IN the NEWS - God's "Biosphere 1" vs. Manmade "Bioshphere 2"

--Biosphere 1--

And God saw every thing that he had made,

and, behold, it was very good.

Genesis 1:31

--Biosphere 2--

"In the 1990s, a troupe of hippies spent two years sealed inside a dome called Biosphere 2.......the outside world – Biosphere 1, if you prefer....Looking back, it’s amazing that Biosphere 2 even happened at all.

They ended up starving
and gasping for breath .

As a new documentary Spaceship Earth tells their story, we meet the ‘biospherians’.

Biosphere 2’s origins lie in late-1960s San Francisco, and a man named John P Allen. Already in his 40s by then, Allen was something of a renaissance man: a Harvard graduate, a metallurgist, a union organiser, a beat poet, and a traveller studying indigenous cultures. He founded an idealistic performance group called the Theatre of All Possibilities. As the name suggests, they wanted to change the world but weren’t sure where to start. Art? Business? Ecology? Technology? In classic counterculture fashion, they decided: “Let’s do all of it!”

They turned their desert ranch into a self-sufficient homestead, planting trees and raising buildings, including a Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome.

In 1975, they even decided to build a ship. Their chief designer was a 19-year-old student with no experience of boatbuilding, but it proved perfectly seaworthy. They sailed around the world for several years, researching the Earth’s ecosystems.
Having learned how these worked, they were ready to build their own. If humankind was going to settle other planets, they reasoned, it would need to learn how to replicate Earth.

The Biosphere 2 launch was staged like a space mission. The media descended on the $150m Arizona facility, all gleaming white panels and ziggurats of glass, filled with forests, deserts, laboratories, recycling systems, pigs, chickens, hummingbirds, bush babies, and even a coral reef. There were speeches and fireworks as the jumpsuited volunteers sealed themselves in for the two-year journey into the unknown.

After a stable start, problems began to emerge. Food, for one. “We really could have used more calories,” says Linda Leigh, another biospherian.
Leigh had been involved with stocking Biosphere 2 with wild plants, but many of the food crops were too slow or too labor-intensive to be worthwhile. The wild coffee bushes took a fortnight to produce enough for one cup.
Rather than luxuriating in a Garden of Eden, the biospherians became more like subsistence farmers. There was a lot of beetroot and sweet potato. “It was a challenge to make exciting meals,” says Leigh. Everyone lost a lot of weight.

On top of that, oxygen levels decreased faster than anticipated, with

a corresponding build-up of carbon dioxide. Earth’s atmosphere is about 21% oxygen, but inside the biosphere it fell to 14.2 %. “It felt like mountain-climbing,” Nelson recalls. “Some of the crew started getting sleep apnoea. I noticed I couldn’t finish a long sentence without stopping and taking a breath of air. We worked in a kind of slow-motion dance, with no energy wasted. If the oxygen levels had dropped any lower, there could have been serious health issues.”

Understandably, morale deteriorated. Living under biosphere conditions was a challenge at the best of times. If the coronavirus lockdown feels restrictive, imagine spending two years with the same seven people and no internet. Nelson likens it to “a marathon group therapy session”. Added to which, true to their theatrical origins, the biospherians were on permanent display. Coachloads of tourists and schoolchildren arrived daily to tap on the glass and take pictures of the emaciated crew. Leigh remembers anthropologist Jane Goodall coming to visit. “She observed us like we were captive primates.”

Biosphere 2’s difficulties had not gone unnoticed, though Allen and the team had tried to conceal them. Eventually extra food was smuggled in and two oxygen pop-ups followed."
Guardian

ARCHAEOLOGY: Peek into Pre-Flood "Northern Hemisphere"

There were giants in the earth in those days....
Genesis 6:4

"Giant Penguin-Like Seabirds Lived in Northern Hemisphere.
Plotopterids (family Plotopteridae) are extinct, flightless and wing-

propelled diving birds that combine a striking mosaic of features characteristic for true penguins and pelecaniform birds like gannets, boobies, cormorants, and anhingas.
The wing of plotopterids is remarkably similar to the flipper of penguins, to which it shows numerous parallels.
Their fossils have been found at a number of sites in the United States (California, Oregon, and Washington), Canada (British Columbia) and Japan."
SciNews

A Good Observation about Offerings

"The matter of offerings is of course left largely to the individual.

For some, an offering of a few cents would involve more sacrifice

than the gift of a thousand dollars would for another.

Should the man with ample wealth give a hundred dollars without having to make any sacrifice, it would not be so acceptable in the sight of Heaven as would a few dimes from one who had to deprive himself of some necessity in consequence of his gift.

“For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man has, and not according to what he has not.” (2 Corinthians 8:12)

But while each individual must use his own judgment as to how much he will give, the obligation to make offerings rests upon all; for the Lord, through the prophet Malachi, accuses his people of robbing him in the matter of offerings; but the withholding of offerings could not be called robbery if the Lord had no claim on us beyond our tithe."
E.J.Waggoner 

IN the NEWS - Prince of Persia Stalking Indianapolis

And hath made of one blood all nations of men [in other words ALL LIVES MATTER] for to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Acts 17:26

"BLM Supporters Celebrate Death of Mother Shot Dead For Saying “All Lives Matter”.
BLM supporters flooded a Facebook page belonging to Jessica Doty Whitaker, the young mother who was shot dead for saying “all lives matter,” to celebrate her death.

Yes, really.
Whitaker was killed after she encountered a group of Black Lives Matter supporters while walking along a canal in Indianapolis after a Fourth of July celebration with her fiance and two friends.
During the confrontation, Whitaker said “all lives matter,” prompting the BLM supporters to draw weapons.

Although it initially appeared that the confrontation had been de-escalated, the murderers subsequently shot Whitaker several times before fleeing the scene.
The incident received scant media attention.
Now Black Lives Matter supporters have flooded Whitaker’s Facebook page to justify and celebrate her brutal killing."
NewsWars

Creation Moment 7/19/2020 - Dr. Eugenie Scott's personal war on Genesis 1

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.
Romans 1:20

"Kaden had an interview with a leading American anti-creationist, Dr. Eugenie Scott.

In the interview transcript, she describes what introduced her to the controversy.
When a student in her lab class questioned the evidence for evolution, her response was that the animals spread out on the dissecting table showed comparative anatomy, which proved evolution: “[W]hat  could possibly be the explanation for all the similarity between fish and amphibia and mammals other than evolution… I was sort of surprised that anybody would reject evolution.”

Soon after Eugenie Scott encountered a Darwin doubter, she was

confronted with others living in her state of Kentucky who also did not accept evolution. Her reaction was “this is terrible.”  

A short time later she was invited by a rabbi and some Presbyterian ministers and Catholic Priests to make a presentation to the Lexington Alliance of Religious Leaders (LARL) on what creation science actually was; to her, it was ignorant biblical literalism. They concluded, if “biblical literalism was taught Monday through Friday they [the clergy] had to straighten out the kids on Sunday [teach evolution as fact].”

Eugenie Scott founded the organization today known as The National Center for Science Education (NCSE). The organization was first located in her basement, then, as the money poured in from others who also agreed with her that creationism was

dangerous and must be stopped, it moved to a large office in Berkeley, California.

Its goal was to, by any means necessary, including judicial decree (i.e., by court action), prevent the propagation of these ideas to the public—especially in government schools.

This background of the founding of the misnamed “National Center for Science Education” (NCSE) helps one understand the worldwide spread of pro-evolution and anti-creation propaganda that soon dominated the colleges, including Christian colleges. As Scott explains, the NCSE had to move every few years to larger facilities to deal with their growth, expanded activities, and growing influence.
Their one-quarter million active members and supporters indicates the level of their influence in the West. Through the influence of the NCSE, textbooks have been modified to include much more evolution dogma, and evolutionary claims have been put in every chapter instead of the last chapter."
CEH

IN the NEWS - 2 POSSIBLE SIGNS from the Sun to Fret about... (Just saying...)

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring. Luke 21:25

"To the unaided eye, the Sun might seem relatively docile.
But our star is constantly bombarding the solar system with vast amounts of energy and particles in the form of the solar wind. Sometimes, however, formidable eruptions on the Sun’s surface cause coronal mass ejections, or especially energetic floods of particles — including ions and electrons — that careen through the solar system at breakneck speeds.

When they reach Earth, these charged particles can interfere with satellites, and under extreme circumstances, take down power grids.
The new research suggests that particles from powerful eruptions like this — specifically, the positively charged ions — might be responsible for triggering groups of strong earthquakes.

Previous experiments have clearly shown that compressing quartz, a rock common in the Earth’s crust, can generate an electrical pulse through a process known as the piezoelectric effect.
The researchers think that such small pulses could destabilize faults that are already close to rupturing, triggering earthquakes.
In fact, signatures from electromagnetic events — such as earthquake lightning and radio waves — have been recorded occurring alongside earthquakes in the past. Some researchers think these events are caused by the earthquakes themselves. But several other studies have detected strong electromagnetic anomalies before large earthquakes, not after, so the exact nature of the relationship between earthquakes and electromagnetic events is still debated."
Astronomy

IN the NEWS - Green Prophets Time Setting Disagree

And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
Matthew 24:11

"Former vice president and Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden said Tuesday the United States only has nine years to address climate change as he vowed to deliver net zero emissions by 2050 — 30 years from now.

“Science tells us we have nine years before the damage is irreversible,” Biden said.

This contradicts what Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said last year when she was promoting the radical Green New Deal, as Breitbart News reported, including producing a video where she said 12 years was the deadline to prevent climate change catastrophe."
Breitbart

The Realm of Religion

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
2 Corinthians 5:10

"The realm of religion is the realm of God.
 
In that realm God alone is Sovereign, and His will is the only law.

And in that realm the individual stands alone with God, and responsible to Him alone."
A.T.Jones      

Q & A on the Millennium Series: Where will Lucifer Be?

Millennium Q & A from Steps To Life...

Q: Where will Lucifer be during the thousand years?

A: And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Revelation 20:1-3

Creation Moment 7/18/2020 - "Big Bang" Problems Simplified

For he spake, and it was done... Psalm 33:9

"The big bang model has undergone a tremendous amount of refinement since it became the dominant cosmogony a half-century ago.
---In the 1970s, cosmologists identified two problems for the big

bang model, the horizon problem and the flatness problem.
---In the 1980s, cosmic inflation was developed to explain away these two problems.
*Cosmic inflation is a hypothetical brief hyper expansion of the universe (far faster than the speed of light) that occurred between 10^-34 and 10^-32 seconds after the universe came into existence. Cosmic inflation is widely accepted today, though there is no evidence for it."
AIG/Dr. Danny Faulkner

IN the NEWS - National Day for Lesbian Visibility

"Argentina has presented a recommendation that March 7 be the “National Day for Lesbian Visibility” throughout the country.

 

The March 7 date would seek to commemorate Natalia Gaitán, a young lesbian who was murdered, as well as to honor the entire lesbian community.

 

The March 7 project would also call upon the National Ministry of Education to incorporate this day as part of the educational curriculum for school systems. This is all part of the new indoctrination program to bring the LGBT+ movement to light (visibility) as a source of pride, acceptance and social recognition.

 

On the contrary, March 7 should be a day of shame and disgrace because Argentina  has been in total economic and moral ruin for more than 20 years. Just outside the rainbow-colored capitol in Buenos Aires, young children are on the streets trying to “scrape by from meal to meal.” 13% of all children in Argentina  go hungry every night. Hunger and poverty are a real plague in Argentina, and the best these leaders can do is proclaim a new day for “lesbian visibility.”

 

But instead of repentance and mourning, there is a cry of joy. It is called the joyful cry of Sodom.

“For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.” Isaiah 3:9 (ESV).

 Remember, Abraham and Lot were minorities in Sodom and Gomorrah, and so it is today. Those who still believe and teach the moral truths of God’s word are again in the minority."
AdventMessenger

Q & A on the Millennium Series: State of the Earth

Millennium Q & A from Steps To Life...

Q: What will the earth be like during the thousand years while the

righteous are reigning with Jesus in heaven?

A: I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.  The whole land shall be desolate...
Jeremiah 4:23,25,27

Creation Moment 7/17/2020 - Dawkins' Circular Argument

Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise?
Deuteronomy 33:26

"Richard Dawkins states:

Evolution is a fact, and [my] book will demonstrate it. No reputable scientist disputes it, and no unbiased reader will close the book doubting it.

In one sense, Dawkins’ argument is circular.
Evolutionists have actively sought to ban instruction in YEC views in the classroom.
Then they turn around and use the results of this ban as evidence of the supposedly unscientific nature of YEC."
AIG

Q & A on the Millennium Series: What about Burial?

Millennium Q & A from Steps To Life...

Q: If the righteous are taken to heaven at Jesus’ second coming, and all the wicked are destroyed, who will be left to bury them?

A: And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.
Jeremiah 25:33

IN the NEWS - Then there's this Fear....

Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth..
Luke 21:26

"Security experts raise concerns that extremist groups have more interest in using deadly pathogens as weapons. 

ISIS is understood to be re-examining its experiments on using bubonic plague as a weapon and there are concerns the extremist group will try to attack a level 4, high-security biosafety laboratory.
Mr. de Bretton-Gordon also examined the group's research into using Ebola as a weapon.
You can imagine what an attack or explosion at one of these labs could do, especially psychologically.”
TheWorld
 

Papal Notes - Francis' Influence

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies... 2 Peter 2:1

"Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision Friday to

convert Hagia Sophia, the foremost cathedral in Christendom for nearly 1,000 years, to a mosque has been condemned the world over, but it has also garnered applause from at least one Christian theologian, the liberal Anglican Giles Fraser.

Fraser said: “Now I am no particular fan of Turkish leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but when it comes to his desire to return this once holy place back to a mosque, I cannot but applaud.” He even asserted that “Christians should be delighted” by this development, for “the curse of secularism will be lifted and this holy space will return once again to the praise of Almighty God. Allahu Akbar.”

Fraser can blithely scream “Allahu Akbar” because he has no idea of the implications of the phrase. It does not mean “God is great,” its most common translation in the English-language media. It is, rather, the aggressive declaration that Allah and Islam are dominant over every other form of government, religion, law, or ethic, which is why Islamic jihadists in the midst of killing infidels so often shout it.

But Fraser is not concerned about that, because he thinks his god is the same as the god of Islam in any case. “And to those Christians who believe that Muslims and Christians worship something different,” he says, “I offer no less an authority than the Pope himself. Ahead of his trip to Morocco last year, the Pope tweeted- ‘I am coming as a pilgrim of peace and fraternity. We Christians and Muslims believe in God, the Creator and the Merciful, who

created people to live like brothers and sisters, respecting each other in their diversity, and helping one another in their needs.’”

Fraser adds: “This view goes back to the Second Vatican Council, where it was affirmed that Muslims, ‘together with us adore the one, merciful God.’”

Giles Fraser has offered an argument from authority, which is: Christians and Muslims worship the same God because Pope Francis and the Second Vatican Council say so.

In reality, there are immediate and obvious differences: the Trinity,

the Crucifixion, and the divinity of Christ. Beyond that, Islam in its traditional theological formulations denies free will, the nature of good and evil, and the nature of the deity."
RobertSpencer/PJMedia

Creation Moment 7/16/2020 - That Lesser Light

And God made ...and the lesser light to rule the night... Genesis 1:16

"The theories for the origin of the moon and its subsequent evolution unravel when you try to stuff long ages into a young body.
 
There’s this assumption that the moon is long dead, but we keep finding that that’s not the case.

Here are some recent articles about the moon, with “surprise effects” quoted.
The moon isn’t ‘dead’: Ridges on lunar surface show signs of recent tectonic activity (Space.com, 4 May 2020).
Ridges observed with little regolith on top cannot be explained by ancient volcanism. “Newly discovered ridges on the moon’s surface are leading scientists to think that the moon might have an active tectonic system.” Five times the article says that active tectonic movements could still be occurring today.

“There’s this assumption that the moon is long dead, but we keep finding that that’s not the case,” Shultz said in the same statement. “From this paper, it appears that the moon may still be creaking and cracking — potentially in the present day — and we can see the evidence on these ridges."

The moon is emitting carbon, raising questions about how it was formed (New Scientist, 6 May 2020). Volatile elements containing carbon were supposed to be long gone by now, this article says, but there’s more present than can be accumulated from known sources.

The researchers compared the moon’s carbon emissions with estimates of the carbon supplied by two external sources – the solar wind, and collisions with micrometeoroids – and found they didn’t match up. “The emission is a bit larger than the supply from outer space,” says Yokota.

 New evidence shows giant meteorite impacts formed parts of the Moon’s crust (Phys.org 11 May 2020, from the Royal Ontario Museum). The idea that additional impacts mixed up the material in the lunar crust sounds like special pleading. Tiny grains from Apollo 17 samples show crystals that only could have formed at very high temperatures:

The scientists conducted new research of a unique rock collected by NASA astronauts during the 1972 Apollo 17 mission to the Moon. They found it contains mineralogical evidence that it formed at incredibly high temperatures (in excess of 2300 °C/ 4300 °F) that can only be achieved by the melting of the outer layer of a planet in a large impact event.

And so this team contradicts the prior team that imagined “milder temperatures” when it formed. The Royal Ontario scientists performed divination on crystals to visualize a storm of impacts mixing the crustal rocks.

“By first looking at this rock, I was amazed by how differently the minerals look compared to other Apollo 17

samples,” says Dr. Ana Cernok, Hatch Postdoctoral Fellow at the ROM and co-author of the study. “Although smaller than a millimetre, the baddeleyite grain that caught our attention was the largest one I have ever seen in Apollo samples. This small grain is still holding the evidence for formation of an impact basin that was hundreds of kilometres in diameter. This is significant, because we do not see any evidence of these old impacts on Earth.”

Radar Points to Moon Being More Metallic Than Researchers Thought (NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, 1 July 2020). Planetary scientists believe that the bulk composition of the Earth and Moon are largely similar, but higher levels of titanium and iron than expected have been found in the largest craters near the poles. That doesn’t fit the favored theory of a giant impact. Now they don’t know if the Earth contributed those metals or the impactor did – or, maybe neither did.

• “The LRO mission and its radar instrument continue to surprise us with new insights about the origins and complexity of our nearest neighbor,” a lead LRO scientist says.
• “It was a surprising relationship that we had no reason to believe would exist,” another said of the dielectric constant that increased with crater diameter, but then leveled off.
• “This exciting result from Mini-RF shows that even after 11 years in operation at the Moon, we are still making new discoveries about the ancient history of our nearest neighbor,” another LRO scientist named Noah comments.
• “It really raises the question of what this means for our previous formation hypotheses,” another says.

A long-lived magma ocean on a young Moon (Maurice and four others, Science Advances, 10 July 2020). After asserting the standard Giant Impact model in the Abstract, this paper presents problems: a “long-lived magma ocean” on a “young moon.” But this is how secular scientists talk about long-ago events that nobody witnessed: bluffing certitude followed by admission of poor evidence.

A giant impact onto Earth led to the formation of the Moon, resulted in a lunar magma ocean (LMO), and initiated the last event of core segregation on Earth. However, the timing and temporal link of these events remain uncertain.

Want to see some of the uncertainty? In the paper, they say,

The LMO solidification time scale of up to ~200 Ma

inferred from our model seems inconsistent with the chronology of LMO products. Crystallization ages for ferroan anorthosites (FANs), representing the LMO’s flotation crust, range from ~100 to ~200 Ma after the beginning of the solar system. However, this range may not reflect true differences in formation ages, because some of these ages have large uncertainties and different chronometers have not yielded concordant results.

And yet they end up claiming that all the data converge on the consensus age of 4.4 billion years for the moon! Can anybody believe these guys? They pick and choose the evidences that give them the result they already believed in. That is not good science. What about the evidences shown above for recent tectonic activity and carbon emissions going on today? And yet today, all the popular science news sites like Phys.org are parroting their press release that the moon is “younger than thought” by (wow) 4.425 billion years instead of 4.51 billion years – as if it is even scientifically possible to calculate such a thing to four significant figures. What chutzpah!"
CEH

IN the NEWS - uh oh.....

...for there shall be great distress in the land, ....Men's hearts failing them for fear...
Luke 21:23,26

"Virtually all of us assumed that one way or another eventually most of the population would develop COVID-19 antibodies and that once we got to that point the pandemic would fizzle out. 

Unfortunately, it appears that was not a safe assumption to make.

Yes, those that have had COVID-19 do develop antibodies.
But two new scientific studies have discovered that those antibodies start to fade very, very quickly.
For example, a study that was recently conducted in China found

that more than 90 percent of COVID-19 patients experience steep declines in COVID-19 antibodies “within 2 to 3 months”…

And a very large study that was just conducted in Spain found that some patients that had initially successfully developed antibodies “no longer had antibodies weeks later”…

If antibodies can fade in some patients within weeks, and if just

about everyone loses them after a few months, that would render any vaccine almost completely useless.
And if these findings are confirmed, we can pretty much forget about ever achieving “herd immunity”.

Instead, we are potentially facing a future in which COVID-19 will be with us permanently, and people will need to understand that there is a possibility that they will be able to get infected repeatedly.

If you stop and really think about what all of this means,

 it will chill you to the core.

It means that COVID-19 is never going away.

And every time you get it, the more severe it is likely to be. 
Each time it will do even more permanent damage to your system until it finally finishes you off.
I seriously wish that what I was telling you was not true.

Needless to say, a lot more scientific studies need to be conducted, and hopefully those additional studies will show that the studies that were done in China and Spain were completely wrong."
ZeroHedge

Q & A on the Millennium Series: As for the wicked....

Millennium Q & A from Steps To Life...

Q: What will happen to the wicked when Christ returns?

A: And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
Revelation 14:19

Creation Moment 7/15/2020 - Spit as Evolution's Divination Devices

Feeling insecure about your relationship? Your biology may play a role (McGill University).

"Evolutionary psychologists in Montreal asked a hundred couples to keep diaries of their feelings in their romantic relationships. The psychologists snooped on these diaries, correlated them with samples of their spit, and used them as divination devices to see the image of Darwin.

This work is part of a broader literature suggesting that, in the course of our evolutionary history, primitive pain-regulating mechanisms may have been “borrowed” to regulate our attachment to close others, on whom we depend on nurturance and survival." CEH

 Forsake the foolish... Proverbs 9:6

IN the NEWS - Biden goes all Laudato Si’

And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Revelation 13:12

"Laudato Si’ is just one of the papacy’s methods to accomplish her purpose. There is a call to make Sunday the day of rest within the

framework of Laudato Si’.

Joe Biden is running for president and he has presented his “vision for America.” Part of his vision is to establish an economy with “100 percent clean energy” and “zero emissions” in the United States.
On his official campaign website, Biden has promised to become a steward of “our creation and protect our planet against climate change.” And how exactly will he save America? His agenda focuses on Pope Francis’ climate change encyclical, Laudato Si’:
Joe Biden’s Presidential Campaign states:

• In his encyclical, Laudato Si’, Pope Francis directed the global community to raise awareness about the growing climate change crisis.....

More than 100 years ago we were warned that as we got closer to the end we would see an ascendancy of Rome’s agenda in our nation:

“Catholicism is gaining ground upon every side. See the

increasing number of her churches and chapels in Protestant countries. Look at the popularity of her colleges and seminaries in America, so widely patronized by Protestants … Protestants have tampered with and patronized popery; they have made compromises and concessions which papists themselves are surprised to see, and fail to understand” (Great Controversy, p. 566).

 We can say what we want about President Donald Trump, but it is Joe Biden who is pushing Laudato Si’ in America! "
AdventMessenger

Q & A on the Millennium Series: Where will they be?

Millennium Q & A from Steps To Life...

Q: Where will the righteous be taken at Jesus’ second coming in order to reign with Him for a thousand years?
A: In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
John 14:2, 3

Sipping that "Wine" since Eden

"Satan rebelled in heaven because he was jealous of Jesus. (See Isaiah 14:12-14.)
He wanted to take the place of Jesus, but he had at least 2 strikes against him:
1) He was a created being – not the Creator,
2) As such he was not self-existing.

Like the rest of creation he is dependent upon God for life.
Only the Godhead are, immortal or self-existing.

When rebellion spread to this planet satan attacked God on both of these points.

The first attack was made at the tree of the knowledge of good and

evil, in the Garden of Eden.
God had given Adam and Eve just one restriction – they could not eat from the forbidden tree or they would die. Satan met Eve at that tree one day and said: “You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:4).

---Here he served Eve the wine of the immortality of the soul.
Satan said she would not die but continue living in a higher state of being.
This wine is still being served in the fallen churches of Babylon today.

---Babylon has also drunk Satan’s wine that God did not create the world in six literal day according to the Biblical account.
All but a small handful of Christian churches have accepted some variation of the theory of evolution, thus discarding God as the Creator, and His seventh day Sabbath as the memorial of that fact. In its place they have accepted the pagan “day of the sun” in honor of Christ’s resurrection."
DickBullock/Fulcrum7 

Creation Moment 7/14/2020 - The Simple Language of the Works of God

"The idea is, that no matter what language a people speaks, all can understand the language of the heavens.
Their message can be read much more easily than if they uttered an audible sound; for all people on earth cannot understand the same articulate speech, but all who have reason can read the simple language of the works of God.

Addison expresses this thought in the following beautiful lines: -

"The spacious firmament on high,
With all the blue, ethereal sky,
And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great Original proclaim;
The unwearied sun, from day to day
Does his Creator's power display,
And publishes to every land
The work of an Almighty hand.

"Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale;
And nightly, to the listening earth
Repeats the story of her birth;
While all the stars that round her burn,
And all the planets in their turn,
Confirm the tidings as they roll,
And spread the truth from pole to pole.

"What though in solemn silence, all
Move round the dark terrestrial ball?
What though no real voice nor sound
Amid their radiant orbs be found?
In reason's ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth a glorious voice,
For ever singing, as they shine,
'The hand that made us is Divine.'"

The Gospel is the power of God, and the power of God is manifest in the things that He has made; therefore the Psalmist is speaking of the Gospel, which the heavens teach. 

 The Apostle Paul in Romans 10.15-18 shows that this is so, "How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report? So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. But I say, have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world."

 

The apostle is here speaking about the Gospel, which, he says, all have not obeyed. Then he declares that all have heard, and as proof that they have all heard he quotes from Psalm 19, "Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world."

Their words concerning what? Why, concerning the Gospel, of course. Thus we have a plain statement that the heavens do preach the Gospel. There is no man so illiterate that he cannot read the Gospel; no man so deaf or so isolated that he cannot hear a gospel sermon."

E.J.Waggoner

Acta Sanctorum

From John Adams writing to Thomas Jefferson about the Jesuit Acta Sanctorum [an encyclopedic text in 68 folio volumes of documents examining the lives of Christian saints].

"From all that I have read, of the Legends, of the Lives and Writings of the Saints and even of the Fathers, and of Ecclesiastical History in general: I have no doubt that the Acta Sanctorum is the most enormous Mass of Lies Frauds, Hypocracy and Imposture, that ever was heaped together upon this globe."
John Adams
Remove out of the midst of Babylon... Jeremiah 50:8