Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 120

"Psalm 120:

With regard to Psalm 120, the author and circumstances are unknown, although it seems as if the worshiper lives at a distance among unbelieving people.

I. Petition (120:1-2);
II. Indictment (120-3-4);
III. Lament (120:5-7).

Almost all these psalms (15 or 17), are “Songs of Ascent” (Psalms 120-134), which the Jewish pilgrims sang on their way up to Jerusalem (about 2,700 feet in elevation), on 3 prescribed annual occasions.
These feasts included:
(1) Unleavened Bread;
(2) Weeks/Pentecost/Harvest; and
(3) Ingathering/Tabernacles/Booths.

Psalm 120:1 In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and He heard

me.
Psalm 120:6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.

Psalm 120:7 I [am for] peace: but when I speak, they [are] for war.
Of a peaceable disposition, devoted to peace.
Love it, seek and pursue it, as every good man does, who is called to it, and in whose heart it does rule."
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A counterfeit "Cleansing of the Sanctuary " by the New Age on earth

Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

Deuteronomy 11:16

The New Age set up a counterfeit Cleansing of the Sanctuary in heaven with a supposed "cleansing" by the so-called "Mother Earth". Instead of Christ purging the sins of men on earth in the heavenly Sanctuary the so-called "Mother Earth" does a cleansing down here of sins against her.....The Climate Change CULT is steeped in New Age Mysticism.
"In a 1994 article titled The time is now, K. Wheeler claims to have channeled entities that called themselves the souls of light.

According to her, they say that the mother is cleansing the earth of the pollution that exists within her body.She continues saying that you as light bearers can help your mother cleanse it so that she does not have to destroy all life on this planet. These disembodied souls of light tell us that mother says earth's population needs to be decreased to bring forth the necessary changes upon this planet.

As Wheeler explains it, it will be a time of great rejoicing for them. There will be no reason to feel sad about their leaving. She continues, "Since they are going home, they must move on, for their thought patterns are of the past, which keeps Earth held back." 
Using Orwellian news speak we are told that many will be leaving this planet because they have served their purpose.
As I have stated elsewhere, this sort of Alice Baileyesque cleansing action in which many will be forced to leave the planet sounds like the euphemistic release to elsewhere spoken of in Lois Lowry's 1993
novel, The Giver. 
Similarly, in her revelations of things to come 1982, Earlene Chaney says that she channels a being who says that mother earth demands that there be a cleansing of dark thought forces in her Bringers of the Dawn teaching from the Pleidians 1992.
Barbara Marciniak likewise says that if human beings do not change, there will be a cleansing. She tells us it will be the removal of a great number of souls.
According to her, these people do not fit in here any longer and they are stopping the harmony of Earth. Marciniak says there will be perhaps 20 million people that will leave the planet at one time." MMChurch

When Van Halen Touched The Unclean Thing

Wherefore come out from among them, 

and be ye separate, saith the Lord, 

and touch not the unclean thing... 

2 Corinthians 6:17

"Ruth Montgomery's Aliens Among Us 1986 gives us the excellent example of a theorical approach to angels by one under the influence of the writings of Alice Bailey (founder of the New Age movement). Interestingly, Montgomery's Aliens Among Us was cited by Sammy Hagar as the inspiration for the lyrics of his song Love Walks In, which he sang in the popular rock band Van Halen. 

In the song and its music video on MTV, Hagar depicts benevolent aliens in terms of feminine beauty, not unlike Jane Leed, Vladimir Soliov, and John Lamb Lash's encounters with the Lucifer like Sophia.
The lyrics say in part, "Contact is all it takes to change your life. Then you sense a change. Nothing feels the same.
Love comes walking in like some kind of alien." 

Haggar goes on to saying that he has allowed these angelic beings to
for the opening which he has provided.
Hagar claims that he has been contacted three or four different times and received information from angelic extraterrestrials.
He says that they have used him in an experimental fashion. 

This makes sense in that Montgomery's aliens among us speaks of benevolent aliens who will help humanity during the critical time of transition to the new age. It is a theme that can also be found in Alice Bailey influenced ufology teachings and those of the occult influenced Wesley A. Swift." 

MMChurch

Health Note - What Kind of Exercise for the Ageing?

Beloved,

I wish above all things that thou mayest...be in health,..

3 John 1:2

"For years, exercise advice has focused heavily on getting enough cardio. But a major new study suggests that what you do with your muscles may be just as important as what you do with your heart.
After tracking more than 147,000 adults for up to three decades, researchers found that a relatively modest amount of strength training, about 90 to 120 minutes per week, was associated with the

lowest risk of death. The benefits were even greater when resistance training was paired with regular aerobic exercise.
The findings, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, add to growing evidence that maintaining muscle strength as we age may play a key role in long-term health and survival.
Adults naturally lose muscle mass and strength over time, a process known as sarcopenia. Loss of muscle has been linked to frailty, falls, disability, and a higher risk of chronic disease.
When researchers accounted for factors such as age, lifestyle, and health status, they found that people who performed 90 to 119 minutes of strength training per week had a 13% lower risk of death from any cause compared with those who did none.
Interestingly, the benefits appeared to level off beyond that range. More strength training did not translate into progressively lower mortality risk.
The same weekly amount was also associated with a 19% lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease and a 27% lower risk of death from neurological diseases." 

SciTechDaily

Creation Moment 6/7/2026 - "Science" tangled into it's pretzel of "logic"

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools... 

Romans 1:20

"The universe evolves like a life form (Timothy Jackson, iai News, 11 May, 2026). The subtitle is as provocative as the title: “The laws of physics are not fixed, they are evolving.” This is not an isolated speculation.

Biologist Timothy Jackson makes the move explicit in this article, extending Darwinian logic beyond biology and into the structure of reality itself.

“Darwin’s central insight… was to show how such order might emerge, via natural selection—a principle which can explain, but never predict, the patterns that make up the world.”

This claim serves to mark a cataclysmic shift in the structure of scientific explanation that has been progressively unfolding for many years. Prediction is yielding to retrospective storytelling. Fixed laws

are giving way to emergent patterns. Stability is no longer assumed as the foundation of the universe; it is being treated as a ‘contingent achievement of an historical, evolutionary process.’
To understand how radical this shift is, we have to consider the ancient hierarchy that has governed Western thought for millennia:
For the past two centuries, science has been slowly but steadily sliding from the first row to the second. We are witnessing a transition where becoming takes precedence over being.

This scientific shift closely parallels the absolute idealism of GWF Hegel (1770-1831). In Hegel’s philosophy, reality is not a static arrangement of fixed substances governed by external laws; it is a self-developing process whose intelligibility emerges only through its own unfolding.

Today’s scientists do not invoke Hegel, but they are trapped in his logic. If intelligibility is no longer grounded in fixed, transcendent law, the burden of explanation shifts entirely. The issue is no longer how stable laws govern change, but how stability, law, and meaning can emerge out of a chaotic, mindless flux.
Under this view, what are traditionally considered “invariants” – the constants of nature, the structural rules – are reinterpreted as derivative.

Q: Once you grant that biological stability is just a temporary byproduct of process, the logic presses outward toward the cosmos. If the apparent invariants of biology are products of history, why should the invariants of physics be exempt?
The traditional Western picture of a law-governed universe is dissolving before our eyes. Order is no longer the unchanging framework within which change occurs; order is the temporary outcome of change.
*Science appears to be approaching a fork in the road:

Path A: Admit that the intelligibility encountered in nature reflects a source of intelligence beyond nature.
Path B: Insist that intelligibility is not grounded beyond the system, but is identical with the unfolding process itself, so that law, order, and meaning are understood as the self-articulation of a fundamentally immanent reality.

What began as an attempt to explain the laws of nature thus returns us to an ancient problem: whether reality is grounded in being or in becoming. By forcing the laws of physics to evolve, modern science has not escaped this question; it has only rediscovered it in a more acute form." 

CEH

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 119

"Psalm 119: Well known as the longest chapter in the Bible.

The 8 different terms referring to Scripture occurring throughout the psalm are:
(1)Law,
(2)Testimonies,
(3)Precepts,
(4)Statutes,
(5)Commandments,
(6)Judgments,
(7)Word, and
(8)Ordinances.

Psalm 119:1 Blessed [are] the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
Psalm 119:2 Blessed [are] they that keep His testimonies, [and that] seek Him with the whole heart.

Psalm 119:9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed [thereto] according to Thy word.
Psalm 119:15 I will meditate in Thy precepts, and have respect unto Thy ways.
Psalm 119:19 I [am] a stranger in the earth: hide not Thy commandments from me.
Psalm 119:45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek Thy precepts.
Psalm 119:53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake Thy law.
Psalm 119:54 Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Psalm 119:59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto Thy testimonies.
Psalm 119:88 Quicken me after Thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of Thy mouth.
Psalm 119:97 O how love I Thy law! it [is] my meditation all the day.
Psalm 119:105 Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Psalm 119:112 I have inclined mine heart to perform Thy statutes always, [even unto] the end.
Psalm 119:113 I hate [vain] thoughts: but Thy law do I love.
Psalm 119:115 Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
Psalm 119:126 [It is] time for [Thee], LORD, to work: [for] they have made void Thy law."

Psalm 119:136 

Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, 

because they keep not Thy law.

Psalm 119:171 My lips shall utter praise, when Thou hast taught me Thy statutes.
Psalm 119:176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Thy servant; for I do not forget Thy commandments."
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Creation Moment 6/6/2026 - Where does the Creation Lead to?

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of

them. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made. Genesis 2:1-3

"Genesis 1 (really 1:1 to 2:4) is about origins, order, and outcome, the passage leading to ‘rest’" CMI

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 118

"Psalm 118:

It seems reasonable to propose that Moses possibly wrote this beautiful psalm to look back in worship at the historical Passover and look ahead in wonder to the spiritual Passover in Christ.

I. Call to Worship (118:1-4);
II. Personal Praise (118:5-21);
III. Corporate Praise (118:22-24);
IV. Commitment to Worship (118:25-29).

Psalm 118:1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for [He is] good:

because His mercy [endureth] for ever.
Psalm 118:6 The LORD [is] on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?
Psalm 118:8 [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
Psalm 118:9 [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes."
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Health Note - Teens and Weed

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 1 Corinthians 6:19

"Adolescent cannabis use was linked to higher risks of later psychotic, bipolar, depressive, and anxiety disorders.
A large new study published in JAMA Health Forum on Feb. 20, 2026, reports that teens who use cannabis may have a substantially greater chance of developing serious psychiatric conditions by young adulthood.

The longitudinal study followed 463,396 adolescents ages 13 to 17 through age 26 and found that cannabis use in the past year during adolescence was associated with significantly higher risks of newly diagnosed psychotic disorders, which doubled; bipolar disorders, which doubled; depressive disorders; and anxiety disorders.
On average, cannabis use was recorded 1.7 to 2.3 years before a psychiatric diagnosis appeared. Because the study followed adolescents over time, its design adds stronger evidence that cannabis exposure during the teen years may be a risk factor for later mental illness.
“As cannabis becomes more potent and aggressively marketed, this study indicates that adolescent cannabis use is associated with double the risk of incident psychotic and bipolar disorders, two of the most serious mental health conditions,” said Lynn Silver, M.D.
Cannabis is the most commonly used illicit drug among adolescents in the United States. The Monitoring the Future study shows that use increases as students get older, rising from about 8% in 8th grade to 26% in 12th grade.
THC levels in California cannabis flower now exceed 20%, far above levels seen in earlier decades, while cannabis concentrates can contain more than 95% THC.
“Even after accounting for prior mental health conditions and other substance use, adolescents who reported cannabis use had a substantially higher risk of developing psychiatric disorders—particularly psychotic and bipolar disorders,” said Kelly Young-Wolff, Ph.D., lead author of the study." 

SciTechDaily

Creation Moment 6/5/2026 - "Awe" Results

"Researchers looking at the effect of a nature video which produced a sense of awe in non-theist students discovered that it had a noticeable effect on their perception of how evolution supposedly works. After watching the video they were asked if they preferred an

unpredictable, unstructured and random version of evolution or a structured and non-random version of evolution. 

Of course, orderliness contradicts evolution, with the study rightly acknowledging that, “Evolutionary theory emphasizes the importance of randomness in the process of natural selection, and as a result can be perceived as existentially threatening.”

As part of the study students were played two videos, one neutral, and one to elicit a sense of awe—a five-minute montage of nature clips from the BBC’s Planet Earth. They found that when the non-theist students were played the neutral video just over 10% answered that they preferred a structured and ordered version of evolution which was “not the result of randomness”. But when shown the BBC’s Planet Earth montage, that shot up to just under 40% of the non-theist students. They concluded that, “Awe increased preference for the orderly version of evolution for non-theists, but had no effect on theory preference for theists.”

Those who believe in the God of the Bible regularly point out His eternal power and divine nature (For his invisible attributes, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. Romans 1:20) as observed in the creation. It is understandable that many, beholding the wonder of creation, would find it hard to accept that it all happened from the randomness and meaninglessness that evolutionary theory espouses." CMI

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 117

"Psalm 117:

Well known as the shortest chapter in the Bible, this little psalm contains a great message.
This is one of four passages that Paul quotes from the Old Testament (in Romans 15), to prove that God is interested in saving Gentiles.

The psalm looks back to God’s intent for Adam and Eve in Eden (Genesis 1-2), and looks ahead to the ultimate fulfillment in the new heavens and earth (Revelation 21-22).

I. A Global Invitation 

(117:1).

II. A Grand Explanation

(117:2).

Psalm 117:1 O Praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise Him, all ye people.
Psalm 117:2 For His merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD [endureth] for ever. Praise ye the LORD."
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The Panorama of Earthly Ambitions

"Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes through the lens of poor choices. “Vanity” expresses the futility of seeking satisfaction from living life “under the sun” apart from God. 

The panorama of earthly ambitions, when pursued as ends in themselves, produces emptiness. 

Q: Did God originally create this world in a state of “vanity”? 

A: Absolutely not! “And God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good” (Genesis 1:31). 

Q: So, what happened? 

A: Adam disobeyed God’s command, and in response God said, “Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life” (Genesis 3:17). 

--The apostle Paul underscored this consequence when he wrote, “For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope” (Romans 8:20).

Believers must live life balanced between two extremes.

*First, we acknowledge that God provides the gift of life for us to enjoy. “There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor” (Ecclesiastes 2:24). 

*On the other hand, we should firmly acknowledge life’s limitations. “For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away” (James 4:14). 

Solomon urges us to fear God, keep His commandments, and “remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh” (Ecclesiastes 12:1)." CMI

Creation Moment 6/4/2026 - Many Models of Planet Formation

Of the Many Models of Planet Formation I'll stick with this one--Hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds; Hebrews 1:2

"The HR 8799 system sits about 133 light-years away in the

constellation Pegasus. Its planets are enormous, ranging from five to ten times Jupiter’s mass. They orbit very far from their host star at distances between 15 and 70 astronomical units. Even the innermost planet is 15 times farther from its star than Earth is from the Sun. The planet masses range from 5−10 MJup, meaning the smallest world in the system is still five times more massive than Jupiter.

Astronomers often describe HR 8799 as an oversized version of our solar system because it contains four outer giant planets similar in arrangement to Jupiter through Neptune. However, the planets’

extreme masses and wide orbits created a problem for older theories of planet formation. Traditional core accretion models suggested planets this massive would not have enough time to form before the young star cleared away the surrounding disk of gas and dust.
“There are many models of planet formation to consider. I think this shows that older core accretion models are outdated,” stated UC San Diego Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Quinn Konopacky, another of the paper’s co-authors. “And of the newer models, we are looking at ones where gas giants can form solid cores really far away from their star.”

According to Ruffio, HR 8799 remains unusual because it is currently the only directly imaged system known to contain four massive gas giants. However, astronomers have identified other systems with even larger companions whose origins are still uncertain." SciTechDaily

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 116

"Psalm 116:
This psalm is one of the most personal of all the thanksgiving psalms.
While this appears to deal with physical death, the same song could be sung by those who have been saved from spiritual death.

I. The LORD’s Response to the Psalmist’s Prayer for Deliverance from Death (116:1-11).
II. The Psalmist’s Reaction to God’s Deliverance of Him from Death (116:12-19).

Psalm 116:1 I love the LORD, because He hath heard my voice

[and] my supplications.
Psalm 116:3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalm 116:8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, [and] my feet from falling.
Psalm 116:13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.

Psalm 116:15 

Precious in the sight of the LORD 

[is] the death of His saints."

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Creation Moment 6/3/2026 - Leviticus 17:11

"Consider the following Scriptural insights:
The life of the flesh is in the blood. Leviticus 17:11

This thematic principle of the Bible is true in great medical and physiological detail. 

--Scratches on the skin, bacteria in the throat, and sore, infected

glands - all these are everyday occurrences and as such are entirely mundane. After a few days, these things disappear. 

--But their presence indicates the tremendous warfare continually taking place on a bio-molecular and cellular level between bacterial, viral, and toxic invaders of our bodies, and the blood-borne armies of our immune system. If it were not for these defending “troops”, the invaders would kill us pretty quickly. 

--Viruses disguise themselves by hiding within the body’s own cells, a “uniform” which the immune system’s “soldiers” have learned to overlook. In this situation, the blood’s defense system must deploy special trained “commandos”, the B- and T-lymphocytes.

The thing that keeps us alive against the ravages of infections and other “uncleanness” is the blood’s immune system.

*Furthermore, for the spiritual truth part, we can make the connection between our own blood’s immune system cleansing us, albeit imperfectly, from physical infection, and the blood of Christ cleansing us from spiritual infection (sin)! (1 Peter 1:18,19; John 6:53)." CM

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 115

"Psalm 115:
This praise psalm appears to be antiphonal in nature, following this outline and pattern:

I. Thevpeople (115:1-8);
II. The priests (115:9-11);
III. The people (115:12-13);
IV. The priests (115:14-15);
V. The people (115:16-18).

Psalm 115:1 Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto Thy name give glory, for Thy

mercy, [and] for Thy truth's sake.
Psalm 115:2 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where [is] now their God?
Psalm 115:15 Ye [are] blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
Psalm 115:17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
Psalm 115:18 But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD."
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What is Christian "Liberty"?

 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. 2 Peter 2:16

"Christian liberty lies in only one direction, and that is, liberty to doright; and right is nothing else than what the Bible enjoins. 

*When men take the liberty to depart from the rules laid down in the Bible, they cease to be Christian." 

E.J. Waggoner

Creation Moment 6/2/2026 - In Seattle, Socialism Is the Flip Side of a Faulty Evolutionary Theory

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,... 

Romans 1:22

"Almost as soon as socialist mayor Katie Wilson took office in January, the graffiti in our city seemed to bloom further, as if responding to an organic call to greater chaos and disorder. The horrid graffiti is just one index of a seeming madness that has overtaken us. The amount of human waste in the streets is another.

Asked at a community forum what she thinks about the flight of the wealthy, faced with the state’s newly passed so-called “millionaires’ tax,” Mayor Wilson waved and giggled and said, “Like, bye!” The audience, presumably not all millionaires, applauded, apparently not realizing that when the millionaires have fled, they will be the ones expected to make up the tax revenue deficit.

Darwinian evolution sees individual organisms, in competition with each other, as the focus of natural selection. In this view, individuals with favorable genetic variations outcompete other individuals, and so their genetic contribution to the population is “selected” over others.

In Darwinism, which excludes intelligent design, this is supposed to promote the gradual buildup of biological sophistication and complexity, as organisms scale the evolutionary tree. Unguided evolution alone is almost certainly not capable of such feats, but that’s not the point here.

Under group selection, as advocated by David Sloan Wilson, it’s not competing individuals but community altruism that is the focus of selection. Group survival is the winning ticket. Altruistic populations, with individuals looking out for each other, are at the crucial advantage. Dr. Weinstein noted something that’s obvious once it’s been pointed out: 

the altruistic model is essentially socialism.

It’s also a very unrealistic way of understanding behavior. In the real world, as in the Communist experiment of the Soviet Union, tender feelings for your fellow citizens are unreliable. The cheaters, the abusers of the system, are usually the only ones to get ahead, while the hard-working, honest, and industrious are penalized. Such a system is unsustainable, leading to failed societies.

Socialism is the flip side of a faulty evolutionary theory. “It is interesting,” says Weinstein, “to watch the academic version of this misunderstanding flow down a lineage to the now mayor of Seattle.” Yes, you can chase out the businesses and the wealthy, and let the drug zombies rule the street. The result will not be a socialist utopia, but a nightmare." Science&Culture

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 114

"Psalm 114:
A highly poetic description of the Exodus, this psalm emphasizes both God’s power displayed and His provision supplied.

I. God Inhabits Israel (114:1-2).
II. God Intimidates Nature (114:3-6).
III. God Invites Trembling (114:7-8).

Psalm 114:1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob

from a people of strange language;
Psalm 114:2 Judah was His sanctuary, [and] Israel His dominion.
Psalm 114:7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;"
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Daniel 8:14 & Cleansing of the sanctuary SUCCINCTLY LAID OUT

"Further, the tabernacle built by Moses was made after a pattern. 

The Lord directed him: "According to all that I show thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it." And again the charge was given, "Look that thou make them after their pattern, which was showed thee in the mount." Exodus 25:9, 40.
--And Paul says that the first tabernacle that its holy places were "patterns of things in the heavens;" that the priests who offered gifts according to the law served "unto the example and shadow of heavenly things," and that "Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us." Hebrews 9:9, 23; 8:5; 9:24.

The sanctuary in heaven,

in which Jesus ministers in our behalf,

is the great original,

of which the sanctuary built by Moses was a copy.

--At the death of Christ the typical service ended. The "true tabernacle" in heaven is the sanctuary of the new covenant. And as the prophecy of Daniel 8:14 is fulfilled in this dispensation, the sanctuary to which it refers must be the sanctuary of the new covenant. At the termination of the 2300 days, in 1844, there had been no sanctuary on earth for many centuries. Thus the prophecy, "Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed," unquestionably points to the sanctuary in heaven.

Q: What is the cleansing of the sanctuary?

A: "Almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these [the blood of animals]; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these" (Hebrews 9:22, 23), even the precious blood of Christ.

The cleansing, both in the typical and in the real service, must be accomplished with blood:

--in the former, with the blood of animals;

--in the latter, with the blood of Christ.

--"Without shedding of blood," says the apostle, there is no remission of sin. "The life of the flesh is in the blood." Leviticus 17:11.
***The broken law of God demanded the life of the transgressor.
The blood, representing the forfeited life of the sinner, whose guilt the victim bore, was carried by the priest into the holy place and sprinkled before the veil, behind which was the ark containing the law that the sinner had transgressed. By this ceremony the sin was, through the blood, transferred in figure to the sanctuary.

--Once a year, on the great Day of Atonement, the priest entered the most holy place for the cleansing of the sanctuary. The work there performed completed the yearly round of ministration. 

On the Day of Atonement two kids of the goats were brought to the door of the tabernacle, and lots were cast upon them, "one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the scapegoat." Verse 8. The goat upon which fell the lot for the Lord was to be slain as a sin offering for the people. And the priest was to bring his blood within the veil and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.

The blood was also to be sprinkled upon the altar of incense that was before the veil.

--The whole ceremony was designed to impress the Israelites with the holiness of God and His abhorrence of sin; and, further, to show them that they could not come in contact with sin without becoming polluted.

--On the Day of Atonement the high priest, having taken an offering from the congregation, went into the most holy place with the blood of this offering, and sprinkled it upon the mercy seat, directly over the law, to make satisfaction for its claims. Then, in his character of mediator, he took the sins upon himself and bore them from the sanctuary. Placing his hands upon the head of the scapegoat, he confessed over him all these sins, thus in figure transferring them from himself to the goat. The goat then bore them away, and they were regarded as forever separated from the people.
Such was the service performed "unto the example and shadow of heavenly things." 

 E.G.W.

When Thomas Edison dabbled in Romans 1:30 (Spirit Phone)

.....inventors of evil things,... Romans 1:31

"In the pantheon of Thomas Edison’s inventions, few are as enigmatic—or as controversial—as his so-called “spirit phone.” The fabled device, rumored to connect the living with the dead.
Known as “The Wizard of Menlo Park,” he was the mastermind behind the phonograph, the electric light bulb, and numerous other groundbreaking inventions.

But in the 1920s, Edison reportedly turned his attention to something far stranger: a device he believed could communicate with the dead. This so-called “spirit phone,” however, remains shrouded in mystery and intrigue, offering a tantalizing glimpse into Edison’s lifelong fascination with the unknown.
Edison was a scientist to his core, but he was also a businessman and, perhaps unexpectedly, a spiritual seeker.
Edison was one of several ostensibly intelligent people who got caught up in the turn-of-the-century religious fad known as spiritualism. 

The movement attracted tons of people we consider to be pretty smart, from scientists and Nobel Prize Winners like Pierre Curie (husband of Marie Curie) to famous authors like Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle..... the religion saw a boost in popularity after World War I. Lots of people had lost loved ones and they were desperate to be able to speak with them one last time. In the face of such widespread grief, a wave of quacks posing as mediums swept through the United States and elsewhere, claiming they could conduct séances to put people in contact with the ghosts of their loved ones.
As Halloween in 1920 quickly approached, Thomas Edison had quite the “treat” to share with the public. In an October 16, 1920, interview published in The American Magazine with Bertie Charles Forbes, the founder of Forbes magazine, Edison boldly revealed,

“I have been at work for some time, building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us. There are two or three kinds of apparatus which should make communication very easy. I am engaged in the construction of one such apparatus now, and I hope to be able to finish it before very many months pass.”

This so-called “spirit phone” would not involve ghostly apparitions or the theatrics of a séance. Instead, Edison speculated that if the human spirit persisted after death, it might exist as “subtle particles” capable of affecting the physical world, albeit on a microscopic level.
In his diary, Edison theorized that life, like matter and energy, was indestructible. He envisioned tiny life-based particles continuing to exist after death, forming a personality-based residue—memories, thoughts, and impressions that once defined a person. If these particles persisted, Edison speculated, they might gather around us

within the space-time continuum, or what he called the “ether.”
Edison believed these particles might produce vibrations detectable by sensitive instruments—a scientific approach that he thought could bypass the subjectivity and unreliability of mediums and psychics.
He envisioned the “spirit phone” working like a finely tuned electrical device, capable of detecting the subtle “etheric” forces that supposedly linger after death.
By the time of his death in 1931, no one had publicly demonstrated a working device, and the project seemed to fade into obscurity. Yet the idea refused to die. In later decades, researchers in electronic voice phenomena and instrumental transcommunication would point back to Edison as a kind of intellectual predecessor, someone who had envisioned a scientific bridge between the living and the dead long before technology could even begin to approach such a possibility.
Edison died in 1931, and his posthumous memoir The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison was published in 1948. According to Tech Times, the final chapter of that book included the inventor's designs for a "spirit phone." That chapter, however, was never published in English. It had been removed from the original text before publication, and in its absence scholars and scientists believed Edison's statements about making tech to talk to ghosts were simply his odd way of making a joke or trying to pull a fast one on the public.
But that chapter wasn't removed from the book entirely. It was never edited out of the French translation, and in 2015, Edison's true beliefs about the next plane of existence were brought to the attention of French readers via a book titled Le Royaume de l'Au-dela (The Kingdom of the Afterlife). Radio personality and philosopher Philippe Baudouin, who wrote the preface to the book, said that Edison made a deal with an audio engineer named William Walter Dinwiddie in which the first of the two to die "would try to send a message to the survivor from beyond." Baudouin said that the chapter reveals that Edison "imagined being able to record the voice of another being, to be able to make audible that which isn't — the voice of the dead."
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