


About 2,000 flat-topped seamounts, called tablemounts, have tops that are 3,000–6,000 feet below sea level. Evidently, as these volcanoes tried to grow above sea level, wave action planed off their tops. Either sea level was once 3,000–6,000 feet lower, or ocean floors were 3,000–6,000 feet higher, or some combination of both. Each possibility raises new and difficult questions.

More than half of the world’s active and dormant land volcanoes and 90% of the world’s earthquakes occur along the ring of fire,... Obviously, that 25,000-mile-long, horseshoe-shaped path is a region that was violently disturbed in the past.

From deep in the mantle, enormous amounts of melted basalt, called flood basalts, rapidly spilled up onto the earth’s crust—especially onto the Pacific basin. Above sea level, some “spills” that we can examine today are large enough to cover the eastern United States to the height of the Appalachian Mountains—from Atlanta to New York City and from the Appalachian Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. More than a dozen of these convulsions have occurred at different places on land, dwarfing in volume the total magma in all volcanic cones. The volume of all “spills” below sea level may be a hundred times greater.

Rocks are composed of various minerals, some containing molecules of water. These minerals would not feel wet to the touch, because each water molecule is locked separately in a mineral’s crystalline structure, and the water occupies only about one-thousandth of the rock’s volume. Nevertheless, the inner earth is so large that it probably contains several oceans’ worth of water. Some heating process may have released that water, allowing it to collect in larger pockets. That would account for pooled water (with a total volume equal to the water in the Arctic Ocean) that is disbursed 500–750 miles under eastern Asia and part of western North America.

The denser (deeper) magma and the denser unmelted minerals in the magma slowly fell into what grew to become earth’s outer and inner cores, respectively. The less dense magma that formed above the crossover depth tended to escape upward to the earth’s surface as volcanoes or flood basalts. For years after the flood, most eruptions spilled onto the Pacific floor—a floor littered today with 40,000 volcanic cones, each taller than 1 kilometer!

Gravity creates so much compression deep inside the earth that voids cannot open up; rock is always squeezed against rock (including melted rock). Friction from shearing and deformations deep in the earth always melts the sliding surfaces. The magma produced then lubricates those surfaces, so they slip more easily. Island chains often formed where magma escaped upward along these cracks. The Hawaiian Islands and the Emperor Seamounts are prime examples.

For a while, two types of forces resisted the rising of what would become the Atlantic floor: (1) the strength of the rock between that floor and the Pacific side of the earth, and (2) the weight of the stationary hydroplates that still lay above most of what would become the Atlantic floor.

Fractures and melting occurred deeper and deeper beneath the bulging chamber floor on the Atlantic side. Magma produced below the crossover depth contracted, so deeper fracturing, melting, and contraction occurred at an accelerating rate. By the end of the flood phase, the Pacific plate’s sagging foundation had fractured in millions of places, and the magma generated along the deep sliding surfaces instantly contracted. Therefore, the Pacific plate, lacking support, rapidly subsided and sheared around its perimeter—now called the ring of fire. This shearing suddenly increased the upward pressure under the rising Atlantic floor, so the hydroplates began to accelerate away from the rising Mid-Atlantic Ridge. That also removed weight from above the Atlantic floor, so it rose even faster.

After the flood, magma under the Pacific floor, but above the crossover depth, erupted onto the Pacific floor. (To a much lesser extent, eruptions continue today, so in those places, ocean temperatures rise temporarily, a phenomenon called El Niño.) Magma below the crossover depth drains down into the outer core, so the outer core is slowly growing today!

Therefore, the mantle is shifting an inch or so a year, in general, toward the Pacific to replace that escaping volume. These movements and stresses produce earthquakes. Slowly shifting continents led to the mistaken belief that the entire solid mantle somehow circulates as if it were a liquid—and, over millions of years, drifted continents over the face of the earth.
Since the flood, magma that spilled up onto the Pacific floor has raised sea level relative to the subsided Pacific plate that lies a few miles below the Pacific floor. This slow rise allowed today’s coral islands on top of tablemounts to grow upward—fast enough to maintain the sunlight they needed for optimal growth. The coral depth below one of these islands, Eniwetok Atoll, is 4,600 feet.

Some claim that if magma spilled out only about 5,000 years ago, heat would still be present. The lack of heat, they assert, shows that millions of years have elapsed. They have overlooked that magma’s contents: (a) crystals of unmelted minerals with high melting temperatures, (b) rock fragments, called xenoliths (ZEN-oh-liths), dislodged by the violent shearing and crushing, and (c) water absorbed by the rising magma as it passed up through what remained of the subterranean water chamber. (This is why volcanoes emit so much water vapor; typically 70% of all the gas released by volcanoes is water vapor.) Because water lowers magma’s melting temperature, the magma remained a liquid at temperatures below the rock’s normal melting temperature. The solid crystals and rock fragments absorbed heat from the magma, so it quickly cooled and solidified.

 Afterward, with the overlying rock suddenly gone, only the strength of the upward-bulging chamber floor and the weight of 10 miles of water resisted this upward pressure. Consequently, as the rupture widened, the Mid-Oceanic Ridge suddenly buckled upward. The rising Atlantic floor pulled even deeper material upward. As material shifted within the inner earth toward the rising Atlantic floor, a broader, but initially shallow, depression formed on the opposite side of the earth—the basins of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Just as the Atlantic floor stretched horizontally as it rose, the western Pacific floor compressed horizontally as it subsided (sank). The trench region of the western Pacific lies near the center of the combined Pacific and Indian Oceans. As material beneath the western Pacific subsided at least 10 miles, it sheared and buckled downward in some places, forming trenches. The Atlantic Ocean (centered at 21.5°W longitude and 10°S latitude) is almost exactly opposite this trench region (centered at 159°E longitude and 10°N latitude). 

Frictional heat generated along faults throughout the mantle conducts slowly into the walls of the fault. Above depths of 410 miles (700 kilometers), local instabilities sometimes arise as heat weakens the solid silicate scaffolding and forms more droplets. Once leaks form, the liquid droplets can escape; their buoyancy forces them upward if they are above the crossover depth or downward if they are below the crossover depth. The scaffolding then collapses and generates much more heat and melting. Earthquakes—runaway shocks—result. Gigantic shifts of mass during the flood produced a myriad of fractures within earth’s crust and mantle." by Dr. Walt Brown

 ....the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up,
and the windows of heaven were opened.
Genesis 7:11







Sunday, June 24, 2012

"Apostle" to the Pygmies-Apolo Kivebulaya

"Apolo was an Ugandan missionary considered the principal pioneer of the Anglican church in the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). His original name was Waswa Munubi; "Apolo" and "Kivebulaya" are two foreign names he took later on. He chose the name Apolo during his baptism in 1895 because he remembered another Apolo who "being fervent in spirit, spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus" (Actes 18:25). The name "Kivebulaya" means "from Europe" and was given to him because he wore a suit under his white cassock. Apolo's fiancee died before they married so he decided to be single. He realized later that it was God's will he remain single in order to better fulfill his mission in the Congo.
Before becoming a Christian, Apolo was a Muslim soldier against the Christians. He was also an avid hemp smoker. During his military service, he deserted and fled to Ankole where he joined the Protestants (Anglicans). He was attracted by the Christian life, especially the example of Mackay, a missionary from CMS/London who arrived in Uganda in 1878. He said: "At that time I was reading Matthew's Gospel which I liked very much, especially chapter five verse 13.
(Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Matthew 5:13)This passage helped me to become a Christian and to abandon my military service."
Apolo left his country in December 1896 and walked over the Rwenzori mountains. When he saw the smoke beyond the river Semliki, he was convinced that there were human beings living there. He crossed the river and walked 50 miles through the forest to Boga. He only took along his Bible and his hoe. He carried his hoe to make sure he would survive in his new mission field because earlier, two other missionaries, Petero and Sedulaka, from Uganda who had come to Boga, had had to return home because they were not willing to work with their hands and could not feed themselves.
Apolo preached the gospel in Boga and some of the people became Christians. But the majority were offended by his preaching, because it was against traditional practices, especially polygamy and the drinking of alcohol. Chief Tabaro was one of those who were offended and as a result, he forbade the Christians to build a church and ordered them not to give Apolo any food, but instead to let him die of hunger or be driven away.

In 1898 the chief's sister who lived in Apolo's household died by falling accidently onto a spear that had been carelessly left in the tall grasses at a building site. Apolo was blamed for her death and was locked up, beaten and then sent to Uganda to be tried.
There he had a dream which greatly helped him in his spiritual life. He said: "I saw Jesus shining like the sun. He said to me, 'Take heart, for I am with you.' Since that year whenever I preach, people leave their old customs and repent."

When Apolo was released, chief Tabaro asked him to return to Boga and Apolo agreed. There the chief became a Christian and a close friend of Apolo.
Apolo was ordained a deacon on December 21, 1900 in Toro and then a priest in June 1903 in the Namirembe Cathedral. Contrary to Anglican tradition, he refused to wear the pastoral collar for personal reasons. Nevertheless, he did wear the liturgical robes.
Apolo declared the year 1921 "the year of the Gospel." Encouraged by the Lord, he took the gospel to the inhabitants of the forest: the Walese, the Wanyali, and the Wambuti (the latter are pygmies). He said: "Christ appeared before me as a man. It was like seeing a man who was my brother. He said to me: 'Go, preach in the forest, because I am with you. I am who I am--this is my Name.'"

He baptized pygmies for the first time in 1932.
Apolo died on May 30th, 1933 at Boga, his mission field. Contrary to tradition, he was buried with his head toward the west (not the east) at his own request. In doing so, his desire was to indicate that the gospel needed to be taken to the western part of the country. " Dictionary of African Christian Biography

Are you one of His stupid children?

For my people are foolish, ========================= they know me not;
they are stupid children, ========================== they have no understanding.
They are skilled in doing evil,===================== but how to do good they know not.
Jeremiah 4:22 RSV

Diamond tipped Iron Pen

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron,
and with the point of a diamond:
it is graven upon the table of their heart,
and upon the horns of your altars;
Jeremiah 17:1

Unsealing the Fountains of Christlike Love

"The Lord provides for the widow and the fatherless,
not by a miracle of sending manna from heaven,
not by sending ravens to bring them food,
but by a miracle upon human hearts,
expelling selfishness,
and unsealing the fountains of Christlike love." Ministry of Healing p.202 E.G.W.
A father of the fatherless, 
and a judge of the widows,
is God in his holy habitation.
Psalm 68:5

Creation Moment 6/25/2012 - Busted

Headline from the British Newspaper the Guardian

Scientists are accused of distorting theory of human evolution by misdating bones

"Briton says Spanish researchers are out by 200,000 years and have even got the wrong species
It is the world's biggest haul of human fossils and the most important palaeontology site in Europe: a subterranean chamber at the bottom of a 50ft shaft in the deepest recesses of the Atapuerca cavern in northern Spain. Dozens of ancient skeletons have been unearthed.
La Sima de los Huesos – the Pit of Bones – has been designated a Unesco world heritage site because of its importance to understanding evolution, and millions of euros, donated by the EU, have been spent constructing a museum of human antiquity in nearby Burgos.
But Britain's leading expert on human evolution, Professor Chris Stringer, of the Natural HistoryMuseum, has warned in the journal Evolutionary Anthropology that the team in charge of La Sima has got the ages of its fossils wrong by 200,000 years and has incorrectly identified the species of ancient humans found there."
The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
Proverbs 19:3

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Religious Liberty

Now the Lord is that Spirit:
and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty.
2 Corinthians 3:17

William Secker says- (Long Time/Short Time)

"It is lamentable that we should live so long in the world and do so little for God;
or that we should live so short a time in the world and do so much for satan."
The Nonsuch Professor p.3

But this I say, brethren, the time is short: 1 Corinthians 7:29

William Secker says-(Miraculous & Mysterious)

"As the works of Christ were miraculous,
so the words of Christ were mysterious"
The Nonsuch Professor p.B

And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue:
and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things?
and what wisdom is this which is given unto him,
that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?
Mark 6:2

Cold Hearted

And because iniquity shall abound,
the love of many shall wax cold.
Matthew 24:12

Creation Moment 6/24/2012 - Turtles caught in the act

"Fossil turtles have been caught having sex, the first known case of animals with backbones found copulating in the fossil record, researchers say.
The mating turtles may have been caught in a death trap as they sank to deeper layers of the lake, where they were having sex nearly 50 million years ago, the researchers speculate. The lake's deep layers may have held deadly volcanic gases or other toxins.
Scientists made their discovery at the Messel Pit in Germany, which once was a deep volcanic crater lake in a wet, tropical environment. (pre-flood earth?) The pit was a quarry originally mined for the oil in the shale there; but over the years, it has become the richest site in the world for understanding the living environment of the Eocene, the epoch between 57 million and 36 million years ago (sure, whatever) when mammals began conquering the planet. Animals there included early horses, reptiles, primates, honeybees, giant ants and countless birds and bats."  YahooNews

Could it be that they were caught by the flood...and the reason that there are "giant" ants, honeybees, reptiles, horses, bats, birds, etc...is because they were created as is and it is simply the anti-deluvian (pre-flood) world? As for "giant" ants- There were giants in the earth in those days; Genesis 6:4

Friday, June 22, 2012

Codex Sinaiticus

So what is Codex Sinaiticus and why is it so important?

"As the name indicates, this manuscript was found on Mt. Sinai, in St Catherine's monastery. It is impossible to say how long it had been there, but this codex, coming from the fourth century, is certainly older than the monastery (founded in the sixth century). In the 19th century it was identified by the indefatigable German scholar Tischendorf and brought to Europe in instalments. Photography has enabled scholars to put all the pieces back together again and produce a modern facsimile of this Greek Bible, which contains all of the New Testament (the oldest surviving manuscript to do so) and a large portion of the Greek Old Testament. Because of its age and the sheer volume of its contents this manuscript is one of the most important witnesses to the text of the New Testament coming from the early period of textual transmission and it is a rich source for studies on the technique of copying, of making large manuscripts, and of scribal habits." TyndaleHouse
I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you with my letters.
2 Corinthians 10:9

Farewell......

Finally,
brethren,
farewell.
Be perfect,
be of good comfort,
be of one mind,
live in peace;
and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
2 Corinthians 13:11

Creation Moment 6/23/2012 - Dark Matter? (Just a Thought)

Dark Matter makes up 22% of the universe.(73% dark energy & 5% visible matter).  They know dark matter is there, it can even be detected and measured, but they can't see it...so what is Dark Matter? Hypothetical cold dark matter particles are called WIMPs (weak interacting massive particlces).

So could it be--that Dark Matter is matter of other galaxies which have life-so we-contaminated by sin- can't see them or be tempted to make contact? The part of HIS creation out there that is watching this Great Controversy going on down here.

I'm NOT saying that Dark Matter IS that, rather I just put that out there as a possibility. I totally agree that Dark Matter could also be something else. It was just a thought.

It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,
and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers;
that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain,
and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Isaiah 40:22


Thursday, June 21, 2012

POLL - 13% of "Evangelicals" believe in astrology? What?!?!

"13% of white evangelicals believe in astrology, that the alignment of the stars and planets influence the lives of people and events on earth, while 25% or more of other religious people believe in astrology. The highest level of belief in "the evil eye" is found in black Protestants where it is at 32%." Examiner.com "...13% of white evangelicals believe in astrology, compared with roughly one-quarter or more among other religious traditions." Pew
 Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain:
Jeremiah 10:2,3