Puritan Corner - Before, But Now

When we come to be religious, we lose not our pleasure, but translate it.
Before we fed on common notions, but now we live on holy truths.
by Richard Sibbes (1577-1635)
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1 Corinthians 13:11


 

IN the NEWS - New "True Righteousness By Faith" pushed

True Righteousness By Faith is Justification (Grace) + Sanctification (Obedience).
This is laid out in the outlay of the Sanctuary for all to view.
Neither do I condemn thee: (Justification)
go, and sin no more. (Sanctification) John 8:11

How the world breaks the everlasting covenant is that they disconnect the two.
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof;
because they have transgressed the laws, (Broken God's Law-global counterfeit Sabbath)
changed the ordinance, (Changed 4th Commandment from Sabbath to Sunday)
broken the everlasting covenant. (Disconnect Justification/Grace from Sanctification/Obedience)
Isaiah 24:5

They do this by crying "Grace" while rejecting Obedience. (In other words---when the mark of the Beast is implemented Globally by Law, a Counterfeit Sabbath, strict Obedience to God isn't required they claim.)
---But---now they also have what may be another addition to Breaking the Everlasting Covenant:
By replacing Sanctification with going Green!!!
Their New "True Righteousness by Faith" is Justification + Going Green....
Read the article below for EVIDENCE....

 "Destroying the ecosystem is now a ‘sin’ against God. Carbon

emission (CO2) has become the new “transgression,” climate change is the new gospel and the Pope’s encyclical (Laudato Si) is the new standard for morality. These are the new moral imperatives being advanced by Rome.
 Cardinal Osoro told the participants that “the destruction of the ecosystem was a sin against God and against His creation.” Cardinal Osoro declared that we sin against creation when we “overexploit and pollute the oceans, destroy forests and jungles.”
The Archbishop of Madrid cited the papal encyclical ‘Laudato Si’ as the basis of this new morality and applauded the “priests, laity and civil organizations” for pushing the Pope’s initiatives. In other words, following Laudato Si will save our ecosystems while ignoring the Pope’s encyclical on climate change is a “sin against God and His creation.”
AdventMessenger

How Paul Challenged the Athenian World View

Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said,
Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
Acts 17:22
In the Last Line Below--think of men today who claim they are relayed to common beasts of the field...

"With hand outstretched toward the temple crowded with idols,

Paul poured out the burden of his soul, and exposed the fallacies of the religion of the Athenians.
The wisest of his hearers were astonished as they listened to his reasoning.
He showed himself familiar with their works of art, their literature, and their religion.
...Pointing to their statuary and idols,
---he declared that God could not be likened to forms of man's devising.
...These graven images could not, in the faintest sense,
---represent the glory of Jehovah.
...He reminded them that these images had no life,
---but were controlled by human power, moving only when the hands of men moved them;
*and therefore those who worshiped them were in every way superior to that which they worshiped."
Acts Of The Apostles E.G.W.

What does it mean to be like the Bereans?

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue.

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; @they received the word with all eagerness,
@examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.    Many of them therefore believed,
with not a few Greek women of high standing as well as men.
Acts 17:10-12 ESV

SDA Issues- Youth used as Proganda Tools on Sabbath

Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee? Deuteronomy 32:6
 
"Pathfinders in the city of Hull in the UK, led a crowd of thousands marching against knife crime this Saturday, September 21.

ITV reported that the Pathfinders marched from the city’s Bonus Arena to the Hull docks.

Ahead of the march, Pastor Mo Timbo who represented the PH Hull Church at the city’s Trinity Methodist Church, told the Hull Daily Mail that 3,000 people would be joining the march.
The Pathfinders are supporting a #NoMoreKnives campaign that has been running in the city.
The campaign is aimed at educating young people as to the danger of carrying knives and discovering reasons for their prevalence among young people."
AT

Q: So THIS is how our Pathfinders are encouraged to spend the Sabbath? Engaged in Political Activism?
Q: So the Church Leadership has decided to use the youth in waste-of-time political propaganda?
What purpose could possibly be achieved by marching against knife violence? I mean, who is FOR knife violence other than the criminal perpetrators of the violent act? Do criminals pay attention and heed to these marches? Of course not. (the UK, especially London, has had a surge in knife violence--so they've been pushing for knife control. It is akin to this side of the pond-those who push for gun control, but the bad guys will still get guns...so who  in "Leadership" is engaged in using our youth as political propaganda tools on Sabbath?).

Creation Moment 9/30/2019 - What are We?

 For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust. Psalm 103:14

"Yes, we exist.
Yes, the world is real.
But, the reality of our reality is very, very strange.

You see, we are made of almost nothing. Everything we see is mostly made up of empty space. This is shocking when you first realize it.

We and everything we can see are made up of atoms.

It has a dense center called a nucleus and a cloud of electrons surrounding it. Inside the nucleus are protons and neutrons.
--The nucleus is held together by incredibly strong forces that act at only short distances.
--And since ‘opposite charges attract’, the positively-charged protons in the nucleus attract the negatively-charged electrons that reside in a ‘cloud’ surrounding the nucleus.

So, the space between the nucleus and the electron cloud is quite large, compared to the diameter of the nucleus. It helps to have something to compare to.
If you were to make the nucleus as large as the sun, the average distance to the electrons would be 14 times as far away as Pluto!
In a molecule, nuclei would be about 100 billion miles apart. But even at this scale the electrons would still have essentially no ‘size’. That means the inside of the atom, and the inside of any molecule, is almost completely empty.

Comparing the sun and Pluto to the nucleus and electron. At these scales, it would be impossible to even see these things, so each is represented by a tiny point....our bodies are more than 99.99999999% empty space!

But if we are made up of empty space, how can the human body (or any other physical object) be ‘seen’ or ‘felt’?
--When we see something, what we are detecting is the light (an electromagnetic wave) reflecting from the surface of the object. Some electromagnetic waves (e.g. X-rays) pass right through most objects. This is because their wavelengths are shorter than the spacing between the nuclei, so they can almost literally squeeze between atoms.
--Another type of electromagnetic waves, infrared, is usually absorbed. This is because they are very long waves with low energy, and they get absorbed by molecules, causing their atoms to wiggle (that is, heat up). In between those two extremes is the ‘visible’ part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Visible light tends to bounce off most objects. Even though the atoms are very tiny, very far apart, and made up mostly of empty space, the electron clouds create a continuous ‘surface’. What you see is the light waves that are reflected from the surface.

Mankind has a very special place in God’s creation. In one sense, He built this world, this universe, to bring about a bride for Christ. Next to Him, we are nothing."
CMI

The 2 Camps

"Sunday sacredness is a manmade institution.
The memorial for

Christ’s death and resurrection is baptism and the communion service—
the ordinances of the New Covenant.
We are told that the Sabbath/Sunday issue will be the conflict that divides the whole world into two camps at the end of the world.
“How long will you falter between two opinions?
If the Lord is God, follow Him;
but if Baal, follow him” (1 Kings 18:21)."
StepsToLife

Comparing Lucifer's Power between 1st & 2nd Advent

....for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. Revelation 12:12

"The same rebellion and hatred against Christ will be in the hearts of men at his second advent.

If Christ's second advent should be in the same humble manner as at his first advent,
--reproving sin,
--and commending virtue and holiness,
where there was then one voice raised, crying, Crucify him! crucify him! there would be thousands in this apostate age.
Infidelity in regard to Christ's being the true Messiah, the Savior of the world, will increase and spread to an alarming degree previous to his second advent.
*Satan has lost none of his skill and power which he has been exercising in past time.
*He can better deceive man now than at Christ's first advent."
Spiritual Gifts E.G.W.

ARCHAEOLOGY: "Floated out to Sea" doesn't Wash

And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
Genesis 7:10

"Discoveries like a new and relatively complete hadrosaur from Japan keep testing secular scientists’ skills to imagine ways whole dinosaurs could have fossilized. These findings also happen to make slick-fitting pieces of the Bible’s picture of the past.

A Hokkaido University press release via EurekAlert noted that the remains were found in “marine deposits.”
The team suggested that it “preferred to inhabit areas near the ocean.” Mingled fossils included sea creatures like “ammonoids, mosasaurs and a sea turtle.”
The hadrosaur didn’t have fins or flippers, so what was it doing there?

The report includes an illustration of a dramatic scene of the Japanese hadrosaur dead and floating belly-up in a still sea with living sea creatures. Gizmodo also reported on this find, saying, “The researchers speculate that its carcass floated out to sea, eventually falling onto the seafloor, allowing it to be preserved in sediment.”

This “floated out to sea” explanation doesn’t wash—we’ve heard this speculation before. It raises the same three unanswered questions in Japan as it does in Montana, the western United States including Colorado, Canada, (where a dinosaur “wasn’t supposed to be there”), England, the rest of Europe, Morocco, (where a dinosaur discovery was “like hunting for fossil whales and finding a fossil lion,”) the Pacific coast from California to Alaska, Mongolia, and who knows where else.

*First, if these animals got washed out to sea, then what kept them from getting scavenged?
*Next, that 2017 nodosaur weighed almost one and a half tons, but this Japanese hadrosaur “weighed upward of 5.3 tons.” How bad does the weather need to get to flush that much bulk out to sea?
*Last, heavy rains can wash animals to sea, such as cows flushed from Australian floods a few months ago. But are they getting stuck in muds with clams, fish, and turtles? Are they turning into whole-body fossils today? Clearly not.

Noah’s Flood must have entombed Kamuysaurus japonicas at about the same time it did the same thing elsewhere around the world."
ICR

Creation Moment 9/29/2019 - Mysteries of the First & the Last

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Revelation 22:13

"The team’s work is among the first to reveal the quantum properties of time, whereby
--the flow of time doesn’t observe a straight arrow forward,
--but one where cause and effect can co-exist both in the forward and backward direction.

To show this scenario, the physicists merged two seemingly conflicting theories — quantum mechanics and general relativity — to conduct a Gedankenexperiment, a way of using the imagination to investigate the nature of things.

“The discovery arose from an experiment we designed to bring together elements of the two big — but contradictory — physics theories developed in the past century,” Dr. Zych explained.
“Our proposal sought to discover: what happens when an object massive enough to influence the flow of time is placed in a quantum state?”
“Einstein’s theory described how the presence of a massive object slowed time,” she added.

“Imagine two space ships, asked to fire at each other at a specified time while dodging the other’s attack.”
“If either fires too early, it will destroy the other.”
“In Einstein’s theory, a powerful enemy could use the principles of general relativity by placing a massive object — like a planet — closer to one ship to slow the passing of time.”
“Because of the time lag, the ship furthest away from the massive object will fire earlier, destroying the other.”

“The second theory, of quantum mechanics, says any object can be in a state of superposition. This means it can be found in different states — think Schrodinger’s cat.”
“Using the theory of quantum mechanics, if the enemy put the planet into a state of quantum superposition, then time also should be disrupted,” Dr. Zych said.
“There would be a new way for the order of events to unfold, with neither of the events being first or second — but in a genuine quantum state of being both first and second.”
BreakingSciNews

Even Catholics...

Come out of her, my people,
that ye be not partakers of her sins,
and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Revelation 18:4

"There are many souls to
---come out of the ranks of the world,
---out of the churches--even the Catholic Church--
whose zeal will far exceed that of those who have stood in rank and file to proclaim the truth heretofore.
For this reason the eleventh hour laborers will receive their penny. These will see the battle coming and will give the trumpet a certain sound.
When the crisis is upon us, when the season of calamity shall come, they will come to the front, gird themselves with the whole armor of God,
--and exalt His law,
--adhere to the faith of Jesus,
--and maintain the cause of religious liberty which reformers defended with toil and for which they sacrificed their lives. . . . "
3SM 386 E.G.W.

On the Streets of Babylon: Chilling with a Dylan Mass?

Babylon is fallen, is fallen,... 
Come out of her, my people,
Revelation 14:8/18:4

There seems to be a "Dylan Mass" on the Streets of Babylon ...

"A Louisiana-based congregation of The Episcopal Church will hold a “Bob Dylan Mass” as a tribute to the famous folk singer and to focus on the messages of his music on Sunday.

Christ Episcopal Church of Covington, whose membership is around 1,200, will hold a “tribute mass” at the 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. services, with musical preludes starting 15 minutes before each service.
The tribute mass will include meditations on three of his songs offered by clergy as well as performances of selections from Dylan’s music, including “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” “The Times They Are a-Changin,'” “Forever Young,” “Mr. Tambourine Man,” and a gospel song Dylan wrote titled “Pressing On.”
CP

Creation Moment 9/28/2019 - Language = Morality, Logic

 But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them;
Psalm 59:8

"Language presupposes morality (because propositions are stated to affirm truths) and logic (because gibberish conveys no meaning). How did language, rationality and morality arise by an evolutionary process?
CEH

SIMPLIFYING True Righteousness By Faith

"The righteousness by which we are justified is imputed;
the righteousness by which we are sanctified is imparted.

 

The first is our title to heaven,

the second is our fitness for heaven.

Both our title to heaven and our fitness for it are found in the righteousness of Christ.

When through repentance and faith we accept Christ as our Savior,

the Lord pardons our sins, and remits the penalty prescribed for the transgression of the law.
The sinner then stands before God as a just person; he is taken into favor with Heaven, and through the Spirit has fellowship with the Father and the Son.
Then there is yet another work to be accomplished, and this is of a progressive nature. The soul is to be sanctified through the truth. And this also is accomplished through faith. For it is only by the grace of Christ, which we receive through faith, that the character can be transformed."
E.G.W.

IN the NEWS - Mattel goes all Rom.1:30

....inventors of evil things... Romans 1:30

"Leading toy brand, Mattel, is launching a gender-neutral Barbie doll. These dolls are geared towards kids who are “non-binary,” “non-conforming” or “gender fluid.” 
The toy line, Createable World, lets kids design their doll to be a boy, a girl or “neither.” Including different clothing, skin colors and hairstyles to celebrate “the positivity of inclusivity.” 
Kim Culmone, senior vice president of Mattel Fashion Doll Design, said in a statement: 
"Toys are a reflection of culture and as the world continues to celebrate the positive impact of inclusivity, we felt it was time to create a doll line free of labels.” 
Culmone claims that research found that kids do not want their toys to be dictated “by gender norms.” (Because six year olds know what that is)."
Pulpit&Pen

Creation Moment 9/27/2019 - When the Gemone Groans

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

"A new review article by Vivian Callier in Quanta Magazine reveals that evolution does not have a weak foundation: It has no foundation.

The subtitle summarizes the dilemma evolutionists are in: “For 50 years, evolutionary theory has emphasized the importance of neutral mutations over adaptive ones in DNA. Real genomic data challenge that assumption.”

Classical Darwinian or “Adaptationist” Evolutionism
In a nutshell, evolution theory has historically postulated that the source of genetic variety is created by genetic mutations which in turn are selected by natural selection.
Improvements in a life-form that enable it to out-compete other life forms are more likely to survive and out-produce its competitors, thus maintaining or improving its position in its ecological niche. Those life-forms that are less able to compete are more apt to go extinct. This is the source of the expression, ‘survival of the fittest.’

One problem has always been the fact that the vast majority of mutations are deleterious, or nearly neutral.
Mildly-deleterious or near-neutral mutations individually cause only minor or no problems, but they add up, in time producing genetic meltdown, causing death and eventually extinction.

One fruitful area of mutational study is cancer. Cancer cells are rife with mutations, and although only a small subset of those mutations are important in causing cancer, they do help us to understand mutations, and especially the commonality of patterns such as hot spots and trends, such as the conversion of the genetic base G to T is a far more common mutation than T to G.
This information will, the evidence so far indicates, destroy both neutral theory as well as evolution based on mutations according to the fact that mutations as a whole tend to degrade the genome and not improve it."
CEH/Bergman

Practical Christ of Matthew 24

Matthew 24:4
 And Jesus answered and said unto them,
Take heed that no man deceive you.

"Jesus was always practical. The most important thing for his disciples was not that they might know when “these things” would be, but that they might be preserved from the peculiar evils of the time." Charles Spurgeon

Prophecy of Matt.24 Covers what Time?

"The prophecy begins being fulfilled during the times of the destruction of Jerusalem and extends all the way up to the end of the world.

Therefore, the prophecy covers both the events of 70AD and the Second Coming, and this can be seen immediately in verse 3:Matthew 24:1-2
(1) And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple, and his disciples came to him for to shew him the building OF the temple.
(2) And Jesus said unto them, See ye not ALL these things? Verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
(3) And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?"
AdventistDefenseLeague

Seeing Matt. 24:38 Fulfilling

For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark...
Matthew 24:38

"The sun shines in the heavens, passing over its usual round,
and the heavens still declare the glory of God;

men are pursuing their usual course of

eating and drinking,

planting and building,

marrying and giving in marriage; 

merchants are still engaged in buying and selling;

publications are still issuing one upon another;

men are jostling one against another, 

seeking to get the highest place;

pleasure lovers are still attending theaters,

horse races,

gambling

and the highest excitement prevails; 

but probation's hour is fast closing, and every case is about to be eternally decided.
There are few who believe with heart and soul that we have a heaven to win and a hell to shun; but these show their faith by their works.
Satan sees that he has but a short time in which to work, and he has set his agencies to work to stir up the elements of the world, that men may be

deceived, 

deluded,

and kept occupied and entranced

until the day of probation shall be ended, and the door of mercy be forever shut."
Counsels to Teachers, p.413-414 E.G.W.