Dig Deeper

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible,...And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.
Hebrews 11:3/Colossians 1:16,17

"Theoretical physicist and Nobellist Steven Weinberg said, “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.”

His quip was intended to take aim at God. Nevertheless, even atheists acknowledge the existence of many realities that cannot be directly observed—such as black holes, magnetism, gravitation, and wind.

--However, atheists agree that they are known from their effects.

--We could say the same about God and His creative acts, and—for those of us who were not around to witness it—the Resurrection of Jesus. We cannot see such things today, but they have impacted the world in ways that are visible and measurable.

After all, if science can deal only with matter and energy, it can’t possibly show that other things can’t exist. Rather, this claimed requirement is a philosophical position called materialism, and there are substantial grounds for doubting it.

‘Materialism’ in philosophy doesn’t mean striving for material goods, but the belief that matter (or mass/energy) is all there is.
Among the reasons for rejecting materialism are the compelling arguments that support the existence of an immaterial Creator of the universe.

These include the design of living things, the fine-tuning of the universe for life, and the evidence that it has a finite age, among other arguments."

CMI

Monday, July 6, 2026

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 150

"Psalm 150:
*The first psalm contains only six verses and speaks of the man who

is blessed.
*The last psalm also contains six verses but speaks of the God who is praised.
--No more fitting conclusion to the book could have been written.

(1) Where? (150:1);
(2) What for? (150:2);
(3) With What? (150-3-5); and
(4) Who? (150:6).

Psalm 150:1 Praise ye the LORD.

Praise God in His sanctuary:

praise Him in the firmament of His power.

Psalm 150:2 Praise Him for His mighty acts:

praise Him according to His excellent greatness.
Psalm 150:3 Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet:

praise Him with the psaltery and harp.
Psalm 150:4 Praise Him with the timbrel and dance:

praise Him with stringed instruments and organs.
Psalm 150:5 Praise Him upon the loud cymbals:

praise Him upon the high-sounding cymbals.
Psalm 150:6 Let everything that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD."
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Creation Moment 7/7/2026 - How about the Ultimate "meta-law"?

"Throw a pebble into a lake and it, obligingly, sinks. Smash particles together and they fall apart in certain patterns. Flick a switch and let
there be light. Reality, for all its glory and cosmic drama, seems to operate in a consistent, predictable fashion.
Many previous attempts to explain how these laws arose have foundered because they ended up introducing deeper “meta-laws” (Meta-laws are laws that govern other laws, much as ordinary laws govern facts and events. In the philosophy of science, they are proposed as a way to account for certain principles that constrain or explain the structure of laws themselves,) along the way." NewScience
*How about the Ultimate "meta-law"?
*For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible,...And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.
Colossians 1:16,17

Sunday, July 5, 2026

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 149

"Psalm 149:
The unique aspect of praise highlighted in this psalm is that praise is related to the kingdom of the Lord.

The composer and occasion for this psalm are unknown.
I. Israel’s Praise for God

(149:1-5);
II. Israel’s Punishment of the Nations

(149:6-9).

Psalm 149:1 Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, [and] His praise in the congregation of saints.

Psalm 149:4 For the LORD taketh pleasure in His people:

He will beautify the meek with salvation.

Psalm 149:5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud
upon their beds.
Psalm 149:8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
Psalm 149:9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honor have all His saints. Praise ye the LORD."
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Creation Moment 7/6/2026 - The Alpha and Omega

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. Revelation 1:8

"I once had a young boy about 10 years of age come up and ask me, “Sir, if God created us, who created God?”

I said to him, “If someone made God then you would have to have a bigger God.”

The boy replied, “Yes, sir.”

I said, “But now, you have a problem, who made the bigger God? You would then need a bigger, bigger God who made the bigger God who made God.”

I then said, “Now, you have a problem.”

The boy said, “I know.”

I then went on, “Who made the bigger, bigger God? Now, you would need a bigger, bigger, bigger God who made the bigger, bigger God who made the bigger God who made God.”

The young boy understood. We could keep going back with bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger forever and then have to keep going.

The only thing that makes sense is that you would have to have the biggest God of all, the infinite, eternal God of the Bible. The only one true God who has always existed. He had no beginning." Ken Ham

Saturday, July 4, 2026

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 148

"Psalm 148:
Since nothing in heaven above or on earth below is left out in this praise psalm, it may appropriately be designated as the psalm of universal praise.

I. Heaven’s Praise

(148:1-6).
A. Who?

(148:1-4);
B. Why?

(148:5-6).
II. Earth’s Praise

(148:7-14).
A. Who?

(148:7-12);
B. Why?

(148:13-14).

Psalm 148:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise Hm in the heights.
Psalm 148:2 Praise ye Him, all His angels: praise ye Him, all His hosts.
Psalm 148:3 Praise ye Him, sun and moon: praise Him, all ye stars of light.
Psalm 148:4 Praise Him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that [be] above the heavens.
Psalm 148:5 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for He commanded, and they were created.
Psalm 148:8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapors; stormy wind fulfilling His word:
Psalm 148:12 Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
Psalm 148:13 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for His name alone is excellent; His glory [is] above the earth and heaven."
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IN the NEWS - Digital Ruble comes to Russia

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
Major power inches into Digital Currency.
Q: Who will follow?

"Russia is ready to launch the digital ruble for broad use starting Sept. 1, Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina said, The Moscow Times reported on July 2. Starting Sept. 1, all 12 systemically

important banks must process digital ruble transactions, and major retailers will also accept the currency as payment. “Technologically, everything is ready. We did a great deal of preparatory work before this stage,” Nabiullina said.
It is unclear which other banks will work with the digital ruble. The Central Bank unexpectedly withheld the list of banks participating in the digital ruble platform." NV

Creation Moment 7/5/2026 - Biomolecular Computer

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!

Psalm 139:14 NLT

"All biological systems ... are natural molecular computers. Every one of us is a biomolecular computer, that is, a machine in which all components are molecules "talking" to one another in a logical manner.

The hardware and software are complex biological molecules that activate one another to carry out some predetermined chemical tasks. The input is a molecule that undergoes specific, programmed changes, following a specific set of rules (software) and the output of this chemical computation process is another well defined molecule. "
Ehud Keinan, American Technion Society, May 2013

Friday, July 3, 2026

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 147

"Psalm 147:
If the previous psalm is individualistic, this psalm forms an appropriate contrast with its emphasis on communal praise.

(1) Because the Lord delivers the oppressed

(verses 2-6);
(2) Because the Lord provides for the faithful

(verses 8-11);
(3) Because the Lord protects Israel

(verses 13-20).

Psalm 147:1 Praise ye the LORD: for [it is] good to sing praises unto our God; for [it is] pleasant; [and] praise is comely.
Psalm 147:3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
Psalm 147:4 He telleth the number of the stars; He calleth them all by [their] names.
Psalm 147:10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: He taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
Psalm 147:11 The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear Him, in those that hope in His mercy.
Psalm 147:19 He showeth his word unto Jacob, His statutes and His judgments unto Israel.
Psalm 147:20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: and [as for His] judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD."
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Creation Moment 7/4/2026 - TOI-791

Once again Planetary UNIQUENESS = DESIGN.
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

"An international team led by researchers at the University of Oxford has discovered the pair of so-called “super-puff” planets orbiting a star approximately 1,110 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation Volans. The findings, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, place the two worlds among the lowest-density giant planets ever detected.

A big planet usually means a lot of mass. Jupiter, for instance, is

enormous, but it also has the weight to match, although its density is a bit more than four times smaller than Earth’s (1.326 g/cm³ vs 5.52 g/cm³, respectively). These newly discovered two worlds break the mold. TOI-791 b is close to the size of Jupiter, yet its density is only 0.038 grams per cubic centimeter. TOI-791 c is larger and denser, although measuring a still modest 0.047 grams per cubic centimeter..... one leading idea is that super-puff planets have huge hydrogen- and helium-rich atmospheres wrapped around relatively small cores.

Meanwhile, candy floss comes in at roughly 0.05 grams per cubic centimeter.
The planets orbit an F7-type dwarf star coined TOI-791. TOI-791 b and TOI-791 c appear to be locked in a 5:3 orbital resonance. That means that for every five trips the inner planet makes around the star, the outer planet completes almost exactly three. This may sound like a small detail, but in planetary systems, timing is everything. Planets in resonance tug on each other in predictable ways, like two people pulling on the same bedsheet from opposite sides.

For now, TOI-791 b and c are a reminder that the universe still has a sense of humor. After decades of exoplanet discoveries, astronomers have found hot Jupiters skimming their stars, lava worlds with molten surfaces and planets that orbit two or even more stars. Now they have found a pair of giant planets so insubstantial that they make Jupiter look like a bowling ball.

They are huge. They are faintly absurd. And they may be exactly the kind of worlds astronomers need to better understand how planetary systems are built."

msn

Thursday, July 2, 2026

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 146

"Psalm 146:
The last five psalms stand out quite conspicuously in the Psalter.

I. Commitment to Praise

(146:1-2);
II. Misplaced Trust

(146:3-4);
III. Blessed Hope

(146:5-10).

Psalm 146:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
Psalm 146:2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing
praises unto my God while I have any being.
Psalm 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, [nor] in the son of man, in whom [there is] no help.
Psalm 146:4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
Psalm 146:10 The LORD shall reign for ever, [even] thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD."
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Creation Moment 7/3/2026 - An expression of a higher sort of intelligence and intention

For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,... Romans 1:20

"When I refer to the organism’s intelligent agency, or its purposiveness, or its directed coordination of means to serve
particular ends, I do not imply anything equivalent to our own conscious purposing or planning.

But neither do I suggest something inferior to our particular sort of wisdom and power of action. If anything, we must consider organic life — for example, the life of our cells — to be an expression of a higher sort of intelligence and intention than we ourselves can yet imagine consciously achieving in the technological realm."

Stephen L. Talbott, Nature Institute, May 17, 2016

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 145

"Psalm 145:
This psalm is known for several distinguishing marks: it is the last acrostic psalm, the last Davidic psalm, the only psalm to be called a praise psalm in the superscription, and the first of the six great praise psalms that conclude the collection.
Psalm 145 begins the great crescendo of praise that completes the psalter and might be called “The Final Hallel”.

I. Commitment to Praise

(145:1-2);
II. God’s Awesome Greatness

(145:3-7);
III. God’s Great Grace

(145:8-13);
IV. God’s Unfailing Faithfulness

(145:14-16);
V. God’s Unblemished Righteousness

(145:17-20);
VI. Recommitment/Exhortation to Praise

(145:21).

Psalm 145:1 I will extol Thee, my God, O king; and I will bless
Thy name for ever and ever.
Psalm 145:2 Every day will I bless Thee; and I will praise Thy name for ever and ever.
Psalm 145:8 The LORD [is] gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
Psalm 145:9 The LORD [is] good to all:

and His tender mercies [are] over all His works.

Psalm 145:18 The LORD [is] nigh unto all them that call upon Him, to all that call upon Him in truth."
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Creation Moment 7/2/2026 - How science led an atheist Harvard physicist to Christ

Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Romans 4:7

"For most of his life, Michael Guillén believed science would explain everything.
“Science was my god," Guillén told The Christian Post.
But today, the scientist says that the same science eventually dismantled his atheism and led him to the Savior.

His new documentary, “The Invisible Everywhere: Believing Is Seeing,” chronicles a decades-long journey from skepticism to

Christian faith, highlighting how modern scientific discoveries point beyond a strictly materialistic understanding of reality.
"Modern science is not just compatible with the Christian worldview," he said. "The scientific worldview is actually synergistic with the Christian worldview."

While studying astrophysics at Cornell, Guillén became fascinated by what scientists then called the "missing mass problem." Astronomers observed that galaxies and galaxy clusters were spinning far faster than visible matter could explain. The solution, first proposed by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky in 1933, was the existence of invisible matter exerting gravitational influence throughout the cosmos. Today, scientists refer to that unseen substance as dark matter. Combined with dark energy, it is believed to make up roughly 95% of the universe, an implication Guillén said completely dismantled what he thought he knew about science.
"I realized I couldn't live by this motto, 'seeing is believing,'" he said. "It just doesn't hold up to scrutiny."

The discovery launched what he called a scientific and spiritual quest. He studied Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Confucianism and transcendental meditation. Nothing fully satisfied him — and then a fellow Cornell student, an attractive young woman named Laurel, challenged him to read the Bible. "It was like curtains parting and birds chirping and the sun shining," he recalled.
Still, that realization did not produce an instant conversion, he said, adding: "It took me about another 20 years.”

By then, he was moving through some of the most elite scientific

institutions in the world and surrounded by brilliant scientists who scoffed at Christianity. Guillén recalled standing among fellow physicists at Harvard discussing the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Millikan. During the conversation, one distinguished colleague dismissed Millikan's accomplishments with a cutting remark. "Too bad he was such a lowbrow," the physicist said. "He was a Christian."
The comment stunned Guillén.

According to Guillén, college students today aren’t hostile to Biblical truth, but curious and still willing to ask difficult questions about existence, meaning, truth and science’s compatibility with faith." msn

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 144

"Psalm 144:
This royal psalm appears to be a compilation from other psalms (8, 18, 33, 102 – 104; but mainly Psalm 18).

I. God’s Greatness

(144:1-2);

II. Man’s Insignificance

(144:3-4);
III. God’s Power

(144:5-8);
IV. Man’s Praise

(144:9-10);
V. God’s Blessing

(144:11-15).

Psalm 144:1 Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight:
Psalm 144:3 LORD, what [is] man, that Thou takest knowledge of him! [or] the son of man, that Thou makest account of him!
Psalm 144:4 Man is like to vanity:

his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.

Psalm 144:7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me
out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
Psalm 144:9 I will sing a new song unto Thee, O God: upon a psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto Thee.
Psalm 144:15 Happy [is that] people, that is in such a case: [yea], happy [is that] people, whose God [is] the LORD."
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What We BELIEVE

* And now abideth faith, hope, LOVE, these three; but the greatest of these is LOVE. 1 Corinthians 13:13

* Genesis 1-11 is actual HISTORY

* The 10 Commandments WAS - IS - & WILL BE the LAW of GOD

* REVELATION is written in symbols for actual end time events

* The SANCTUARY lays out the Plan of Salvation (Justification / Outer Court + Sanctification / Inner Court = preparation for your Judgment / Most Holy Place)

* The solemnity of the 7th day SABBATH (Saturday) was NEVER transferred to the 1st day of the week (Sunday) by God

* The modern charismatic movement is a counterfeit Latter Rain

* The Mark-of-the-beast will involve some sort of counterfeit Sabbath

* "Soul Sleep" for the State of the Dead (dead until the resurrection)

* The Godhead (Trinity) are 3 separate beings who work together in unity

* The GODHEAD's Existence is ETERNAL (in other words-The arrow of time stretching for Infinity in both directions)

* The GREEN RELIGION (modern environmental movement) is a cleverly cloaked spiritualism for the "sophisticated" modern world

* The Little Horn of Daniel & the Beast of Revelation (a.k.a. the anti-christ to some) is one & the same institution - the same institution the Reformers declared it to be during the Reformation

* Marriage is between ONE man & ONE woman

* The Emerging Church movement -- & spiritual formation are modern day GNOSTICISM & have NO place within Christendom

* Women Ordination is an ASSAULT on the foundation of the Godhead (as God is the head of Christ in an ecclesiastical setting - so too was the man placed as the head of the woman in an ecclesiastical setting -- outside this setting they are equal as Christ is with the Father)

* Baptism is by Immersion at an age of consent

* Justification + Sanctification = TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH....(Justification) Neither do I condemn thee: (Sanctification) go, and sin no more. John 8:11

* God is NOT homophobic -- rather He is sexual immorality phobic (HE places adultery, fornication, rape, bestiality, cross dressing AND homosexuality ALL in the same category)

* "HELL" is NOT an eternally burning place -- rather it is the Lake of Fire where the wicked will be destroyed together once & for all when this Great Controversy between God & His opponent comes to an end....God does NOT torment people for eternity

* The "Great Controversy" theme is the prism to make sense of this universal conflict between God & His opponent, of which we play a part on this space fabric of time as a "spectacle" (as Paul calls it) before all watching

* Biblical "speaking in tongues" was a GIFT of known foreign languages for Evangelization (not the gibberish "tongues" uttered in churches today)

* Historicism is the way to interpret eschatology from the view of the prophetic porch (NOT preterism, futurism or idealisim)

* The 3 Angel's Message (of Rev.14) is the central Mission of the SDA Church & the Sanctuary Doctrine (& it's sub-doctrine of the Investigative Judgment) is the Cornerstone Doctrine of the Denomination

* The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper is a SYMBOLIC Remembrance

* The 2nd Advent of Christ will be a literal, visible, physical return where EVERY EYE SHALL SEE HIM & that is when the dead will rise & the living be caught up-- Not at some sort of a "secret rapture" before His return...

* On the Nature of Christ - He was born with our sinful fallen nature / propensities--yet did NOT sin - hence His ability to be the spotless Lamb of God - the Lamb without blemish to cover ours

* 7th Day Adventism did not rise up at the end of the time-frame of Daniel 8:14 to be just another denomination to hang upon the wall of Christendom...

* The Dispensations around the Cross are 1) Before the Cross the Plan of Redemption laid out in the earthly Sanctuary in Types & Symbols patterned after the Heavenly Sanctuary {from the Altar of Sacrifice to the Mercy Seat} 2) After the Cross shifts to the REALITY of the Heavenly Sanctuary {from the Cross to the Judgment Seat}. ---- We REJECT the Dispensationalism that says "before the cross we were saved by the Law & after the Cross by Grace" ---- (the reason is because on BOTH SIDES OF THE CROSS we were never saved by the Law and always saved by Grace)

* We REJECT the DISGUSTING "Prosperity Gospel" as many see TV (so-called) Evangelists preach today

* Justification & Sanctification Simplified - God draws the BOUNDARIES with His LAW. When we step outside of them it's called SIN. (He offers JUSTIFICATION to remedy it). But afterwards He expects us to step back within those Boundaries (called SANCTIFICATION ).

* EndTime "BABYLON" - Confederacy of the Counterfeit Trinity of the "Dragon", "Beast" & "False Prophet" of Rev.16:13. (Also a term of Reference for the Fallen Condition of Christendom)

*The OLD TESTAMENT is simply the NEW TESTAMENT in Types & Symbols- therefore both are valid for Study & Doctrine.

* "A Minister's words are only of Value as long as his word's are an Echo of the Word's of God." {Dwayne Lemon}

* We REJECT the Church being involved with the ECUMENICAL movement....where do you see in Scripture God's people ever being told to be Ecumenical with neighboring religions?.. Nowhere....

*We believe in "Replacement Theology", that "Israel" in prophetic terms and spiritually is God's people...NOT Literal, Modern Day Israel in the Middle East.

* Tithing is Biblical: MONEY (1/10 to God) TIME (1/7 to God- the 7th day of the week, called the SABBATH)

* Soteriology: We believe in total FREE WILL as a component. - Therefore we Reject Sacramentalism, Predestination, Once-Saved-Always-Saved, Universalism & Pluralism.

* The HEALTH MESSAGE-Live it as best you can. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest....be in health... 3 John 1:2

* And always remember - "If you feel yourself to be the greatest sinner, Christ is just what you need, the greatest Savior. Lift up your head and look away from yourself, away from your sin, to the uplifted Savior; away from the poisonous, venomous bite of the serpent to the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world." Ellen White {JUSTIFICATION}

* "God has given us His commandments, not only to be believed in, but to be obeyed." Ellen White {SANCTIFICATION}

* SUMMARY: "Every chapter and every verse of the Bible is a communication from God to men." Ellen White

* WARNING: "...by beholding we become changed. The mind gradually adapts itself to the subjects upon which it is allowed to dwell. It becomes assimilated to that which it is accustomed to love and reverence." Ellen White

Are Ashes Upon Your Lips?

The love of God still yearns over the one who has chosen to separate from Him, and He sets in operation influences to bring him back to the Father's house.
--Have you, reader, chosen your own way?
--Have you wandered far from God?
--Have you sought to feast upon the fruits of transgression, only to find them turn to ashes upon your lips?
Now that voice which has long been speaking to your heart but to which you would not listen comes to you distinct and clear, Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest; because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction. Micah 2:10. Return to your Father's house. He invites you, saying, Return unto Me; for I have redeemed thee. Isa. 44:22.
E.G.W.