Rebuttal to 4 points of the Sabbath Debate

"First, God gave all Ten Commandments to Israel at Mt. Sinai. 

Q: Does this mean that the Ten Commandments were binding only upon Israel because God revealed them to them? 

A: To answer yes would be absurd! It defies logic to say that nine of the Ten Commandments apply to every one but only one

applies exclusively to the Jews. 

God gave the Ten Commandments to Israel because they were His people at that time. However, that does not mean that they were binding only upon literal Israel. The text does not say that the 

Sabbath was a sign exclusively between God and literal Israel.

 

Second, the motivation for the observance of the Sabbath transcends literal Israel because creation is the reason why the Sabbath is a sign between God and His people. That is to say, Israel must keep the Sabbath because God established it as a sign of creation. 

Q: Would it make any sense to think that Israel alone was required to keep the Sabbath in commemoration of creation? Do not all human beings need to remember that God created the heavens, the earth and everything in them? 

Third, Galatians 3:28, 29 states that those who are ‘in Christ’ are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise. 

--If Christians are Abraham’s seed, then they are members of Israel and as such should keep the Sabbath. 

Finally, Isaiah 56:4-7 clearly states that the Sabbath was intended for Gentiles as well as Jews and Jesus explicitly affirmed that the Sabbath was made for man (Mark 2:27). Thus, our Lord taught that the Sab bath was a creation institution that He made it for the benefit of man. The use of the word anthropos by Jesus in Mark 2:27 is significant. He did not say He made the Sabbath for Israel but rather for ‘humankind’ (NRSV)." 

Stephen Bohr

Creation Moment 10/23/2026 - National Geographic Comes Clean on Neanderthals

....and ye fools, when will ye be wise? Psalm 94:8

"A 2026 National Geographic “Stones and Bones” article on October 9 has contrasted the once-common, openly racist teaching (or assertions) of evolutionists with the facts unearthed by researchers over the past century. The article also tells a true story regarding an article about human evolution written in 1916 by Theodore Roosevelt that casts reproach on his otherwise stellar reputation. The real blame, however, should fall on the Darwinian scientists who influenced his thinking.

Neanderthal Man was once considered the premier evidence for human evolution. Today, it is widely acknowledged that Neanderthals were fully human like us. The revised view became evident on the cover of the October 2008 issue of National

Geographic magazine, which labeled Neanderthals “The Other Humans.” (See National Geographic cover, right.)

In the Oct 2026 National Geographic article, Cornell University graduate and science writer Nicholas St. Fleur sharply criticizes a 1916 essay written by Theodore Roosevelt.
In that essay, Roosevelt surveyed the evidence for human evolution as it was understood in the early 20th century. He accompanied his text with illustrations by famed paleoartist Charles R. Knight.

Both the article and its illustrations represent an enormous embarrassment for evolutionists today, effectively illustrating how a handful of fragmented bones were once used to construct an elaborate evolutionary narrative complete with multi-thousand-year timelines. This bias deceived one of America’s great presidents.
The entire evolutionary case Roosevelt presented has since been thoroughly dismantled by mainline science. As is obvious, Roosevelt, a keen naturalist and published ornithologist, deeply “admired Darwin (whose work he was reading at the precocious age of ten), and he wasn’t shy about telling the world” what he believed to be the firmly established fact of human evolution from some hypothetical ape ancestor.

Furthermore, Roosevelt credited Darwin with “convincing practically all men of trained intelligence that the animal world, including man, has developed by evolution, not by an infinity of special creations,” adding that “The law of evolution is as fundamental to our understanding of life as the law of gravitation is to our understanding of the inanimate universe.”

Roosevelt’s unshakeable faith in evolution motivated his 1916 National Geographic piece. The primary evidence he cited consisted of Neanderthals, Piltdown Man, Java Man and Heidelberg Man (Homo heidelbergensis). All three of these supposed ‘missing links’ have since been discredited as evidence of transitional forms in human ancestry.

Roosevelt’s Fake Neanderthals

St. Fleur aimed his sharpest criticism at Roosevelt’s portrayal of Neanderthals, noting that Neanderthals are now recognized as our extinct cousins rather than inferior evolutionary rivals who disappeared over 40,000 years ago as had previously been claimed.
Roosevelt described Neanderthals as savages who were more advanced than Piltdown Man, yet placed them lower on the evolutionary ladder than any living human group.

Deceived by a Biased Artist

St. Fleur highlights how Charles R. Knight’s illustrations reinforced

this bias by portraying Neanderthals as hunched figures wearing makeshift fur loincloths and wielding crude wooden clubs to beat women. Directly opposite the Neanderthal stood an enlightened “Cro-Magnon Man” (i.e., anatomically modern human), shown upright painting a bison on a cave wall by the warm light of an oil lamp.
Commenting on the stark visual contrast drawn between Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, St. Fleur noted:

"Both Roosevelt and Knight were echoing the scientific sentiment at that time that Neanderthals were dumb and brutish, imagery that has plagued Homo neanderthalensis to various degrees since its discovery in 1856. But now, more than a century after America’s “Rough Rider” president maligned Neanderthals within our yellow borders, scientists are giving the archaic species some long-overdue justice."

The reason for this is that decades of archaeological discoveries have thoroughly overturned these early caricatures:

"Decades of research have reshaped our image of Neanderthals, showing they were likely a sophisticated, intelligent branch of humanity, possibly even capable of art, culture, and empathy. Archaeological clues from scattered sites suggest that some may have buried their dead, practiced rudimentary dentistry, hunted birds at night, managed hearths, manufactured red ocher, constructed structures from cave stalagmites, and more."

Then, in 1864, a geologist named William King evaluated the

skeletal remains through an evolutionary framework, formally classifying them as Homo neanderthalensis—the first designated extinct human species. In his original paper, King emphasized the creature’s primitiveness:

“Considering that the Neanderthal skull is eminently simian, both in its general and particular characters, I feel myself constrained to believe that the thoughts and desires which once dwelt within it never soared beyond those of the brute.”

This look at the history of the attempts to document human evolution history in 1916 illustrated the firm unquestioning belief in human evolution by its adherents. This is in spite of the fact that every pillar of support for evolution in 1916 has been demolished by the progress of science made by the scientists themselves. One has to wonder how much of the proof of human evolution used to support the theory today will likewise be shown to be false in the future." 

CEH

A perversion of the Scriptures

Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary....Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us....It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Hebrews 9:1,12,23

"There are many who try to blend these two systems, using the texts that speak of the ceremonial law to prove that the moral law has been abolished; but this is a perversion of the Scriptures. 

--The distinction between the two systems is broad and clear. 

--The ceremonial system was made up of symbols pointing to Christ, to His sacrifice and His priesthood. This ritual law, with its sacrifices and ordinances, was to be performed by the Hebrews until type met antitype in the death of Christ, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. Then all the sacrificial offerings were to cease." 

E.G.W.

Creation Moment 10/22/2026 - Questions pop up for Materialists

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,... 2 Peter 3:3
"Questions pop up from the proposition that the mind is essentially material.

Q: What is consciousness? A recent paper in PNAS assumes human

consciousness evolved and differs only in degree, not in kind, from that of the animals. Materialists have a burden to prove their consciousness accords with reality.

Q: What is scientific evidence, and how can we trust it? A PhysOrg article assumes scientists can be objective and unbiased – loaded words for an evolved monkey’s brain.

Q: What is reason, compared with madness, and who decides who is mad? (see Science book review about psychiatry’s controversial diagnostic manual DSM-5). Materialists must convince skeptics that they are the sane ones, yet it would be insane to consider reason or logic as evolvable entities.

Q: What is justice and fairness? Another PNAS paper considers those moral qualities nothing more than game theory applied to animal behavior. Honesty, though, is another precondition for science. The authors must convince their readers they are interested in the truth, not just playing games." CEH

Are ALL days Holy?

Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Exodus 20:9,10

"The radio host argued, as many Christians do today, that all days belong to God and therefore we should worship Him every day.

No one would argue against the idea that all days belong to God and

that we should worship Him every day. 

--However, the Bible simply does not teach that all days are holy. The Fourth Commandment leaves no doubt that six days are for our secular labor and work but the seventh day Sabbath is holy because God set it apart from the rest.

--By way of analogy, the Bible tells us that all the money that we manage belongs to God (Haggai 2:8). 

Q: Does this mean that all the money we have is holy and we must return 100% of our money to God? 

A: Of course not! Although all the money that we have belongs to God, only 10% is holy— the tithe. Likewise, all days belong to God but only the seventh is holy." 

Stephen Bohr

Creation Moment 10/21/2026 - Only the Biblical worldview

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7

"Only the Biblical worldview allows a consistent framework for doing science. 

One must believe that God, who cannot lie, created a logical, mathematically-structured reality, and gave His creatures the capacity to explore and understand it. 

Otherwise, if it is the result of a blind evolutionary process, how can one trust the sensations of a physical brain that emerged only for survival?

With Bible in hand, the world becomes comprehensible. 

Math works. 

Reality is approachable through our intelligently-designed senses that were given to us for the purpose of knowing truth." 

CEH

What "emerged" (Grokipedia vs. Wikipedia about the SABBATH)

Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia squares off against Elon Musks Grokipedia over the SABBATH

Wikipedia:
Opening of article --
"In Abrahamic religions, the Sabbath (/ˈsæbəθ/) or Shabbat (Biblical Hebrew: שַׁבָּת [ʃa'bat]) is a day set aside for rest and worship.

--According to the Book of Exodus, the Sabbath is a day of rest on the seventh day commanded by God to be kept as a holy day of rest

as God rested in the Genesis creation narrative. Sabbath observance is commanded in the Ten Commandments: "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy" in the Masoretic text contrasting with the Samaritan Pentateuch which says "Keep the Sabbath day to keep it holy."

--A day of rest is observed in Islam (Friday), Judaism (Saturday), and Christianity (Sunday). Observances similar to or descended from the Sabbath also exist in other religions. The term may be used more generally to describe similar weekly observances in other religions.

--The Sabbath might have been influenced by Babylonian mid-month rest days and lunar cycles, though its origins remain debated."

OBSERVATION:

Wikipdeia's article is written in the WOKE TONE as if sitting in the faculty lounge of academia. 

It claims that Christianity observes Sunday without explaining that not all Christians do and why. So it leaves the impression that Sunday is the holy day naturally for Christendom.

It mentions of other religions here which is irrelevant to this article

(there would naturally be an article about "holy days" that would be separate as this one is supposed to be specific about the "SABBATH").

So it leaves the impression in it's opening that holy days are just something all religions do meaning it's ALL made up which would include Christianity. To make my point that that is their view they are implying notice the following paragraph to it makes the claim that Sabbath emerged from Babylon. This smacks of the WOKE TONE.

BOTTOM LINE: Wikipedia leaves the impression that the SABBATH emerged from ancient Babylonian (paganism) but that Sunday is the obvious, natural day for observing it for Christendom.

Grokipedia:
Opening of article --
"The Sabbath, from the Hebrew shabbat meaning "to cease" or "rest," designates the seventh day of the week—Saturday in the Gregorian calendar—as a mandated day of cessation from labor, rooted in the Biblical account of God's rest following six days of creation.

--In the Hebrew Bible, this observance is enshrined in the Fourth Commandment, requiring the Israelites to "remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy" by refraining from work, with rationale tied both to creation and the Exodus deliverance.

--In Judaism, Shabbat commences at sunset Friday and concludes at

nightfall Saturday, encompassing a 25-hour period marked by ritual preparations, candle lighting, festive meals, synagogue services, and Torah study, while prohibiting 39 categories of creative work (melachot) derived from tabernacle construction activities to preserve the day's sanctity.

This practice, central to Jewish identity, emphasizes spiritual renewal over mundane labor, with historical enforcement varying from strict halakhic adherence to more flexible interpretations in modern denominations.

--Among Christians, Sabbath observance diverged early: while Jesus upheld its intent without abrogating it, post-resurrection emphasis on Sunday worship as the Lord's Day emerged, commemorating the resurrection rather than enforcing seventh-day rest for most traditions, though groups like Seventh-day Adventists retain Saturday observance based on unchanged Biblical perpetuity. 

--Debates persist over its ongoing obligation under the new covenant, with some viewing it as fulfilled in Christ rather than a perpetual ritual."

OBSERVATION:

At least it acknowledges that Sunday observance "emerged" overtime and WAS NOT the view of Christ.

It also rightly claims that "some" (meaning not all) Christians claims it was "fulfilled" in Christ.

It also is written in a tone that is NOT that stuffy woke/academic elitist approach.

BOTTOM LINE: Grokipedia leaves the impression that the SABBATH was ordained by God (the God of Creation at Creation) but that Sunday emerged over time for many in, but not all of Christendom.

WINNER of Most Close on NAILING this One:

GROKIPIDEIA

From the "Really" File - (REALLY John Paul?)

Thus were they defiled with their own works, 

and went a whoring with their own inventions. 

Psalm 106:39

"Circa 1959, a widowed Brazilian truck driver named Neiva Chaves Zelaya claimed to begin receiving visions from what she believed to be extraterrestrial spirits. 

After linking up with a prominent medium, she founded a religious

movement based on her visions called the Spiritist Union White Arrow which eventually evolved into the Valley of the Dawn. 

The largest alternative religion in Brazil to this day, Valley of the Dawn boasts a massive complex outside the capital city of Brasilia where spectators and journalists flock to watch their fascinating rituals unfold. Known as "Jaguars," Valley of the Dawn's mediums wear brightly-colored robes, carry spears, and are believed to be the reincarnation of extraterrestrial giants who kickstarted human evolution 32,000 years ago and inspired humanity's greatest feats, like the pyramids. 

And although this bizarre religion began with a single truck driver who claimed to experience visions of aliens, it now has some 600 temples across Brazil, Portugal, Germany, Japan, Uruguay, and the United States — as well as 130,000 members around the world.

From the "Really" File

Just outside Brazil's capital city of Brasília lies a fortress belonging to a religious group. Followers of Vale do Amanhecer (in their native Portuguese) believe a spaceship from the planet Capela hovers above the Earth here. It acts as a vortex, sucking up all the negative energy that the group's healers banish from humanity. As such, they believe this area to be the spiritual capital of civilization. Calling themselves Jaguars, the healers use their "cosmic energies" in spirit-healing rituals. Jaguars are the reincarnated descendants of extraterrestrials sent by God.
The Catholic Church "officially disapproves" of the religion, but Pope John Paul II apparently sent them a letter of blessing." msn

REALLY?

Creation Moment 10/20/2026 - Compulsion to Closure (CtoC).

Compulsion to Closure (CtoC)

"For classical Christian theism, intelligibility is guaranteed by the infinite Logos. Reason Himself spoke the world into being, endowing it with real, dependable order. Because God is infinite and man is finite, our knowledge is necessarily asymptotic: we may approach true, objective understanding of creation, but we never circumscribe the infinite Mind of the Maker. Humility and mystery sit comfortably alongside rigorous scientific inquiry because the cosmos is open to its transcendent Ground.

For scientism, however, the PSR has been perverted into a

suffocating, airtight cage. The creature demands total closure within the boundaries of the immanent system. Human reason must construct an autonomous Theory of Everything where every link of the causal chain terminates inside the natural world.

When that closed system crashes into the undeniable reality of conscious experience (what David Chalmers famously termed the “hard problem“), the secular apparatus panics. Kimpton-Nye admits the failure of the mechanistic model with surprising candor:

“However closely we look at the physical matter that makes up conscious beings, we get no closer to understanding how consciousness arises. Leibniz encouraged us to imagine increasing the size of the human brain to the size of a mill so that we can walk around inside it and observe all its working parts in meticulous detail. If we did this, at no point would we observe conscious experience.” CEH

**Here's some "CLOSURE" -- And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7

Bible Color Symbols

White: Purity, light, righteousness (Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isaiah 1:18; These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Revelation 7:13 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. Revelation 19:8)

Blue: Truth (... and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God. Numbers 15:38-40). This is where we get the expression ‘true blue’ from.

Red: Sacrifice. It can represent the blood of Jesus
(These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Revelation 7:13; 14:20)

Purple: Royalty (Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man! John 19:5)

Gold: Character (I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir....For God maketh my heart soft... Isaiah 13:12; Job 23:16)

Black: Sin, darkness, error, power of Satan (This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: I John 1:5-6)

Green: Symbolizes life and spiritual renewal. It is often associated with flourishing in God’s grace: (He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters. Psalm 23:2)

Creation Moment 10/19/2026 - The Foolish Twins

"Panpsychism and Darwinian natural selection are ideological twins:

The panpsychist says: “We can’t explain how consciousness arises

from non-conscious matter, so we will claim consciousness was inside the matter all along.”

The Darwinist says: “We can’t explain how complex, specified genetic information arises from unguided physics, so we will claim the creative power of design resides within the selective pressure of the environment.” CEH

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

Romans 1:22

Question for blacks in Christendom

And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth... Acts 17:26

For those in the black community within the halls and walls of

Christendom---when you hear rhetoric like "Christianity is a white man's religion":
* Are you going to follow the God who DESIGNED your racial characteristics?
* Or listen to the Marxist rooted race baiting politics DESIGNED by the opponent of this God in this Great Controversy to lead you astray and intended to make a shipwreck of your faith?

Creation Moment 10/18/2026 - How Methodological Naturalism Gives Up the Ghost

For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 2 Peter 3:5

"For two centuries, the gatekeepers of scientific naturalism have lectured the world on intellectual hygiene. We were told in stern, uncompromising tones that true science demands the total banishment of mind, intention, and divine agency from scientific explanation. The universe, they’ve insisted, is a vast, blind mechanism. Living beings are accidental chance-arrangements of

matter in motion.

Anyone proposing that the specified, information-rich architecture of the cell points to a transcendent Mind is immediately branded a purveyor of “medieval superstition” and cast out of respectable academic company. Yet they’ve depended upon Reason’s capital at every turn to make their case. When you routinely borrow such immense wealth, the debt eventually comes due. You must pay it … or go bankrupt.

Is Everything Conscious? (Sam Kimpton-Nye, University of Southampton, Aeon 12 October 2026). This revealing essay published in Aeon, titled “Does the Principle of Sufficient Reason Make Panpsychism True?”, exposes what happens when secular reductionism finally exhausts its explanatory credit.

The conclusion of modern analytic metaphysics and its sister, scientism, is not a triumphant vindication of materialism. It is an unvarnished surrender to animism. Desperate to explain consciousness without admitting a transcendent God, secular thinkers are now seriously arguing that reality itself, in all its manifold presentations is conscious. 

--The high priests of scientism have run the dialectic in reverse: having started with the bold promise to purge nature of the spiritual, they have ended by turning Nature itself into conscious agency. This should have been obvious the moment the scientific world embraced Evolution by Natural Selection.

Intellectual Malpractice: Erasing Descartes

To observe how our author’s trap springs, one must watch the sleight of hand performed at the very beginning of the essay. Kimpton-Nye sets up the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR), the classic Leibnizian philosophical axiom that every fact must have an explanation for why it is thus and not otherwise. In surveying early modern attempts to ground this principle, Kimpton-Nye dismisses René Descartes with a breathtaking piece of revisionist history and exegetical dishonesty:

“One option is to understand consciousness in terms of a new substance entirely, one fully distinct from physical matter… This is called dualism. The most influential champion of dualism was the French philosopher René Descartes. But Descartes ultimately failed to uphold the PSR, since he couldn’t say why there are two substances as opposed to just one.” 

This is not merely sloppy history. It is intellectual gaslighting and academic malpractice. Anyone who has read Descartes’ Meditations knows he did not assert substance dualism without a foundation. The entire architecture of the Meditations anchors the distinction between res cogitans (thinking substance) and res extensa (extended matter) in the infinite, non-deceiving character of God. The sufficient reason for two substances is grounded in Divine freedom: a transcendent Creator who brought forth an extended, contingent world and breathed into it thinking beings fashioned in His image.

The Biological Twin: “Natural Selection” as Micro-Animism

Modern evolutionary theory is not an empirical deduction from raw observation. 

*It is an immanent dialectical myth. 

Neo-Darwinism insisted that it had banished teleology and design from the living world.

Yet the moment Darwinists eliminated the transcendent Mind of the Creator, they immediately re-endowed the physical environment with creative, discerning, and design-like faculties. 

*In standard Darwinian literature, the environment constantly “selects,” “favors,” “engineers,” “fine-tunes,” and “solves problems.” Blind physical conditions are granted the (unconscious) conscious capacity to discern subtle phenotypic advantages across millions of years and sculpt intricate molecular motors.

The Mechanistic Dead-End: Dead matter in motion cannot explain the philosopher or the scientist holding the test tube, nor can it provide what human life requires: objective truth, meaning and morality.
The Animist Patch: Sensing the Enlightenment promise slipping forever beyond our grasp, we choose to believe that electrons feel pain and rocks have minds.
The Nihilistic Collapse: Realizing that conscious rocks and elementary particles are absurdities born of desperation, we shrug our shoulders, surrender to Camus and tell ourselves to be happy pushing a useless boulder up a hill for eternity.

Scientism was never an objective, neutral referee standing above religious dogma. It chose a 19th century immanentist, monistic faith. By adopting the Hegelian impulse that elevates closed historical and material processes above transcendent grounding, secular science set itself on an inescapable trajectory toward self-deification and animism.
The Word of God was banished, but religion was not defeated. It was merely replaced by an ancient paganism in which men bow down to the creation rather than the Creator." CEH

Question for Christians on Daniel 8:14

"And finally, the vision of Daniel 8 climaxes in verse 14 with the

sanctuary being cleansed: "And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed."
These four elements compose the vision of Daniel 8: Media-Persia, Greece, Rome, and the cleansing of the sanctuary. 

Q: If the first element, Media-Persia, was so important; and if the second one, Greece, was so important; and if the third one, Rome, was and still is so important-what does that prove about the fourth element?" 

Clifford Goldstein

Do Antichrist go to heaven in the end?

"I haven't seen anywhere where Antichrist can sit on the seat of Satan and heaven at the same time.

It's not about railing against Catholics. I'm not railing against Catholics. Catholics in general don't even understand their own religion.

But you cannot be the papacy. 

You cannot be the Antichrist in the series of Antichrist. 

Sit in the seat of Antichrist and not be Antichrist. 

If you sit in the seat of the president, you are the president.

Q: Do Antichrist go to heaven? Let's take a look. 

A: "Although those standing at the head of the papacy claim to have

great love for God, He that is God looks upon them as haters of Him. They have turned the truth of God into a lie." MS1261901.

Every pope is the man of sin by virtue of the office. And the dragon gave him his power, his sear, and great authority. (Revelation 13:2) 

Q: Who's the dragon? 

A: Well, it's the devil." 

Mark Kolic

Creation Moment 10/17/2026 - Laodicea: Remember the Creator

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them... Ecclesiastes 12:1

"Christ will not bless a church that forgets He is the creator.
That He sets the rules for male and female roles. 

That He tells us the creation as God defined it. 

Male and female, marriage, headship, seventh day Sabbath. 

These are the things that Laodicea must uphold if it wills to stand. 

And if it does, if it does not, God will spew it out of His mouth.
The remnant people must first refuse temptation to rewrite Genesis according to the whims of the the world. 

Friends, the overcomer is one who still treats the creator's original order as binding in the last days." 

Kolic

The Offspring & Doctrine of the Age of the Reformation

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: Romans 5:1
"As the Reformation was “the offspring of the age,” so the leading

doctrine of the Reformation, i.e., Justification by Faith, was the logical deduction from the promises laid down by the age. 

And in view of the times and the events, it is difficult to conceive any other doctrine that might properly have been the leading one." 

A.T. Jones

Creation Moment 10/16/2026 - Quagmire of their competing models

In the beginning God created..... Genesis 1:1

"According to recent reviews, four main human origins models now

exist and compete with one another:

RAO (classic): Modern humans first developed in Africa about 100,000 years ago and then migrated throughout the world. Existing archaic human populations (i.e. Neandertal and/or Homo erectus) in various areas of the world were then replaced by the RAO migrating populations, with little to no hybridization between the populations.
RAO With Hybridization: This model is similar to the classic RAO above, but includes a greater level of hybridization taking place between the migrating populations and the indigenous archaic populations being encountered and displaced.
RAO Assimilation: This model, like the other two above, accepts a recent African origin for modern humans. Unlike the previous two models, it includes replacement and/or extensive migration of populations as the major driving factor in the emergence of modern humans. This model focuses on the importance of pervasive gene flow and population admixture in conjunction with changing environmental conditions.
Multiregionalism: This model denies a recent African origin for modern humans, based on biogeographical data that continue to emerge from paleontology and archaeology. This model also promotes the role of broadscale genetic continuity over time and gene flow between populations. The basic premise is that modern humans arose not only in Africa, but also in Europe and Asia from their H. erectus type Pleistocene ancestors.

If this quagmire of competing models was not confusing enough, researchers are at odds concerning the origins of modern human within Africa before the alleged global dispersion(s) ever occurred.

The first is known as African multiregionalism, which maintains that there were multiple points of modern human origins across Africa, with continuing admixture between populations. 

The second proposes that there was a single point of origin, with range expansions and local extinctions, but with one line predominating. 

The third proposes that there was a single point of origin, with range expansion and one line predominating, but slightly lesser-evolved populations breaking off shortly before the dispersion, and occasional admixing. 

The fourth proposes that there was one point of modern human origins, with multiple lines of archaic humans evolving side by side with a small amount of admixture occurring shortly before the dispersal.

Q: So what kind of genetic clock data could be achieved if the evolutionary assumptions were not used and an empirical approach to the analysis was taken? 

A: As it turns out, research by both secular and creation scientists indicates a date of modern human origins of not more than 5,000 to 10,000 years (reviewed by Tomkins in 2015).

Evolutionists first noticed a problem with their paradigm in 1997 when human mitochondrial DNA mutation rates were first being analyzed. 

As stated in the original paper: “Using our empirical rate to calibrate the mtDNA molecular clock would result in an age of the mtDNA MRCA [most recent common ancestor or the first human woman] of only ~6,500 years.” This study was ridiculed and maligned, not for the methods used, but for the young age of the non-evolutionary conclusions that were reached. 

In 2012 and 2013, two major secular papers were published that each analyzed the rare mutational variants in human protein coding exons among ~9,000 individuals of various ethnicities and found that, based on demographic models, as opposed to standard evolution-calibrated models, the rare mutational variation in the human genome could be no older than 5,000 to 10,000 years.

Q: While the mitochondrial data has spectacularly confirmed the Biblical timeline for the maternal human lineage, what about the data on the paternal side? 

A: As it turns out, Y-chromosome analyses are just as revealing. In addition to their early creationist work on mitochondrial DNA, Sanford and Carter also analyzed Y-chromosome diversity among modern humans and found there to be only about 300 mutations, on average, that were different from the consensus sequence for a Y chromosome representing the original Adam. 

In fact they found that if a normal mutation rate for the Y chromosome of about 1 mutation per generation was assumed, that only about 300 generations corresponding to about six thousand years would be needed to get 300 mutations worth of modern human Y-chromosome diversity." 

CMI

End Times Lesson of Gideon's 300

"And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water. And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place. (Judges 7:6,7) 

This account is a picture of events 

at the end of the age, soon to come. 

Gideon represents Jesus, 

and the three hundred portray 

the last members of the body of Christ.

 A dog customarily drinks water by bending its head and lapping up

water with its tongue, all the while keeping its eyes open, looking ahead. And so those Christians who figuratively scoop up handfuls of water, bringing prophetic truths to their mouth, with their eyes alert and glued forward in anticipation—are most pleasing to the Lord. 

By the possession of such characteristics, they show their submission to the divine will."

FrankShallieu

Creation Moment 10/15/2026 - Creation, Daniel 7 & Christology comes full circle

"Just as creation starts with the spirit א the waters, then the making of heaven (הַשָּׁ מַ ֖יִם , Gen 1:8), the waters and the sea (י ם ֑ , Gen 1:10), the beasts (Gen 1:25) and then the creation of Adam (Gen 1:26–28), so מּ ִיַ Daniel 7 discusses the wind ( ַרוּח, Dan 7:2a), the heavens (שְׁ מַ יָּ ֔א ; Dan 7:2b), the sea the beasts (Dan 7:3–9), and “one like a son of man” (Dan 7:13). 

In Dan 7:2c ,יַם light of these parallels, the “one like a son of man”

parallels Adam, which explains why the one in Daniel 7 bears the title “one like a son of man.” Christ is “like a son of man” in that He shares some similarity with Adam even while there are differences. 

While being truly man and of Adam’s line, the Messiah is still distinct from man because He is equal to the Ancient of Days. 

He is like Adam because He is everything Adam failed to be and should have been. The “one like a son of man” then is the final Adam, and Daniel 7 adds that truth to Daniel’s Christology." 

ICR