Doxology of the KING Eternal

 

Now unto the King eternal,

immortal,

invisible,

the only wise God,

be honour and glory for ever and ever.

Amen.

1 Timothy 1:17

 

Creation Moment 4/30/2013 - Foundational Chapter of Science

Genesis 1 is the foundational chapter of science:

1) First, the establishment of the physical sciences: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void;
Genesis 1:1,2

2)Second, the establishment of the life sciences: And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Genesis 1:20

Luther's Last Supper

Martin Luther, during his last supper, spent it sitting around discussing with his hosts as to whether, during the resurrection, we will be able to recognize each other. (He went to bed complaing of chest pains, and those there gathered around his bedside as he died that evening).
Martin Luther believed that the dead are dead until the resurrection. The mythical, pagan idea of immortality of the soul (as taught by the Catholic Church) crept into Lutheranism with his successor Melanchthon, who held to the Catholic position on death.

For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:15-17


 

 

Case of the plastic Luther's

The Plastic Luther's
"A dramatic art installation of 800 plastic statues of Martin Luther was opened on the market place in Wittenberg at the weekend, provoking criticism from one academic who criticised it as abuse.
Artist Ottmar Hörl’s project replaces the bronze statue of the reformer which usually dominates the square.
These were removed from their pedestals in April to be cleaned ahead of the 500th anniversary in 2017 of Luther pinning his 95 theses on a Wittenberg church door, which is seen as the catalyst for the European Reformation.
Hörl has said this is to represent Luther’s own understanding of himself as on eye-level with common people. He said big memorials do not fit such a thinker. “Luther is a figure who would have more likely made himself small than large,” he said.
"The memorials in Wittenberg are wrong, because Luther would have refused to have allowed himself to be put on a pedestal.” riedrich Schorlemmer, a theologian in Wittenberg has criticised Hörl’s project as tasteless, describing it as theological and aesthetic abuse.
The plastic statues, in black, dark green, purple and bright blue, will be available for sale after they are removed from the square on September 12, for €250 each." TheLocal

Was this part of Daniel 11 a prediction of the reformation??????

And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days. Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.

Daniel 11:33,34

Creation Moment 4/29/2013 - Greenland Ice Cores

"Ice cores have been drilled deep into both the Antarctica and Greenland ice sheets. These cores represent snowfall that has turned to ice. During snowfall on top of the ice sheets, dust, air, acids, etc. are added and eventually incorporated into the ice. Some of these parameters oscillate during the seasons and can be a signature for an annual layer of snowfall. The annual snowfall over Antarctica is normally too small to resolve annual layers down an ice core. It is the Greenland Ice Sheet that exhibits annual cycles of one or more of the variables down an ice core.
One of the most used annual variables in Greenland ice cores is the oxygen isotope ratio in the ice.

Oxygen comes in three isotopes, depending on the number of neutrons in the nucleus of the atom. For practical purposes, the ratio between oxygen-18 and oxygen-16 is the variable used, oxygen-17 being too small to be useful. Oxygen-18 has two more neutrons than oxygen-16 and has a higher mass. Because of the different mass, the ratio of these isotopes will vary during evaporation and condensation cycles, which are correlated with temperature. So during summer, warmer temperatures result in a higher oxygen-18/oxygen-16 ratio of the snowfall, while in winter the ratio is lower. This seasonal oscillation can be measured down Greenland ice cores.
Glaciologists claim that they can count 110,000 annual layers downward from the top to near the bottom of the Greenland ice sheet (Meese et al., 1997). This analysis was performed on the American GISP2 core drilled between 1989 to 1993 from the top of the ice in central Greenland to bedrock at about 10,000 feet deep (Oard, 1995). The GRIP core was drilled nearby at the same time by a European team. It is further claimed that the very basal ice is 250,000 years old (Dansgaard et al., 1993), or possibly 2.4 million years, back to the time of the original buildup of the ice sheet (Souchez, 1997).
The reason for this is because uniformitarian scientists view the ice sheet as maintaining equilibrium, about the same height and shape, for a few million years. Thus they view each annual layer as becoming greatly compressed the deeper in the ice sheet. The number of annual layers is simply an outgrowth of their extended time scale.
On the other hand, creationists view both the Greenland and Antarctica Ice Sheets as products of a post-Flood rapid Ice Age, plus additional ice added after the Ice Age (Oard, 1990).
Since the Ice Age ended about 4000 years ago, the compression of the ice sheet has been much less than uniformitarian scientists believe, but still substantial (Vardiman, 1993). So, one annual layer deep in the ice sheet may represent 100 or even 1000 uniformitarian ‘annual cycles.’
Furthermore, the ice sheet during the Ice Age would have been lower and warmer at the time the snow was building. This would have resulted in more melt or hoar frost layers (cloudy bands), which is one of the variables used for annual layer determinations. Therefore the uniformitarian scientists are claiming as annual variations oscillations that occur within the year.
The variables used to determine annual layers can be produced many times during a year in the creationist model. Very short term oscillations representing as little as a day or two show up in the variables (Grootes and Stuiver, 1997). A storm has a warm and cold sector with different measurements of the variables. These storm oscillations may be on the order of several days. These storms can produce problems in annual counting, even in the uniformitarian paradigm, as Alley et al. (1997, p. 26,378) state:
“Fundamentally, in counting any annual marker, we must ask whether it is absolutely unequivocal, or whether nonannual events could mimic or obscure a year. For the visible strata (and, we believe, for any other annual indicator at accumulation rates representative of central Greenland), it is almost certain that variability exists at the subseasonal or storm level, at the annual level, and for various longer periodicities (2-year, sunspot, etc.). We certainly must entertain the possibility of misidentifying the deposit of a large storm or a snow dune as an entire year or missing a weak indication of a summer and thus picking a 2-year interval as 1 year.”
The uniformitarian scientists do not believe these subannual cycles exist because of their assumed great compression of the ice sheet based on their old-Earth time scale. This is how they manage to ‘squeak out’ 110,000 years." CMI

Out of whose womb came the ice?

Job 38:29

Q & A started by Solomon

Q: Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved?
Song of Solomon 8:5

A: And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. ----- then coming up from this wilderness --And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Revelation 12:14,17

God's people after the 1260 years in the wilderness....

Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness,

leaning upon her beloved?

Song of Solomon 8:5

 

 

Lesson of David told "NO" in building the Temple

King David was told NOT to build the temple in Jerusalem...His son Solomon was to build it.

So what did David go ahead and do? So David prepared abundantly before his death.
1 Chronicles 22:15

1) He gathered the money- Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver;
1 Chronicles 22:14
2) Gathered supplies -  ...and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto. 1 Chronicles 22:14
3) Gathered workers for the cause - Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.
1 Chronicles 22:15
4) Prepared & orgnized for the project - And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work. 1 Chronicles 22:3,15
Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
1 Chronicles 29:2
5) Sought the Spirit of God in the design - All this, said David, the LORD made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern. 1 Chronicles 28:19
6) Prepared the music - Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith. 1 Chronicles 23:5
7) Stepped aside as king so that his son Solomon could begin - So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel. 1 Chronicles 23:1 / And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time,... 1 Chronicles 29:22

SUMMARY:
The attitude of David was-then what can I do? Let me do Something....

 

Creation Moment 4/28/2013 - Lucifer Flips God's Order

Lucifer flips Gods order of Creation with evolutionary thinking.....

The order of God...............................................................The order of Luciferian evolution

Matter created by God...............................................Matter already existed in beginning

Earth before sun & stars............................................................Sun & stars before the earth

Oceans before land..........................................................................Land before the oceans

Light before the sun.....................................................................Sun before light

Land plants before marine organisms........................Marine organisms before land plants

Fruit tress before fish................................................................Fish before fruit trees

Birds before insects.....................................................................Insects before birds

Birds before reptiles....................................................................Reptiles before birds

Man before rain..............................................................................Rain before man

Creation completed......................................................................Creative process ongoing

Man caused struggle & death............................Struggle & death necessary & good 

For lucifer being so "smart"-sometimes he is so simple minded
as to just flip around what God already made

 

The Robe

Symbolism of His robe of Righteousness

And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put coats upon them,
Leviticus 8:13

Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
And he answered and

spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment. And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments.
Zechariah 3:3-5

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness,
Isaiah 61:10

"Televangelist" of Indulgences

The "Televangelist" (for lack of a better term) of indulgences was Johann Tetzel. If TV had existed in the 1500's this man surely would have been a major player in the world of TV evangelism.
His claim to fame is his success in peddling indulgences for the Papacy & its fund raising scheme was a major motivation for Luther to rise up in opposition to it.
Indulgences were a way for the living to pay for their relatives to get an early exit from the mythical place called purgatory.
Tetzel was known to not even tell the people to repent. Just donate the money and that's it. He was highly successful, mostly from his speaking skills. Once he said "Don't you hear the voices of your walking dead parents"?

....but the unjust knoweth no shame.
Zephaniah 3:5

The DISPICABLE act of selling Indulgences $$$$$$$

 

Here is how the website Catholic Bible 101describes Indulgences

"So what are indulgences anyway? They are basically credits for the Church Militant (us here on earth) and the Church Suffering (the poor souls in purgatory) from the spiritual storehouse that is the Catholic Church. Saints throughout history have offered up their sufferings, mortifications, alms, and good works as capital in the Church’s spiritual warehouse. And it is all there for OUR benefit. The Church teaches that you can also add your present sufferings to this repository, by “offering it up”. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says in #1471 the following:

"An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints."
"An indulgence is partial or plenary according as it removes either part or all of the temporal punishment due to sin." The faithful can gain indulgences for themselves or apply them to the dead."

IN the NEWS - "God Bless You" abortionists?

"President Obama ended his address to the largest abortion provider in the U.S., Planned Parenthood, by saying, "God bless you." WeeklyStandard

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Romans 8:8

 

Views on the Abortion Group "Planned Parenthood"

 

My Soul Desire performed by Deniece Williams

My Soul Desire performed by Deniece Williams
http://www.youtube.com/embed/P-4Hh3wjgoI

With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea,

with my spirit within me will I seek thee early:
Isaiah 26:9

Creation Moment 4/27/2013 - Mutations lead AWAY FROM evolution

"Evolutionists teach that one-celled organisms  (e.g. protozoa) have given rise to pelicans, pomegranates, people and ponies. In each case, the DNA ‘recipe’ has had to undergo a massive net increase of information during the alleged millions of years. A one-celled organism does not have the instructions for how to manufacture eyes, ears, blood, skin, hooves, brains, etc. which ponies need. So for protozoa to have given rise to ponies, there would have to be some mechanism that gives rise to new information.
Evolutionists hail natural selection as if it were a creative goddess, but the reality (which they invariably concede when pressed) is that selection on its own always gets rid of information, never the opposite.
As creatures diversify, gene pools become increasingly thinned out. The more organisms adapt to

their surroundings by selection, i.e. the more specialized they become, the smaller the fraction they carry of the original storehouse of created information for their kind. Thus, there is less information available on which natural selection can act in the future to ‘readapt’ the population should circumstances change. Less flexible, less adaptable populations are obviously heading closer to extinction, not evolving.
Remember, evolutionary belief teaches that once upon a time, there were living things, but no lungs—lungs had not evolved yet, so there was no DNA information coding for lung manufacture. Somehow this program had to be written. New information had to arise that did not previously exist, anywhere.
In other words, populations can change and adapt because they have a lot of information (variety) in their DNA ‘recipe’. But unless mutations can feed in new information, each time there is variation/adaptation, the total information decreases (as selection gets rid of the unadapted portions of the population, some information is lost in that population). Thus, given a fixed amount of information, the more adaptation we see, the less the potential for future adaptation." CMI
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Romans 8:22

But a Faint Reflection

My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.

Song of Solomon 5:10

"The divine beauty of the character of Christ, of whom the noblest and most gentle among men are but a faint reflection;"
Thoughts From the Mount of Blessing p.49 E.G.W.

What if there were NO Law?

If the Godhead had NO Law-there would be No enmity towards them by the heart of man....

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God:

for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Romans 8:7

Creation Moment 4/26/2013 - Species Sorting Debate

"Punctuated equilibrium claims that new species arise rapidly due to accumulated Permanent structural alterations in DNA, consisting of either substitutions, insertions or deletions of nucleotide bases.mutations that get expressed during "species sorting," when populations plummet due to natural disasters, climatic changes, etc. However, new data from wild populations and molecular and analytical tools for tracing patterns of relationship and inbreeding have determined that "inbreeding depression" (decreased fitness) occurs among diverse taxa. According to the recent review:

 

HELLO

"This work reveals that levels of inbreeding depression vary across taxa, populations and environments, but are usually substantial enough to affect both individual and population performance. Data from bird and mammal populations suggest that inbreeding depression often significantly affects birth weight, survival, reproduction and resistance to disease, predation and environmental stress. Plant studies, based mostly on comparing populations that differ in size or levels of genetic variation, also reveal significant inbreeding effects on seed set, germination, survival and resistance to stress. Data from butterflies, birds and plants demonstrate that populations with reduced genetic diversity often experience reduced growth and increased extinction rates. Crosses between such populations often result in heterosis. Such a genetic rescue effect might reflect the masking of fixed Having a harmful of bad effect.deleterious Permanent structural alterations in DNA, consisting of either substitutions, insertions or deletions of nucleotide bases.mutations. Thus, it might be necessary to retain gene flow among increasingly fragmented habitat patches to sustain populations that are sensitive to inbreeding."

Although the authors did not relate their study to the theory of punctuated equilibrium, it has obvious implications. Species sorting, as a mechanism of producing new species, has never been shown to be anything other than a theoretical concept. This and previous studies suggest that the only "sorting" consistently resulting from decreases in population numbers is extinction. Although this may "make room" for new species, it certainly cannot be claimed to be a creative force in evolution.
Lukas F. Keller and Donald M. Waller. 2002. Inbreeding effects in wild populations. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 17: 230-241.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind,

Genesis 1:24

Same Requirement as for Adam

"Christ does not lessen the claims of the law. In unmistakable language He presents obedience to it as the condition of eternal life--the same condition that was required of Adam before his fall."
Christ's Object Lessons p.391 E.G.W.

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

thou shalt not eat of it:

for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Genesis 2:17

Question about the Law

Why is it that both Christians & non-Christians view obedience to the Law of God as hostile towards salvation?

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?

then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

Jeremiah 13:23

 

The heart is deceitful above all things,

and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Jeremiah 17:9

 

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God:

for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Romans 8:7

IN the NEWS - Botswana / Mexico Drought 2013

"Botswana is expected to see the worst drought ever that the country has ever experienced in recent years and expectations are that President Ian Khama will soon declare the country drought-stricken, sources within the government ..." BotswanaSundayStandard

...and there shall be famines and plagues and panics and terror,

Luke 21:11 ABPE

"The sun-baked northern states of Mexico are suffering under the worst drought since the government began recording rainfall 70 years ago. Crops of corn, beans and oats are withering in the fields. About 1.7 million cattle have died of starvation and thirst.
Hardest hit are five states in Mexico's north, a region that is being parched by the same drought that has dried out the southwest United States. The government is trucking water to 1,500 villages scattered across the nation's northern expanse, and sending food to poor farmers who have lost all their crops." SanFranciscoChronicle

P.S.-We should be careful with "headline prophecy"....with all the droughts over the last decade it sort of fits in a small way....but by itself isn't some sort of fullfillment....

 

IN the NEWS - VICIOUS BIRD FLU JUMPS TO TAIWAN

"Taiwan on Wednesday reported the first case of the H7N9 bird flu outside of mainland China."
France24News
"The first discovery of the virus outside China, 10 years after an outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, may lead to increased scrutiny of travelers into and out of the country. Taiwan’s largest trade partner is battling to control its spread, which so far has killed 22, according to data compiled by Bloomberg from reports released by the government and the World Health Organization.
“With any new influenza virus that emerges, the concern is that it could genetically mutate to become easily transmissible between human beings,” Raina MacIntyre, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of New South Wales, said in an interview before the announcement of Taiwan’s confirmed case. “With all past pandemics and even with SARS, they were spread around the world by travel.”"  Bloomberg.org

There will be great earthquakes,

and in various places famines and pestilences.

Luke 21:11 ESV

 

P.S.-We should be careful with "headline prophecy"....with all the outbreak of SARS over the last decade it sort of fits in a small way....but by itself isn't some sort of fullfillment....

 

Creation Moment 4/25/2013 - Acorn Worm: Then & Now

"According to evolution, eons ago mere ingredients like mud, minerals, and methane somehow made

themselves into some single-celled bacteria…some of those bacteria became worms, and some of the worms eventually became people. A newly described out-of-place fossil confronts this origins myth.
Since 1911, vaults at the Smithsonian have harbored fossilized worm-like creatures from Cambrian shales. Scientists recently rediscovered them, and Nature published their remarkable findings.¹
The problem is that, although the fossils were found in some of the deepest fossil-bearing rocks, they look just like the modern acorn worms we see today." ICR

No problem if they were CREATED as worms to begin with.....

But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day,
and it smote the gourd that it withered.
Jonah 4:7

Primary Focus of SDA CHurch

"In a special sense Seventh-day Adventists have been set in the world as watchmen and light-bearers. To them has been entrusted the last warning for a perishing world. On them is shining wonderful light from the Word of God. They have been given a work of the most solemn import,—the proclamation of the first, second, and third angels’ messages. There is no other work of so great importance. They are to allow nothing else to absorb their attention."
Evangelism p.119,120 E.G.W.

And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven,

having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth,

and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Saying with a loud voice,

1

Fear God, and give glory to him;
for the hour of his judgment is come:
and worship him that made heaven,
and earth,
and the sea,
and the fountains of waters.

2

And there followed another angel, saying,

Babylon is fallen, is fallen,

that great city,

because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

3

And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice,

If any man worship the beast and his image,

and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,

The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God,

which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; 

Revelation 14:6-10 

Cry of the World:Fashions

In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel,

with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair,

or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

1 Timothy 2:9

 

"As the world intensifies its headlong rush to perdition,

it calls Laodicea to follow.

The pull of the world is strong,

and its voice can be deafening,

except for the grace of God.

The world cries,

Fashion is beautiful,

fashion is sexy,

you are out of touch if you don't follow the fashions.

But the still small voice of the Lord calls to us, saying,

Modesty is beautiful,

purity and holiness are beautiful.

It is only by the divine anointing that we desire the beauty of simplicity and choose God's way. It is through the gold of faith and love, gained through the purifying fire of self-denial that we will choose the voice of God over the voice of the world." Remnant Raiment

(Don't know who exactly wrote that over at Remnant Raiment but I thought it was beautifully written)

Creation Moment 4/24/2013 - I'll Tell Ya What Vanishes Lyell

In 1859 Charles Lyell, chief proponent of the evolutionary geologic column, commented on the origin of man,

“all idea of any other origin (of man), but that of a long rude stationary condition of the first settlers must be abandoned. … The Garden of Eden, Milton’s Paradise, the Golden Age, all vanish.” CMI
 

Mr. Lyell, although you are dead & buried,

allow me to respond as to what ACTUALLY will VANISH 

The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire,

and the rocks are thrown down by him.

Nahum 1:5,6

 

I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form,

and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

Jeremiah 4:23

Gaia & earth day

Gaia was the goddess or personification of Earth in ancient Greek religion. Gaia was one of the Greek primordial deities. Gaia was the great mother of all: the heavenly gods, the Titans and the Giants were born from her union with Uranus (the sky), while the sea-gods were born from her union with Pontus (the sea). Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Terra. wikipedia

The "Gaia Cirlce"

So in the days of Paul, this nonsense of worshipping "Mother Earth" was already around when he wrote Romans 1...... The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9

The Tree is the symbol for Gaia (mother earth)

There are "Christians" who, as part of their church, are involved in earth day activities. When one thinks about it-Christianity began in its early days with an influx of paganism creeping in. And as we near the end-we see the same thing. An influx of paganistic new ageism from the GREEN religion mixing with some Christianity.

 

It was a Secular Holy Day?

Just heard it was Earth Day or something.....
So it was a secular Holy Day?

Who changed the truth of God into a lie,

and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.

Romans 1:25

 

mother earth or Father God ?

 

 

Mother Earth

Do you worship the Father God (Creator) or the Mother Earth (creation)?

What is to happen one day to "mother earth"?

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night;

in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise,

and the elements shall melt with fervent heat,

the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

2 Peter 3:10

 

 

Not in Harmony with the World

"All who are under the training of God need the quiet hour for communion with their own hearts, with nature, and with God.

In them is to be revealed a life that is not in harmony with

# the world,

# its customs,

or # its practices;

and they need to have a personal experience in obtaining a knowledge of the will of God. We must individually hear Him speaking to the heart. When every other voice is hushed, and in quietness we wait before Him, the silence of the soul makes more distinct the voice of God.

He bids us, Be still, and know that I am God."

Psalm 46:10 / Ministry of Healing p.58 E.G.W.

 

Watch Shawn Boonstra on Atheism (It Is Written)

Shawn Boonstra on Atheism (may be his best episode)
http://www.youtube.com/embed/djnFojtG8iU

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ:

for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth;

Romans 1:16

Creation Moment 4/23/2013 - So it's True?

"Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist."

Richard Dawkins    The Blind Watchmaker (1996) p.6

 

So it's true? Evolution is just a crutch

for those who want to be atheists so as to really just live their life as they choose and try not to worry about a judgment.....

 

 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.

They are corrupt,

they have done abominable works,

there is none that doeth good.

Psalm 14:1

Thoughts on Salvation (Clifford Goldstein)

"We are accepted in the beloved,” wrote Ellen White. “The sinner’s defects are covered by the perfection and fullness of the Lord our righteousness” (Our High Calling, p. 51).

The more I understand that I am saved by Christ’s obedience to the law (as opposed to my own), the more I want to obey that law.
But in the end, however much sanctification, perfection, and character development I possess, unless I am “justified by faith without the deeds of the law” (Rom. 3:28), I’m going die the second death, because, believe me, I deserve it.
“For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments,” (1 John 5:3), and nothing will make you love God more than the experience of knowing that your “defects are covered by the perfection and fullness of the Lord our righteousness.”" Clifford Goldstein in AdventistReview -- (Cliff is in charge of the Sabbath School Lesson for the SDA Church)

 

8th day in architecture

The "8th Day" was used by some early Christians to justify Sunday in place of Sabbath. The argument was given that He rose on the 8th day to begin a new cycle of Creation. Refering here of course to Sunday being both the first, and 8th day.
In the late 4th and into the 5th century Christians began to build martryia, buildings around relics of dead saints, in octangonally designed shapes to commemorate the 8th day of a new beginning.

But what day did the early Christians observe?

"For although almost all churches throughout the world celebrate the sacred mysteries on the sabbath of every week, yet the Christians of Alexandria and at Rome, on account of some ancient tradition, have ceased to do this. The Egyptians in the neighborhood of Alexandria, and the inhabitants of Thebaïs, hold their religious assemblies on the sabbath, but do not participate of the mysteries in the manner usual among Christians in general:" Socrates Scholasticus. "Church History, Book V

And what did God write in Stone with His finger?

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God:

Exodus 20:8-10

 

The Delight of God

But let him that glorieth glory in this,

that he understandeth and knoweth me,

that I am the LORD which exercise @ lovingkindness,

@ judgment,

and @ righteousness,

in the earth:

for in these things I delight,

saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:25

 

IN the NEWS - Pot Party in Rockies gone bad....

"Gunfire erupted at a Denver pot celebration Saturday, injuring two people and scattering a crowd of thousands who had gathered for the first 4/20 counterculture holiday since the state legalized marijuana.
Witnesses described a scene in which a jovial atmosphere quickly turned to one of panic at the downtown Civic Center Park just before 5 p.m. Several thought firecrackers were being set off, then a man fell bleeding, his dog also shot.
The annual pot celebration this year was expected to draw as many as 80,000 people after recent laws in Colorado and Washington made marijuana legal for recreational use.
Stephanie Riedel, who traveled to the pot celebration from Pittsburgh, said she was dancing with a hula hoop when she heard pops. A man ran past her, then she said the crowd started screaming and running away. She was about 20 feet from the shooting and heard four or five shots." AP

So apparently while some of you were in Church Sabbath, or studying the Word on His Holy Day, others of you out there were at a pot party high up (no pun intended) in the Rockies fleeing gunshots...strange way to spend the Sabbath....

So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives.

Then you won't be doing what your sinful nature craves.

Galatians 5:16 NLT

 

 

Creation Moment 4/22/2013 - Question about Design

"Living things look like they were designed, so how do evolutionists know that they were not designed? Richard Dawkins wrote, “biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.”   Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA, wrote, “Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.” The problem for evolutionists is that living things show too much design. Who objects when an archaeologist says that pottery points to human design? Yet if someone attributes the design in living things to a designer, that is not acceptable. Why should science be restricted to naturalistic causes rather than logical causes?" CMI

O come, let us worship and bow down:

let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

Psalm 95:6

Patriarchs of the Heretics

One of the so-called "Church Fathers", Tertullian, would call the pagan philosophers of his day the Patriarchs of the Heretics. He claimed heresy came from the influence of the pagan philosophy.
He may have a point. We see this today, the theologians degenerate into weird things & ideas based on studying the philosophies of the world around them. Or pastors who bring in heresies by trying to be PC like the world around them.....

A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;

Knowing that he that is such is subverted,

and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

Titus 3:10,11

Why Blood for Atonement?

The SIN had Seperated us from GOD

HIS BLOOD reunites US with GOD

 

For the life of the flesh is in the blood:

Leviticus 17:11

 

 

IN the NEWS -New Zealand Legalizes Gay Marriage--with singing

Not only has the New Zealand parliament legalized gay marriage-it went a step further and broke into singing when it passed.....it's one thing to legalize it-& another to burst into singing over it....
 

Watch below the New Zealand legislature CELEBRATE with joy & singing gay marriage....

http://www.youtube.com/embed/MzEZdH2g4sU

The world lifts its heart up with singing against the ways of their CREATOR

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God:

for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Romans 8:7