 
### Big Speech or Big Bang: Contemporary Christianity

### By DR Chukwudozie S. Nzewi

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Copyright © 2012 DR Chukwudozie S.Nzewi

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## Foreword

This work reconciles the Bible with frontline physics. Creation is discussed in terms of Quantum physics and it is shown that all energy originates from God whose light is so bright that the sun will not be needed in the new Jerusalem and whose goings are associated with lightenings and thunderings and the glowing of Moses's face. Elijah ascended to heaven on a rocket and vortex hybrid.

The Lord of the Sabaath, our Lord Jesus Christ suspended Natural Law once again to ascend to heaven. He had done it so many times already: removing all energy from a low pressure system and calming a storm by the power of his mouth, the same way he called all things into being. He turned water into wine- working in particle physics and quarks. He created matter many times in new body parts and in multiplied bread and fish. This book is for the twenty-first century man showing the Bible very up to date and relevant.

It displays unmatched design in creation using the eye; surface area to volume concept in exchange membranes of the intestines, kidneys and lungs; molecular machines demonstrated using the blood oxygen carrier hemoglobin; the C4 plants: wheat, barley, sorghum, rice, corn which are designed solar panels that convert solar energy into carbon and feed the world; the T4 virus that generates more torque than a Ferrari; fuel cell technology in you and I and more.

The contemporary issues of the church are handled: the seeker-friendly approach, lack of zeal, the need for holiness, abortion, euthanasia, humanity, church growth and other issues.

How to become a Christian: salvation, the gifts of the Spirit and the fruits of the Spirit and the weapons of our warfare are discussed.

The book closes with this anecdote: the difference between men and women is a ring, a chemical ring. Find out about this in the book, the very last page.

DR Nzewi C. S.

Acknowledgement

I want to thank God the Father for allowing me to write to his glory, God the Son through whom all things were made, God the Holy Spirit who teaches me all things.

### Big Speech or Big Bang: Contemporary Christianity

## Introduction

"If the world has begun with a single quantum, the notions of space and time would altogether fail to have any meaning at the beginning; they would only begin to have a sensible meaning when the original quantum had been divided into a sufficient number of quanta. If this suggestion is correct, the beginning of the world happened a little before the beginning of space and time."

This quote by the formulator of the Big Bang theory, a Catholic priest, Mon. George Lemaitre, a Belgian was made in favor of a created beginning to the universe to counter-act steady-state theorists who proposed a universe that had always been, that matter is eternal. The term Big Bang arose in an altogether different circumstance. It was first used pejoratively in a radio program against those who were bringing religious influence into physics by suggesting there was a beginning.

It is interesting how the frontlines have changed, that the Big Bang proposition of a clergyman then unpopular (most scientist held the steady state view) is now the default stance of science. The steady state theory has crumbled to evidence over time. But I wish to bring the science even closer to an energetic God whose radiance makes the sun redundant and propose a controlled step-wise creation process, as the Bible states, over six days. A theory of multiple singularities that yielded sudden order by intention. Sudden matter/energy cataclysms that were no less instantaneous than the Big Bang theory concedes(of the order of microseconds and complete under one second) coming about by a vocal proclamations "let the be", but yielded purpose and beauty. This book shows how this can be.

There was a time when there was no time and no space.

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## Chapter One: Big Speech or Big Bang

### The Big bang is the current theory of the origin of the universe whereby a cataclysmic amount of energy in a point space over an extremely short period of time was released in an explosion resulting in some of the energy being transformed into mass- matter as we see it today. And this matter has been expanding rapidly away from each other as would be expected of an explosive event.

### This theory as has always been noted does not provide a full answer as to the beginning of existence. What was the source of the energy? I also want to add that the explosion ab initio was subject to physical laws, for example, the expanding universe is doing so against gravity-which would have been present at the very beginning. This implies the physical laws came into existence as early as or preceded energy.

### What is the fundamental nature of energy? What is the nature of the fundamental forces: gravity, the strong force, the weak force? What pushes two magnets together? The answer to these questions is the origin of existence. That which makes two magnets run towards each other and collide so spectacularly also made the universe. Dead things are still. When something moves we suppose it is alive. If it is not alive we look for a second party. Who will be animate or inanimate like the wind. In the case of the magnets we see nothing except the motion and the sound-the energy.

### Mass and Energy which came first.

### The theory of the Big Bang says energy came first. Energy permeating matter and trafficking space.

## What is the relationship between Energy and mass?

### The relationship between energy and mass is motion. E=mc squared; or simply increase in entropy on heating. Energy causes matter to move. The movement of the two magnets is at a gross scale. We can reasonably suspect that an application of energy produced the motion of the magnets, as it would were atoms or electrons (at a much smaller scale). We have been wont to explain these movements at the level of force. We would say a magnetic force pulled the magnets together. Then the question of who applied the force will arise and it does not go back to the beginning because there is no talk of force at the beginning but energy. So a quantum of energy was applied on the magnets like at the supposed Big Bang to produce the dispersal in the universe, in our magnet model to examine the issue a collision, though it could be the opposite. So energy moved the universe and energy moves the magnet. The laws governing the movement of the magnets are present every time they

### move relative to each other. They will cause the magnets to move apart if like poles where brought together.

### The particle physics of magnetism cannot explain the property of an inanimate object to generate force. We associate force with will and you don't have will you cannot have force. Like inanimate objects and dead things. Or should we rethink.

### The energy that moves the magnets is not intrinsic to them, where does it come from? Since the magnets behave the same way all the time and everywhere it speaks that the energy that moves them is everywhere as is intermingled with space itself.

### Another way to describe the events would be that some standing laws go into action each time the magnets are in close proximity. Better still, that the laws operate throughout the universe at all times. Is energy the consequence of natural law, manifesting as the events that occur to keep the law? Or is energy independent of natural law, a separate ingredient supplied to enable the keeping of the law? Is energy induced by the law that as nature complies with set rules we see energy? Which first energy or law? Whether energy is the manifestation of natural forcing action or independent of natural but a creative bolus to drive effects as defined my natural law the issue of importance is its source.

### Let's see what scripture says:

3 And he that sat was to look upon like jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

5 And out of the throne preceded lightings and thundering and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

6 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.

### The picture of energy (lightenings and thunderings) emanating from the throne of God and materials( sea of glass as unto crystal), liquid glass is very hot, crystal refers to higher purity and hardness which require higher energy. This scene was in heaven.The scene with the closest semblance to this on earth is an erupting volcano and magma or larva.

### And that is what is seen on earth:

### From Exodus 19:

18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

### Read this eye witness account from Exodus 20

18 ¶ and all the people saw the thundering, and the lightings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

### 19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

### The presence of God Almighty is always erupting with energy. In Exodus 33 the face of Moses shone with radiant energy having been in the presence of God.

And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses west not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.

Get the scale of the energy from Revelations 21:23

And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moons, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof.

### The glory of God, his presence is so luminous it can lighten a city.

### We find here a primary source for the energy of the big bang and the magnetic clatter. But creation happened through the spoken word. What is the relationship between energy and words?

## What is the relationship between energy and words?

What is the mechanism of the spoken blessing or spoken curse? Both in the Bible and culturally it is accepted that the two are effectual. We may discover the relationship between energy and words by examining the mechanism of the spoken curse and blessing.

  1. ### Curses and blessings are spoken by persons in authority over their subordinate.

  2. ### The Lord Jesus is the word of God. This is the most esoteric concept in Christianity as if Christianity was enough. In a very Godly way. Now see: first the triune God, the virgin birth, righteousness by faith, the in-dwelling Spirit of the only God( the only proper way), power, prophecy and then the Lord Jesus being the Word of God. It may be seen in this way: that when the God-head speaks it is the Lord Jesus who goes forth. If we remember that He is spirit it becomes easy hoe he could be Word.

  3. ### The words I speak they are spirit and they a life. Spirit makes alive , energy makes alight.

  4. ### Without any further activity effects are produced on the subordinate. Where does the energy come from?

### Like the magnets this contemporary practice of blessing and cursing could help understand creation which happened thousands of ago. For there seems to be attested creative power and destructive power in them

### Some considerations about the spoken word.

### 1 The Bible says if we speak to a mountain and believe what we say in our hearts we shall have what we said. So if we do not believe we shall not have what we said. What is the difference between believing and unbelieving words? Unbelieving words are bereft of energy, believing words are packed with energy. How? Belief happens in the heart. It adds energy to the words to effect the meaning of the words. Energy from God.

### Since humans do not possess the power in themselves to bring about the clauses in a blessing, for example, but depend on God to perform it. It seems to follow that the unvocalized law of magnetism that draws the magnets together with acclat also depends on God for the performance .

### Thus from this analysis it seems the magnets are moved by energy from God. The same way God works out a word of blessing, a believed declaration and prophecy. Indeed the Lord Jesus mixed the spoken word and physics very dramatically. He spoke to the wind and quelled the storms; He spoke to a tree and it withered; and he turned water into wine. This last event especially worked in particle physics: a human proposed pathway could entail reducing the hydrogen and oxygen atoms in water to fundamental particles may be quarks, and reconstituting other elements found in wine apart from hydrogen and oxygen, and combining them to produce the correct balance of substances in the best wine ever. Most certainly there was operation in realm of the fundamental laws of nature either by providing the requisite amount of energy required to sponsor the transformation or the stating of new law even if it be only for that situation. Most comprehensively to answer the question Big Bang or Big speech are the myriad creation events by the spoken word the Lord Jesus, and also apostles, performed making body parts in part or in whole in countless miracles. The Lord Jesus overcame gravity in the quelling the storm on the lake (for gravity is a principal force in the formation of storms, and ultimately when He ascended 'free rise' to heaven. It would seem 'free rise' for as far as the eyes could see there was no energy dispensation to overcome gravity. As rockets and the shuttle require. Or may be Elijah in the flaming chariots. Elijah's may have been an energy release (the fire suggests gravity was overcome with energy, his accommodation in the transport would then be a second part of the miracle, high heat and low pressures), while the Lord Jesus's ascending to heaven may have been restatement of natural law. So we see that energy and natural law emanate (originate) from God. That by the spoken word God made matter, energy and form. And that God sustains these .Physical phenomena are powered energy created and supplied by God. Is the real and potential amount of the universe fixed. The answer depends on whether God will create new energy or will not? So the Law of conservation of energy is subject to God.

### So creation may have happened by a series of singularities (perfect mass-energy-space-. time event) A series of bangs rather than one bang.

## The Bible account:

### In the Bible creation occurred through words. Words are sound and sense (or meaning). In a declaration the sense or meaning is the intent or will of the speaker-the mind of the speaker. So the will content or meaning of speech is spirit in quality.

### That is how the Lord Jesus can be word. John 1:1.

### In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God

### John 6:63

63 It is the spirit that quickened; the flesh profited nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

### The words of Creation contained God in the form of Jesus. Jesus released or created the energy quantum of creation. Not in one explosive random event, but in a 'meaningful' step by step fashion to produce the order that abounds in nature. So much there are a hundred sciences trying to fathom bits and pieces of it. In a million years or a trillion years order will not develop from absolute disorder unless there was bias. The odds are very extremely low. And extremely much lower when order is of the degree of complexity as spontaneous particles that seemingly appear from nowhere, combining in different combinations to produce interlocking bricks (the elements), which interact to produce life and the resources to sustain it, ten thousand molecular machines working in tandem in the cell, hundreds of electrochemical organs, tissues and glands working in unison for seventy years, ecosystems of millions of species in equilibrium, a self-renewing planet with life in every niche. I suppose there are as many design elements in the biosphere and inanimate environment as the very number of stars in the cosmos. Dare to count the number of design elements in your mouth. Sixteen designs to specific function, then symmetry, then maintenance mechanisms which could yield a thousand elements on its own, then structural elements. Repeat for the gums, the tongue, the salivary glands, the linings and spaces, the roof of the mouth, the foundation structures for teeth, the swallowing function, taste, the speech function, the immune function, the lips and other muscles. The point is that intelligent design is ubiquitous in nature and the odds to achieve this by the roll of the dice effectively nil.

17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickened the dead, and called those things which be not as though they were.

### Calling things that are not as though they were is the method of creation. Now this next verse in Heb 11

3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

## The nature of matter

### All matter is dual in nature not just light. All matter is a mixture of energy and mass. A mixture of the fundamental particles and energy. The particles possess energy which for electrons in orbit determines what orbitals they spin in. Same with the planets and stars. The more energy the more motion of these particles and the weaker the bonds between them.

### Abundance of complex order.

WATER: Water is an amazing substance; it is both acid H+ and base OH (it is neutral). What could it have been with biological systems if water were not neutral? It has the great capacity to store heat which means it takes time to heat or cool; it's temperature does not fluctuate easily, again good for biological systems. It is does not react with many things but dissolves more things than any other substance ( a universal solvent). It's also got a trick, it the only solid that I know that expands when cooled(ice) others contract. This is why solid water (ice) floats on liquid water. Water is heaviest at 4 degrees Celsius (38.4 degrees Fahrenheit). This is the temperature at the bottom of a frozen lake or river while the top is zero degrees Celsius or minus. Thus there is accommodation for life at the bottom of the lake. How long does it take to heat your house 4 degrees up ( or almost 7 degrees Fahrenheit) , then think of taking that much heat out of a whole river, lake or ocean. Water is the only known substance that as solid expands when cooled and that's why even the Antarctic and the Arctic has life. There is a 4 degrees safe zone at the bottom for all the minus at the top and fish can continue breathing. Water it odorless and tasteless. It has to be because it is our background. How could we smell things if we also smelled 90 percent of the make up of our cells in the background. We are 60 per cent water on the whole.

### What could substitute water? H2S? hydrogen sulphide would be expected to behave live water to a significant extent. But for one it is the smell of rotten eggs, and then it is acidic. Water looks very much like it was created to purpose.

EARTH and MOON: The sun and the moon, what is the nature of their relationship? Friendship and partnership; or antagonism and rivalry. A bald colossal rock like the moon is very threatening; being a third of the size the earth could be a cause for discomfort to earth ( if the planet was alive). Indeed no other planet has a moon a third its size. A blow from the moon, a collision, would be fatal: breaking the planet into two. Without the moon our days would be considerably shorter because earth would spin considerably faster (think of the moon as a brake shoe on earth). And there would be no seasons, no winter, no summer, no spring , no autumn, no rainy season, no dry seasons, and no tides. The moon does this by causing the earth to lean 4 angular degrees, pulling on it. It produces tides by pulling on the ocean.

### The symbolism of this lean is what one makes of it. Without this tilt the unique richness of earth would not be possible, with seasons and tides, and dim light so life can go to sleep and yet not be in total darkness but have moonlight. Indeed some nocturnal animals manage by gathering what light is available, like moon light. So earth and moon could be one system designed to work together like teammates, husband and wife. So may the other planets and their moons. It is worth examining this.

### The moon makes the blue planet humble. They said "stoop to conquer".

SURFACE AREA TO VOLUME RATIO: Unmatched design. If the human gastro-intestinal tract were spread out as a film it would cover a football field. This is achieved by extending the surface area of lining cell significantly more through outgrowths called microvilli. So a bulk of tissue altogether no larger than a soccer ball is as wide as a soccer field. Same with the lungs which together have the surface area of a tennis court. If the plumbing in the kidneys were stretched it would go round the world. This feature runs through nature and is utilized in car radiators, refrigerators and air conditioners. Consider how much experimentation and design goes to produce mechanical exchange surfaces then wonder who designed your lungs. These organs are superior even to the 21st century technology. Renal dialysis cannot go on interminably, but one kidney can carry one through life.

This is advocated as a means to minimize the emission of green-house gases by burning hydrogen. Well nature has this technology. It is called the hydrogen carrier system or the proton pump. We also burn carbon which makes us hybrids. The proton pump has actual application in the cell to produce circular repetitive motion, to turn wheels. These are hydrogen powered engines at the molecular level. The complexity and cost of this technology for man-made machines raises the question of how it came about in nature.

MOTION: There are two muscles in the calf, one for slow walking: the soleus, the low gear; the other the gastrocmnemus for fast walking and running, the high gear. Do you know you have an automatic gear system in your legs and shock absorbers? Yes you do. The shock absorbers are called the plantar arches of the foot- the feet are arched on the instep. The bones are held by ligaments so that the middle of the sole of the feet does not touch the floor. This amounts to a spring system that takes the force of your weight. People in whose feet the spring has failed develop pain walking.

### This is just a sampling of the wonders of motion from the molecular level where proteins walk on each other like bevel and gear powered by the a chemical called ATP through visible traction by muscle to effective purposeful action. It is amazing design.

  1. BALANCE: What does it take to keep a 1.8m (6 feet) tall metal pole standing erect? What if this pole weighs 80kg (177.7) pounds has a hundred meters in ten seconds or do the trapeze, or double summersaults and land erect. Technology to achieve this is out of this world. Granted military aircraft perform an immense fit, they couldn't balance in as many positions as ballet dancer on toe-tips, or do the spins of hip-hop dancing. It will take a lot of deliberate effort and tons of money to reproduce this aptitude at balance so common in nature (think of the cheetah, the sparrow). The equipment that does this in humans is a very small rock in the inner ear which sends signals to the brain depending on how it rolls, the eyes feeding in information on position and the environment, touch and joint position making their inputs and muscles under dynamic control.This system is knocked off in the drunk that's why he can't go straight. There is no other way to get about balance that these essential components.

VISION: What does it take to produce a picture light on photographic film-sensitive film; brush on canvas light on photographic disc. Photography is only about century out but this basic design of light on a sensitive surface is abundant, well established and diversified in nature. It is yet unmatched. Biological photography (vision) comprises of a camera the eye which is ball equipped with a focusing mechanism which begins with the transparent 'eye piece' called the cornea that lets in light into the eye. There a forward focusing phase called the aqueous humor which is liquid. A shutter mechanism that controls the amount of light let in so there is no glare. It is called the iris. It gives the eyes their color. The adjustable lens apparatus that is complete a muscular system that adjusts its shape automatically to the right focus. A fourth focusing layer called the vitreous humor which is liquid. Then by far the greatest sensitive membrane in existence the retina where the image is cast inverted like in a camera. This membrane takes up the pixels and turns them into nerve signals to distribute to different parts of the processor, the brain which uses it in many ways: to guide your steps, to stimulate you when you encounter danger, to arouse sexually, to store in back-up (memory), to make decisions, to set your mood, to adjust your balance etc.

### Biological vision is a closed circuit with instant images and altogether may way just ounces of equipment. It is binocular with two cameras working in tandem. This enables the brain to judge distance. It is in color and the cameras are on parallel swivels to look up, down, left, right and forward. It can be very keen like with birds of prey, adapted to night use like the owl, or even produce wide capture images like fishes' eyes.

SMELL: Another sensitive membrane if found in the nose: the olfactory epithelium. It detects, not light, but molecules of chemicals in the environment. Turns the bytes into nerve signals and relay to different parts of the brain for multiple uses. It is very important for territorialism among animals, hunting, sexual activity and tracking. The power of this biological technology puts dogs to work at airports because it is as good as if not better than what intelligent man can design. In two hundred years of industrialization

MOLECULAR MACHINES: There are thousands of protein machines in the cell handling molecules to produce varied effects. Hemoglobin which makes blood red will serve a good example. There are four blocks to put together and one central piece to put together to set up this machine. The job being to go to the lungs where oxygen is rich and do a pick up. Then travel to the tissues (like muscle) where oxygen is low and do a delivery. Then pick up carbon dioxide polluting the tissues and take the fumes out the lungs for exhaust through the nose out. The pick-up van is the red blood cell. It is indeed a pick-up van, un-necessary fixtures have been removed from this cell to free-up space. One the nucleus where the DNA is has been removed and the cell filled with hemoglobin for the oxygen pick-up. Each 'hemoglobin' can load-up two 'oxygens'. In the lungs it takes the first oxygen, changes settings to get hungrier for oxygen then takes a second. Without this change of settings (called conformational change) it could only pick half its load and do two trips and you'll have to breathe twice as hard. The red cell rides to a muscles, carbon dioxide fumes suffocating, it delivers oxygen one, adjusts settings and deliver the second one. It has to adjust settings because some oxygen out already there is less "room" for more. This is efficiency... maximal design. It now has to pick up for the return trip, not another guy. Carbon dioxide is first dissolved (reacted) in water to a form (bicarbonate) that can actually enter through channels on the red cell van. Another machine called carbonic anhydrase does this. The more active muscle, for example, is the more acid it will contain. Hemoglobin will sense this acid and deliver more oxygen for the more active muscle, changing its settings to do so. When oxygen is too low tissues use a method to burn fuel that is inefficient but allows to keep going. Hemoglobin is also designed to watch-out fort this. There a substance this inefficient method makes called 2,3GPD. This would cause hemoglobin to change its setting and deliver more oxygen. You can't beat hemoglobin for a delivery man: he gives just the right quantity and moves on to the next customer. If he were an all or none guy, then he'll make many more trips and you'll have breath a lot harder. Praise God!

THE GRASSES FEED THE WORLD... and the tubers too: The grasses wheat, barley, rice, maize or corn, millet feed world. The tongue –shaped leaves and tall fleshy stems and the large amount of seed on a very few fruits are their hallmark. Their seeds are used to make flour everywhere. These belong to an exclusive group of plants called C4 plants to which only 10% of all plants belong. The other are called C3 plants. C4 plant captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere faster than C3 plants. No wonder the grasses feed the world (the animals included). They grow fast and yield a crop in months. Unlike other plants their leaves grow from the base up, so if grazing animals chop of the leaf tip the leaf continues to grow. Other leaves grow at the very tip. If bitten off growth stops. The grasses are energy energy-capture machine not into fanciful flowers, or permanent structures like strong stems and or much root. They pack carbon from the atmosphere as fast as they can and are done got the year. They are very easy to grow.

The tubers; yams, coco -yams and cassava make a good impact feeding the world. They are the carbon packers of the rain forest. Having to compete for sunlight yams are climbers , that way they reach the top of the canopy, the coco-yams don't go for height, they have two or three permanent brad leaves like telescope dishes catching every light signal. This design precedes the parabolic dishes of astronomic telescope and satellite TV receivers. Cassava makes no seed channeling its effort towards storage (underground) o of the carbohydrate they make and like sugar cane (a C4 plant can be grown from the stem. It does not invest in permanent structures. These rainforest carbon packers cannot afford to make seeds or store carbohydrate above ground as the density of bird and animal would not allow; it would be eaten. I think the rainforest was created balanced ecosystem with its members given their own niche and ways of competing there is a lesson for business in the rainforest.

BIOLOGICAL THERMOSTATS. Thermostats are devices that maintain desired temperature, for example of the home. There is a 'thermostat' for a hundred parameters about the state of the internal environment in which cells exist and perform their functions and the margins extremely narrow. If animals had a control display the space Shuttles display would be child's play. For temperature normal is between 36.5 and 37.2 degrees Celsius, irrespective of what external l conditions are, or the level of activity. It a feat of design and engineering to maintain this one parameter for 99.99% of a life time. The range for acidity called ph. is between 7.35 and 7.4 a margin of 0.06. Every chemical, blood constituent, and physical index like blood pressure are kept within tight limits. Now for the level of complexity let's use blood pressure. It is important sufficient blood is supplied to all tissues, and also important the pressure is not too high as to damage the 'pipes' which are arteries. There is a pressure sensor fixed to the artery that supplies the brain (at the branch point of the common carotid artery). If blood pressure is going too high it sends signals to the brain which address the problem depending on how urgent: short-term, intermediate term and long-term. In the short -term it widens a small–sized artery (called arterioles), which is next in size to the smallest and final branches in the arterial network (capillaries) this implies arterioles are very many. Open they a bit more reduce the pressure immediately. In the intermediate brain will reduce the volume of blood the heart; pumps out with each contraction and cause it to pump slower. In the long-term the volume of blood in the 'pipes' will be reduced. This is done by letting salt out in urine and is more gradual. All of this for one parameter.

WONDER UNDER THE MICROSCOPE: The amazing complexity of natural systems well ahead of human equivalents is across the board. The T4 virus is a virus that attacks and kills the bacteria E. coli. It injects its genome (DNA and associated proteins into the bacteria. These use the bacteria's cellular functions to multiply themselves and form many more new viruses. Towards the end of the cycle the new viruses are reassembled. This involves packaging into coverings called procaspids. A protein, a molecular motor runs the DNA into this procaspid sac like the engine of a motorcycle tugs the chain: the DNA is wafted into tis bag and increasingly compressed such that final pressure exceed that in the wheels of a Boeing 747. The torque of this molecular motor exceeds that generated by a car engine. The macroscopic equivalent would be using the engine of a bulldozer to inflate an aircraft wheel. I doubt if the aircraft wheel is the equivalent in strength to the T4 caspid or virus coat.

REPRODUCTION: The immense complexity of living systems reaches its peak it the ability to reproduce a new complete organism. All life makes new members of their kind, for the human kind a baby complete with full complement of sophisticated organs and systems. The bewildering part is that it happens passively. Not that the first humans thought "let's reproduce our kind" like being able to eat and drink they had the ability to reproduce.

### Viruses take over the systems of cell s they invade to manufacture many copies of themselves. Bacteria split themselves in two. Fungi (e.g. mushrooms) can do this, but they can also mate. Some worms compulsory carry both male and female sex organs in the same worm. So gametes have come in. These are different from other cells in that they have half the normal number of chromosomes so when they fuse at fertilization a full number is restored. For the human, 23 chromosomes from the mother's egg, 23 from the father's sperm to the full complement of 46 chromosomes. The formation of gametes involves a specific reduction division to halve the number of chromosomes. Then another division to divide thedasaughter cells into two each. Giving four sperms or four eggs. Neither the taking over of a cells metabolism by viruses, bacterial cells dividing, or the making of gametes is a simple process. The theme here order is too dominant on planet it that it cannot be a ransom system. That intelligent human effort lags behind these systems reveal a super-human agent at work.

THE HUMAN MENSTRUAL PERIOOD. The length of the human menstrual period is about 28 days (this of course varies with each woman). The link to the cycle of the moon is uncanny. It seems the person who set the times for the moon set the times for ladies.

### The alternative explanation of the origin of these highlighted wonders is that they evolved over a prolonged length of time. The big bang produced a great amount of mass and energy. The gases coalesced into stars from gravitational action, getting bigger and bigger, temperature and pressure rising until conditions that ignited nuclear fusion of hydrogen, and the stars set alight, cooking alchemy of element and releasing into interstellar space. Which coalesce under gravity and get into spin around stars? These are the planets. I must explain that gravity is the force that operates between any two objects that have mass; between two spoons lying side by side, Earth and Newton's apple, or earth and the sun. This is how the emitted material from stars floating freely in space is supposed to have found each other, and this is pulling together is why the planets are spherical and not another shape.

### Sounding somewhat sensible it leaves out the primordial question of the source of the energy at the Bang, or who nature is obeying... who moves two magnets together so spectacularly? The complexity in nature is said to have accumulated over a long time by evolution and natural selection of superior traits. The pitfalls of this theory have been dealt with in other works and I intend to focus on the primordial matter of the very first cause. This first cause has been proposed to be a cataclysm; my position is that the overwhelming abundance of highly complex order shows oversight (over nature). That nature is a random soup on a stove being taken in particular direction by a master chef.

### The astronomical telescopes see light from the big bang oscillating in the universe; I see evidence of the big speech in structure to function in nature. The presence of intelligence on earth at the moment makes it very probable the clues we see reflect intelligence at the beginning.

THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN TECHNOLOGY As human technology gets better, the inferior is discarded. This is not the case in nature were multiple versions of the same technology. Redundant human technology is confined to museums. Humans are said to have evolved from apes but both coexist. If humans are higher and superior on the evolutionary scale why hasn't the human species strangulated the apes out of existence through the supposed hundreds of thousands to millions of years? Only now do we see such a thing and it is non-species specific. Why are the superior and inferior biological technologies coexisting? Because advantage is limited to specific aspects it is more or less comparative advantage. Sexual reproduction delivers robust genetic mixing but asexual reproduction is much faster. Different species are sustained by differential advantages. The food chain is a pyramid: there more advanced species are have smaller populations. We would expect the reverse as they push out inferior species. It seems something is lost as something else is gained. That superior biological function in one area is associated by degradation in another area. This would be senseless. So indeed organisms were created with their own unique area of advantage to enable them compete in the ecosystem.

### Organisms were created as viable models. Lions with canines to kill and eat meat, buffalos with grazing teeth and horns to fight back, and cheetahs designed on a speedy concept. All organisms perform the same functions through diverse designs. Let's take one, defense. Bacteria inject toxins into neighboring bacteria, fungi secrete substances like penicillin, worms burrow into the earth and hide (their design cannot afford an active defense mechanism like stinging or biting, but being slender they can go underground), insects flee, some sting, small herbivores run swift, carnivores bite, scratch or run away, elephants use their size to deter or trample, humans think and device appropriate solutions to specific threat types or flee. So organisms are holistic models incorporating such features as would make them viable.

### Cars illustrate this idea excellently. A 1990 model would be seen on the road alongside a 2000 model because both are intrinsically viable designs. And like organisms there are diverse models all viable and coexisting, made as they are.

### Chapter two: Deep Things

## WHAT IS THE NATURE OF GOD?

### God cannot be fathomed but the invisible things of God can be seen in creation.

### Is the nature of God consistent with nature as we see it? 'By their fruits we shall know them' Is what we see of nature consistent with how the Bible says God is? Correlation is valid evidence! See Rom1:20 If the universe resembles the God of the Bible he probably made it.

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

### First, God is a God of order. Cor 14:33

33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

### The specificity of measurements for the structures and utilities of the Old Testament worship remind of the laws of nature. And they were not to be deviated from. In exodus 25

8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

9 According to all that I show thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.

10 ¶ and they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.

12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.

13 And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.

14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.

### Chapter 27 gives measurements for the tabernacle and alters. Measurement may also speak of judgement.

### Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Revelations have visions involving measurement.

### God is a God of beauty. See Rev 21.

18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.

19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;

20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.

21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

### The description above refer to the New Jerusalem, a ready-made city that will descend on from heaven on earth in which God will dwell right here on earth. Who makes foundations from sapphire, but a beauty loving 'God". Again the materials mentioned in the passage above talk of a divine mastery of materials, and the workmanship to execute the pieces of architecture is out of this world.

### The images the descriptions above evoke are beautiful. They are consistent with aesthetics as a value on earth. It seems earth is like heaven but not to the same extent. Not with real "pearly" gates. It seems the same masker of heaven also made earth. The Ark of the Covenant was covered with pure gold and many of the temple utensils were made of gold. Earth is indeed like heaven, God made them both.

## GOD IS HOLY

### God is holy and He demands holiness. Is it a Godly attribute to be holy? Do we expect the Maker of the Universe to be pure in character and without flaw? Of course if you have such power self-control is not an issue; if you have everything and need nothing what tempts you? God cannot be tempted. He has perfect control and needs nothing- this Godliness. There are and have been many petty deities (false gods) whose character stories are more human that godly. The interactions of Greek deities go like soap opera. The God of the Bible prizes his honor, name, and word, and tolerates no rivals. He is just and executes judgment. The kings of the earth aspire to these attributes, they are divine.

# **GOD IS MERCIFUL. He made provision to temporarily take care of sins of the Jews (who recognized him and worshiped a godly God) until He came as Jesus to pay for sin. The perfection of God is His nature, implying it is impossible for him to be imperfect. It is not hard to follow such a God, there are no higher standards. God is not a hard sell. The way to build the church is to represent God, His attributes, His purposes and His demands faithfully. That is what the heart of man is after, real divinity. Selling short leaves the minister competing with the clubs. God is merciful. Mercy is an innate human quality, we relate with that, the tenderness in creation points to God having a kind and merciful nature. Indeed he forbade usury, and gave specific regulation to make sure those who lack are taken care of. For example forbidding the complete gleaning of the grain off the stalk. The hungry and passerby can have something to eat.**

### There are concepts where deity seems to be impersonal and physical; where it may be referred to as "energy", "cosmic energy". The God of the Bible has personality even though his presence is associated with energy. He can be angry or pleased and maintains relationships (even with the descendants of people who love him). That one who made the unfathomable quantities in the universe should have a relationship with a person is almost unbelievable. Why should he need us? Well he actually left heaven and came here to die for men. Then we see and appreciate that He who made all this is Love. He abounds in love, he is not impersonal. He has character and we love Him when we see the way he is.

### So God who made all things came in the flesh and walked the earth delivering quanta of creative energy like not seen prior and since. He went about delivering quanta of creative energy which He called 'virtue' when a lady tapped from him to heal her menorrhagia. Luke 8:46.

### 46 And Jesus said somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.

### This exact same thing happened at creation. This is how things were made through Jesus Christ.

### So Jesus knowingly to be killed so he can pay man's penalty for sin and make available the state of being free from having to pay for sins ourselves( which a return from the dead, a bringing from death to life) A saving from death row. And the second part, the breaking of a law: the law of sin and death. This law perpetuates sin human life, such that though you want to live righteously you, you find yourself committing sin. See Romans 7

18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

### 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

### So the death of Jesus Christ on the cross put this law out of action. How? Law has no power over the dead. Our life in Christ is brand new. Gal 2:20

### 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

### The life we live is not us but Christ lives in us. We are dead to in but alive in Christ. We were buried with Him at baptism and rose to newness of life. Rom 6.4

### 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

### Rom 6:7

### 7 For he that is dead is freed from sin

### Rom 6:8 & 9

8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

### 9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him

### Should we take these words literally? Are we really dead and back to a new life. Yes. There are no allegories here. Somebody actually died a literal death! The implications of this death are literal. The benefits are literal. These words are living and active, possessing 'virtue' . They are spirit and are the sword of the Spirit of God. They dispatch power and pack energy. Believe them literally, they are plain words with clear meaning. They are ' magnets' of power. They do what they say. They are the weapon of the Christian for offence against Satan. Faith is a weapon for defense. There is the breastplate of righteousness, the gospel of Truth as our shoes taking us from Jerusalem to defeat Satan everywhere, and the helmet of Salvation, protecting our head which shall be crowned with the crown of life.

## THE NATURE OF FAITH

### I have said before that words are physical sound plus sense . What if you don't believe what you say? God will not confirm it. Faith give spirit to words. If you have the Spirit of God then He can move in your words and do miracles. If you believe in your heart what you say with your mouth then your words will have the Spirit of God who will perform the words. I am Yahweh, the I am that I am, in whom there is no variableness, no shadow of turning. God Almighty. James 1:17

### 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning

Truth is Spiritual Law: If you know it you can make your claim. Faith plus lies is empty words. The Spirit of God does not associate with falsehood. The word of God is truth. If you know it you a lot of universal law, applicable in all jurisdictions. It has God's very Spirit in it and can release any measure of power needed to do what it says. It cannot return void. Every statement in the Bible is law. It will powerfully pull down any contrary lie if you stand on it. The first law of the Universe is that God created the heaven and earth.

## The NATURE OF PROPHECY

### The spoken word of God is law in the universe. It must come to pass. I think it is not essentially that angels go out to execute. Nature simply complies. Nature conforms to the evoked decree. Changes happen; events take place until the prophecy is fulfilled. The word of God may even generate new rules of engagement if needed, though we may not notice. Joshua 10:13

13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

## FREEDOM

### It is good to be free to pursue happiness. To be one's master, thinking and expressing ones opinions freely, owning property and buying and selling freely, gathering and associating freely, and worshiping freely. Freedom, like most good things, is best enjoyed responsibly; within the bounds and safety of duty to others and the state. For the Christian within the bounds of God's pleasure. Faith in the finished work of Christ is the way to receive the gift of salvation. And if we believe that Christ died for sins then how we must abhor sin, more than the Pharisees, who obeyed the Law even to tithing on vegetables. Generally they may have been displayful of their piety and hypocritical at heart. Not intending to rehabilitate their image I site that Paul was one and concerning the things of Moses' law "profited' (excelled) above many his equal.

### 14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

### Out of genuine zeal he waged war against what he thought was blasphemous error. But the Lord Himself put him right and he channeled this zeal backed by correct knowledge to advance the kingdom of God. Apart from the Lord Jesus himself nobody was more hassled by the Jewish authorities than Paul. Paul initially was a Phinehas who thrust through two high-ranking persons in the Israelite camp out of zeal for God's law (God forbade marrying the Canaanite neighbors of the Israelites and these two had blatantly gone against it) and was blessed with a covenant of peace and an unending priesthood for his righteous zeal, only Paul was not up to date with his theology. After the Damascus road correction his zeal was channeled correctly to overwhelming effect.

5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye everyone his men that were joined unto Baal-peor.

6 ¶ And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;

### 8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

### 9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

10 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.

13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.

14 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.

So the Pharisees were more righteous than many, may be, most today and it I think it is a real challenge the Lord makes us to be more righteous than the Pharisees. But we have the Holy Spirit. Indeed we are called to a higher standard than the Pharisees. They were required not to commit adultery; we are required not to even look lustfully.

However there is great freedom in the new covenant, based on grace not law, the burden of ceremonial law being lifted. What then is the contention about what we can do and what we can't do? When being Christian only demands a little more than being a good citizen. If one thinks living to certain standards is undesirable why not try living without any. Please don't try. Regulation is a human attribute. Humans always tend organize in order of age, gender, blood, wealth etc. Anarchy is highly unstable. Enjoy the pun. Anarchy does not last. The effects prompt people to take control and introduce order. The Christian lifestyle keeps from the drunk, the disease and the jail. It saves money and gives joy beyond understanding. It anchors the soul and is a pillar of fire by night and a covering cloud by day in the journey of life. Being a Christian is still good for the reputation.

Jesus Christianity has no competition. The church in Europe is in such a poor state because it has been shy of what Christianity super-natural and pre-occupied itself with intellectualism and sociology. The essentials of the Christian faith have to be believed not reasoned. It is to be believed that God is, that Jesus is his son that Jesus died for sin. It is to be believed that there is heaven and hell and Jesus is coming again. Believe and be saved. There is no test for these things. Believing them is the way to find favor with God. The Bible does not present these elements of faith as wise. It says that God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. It is mistake to be ashamed of preaching these things because most of the world already believes such. What will the preacher preach if not these? How to grow a business? How to get rich? How to govern? You are kidding me. If the preacher is preaching the super-natural approach (the role of God in these spheres) people will listen. If not, people will rather listen to the experts (watch TV) if they cannot figure it out themselves. : People don't go to church because they do not see the point going. It is not interesting. The sermon could be reduced to a weak social essay bereft of heart and spontaneity. A poor lecture delivered without teaching aids, a poor presentation delivered without PowerPoint, a poor speech delivered a prompter. A message in which the preacher himself believes and has passion for needs none of these props if he is enabled by the Holy Ghost. While Europe is disbelieving \the gospel the rest of the world is accepting Christ. An attempt could be made to explain this socio-economically, yet there is still much faith in America. The problem is mostly an absence of passion. The church service in Europe was scripted to prevent erratic/heretic deviation, may be more to ensure uniformity and enforce conformity during the conflicts between the different groups of the faith (Catholic and the different protestant movements). The content was excellent but the tempo good for that generation has since gone too cold. The preachers have gone too intellectual with some not believing the fundamentals of the faith. Sermons are more social in content than spiritual. Human quotes increasing use. Doesn't God have anything to say on the subject, the people came to hear God not man, and for most of them the only time for a week. Most of all was the lack of power. If the Spirit of God is not there how can the Words do the full supernatural work? Peter an un-schooled fisherman spoke by the power of thaw Holy Ghost, about a matter he had a passion for and five thousand were saved. He 4:.12

12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two -edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. In Acts 2:41

41 ¶ then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

. It is not hard to give a good speech from the heart. Things of faith are very much things of heart as against things of brain.

### 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

### 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

This church together with the American church in the twentieth century did a second part of the Pauline/apostolic work taking the gospel to the four corners of the earth. Two generations later the zeal is gone. The American church has fared better, because it started on a hotter pedestal. The early Europeans immigrants were selected by factors which included persecution resulting in the church they founded in the New World being more puritan, zealous and resilient. I suspect that competition among the Christian denominations in mission lands helped spur the evangelistic work.Phil 1:18

### 14 And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

### 15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

### 16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:

17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel.

18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretense, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

However, as Paul said, whatever the motives it was a very successful work. Christianity enlightens the world. Christianity is the origin of the freedom concept. The first freedom was the freedom from foolish superstition. This allowed clear observation and interpretation. The earliest organized thought was on church doctrine, the earliest intellectual conferences were in western civilization were synods. The Ivy League Universities in America began as Bible Colleges. Christianity enlightens the world. First the early church, later the Western church.

That cooling follows revival is the trend. A Pentecostal movement starts with great zeal in prayer, worship, and evangelism. There are long service, frequent meetings and few complaints. The group grows and there is greater need for structure...the settling down begins. With the settling down begins the cooling. There is more administration to be done. More pastors are highbred as the movement branches out. There is formalization of practices and reducing spontaneity. What began as a series of evangelistic crusades becomes a series of church services and the cooling continues. Church services are very good and so are crusades, but it takes conscious effort to keep all going on if it the desired approach of the ministry. The apostles appointed men of good standing to take care of the bodily side of things while they focused on prayer and the word. This is how they prevented cooling, by keeping focus. One sure way to prevent cooling is to base the work on the Bible then it hard to lose focus. It is hard to lose your why following a map. Ministries whose day today mission is to implement the bible are very successful. People want God and are ready to take something's by faith; even intellectual people are willing to do this. When they want a social club they know where to go.

A HARDENING AGAINST THE CHURCH: There seems to be a hardening against Christianity in Europe and increasingly so in America. But I think it is more of a generation that does not know God. Many have never been sufficiently exposed to true Christianity to tell for themselves and are riding on the general opinion about tired European church. They are tired of the Church not God. They are bored of the church not Christianity. Real Christianity is spectacular and highly metaphysical. That is why Miracle Crusades pull stadium crowds anywhere, even in the Arab world and Muslim majority cities in Africa. No faith produces more music than Christianity. Two hours of Pentecostal worship is does great for the spirit, and as much for pleasure as a club experience. There is the need to take tongue-talking, miracle performing, prophesy-talking word of knowledge giving, and loving, joyous, peaceful, longsuffering, and gentle, good believing church to a Europe that checks its horoscope and fancies Tibetan Buddhism. What we need are preachers who are sold out to the work of God and Christians single-minded about soul-winning and letting their lights shine.

CHRISTIANS WHO DON"T ATTEND CHURCH. Heb 10:25

25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching

### An increasing problem with the church in the western hemisphere is professing Christians who do not attend church, or attend sparingly. Christian is a group faith and the body of Christians constitutes the body of Christ, and the temple of the Holy Spirit. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are for the profit of fellow Christians mostly so the Christian needs to be in among a body of Christians for maximum benefit.

Also Christians pray for one another. Many churches pray collectively for the reported needs of their members. There are opportunities with the minister, prayer group and other Christians. Rom 1:9.

### 9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers ;( Minister praying for the flock.)

### Rom 15:30

30 Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me ;( praying for the minister)

### 2 Cor 1:11

11 Ye also helping together by prayer for us that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.

### The Christian needs to attend church for exhortation and correction. The preaching and teaching encourages, spurs and corrects the Christian. Also there is private admonition when necessary. 2 Thes 3:6

### 6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, which ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

2 Thes 3:14-16

14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all

It is important to attend church to participate in the breaking of breaking of bread, Holy Communion. Acts 2:46.

### 46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,

### The church can provide support beyond spiritual. Acts 4:35.

35 And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need

### Also social and business relationships can form at church. People find spouses at church.

That services have been pruned and streamlined not to last long enough to induce discomfort in the church members is a good thing when is spent maximally. But if meat is also cut of the service, it suggest a generation with short attention spans and prone to leisure., who used to hours and hours of electronic entertainment feel like flipping the remote after a moderate dose of serious stuff. David said he will not give anything to god that does not hurt him to give away. We should happily endure till we pray through all the prayer need of the church. The preacher should have enough time to give a comprehensive message and we should worship our hearts out.

THE PURPOSE OF LIFE The naturalistic point of view says the purpose of life is to pass one's genes to progeny. A close look shows that preserving the ecosystem is the ultimate goal. That is where the final balance lies. A plant produces seed to replenish the forest, when it dies it rots to manure and replenishes the soil. In this forest life for the different species is interrelated. They cooperate for pollination and seed dispersal and to prevent the outbreak of pests. The keep the growth of each other in check so that no one species over runs the forest and disturb the equilibrium. Individual plants come and go but the forest (ecosystem) remains. While there are mechanisms in play to ensure the success of the individual plant, it seems the health of the forest is the bigger goal. It seems the purpose of the plant is to wax itself and in the process wax the forest. Nature does not exist to pass genes to the next generation in competitive fashion for the sake of being present in the future that is of little significance to the dead plant. All of this process exists that the forest may be. That nature exists. Plants looking into the future does not match their level of intelligence. Cells function so that the organism may be , the organism exists that the group( ecosystem) may be, ecosystems exist that nature may be. This way we have a wonderful world. So obviously wonderful and beautiful that soon we ask the question of how it came about. All nature exists for the same reason that a beautiful painting exists. Somebody felt like it and put brush to canvas. And not for the money. You could hardly view a magnificent work of art and not ask who made it. We exist within creation and enjoy it, God made it because he felt like, and it points to him. Rom 1:20

20 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:

### Ephesians 2:10

### 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

When we appreciate works of art the artist gets the credit. When we appreciate creation God gets the praise.

PRO-CHOIOCE OR PROLIFE, this complicates the issue of what is a simple question about the sanctity of life. I hardly would like to add to the maze by addressing the merits of the various stances. The honest logic is to reduce abortion to its moral basic. Does it involve the termination of life? Do we believe in the sanctity of life? If we do what should be our correct stance? For the most part it was like the Jews when the Lord Jesus ministered to them: they did not believe not because they were not convinced, their ways were evil. They would have had to give up their ways so they chose not to believe. For the purpose of information and clarification I would add that once the sperm fuses to the egg a new life, with a unique genetic code, has been formed. It could be one hundred seconds or one hundred years into expressing its genetic code but that is irrelevant to the argument. A cancer survivor running to raise awareness is no less a participant of a 42km marathon than the winner.

EUTHANASIA. This is the same matter only that it is the worst extreme of it. Here it is not the convenient concealment of an extra-marital affair, avoidance of the consequence of a pre-marital affair but life judged to be worse than death. It evokes dread. But life is sacrosanct and nobody should participate in the taking of it, not even the victim. This raises the matter of capital punishment. It is strange that generally those who are going to invoke the doctrine of the sanctity of life against capital punishment resist it when it is invoked against abortion; and those who invoke the doctrine against abortion resist it when is raised against capital punishment. It worth studying Jesus's handling of the capital case of adultery (John 8). A lady caught in the very act of adultery was brought to Him by a mob zealous to perform an easy religious activity. They wanted to see the Law of Moses kept. Adultery attracted the penalty of death, but I guess most were not really zealous about God's law but about their Jewish tradition. Like Americans would be zealous for the constitution, the English for the throne, the French for the French revolution. Why would somebody be excited about killing another person who did no personal harm? Indeed God required it but the circumstance did not call for excitement. Not as though a violent robber who terrorized the community and eluded justice was apprehended. For the record I believe adultery is a grave sin (and against the body). The mob was one a mob: mob dynamics was sat play, a situation where action is taken without accountability. And there was the reward of working at something together, euphoria. A sense of belonging, of being among the good guys also gave a good feeling. And for some they had an audience, a spectatorship: see what I am, see what I can do. Then this was an opportunity to do something for God, Moses and the nation.

So they brought the woman to the Lord Jesus who first "wrote in the sand". People have wondered what He wrote but I think it was a \psychological instrument. He knew what he would do but he didn't want to explode it in their faces. I think He could have tapped His Foot or a finger to achieve the same effect. He lowered their excitement as they concentrated their minds to make sense of what he was doing. When he spoke they were more conditioned to reasoning, a little less to inflammation. So he showed them they were not much different from the lady. Empathy was the message. Heb 4:15

15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

### Heb 2:17

17 Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

### 18 For in

Righteousness is non-negotiable, justice is imperative but among us we have mercy because we have a common experience. We also understand. We detest abortion, but we use persuasion to convince its practitioners, listening and empathizing but admonishing. With tears we say to the person contemplating euthanasia "don't do it".

What made the scribes and Pharisees think the Lord Jesus would adjudicate different from existing law in such a clear cut case. There may have been antecedents. Like the Lords interpretation of sabbath law.

It is a shame that many a public hero for social justice privately don't live to the public standards they agitate for. The Lord Jesus interpreted the Law in a sensible and humane way. He taught pragmatism with the Sabaath and set a precedent for pardoning a capital case. This is liberating and many a liberal would approve, yet He strengthened morality by teaching that wanting to do a sinful thing and actually doing it is the same thing. For example lusting for another man's wife would be sin as much as the physical act. This is very conservative. Many sectors of human endeavor required have liberalization: the vote (universal suffrage is not yet universal), labor (equal pay for equal work), but society cannot afford to slacken it's true morals.

ANIMAL FARM: The first effect of accountable religion is that it creates self-awareness-a very human quality. With self-awareness we take active charge of our living as against living passively from impulse to impulse. We begin to consider the moral merits of our decisions. When the moral merits of decisions are not considered then humans may be reduced to having sex and making money, spontaneous without a theme for their lives; akin to animals; not thoughtful; capable of many vices and not able to sustain the rendering of much virtue... by no means consistently. That is what the recent UK riots were about. Godless, thoughtless, lawless opportunism. A society that produced the concept of 'the gentleman and the lady' now because of lack of Godly self-awareness and accountability reduced to an animal farm in many segments of its society.

THE GREAT SOCIETY: The industrialized West is a show-case of what the Homo sapien species can do. There has been phenomenal advancement in every single field of human existence. Watching the West amazes me what the Homo sapiens. I am amazed at how he can organize in groups, always. He also sets its members in groups and assigns roles. Reproductive and care groups-the family, work groups, governance groups. This tendency to group is also a tendency to exclude. The tendency is so strong that it has spurned terrible wars over the ages and today. This tendency and territorialism is seen in other mammals and is equally fierce and deadly. It is the cause of most dog fights. But unlike other mammals and unique to wise man he figured it out. Just like he figured out how to fly, and how to go to extreme depths. So comes the multi-cultural society of present-day Europe .and the equal society of present day America. But why does the white man loose his God when he sheds his prejudices- there is no debating that these freedoms have come to be because the white man agreed a to match his acclaimed belief in the ideals of freedom with actions: the vote for women, the vote non-whites and others. Indeed many white men may be as many as men of other colors proposed, promoted and agitated for these achievements. But why does the white man loose his God in the process. Because he thinks his religion is part of the problem. All the beneficiaries of the hard-won freedoms keep their faiths but the white man. He thinks his religion is ineffective, baseless and divisive, but some who think so accept much less documented faiths and fairy tales. The events of early Christianity are more documented than Roman history of that period. If you believe the Roman history of that period then you have to believe the New Testament. There are no bizarrely incredible stories in the Bible. The bible could not pass for science fiction. May be to an earlier generation when it spoke of a chariot of fire. Now I think that may have been rocket technology. The only way to go to space today is in a "chariot" of fire. 2 Kings 2:11

### 11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

If this sounded bizarre to a reader two thousand five years ago, it does not sound strange to a twenty first century reader. We clearly see Newton's third law of motion taken into account in the mechanism of Elijah's spaceflight. Fiery expansive gases, and an energetic tornado. This mechanism three thousand years before rocket flight is correct. There is nothing like this in any other book, nothing like this in any historic account. It easy to believe that somebody disappeared but this is not the account. The account says he was provided rocket technology. And another technology yet to come into common use, the vortex technology. It is what gives tornadoes and hurricanes their power. Two patents have been taken on this but it was used in the Bible three thousand years ago. I suggest a mechanism for a Elijah's spaceflight: the expansive fiery gases provided initial lift and set off a vortex. It could have been a hybrid of rocket and vortex technology that powered him at some safe G, in a cocoon of controlled environment to heaven.

The accounts of the bible could have been on a newspaper at the time they were written or today. They are not imaginary esoteric fancies which is what some would expect of religious writing. They are the words a real God, relating in a real way with real people. It is not a fairy tale. The minorities of Europe and America hold to their religions more tenaciously than the white man holds to his faith. Christianity is certainly not the excluder. The real problem the indigent European has with Christianity is its insistence on a righteous lifestyle. . So liberalizing Europe liberated itself from Christianity, the weak state of the church not helping matters.

What may happen to the white man when he goes to war (compete) without his God? First the high values of civil conduct achieved through Christianity may wane like the UK riots I think reflect, causing a widespread break down in morals. If the institutions of state working largely alone do not maintain the level of morals but fail as new value system may develop such as one in which material possession holds pride of place spurning corruption which could set off a cascade of decline.

Second there is no doubt that Europeans above all other peoples inherited a far disproportionate portion of the earth for their population akin to Israel's taking of the Promised Land. Europeans deserting God may bring a reversal like it did Israel.

Freedom of Worship: It is a human thing to relate with the supernatural, Jesus Christ or some wrong way. This behavior is spontaneous, free and universal, and indeed very easy. What is rare is having no supernatural belief, even today. That should be hard for most people as they have resolved the matter of the origins of existence and the origin of nature in its beauty and complexity. The logic is so clear that people do not have to critically review evidence or engage in high-faluting discourses. It has been said of offspring to have inherited their faith from parents: would this happen so passively if faith in God did not make so much sense. Indeed there is no compulsion to religion yet by far most people on earth believe in things they cannot see and spend their money.

A few people come up and take a different view. And some are really feeling fulfilled like they cracked the unified theory. Well atheism is most times the result of impaired psychosocial development, when a child grows up with sufficient natural input of emotional pleasure like from interpersonal relationships, a healthy environment where he is explores free, is happy and develops heart as well as head, the capacity to approximate conclusions on less than 100% of the evidence. At 70-80% you get a good feeling about a matter and can act. Insisting on 100% of evidence in day to day living is dysfunctional- that is obsessive-compulsive. When do you get your teeth 100% clean so you can stop brushing? When is your lawn just right so you can go do something else? Without the normal functional necessity to have peace over an issue based on a good strong trend of evidence the capacity for faith is impaired. I am talking about the confidence range. We function day to day on this statistical concept. This is the basis of some honest atheism.

A second sincere form of lack of faith is inherited atheism. These individuals inherit faithlessness from parents or other persons of influence. They know little about the faith they reject. Some atheism may simply be choice. This could be a refusal to be "constrained" by the requirements of righteousness. A wish that God should not exist. Rebellion.

### Gen 15:6.

### 6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

### Heb 11:6

6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him

### The bible does go into proof for the existence of God. It starts with: In the beginning God created heaven and earth. Period. Believe it. Or not.

### What was the faith response our Lord Jesus was asking of the Jews? Was it necessarily to be convicted( convinced) about his claims? Or to accept what he said and follow. If he wanted produce conviction wouldn't he have set a miracle super-bowl with a jury of Jewish leaders present. Indeed they demanded a proof and he declined, leaving them only his death and resurrection. And they did not understand because he spoke in a metaphor. He did many miracles and performed no shows. The miracles were always done to meet genuine need. Persuading the crowd about came collaterally and not to satisfactory effect. They refused to be convinced, convicted. Many an atheist would believe on the strength of a verifiable miracle but may never get an opportunity. They should do the reverse, accept. Believe by choice.

### Believe by choice. God chose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. Good if you don't require all the facts. If you address the matter as you do a scientific paper you will never be able to close all the ends of this 2000 year old thesis. Rest assured you will get the psychological 70 to 80 per cent confidence for there is by far more evidence for Jesus than there is for Alexander the Great.

### Why should anybody get credit for believing a convincing story? Abraham got credit for honoring God in believing he could accomplish what he said he will do. He knew God was God and that was accounted to him for righteousness. He would not have believed Lot or some dude in the region.

"Believe and be saved," prophet shouts.

"Convince me!" atheist replies.

### The prophet gave a call to action. Not an explanation.

### To the atheist by choice, Heb 3:7,8

7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

### 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness

To the atheist who has not checked for themselves. Check for yourself. It's your soul at stake.

IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW: In case you don't know that in Christianity you don't qualify for heaven or the New Heaven and New Earth by your level of righteousness let me let you into this knowledge. God is perfect. That is his standard. Very god-like! And He's not going to compromise. To dwell with him you must be perfect. But we have all fallen short. We are all stained with sin. Compromised and no more perfect. We have to be eliminated when God takes stock of the earth. Discarded. But God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16. Jesus died in your place. Believe this and be saved. 100%. Before you did anything.

Do you think this religion came from man? You know how man thinks. Work for pay.

Now you are saved. Don't you love God? You know that sin is going to be a big problem between Him and you. So you keep away from sin. He knows it's not easy to do so he puts Himself in you to back you up. The Holy Spirit is what you need. A full filling of the Holy Spirit will give a holy nature and supernatural power. For real! The powers available are: the power to tell the future called prophecy; the power to current things without being told called the word of knowledge; the power to heal the sick miraculously; the power to preach; the power to teach, the power to lead; the power to speak in languages you did to learn and understand languages you did not learn; and the power to give money to the church and needy persons. How do you like this religion? 1Cor 12:28

28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

SECOND THING: This religion has no meaningless rules. Like killing animals. On such and such a time or at anytime whatsoever. If you made the universe what would you need a goat for?

### Psalm 52:9-14

### 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.

### 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

### 11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.

### 13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

### 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:

### . There are no rules about what you can eat and what you cannot eat? You can eat anything.

### Rom 14:14

### 14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean

There are no outcasts. Eph 2:14-16

14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;

15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;

### 16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

No lower class, no untouchable class. You can do business with anybody. Except a fake Christian( you carefully help him repent) If you are married to a non-Christian when you become one you don't have to divorce. If you are not then you should marry a Christian so two of pull in the same direction. There are no special days. If you want a day to be special good for you, if not, good for you. Rom 14:5,6.

### One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

### 6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

Commonly Sunday is set aside by Christians. Whatever you do be convinced and not unstable, have faith and do it to the glory of God who wants only your worship, your praise, your obedience, your absolute love for Him and your true love for your neighbor. The Golden rule 'do unto others as you will like to be done unto' is a Christian saying. Who said it? Jesus. "Love your neighbor as yourself' who said it: Jesus.

In this religion you don't hit back, this is a basic 21st century code of conduct, it is Christian. When a woman was supposed to die because of adultery, Jesus set her free. In this religion real righteousness as against outward show is what counts: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance. Gal 5:22,23

### 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

### 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law

### Eph 5:9

### 9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

### Phil 1:11

### 11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God

THE FIGHT: It has been said that there is a battle on earth between good and evil. It's a matter of rebels defeated and expelled causing trouble where they are, a lawless bandit army rampaging and committing war crimes. The leader trying to hold all of the people hostage, shaking his head and saying, "you are not going to have any influence here to take hostage" not able to look the King in the face. The King is about His huge estate, the activities in the domain where the rebels fled totally under control. He bides his time. Let the wheat and the tares grow together, let wheat not be pulled out in the course of uprooting the tares. At harvest the tares shall be removed and burnt with fire the wheat put in the barn. Mat 13:25

### 25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

### 26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.

### 27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?

### 28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?

### 29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.

### 30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

This same thing happened in the days of Noah. Genesis chapter 7. The ark was used to save Noah's family and the rest of the people destroyed. It happened in Sodom, Lot's family was saved and the city destroyed.

The fight is between Man and Satan with his cohorts. Eph 6:12

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

The planet was given to man to rule over and to prosper on. Then the evil band defeated and cast out of heaven try to usurp. He is trying to use man as a human shield. If he can eliminate the church and every Christian from the earth the King will have no harvest to come to. He has tried violence, for example against the early church, now he uses stealth. He still uses violence in the form of torture.

Satan is in desperate panic because as they say "it is not working". Violence is like fertilizer both to the church as a group and to the individual. The church prospers and spreads, facing death and duress the members as a group live more for one thing and one thing only the Lord and the gospel. The Lord Jesus said those who love their lives shall loose it and those who hate their lives shall have hit. A true Christian loves his Lord more than his life. He is one hardened 'good' man. Adversity brings out the best in him. He is like Gold, purified in the furnace. Like the Hebrew boys he will not give in. (Dan3:12-30)

### 12 There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

### 13 ¶ Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Then they brought these men before the king.

### 14 Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?

15 Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands? 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.

### 17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.

### 18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

### 19 ¶ Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.

### 20 And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

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### 42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

### 43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

### 44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

### 45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

### 46 ¶ Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him.

### 47 The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.

### 48 Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.

### 49 Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.

CHAPTER 3 NEBUCHADNEZZAR the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

### 2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellers, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

### 3 Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellers, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

### 4 Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages,

### 5 That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:

### 6 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

### 7 Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

### 8 ¶ Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews.

### 9 They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever.

### 10 Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image:

### 11 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

### 12 There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

### 13 ¶ Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Then they brought these men before the king.

### 14 Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?

### 15 Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?

### 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.

### 17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.

### 18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

### 19 ¶ Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.

### 20 And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

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### 21 Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

### 22 Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.

### 23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

### 24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellers, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.

### 25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.

### 26 ¶ Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, came forth of the midst of the fire.

### 27 And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellers, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.

### 28 Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

### 29 Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.

30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, in the province of Babylon

### Before any other discussion this story demonstrates what all bible stories have: credibility. There are details that just say this event actually happened. Things a fictionalizer may not think of. In this story an example is the record of the fact that the clothes of the men thrown into the fire.

What can you do to a person who is willing to die? One true Christian is a immense terror to Satan. Because he blocks his strategy, to prevent the second coming by eliminating the Church. Satan will mount a fight with temptation using money, sex, pleasure, pride, bitterness, and unforgiveness for example. He will use family to provoke to angry sin. He attacks marriages, businesses, and reputation for example to torture. He does this using spirits.

Stealth is Satan's biggest weapon. He'd rather people did not think he exists, so they do not know to guard themselves, so they don't know who to target: So they do not know they are being attacked. A Christian is one battle complex mighty in the power of God. Take the next passage very seriously.

Salvation: This is the helmet on the head, protecting the control center of the individual, the headquarters, the place of ideation, the mindset, 'the headset'. Salvation protects your thinking, the origin of actions, and the spring point of temptation. The saved person has his thoughts cleaned. The saved person thinks right and knows God's will and God's word. The saved person knows who he is: joint heirs with Christ, seated in heavenly places, adopted into sonship, forgiven, of a chosen generation, of a royal priesthood. He knows he has authority over Satan's power, he knows he is dead to sin and alive in Christ, he knows the life he lives is not his but Christ lives in him, he knows he can do all things through the strengthening of Christ, he knows he has abundant life, he knows he has eternal life, he knows he has overcome the world, he knows sin has no dominion over him, he knows he is sealed with the Holy Ghost, he knows he God answers his prayers he knows he does not sin because the seed of God dwelleth with him. Do you sin? A Christian aspires to sinlessness. A Christian can go a day without absolutely any sin. One day is a long time not to sin I think for most Christians. It's funny that some think it is humility to acknowledge that they sin, " I have not got it all together" is what is said. I feel sick in the belly because it tells the state of the Church. Paul said I have fought a good fight of faith I have finished the race and now awaits me a crown..." That is victory. Christ comes for a church with blemish. So when I hear public acknowledgement of sin it seems to suggest to me the Second Coming is far away as the raptured Church is a Church without blemish. Sin is a disgrace. Paul had no tolerance for it. He was averse to sin, so should we be. Not braggarts, not pompous, not boastful, not arrogant. We should no flout our victories; if we are holy it is God-enabled through his indwelling spirit. He saved us the cleaned us so what we boast about? And it is a continuous battle because if not every day we sin sometimes. We do not capitulate, we campaign! The campaign against sin can be frustrating when what we want to do we don't do and that which we don't want to do we find ourselves doing. But God through His spirit saves us from this. So we are saved from the sin cycle. Is it all at once or could there be besetting remnants? I believe some sins are just simply removed. Pray brother pray! Pray sister pray! Strive for righteousness, purity and perfection. Work out your salvation with fear and trembling; let your faith yield fruit of good works. Show Christ more through your works and less through talk. What are do you feel: a love of Christ or as sense of group? Confess your sins to God that you may be forgiven, to man that you expose it. Acknowledging sinfulness is not humility. It may say you are not a serious Christian. Of-course you may be a serious Christian saying to others do not give up because of the sin problem. I am definitely not trying to show off. I struggled with a particular sin, prayed and prayed, and then God removed it. I am only warning against a culture of complacency. Salvation from things in this life, but the ultimate is salvation unto eternal life.

THE BREASTPLATE: What do you feel? Love or hate. There you are. God is love. If you don't love your brother you are of the devil. Love the Lord your God with all your heart Love your neighbor as yourself. It is hard to hurt the one you love, like child, parent, spouse, and sibling. That is how love works. It is kind to the beneficiary. It endures and forgives his transgressions. Can you give ten thousand dollars to your football buddy, but you'll pay your Child's college fees and feel no hurt. It is love at work. It may be argued that hope for future reward is also at work. But the bank is a good place for ten thousand dollars. We need to put on the breastplate of righteousness. We should be righteous in the place of our emotions. Love is kind feelings for a person. As a matter of fact love is given where it can be received. Would you love your wife if suddenly became a statue. There is no love for objects, like is the word, valued if it is worth much. When you lose a thing much liked the pain is felt in the heart, when a thing much valued the pain if felt partly in the heart and partly in the body. As if reflecting the body pain of work. The feeling of special favor is love for a person, fondness for an animal, cherish, value or like for an object depending on what it means to the person. There is a spectrum of favorable feelings whose quality also reflects the nature of the beneficiary, human or non-human, animate or inanimate, singular or plural. It is sacrificial so that the benefactor often gives at none or a reduced sense of loss. If you .have faith and hope but no love it like clattering can, a sounding cymbal, without content. If your love cannot give, think about it. The more you love the more you can give, even if you apply a control on this ability or urge. Charity shows more the working component of the word love, and less of the emotion, definitely less of the romance. Romance is good in the context of God's will. Put on the breast plate of love. Avoid the breasts of lust.

Meekness is part of the breastplate. Meekness is humility at work like wisdom is intelligence at work. Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. This is not being puffed-up. A work colleague gets himself a Porsche because you drive a Mercedes, you let it be. It is humble behavior. Your friend is going out town for business he announces to everybody , you 're going to another continent holiday you don't say. It doesn't have to in big things. Meekness is when showing off is not part of your reasons for doing something. Purge this reason out of your intent and you'll be meek.

Patience. This is the will to wait. Endurance the physical equivalent. When suffering is intense the two are in operation. It is an important weapon against Satan's weapon of torture.

Hope: This is the forward looking emotion. It is looks to the future in expectancy. It generates the drive to go on. The absence of it is despairing which a vacuum of purposelessness, without the urge to continue. What will you do when you finally become rich, you will kill yourself for want of a reason to be, a raison deter. Nothing to live for, no more goals, no more hope. What will you do if suddenly become an animal? You will move up and down eating, having sex without purpose, without goals till you die or get killed. If animals were self-aware they will be miserable. When Nebuchadnezzar became self-aware he worshipped. Animals are not self-aware and cannot be God-aware. Today's generation in the West is out of balance with self-awareness and less God-awareness. 'The look' is the epitome of that. Breast enlargement, nose reduction, buttocks, body exposure. It is shame to see people flaunting their biceps as if that is all they've got. Patience works character when it has endured. With patience you go through. You come out fine: pure, holy. Powerful and prayerful. Patience stands behind faith as hope leads the way. The expectation of Heaven, the Second coming, the rising from the dead and the New Heaven and New earth is the ultimate hope

FAITH: is surety. Confidence. We are persuaded (convinced, convicted, believe) that nothing can separate us from the love of God. Howe will they believe unless they hear. Your faith depends on the truth you know, so the shield works with the head. How many blocks do you know. You need to know them to be able to execute them. With faith the fiery darts of the devil are quenched. Torture is quenched because you believe peace is your portion. You are righteous, you have the Holy Ghost, peace is your inheritance. Peace that passeth all understanding. Know what the word says, believe it and stand on it. That is how to use this weapon. Jesus came to set the captives free, break the bands of iron and the gates of brass and declare a year of jubilee. Whom the son is free is free indeed. So you are free. He who comes to God must believe that he is. Believe and be saved. If you say, you believe it, it is. Believe what the word says that is truth. Truth will cause fact to conform when believed. He is the Lord our Healer. So we are healed. The Lord supplies all your needs according to His riches in Glory so you are going to get an excellent job.

THE SHOES: What message do you carry? Blessed are the feet that bring good news. We overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. The Church spread on the feet of Christians scattered by persecution from Jerusalem, on the feet of Apostles who took it to the far and abroad, on the feet of missionaries who evangelized Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia , Australia, and the islands. Today the gospel goes by the airwaves as well as feet. Tell the gospel you will reap rewards. You will win yourself a crown. You will convert potential and real foes, it would be known you are Christian, giving you another reason to act like one, it will win you trust and respect( people respect the 'feat' of righteousness).

THE SWORD: The sword of the Spirit of God is the word of God. It is living, active, sharper than any two edged sword. It does not return void but accomplishes that for which it was sent. The Lord sendeth his word out and healeth them. The Lord Jesus comes back riding on a whiter horse a sword in His mouth: words. You speak the word. If God said it it is a law of nature. It must come to pass. Speak it to any problem. There is a verse for every problem. Are you weak? "Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might". "Let the weak say I am strong" Are you afraid? 'The Lord has not given us the spirit of fear, but of boldness and a sound mind" "Fear not I am with you even to the end of the age"

We war against organized evil. A Satanic system that is all over the planet. A hierarchical system that leads to Satan. Starting from demons in people, through demons in-charge of regions and aspects of human society like money, lewdness, false religion for example. They work in teams generally, and are systematized. In this battle one practicing Chistian is like a aircraft carrier carrying diverse kinds of weapon systems. Bombers, fighters, drones, missiles, artillery, troops. One practicing praying Christian is such. He can change of world history. I know one young man who took to pray for the end of the Khmer Rouge (a group that committed large-scale genocide in Cambodia). The group is no more. Cambodians did not have to start from year zero. The spoken word of God is a missile. It "goes". We pray in the Spirit, in tongues. This is devastates the forces of darkness. They flee. Prayer is powerful. Prayer is powerful. Just for illustration: two infantry forces are locked in battle exchanging small arms fire, one Christian against several demons, it's been thirty minutes, suddenly tank fire is heard, that is what it seems in the spirit realm. Tongues are the sound of overwhelmingly superior weaponry. Demonic entities take to flight."

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## Part 3 Decomissioning.

SPACESHIP EARTH: The earth is a spaceship by all definitions. Its properties in space shows it is not just a random agglomeration of stellar debris but made and set in orbit with specific objectives in mind. The position in space relative to the sun is all vital with regards to the conditions on the planet. It's ambient temperature, whether there is water and the states in which it occurs, and the types of winds occurring. Earth's moon is an important item of machinery in the system: it causes the earth to be inclined 4 degrees from the vertical and this causes the seasons. The moon also slow down earths revolution without which we would have a shorter day, then it cause the tides. It may also shield from impact by impact by very numerous rocks moving in our solar system and are occasionally slung off their orbits around the sun to slam on the planets. The moon is one-third the size of the earth and has taken a good proportion of these, its surface seems to reveal.

Water exists in all the three states I which a substance can exist on earth: ice, liquid water and vapor. These three are in equilibrium (said to be disturbed by global warming) in the water cycle whereby liquid water evaporates into the gaseous state- water vapor, then condenses to fall back as precipitation: rain, snow, or hail. There are permanent masses of solid water the Antarctic, Arctic, and the highest peaks on the planet like Mount Everest. If the earth were too warm, there would be no ice. Much of the water in on the planet is in continuous storage as permafrost, permanent ice. Melting of this ice will increase the volume of the oceans and certainly more of earth's dry surface would be submerged. If Earth was in Mercury's position in the solar system there might be no water at all of any form on the planet the temperature may be high enough for most gases( including water vapor) top escape free from gravity. If Earth were further away from the sun than it is now more of its water would be ice. At a point all will be ice. The amount of energy reaching the planet from the sun is the important factor in the different situations. The strength of winds will also be affected

The environment on the planet is very stable. Temperature, pressure, humidity, precipitation and wind vary within stable limits from century to century, and life is conditioned to this. Deviation from the usual pattern will invariably have effects on the biological system of the earth. This is supposed to be happening with temperature: rising because of an increase in the amount of gases that retain heat in the earth's atmosphere. This is said to be due to human burning of fossil fuel. The strength of this theory is not the subject here. What is daunting is how the atmosphere seems to be a cesspit. Consider the amount of undesirable gaseous waste form burning twenty million barrels of petroleum a day. Straight into the atmosphere. Every day for one hundred years. Thereabouts! I'm surprised that the planet has taken this assault pretty well. But for the science one would not notice anything amiss on the global scale. Most people still breathe clean air.

The debate on whether human activity is the cause of the warming continues, but it brings to the fore the age-old Masslowian question of the adequacy of resources for an increasing world population. Earth is a closed system; its resources are finite. Unless everything consumed is recycled, everything taken replaced, the resources on the planet have their finish date. The inventory will run out. The only thing coming from an exterior source is solar energy.

The revolutionary development of the planet is very recent, only two hundred years old. For thousands of years preceding people went on foot or used animals, milled grain, ploughed fields , raised water for irrigation by themselves or used animals. Doing the same thing the same way their father did it. Then suddenly there was an increase in scientific inquiry and invention called the industrial revolution in England and the discovery of the hydrocarbons first coal, then petroleum to power it. There is no doubt that these readily available sources of energy catalyzed the Industrial Revolution. So effectively that there was not serious need to look at alternatives though abundant- solar, wind, tidal, and others. Just think of the ease of driving to a petrol station filling up and driving away, of flicking a switch to turn on the light, TV, music etc. Most often at some place oil or coal is burned. Is it a coincidence that coal and fuel all the time in the ground should come to such pivotal importance only so recently. Just at the right time! The point to be made is that the hydrocarbons are depleting rapidly. It is fair to say there are stocks to last another fifty years, beyond which there availability would involve considerably more difficulty as to completely change the dynamic of the energy industry. Oil is dirty, coal is a drudge yet people complain about the price of gasoline. When the price of oil skyrockets to ninety dollars a barrel the call is for more oil (more production). The alternatives are not anywhere near competitiveness. Modern civilization is hinged on oil. Fluctuations in the oil industry reflect across the board of almost all industries, products and services. It also tells on the disposable incomes of families. It is said that world's economy is addicted to oil.

Exhaustion of the world's oil portends crisis, even if temporary. It is a potential recession in the brew. Increased production cost, less purchasing power, less consumer confidence, less demand a stalled economy. The history the market is going to be divided into a time before oil, a time with oil available and a time after oil. Things will not be the same at least for a time. The minimum being the time it takes to roll out a new system, or bring it up to level. Most likely there would be a seamless transition with alternatives coming into stream as oil gets increasingly scarce.

It seems to me that oil was fixed and kept in the bowels of the earth for a time like this: when knowledge "shall increase" and man would express a great measure of potential, at the end of time. Nobody knows when Christ shall come but the things that arte foretold to happen before He comes seem possible to be completed within a fifty year time scale. Reaching all the earth including the unreached peoples with the gospel; a more unified world system: there could well be semi political unions of the nations on all the continents by fifty years. The emergence of a leader with immense popularity on a global scale has been seen to be very possible with recent events in American politics. This not saying any one is the anti-Christ. A few political leaders in recent years in Britain and the US have been speculated to be the anti-Christ. Two have since finished very long terms in office and the enthusiasm about a third is has waned well beneath the global excitement the anti-Christ will foment. Indeed this party works no signs and no wonders as the call of "jobs, jobs..." does not conjure up anything but stalemate with the opposition. I must say he is a gifted human being, he's no average guy. I know for myself because I read his book and determined to read every line of what he has to say. Only he seems more polarized and less conciliatory in deeds that in words. And it is obvious that there is dogged determination to get him out by the some in the Republican Party not for what he has done or not done. Even by unfair tactics. He is indeed formidable, so much that the Republican presidential line up looks one weight class below, generally speaking. Their only chance is to play the religious card. A very important card by the way!

After oil what next? It could just be that oil is a sign of the end, a part of a time when knowledge is increased. It could just be that indeed the burning of oil has damaged the planet beyond repair. In which case what do we do. Adapt to a new harsher world? This should be expected if evolution is true. We may now have a challenging stimulus that spurs us to evolve into an even higher kind of man. Repeating such a cycle of adaptation, ruining the system, further adaptation could eventually produce a species and technology to spread out from earth and populate nearby space and farther. This seems far-fetched and highly unlikely.

Option two: Aliens come bringing help. Or we make contact with a more advanced alien civilization who tell us what to do. The government says there are no aliens. And all listening done so far for signals of other civilization than ours yields only static. The Voyager mission bearing a message from earth for any civilization it may encounter has safely traversed the wonder and rocky danger in our solar system and is now in inter-stellar space. It has a record of the message from the U.N Secretary-General and the president of the United States, has the voice of children and pictures of life on earth. It is exciting science but I think the likelihood of making contact with another civilization is almost non-existent. The voyager program was very successful in studying Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Option three: we get outside help. Jesus comes! Bringing a new heaven and a new earth. This is a four thousand year old prediction. It is said that Abraham looked forward to city not built by hands. Heb 11:9&10

9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

### Rev 21.

### CHAPTER 21 ND I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

### 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

### 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

### 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

### 5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

### 6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

### 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

### 9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

### 10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

### 11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;

### 12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:

### 13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.

### 14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

### 15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.

### 16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

### 17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.

### 18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.

### 19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;

### 20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.

### 21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

### 22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.

### 23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

### 24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.

### 25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.

### 26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.

### 27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.

The bible is replete with end time predictions. Because it was foretold and we see the need for a new earth arising right before our eyes from a planet that is probably irreparably damaged it should be the correct option. Previous generation saw suffering and evil, we see even more, physical damage (possibly). Spaceship earth has date for decommissioning, and may be doing its last run. The fuel is running low!

TO SHOUT OR NOT TO SHOUT: DENOMINATIONS: Most of the major denominations of the Christian faith must have been started by sincere godly men for reasons that to them were of great bearing but the separatism of their followers many decades after do not seemed hinged on those weighty matters of faith but superficial triviality like whether to shout or not to shout. The way of worship, excitable or controlled, seems to be the more important difference between Baptists and Pentecostals. A Pentecostal who has had baptism by immersion could still seem out of place in a Baptist service for the high level of exuberance, of-course it would seem like disorder to the Baptist. While a Baptist in a Pentecostal service may be seem a 'baby' Christian for not for his "low level" worship. He may seem new to the faith still having the shyness and self-consciousness that that new members of the Pentecostal have, though he may have been many years a Baptist and a well knowledgeable and practiced Christian. The shouting and high energy expression of the Pentecostal movement may have been borne of a high level of earnest zeal in its early days. Such as enabled some overcome inhibition to preach on the sidewalk of familiar streets. This spontaneous reasonable behavior may have passed down as a learned behavior expected of people who name themselves by that nomenclature whether backed by zeal or not. Such that some of it could be just put –up. We should not be drunk with wine but controlled by the Spirit. So emotional expression in the Pentecostal certain would be expected such as when people express the gift of tongues or have high levels of joy. This should be the real origin the high level of emotional expression in the Pentecostal movement and will account for the great zeal that is part of vibrant Pentecostal Christianity Does imply that denominations that demonstrate less excitement about their faith are less zealous about the things of faith. Well, usually humans are emotional about the things they feel strongly about. Why? Because they feel strongly about it: which is zeal. But some people approach faith with sobriety, so their zeal may be masked by this. Both movements accomplish a great deal. So it may be asked: Is the reason than makes a Baptist minister leave his country to a remote village in Africa or Asia different from what inspires a Pentecostal minister? So what is the difference between the Pentecostal and the Baptist movement. My focus is that what was in the hearts of the parties at the time of the schism or disagreement may not the on the mind of the members of today, but mere superficialities like we shout, they don't or they shout we don't. The important tenets of the faith are available to individuals in almost all branches of the faith as collected in the Nicene( Apostle's creed) an ancient proclamation agreed upon then and agreed upon today. I concede that the environment influences the ease of accomplishment of the individual's faith-life. This may be the material significance of the divide not whether we shout or not.

I wonder how many of the issues between the denominations are fatal with respect to going to heaven or being resurrected in Christ. Baptism: The thief who was saved on the cross was not baptized. (I note that what was available then was the Baptism of John ( the Lord Jesus took this Baptism) How to Baptize: in the name of Jesus or of the Father son and Holy Spirit.) We all know it's the same God. Church structure: all denominations have effective structured leadership. Meats: One man eats, another does not. Let he who eats not cause he who does not eat to stumble. Let everyone be persuaded in what he does: both positions are allowed. It is indeed possible for a true Christian to help another in the confession of sins; standing in the gap like Moses did for Israel. As long as direct confession to God is as long as practiced. The important essence is for everything to be done in Spirit and in truth to the glory of God with a worshipful heart. If a minister chooses to be celibate, that is the recommended position. If a group of ministers choose to be celibate it should follow that they have taken the best position as a group. But if they fail the Bible says they are judged twice as they are leaders. So the ideal position is not to be taken lightly as an individual or as a group. What is left? The place of Mary the mother of Jesus. Mary certainly must not be worshipped. The Catholic Church must ensure and scrutinize this and prevent all risk of this happening. It ought to examine this practice from its origins in full Christian sincerity to ensure that idolatry is not practiced even unknowingly. I am sure the Catholic church has done this but I must say that personally this this is my major worry about participating in Catholic worship. The rosary involves so much positive speech directed to Mary in what is expected to be the presence of God that the question arises why this is not directed to God Himself. It should be of immensely much more value, power and effect. The Lord Jesus said to Mary: woman what have you got to do with me when Mary relayed the need for more wine at the marriage feast of Canaan. This tells that Mary is certainly not part of the Lords ministry. She is a beneficiary like everyone else. All nations call her blessed like all nations call Abraham father following after his faith. I do not think it calls for recital that Mary was favored with the privilege to bear the Lord Jesus, not least in seeming competition to the Father, the true and only deity. I do not think it is an office and I do not think the honor transcends the human plain but in the same quality as that of being distinguished as mother of a great person even as no great person before, now or ever would be comparable even by the slightest hint to the Lord Jesus who is God. It was an immense honor but which made Mary no more above human than her husband Joseph, no her nephew the mother of John the Baptist upon whom was bestowed the great honor of giving birth to the Greatest of all mortals as stated by the Lord Jesus himself, John the Baptist.

The Catholic Church must be careful about the origins of teachings about Mary some of which are far from the reasonableness that is a core property of Christianity. There are no fairies and no fairy tales in Christianity, neither any Greek myth. It is unbelievable that Joseph should be celibate though married and living and travelling with Mary. The Bible talks more than of the Lord having siblings. It is strange to think they were other relations than first degree biological siblings when Mary was properly married couple in a custom that prized children and considered them a blessing.

It is hard to see how Mary came to spoken to so much in the place of worship of Yahweh, a jealous God who tolerates no rivals, who made all things and in whose presence humans tremble as if they would die. The Jewish lady Mary would not accept this, nor being referred to with a capitalized L. She was not Royalty. I will not pen the word Deity and the name of the Jewish woman in the same sentence and Jews of that period would not. It is hard indeed to see how there came to be so much speech directed to Mary in the place of worship of the Almighty God, of all places. It bothers on irreverence for God and I am being cautious. At the minimum it displaces true worship and may get the response the Lord Jesus gave at marriage feast of Canaan. There is no reference to Mary in the acts of the early church- the Acts of Apostle. No mention in Paul's or Peter's writings, nor any in any other epistles. Nor in Revelations. Any creative fictitious teaching about Mary is a doctrine of fables.

I am concerned because of the quality of some Popes the Catholic Church has had. I am concerned that though Peter stood to be corrected by Paul over the conduct of Jewish Christians with respect to gentile Christians Popes are infallible. It is a sycophantic teaching that may have been necessary to stave of opposition, especially in the exercise of politics that the office calls for. Which has been very difficult at times in centuries past. I am concerned because female false gods exist in many pagan cultures. The Catholic Church needs to do a frank examination on its teachings on Mary. And Catholics who can must examine the matter for themselves. There ought to be an honest debate.

The final point of immense importance is the teaching about the Holy Spirit and His work and the gift He brings. It is not possible to be a Christian without the Holy Spirit. He who has not Spirit has no part with Christ. He enables us to meet the righteous requirements of the law. He gives us edifying gifts to facilitate our Christian walk. He helps us to pray,. He teaches us. It si therefore important what a denomination teaches about the Holy Spirit.

## HOMOSEXUALITY

Another critical point is homosexuality. The position of scripture is clear on this more than on alcohol which is also very clear. It is abhorred, forbidden, and sinful. It was a common sin in the city which has given it its name: Sodom. It is unnatural.

I shall here relate a dichotomy in the medical classification of homosexuality among the abnormalities of sexual behavior. These are called the paraphilias. Voyeerism the practice of looking at naked persons or persons having sex, fetishm is sexual attachment to objects, for example high-hilled shoes, pedophilia is sexual exploitation of children, bestiality is having sex with animals and incest is sex with siblings or parents. Homosexuality is not included among these aberrant sexual behaviors, which is surprising as homosexuality is clearly more hazardous than some of the above-named psychiatric diseases. Homosexuality between men involves insertion of the penis into the anus. This anus is incompatible to the penis. First the tone of the anus (the resting tension of its muscular valves of which there are two) is very high, to prevent leakage of feces. The lining of the anus is also not meant for sex. The vaginal lining is multi-layered so it can afford to slough off somewhat from abrasive action. Just like skin. Not the anus. The anus in its upper part has the same lining as intestine (one layer and of the same cell type), this changes to skin in the lower part. No wonder the first cases of HIV/AIDS were detected among homosexual men. Not as though heterosexual sex was not occurring. The anus is simply not an organ for sex. It does not need this explanation to know that same-sex sex is unnatural and repugnant to the human psyche. It is almost a matter of instinct to feel disgust and people should not be blamed if they feel, no more than they should be blamed for not wanting to see gruesome images on TV. This is not condoning violent behavior; self-control is a very Christian virtue. The vagina has a secretory lining , producing a lubricant to facilitate sex. Not the anorectum which keeps dry as we like it. This aberrant sexual behavior is considered medically normal. Just a variant, an alternative. This is not science at all as the highest risk of transmitting HIV is through homosexual insertive sex. This is evidence that it is a disease behavior not a normal variant. If homosexuality is normal so would be having sex with the eyeball.

WHAT DOES AMERICA HAVE IN COMMON WITH THE MIDDLE EAST: It is still fashionable to cover in America. It is called being fully dressed. Often involving a coat. This does not leave much to show, certainly not of body parts. You could think of the burka. This is a country were the Amish are. You could think Taliban. These are not fair comparisons but let's do it for sport. Many denominations here forbid alcohol. Faith is a very important political issue. You could think Turkey. Public shootings are a regular. There is the use of propaganda on the airwaves forcing arguments where there are none. The Oklahoma city bombing, anthrax attacks and the parcel bombings all happened here. These points are just a passing thought and are not representative of America.

## CHOICE OF MUSIC

The place of the leader of music is very much concretized in the western church where he is in many cases also the de facto assistant pastor. The issue of what the church sings is important because it is that is a big part of their praise and worship. Should the music pastor choose familiar songs or must he earn his money by bringing his original music to the church.

Familiar songs mean the congregation have the opportunity to sing along and worship. Apart from all other benefits this could be edifying as the saints communicate with GOD. Singing is also a pleasurable exercise and will add to the overall satisfaction of going to church. Thirdly the congregation has opportunity to share this edifying pleasant activity together. It could increase the sense of belonging of individual members, increase the group sense of identity-the discriminatory element saying the members are one group, having obligations to one another that they do not have with non-members of the group. Music is certainly one of the glues that binds members of Hillsong Church, Australia.

Choosing new music may give the music pastor a good feeling for working hard, but this may not be appreciated by the members who struggle to sing with the assistance of the prompter. The song being a new song members of the congregation give part of their attention to holding the tune and cannot fully focus on the meaning to feel the song in their hearts and be moved in adoration, reverence and worship. So the hard work of the music pastor may go unrecognized. I think praise and worship has to be done with familiar songs for the most part. Unfamiliar songs would require proper introduction to the point that the members of the congregation understand what the song is saying so they know what they are saying to God. Unfamiliar songs are OK for the purpose of ministry whereby through the medium of music and to the rewarding pleasure of it the saints are taught, encouraged, exhorted or instructed.

## THE SEEKER-FRIENDLY PHENOMENON/THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN CHURCH

The stated purposes of the Purpose-driven model are very noble: to fulfill the great commandment and the great commission. Indeed the model absolutely correctly states that churches have their purposes that drive them. It is well possible that wrong purposes knowingly or unknowingly drive a church. Money, building, inordinate preoccupation with membership size, tradition, and competition with other ministries could be keeping the church from looking onto Jesus, the author and finisher of the faith.

It is commendable that some are burdened about the critical state of the Western Church and seeking to prevent further down-slide.

These two things are clear:

  1. The spiritual state of the 21st century unsaved person is the same as it was in the first century.

  2. ### The desired response of full and total repentance is still the goal.

The issue in question is how to minister to the 21st century person to achieve the second numbered point( full repentance) also called conviction. Howto successfully get him to understand the gospel of Christ. Then to continue to effectively minister to him after he fully repents.

The seeker-friendly model advocates making alterations to the setting of church: making it more contemporary in appearance, decoration, presentation and music. I think in a way it sums up to making church less traditional and more informal. This can be safely done and indeed will help make church a more enjoyable experience and one to repeat. It will help increase attendance. But the weak attendace of the Church in the West is multifactorial in origin.

The West is more secularized and less disposed to dogma and superstition. It desires proof, reason and logic more than the generations before it

While making the church more contemporary will help it will only be to a limit as one who does not come to church because the music is outdated falls very short of the standards expected of a Christian who should be ready to give his life. Whoever loves his life shall loose it. Whoever hates his life shall have it.

Another element: a dumbing down of standards. Being a Christian today does not carry the same expectations like it used: the expectations of righteousness is severely dumbed down by an inaccurate "faith and grace" message and general lukewarmness. Many things are allowed such like cohabitation of the unmarried. Just considering that two generations ago there was not even a debate about the sinfulness of extramarital sex but today it is debated whether homosexuality is sinful or not. So the problem is a dumbing down of the faith. This is a package that goes with less commitment, less zeal...lukewarmness!!! This is the problem in the church, while secularization is the problem in the world.

The seeker-friendly approach will make the church less strange to the highly secularized. It will present familiar settings to those who are not familiar with church like those who have never been to church. However there is the potential making the church to similar to secular environments that the seeker sees no difference and no reason to come again. A disappointed seeker.

It is important to stress that by far most people respond to things of faith when they see authenticity.

  1. Authenticity in power. This serves as proof, though Christianity is not about providing proof. Believe even for the works. The Lord admonished. The church has been bereft of power.

  2. An authentic way of life. A life style that looks like prescribed by God, for men want to please the God who created them. Contrary to palliating Christians show them the full requirement of God on how they should live. They will see God in it and be convicted to obey. They will be genuine committed Christians. A person who accepts to live by the precepts of God in whole is a sure member of the church and not one who may fall away like seed choked up in thorns or fallen on rock. A good pastor wants to disciple his flock to this level; a wise pastor wants a church made up of such.

  3. An authentic message. People will obey God if they hear him. Cosy talk may only generate club-level commitment which may not stand testing. There is no alternative to the complete word of God to growing a church optimally. Getting genuine converts who come in and not only stay but join the work. The pastor duplicates himself many times. With leadership these people will witness and win souls, disciple them, give without much motivation, become outreach pastors and part-time pastors. There will be holiness, power and financial sufficiency in a church that is expanding locally and abroad .

Therefore the contemporary church could use seeker friendliness but must maintain authenticity.

## The Chemistry of Love

The differences between the male hormone and the female hormones chemically are:  
1. The benzene ring which is also found in the explosive TNT.  
2. The female hormone has one less carbon.

This, the real chemistry between the sexes, is obviously highly metaphoric. The woman having one less carbon speaks of submission to her own husband. The benzene ring, a very important feature in organic chemistry, speaks of power. This ring is like closing in on yourself, saying "no exterior disturbance". Benzene closes in on itself refusing to take on more hydrogen. Just like a man closes in on himself to stick to his family. This is self-control and represents self-denial because the molecule would be much more stable if it took on more hydrogen. The difference between TNT and gunpowder (nitroglycerine) is this greater stability. Gun powder is quick to go and dangerous for storage. However gun powder lacking the benzene ring is also heart medicine. Women are to be heart medicine to their families. Nitroglycerine is used to relieve heart pain.

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