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Universal Truth and Love Contents:

PART I: ORIGINS TIMELINE

Chapter 1: The Origin of the Universe (pg. 3)

Chapter 2: The Origin of Living Cells (pg. 11)

Chapter 3: The Origin of Complex Life (pg. 14)

Chapter 4: The Origin of Human History (pg. 18)

Chapter 5: The Origin of Human Civilization (pg. 40)

PART II: PURPOSE WORLDVIEW

Chapter 6: The Meaning of Life (pg. 53)

Chapter 7: Atheism or Biblical Christianity (pg. 56)

Chapter 8: Objections to Biblical Christianity (pg. 58)

Chapter 9: Objections to Atheism (pg. 59)

Chapter 10: Oblivion vs. Salvation (pg. 61)

PART III: OBJECTIVE ARGUMENT

Chapter 11: The Definition of Knowledge (pg. 68)

Chapter 12: An Inductive Proof (pg. 71)

Chapter 13: A Deductive Proof (pg. 89)

Chapter 14: A Final Conclusion (pg. 102)

Chapter 15: Closing Statements (pg. 104)

PART I: ORIGINS TIMELINE

Chapter 1: The Origin Of The Universe

Classical Principles of Motion

An object that is already at rest will tend to want to remain at rest unless something else exerts a force on it. An object that is already moving will tend to continue to move in a straight line at constant speed unless something else exerts a force on it. When something else exerts a force on an object, the object will start to accelerate. If an object has less mass, then it will accelerate more for the same amount of force. If an object has more mass, then it will accelerate less for the same amount of force. If part of a force is in the same direction as the object is traveling, then it will start to speed up. If part of a force is in the opposite direction as the object is traveling, then it will start to slow down. If part of a force is perpendicular to the direction the object is traveling, then the object will start to curve around the arc of a circle with that part of the force pointing along the radius toward the center of the circle. When two objects interact with each other they will exert the same amount of force on each other to push or pull each other in opposite directions with one exception. The exception is when two charged objects are moving perpendicular to each other; the magnetic force on the objects will be in perpendicular directions and not in opposite directions. However, for charged objects traveling as current around complete loops or circuits, this exception cancels itself out for the overall forces on the entire loops.

Gravity is caused by objects with mass and it causes objects to accelerate toward each other. The electric force is caused by objects with electric charge. A positively charged object and negatively charged object will exert a force on each other in opposite directions attracting toward each other. A positively charged object and a positively charged object will exert a force on each other in opposite directions repelling away from each other. A negatively charged object and a negatively charged object will exert a force on each other in opposite directions repelling away from each other.

The magnetic force is caused by objects with electric charge that are moving compared to each other. When charged objects are spinning they will create a magnet with a magnetic field going out of its magnetic north pole that loops around and goes back into its magnetic south pole. A magnetic north pole and magnetic south pole exert a force on each other in opposite directions attracting toward each other. A magnetic north pole and magnetic north pole exert a force on each other in opposite direction repelling away from each other. A magnetic south pole and magnetic south pole will exert a force on each other in opposite directions repelling away from each other. The direction of current is defined to be the direction that positive charges are moving or the opposite direction that negative charges are moving. If charged objects were moving so that the current was coming toward you, it would create a magnetic field circulating in loops counter-clockwise around it. With your right hand you can point your thumb in the direction of current through a wire, point your fingers in the direction of an external magnetic field, then your palm would face the direction of the magnetic force on the wire from that external magnetic field. Two parallel wires with current traveling in the same direction will exert a force on each other in in opposite directions attracting toward each other. Two parallel wires with current traveling in opposite directions will exert a force on each other in opposite directions repelling away from each other. Two perpendicular wires will exert a force on each other in perpendicular directions attempting to torque the wires toward being parallel to each other. The strength of forces become weaker the farther apart the objects are from each other. For point particles and spherically symmetric distributions the strength of forces is inversely proportional to the square of the radial distance between the objects.

The surface area of a sphere is proportional to the square of the radius of the sphere. The strength of the electric force on a charged object from a spherically symmetric point charge is inversely proportional to the square of the radial distance between them. If they moved to be twice as far apart, then they would exert only a quarter of the amount of electric force on each other. If they moved to be triple as far apart, then they would only exert a ninth the amount of force on each other. If they were half as far apart, they would exert double the force on each other. If they were a third as far apart, they would exert nine times as much force on each other. Both charged objects will exert the same amount of force on each other, but in opposite directions.

The surface area of the outside of cylinder is proportional to the radius of the cylinder (the cylinder has circular cross-sections). The circumference of a circle is also proportional to the radius of the circle. The strength of the magnetic force on long straight wires that are parallel to each other is inversely proportional to the radial distance between the wires. If the wires are double the distance apart, there will be half the magnetic force on each wire. If the wires are triple the distance apart, there will be a third of the magnetic force on each wire. If the wires are half the distance apart, then there will be double the magnetic force on each wire. If wires are a third of the distance apart, then there will be triple the magnetic force on each wire. Both the parallel wires will exert the same about of force on each other but in opposite directions.

These principles of motion only seem to work as an approximation. There are nuclear "forces" that keep the nuclear of atoms together. On the small scale of atoms, there are no longer objects that travel along paths of motion, but rather motion seems to travel along multiple paths in a mysterious manner that is unknown. Therefore, quantum physics uses probabilities to compensate for our inability to describe objects as moving along a single path. The universe also seems to have a maximum speed that objects can travel through space at, which is the speed of light in empty space. Relativistic physics makes adjustments to account for this maximum speed.

Overview of Relativistic Physics

The speed of light through empty space is always the same regardless of the speed of the object that emitted it, regardless of the speed of the object that reflects it, and regardless of the speed of the object that receives it. The speed of light is the maximum speed that matter can travel through space. All processes occur more slowly within an object that is traveling close to the speed of light through space because the light triggering any process must travel a further distance to complete the same process, which takes more time. Therefore, it is as if time slows down within objects traveling close to the speed of light through space since all of the processes take more time to occur. When time slows down in this manner, it is called "time dilation".

There are 1000 meters in a kilometer. A cube that has length, width, and height all is one meter would have a volume of one cubic meter, which is a kiloliter. A kiloliter is 1000 liters. A liter of water has a mass of a kilogram. A cube that length, width, height all is one centimeter would have a volume of one cubic centimeter, which is a milliliter. A milliliter of water has a mass of one gram. The following are small prefixes. 10^-1 is tenth, "deci". 10^-2 is hundredth, "centi". 10^-3 is thousandth, "milli", 10^-6 is millionth, "micro", 10^-9 is billionth, "nano", 10^-12 is trillionth, "pico".

Because we have two eyes that have a certain distance between them, we can judge how far away objects are based on the light reflecting off an object reaching each eye at a slightly different angle. This is called "depth perception". The Earth may start at a certain position in its orbit and half a year later (6 months later) the Earth is at a different position in its orbit on the other side of the sun, with a certain distance between its current location and it previous location. In a similar way we can calculate how far away objects are from the Earth based on the light emitted from any object reaching the Earth at a slightly different angle when the Earth is at the two different locations. Determining how far objects are away from the Earth in this manner is called "triangulation".

It is always important to also make corrections when the light has been bent by "refraction" and by "gravitational lensing". The average velocity of light does slow down when it travels through a material rather than empty space. The index of refraction of a material is defined to be the average velocity of light through empty space divided by the average velocity of light through that material. Light can be bent or the direction the light is traveling can change when the light travels from empty space through a material, or from one material through another material, or from a material back into empty space. When light passes through a material and then returns to empty space, the average velocity of the light will always return back to traveling at the speed of light through empty space even though the direction that the light was traveling may have changed. When light changes direction when it passes from one material to another, it is called "refraction".

It takes a Newton of force to accelerate one kilogram of mass with an acceleration of one meter per second per second. It requires 9.8 Newtons of force, which is about 2.2 pounds of force, in order to hold up a kilogram of mass on the surface of the Earth. Objects with mass accelerate towards each other, which we call "Gravity". Gravity does not cause objects to accelerate through space, but rather gravity causes the space itself to accelerate. An object's weight is equal to the mass of the object times the acceleration of the space where the object is located. To prevent an object from accelerating into the center of the Earth, the ground needs to push back with a force equal to the object's weight. The ground pushes back with a force equal to the object's mass times an acceleration through space, where the acceleration through space is the same amount but opposite direction as the acceleration of the space itself. It is not the weight of the object but rather it is the force of the ground pushing back on the object that causes the compression in the object and the feeling of heaviness.

When an object remains in the same location on the surface of the Earth, it is actually accelerating through space. The space itself is accelerating toward the center of the Earth, but the object is accelerating through space in the opposite direction by the same amount in order to remain in the same location. When the ground pushes back more, there is more compression and an object feels heavier because it is accelerating more through space. When the ground pushes back less, there is less compression and the object feels lighter because it is accelerating less through space. When the ground does not push back at all, there is no compression and the object floats drifting with no heaviness because it is not accelerating through space, even if the space itself is accelerating. When an object is not accelerating through space (even if the space itself is accelerating), it gives the feeling of "free fall" or the inaccurate phrase "weightlessness"; the object still has weight, but it doesn't have heaviness because the ground is not pushing back to cause the compression. Only when there are no other masses nearby to cause Gravity (an acceleration of space itself) will an object with mass have no weight.

An object has the same amount of mass regardless of where you move it. An object will have more weight when you move it closer to another object with a large mass. An object will feel heavier when the ground pushes back more on the object. Gravity is the acceleration of space itself caused by objects nearby with a large mass. Weight is the mass of an object times the acceleration of the space itself where the object is located. The feeling of heaviness is the amount of force the ground is pushing on the object, which is the mass of an object times its acceleration through space.

Light will always travel at the same speed through empty space. However, Gravity can cause the space itself to accelerate. This acceleration of space itself will not change the speed of light through empty space, but it can change the direction the light is traveling. When light is moving in the same direction as the acceleration of the space itself where the light is located, the light will increase in frequency and its wavelength will be shortened. When light is moving in the opposite direction as the acceleration of the space itself where the light is located, the light will decrease in frequency and its wavelength will get longer. When light is moving at an angle to the direction of the acceleration of the space itself where the light is located, the direction of the light can change. Therefore, light can bend when it travels past an object with a large mass. This bending or changing of the direction of light due to Gravity is called "gravitational lensing".

Light repeats itself in cycles as it travels through space. The frequency is how many cycles occur per unit of time. The wavelength is the distance the light travels before it repeats itself. Light has been grouped into categories based on how the light was emitted and its frequency and wavelength. The categories in order from the light with the smallest frequency and longest wavelength to the light with the largest frequency and shortest wavelength are the following: radio-wave, micro-wave, infrared-light, visible-light, ultraviolet-light, x-ray, gamma-ray. A black hole is a star that has an extremely large mass. Because a black hole has so much mass, the space itself around the black hole has an extremely large acceleration in the opposite direction the light is traveling. Even if gamma-rays are emitted from a black hole, they will become micro-waves or radio-waves with a small frequency and long wavelength when it finally gets away from the black hole star, if the light can get away from the black hole star. The light released would most likely bend back inward so that it cannot escape the black hole. Any light released from a black hole star would become micro-waves or radio-waves with a very small frequency and a very large wavelength. If light was released from black hole stars, it might have such a small frequency and such a long wavelength that none of our instruments are able to detect it.

An object at rest in empty space can be thought of (quantum physics is actually much stranger than this) as containing light traveling around chaotic curved paths that keep the light trapped around the same location, its average center of mass. Each particle of light has more energy when it has a higher frequency. Each particle of light has less energy when it has a lower frequency. An object at rest has more mass when all the light has more total energy. An object at rest has less mass when all the light has less total energy. The momentum of light is determined by how much energy the light has traveling in a particular direction. An object at rest contains light particles with the same amount of energy traveling in opposite directions on average so that the average momentum of all the light particles cancels out to zero.

If an object is at rest in empty space where the space itself is accelerating, then the wavelength and frequency of the trapped light can change. The light traveling in the same direction as the acceleration of the space itself will increase in frequency and have a shortened wavelength. The light traveling in the opposite direction as the acceleration of the space will decrease in frequency and have a lengthened wavelength. Therefore, the light traveling in the same direction as the acceleration of the space itself will gain momentum and the light traveling in the opposite direction as the acceleration of the space itself will lose momentum. The total momentum of all the light will then be in the direction of the acceleration of the space itself. If an object is at rest in empty space where the space itself is accelerating, then the object will gain an overall momentum in the direction of the acceleration of the space itself.

An object moving through space can be thought of (quantum physics is actually much stranger than this) as containing light traveling around chaotic curved paths that keep the light trapped around a moving location, its average center of mass. The light traveling in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the object's overall movement will need to travel a further distance at the same speed, so it will take a longer amount of time. Therefore, all the processes will take a longer amount of time to occur. It is as if time is slowing down because all the processes take a longer amount of time. Time seems to slow down when an object is traveling close to the speed of light, which is called "time dilation".

An object moving through space has light particles with the more of its energy traveling in the same direction as the direction of motion of the object and less of its energy traveling in the opposite direction as the direction of motion. When a particle of light has more energy, it has a shorter wavelength. When a particle of light has less energy, it has a longer wavelength. Energy behaves as if it causes the space around a particle of light to contract in the direction the energy is traveling. If energy causes space to contract in the direction it is traveling, then all objects will contract in their direction of motion since it has more energy traveling in that direction. The length of an object is predicted to get shorter in its direction of motion when it travels close to the speed of light, which is called "length contraction".

Overview of Quantum Physics

Quantum physics deals with matter on the small scale of atoms. The true behavior of matter on the small scale of atoms is mysterious and unknown, so the best we can do in quantum physics is to deal with probabilities. We describe matter using a wave of probabilities for the possible locations of the particle. Matter always transfers its energy and momentum in packets as if it were made of distinct particles. However, the matter often travels along multiple paths and interferes with itself as if it were a wave. When only one path is open, the particle might be able to reach a particular destination. When two or more paths are open, matter can travel as a wave on all the paths and cancel itself in a particular location so that it will have zero probability of reaching that destination, which is called "destructive interference". When two or more paths are open, matter can travel as a wave on all the paths and add together in another location so that it has a higher probability of reaching that other destination, which is called "constructive interference". Waves travel in repeating cycles. When two waves overlap in alignment, this causes constructive interference. When two waves are out of alignment, this causes destructive interference. Therefore in quantum physics it is impossible to predict a definite outcome for a particle, but rather we can only predict the probability of the different possible outcome for that particle. The outcome of each individual particle seems to be random. The outcomes match the predicted probabilities when there are a large number of particles.

Quantum physics can be used to calculate the probability that a particle will tunnel through an energy barrier even though the particle did not have enough energy to normally escape, which is called "quantum tunneling". Quantum tunneling is responsible for radioactive decay. There are three different types of radioactive decay, which have been named alpha, beta, and gamma. Alpha decay ejects high speed helium ions from the nucleus of an unstable atom. Beta-minus decay ejects high speed electrons out of the nucleus of an unstable atom. Beta-plus decay emits a positron from the nucleus of an atom. Gamma decay emits a high energy gamma ray of light from the nucleus of an unstable atom. The average amount of time for 50% of the sample to decay is called the half-life. Radioactive decay can be used to infer the age of an object if the original concentration of the radioactive substance is known.

All of the forms of stable matter that make up our galaxy seem to be made up of atoms composed of protons, electrons, and neutrons. The number of protons in an atom determines the chemical properties and name of the atom. Neutrinos and anti-neutrinos seem to also be prevalent freely moving through space but do not interact much with the atoms. Sometimes an anti-electron (positron) is also produced, but it quickly finds an electron to annihilate with. When an electron and positron collide, they annihilate to become gamma-rays of light. The different types of atoms have different energy levels that the electrons can occupy. A photon is a particle of light. An electron can jump to a higher energy level if it is struck by a photon that has the energy equal to the difference between the energy levels. When an electron drops back down to a lower energy level, it releases a photon of light with energy equal to the difference between the energy levels. The type of atom can be identified by the energy of the light it releases. Using light to identify the types of atoms is called "spectroscopy".

When a moving object is emitting light, the light gets bunched together and has a shortened wavelength and higher frequency in the direction the object is moving, and the light gets spread out and has a longer wavelength and smaller frequency in the opposite direction the object is moving. When movement changes the frequency of a wave, this is called the Doppler Effect. When an object emitting light and the object receiving light are moving toward each other, the light will be detected with a higher frequency then what it was emitted with, which is called "blue shifted". When an object emitting light and the object receiving light are moving away from each other, the light will be detected with a lower frequency than what it was emitted with, which is called "red shifted". One way we can tell the universe is expanding is that the light spectrum received on Earth that was emitted from the stars in distant galaxy clusters becomes progressively "red shifted" the further the galaxy cluster is from Earth. The galaxy clusters seem to be accelerating away from each other.

A neutron is composed of a proton, an electron, an anti-neutrino, plus some extra energy. The anti-neutrino and extra energy seem to act as kind of a lock that prevents the proton and electron from repelling away from each other within the neutron. When a neutron collides with a positron, it releases the proton, anti-neutrino, and gamma-rays of light. A neutron by itself is unstable and about every ten minutes, it has a 50% chance of decaying into a proton, an electron, and anti-neutrino. A neutron is only stable when it is in a stable atom. A neutron that is in an unstable atom can decay into a proton, high energy electron, and an anti-neutrino. An atom that is unstable because it has too many protons can have one of its protons decay into a neutron, positron, and a neutrino. The positron will eventually find an electron to annihilate with to create gamma-rays of light.

Every type of matter also has a form of anti-matter. Besides normal matter made up of protons, electrons, anti-neutrinos, and neutrons there is anti-matter made up of anti-protons, anti-electrons (positions), neutrinos, and anti-neutrons. Antimatter has the same amount of mass but the opposite electric charge as normal matter. When matter and anti-matter collide, they can become a bunch of different types of unstable particles depending on how the quarks annihilated. A proton is made of two up-quarks and a down-quark. A neutron is made of two down-quarks and an up-quark. An anti-proton is made of two anti-up-quarks and an anti-down quark. An anti-neutron is made of two anti-up-quarks and an anti-down quark.

When particles collide into each other close to the speed of light, the kinetic energy of the particles themselves can be used to create exotic matter, which is unstable and not commonly found in our universe. An electron can be excited to become a particle with the same charge but a lot more mass. A neutrino can fluctuate between three different states or types as it travels, which are the electron-type neutrino, muon-type neutrino, and tauon-type neutrino. An electron can be excited to become a muon and a tauon. A tauon has more mass than a muon, which as more mass than an electron, but they all have the same charge. A muon and tauon are unstable and can decay into exotic particles but will eventually decay into an electron, a neutrino, and an anti-neutrino.

The exotic particles are classified as either baryons or mesons. Baryons are particles made of three quarks or anti-quarks. Mesons are particles made of one quark and one anti-quark. There are six different types of quarks, which are named "up", "down", "charm", "strange", "top", and "bottom". There are also the six corresponding types of anti-quarks. An electron and positron have the same charge. The electron has a negative charge and a positron has a positive charge. Quarks and antiquarks either have one-third or two-thirds the charge of an electron or the charge of the positron. There are three states of an electron, which are electron, muon, and tauon. There are also three states of an up-quark, which are up, charm, and top. There are also three states of a down quark, which are down, strange, and bottom. The up, charm, and top quark have two-thirds the charge of a positron. The down, strange, and bottom quarks each have one-third the charge of an electron. Since a proton is made of two up quarks and a down quark, a proton has the same amount of charge as a positron. Since a neutron is made of two down quarks and an up quark, a neutron has zero total charge. Quarks and antiquarks will only combine in ways that are zero, one, or two times the charge of an electron or positron. It is impossible for there to be a lone quark all by itself; the energy required to free a quark will then be used create more quarks.

Eventually in a galaxy the matter and antimatter will annihilate and the unstable particles will decay until they form atoms composed of either normal matter or antimatter depending on which was more plentiful to begin with. At the center of most galaxies is a supermassive black hole. Some galaxies might have a supermassive black hole made of antimatter and the rest of the galaxy made of normal matter. Some galaxies might have a supermassive black hole made of normal matter the rest of the galaxy made of antimatter. Some galaxies might be made of entirely normal matter. Some galaxies might be made of entirely anti-matter. We have looked at colliding galaxies to see if any of them annihilate each other, but there is no evidence that any of them are annihilating. The universe may have started off with more matter than anti-matter or the antimatter may be trapped in black holes. No human being really knows what happens inside a black hole; relativistic physics and quantum physics are logically inconsistent with each other and they logically contradict each other. These two branches of physics are both logically inconsistent with each other and not completely true, but they are useful because they can usually be used to predict results to a very good approximation as long as the right assumptions are used. No human being knows for sure what the right assumptions are to use for describing the inside of a black hole.

Overview of the Universe

The following is not intended to be a logistical reference, but rather it is intended to be a general conceptual overview to give some perspective on the breadth of the universe. The visible universe was created about 13.8 billion years old. Our galaxy is about 13.2 billion years old. Our planet and solar system are about 4.5 billion years old. Our planet orbits the sun once every year. Our sun orbits the center of the galaxy about once about every 225 million years, which is called a "cosmic-year". Since the creation of our solar system, our sun has orbited the center of the galaxy about 20 times. The average distance from the moon to the Earth is about 384,400 kilometers, which is about 238,855 miles, which is about 1.3 light-seconds. The average distance from the Earth to the sun is about 150 million kilometers, which is about 93 million miles, which is about 8.3 light-minutes. The diameter of the solar system out to Neptune is about 9 billion kilometers, which is about 5.6 billion miles, which is about 9.4 light-hours across. The radius of the solar system out to Neptune is about 30 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun, which is about 4.5 billion kilometers, which is about 2.8 billion miles, which is about 4.7 light-hours across. The diameter of the galaxy is about 100,000 light years across. The radius of the galaxy is about 500,000 light-years. The distance from our solar system to the center of the galaxy is about 25,000 light years. Our solar system is orbiting the galaxy in a middle orbit near its half radius.

The planets in our solar system in order of increasing radius are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; it is very easy to remember the order of the last three because they make the acronym "SUN". There is the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are rocky planets with a rocky surface. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are gas giants. There are icy comets that travel in highly elliptical (oval) orbits going around close to the sun and back out Beyond Neptune. Beyond Neptune there is also the Kuiper belt, which contains some dwarf planets including Pluto. Finally, the solar system is surrounded by a spherical Oort Cloud. The Kuiper belt extends out to between to about 55 times the distance between the Earth and the sun, which would be about 7.6 light-hours. The Oort Cloud contains more than a trillion icy comets and extends out to about 100,000 times the distance between the Earth and the sun, which is about 1.6 light-years; our solar system is surrounded by a firmament of icy water.

The closest star-system to our solar system is the Alpha Centauri star-system. The Alpha Centauri star-system is made of three stars orbiting their center of mass, which is about 4.3 light years away from our solar system. The three stars are labeled Alpha-Centauri-A, Alpha Centauri-B, and Alpha Centauri-C (Proxima Centauri). Proxima Centauri is the closest star, which is 4.24 light years away from our solar system. Bernard's Star is about 5.9 light-years away. Wolf-359 is about 7.8 light-years away. Sirius A and Sirius B are about 8.6 light-years away. Lalande-21185 is about 8.3 light-years away. Luyten-726-8A and Luyten-726-8B are about 8.7 light years away. Ross-154 is about 9.7 light-years away. Ross 249 is about 10.3 light-years away. Epsilon-Eridani is about 10.5 light-years away. Ross-128 is about 10.9 light-years away. EZ Aquarii is a triple star-stem about 11.3 light years away. 61-Cygni-A and 61-Cygni-B are about 11.4 light years away. Procyon A and Procyon B are about 11.4 light years away. Struve-2398A and Struve-2398B are about 11.5 light-years away. Groombridge-34A and Groombridge-34B are about 11.6 light years away. DX-Cancri is about 11.8 light-years away. Tau-Ceti is about 11.9 light-years away. GJ-1061 is about 12.0 light-years away. YZ-Ceti is about 12.1 light-years away. Luyten's Star is about 12.4 light-years away. Teegarden's Star is about 12.5 light-years away.

There are about 100 thousand million stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy. There are over about 54 galaxies in our local group surrounding our galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy. The diameter of this local group of galaxies is about 10 million light-years across. Many of the 54 galaxies are small dwarf galaxies. The Milky Way Galaxy and Andromeda Galaxy are both spiral galaxies and are the two most massive galaxies in our local group. The Andromeda Galaxy is about 2.5 million light-years from the Milky Way Galaxy. Some clusters have hundreds of galaxy in the same volume as our local cluster. One of the nearest clusters is the Virgo Cluster is about 55 million light-years from our local cluster. The Virgo Cluster contains more than about 1300 galaxies.

The light from the sun reaching Earth right now was actually released from the sun about 8.3 minutes ago. This means that when we look at the sun with a telescope, we are not seeing the sun as it is now but rather as it was 8.3 minutes ago. The light from the Alpha Centauri star system reaching Earth right now was actually released over 4.2 years ago. This means that when we look at the Alpha Centauri star system with a telescope, we are not seeing it was it is now but rather as it was over 4.2 year ago. The light reaching Earth right now from the Andromeda Galaxy was actually about 2.5 million years ago, which means that when we look at the Andromeda Galaxy with a telescope, we are not seeing it as it is now but rather as it was about 2.5 million years ago. The light reaching Earth right now from the Virgo Cluster was actually released about 55 million years ago. This means that when we look at the Virgo Cluster with a telescope, we are not seeing it as it is now but rather as it was about 55 million years ago. The farther away we look with a telescope, the further back in time we are looking. We can see an entire history of the visible universe. From our perspective, we are at the center of the visible universe. There is a spherical wall of microwave background radiation about 13.8 billion light-years in all directions, which is purported to have been released from the "big bang". The first stars formed about 200 million years after the "big bang", which are seen to be about 13.6 billion light-years away. The rest is cosmic history.

There are estimated to be over about a hundred billion (10^11) galaxies in the visible universe. There are estimated to be over about 70 thousand million million stars (10^16) in the visible universe. There are estimated to be between 10^78 and 10^82 atoms in the visible universe. There are less than a googol (10^100) atoms in the visible universe. The radius of the visible universe is about 13.8 billion light years. The volume of the visible universe is four-thirds time Pi (3.14159...) times the radius of the universe cubed, which is about 10^31 cubic light-years. The average density of galaxies in the visible universe is about 10^-20 galaxies per cubic light year. The average density of stars in the visible universe is about 10^-15 stars per cubic light-year. The maximum average density of atoms of the visible universe is about 10^82 atoms divided by 10^31 cubic light-years, which is 10^51 atoms per cubic light-year.

The distance from the equator to the North Pole along the surface of the Earth is defined to be 10,000 kilometers. The speed of light through empty space is approximately 300,000 kilometers per second, which is approximately 186,000 miles per second. The following are large prefixes. 10^1 is ten, "deca". 10^2 is a hundred, "hecto". 10^3 is thousand, "kilo". 10^6 is million, "mega". 10^9 is billion, "giga". 10^12 is trillion, "tera". A light-year is the distance that light travels through empty space in one year, which is about 9.47 trillion kilometers, which is about 5.87 trillion miles.

A day is defined to be the amount of time the Earth rotates about its axis. There are 24 hours in a day. There are 60 minutes in an hour. There are 60 seconds in a minute. An hour is 3600 seconds. A day is 24 hours, which is 1440 minutes, which is 87,400 seconds. A year is defined to be the amount of time for the Earth to orbit around the Sun. There are approximately 365.25 days in a year. Every four years an extra day is added onto the end of the month of February to account for the ".25", which is called "leap year" and it always occurs on the same year as the presidential elections for the United States of America. A non-leap year is 365 days, which is 8760 hours, which is 525,600 minutes, which is 31,536,000 seconds. A leap year is 366 days, which is 8784 hours, which is 527,040 minutes, which is 31,622,400 seconds. A year is about 365.25 days, which is 8766 hours, which is 525,960 minutes, which is 31,557,600 seconds. Our moon orbits the Earth every 27.324 days, which is about 655.77 hours, which is about 39346 minutes. Our moon orbits the earth about 13.4 times every year.

Chapter 2: The Origin of Life

The following is not intended to be a logistical reference, but rather it is intended to be a general conceptual overview to give some perspective on the genetic code programs that are read and executed by the self-replicating computerized factory of living cells.

The genetic code is expressed in Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) as a double-stranded polynucleotide molecule created from sequences of four possible nucleotides, which are Guanine (G), Adenine (A), Thymine (T), and Cytosine(C). The genetic code can also be translated into Ribonucleic acid (RNA) as a single-stranded polynucleotide molecule created from sequences of four possible nucleotides Cytosine(C), Uracil (U), Adenine (A), and Guanine (G) respectively. The sequence of nucleotides represents the genetic code that acts as instruction for the living cell to assemble amino acids in a particular sequence to form a protein. A living cell is able to manufacture many different proteins that are vital for the specific function of the living cell, maintenance of the living cell, and division into more living cells, and growth of the living cell. Most proteins only exist for a certain period of time before they degrade and are recycled by the machinery of the living cell, which acts like a self-replicating computerized factory. There are 20 amino acids, which are each using a chain of 3 nucleotides. A chain of 3 nucleotides each with 4 possibilities C, U, A, or G yields 64 combinations. Many of the 20 amino acids are coded by more than one combination. Alanine (Ala) is coded by "GCU", "GCC", "GCA", or "GCG". Cysteine (Cys) is coded by "UGU" or "UGC". Aspatate (Asp) is coded by "GAU" or "GAC". Glutamate (Glu) is coded by "GAA" or "GAG". Phenylalanine (Phe) is coded by "UUU" or "UUC". Glycine (Gly) is coded by "GGU", "GGC", "GGA" or "GGG". Histidine (His) is coded by "CAU" or "CAC". Isoleucine (Ile) is coded by "AUU", "AUC", or "AUA". Lysine (Lys) is coded by "AAA" or "AAG". Leucine (Leu) is coded by "UUA", "UUG", "CUU", "CUC", "CUA", or "CUG". Methionine (Met) is coded by "AUG". Asparagine (Asn) is coded by "AAU" or "AAC". Proline (Pro) is coded by "CUU", "CCC", "CCA", or "CGG". Glutamine (Gln) is coded by "CAA" or "CAG". Arginine (Arg) is coded by "CGU", "CGC", "CGA", "CGG", "AGA", or "AGG". Serine (Ser) is coded by "UCU", "UCC", "UCA", "UCG", "AGU", or "AGC". Threonine (Thr) is coded by "ACU", "ACC", "ACA", or "ACG". Valine (Val) is coded by "GUU", "GUC", "GUA", or "GUG". Tryptophan (Trp) is coded by "UGG". Tryosine (Tyr) is coded by "UAU" or "UAC".

Some of the combinations are used specifically just to stop the sequence. The instruction to stop adding amino acids onto the protein is coded by "UAA", "UAG", or "UGA". The instruction of a start location where to begin adding amino acids into a protein is coded by the same code for same code for Methionine (MET), which is "AUG". Not all proteins will have a Methionine (MET) at the beginning because they are often modified afterward in the living cell by other enzymes such as a protein cutting protease.

The genetic code can be thought of as like a computer program and the living cell can be thought of as like a self-replicating computerized factory that reads and executes the instructions of the genetic code computer program. The computerized factory of the living cell is extremely complex and beyond our human ability to create ourselves. However, humans do have the ability to hack the computer program of the genetic code in order to reprogram the computerized factory of the living cell. When we hack and reprogram the computerized factory of living cell, the new instructions of our computer program are then read and executed by the self-replicating computerized factory of the living cell. Humans are not able to assemble non-living matter into a living cell. Humans are only able to hack and reprogram an already living cell, which then self-replicates with the new instructions.

The self-replicating factory of living cell metabolizes non-living matter and uses it to eventually divide into two living cells. A living cell metabolizes non-living material, but non-living material cannot naturally be assembled without the aid of an already living cell. Many chemical reactions are impossible without the use of an enzyme. The creation of a new living cell is impossible without the use of an already living cell. Humans are unable to assemble nonliving matter into a living cell because living cells are extremely complex systems.

Humans are able to flip the biological switches of a living cell, but humans are unable to create the biological circuitry of a living cell; humans are reliant on the biological circuitry of the living cell to self-replicate itself. Humans are intelligent enough to hack and reprogram an already living cell. Humans are not intelligent enough to reverse engineer the extremely complex systems of a living cell. Humans are not intelligent enough to design the complex systems of a living cell. Humans are not intelligent enough to assemble nonliving molecules into a living cell.

Living cells were systematically created by a person intelligent enough to design the extremely complex systems of a living cell. Living cells were created by a person intelligent enough to assemble nonliving molecules into a living cell. Living cells were designed by a person more intelligent than humans. Living cells were assembled from nonliving molecules by a person more intelligent than humans. It is a scientific fact that living cells were created by an extremely intelligent person. We can choose to accept the scientific fact that this extremely intelligent person exists or we can choose to fabricate myths and stories about "abiogenesis".

The people who refuse to accept the scientific fact that living cells were created by an extremely intelligent person will fabricate myths and stories about nonliving molecules naturally assembling themselves into complex systems of a living cell. The people who fabricate myths and stories about "abiogenesis" do not use evidence but rather they hide their ignorance by sweeping the facts under the rug using infinity. If there were an infinite amount of attempts to make an extremely complex system, then eventually an extremely complex system would be made that was more complex than any human could ever create.

The people who fabricate myths and stories about "abiogenesis" will also fabricate myths and stories about the visible universe being infinite to justify it. The people who try to justify "abiogenesis" using an infinite universe are either complacently ignorant or wickedly choosing to suppress the truth. It is a scientific fact that the visible universe is not infinite.

Our universe does not have an infinite number of atoms. We can use telescopes to see all the way to edge of the visible universe, which is a wall of background radiation purported to be release from the big bang. You can calculate the density of matter in a region of space and then multiply that density by the volume of the visible universe. You can then take that amount and divide by the mass of a hydrogen atom to get an upper limit for the number of atoms in the universe, which comes out to less than 10^90. The closest star-system to our sun is the Alpha Centauri star system which is about 4.3 light years away. This means that the light reaching Earth from Alpha Centauri was actually released 4.3 years ago. Our galaxy is about 100,000 light years across. The further away you look in astronomy, the further back in time you are looking, so we can see a history of the universe.

The age of the universe is less than 14 billion years, which is less than 10^30 nanoseconds. The number of atoms in the visible universe is less than 10^90. The age of the universe in nanoseconds multiplied by the number of atoms in the universe is less than 10^120, which is less than 16^120, which is only 2^480. Therefore, the age of the universe in nanoseconds multiplied by the number of atoms in the universe is less than 2^480.

The simplest living cell has genetic code over 100,000 nucleotides long. Imagine a digital password that has a length of 100,000 made of 0s and 1s. The number of combinations would be 2^100,000, which is immeasurably more than the age of the universe in nanoseconds multiplied by the number of atoms in the universe. Even if you had the entire universe at your disposal and all the time in the universe, you could never randomly crack that password.

Humans have already cracked that password because we are intelligent and it has already been shown to us. Humans can write a program from scratch for the genetic code of a new bacterium. Humans can then hack and reprogram the self-replicating computerized factory of an already living cell with the instructions for that bacterium. The already living cell will then continue to self-replicate using the programed instructions for that new bacterium.

The universe is not even large enough to randomly write the most basic genetic code program for a new bacterium, which humans can already do. In order to create the first living cell, you not only need to create the genetic code program, but you would also need to create the self-replicating computerized factory of the living cell. Humans are unable to create the self-replicating computerized factory of the living cell. Humans can only reprogram an already living cell and let it self-replicate. Living cells were systematically created by a person intelligent enough to design the extremely complex systems of the self-replicating computerized factory of the living cell. It is a scientific fact that living cells were created by an extremely intelligent person. The people who try to justify "abiogenesis" using an infinite universe are either complacently ignorant or wickedly choosing to suppress the truth.

Chapter 3 Origins of Humans Life

The following is not intended to be a logistical reference, but rather it is intended to be a general conceptual overview to give some perspective on the progression of phases in which life was created. In geology, rocks are stacked in layers containing the oldest fossils in the deepest layers and the youngest fossils near the top layers. At the bottom of the timeline there are no fossils of any animals. As you go up the layers there are fossils of invertebrates, then fossils of fish and amphibians, then fossils of dinosaurs and birds, and finally then fossils of mammals and humans. From the fossils in these layers of rock we learn that the diversity of life was not created instantaneously, but rather the diversity of life was created in a progression of phases.

There was the first living cell created on Earth about 3.5 billion years ago. There was multi-cellular marine invertebrate organism that did not have a backbone created around 555 million years ago. There were vertebrate fishes that did have a backbone created around 500 million years ago. There was land plants created about 420 million years ago. There were forests and 4 limbed land vertebrates created about 360 million years ago. The Pangea supercontinent was created around 250 million years ago. There were dinosaurs created about 225 million years ago. The continents drifted toward their current positions. Flowers and bony fish were created about 130 million years ago. There were mammals created about 65 million years ago. There are fossils of bone fragments humanoid beings purported to be from as early as about 4 million BC. There are fossils of bone fragments of humanoid beings that were created to be anatomically similar to modern humans purported to be as early as 130,000 BC. However these other humanoid beings that were created were not modern humans capable of human civilization. The first modern humans capable of the emotion, intellect, and will necessary for human civilization were purported to be created around 4000 BC. The first human civilization occurred in Mesopotamia and Egypt around 4000 BC.

The fossil record simply confirms the obvious fact that the diversity of life was created in a progression and not instantaneously. The design of certain systems and features were modified over time similar to how the designs of different car models are modified over time. We can also compare the genetic code of modern organisms to patterns and relationships between different organisms. These patterns and relationships in the genetic code imply that certain features in some organisms were designed in response to features in other organisms until they balanced each other out. These patterns and relationships can also be used to indirectly guess the probable path that each design branched out into new designs. This suggests that the diversity of life was not designed in a linear fashion but rather in an exponential fashion. Humans generally design new car models in a linear fashion, each year a new car model comes out. If humans were to design car models in an exponential fashion, then each former car model might branch out into 7 related car models the next year. The person who designed the diversity of life was intelligent enough to think and design in an exponential manner.

Anyone who studies human anatomy will understand the complex integrated design of humans. There are enzymes, organelles, cells, tissues, organs, and many different organ systems all efficiently working together to keep a human person alive. The modern human brain is extremely intelligent and efficient. The combination of the compact size, energy usage, and computing power of the human brain is far superior to any supercomputer that humans have ever built. A non-intelligent selection method would only be able to select one feature at a time. Through a non-intelligent selection method there could only be a series of separate basic compartmentalized improvements, not complex integrated improvements. Only through an intelligent selection method could there be multiple improvements occurring simultaneously that are essential for a new integrated system to initially operate. It is a scientific fact that the diversity of life was crafted by an intelligent person. We can choose to accept the scientific fact that the diversity of life was crafted by an extremely intelligent person or we can continue to fabricate myths and stories about "macroscopic evolution".

There are people who refuse to accept the scientific fact that complex integrated systems can only be designed by an intelligent person, and they fabricate myths and stories about complex integrated systems being produced randomly and then being selected from by a non-intelligent selection method. The people who fabricate myths and stories about "macroscopic evolution" do not use evidence but rather they hide their ignorance by oversimplifying the complex integrated systems of life. If the systems of life were all compartmentalized, then eventually enough compartmentalized systems would accrue to create some diversity of life for a limited amount of time. One major problem with compartmentalized systems is that they are horribly inefficient and would tax the organism's energy resources too much. This is what I call the Frankenstein's monster of "macroscopic evolution". Eventually there would too many compartmentalized systems that would accrue that would tax organisms' energy and resources the breaking point and they would be trapped in that inefficient state or all die out.

The only way for complex life to survive is to have complex integrated systems, not compartmentalized systems. Integrated systems are more efficient and use less energy and resources than compartmentalized systems. However, integrated systems require a lot of careful thought and planning to design them. Anyone who has ever tried to design a spacecraft or mars rover would know that you cannot just keep adding more and more compartmentalized systems. The spacecraft would be way too bulky, inefficient, and costly. Rather the systems need to be integrated together in such a way that the systems do not interfere with each other. When the systems are integrated they become more efficient in terms of compact size, energy usage, and functionality.

The people who fabricate myths and stories about "macroscopic evolution" will also fabricate myths and stories about complex integrated systems being designed by "natural selection" to justify it. The people who claim that "natural selection" is responsible for designing the complex integrated systems of life are either complacently ignorant or wickedly suppressing the truth.

Individual organisms with defective or inoperable systems are naturally more likely to die before reproduction. Individual organisms with more optimized systems are naturally more likely to survive and reproduce. Each species has been designed to allow diverse variations of many different characteristics. The variations that are harmful to the individuals' survival are naturally more likely to cause those individuals to become debilitated or die leaving fewer descendants. The variations that are beneficial to the individuals' survival are naturally more likely to cause those individual to thrive and survive producing greater decedents. Therefore, the variations that are beneficial to the survival of the individuals from the parent generations are more likely to be the ones passed on and maintained in the individuals of all the descendant generations, which is natural selection. Natural selection does not determine which variations will be created, but rather only what variations will be maintained as the remnant. Natural selection does not design the best selections, but rather only selects from the best designs.

Complex integrated systems cannot be designed through natural selection. A complex integrated system that already exists can only naturally be optimized and maintained through natural selection. Simple compartmentalized systems will never naturally increase in order and complexity to become complex integrated system through natural selection. Natural selection merely prevents the complex integrated systems that already exist from naturally degenerating into a non-functioning system. Natural selection merely optimizes the complex integrated systems that already exist. Natural selection merely recalibrates the complex integrated systems that already exist to stay compatible with the environment.

Natural selection is not an instrument of risk taking on new complex integrated designs that do not function yet but could be potentially rewarding in the future. Natural selection is an instrument stability that only rewards existing designs that already function and are currently beneficial. Natural selection is not responsible for designing complex integrated system. However, natural selection is responsible for maintaining systems to be compatible with the environment. If a system is no longer necessary for an environment, that system can become inoperative. When a species with eyes is relocated to region without light such as a dark cave, natural selection can no longer operate to preserve the function of the eye. Over generations the eye will degenerate until it no longer functions. This represents a decrease in order, not an increase in order and complexity. Natural selection is also responsible for keeping the systems stable and compatible with the environment, which can create diversity within a genus. When the members of a species become geographically isolated from each other, their reproductive systems will degenerate to the point where the reproductive systems become incompatible with each other. The one species will branch into two species because their reproductive systems become incompatible with each other. This merely represents an increase in compatibility with the environment at the cost of a decrease in capability with each other; it does not represent an increase in new complex systems.

Within the same genus, when one species branches into two species, they may still be capable of reproducing even if there are obstructions preventing it. For example a liger, is the offspring of a lion and tiger. The term "species" is often very vague and difficult to define since different species within the same genus are often still capable of reproducing. The term "species" is even more difficult to define when it comes to bacteria, which reproduce asexually and do not have the complex integrated systems of animals such as tissues, organs, organ systems. The people who claim that "natural selection" is responsible for designing the complex integrated systems of life are either complacently ignorant or wickedly suppressing the truth.

It is a scientific fact that natural selection is unable to design new complex integrated systems that are not already functional. Therefore, the people who fabricate myths and stories about "macroscopic evolution" will then also fabricate myths and stories about the possibilities being "infinite" in order to justify it being generated randomly.

The age of the universe is less than 14 billion years, which is less than 10^30 nanoseconds. The number of atoms in the visible universe is less than 10^90. The age of the universe in nanoseconds multiplied by the number of atoms in the universe is less than 10^120, which is less than 16^120, which is only 2^480. Therefore, the age of the universe in nanoseconds multiplied by the number of atoms in the universe is less than 2^480.

An average protein will be around 500 amino acids long. However, there are many proteins that can be much longer than this. For example, Titin is a protein in humans that has over 27,000 amino acids. Imagine a digital password that has a length of 500 made of 0s and 1s. The number of combinations would be 2^500, which is more than the age of the universe in nanoseconds multiplied by the number of atoms in the universe. Even if you had the entire universe at your disposal and all the time in the universe, you could never randomly generate the genetic codes to program all the proteins necessary for all the complex integrated systems of the immense diversity of life.

Natural selection does not design the best selection, but rather it only selects from the best designs. It is a scientific fact that the proteins for all the complex integrated systems cannot be designed randomly in our universe. It is a scientific fact that the diversity of life was crafted by an extremely intelligent person. We can choose to accept the scientific fact that the diversity of life was crafted by an extremely intelligent person or we can continue to fabricate myths and stories about "macroscopic evolution". The people who try to justify "macroscopic evolution" using myths and stories about the possibilities being "infinite" are either complacently ignorant or wickedly choosing to suppress the truth.

It is a scientific fact that the self-replicating computerized factory of a living cell was initially designed and created by an extremely intelligent person. It is a scientific fact that complex integrated systems of life were designed by an extremely intelligent person.

Where this extremely intelligent person comes from is a matter of religious debate. The people who try to use myths and stories about "abiogenesis" and "macroscopic evolution" to avoid the religious debate are either ignorantly complacent or wickedly choosing to suppress the truth. Atheists would probably argue that the extremely intelligent person was an alien or alien civilization within the dimensions of our universe. Theists would probably argue that the extremely intelligent person was God or angels in a dimension in contact with but above our universe.

Chapter 4: The Origin of Human History

Human history involves records and stories written down by humans. Human civilization and human history began about 6000 years ago, around 4000 BC. The book of Genesis gives one of the most precise documentation of human history of all ancient documents whether or not it is accurate. Many people never read the documentation that is after the first chapter, but rather focus only on the mysterious creation account of the first chapter. The following is a literal translation of the first chapter of Genesis from Hebrew into English.

Before the Stars

At the highest point, Elohiym fed matter-weight to fill space and form the earth; the earth was in chaos and desolate. No light could reach the face of the deep sea of fluid and there were powerful winds and many fluttering-vibrations traveled upon the face of the fluid-waters.

Phase 1: Stars and Solar Systems

And Elohiym said "light will exist", and He willed the light to exist. Elohiym saw the light that was given off that was functional. Elohiym made a separation layer between the light and between the darkness.

Elohiym called out to the light "day" and to darkness He called out "night", and sundown existed and sunup existed. Day-phase-cycle unit.

Phase 2: Earth's Atmosphere

Elohiym said "A sheet-boundary will exist in the midst of the fluid-waters", and he willed to make exist layers of separation between fluid-waters to fluid-waters.

Elohiym will make a separation sheet-boundary: He will make a separation layer between the fluid-waters under the sheet-boundary and between the fluid-waters upon the sheet-boundary. And He willed it to exist so.

Elohiym called out to the sheet-boundary "sky" and sundown existed and sunup existed. Day-phase-cycle the second.

Phase 3: Earth's Land and Vegetation

Elohiym said "the fluid-water will be bound up from under the sky to one place and dry ground will be seen". And He willed it to exist so. Elohiym called out to the dry ground "earth" and the collection of fluid-water He called out "seas". Elohiym saw that it was functional.

Elohiym said the land will make sprout grass, herbs, and seed sowing produce-fruit trees producing its own kind of seed within it. Upon the earth He willed it to exist so.

And the earth made go out grass, herbs, seed sowing produce-fruit trees. Elohiym saw that it was given to be functional.

Sundown existed and sunup existed. Day-phase-cycle the third.

Phase 4: Earth's Moon Coalesces

Elohiym said "there will exist luminaries in the sheet-boundary of the sky to make a separation between the day and the night and they exist to signal and assign time for days and for years and they exist for luminaries in the sheet-boundary of the sky to make glow upon the earth. And He willed it to exist so.

Elohiym will make two magnificent luminaries; at the magnificent luminary to regulate the day and at the small luminary to regulate the night and at the stars. And Elohiym gave them in the sheet-boundary of the sky to make a glow upon the earth and to regulate in the day and in the night and to make a separation between the light and the darkness and Elohiym saw that it was given to be functional.

Sundown existed and sunup existed. Day-phase-cycle the fourth.

Phase 5: Earth's Sea and Flying Animals

Elohiym said "the waters will swarm, swarmers of living beings and flyers will fly much upon the face of the sheet-boundary of the sky". Elohiym feed the magnificent tannins and feed all beings of life, the treading ones which swarm the fluid-waters to their kind and the winged flyers to their kind and Elohiym saw that it was given to be functional.

And he knelt much at them and said "reproduce and increase and fill at the fluid-water in the seas and the flyers increased in the earth.

Sundown existed and sunup existed. Day-phase-cycle the fifth.

Phase 6: Earths Land Animals and Humans

Elohiym said "the earth will make go out living beings to their kind, beasts and treaders, and living ones of the earth to its kind. And He willed it to exist so.

Elohiym will make life of the earth to its kind and to the beasts to its kind and to the ground treaders to its kind and Elohiym saw that it was given to be functional.

And Elohiym said "We will make Human in shadow-image of us like our likeness and he will rule the swimmers of the sea, the flyers of the sky and in the beats, and in all the earth and in all the treaders treading upon the earth. Elohiym fed matter-weight to Human in His shadow-image. Elohiym fed matter-weight him Male and Female He fed matter-weight them.

And Elohiym knelt at them and Elohiym said to them "reproduce and increase and fill at the earth and subdue it and rule the swimmers of the sea, the flyers of the sky, and all life treading upon the earth.

And Elohiym said "look I gave to you all herbs sowing seeds which are upon the face of the earth and all the produce-fruit trees sowing seeds for you to exist for food and to all life of the earth and to all flyers of the sky and to all treaders upon the earth, which in them being life all green herbs for food". And He willed it to exist so.

Elohiym saw all which He did do and looked, it is many functional and Sundown existed and sunup existed. Day-phase-cycle the sixth.

Phase 7: Creation Ceases

The sky was finished and the land was finished and the armies of them were finished. And Elohiym finished in the seventh day-cycle-phase His occupation which he did do and He will cease in the day-cycle-phase the seventh from all His occupation which He did.

And Elohiym knelt at the seventh day-cycle-phase and set it apart given that in it He did cease from all His occupation which He did feed matter-weight to make. These are the birthings of the sky and the earth in their being fed matter-weight in the day of Yahweh-(He exists) Elohiym-(Powerful) made the earth and sky-fluids and all the shrubs of the field.

The following is not meant to be a logistical analysis of Genesis, but rather is meant to be a general overview of the events recorded in Genesis with the purpose of understanding the timeline and foreshadowed future events. Genesis contains family records that document detailed and precise numerical values meant to preserve an ancestral history. The events in the timeline are then explained using stories that give a human perspective to the events in the timeline. The family records preserved in Genesis make a precise timeline that is mapped out at the end of this section. Some Bible verses have been inserted to understand how the New Testament relates to the Old Testament from a Christian perspective.

The creation of the universe (14 billion years before Adam)

God created the heavens and the earth in seven phases: (1) stars and solar systems are created, (2) Earth and its atmosphere are created, (3) Earth's land and vegetation are created, (4) Earth's moon coalesces, (5) Earth's sea and flying animals are created, (6) Earths land animals and humans are created, and (7) creation ceases.

The creation of Adam

God formed man out of dust and gave him life. God created a garden in Eden. Man was allowed to manage the garden and eat from any tree in it except for one, the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God allowed man to name the animals. God created woman using one of the Adam's ribs. God closed the place back up with regenerative flesh.

The serpent tricks Eve into eating fruit from the only forbidden tree. She eats the fruit and gives it to Adam to eat. God confronts Adam and Eve. Adam blames Eve and Eve blames the serpent. Adam and Eve were forced to leave the garden. Adam and Eve choose the side of rebellion and were thus denied access to the tree of life and eternal life.

The death of Adam (930 years after Adam)

Adam lived to be 930 years old before he died. The decedents of Adam and Eve formed into societies. Adam and Eve then had two more sons, Cain and then Abel. Cain and Abel both brought an offering to God. God was pleased with Abel offering the fat portions of his firstborn livestock and was not pleased with the fruit offering of Cain. Cain becomes jealous of Abel and murders Abel. Cain's punishment is that he could no longer grow crops and would become a wanderer. God gave Cain a mark so that no one would kill him. God says that anyone who kills Cain out of vigilante justice will face retribution seven times over. Cain marries a wife and has decedents.

The birth of Noah (1056 years after Adam)

Adam was 130 years old when Seth was born. Adam lived 800 years after Seth and had other sons and daughters. Adam lived to be 930 years before he died. Seth lived 912 years before he died. Seth had decedents who similarly had long life-spans. Noah was a decedent of Seth.

Adam lived to be 930 years old. Seth lived to be 912 years old. Enosh lived to be 905 years old. Kenan lived to be 910 years old. Mahalalel lived to be 895 years old. Jared lived to be 962 years old. Enoch did not die but was taken by God. Methuselah lived 969 years old. Lamech lived to be 777 years old.

Adam was 130 years old when Seth was born. Seth was 105 years old when Enosh was born. Enosh was 90 years old when Kenan was born. Kenan was 70 years old when Mahalalel was born. Mahalalel was 65 years old when Jared was born. Jared was 162 years old when Enoch was born. Enoch was 65 years old when Methuselah was born. Methuselah was 187 years old when Lamech was born. Lamech was 182 years old when Noah was born. Noah was born 1056 years after Adam was created, which is 126 years after Adam died.

The flood of Noah (1656 years after Adam)

Noah was around 500 years old when he had three sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Having children at such a late age must have caused the human life-span to start to degenerate. God reveals the standard maximum human life-span will eventually degenerate to 120 years. The human race became wicked and had every inclination to evil thoughts all the time. Because of their rebellion and treason, the Lord had the power and authority to wipe them off the face of the earth using a flood. However, Noah found favor with God, so God spared Noah and his family to repopulate the earth.

On the earth before the flood there were creatures akin to titans called the Nephilim, and there was another more powerful humanoid race called the "sons of God". The "sons of God" married human daughters had hybrid children who became the heroes of legend. These other humanoid races were destroyed in the flood, but embellished stories of them became mythology.

Noah was born 1056 years after Adam was created. Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth, which was 5 years after Lamech had died. The flood occurred 1656 years after Adam was created. Unless any of the wives were a decedent of Cain, all the decedents of Cain were wiped out in the flood. We are all the sons Adam, the sons of Seth, the sons of Noah.

Noah built an ark that was 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high (each cubit is about half a yard). There were three decks: lower, middle, and upper. The area of all the three decks was 45,0000 square cubits, which is about 11,250 square yards, which is 101,250 square feet or over 9406 square meters. If Noah started building the ark after his father Lamech died, then Noah would have had 5 years to build the ark. Otherwise, Noah would have had longer.

The ark was made out of cypress wood. Within the ark was at least 1 pair of every animal labeled unclean, 1 male and 1 female. There were 7 pairs of every animal labeled as clean, 7 males and 7 females. There were 7 pairs of every type of bird, 7 males and 7 females. After the ark was built, Noah had a week to load all of the animals into the ark.

On the 17th day of the 2nd month the rain began to fall. Rain fell on the land for 40 days. The land remained completely flooded for 150 days. Then the water started to recede. On the 17th day of the 7th month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. On the 1st day of the 10th month the tops of the other mountains became visible.

Noah sent out a dove, but it returned to the ark. A week later, Noah sent another dove out, and it returned with an olive leaf. A week later, Noah sent another dove out, and it did not return. The water had dried up by the 1st day of the 1st month when Noah was 601 years old. By the 27th day of the 2nd month, the land was completely dry.

For 1656 years, humanity had been living in a localized region. The flood destroyed all of humanity within that region. Only 8 people survived the flood, Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their wives. The animals preserved in the ark allowed the region to recover quickly afterward. Noah, his family, and the animals were in the ark for 1 year and 10 days.

Noah offered to God burnt offerings some of every type of clean animal and every type of bird. God promises never to destroy all living creatures again. God gives humans all the animals, everything that lives and moves, for food. God only commands that no one eat animals when they are still alive. God also command humans not to shed human blood because mankind was made in the image of God. God commands humans to multiply and increase on the earth.

God makes a covenant and promises to never again judge humanity with a flood. Although God allows minor floods in the future, he is not causing them and they are not because of any form of judgment. God tells Noah to have his decedents remember the covenant every time they see a rainbow. This is so the descendants of Noah will never have to fear another great flood nor mistake any natural flood as act of judgment against them. The great flood of Noah foreshadows that at the end of the world when the genuine Christians will be gathered from the world and then the rest will be judged.

Luke 17:26-27

"Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

Matthew 24:36-41

"But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

Matthew 24:42

"Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.

Mark 13:32-37

"But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know when that time will come. It's like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with their assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch.

"Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back—whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn. If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping. What I say to you, I say to everyone: 'Watch!'"

Ephesians 2:3-5

All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.

1 Peter 3:20-22

to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at God's right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.

1 Thessalonians 5:4-9

But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief. You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Matthew 24:29-31

"Immediately after the distress of those days "'the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;  
the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.' "Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

Luke 12:40

You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him."

Noah exits the Ark (1657 years after Adam)

Noah, his family, and the animals were in the ark for 1 year and 10 days. Noah lived 350 years after the flood started. Noah was 950 years old when he died, which was 2006 years after Adam was created. Noah was around 500 years old when Shem was born. Shem was 100 years old when Arpachshad was born two years after the flood.

The Tower of Babel

Before the flood, humanity stayed in the same localized region. After the flood, the whole world spoke the same language that Noah's family originally spoke. After the flood, humanity started to migrate into other regions. While men were migrating in the East, they came to a valley in the land of Shinar. They used bricks for stone and bitumen for mortar. They wanted to build a city with a giant ziggurat tower elevated in the sky, the tower of Babel. They wanted to do this to create a capital city for a one-world government.

The Lord warns against a one-world language and against a one-world government. A one-world government and one-world language would have caused technology would develop too rapidly, and it would allow evil to dominate the world. Just as a government may break up a business monopoly, the Lord breaks up a one-world government monopoly. The Lord scattered humanity all over the earth, so that they would have different governments and different languages. The tower of babel foreshadows the one-world government and one-world satanic religion predicted at the end of this world. After the genuine Christians have been gathered from the world, their absence will allow the evil beast to come to power and set up a one-world government for 42 months. This one-world government will attempt to suppress the final new converts to Christianity. The one-world government will try to force everyone who remains on the earth to worship the image of the beast and to take the mark of the beast on their right hand or forehead or else they will be put to death or not be able to buy or sell anything. Everyone who worships the image of the beast or takes the mark of the beast has committed treason against God and will not inherit eternal life, but rather will be thrown into the lake of fire. Everyone on the earth at that time must not worship the beast and must not take the mark of the beast even if it means they will have their head cut off by an Islamic sword.

Revelation 3:9-10

I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you. Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.

Luke 21:20-22

"When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city. For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written.

Revelation 11:2-3

But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months. And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth."

Revelation 13:5-7

The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months. It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. It was given power to wage war against God's holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.

Revelation 13:15-17

The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

 Revelation 13:8

All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb's book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.

Revelation 20:15

Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

 Revelation 20:4

I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Revelation 20:7-8

When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore.

Revelation 20:10

And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

Revelation 21:1-2

Then I saw "a new heaven and a new earth," for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.

The birth of Abraham (1948 years after Adam)

Abraham was a decedent of Shem. The standard maximum life-span of humans degenerated significantly between Shem and Abraham.

Noah lived to be 950 years old. Shem lived to be 600 years old. Arpachshad lived to be 438 years old. Shelah lived to be 433 years old. Eber lived to be 464 years old. Peleg lived to be 239 years old. Reu lived to be 239 years old. Serung lived to be 230 years old. Nahor lived to be 148 years old. Terah lived to be 205 years old.

The flood started in 1656 years after Adam was created. Arpachshad was born 2 years after the flood started. Arpachshad was 35 years old when Shelah was born. Shelah was 30 years old when Eber was born. Eber was 34 years old when Peleg was born. Peleg was 30 years old when Reu was born. Reu was 32 years old when Serug was born. Serug was 30 years old when Nahor was born. Nahor was 29 years old when Terah was born. Terah was 70 years old when Abraham was born. Abraham was born 292 years after the flood started, which was 1948 years after Adam was created.

The death of Noah (2006 years after Adam)

Adam died 930 years after Adam was created. Noah was born 1056 years after Adam was created. Abraham was born 1948 years after Adam was created. Noah died 2006 years Adam was created. Abraham was born 126 years after Adam died. Noah died when Abraham was already 58 years old.

Abraham's Migration to Canaan (2023 years after Adam was created)

Abraham left Haran and migrated to Canaan when he was 75 years old, which was 17 years after Noah died , which was 367 years after the flood started, which was 2023 years after Adam was created.

The Lord promised to make Abraham into a great nation. The Lord promised to make Abraham's name great and to bless him. The Lord promised to bless those who bless him and curse those who curse him. The Lord appeared to Abraham's and told him that his decedents would be giving the land of Canaan. Abraham journeyed by stages to Negeb with his wife Sarah and his nephew Lot. There was a severe famine, so they went to Egypt to temporarily live there. Abraham's wife Sarah was very beautiful, so Abraham told the Pharaoh that she was his sister fearing that he might be killed because of her. Sarah actually was Abraham's half-sister and this was before there were genetic defects to make incest an issue. The Pharaoh gave Abraham gifts of herds of animals, male and female slaves, donkeys, and camels to allow Sarah to work in the Pharaoh's place. The Pharaoh took Sarah as his wife. The Lord struck him with plagues because of it. The Pharaoh gave Sarah back to Abraham and had them leave with all their possessions. Abraham, Sarah, and Lot returned to Negeb with all their possessions. The land could not sustain both Abraham and Lot and all their possessions. Therefore they separated. Abraham stayed in Canaan and Lot went eastward to the Jordan Plain.

The Lord promises that all the land in sight will eventually belong to Abraham's decedents forever. The Lord promises to make Abraham's descendants beyond what anyone can count just as the dust of the earth is beyond what anyone can count. The Lord promises to make Abraham's decedents beyond what anyone can count just as the stars that were visible in the sky were beyond what anyone could count. Abraham did not yet have any children, but Abraham still trusted the Lord. Abraham asks the Lord for a sign to prove that it was the Lord that will give them possession of the land. The Lord says that the sign will be that in the future Abraham's descendants will be aliens in a land that is not theirs and will be enslaved for 400 years, but after that the Lord will judge that nation and Abraham's decedents will depart with great wealth. The Lord foresaw that before then the wickedness Amorites will not yet have become ripe for judgment.

The Lord made a covenant with Abraham to give to eventually give his descendants the opportunity to take the land from the Wadi of Egypt to the Great River Euphrates. This was the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. The Lord already foresaw that these nations would become wicked and ripe for judgment, so the Lord already planned to give their land to Abraham's decedents.

Birth of Ishmael (2034 years after Adam was created)

Abraham had a son with his wife's maidservant, Hagar. She bore him a son, Ishmael. Ishmael was born when Abraham was 86 years old, which was 11 years after Abraham left Haram and migrated to Canaan, which was 28 years after Noah died, which was 2034 years after Adam was created, which was 378 years after the flood started.

Covenant of Circumcision (2047 years after Adam was created)

The Lord made the covenant of circumcision with Abraham when he was 99 years old, which was 13 years after Ishmael was born, which was 24 years after Abraham left Haram and migrated to Canaan, which was 41 years after Noah died, which was 391 years after the flood started, which was 2047 years after Adam was created.

The Lord appears to Abraham and says "I am the God Almighty". Abraham was to become the father of a host of nations. God promises that nations and kings will stem from Abraham. God changed Abraham's name from Abram to Abraham. Abraham's original name was Abram meaning "exalted father", but God changed it to Abraham meaning "father of many". Sarah's original name was Sarai meaning "princess", but God changes it to Sarah meaning "princess of many".

Abraham's part of the covenant was that he and all his male descendants would have the flesh or their foreskin circumcised. Throughout all the ages all the members of the household would be circumcised including any slaves born in the household and those bought from a foreigner would be circumcised. Anyone who was not circumcised was supposed to be banished from residing with his decedents due to breaking the covenant.

God says that he will bless Sarah and she will give Abraham a son. God says that he is willing to bless that son and is willing to make that son the father of the many nations and rulers of people. In one year, Abraham would be 100 years old and Sarah would be 90 years old when she gave birth. Therefore, Abraham is 10 years older than Sarah. Abraham says that it is not necessary, but rather the many nations and rulers of people should come from Ishmael. God agrees to let the many nations and rulers of people come from Ishmael. God agrees to Abraham's request to bless Ishmael. God promises to make Ishmael a father of twelve chieftains and a great nation. God also promises to bless Ishmael by making him fertile and multiply exceedingly. The Arab nations in modern day claim to be composed of the descendants of Ishmael. Many of these modern Arab nations are in the Arab League. Some of these modern Arab nations contain portions of the land between the Nile and Euphrates rivers promised to Abraham's descendants including Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Oman, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Eritrea, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Jordon, and Djbouti.

However, God still renews his promise to also give Abraham a son and a nation through Sarah. God still clearly states that the covenant is specifically for Abraham's son Isaac who Sarah will give birth to in less than a year. Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised. Ishmael was 13 years old when he was circumcised. All the male slaves born in the household and those bought from foreigners were also circumcised. Sarah had already stopped having her menstrual periods and gone through menopause. Abraham and Sarah saw three visitors approaching and they received them. Abraham showed the visitors hospitality with food and refreshments. The visitors said that they would return in a year and Sarah would have a son by that time.

If Isaac's descendants were all exterminated from the planet, then God's Covenant was untrue and God would be a liar. There have been many attempts to prove God to be a liar by exterminating all of Isaac's descendants, the Jewish people. These attempts have been rationalized by claiming that the Jewish people are too arrogant to deserve to live or that they are too aggressive when they defend themselves against extermination. The Jewish people continually face Anti-Semitism because they are perceived to be arrogant and they claim to be the descendants of Isaac, the people of God's Covenant with Abraham. One of the most recent attempts occurred during World War II. The Holocaust occurred during World War II, which was a Jewish genocide where more than 6 million Jews throughout Europe were put in concentration camps and systematically killed through starvation and in lethal gas chambers. The Jewish people were labeled as being arrogant and the cause of many of Europe's problems, so according to Nazis they needed to be exterminated. There will always be attempts to dehumanize and eradicate the Jewish people by bigots intolerant of God and the Bible.

God created the world in six phases, is resting in the seventh phase, and will circumcise the world on the eighth phase; the flesh of this earthly world will be cut away to recreate it in the glory of heavenly world fulfilled for those who have proven to have genuine faith. The Romans general Titus destroyed the Jewish state of Judea and exiled the Jewish people in 70 A.D. The Romans called land "Palestinia" in honor of the Philistines to erase it historical connection to the Jewish people. The land was officially renamed "Palestine" after 138 A.D. The Palestinians claim to be descendants of the Philistines. After the Romans destroyed the Jewish state of Judea, the Jewish people were without a state for 1878 years during which time they also endured the Jewish Holocaust. Abraham was born 1948 years after the first man Adam was created. The modern nation of Israel finally restored a Jewish state for the descendants of Isaac, the son of Abraham and Sarah. Israel was finally became as a democratic nation in the year 1948 A.D. , which was 1948 years after Jesus became human. The "A.D." stands for the Latin "Anno Domini", which means "The Year of The Lord".

 Romans 4:11

And he received circumcision as a sign, a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but have not been circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.

Acts 15:5-11

Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, "The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to keep the law of Moses." The apostles and elders met to consider this question. After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: "Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe. God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. He did not discriminate between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith. Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear? No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are."

Acts 15:19-20

"It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.

Galatians 3:7-11

Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: "All nations will be blessed through you." So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith. For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law." Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because "the righteous will live by faith."

Romans 3:21-26

But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

James 2:12-19

Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, "Go in peace; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. But someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds."

Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.

Matthew 5:17-19

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 4:17-21

and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. He began by saying to them, "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."

1 Corinthians 15:20-24

But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power.

1 Corinthians 15:45-48

So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.

Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

The Lord plans to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah because of its grave sin and there was a great outcry against it. The Lord reveals the plan to destroy Sodom. Abraham asks the Lord whether he will sweep away the innocent with the guilty. Abraham asks the Lord if the city would be spared if there were 50 innocent people in it. The Lord says that the city would be spared if there were 50 innocent people in it. Abraham continues to ask the same question for 45, 40, 30, 20, and finally 10 innocent people. The Lord says that the city would be spared if there were 10 innocent people in it.

Two angels disguised as gentlemen entered Sodom in the evening. Lot, Abraham's nephew, greeted them. Lot invites them to lodge at his home. They eventually agreed and Lot prepared them dinner. All the townspeople of Sodom both young and old surrounded Lot's house. They yelled at Lot asking him where the two men were. They demanded Lot give them the two men so that they could rape them. Lot offers to give up his two virgin daughters instead. Lot says that he will not give up the men because they have come under the protection of his house. The two angels disguised as gentlemen created a bright light that blinded all the townspeople.

The angels warn Lot to get his whole family out of the city because they are about to destroy it. Lot warns his almost sons-in-law who are engaged to his daughters to flee the city because it is about to be destroyed. His almost sons-in-law think he is joking, so they stay in the city. The angel leads Lot, Lot's wife, and Lot's daughters out of the city and tells them to get to the hills and warns them not to look back or stop beforehand or they will die. Lot asked the angel if he could flee to the small city of Zoar, which means "small and insignificant" instead of the hills, the angel agreed. Sulfurous fire then fell on Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot's wife turned back and she became scorch-glazed and turned into what looked like a pillar of salt. The next morning Abraham saw dense fumes of smoke rising over the land like fumes from a furnace.

Lot was afraid to say in the city of Zoar, so he settled in the hill country with his daughters. Lot's daughters wanted to have children, but there were no other men around. Lot's two daughters got him drunk two nights in a row and rape him when he is drunk one each night and they both get pregnant. The older daughter gave birth to a son named Moab. The Moabites were the descendants of Moab. The younger daughter gave birth to a son named Ammon. The Ammonites were a descendent of Ammon.

The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah foreshadows the God's judgment of the Earth after the one-world government that forces everyone to worship the image of the beast. For those remaining on the Earth at that time the choice will be to either worship the image of the beast or be killed. There will be judgment for all who choose to worship the image of the beast rather than worship only the Lord and be killed.

 Romans 12:19

Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord

 Revelation 6:10

They called out in a loud voice, "How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?"

1 Thessalonians 4:17

After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

Revelation 13:3-4

One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast. People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, "Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?"

 Luke 21:11

There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.

Revelation 6:15-17

Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. They called to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?"

Luke 21:8-9

He replied: "Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am he,' and, 'The time is near.' Do not follow them. When you hear of wars and uprisings, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away."

2 Thessalonians 2:1-4

Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

Revelation 20:1-3

And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.

Revelation 20:4-5

I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection.

Revelation 20:7-10

When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

Revelation 14:14-16

I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, "Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe." So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.

Revelation 20:12-15

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 22:12-15

"Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. "Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Revelation 22:3-5

No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.

Birth of Isaac (2048 years after Adam was created)

Abraham went to Negeb and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he stayed in Gerar, Abraham said that Sarah was his sister. Abimelech, the king of Gerar, was going to take Sarah. In a dream, the Lord warns Abimelech that he will die if he takes her because she has a husband. Abimelech pleads for God not to slay him because he innocent and did not know she had a husband; Abraham and Sarah had both said they are brother and sisters. The Lord agrees that Abimelech was innocent, which is why he is being warned now. Abimelech asked Abraham what he was afraid that caused him to lie. Abraham said he thought they would kill him on account of his wife. Also Abraham reveals that Sarah is actually his half-sister, his father's daughter but not his mother's daughter. Abimelech took flocks and herds of male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham. Abimelech also said that Abraham could settle anywhere he wanted in the land. Abimelech also gave them a thousand shekels of silver to show that there was no ill will.

Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born, which was 1 year after Abraham made the covenant of circumcision with God, which was 14 years after Ishmael was born, which was 25 years after Abraham left Haram and migrated to Canaan, which was 42 years after Noah died, which was 392 years after the flood started, which was 2048 years after Adam was created.

Sarah became pregnant and gave birth to Abraham's son, who Abraham named Isaac. Abraham circumcised Isaac when he was eight days old. Isaac was Abraham's first son to be circumcised on the 8th day in accordance with the Covenant he made with God. Ishmael, the son of Hagar and Abraham, was circumcised when he was already 13 years old. Sarah saw her son Isaac playing with Hagar's son Ishmael and demanded that Abraham drive away the slave Hagar and her son, who was also Abraham's son. The Lord told Abraham to heed the demands of Sarah since the Covenant is only specifically through Isaac. The Lord still promises to make a great nation through Ishmael since he also is Abraham's offspring. God was with Ishmael as he grew up. Ishmael lived in the wilderness and became an expert bowman. His home was in the wilderness of Paran. Hagar got him a wife from the land of Egypt.

Abraham is tested by God

God wanted to test Abraham's loyalty and faith. God told Abraham to take Isaac, the only son born from both him and his wife Sarah, and offer him up as a burning sacrifice to God. Abraham saddled his donkey, took Isaac and two servants, and brought wood to burn the sacrifice. Abraham told his servants to stay in place while he took Isaac and the firewood to make a sacrifice to God. Isaac carried the firewood on his shoulder while Abraham carried the fire and a knife. Isaac asked Abraham where the sheep for the sacrifice was. Abraham replied that God himself will provide the sheep for the sacrifice. Abraham built an altar and tied Isaac to it. Abraham took the knife and was about to slaughter his son, but the Lord's messenger out to Abraham and told Abraham not to harm the boy in any way. The Lord's messenger said that Abraham had proven how devoted he is to God since he would not even withhold his own beloved son. Abraham found a ram caught in the thicket and sacrificed the ram instead of his son. The Lord's messenger said that the Lord swears by himself that because Abraham did not even withhold his own beloved son from, that the Lord will bless Abraham and make his descendants as countless as the stars in the sky and the sands of the seashore. The Lord's messenger says that Abraham's descendants will take possession of the gates of their enemies and in Abraham's descendants all nations will find blessing.

The testing of Abraham foreshadows the coming of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was the lamb that God himself would provide. The wood that Isaac caries foreshadows the cross that Jesus Christ would carry. Since Abraham was willing to sacrifice his own beloved son for God, God could do nothing less than sacrifice his own beloved son for us. Jesus Christ was a descendant of Abraham, and in Jesus Christ all nations will find blessing.

 Romans 4:18

Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, "So shall your offspring be."

 Galatians 3:6

So also Abraham "believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."

Romans 4:2-5

If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about—but not before God. What does Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness." Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift but as an obligation. However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.

 Romans 4:13

It was not through the law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

Romans 9:6-9

It is not as though God's word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham's children. On the contrary, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned." In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God's children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham's offspring. For this was how the promise was stated: "At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son."

Romans 11:1-6

I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don't you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he appealed to God against Israel: "Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me"? And what was God's answer to him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal." So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.

Galatians 3:14

He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

1 Peter 1:18-19

For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.

Hebrews 11:17-19

By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned." Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.

John 1:29-31

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! This is the one I meant when I said, 'A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.' I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel."

Revelation 5:8-10

And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of God's people. And they sang a new song, saying: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain,  
and with your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth."

Death of Sarah (2085 years after Adam was created)

Sarah died in the land of Canaan. Sarah lived to be 127 years old. Abraham was 10 years older than Sarah. Abraham was 137 years old when Sarah died, which was 37 years after Isaac was born, which was 38 years after Abraham made the covenant of circumcision with God, which was 51 years after Ishmael was born, which was 62 years after Abraham left Haram and migrated to Canaan, which was 79 years after Noah died, which was 429 years after the flood started, which was 2085 years after Adam was created.

Normally an immigrant was not allowed to buy land, but they made an exception for Abraham. Abraham purchased a burial spot for Sarah from Ephron in the presence of the Hittites for the current market value, 400 sheckles of silver. Abraham insisted on purchasing the land rather than receiving it as a gift. This was so that it gave his descendants their first land rights in land promised to his descendants. Abraham buried Sarah in the cave Machpelah facing Mamre (Hebron). The modern nation of Israel was established by the Jewish people purchasing their ancestral land back.

Abraham had reached a ripe old age. He had one of his servants swear to him that they would make sure his son Isaac married one of his relatives rather than one of the Canaanite women. The servant took 10 camels and many gifts wand went to the city of Nahor in Aram Naharaim. The servant was going to ask a girl to draw water for him and his camels water. The servant asked the Lord to let the girl be the one for Isaac if she said yes and did so. Rebekah was the daughter of Bethuel who was the son of Abraham's brother Nahor and his wife Milcah. The servant asked Rebekah for a drink of water, she agreed and offered to get water for all his camels. The servant asked her whose daughter she was. The servant also asked her if he could lodge in her Father's house for the night. The table was set for the servant, but he would not eat until he told his story. He told them that he was Abraham's servant. He told them Abraham had become wealthy with flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female slaves, and camels and donkeys. He told them that Abraham's wife Sarah had born a son in her old age who was the son to inherit everything. He told them that he was there to get a wife for Isaac from his relatives. They agreed to let the servant take Rebekah to be Isaac's wife. The servant gave Rebekah silver and gold articles of clothing. The servant also gave Rebekah's family many expensive gifts. The servant wanted to leave the next day to return back to Isaac. The family wanted Rebekah to wait ten days. They asked Rebekah what she wanted. She said she wanted to leave with the servant the next day. Rebekah and her nurse left with the servant the next day.

Abraham re-married after Sarah's death. Abraham married Keturah. Keturah bore Abraham six more children, Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah. Abraham deeded everything to his son Isaac. However, while Abraham was still alive, he did give grants to his other children and sent them eastward to the land of Kedem away from his son Isaac.

Death of Abraham (2123 years after Adam was created)

Abraham lived to be 175 year old. Isaac and Ishmael buried Abraham in the cave of Machpelah in the field of Epharon, son of Zoar the Hittite. Abraham was 175 years old when he died, which was 38 years after Sarah died, which was 75 years after Isaac was born, which was 76 years after he made the covenant of circumcision with God, which was 89 years after Ishmael was born, which was 100 years after Abraham left Haram and migrated to Canaan, which was 117 years after Noah died, which was 467 years after the flood started, which was 2123 years after Adam was created.

Death of Shem (2156 years after Adam)

Noah was born 1056 years after Adam was created. Noah was around 500 years old when he had three sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Shem lived to be 600 years old. Shem died 2156 years after Adam was created.

Shem was 600 years old when he died, which was 33 years after Abraham died, which was 71 years after Sarah died, which was 108 years after Isaac was born, which was 109 years after Abraham made the covenant of circumcision with God, which was 122 years after Ishmael was born, which was 133 years after Abraham left Haram and migrated to Canaan, which was 150 years after Noah died, which was 500 years after the flood started, which was 2156 years after Adam was created.

Death of Ishmael (2171 years after Adam was created)

Ishmael was the son of Abraham and Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian slave. Ishmael became the father of 12 sons in the following order Nebioth, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These became 12 chieftains of 12 tribal groups.

Ishmael was 137 years old when he died, which was 15 years after Shem died, which was 48 years after Abraham died, which was 86 years after Sarah died, which was 123 years after Isaac was born, which was 124 years after he made the covenant of circumcision with God, which was 137 years after Ishmael was born, which was 148 years after Abraham left Haram and migrated to Canaan, which was 165 years after Noah died, which was 515 years after the flood started, which was 2171 years after Adam was created.

Isaac marries Rebekah (2088 years after Adam was created)

Isaac married Rebekah when he was 40 years old, which was 140 years after Abraham was born, which was 41 years after Abraham made the covenant of circumcision with God, which was 54 years after Ishmael was born, which was 65 years after Abraham left Haram and migrated to Canaan, which was 82 years after Noah died, which was 432 years after the flood started, which was 2088 years after Adam was created.

Isaac pleaded to the Lord about Rebekah since she had been sterile. The Lord heard the pleading and Rebekah became pregnant. The Lord tells Rebekah that two nations are in her womb, two people quarreling, but that one shall surpass the other, and the older shall serve the younger.

Esau and Jacob are born (2108 years after Adam was created)

Esau and Jacob were born when Isaac was 60 years old, which was 20 years after Isaac married Rebekah, which was 160 years after Abraham was born, which was 61 years after he made the covenant of circumcision with God, which was 74 years after Ishmael was born, which was 85 years after Abraham left Haram and migrated to Canaan, which was 102 years after Noah died, which was 452 years after the flood started, which was 2108 years after Adam was created.

Rebekah gave birth to twins. The first to come out was reddish and hairy, which she named Esau. The second to come out was holding onto Esau's heel, which they named Jacob. Esau became a skillful hunter. Jacob liked to keep to the tents. Essau was Isaac's favorite whereas Jacob was Rebekah's favorite. Once when Jacob was cooking a red stew, Esau was very hungry. Jacob sold Esau the stew in exchange for Esau's birthright. Esau did not care much for his birthright, so he swore to Jacob that he would give Jacob his birthright for the stew.

There was a famine, so Isaac went down to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, in Gerar. The Lord told Isaac to stay in these lands and not to go on further to Egypt. The Lord said that Isaac would be given all of these lands in fulfillment of the oath that he swore to Abraham. The Lord says that Isaac's descendants will be as numerous as the stars in the sky and will be given all of these lands. Therefore, Isaac settled in Gerar.

When people asked Isaac about his wife, he lied and said that she was his sister. He was afraid that the men would kill him because Rebekah was very beautiful. Abimelech, king of the Philistines, happened to look out the window and see Isaac fondling his wife Rebekah. Abimelech confronts Isaac. Isaac confesses that Rebekah is his wife and that he was afraid someone might kill him. Abimelech gave a warning to his men that anyone that molests Isaac or his wife Rebekah would be put to death. Isaac sowed crop in the land and reaped a hundredfold in one year. The Lord blessed Isaac and he became wealthy and acquired flocks and herds and work animals. The Philistines became envious of him. The Philistines filled Isaac's wells with dirt. Abimelech says that Isaac must go away because he became too numerous. Isaac reopened wells, but the shepherds of Gerar claimed the water was theirs. Isaac dug more wells, but the shepherds of Gerar quarreled with him over those too. Eventually Isaac dug a well that the shepherds did not quarrel with him about. The Lord is revealed to Isaac as the God of his father, Abraham. The Lord promises to multiply the descendants of Isaac for Abraham's sake. Isaac built an altar and dug a well.

Esau marries two wives (2148 years after Adam was created)

Esau was 40 years old when he married two wives, which was when Isaac was 100 years old, which was 60 years after Isaac married Rebekah, which was 25 years after Abraham died, which was 101 years after Abraham made the covenant of circumcision with God, which was 114 years after Ishmael was born, which was 125 years after Abraham left Haram and migrated to Canaan, which was 142 years after Noah died, which was 492 years after the flood started, which was 2148 years after Adam was created.

Esau married two wives, Judith, a Hittite, and Basemath, a Hivite. Esau's two wives become a source of embitterment for Isaac and Rebekah.

Jacob obtains Isaac's blessing he bought from Esau

Isaac became old and started going blind. He told Esau to take his quiver and bow and hunt some game and then prepare a meal for him. Isaac was still going to give his special blessing of inheritance to Esau before Isaac died even though Esau had sold it to Jacob. Esau had previously sold the blessing of inheritance to Jacob for some red stew; Esau swore an oath that the inheritance blessing would go to Jacob. Rebekah wanted to ensure this special blessing to go to Jacob. Rebekah told Jacob to get two choice young goats from the flock and prepare an appetizing dish for Isaac. Jacob wore some of Isaac's clothes and put the skins of goats on his hands to make him feel hairy like Esau. Jacob then impersonated Esau in order to obtain Isaac's blessing.

Genesis 27:27-29

So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said,

"Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed. May God give you heaven's dew  
and earth's richness—an abundance of grain and new wine. May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed."

After Jacob had already just received Isaac's blessing, Esau returned from hunting. When Esau began to cry when realized that the blessing had gone to Jacob along with the inheritance. Esau asked Isaac to bless him too, but Isaac could not give the same blessing again.

Genesis 27:40

You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck."

Esau planned to kill Jacob, so Jacob fled to live with his uncle Laban, Rebekah's brother who lives in Haran. Rebekah told Isaac that she not want Jacob to marry a Hittite woman like Esau did. Therefore she had Isaac make Jacob promise not to marry a Canaanite woman, but rather to marry one of the daughters of his uncle Laban. Esau realized that his father was not pleased by his wives who were Canaanite women. Therefore, in addition to his two other wives, Esau also married Mahalath, the daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael and sister of Nebiaoth.

Jacob left Beer-sheba to go toward Haran. Along his journey, Jacob stopped at a shrine for the night. Jacob had a dream where the Lord, God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, promises to give Jacob and his descendants the land that he is lying on. The Lord promised that Jacob's descendants would be as plentiful as the dust of the earth and in the descendants of Jacob all nations would find blessing. Jacob makes a vow to return to the Lord a tenth of everything receives from the Lord. When Jacob was arriving in Haran there was a well with a stone covering. Jacob met some people who knew Laban and they pointed out Rachel, Laban's daughter. Rachael could not water Laban's flocks because of the stone covering, so Jacob rolled away the stone covering and helped watered Laban's flocks. Jacob kissed Rachael and revealed to her that he was Laban's nephew. Jacob tells Laban everything that had occurred.

Jacob stayed for a month and worked for Laban at no cost. Laban asked Jacob to name what his wages should be. Laban had two daughters, Leah and Rachel. Leah was older than Rachel, but Rachel was more beautiful than Leah. Jacob said he would serve Laban for 7 year for his daughter Rachel. Laban agreed. Jacob served Laban for 7 years, which only seemed like a few days because he deeply loved Rachel. Laban tricked Jacob by having Jacob marry Leah instead of Rachel. Jacob discovered the next morning that it was Leah in his wedding bed and not Rachel. Jacob confronts Laban. Laban says that Jacob must complete the bridal week with Leah, but next week Jacob can marry Rachel in exchange for serving Laban for 7 more years. Jacob reluctantly agrees. The next week Jacob marries Rachel. Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah. Leah conceived four times and bore Jacob four sons who were named Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah. Then, Leah ceased to bear children. Rachel failed to bear any children for Jacob and she became envious of Leah.

Rachel told Jacob to have intercourse with her maidservant Bilhah to bear children for her in her stead. Bilhah conceived and bore a son and named him Dan. Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob another son and named him Nephtali.

In response, Leah told Jacob to have intercourse with her maidservant Zilpah who conceived and bore a son and named him Gad. Zilpah conceived again and bore another son and named him Asher. Reuben brought his mother Leah some mandrakes. Leah traded some of her son's mandrakes to Rachel in exchange for letting Leah lie with Jacob for a night. Leah conceived again and bore a fifth son who was named Issachar. Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son who was named Zebulun. Finally, Leah conceived and gave birth to a daughter who was named Dinah. Rachel finally conceived and born a son who was named Joseph.

After Joseph was born, Jacob asked Laban to let him leave and return to his homeland with his wives and children. Laban asks Jacob to stay and state his wages. Jacob asks to continue to pasture and tend the flock and get all the dark sheep and spotted or speckled goats as his wages. Laban removed these and gave them to his sons. Jacob become increasingly prosperous and came to own large flocks, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

The Lord told Jacob to return to the land of his fathers, where he was born. Jacob put his wives and children on camels and drove off with all his property to go back to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan. Jacob did not tell Laban that he was leaving. Laban discovered that Jacob had left on the third day. Laban pursued Jacob for seven days and caught up with him at Gilead. The Lord warned Laban in a dream not to harm Jacob. Laban eventually kissed his grandchildren and daughters goodbye and then went home.

Jacob sent messengers ahead to his brother Esau. Jacob sent gifts ahead of him to Esau. There was an angel messenger in the form of a man. This man wrestled with Jacob until the break of dawn. When the man saw that he could not prevail, he struck Jacob in the sciatic muscle that is in the hip socket. Jacob would still not let him go. Jacob would not go until the man blessed him. The man said that Jacob would now be called "Israel" because he contended with the divine and prevailed. Jacob saw Esau coming at him with 400 men. Esau embraced him, kissed him, and wept. Esau accepted the gifts that Jacob brought.

Leah's daughter Dinah went out with some of the local women. Dinah was raped by Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite. Shechem asked Hamor to let him have Dinah for his wife. Hamor went to discuss it with Jacob. Jacob's sons were outraged when they heard their sister had been raped. Jacob's sons said that Shechem could only marry their sister if every male was to be circumcised. When the men were still recovering from being circumcised, Jacob's sons massacred them all, sacked the city, and sized all their wealth and possessions.

God appeared to Jacob, blessed him, and said that Jacob would no longer be called Jacob but rather his new name would be Israel. God also told Jacob that the land promised to Abraham and Isaac was now promised to Jacob and Jacob's descendants. Rachel died giving birth to one more son who she called Ben-oni , but Jacob named him Benjamin. Jacob (Israel) now had 12 sons, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Nephtali, God, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Dinah, Joseph, and Benjamin. The descendants of each son became one of the tribes of Israel. Jacob (Israel) had 12 sons so there were 12 tribes of Israel.

Death of Isaac (2228 years after Adam was created)

Isaac lived to be 180 years old before he died, which was 57 years after Ishmael died, which was 70 years after Shem died, which was 105 years after Abraham died, which was 143 years after Sarah died, which was 181 years after Abraham made the covenant of circumcision with God, which was 194 years after Ishmael was born, which was 205 years after Abraham left Haram and migrated to Canaan, which was 222 years after Noah died, which was 572 years after the flood started, which was 2228 years after Adam was created.

Jacob went home to his father Isaac. Essau and Jacob buried him. Jacob and Esau had too many possessions to dwell together. Esau moved and settled in the highlands of Seir. Esau's descendants became the Edomites.

Jacob (Israel) settled in the land of Canaan, the land his father Isaac stayed in. When Joseph was 17 years old he was an assistant to his father's wives Bilhah and Zilpah and gave bad reports of them. Jacob (Israel) loved Joseph more than all his sons; Joseph was the first born son of Rachel, who Jacob (Israel) loved. Jacob (Israel) made Joseph a long tunic. Joseph's brothers hated him because they resented the fact that their father loved him more than them. Joseph tells his brothers that he had a dream that his brothers would eventually bow down before him. Joseph's brothers originally were going to kill Joseph, but Reuben convinced them just to throw Joseph into an empty dry cistern. The brothers saw some Midianite traders going to Egypt and decided to sell their brother Joseph into slavery for 20 pieces of silver. They took Joseph's long tunic, slaughtered a goat, and dipped the tunic in blood. They told their father that a wild beast devoured Joseph.

The Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, a courtier of Pharaoh and his chief steward. Joseph served well. Joseph was assigned to the household of his Egyptian master. Potiphar saw that everything Joseph did went well. Potiphar assigned Joseph as his personal attendant and put him in charge of the household and entrusted him with his possessions.

Joseph was handsome and attractive. Potiphar's wife began to try to seduce him, and she asked him to lie with her. Joseph would not betray his master and would not betray God by doing so. One day Potiphar's wife demanded that Joseph lie with her and she grabbed his cloak. When Joseph fled, she tore the cloak off of him. Potiphar's wife then lied and said Joseph tried to rape her, which she used the cloak as false evidence. Regardless of whether Potiphar believed his wife, Joseph was put in jail where the royal prisoners were held.

The Pharaoh found offense with the royal cupbearer and royal baker and they were thrown into the same jail as Joseph. The royal cupbearer and royal baker both had vivid dreams that distressed them. Joseph correctly interpreted their dreams. In three days the royal cupbearer was to be restored to his post. The royal baker was to be impaled on a stake in three days and the birds would be pecking the flesh from his body. When the cupbearer was restored to his post, he forgot about Joseph. Two years later, the Pharaoh had some vivid dreams that distressed him. In his first dream seven skinny ugly cows devoured seven fat and handsome cows. In his second dream, seven thin ears of corn swallowed up seven fat, healthy ears of corn. The royal cupbearer remembered how Joseph had correctly interpreted dreams in the jail and told the Pharaoh about it. Joseph correctly interpreted the dreams to mean that there would be seven years of abundance followed by seven years of famine. The Pharaoh put Joseph in charge of collecting grain and preparing for the famine. Joseph was put in charge of Egypt and was second in command, the first being the Pharaoh.

Joseph was 30 years old when he entered the service of the King. The Pharaoh gave Joseph the name "Zephnath-pneah". Joseph married Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis. Joseph had two sons borne by his wife Asenath; the firstborn was named Manasah and the second born was named Ephraim. After the seven years of abundance, the seven years of famine set in just as Joseph had predicted. There was little food available in all the surrounding countries, but there was now still food available in Egypt.

Jacob sent all his sons to Egypt to get food, except for Benjamin; Benjamin was the only other son of Rachel besides Joseph. Jacob loved Rachel and loved Benjamin. Joseph was the governor of the country who dispensed all the rations. When Joseph's brothers came he recognized them, but he pretended not to recognize them. Joseph spoke sternly with his brothers and accused his brothers of being spies. Joseph commanded his brothers to leave one brother and to bring back their youngest brother, Benjamin, or else their other brother would not able to leave. Simeon was taken from his brothers who watched him be bound up. Joseph had their containers filled with grain and secretly returned their money. The brothers were horrified when they found their moneybags and had not paid for the grain.

When their grain was all used up, Joseph's brothers returned with Benjamin. Jacob (Israel) told his sons not to return if they did not have Benjamin with them. Judah told his father to hold him personally responsible forever if they did not return with Benjamin. When Joseph saw Benjamin, Joseph had his brothers brought into the house and prepared an animal slaughtered and a meal prepared for them. Joseph brought Simeon back out to his brothers. Once again Joseph sent his brothers off with their containers filled with grain and secretly returned their money bags. However, this time Joseph had his golden goblet secretly put in Benjamin's bags to test them. As his brothers were leaving, He accused them of stealing his goblet. Joseph told them whosever bag the goblet was found in would be punished. Joseph said that all the brothers could leave, but Benjamin must remain as his slave. Judah told Joseph to take him as a slave instead and let Benjamin go.

Joseph reveals to his brothers that he is their brother Joseph. Joseph kissed his brothers and cried over each of them. Joseph had them bring back their father Jacob (Israel) so that they could settle in the land of Goshen. There had been only 2 years of famine and there would be 5 more years of famine. Jacob (Israel) and all of his descendants migrated to Egypt, who were about 70 people total.

The Pharaoh asked Jacob (Israel) how old he was. Jacob (Israel) to the Pharaoh that he was 130 years old. Jacob (Israel) and his descendants settled in the region of Rameses, which is the region of Goshen.

When people ran out of money, they eventually sold their livestock, their land, and themselves as slaves in exchange for food. Joseph then made it a law that from then on only a fifth of the produce would go to Pharaoh. Jacob (Israel) made Joseph swear that Jacob (Israel) would not be buried in Egypt, but would be buried with his ancestors in their ancestral burial place.

Jacob (Israel) says that the descendants of his grandsons Ephraim and Manasseh will be counted as the descendants of Reuben and Simeon. This was to honor Rachael by giving her two more tribes. The descendants of any other children of Joseph will be counted as his own descendants. Rachael had previously died during a journey to Canaan. Jacob (Israel) buried her on the way to Ephrath, Bethlehem. Jacob (Israel) places his right hand on Manasseh and says the younger brother will surpass the older brother, and his descendants will become a multitude of nations. Jacob (Israel) gave his blessing to his twelve tribes of Israel, which were Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Joseph, and Benjamin. Jacob (Israel) asked to be buried in the cave in the field of Mechpelah, facing Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the field that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite. Jacob's sons did as he instructed.

Death of Jacob-Israel (2255 years after Adam was created)

Jacob-Israel was 147 years old when he died, which was 27 years after Isaac died, which was 84 years after Ishmael died, which was 97 years after Shem died, which was 132 years after Abraham died, which was 170 years after Sarah died, which was 208 years after Abraham made the covenant of circumcision with God, which was 221 years after Ishmael was born, which was 232 years after Abraham left Haram and migrated to Canaan, which was 249 years after Noah died, which was 599 years after the flood started, which was 2228 years after Adam was created.

Birth of Joseph (2199 years after Adam was created)

Jacob-Israel was 91 years old when Joseph was born, which was 76 years after Abraham died, which was 111 years after Isaac married Rebekah, which was 152 years after Abraham made the covenant of circumcision with God, which was 165 years after Ishmael was born, which was 176 years after Abraham left Haram and migrated to Canaan, which was 193 years after Noah died, which was 543 years after the flood started, which was 2199 years after Adam was created.

Death of Joseph (2309 years after Adam was created)

Joseph lived to be 110 years old before he died, which was 221 years after Isaac married Rebekah, which was 186 years after Abraham died, which was 262 years after Abraham made the covenant of circumcision with God, which was 275 years after Ishmael was born, which was 286 years after Abraham left Haram and migrated to Canaan, which was 303 years after Noah died, which was 653 years after the flood started, which was 2309 years after Adam was created.

Chapter 5: The Origin of Human Civilization

Some people erroneously claim that the Bible documents that the Planet Earth is only about 6000 years old, which is false. The Bible only documents that modern humans capable of civilization are about 6000 years old. Adam was the first modern human capable of human civilization. There may have been other humanoid beings created beforehand that were anatomically similar to modern humans but were not yet capable of the emotion, intellect, and will necessary for human civilization. Some people erroneously claim that the Bible documents that the flood of Noah covered the entire Planet Earth, which is false. The Bible only documents that that the flood of Noah covered all the land (earth) that modern humans inhabited at the time. The flood of Noah covered all the land that humanity inhabited. Human civilization lived in a localized region before the flood of Noah. Noah and his family were able to help region that recover quickly after the flood. Human civilization was then spread out across the Planet Earth after the flood. Flavius Josephus the Jewish Historian for the Roman Empire document evidence for a regional flood.

"Now all the writers of barbarian histories make mention of this flood, and of this ark; among whom is Berosus the Chaldean. For when he is describing the circumstances of the flood, he goes on thus: "It is said there is still some part of this ship in Armenia, at the mountain of the Cordyaeans; and that some people carry off pieces of the bitumen, which they take away, and use chiefly as amulets for the averting of mischiefs." Hieronymus the Egyptian also, who wrote the Phoenician Antiquities, and Mnaseas, and a great many more, make mention of the same. Nay, Nicolaus of Damascus, in his ninety-sixth book, hath a particular relation about them; where he speaks thus: "There is a great mountain in Armenia, over Minyas, called Baris, upon which it is reported that many who fled at the time of the Deluge were saved; and that one who was carried in an ark came on shore upon the top of it; and that the remains of the timber were a great while preserved. This might be the man about whom Moses the legislator of the Jews wrote."

The family records in Genesis and the national records in Kings and Chronicles are incredibly precise down to the year. Therefore we can use these records preserved in the Bible to map out a timeline of all human history. The following is a timeline made assuming that all the documented records in the Bible are accurate.

Claudius Ptolemy was an ancient Greco-Egyptian writer known as a mathematician and astronomer who recorded some inaccurate historical dates. This Biblical timeline being accurate must be understood in context with the records of Ptolemy, the ancient amateur historian being inaccurate. The Biblical dates are recorded using the number of years after the creation of Adam. To calibrate these dates to the modern calendar, we can use the death of King Solomon.

~ Dates Calibrated Using the Death of King Solomon In 931 BC (Before Christ)

GENESIS TIMELINE (FAMILY RECORDS):

0 Creation of Adam (0 years after Adam) {~4115 BC}

130 Birth of Seth (130 years after Adam) {~3985 BC}

Adam was 130 years old when Seth was born {Genesis 5:3}.

235 Birth of Enosh (235 years after Adam) {~3880 BC}

Seth was 105 years old when Enosh was born {Genesis 5:6}.

325 Birth of Kenan (325 years after Adam) {~3790 BC}

Enosh was 90 years old when Kenan was born {Genesis 5:9}.

395 Birth of Mahalalel (395 years after Adam) {~3720 BC}

Kenan was 70 years old when Mahalalel was born {Genesis 5:12}.

460 Birth of Jared (460 years after Adam) {~3655 BC}

Mahalalel was 65 years old when Jared was born {Genesis 5:15}.

622 Birth of Enoch (622 years after Adam) {~3493 BC}

Jared was 162 years old when Enoch was born {Genesis 5:18}.

687 Birth of Methuselah (687 years after Adam) {~3428 BC}

Enoch was 65 years old when Methuselah was born {Genesis 5:21}.

874 Birth of Lamech (874 years after Adam) {~3241 BC}

Methuselah was 187 years old when Lamech was born {Genesis 5:25}.

930 Death of Adam (930 years after Adam) {~3185 BC}

Adam was 930 years old when he died {Genesis 5:5}.

987 Rapture of Enoch (987 years after Adam) {~3128 BC}

Enoch was 365 years old when we was taken by God {Genesis 5:18}.

1042 Death of Seth (1042 years after Adam) {~3073 BC}

Seth was 912 years old when he died {Genesis 5:8}.

1056 Birth of Noah (1056 years after Adam) {~3059 BC}

Lamech was 182 years old when Noah was born {Genesis 5:28-29}.

1140 Death of Enosh (1140 years after Adam) {~2975 BC}

Enosh was 905 years old when he died {Genesis 5:11}.

1235 Death of Kenan (1235 years after Adam) {~2880 BC}

Kenan was 910 years old when he died {Genesis 5:14}.

1290 Death of Mahalalel (1290 years after Adam) {~2825 BC}

Mahalalel was 895 years old when he died {Genesis 5:17}.

1422 Death of Jared (1422 years after Adam) {~2693 BC}

Jared was 962 years old when he died {Genesis 5:20}.

1556 Birth of Shem, Ham, and Japheth (1556 years after Adam) {~2559 BC}

Noah was about 500 years old when Shem, Ham, and Japheth were born {Genesis 5:32}.

1651 Death of Lamech (1651 years after Adam) {~2464 BC}

Lamech was 777 years old when he died {Genesis 5:31}.

1656 Death of Methuselah (1656 years after Adam) {~2459 BC}

Methuselah was 969 years old when he died {Genesis 5:27}.

1656 The flood of Noah (1656 years after Adam) {~2459 BC}

Noah was 600 years old when the flood occurred {Genesis 7:6}.

1657 Noah exits the Ark (1657 years after Adam) {~2458 BC}

The flood started on the 17th day of the 2nd Month when Noah was 600 years old {Genesis 7:11}.

Noah left the ark on the 27th day of the 2nd Month when Noah was 601 years old {Genesis 8:13-14}.

1658 Birth of Arpachshad (1658 years after Adam) {~2457 BC}

Shem was about 100 years old when Arpachshad was born 2 years after the flood started {Genesis 11:10}.

1693 Birth of Shelah (1693 years after Adam) {~2422 BC}

Arpachshad was 35 years old when Shelah was born {Genesis 11:12}.

1723 Birth of Eber (1723 years after Adam) {~2392 BC}

Shelah was 30 years old when Eber was born {Genesis 11:14}.

1757 Birth of Peleg (1757 years after Adam) {~2358 BC}

Eber was 34 years old when Peleg was born {Genesis 11:16}.

1787 Birth of Reu (1787 years after Adam) {~2328 BC}

Peleg was 30 years old when Reu was born {Genesis 11:18}.

1819 Birth of Serug (1819 years after Adam) {~2296 BC}

Reu was 32 years old when Serug was born {Genesis 11:20}.

1849 Birth of Nahor (1849 years after Adam) {~2266 BC}

Serug was 30 years old when Nahor was born {Genesis 11:22}.

1878 Birth of Terah (1878 years after Adam) {~2237 BC}

Nahor was 29 years old when Terah was born {Genesis 11:24}.

1948 Birth of Abraham, Nahor*, and Haran (1948 years after Adam) *Nahor also had a grandfather named Nahor {~2167 BC}

Terah was 70 years old when Abraham, Nahor, and Haran were born {Genesis 11:26}.

1958 Birth of Sarah (1958 years after Adam was created) {~2157 BC}

Sarah is 10 years younger than Abraham {Genesis 18:17}.

1996 Death of Peleg (1996 years after Adam) {~2119 BC}

Peleg lived 209 years after the birth of Reu {Genesis 11: 19}.

1997 Death of Nahor* (1997 years after Adam) *Nahor also had a grandson named Nahor {~2118 BC}

Nahor lived 119 years after the birth of Terah {Genesis 11: 25}.

2006 The death of Noah (2006 years after Adam) {~2109 BC}

Noah lived 350 years after the flood {Genesis 9:28}.

Noah was 950 years old when he died {Genesis 9:29}.

2023 Abraham's Migration from Haran to Canaan (2023 years after Adam was created) {~2092 BC}

Abraham was 75 years old when he migrated from Haran to Canaan {Genesis 12:4}.

2026 Death of Reu (2026 years after Adam) {~2089 BC}

Reu lived 207 years after the birth of Serug {Genesis 11: 21}.

2034 Birth of Ishmael (2034 years after Adam was created) {~2081 BC}

Abraham was 86 years old when Ishmael was born {Genesis 16:16}.

2047 Covenant of Circumcision (2047 years after Adam was created) {~2068 BC}

Abraham was 99 years old for the covenant of circumcision {Genesis 17:1}.

2048 Birth of Isaac (2048 years after Adam was created) {~2067 BC}

Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born {Genesis 21:5}.

2049 Death of Serug (2049 years after Adam) {~2066 BC}

Serug lived 200 years after the birth of Nahor {Genesis 11: 23}.

2083 Death of Terah (2083 years after Adam) {~2032 BC}

Terah lived 205 years before he died {Genesis 11: 32}.

2085 Death of Sarah (2085 years after Adam was created) {~2030 BC}

Sarah lived to be 127 years old {Genesis 23:1}.

2088 Isaac marries Rebekah (2088 years after Adam was created) {~2027BC}

Isaac was 40 years old when he married Rebekah {Genesis 25:20}.

2096 Death of Arpachshad (2096 years after Adam) {~2019 BC}

Arpachshad lived 403 years after the birth of Shelah {Genesis 11: 13}.

2108 Birth of Esau and Jacob-Israel (2108 years after Adam was created) {~2007 BC}

Isaac was 60 years old when Esau and Jacob were born {Genesis 25:26}.

2123 Death of Abraham (2123 years after Adam was created) {~1992 BC}

Abraham was 175 years old when he died {Genesis 25:7}.

2126 Death of Shelah (2126 years after Adam) {~1989 BC}

Shelah lived 403 years after the birth of Eber {Genesis 11: 15}.

2148 Esau marries first two wives (2148 years after Adam was created) {~1967 BC}

Esau was 40 years old when he married Judith and Basemath {Genesis 26:34}.

2158 Death of Shem (2158 years after Adam) {~1957 BC}

Shem lived 500 years after the birth of Arpachshad {Genesis 11: 11}.

2171 Death of Ishmael (2171 years after Adam was created) {~1944 BC}

Ishmael was 137 years old when he died {Genesis 25:17}.

2187 Death of Eber (2187 years after Adam) {~1928 BC}

Eber lived 430 years after the birth of Peleg {Genesis 11: 17}.

2199 Birth of Joseph (2199 years after Adam was created) {~1916 BC}

Joseph was 30 years old when 7 years of plenty started {Genesis 41:36}.

There were 2 years of famine when Jacob-Israel moved to Egypt {Genesis 45-6}.

Jacob-Israel lived in Egypt for 17 years before he died {Genesis 47:28}.

Joseph was born 56 years before Jacob-Israel died {30+7+2+17=56}.

2228 Death of Isaac (2228 years after Adam was created) {~1887 BC}

Isaac was 180 years old when he died {Genesis 36:28}.

2229 Joseph Begins Service to the Pharaoh (2229 years after Adam was created) {~1886 BC}

Joseph was 30 years old when he entered service of the Pharaoh {Genesis 41:46}.

2236 Seven Years of Famine Begins (2236 years after Adam was created) {~1879 BC}

There were 7 years of plenty followed by 7 years of famine {Genesis 41:34-36}.

2238 Migration to Egypt (2238 years after Adam was created) {~1877 BC}

There been 2 years of famine when Jacob-Israel moved to Egypt {Genesis 45-6}.

2243 Famine Ends (2243 years after Adam was created) {~1872 BC}

There were 5 more years of famine when Jacob-Israel moved to Egypt {Genesis 45-6}.

2255 Death of Jacob-Israel (2255 years after Adam was created) {~1860 BC}

Jacob-Israel was 147 years old when he died {Genesis 47:28}.

2309 Death of Joseph (2309 years after Adam was created) {~1806 BC}

Joseph was 110 years old when he died {Genesis 50:26}.

TEMPLE TIMELINE (NATIONAL RECORDS):

2668 Exodus (2668 years after Adam was created) {~1447 BC}

Jacob-Israel migrated to Egypt 2238 years After Adam was created {Genesis Timeline}.

Abraham's descendants would be aliens in a foreign land for over 400 years {Genesis 15:13}.

The Israelite people left Egypt 430 years after Jacob-Israel migrated to Egypt {Exodus 12:40-41}.

3060 Saul Becomes King (3060 years after Adam was created) {~1055 BC}

Saul was 30 years old when he became king and he reined over Israel for 42 years {1Samuel 13:1}.

3102 Ish-Bosheth Becomes King (3102 years after Adam was created) {~1013 BC}

Ish-Bosheth son of Saul was 40 years old when he became king over Israel, and he reigned two years

{2Samuel 2:10}.

3104 David Becomes King (3104 years after Adam was created) {~1011 BC}

David was King in Hebron over Judah for 7 years and 6 months {2Samuel 2: 11}.

David was 30 years old when he became king and he reined for 40 years {2Samuel 5:3}.

In Hebron David reined over Judah 7 years and 6 months and he reined over all Israel for 33 years {2Samuel 5:5} {1Chronicles 3:4}

David reined for 40 years total, 7 years in Hebron and 33 years in Jerusalem {1Kings 2:11} {1Chronicles 29:26-27

3144 Solomon Becomes King (3144 years after Adam was created) {~971 BC}

Solomon began to build the temple 4 years after he became king {1Kings 6:37}.

Solomon began to finished the temple 11 years after he became king {1Kings 6:38}.

3148 Solomon Begins Temple (3148 years after Adam was created) {~967 BC}

Solomon began to build the temple 480 years after the Israelites came out of Egypt {1Kings 6:1}.

3155 Solomon Finishes Temple (3155 years after Adam was created) {~960 BC}

Solomon spent 7 years building the temple before it was completed {1Kings 6:38}.

3168 Solomon Finishes Palace (3168 years after Adam was created) {~947 BC}

It took Solomon 13 years to complete the royal palace {1Kings 7:1}.

Solomon built the temple and the royal place in 20 years {1Kings 9:10} {2Chronicles 8:1}

3184 ~Death of King Solomon Calibration Point (3184 years after Adam was created) {~931 BC}

3184 Rehoboam Becomes King of Judah (3184 years after Adam was created) {~931 BC}

Solomon reigned over all of Israel for 40 years and died; Rehoboam became the next king. {1Kings 11:42-43} {2Chronicles 9:30}

Rehoboam, son of Solomon, reigned in Judah. He was 41 years old when he became king {1Kings 14:21}

Rehoboam was 41 years old when he became king and he reined during 17 years {2Chronicles 12:13}.

3184 Jeroboam Becomes King of Israel (3184 years after Adam was created) {~931 BC}

Israel broke away from Judah and made Jeroboam king {1Kings 12:16-20}.

3202 Abijam Becomes King of Judah (3202 years after Adam was created) {~913 BC}

Abijam became king of Judah in the 18th year of the rein of Jeroboam, king of Israel {1Kings 15:1} {2Chronicles 13:1-2}

Abijam reins during 3 years in Jerusalem {1Kings 15:2}.

3204 Asa Becomes King of Judah (3204 years after Adam was created) {~911 BC}

Asa becomes king of Judah in the 20th year of the rein Jeroboam, king of Israel {1Kings 16:9}.

Asa reins for 41 years in Jerusalem {1Kings 16:10}.

3206 Nadab Becomes King of Israel (3206 years after Adam was created) {~909 BC}

Jeroboam reined in Israel for 22 years, and then died. Nadab his son became king of Israel {1Kings 14:19-20}.

Nadam, son of Jeroboam became king of Israel in the 2nd year of the reign of Asa, king of Judah {1Kings 15:25}.

Nadam reigned over Israel during 2 years {1Kings 15:26}.

3207 Nadab Becomes King of Israel (3207 years after Adam was created) {~908 BC}

Baasha becomes king of Israel in the 3rd year of Asa, king of Judah, and reigns during 24 years {1Kings 15: 33}.

3230 Elah Becomes King of Israel (3230 years after Adam was created) {~885 BC}

Elah becomes king of Israel in the 26th year of Asa, king of Judah, and reigns during 2 years {1Kings 16:8}.

3231 Zimri Becomes King of Israel (3231 years after Adam was created) {~884 BC}

Zimri becomes king of Israel in the 27th year of Asa, king of Judah, and reins for one week {1Kings 16:15}.

3235 Omri Becomes Ruler of Israel (3235 years after Adam was created) {~880 BC}

Omri becomes king of Israel in the 31th***year of Asa, king of Judah, and reins during 12***years {1Kings 16:23}.

3242 Ahab, son of Omri, Becomes King of Israel (3242 years after Adam was created) {~873 BC}

Ahab becomes king of Israel in the 38th***year of Asa, king of Judah, and reins for 22 years {1Kings 16:23}.

***Omri and his son Ahab ruled together as mutual kings during Ahab's first 5 years.

3246 Jehoshaphat Becomes King of Judah (3246 years after Adam was created) {~869 BC}

Jehoshaphat becomes king of Judah in the 4th year of Ahab, king of Israel {1Kings 22:41}.

Jehoshaphat was 35 years old when he became king of Judah and he reigned during 25 years in Jerusalem {1Kings 22:42} {2Chronicles 20:31}.

3263 Ahaziah, Son of Ahab, Becomes Ruler of Israel (3263 years after Adam was created) {~852 BC}

Ahaziah, son of Ahab, becomes king of Israel in the 17th year of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, and reins during 2 years {1Kings 22:52}.

3264 Joram Becomes King of Israel (3264 years after Adam was created) {~851 BC}

Joram, son of Ahab, becomes king of Israel in the 18th year of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, and he reigned for 12 years {2Kings 3:1}

Joram, brother of Ahaziah, becomes king of Israel in the 2nd year of Jehoram, son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah {2Kings 1:17}.

3269 Jehoram Becomes King of Judah (3269 years after Adam was created) {~846 BC}

Jehoram becomes king of Judah in in the 5th year of Joram, king of Israel {2Kings 8:17}.

Jehoram was 32 years old and he reined for 8 years in Jerusalem {2Kings 8:18} {2Chronicles 21:5} {2Chronicles 21:20}.

3276 Jehu Becomes King of Israel (3276 years after Adam was created) {~839 BC}

Jehu reined over Israel during 28 years {2Kings 10:36}.

3276 Ahaziah, Son of Jehoram, Becomes King of Judah (3276 years after Adam was created) {~839 BC}

Ahaziah*, son of Jehoram, becomes king of Judah in the 12th***year of Joram king of Israel {2Kings 8:25}

Ahaziah* was 22 old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year {2Kings 8:26}

Ahaziah* had become king of Judah in the 11th ***year of Joram, son of Ahab {2Kings 9:29}

Omri to Ahazia* was during 42 years and Ahaziah* was 22 years old when he became king {2 Chronicles 22:2}.

*** Ahaziah* and Jehoram ruled together for a year when Jehoram became ill {2 Chronicles 21:17-19}.

*Ahaziah, son of Jehoram, king of Judah is a different person than Ahaziah, son of Ahab, king of Israel

3283 Joash Becomes King of Judah (3283 years after Adam was created) {~832 BC}

Joash was hidden for 6 years in the temple while Ahaziah's mother, Athaliah, ruled Judah {2Kings 11:3} {2Chronicles 22:12}.

Joash was 7 years old when he became king of Judah {2Kings 12:1}

Joash began to rule as king of Judah in the 7th year of Jehu, king of Israel, and he ruled for 40 years {2Kings 12:2} {2Chronicles 24:1}.

3306 Jehoahaz Becomes King of Israel (3306 years after Adam was created) {~809 BC}

Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, became king of Israel in the 23rd year of Joash, king of Judah, and he reined for 17 years {2Kings 13:1}.

3320 Jehoash Becomes King of Israel (3320 years after Adam was created) {~795 BC}

Jehoash, Son of Jehoahaz , becomes king of Israel in the 37th year of Joash and reined for 16 years {2Kings 14:10}

3322 Amaziah Becomes King of Judah (3322 years after Adam was created) {~793 BC}

Amaziah, son of Joash, became king of Judah in the 2nd year of Jehoash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel {2Kings 14: 1}

Amaziah was 25 years old when he became king of Judah and he reined for 29 years {2Kings 14:2} {2Chronicles 25:1}.

3337 Jeroboam II Becomes King of Israel (3337 years after Adam was created) {~778 BC}

Jeroboam II, son of Joash, became king of Israel in the 15th year of Amaziah, king of Judah and reined for 41 years {2Kings 14:23}.

3364 Azariah (Uzziah) Becomes King of Judah (3364 years after Adam was created) {~751 BC}

Azariah, son of Amaziah, became king of Judah in the 27th year of Jeroboam II, king of Israel {2Kings 15:1}.

Azariah was 16 years old when he became king and he reined for 52 years {2Kings 15:2} {2Chronicles 26:1-3}.

3402 Zechariah Becomes King of Israel (3402 years after Adam was created) {~713 BC}

Zechariah, son of Jeroboam, became king of Israel in the 38th year of Azariah and reined for 6 months {2Kings 15:8}

3403 Zechariah Becomes King of Israel (3403 years after Adam was created) {~712 BC}

Shallum, son of Jabesh, became king of Israel in the 39th year of Uzziah (Azariah), king of Judah and he reined for 1 month {2Kings 15:13}

3403 Menahem Becomes King of Israel (3403 years after Adam was created) {~712 BC}

Menahem, son of Gadi, became king of Israel in the 39th year of Azariah, king of Judah and he reined during 10 years.

3414 Pekahiah Becomes King of Israel (3414 years after Adam was created) {~701 BC}

Pekahiah, son of Menahem became king of Israel in the 50th year Azariah, king of Judah and he reined during 2 years {2Kings 15:23}.

3416 Pekah Becomes King of Israel (3416 years after Adam was created) {~699 BC}

Pekah, son of Remaliah, became king of Israel in the 52nd year of Azariah, king of Judah and reined for 20 years {2Kings 15:27}.

3418 Jotham Becomes King of Judah (3418 years after Adam was created) {~697 BC}

Jotham, son of Uzziah (Azariah), became king of Judah in the 2nd year of Pekah, king of Israel {2Kings 15:32}.

Jotham was 25 years old when he became king and he reined during 16 years {2Kings 15:33} {2Chronicles 27:1} {2Chronicles 27:7-8}.

3433 Ahaz Becomes King of Judah (3433 years after Adam was created) {~682 BC}

Ahaz, son of Jotham, became king of Judah in the 17th year of Pekah, King of Israel {2Kings 16:1}.

Ahaz was 20 years old when he became king, and he reined during 16 years {2Kings 16:2} {2Chronicles 28:1}.

3445 Hoshea Becomes King of Israel (3445 years after Adam was created) {~670 BC}

Hoshea, son of Elah, became king of Israel in the 12th year of Ahaz, king of Judah and reined for 9 years {2Kings 17: 1}.

3448 Hezekiah Becomes King of Judah (3448 years after Adam was created) {~667 BC}

Hezekiah, son of Ahaz, became king of Judah in the 3rd year of Hoshea, king of Israel {2Kings 18:1}.

Hezekiah was 25 years old when he became king, and he reined for 29 years {2Kings 18:2} {2Chronicles 29:1}.

3477 Manasseh Becomes King of Judah (3477 years after Adam was created) {~638 BC}

Manasseh was 12 years old when he became king of Judah, and he reined for 55 years {2Kings 21:1} {2Chronicles 33:1}.

3532 Amon Becomes King of Judah (3532 years after Adam was created) {~583 BC}

Amon was 22 years old when he became king of Judah, and he reined for 2 years {2Kings 21:19} {2Chronicles 33:21}.

3534 Josiah Becomes King of Judah (3491 years after Adam was created) {~581 BC}

Josiah was 8 years old when he became king of Judah, and he reined for 31 years {2Kings 22:1} 2Chronicles 34:1}.

3565 Josiah Becomes King of Judah (3565 years after Adam was created) {~550 BC}

Jehoahaz was 23 years old when he became king of Judah, and he reined for 3 months {2Kings 23:31} {2Chronicles 36:2}.

3565 Jehoiakim Becomes King of Judah (3565 years after Adam was created) {~550 BC}

Jehoiakim was 25 years old when he became king of Judah, and he reined for 11 years {2Kings 23:36} {2Chronicles 36:5}.

3576 Jehoiachin Becomes King of Judah (3576 years after Adam was created) {~539 BC}

Jehoiachin was 18*** years old when he became king of Judah, and he reined for 3 months {2Kings 24:8}

Jehoiachin was 8*** years old when he became king of Judah, and he reined for 3 months {2Chronicles 36:9}.

***Jehoiachin co-reined 10 years with his father Jehoiakim.

3576 Nebuchadnezer Conquers and Exiles Jerusalem (3576 years after Adam was created) {~539 BC}

Jehoiachin, king of Judah, surrendered to Nebuchadnezer, king of Babylon {2Kings 24:12}.

Nebuchadnezer, king of Babylon, carried off all the temple treasure and broke Solomon's gold utensils {2Kings 24:13}.

Nebuchadnezer, king of Babylon, deported the residents of Jerusalem and led them into captivity {2Kings 24:14-16}

3576 Zedekiah (Mattaniah) Becomes King of Judah (3576 years after Adam was created) {~539 BC}

Mattaniah, uncle of Jehoiachin, is renamed Zedekiah and appointed king of Judah by Nebuchadnezer, king of Babylon {2Kings 24:17}.

Zedekiah was 21 years old when he became king of Judah, and he reined for 11 years {2Kings 24:18} {2Chronicles 36:11}.

Nebuchadnezer destroys the temple and palace

3587 Nebuchadnezer Destroys the Temple and Palace (3587 years after Adam was created) {~528 BC}

Nebuchadnezer sieged Jerusalem, which ended in the 11th year of Zedekiah {2Kings 25:2}.

Nebuchadnezer burned the temple, the palace, and every large building {2Kings 25:9}.

The temple was sacked in the 11th year of the rein of Jehoiakim {2Chronicles 36:5-7}.

Nebuchadnezer led into exile the rest of the people except some of the poor vinedressers and farmers {2Kings 25:12}.

Nebuchadnezer took the bronze, silver, and gold vessels, pots, pans, shovels, fire holders, and bowls used for temple service {2Kings 25: 14-15}.

3646 Proclamation to Rebuild the Temple (3646 years after Adam was created) {~469 BC}

Prophesy said that the people of Jerusalem would be in captivity for 70 years in Babylon and then return to Jerusalem {Jeremiah 29:10}.

Prophesy said that Cyrus would be the name of the ruler to make the proclamation to rebuild Jerusalem and rebuild the temple {Isaiah 44:28}.

While in captivity, Daniel understood from prophesy that the desolation of Jerusalem would last 70 years {Daniel 9:1-2}.

The proclamation to rebuild the 2nd temple was made in the 1st year of King Cyrus {2Chronicles 36:22-23} {Ezra 1:1-4} {Ezra 4:3} {Ezra 5:13-16} {Ezra 6:3}

MODERN TIMELINE *** there is no 0AD or 0BC; 1BC is followed by 1AD

~4115*** The Messiah is Born (4115 years after Adam was created) (1 AD***)

Prophesy indicated that after the proclamation to rebuild the temple, there would be 7 periods of 7 years of prophesy and then 62 periods of 7 years of prophesy and then the Messiah would come (483 years) {Daniel 9:25}.

Prophesy said that a virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and call him Emmanuel "God among us" {Isaiah 7:13-15}.

Prophesy said that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem from the tribe of Judah {Genesis 49:10} {Micah 5:2}.

Prophesy said that the Messiah, who is the Branch, would be named Yeshua* {Zechariah 6:11-12} {Jeremiah 23:5} {Zechariah 3:8} {Zechariah 6:11}.

*Yeshua (or Yehoshua) which means "Yahwey Saves" and it is translated Jesus in English.

~4128 The Messiah Comes of Age (4128 years after Adam was created) (13 AD)

The Messiah turns 12 years old during the 483rd year after the proclamation to rebuild the temple {Daniel 9:25} {Luke 2:41-52}.

Daniel 9:25-26

"Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven 'sevens,' and sixty-two 'sevens.' It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.

~4144 The Messiah Begins Ministry (~4144 years after Adam was created) {30 AD}

The ministry of Yeshua (Jesus) began after the testimony of John the Baptist {Isaiah 40:3-5} {Luke 3:1-2}.

Yeshua (Jesus) was about 30 years old when he began his ministry {Luke 3:23}.

~4147 The Messiah Is Put to Death by Crucifixion (~4147 years after Adam was created) {33 AD}

Prophesy said that the Messiah would be put to death {Daniel 9:26}.

Prophesy said that he would seem like an ordinary man, he would be rejected, and would suffer and die as full payment for the penalty of our sin {Isaiah 53} {Zechariah 3:8-9}.

Prophesy said that the Lord would be betrayed for 30 pieces of silver {Zechariah 11:12-13}.

Yeshua (Jesus) was betrayed for 30 pieces of silver and was put to death on a cross by the high priest Caiaphas and the Roman governor Pontius Pilate on the Friday before Passover {Matthew 26:15) {Matthew 27:3} {Matthew 27:9-10} {Matthew 26:3-4} {John 11:49-53} {Matthew 27:24-26} {Mark 15:15} {Luke 23:24} {John 19:15-16} {Matthew 26:2} {Mark 14:1} {Luke 22:1} {John 18:39}.

~4194 Destruction of Jerusalem and the 2nd Temple (~4194 years after Adam was created) {70 AD}

Prophecy said that the people of the Beast who will come in the future [Region of the Roman Empire (i.e. Turkey)] will destroy the city and the temple (Daniel 9:26}.

~6062 Israel Is Restored as a Nation (~6062 years after Adam was created) {1948 AD}

Prophesy said that the Lord would restore Israel as a nation in the end times {Amos 9:14-15} {Deuteronomy 30:3} {Isaiah 11:12}

...

Prophesy says that the Beast will organize a 7 year treaty and come to world power come to world power during the time when the 3rd temple is built. The Beast would command 10 kingdoms and desolate the temple in the middle of the 7 year period {Daniel 9:27} {Daniel 11:31} {Daniel 12:11} {Daniel 7:24-25} {Revelation 13:5} {Revelation 17:12-14}.

Daniel 9:27

He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' In the middle of the 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him."

Daniel 11:31

"His armed forces will rise up to desecrate the temple fortress and will abolish the daily sacrifice. Then they will set up the abomination that causes desolation.

Daniel 12:11

"From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days.

Daniel 7:24-25

The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom. After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones; he will subdue three kings. He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time.

Revelation 13:5

The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months.

Revelation 17:12-14

"The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast. They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast. They will wage war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will triumph over them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings—and with him will be his called, chosen and faithful followers."

PART II: PURPOSE WORLDVIEW

Chapter 6: The Meaning of Life

Why would we want to create anything?

When someone writes a story, we often ask ourselves the following two questions about that story. What does it mean? Why did the author write it? When someone paints a picture, we often ask ourselves the same two questions. What does it mean? Why did the artist paint it?

An author sometimes writes a story intended to educate, inspire, or entertain other people. An author sometimes also writes a story in a personal diary to document, reflect, and satisfy oneself. Sometimes it is not necessary to know the author to understand the meaning of the story. Sometimes also it is impossible to understand the meaning unless we intimately know the author.

A painter sometimes paints a picture intended to communicate, inspire, or entertain other people. A painter sometimes also paints a picture in a personal collection to document, reflect, and satisfy oneself. Sometimes it is not necessary to know the painter to understand the meaning of the painting. Sometimes also it is impossible to understand the meaning of the painting unless we intimately know the artist.

When there is a sequence of letters, we often ask ourselves the following two questions about the sequence of letters. What does it mean? Why are the letters in that sequence? When there is paint arranged on a canvass, we often ask ourselves the same two questions. What does it mean? Why is the paint in that arrangement?

Sometimes a sequence of letters spells out a word "love" or a code "AUG...UGA". Sometimes also a sequence of letters makes a pattern "ababababababa". Sometimes still a sequence seems random "asdfaffasddsfasdfasafddfsadfsd". A seemingly random sequence may still have a pattern; such as letters made with the left hand on a keyboard. A seemingly random sequence may also still have a meaning and a purpose; such as to serve as an example of randomness.

Sometimes a painting is a picture of a person, object, or idea. Sometimes also a painting makes a pattern such as a mosaic. Sometimes still a painting seems random; such as paint splattered across the canvass. A seemingly random picture may still have a pattern; such as the stars in the night sky seen from an exoplanet. A seemingly random picture may also still have a meaning and purpose; such as to serve as an example of chaos or anarchy.

Sometimes there is a known meaning and a known purpose; we call these things a "design". Sometimes also there is a known meaning but no known purpose; we call these things a "pattern". Sometimes still there is a no known meaning nor known purpose. We call these things "random".

The letters of a story seem to be designed. The letters of a sentence seem to follow a pattern. The letters of a word seem to be random. A masterpiece of paint appears to be designed. The brushstrokes of paint appear to follow a pattern. The atoms of paint seem to be random. Does life sometimes seem to follow a design, just a pattern, or be only random?

What is the meaning and purpose of life?

The original creators have the power to declare their own meaning and their own purpose. Everything else is created with a meaning and for a purpose by the original creators. We would have the power to declare the meaning and purpose of life if we are the original creators. Our creators have already created us with a meaning and a purpose if we are not the original creators.

When we ask the question "what is the meaning and purpose of life?", we are acknowledging that we are not the original creators. When we ask the question "what is the meaning and purpose of life?", we are seeking the meaning and purpose for which we were created.

If we were the original creators, we would make the declaration "the meaning and purpose of life is choosing to love us and other people". If we were the original creators, we would love each other and we would create more people capable of choosing to love us and to love one another. If we were the original creators, we would encounter the problem that it is impossible to create people capable of choosing to love without also creating people capable of choosing not to love. If we were the original creators, we would create a world to test which people have chosen to be trustworthy to our declaration of love and which people have chosen to rebel against it. If we were the original creators, we would have the power and authority to gather the trustworthy to live with us in love, and we would have the power and authority to banish the rebels to imprisonment and death, the penalty for treason.

If we were the rebels, we would deny the declaration that "the meaning and purpose of life is choosing to love our creators and other people". If we were the rebels, we might assert that "the meaning and purpose of life is service to the gods we fabricated". If we were the rebels, we might also assert that "the meaning and purpose of life is whatever we choose it to be". If we were the rebels, we might fabricate lies and assert that we are created by the gods that were fabricated. If we were the rebels, we might also deny that we were even created, but rather we might fabricate lies and claim to be the original creators. If we were the rebels, we would not genuinely seek to find and intimately know the original creators. If we were the rebels, we would reject the authority of the original creators to judge us, and we would attempt to judge our creators. If we were the rebels we would view the original creators as evil and parasitic as we have been. If we were the rebels, many of us would masquerade as the trustworthy.

If we are the trustworthy, we affirm the declaration that "the meaning and purpose of life is choosing to love our creators and other people". If we are the trustworthy, we would affirm the self-evident truth that we were created by our original creators. If we are the trustworthy, we would not claim to be the original creators. If we are the trustworthy, we would genuinely seek to find and intimately know the original creators. If we are the trustworthy, we would acknowledge the power and authority of the original creators to determine when and how to administer justice. If we are the trustworthy, we would not advocate for or participate in any form of "vigilante justice". If we are the trustworthy, we would hold the words of our creators as being sacred. If we are the trustworthy we would view the original creators as being loving and generous as we are. If we are the trustworthy, we can be distinguished from the masquerading rebels by our love for each other and for our creators.

What is the meaning of love?

The original creators have the power to declare their own meaning of love. We would have the power to declare the meaning for love if we are the original creators. Our creators have already created the meaning of love if we are not the original creators.

If we were the original creators, we would make a declaration of the meaning of love. If we were the original creators, we would program the definition of love into peoples' consciences and have them write it out in their sacred books.

If we were the rebels, we would reject the declaration of the meaning of love made by the original creators. If we were the rebels, we would give love a new corrupted meaning of our choosing. If we were the rebels, we would corrupt the word "love" to mean pride and selfishness, "Love is rapid, love is brutal. Love is controlling, glamorous, and proud. Love steps over others, is selfish, impatient, and sometimes vindictive. Love delights when it gets what it wants and is dreadful when spurned. It takes advantage when it can, is usually skeptical, hopeless, and always faltering." If we were the rebels, many of us would masquerade as the trustworthy to gain a good reputation out of pride and selfishness.

If we are the trustworthy, we would strive to achieve the declaration of the meaning of love declared by the original creators. If we are the trustworthy, we affirm the true meaning of love declared by the original creators. If we are the trustworthy, we preserve the genuine meaning of love as it is written, "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." If we are the trustworthy, we will strive to act with integrity and perseverance out of genuine love.

Chapter 7: Atheism or Biblical Christianity

If we were the original creators, we would make the declaration, "the meaning and purpose of life is choosing to love our creators and other people". If we were the original creators, we would program the definition of love into peoples' conscience and have them write it out in their sacred books. We know that people have a conscience even if they choose to suppress it. We know what is the best-selling book of all time. The Bible is. We know that the Bible also teaches the correct meaning and purpose of life and the definition of genuine love.

 Matthew 5:43

[ Love for Enemies ] "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'

 Matthew 5:44

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

 Matthew 5:46

If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?

 Matthew 19:19

honor your father and mother,' and 'love your neighbor as yourself.'"

 Mark 12:30

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'

 Mark 12:31

The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."

 Mark 12:33

To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."

 Luke 6:27

[ Love for Enemies ] "But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

 Luke 6:32

"If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.

 Luke 6:35

But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

 Luke 10:27

He answered, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"

 Luke 11:42

"Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone.

 Luke 16:13

"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."

 John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

 John 13:34

"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

 John 13:35

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

 John 15:13

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends.

 John 15:17

This is my command: Love each other.

 Romans 13:10

Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

 1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

 1 Corinthians 13:6

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

 Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

 Ephesians 5:28

In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

 Ephesians 5:33

However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

 1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

Based on a genuine investigation of the moral and historical evidence, Biblical Christianity is the only viable religion if we are not the original creators. This leads to the pivotal conclusion: either Biblical Christianity is the one true religion or Atheism is the one true religion. If we are the original creators, then Atheism is the one true religion. If we are not the original creators, then Biblical Christianity is only other possible religion that could be true. Biblical Christians are either naïve followers or trustworthy citizens. Atheists are either enlightened scholars or treasonous rebels. Everyone else is ignorant, lazy, naïve, or a treasonous rebel.

If we are the original creators, then religion itself is just a coping-mechanism to allow human intelligence to survive and create governments, art, mathematics, and science. If we are not the original creators, then the false religions were fabricated by rebels and demons out of pride and selfishness to take advantage of the limited time they have; they are used by God to test whether we are trustworthy. If we are the original creators, then this life is all we have and, death is oblivion. If we are not the original creators, then this life is merely a short immigration naturalization test simulation or a quality control test simulation for entering the eternal kingdom, and death merely ends the simulation. If we are the original creators, then Christians are just in denial about the hopelessness of oblivion. If we are not the original creators, then Atheists are rebels who must either repent of their pride and turn to genuine love or face the penalty of treason.

Chapter 8: Objections to Biblical Christianity

One of the primary reason people reject Biblical Christianity is that they do not like what the Bible says specifically on sexual immorality. For this reason some of the major opponents to Biblical Christianity have always included people who have been identified as sexually immoral by the Bible. People who have sexual intercourse outside of marriage have been labeled as sexually immoral by the Bible. The Bible specifically says the sexually immoral must repent of their ways and choose a different lifestyle or they will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

 Galatians 5:21

and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

 1 Corinthians 6:9

Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men

 1 Corinthians 6:10

nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

 1 Corinthians 6:11

And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

 Ephesians 5:5

For this you know, that no fornicator, impure person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

When Biblical Christianity says specifically for people to "repent of their sexual immorality or they will not enter God's Kingdom", many people are definitely not going to have appreciative words to say about Biblical Christianity if they value their current lifestyle more than the Kingdom of God.

If a person chooses to remain in their current lifestyle labeled as sexually immoral, then Biblical Christianity would propose that person no advantage even if that person believed Biblical Christianity is true. Why should they care about Biblical Christianity since they would not have any inheritance anyway? Consequently, it is futile to even debate with such a person whether Biblical Christianity is true or not. It is not surprising then that a resurgence of lifestyles labeled as sexually immoral happens to occur at the same time as resurgence in attacks against Biblical Christianity. A person who values their current lifestyle more than the Kingdom of God would have every motivation to slander Biblical Christianity even if they believed it was true. A person who values their current lifestyle more than the Kingdom of God has no motivation to think Biblical Christianity is true, so they would probably believe it is false and no amount of evidence or reason could persuade them that it is true. However, some people have genuine questions about Biblical Christianity and have made some understandable objections to Biblical Christianity. The following are some of those objections:

(1) A good God would not allow so much suffering in the world. (2) Jesus cannot be the only way to God. (3) Christianity is just a psychological comfort for the weak. (4) Miracles cannot happen. (5) A good God would not send people to hell. (6) Not everyone has had the opportunity to hear about Biblical Christianity. (7) The Bible contains errors. (8) The story of Jesus is just a hybrid of different myths. (9) The God of the Bible is a moral monster. (10) It is no longer necessary to invoke God as an explanation for anything. (11) The church is full of hypocrites (12) Christians cherry-pick what they want from the Bible.

Only a person who would be willing to choose to change their current lifestyle if the Biblical Christianity were true, would be willing to enter a rational debate involving reason and evidence to genuinely determine if Biblical Christianity actually is true. Everyone else would just understandably criticize Biblical Christianity whenever possible.
Chapter 9: Objections to Atheism

One of the primary reason people reject Atheism is that it simply offers its followers no advantage in the afterlife even if it were true. Even if the Atheism was true, Atheists would meet the same fate as everyone else, oblivion. Because Atheists' consciousness would cease in oblivion, so they wouldn't even be able to be aware to appreciate that they were right and Atheism were true. For this reason some of the major opponents to Atheism have always included people who desire a favorable afterlife to following this life. Atheism promises oblivion whereas the Bible promises a perfect eternal society living with an all-sufficient, generous, and loving God.

Revelation 4:2-4

At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and ruby. A rainbow that shone like an emerald encircled the throne. Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads.

Revelation 21:1-4

Then I saw "a new heaven and a new earth," for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Look! God's dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 'He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death' or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."

Revelation 21:10-12

And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Revelation 21:18-21

The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.

Revelation 21:6-8

He said to me: "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."

Revelation 22:1-2

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

When Atheists directly or indirectly tell people "this life is all there is and then after death there is oblivion", people who have loved ones who are suffering or dying are definitely not going to have appreciative words to say about Atheism. For everyone who finds this life not to be adequate, Atheism simply has no appeal or motivation to recognize it even if it were true.

If a person has the choice of certain death or the chance to save their life, that person is going to take that chance. It isn't necessarily stupidity to take that chance, or even selfishness (as long as it doesn't harm other people); it is simply just not being suicidal. Unless a person thinks that Atheism is a tool to suppress religions that seem harmful or even just annoying, then there would be no advantage to identify with Atheism even if it were true. Why would they care about Atheism since it isn't going to give them any advantage anyway? Identifying with Atheism is therefore merely tool to suppress religions that are viewed to be harmful or even just annoying. There really is no point for an Atheist trying to debate people whether Atheism is true, but rather it is more effective convince people that other religions are false, harmful or just annoying, and should not be tolerated. People are not deterred from Atheism based on objections to whether Atheism is true, but rather they are only deterred from Atheism if they find another that they believe is both true and beneficial. Therefore, people who identify as Atheists do not have a need to debunk objections to Atheism, but rather simply assert those objections are trivial if there is no viable alternative. The following are some common objections.

(1) You cannot prove that God does not exist. (2) Atheism cannot account for life after death. (3) Atheism is bleak, nihilistic, and depressing. (4) Atheism is boring and life would have no purpose. (5) Atheism is dehumanizing and amoral. (6) Atheists cannot rebel against something that doesn't exist. (7) Atheism cannot account for the existence of our universe. (8) Evolutionary science is Atheism in disguise. (9) Scientists cannot create living cells from nonliving matter. (10) Complex animal life could not design itself. (11) Atheism cannot account for human intelligence and rationality. (12) Jesus was a Liar, a Lunatic, or is the Lord.

Atheism cannot offer anything for the afterlife even if it were true, so it is marketed as a way to remove religious obstacles that obstruct people from obtaining their desires in this life. Most Atheists will admit that it is a hapless religion if it were true, but they identify themselves as being an Atheists as a way to removes obstacles to getting what they desire in this life.

Chapter 10: Oblivion vs. Salvation

It is naïve to think that all people choose what to believe based on what has more evidence and a better rational argument supporting it. In a perfect world everyone would be trustworthy and have the integrity to accept the truth even if it was inconvenient at the time. We do not live in such a perfect world. The Biblical Christian might add "yet". The Atheist might add "because of religion". The point is that people are not convinced of something simply because it is true. People are convinced of something because they think it is both beneficial and true.

It would be difficult to convince people to identify with Atheism even if they believed it were true because there is no beneficial reward it if was true, just oblivion. If the consciousness of a person's mind is caused only by processes within the material brain, then it will cease after the person's brain dies. If the mind is caused only by the brain, then a dead person will not even know that he or she is dead. If the mind is caused only by the brain, then a dead person will know nothing, think nothing, feel nothing, and be nothing. The probability of living an infinite amount of time within a decaying universe is 0%. The chance of dying when we are trapped in our decaying universe is 100%. If Atheism were true, the outcome would be very grim and very certain. If we cannot relocate to an imperishable eternal universe, then eventually some calamity will occur and every person will be dead. If we cannot relocate to an imperishable eternal universe, then eventually some calamity will occur and everything we created will be destroyed. If every person is dead, then there is no one to remember us and we will all be forgotten. If every person is dead and everything we created is destroyed, then there is no evidence that we ever existed in the first place. An Atheist must think that he or she is the living dead, a zombie, a ghost that doesn't actually exist but is a temporary illusion.

Quite the contrary, the Atheists feel superior and takes great pride in being so psychologically strong that they can cope with certain permanent death. The Atheist believes it is just making the most of a bad situation because it is not like we have any other choice do we? Many Atheists dream of technology to increase comfort and pleasure. Many Atheists also dream of technologies to postpone death and colonize the universe with humanity or other intelligent life. Atheists want to be proud of everything they were able to cleverly accomplish all by themselves, and they want to be remembered and honored for it as long as possible.

The Atheist feels liberated and independent knowing that he or she can now do anything he or she wants in this life; a full-fledged rebel living life to the fullest since it won't matter in the end anyway; cosmic abortion.

 1 Corinthians 15:32

If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus with no more than human hopes, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

1 Corinthians 15:13-19

If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.

It would have to be extremely frustrating for an honest person working in marketing or sales for a company that sells a lousy product. A dishonest person wouldn't care because he or she could just lie or put a dishonest spin on facts that are true. However, an honest person would have to provide only truthful information while avoiding hinting at the fact that the product is lousy and it probably not that beneficial. Either way, there is little reason for people to trust a person who sells lousy products because his or her motivation is obviously not to benefit the customer.

It is for this reason that people who identify as Atheists have earned a reputation of being prideful, selfish, and untrustworthy. They are stuck trying to sell a lousy product and they know it. The marketing scheme of the Atheists is very simple, "it may be a lousy product, but it is the only product that actually works; all the other products that promise more are merely scams". The Atheists are careful to use a term synonymous with "scam" and not use the more elegant terms such as "counterfeits or forgeries". A "counterfeit" or "forgery" would imply that there actually was actually a true and beneficial religion but there were also many fake destructive imitations of it.

The Atheists do not want to imply that all religions are a counterfeit of Biblical Christianity. Rather the Atheists want to make Christianity seem like a scam just like all the other religions. The Atheists do not want to imply that the hypocrites and occults who claim to be Christian are counterfeits of Biblical Christianity. Rather the Atheists want to make Biblical Christianity seem like a scam just like the hypocrites and occults. If something such "a great deal" never existed, then no one would fall for scams that pretend to be "a great deal". In medicine there is quackery. In science there are falsified experiments. In art there are forgeries. In religion there are hypocrites and occults.

 Matthew 6:2

"So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

 Matthew 6:5

[ Prayer ] "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

 Matthew 6:16

[ Fasting ] "When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

 Matthew 15:7

You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:

 Matthew 23:13

[ Seven Woes on the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees ] "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.

 Matthew 23:23

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

 Matthew 23:25

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

 Matthew 23:27

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.

 Matthew 24:51

He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

 Mark 7:6

He replied, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: "'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

It would be much more gratifying for an honest person to be working in marketing or sales for a company that sells the best product. It would probably even be self-destructive to be dishonest when working for a company that sells the best product because it might tannish the reputation of the company. Even if a company sells the best product and can get away with being dishonest, there is no advantage for the company to encourage dishonesty because it will tarnish the reputation of the company. Therefore, there is some cause for people to trust a person who sells the best product because it is mutually advantageous to him or her to benefit the customer.

We all have free will, which occurs through the interface between mind and material brain. Not all memories need to be recorded in the material brain if a backup copy is recorded in the mind preserved for when our material brain dies. When a person sleeps, he or she still dreams. When a person sleeps, he or she still has a consciousness even if those memories are hidden, inaccessible, or forgotten. When the brain is damaged a person becomes like someone trying to communicate using a damaged keyboard, cracked screen, or a defective computer. When the brain is destroyed, the backup copy in the mind can be reviewed, purified, and downloaded into a new imperishable body if the backup copy is not judged to be virulent by Jesus Christ. If we are arrogant, prideful, virulent, and ungrateful when we are given a perishable body, how much more arrogant, prideful, virulent, and ungrateful would we be if we were given an imperishable body?

John 5:24-27

"Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.

 Matthew 28:18

Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

John 7:28-29

Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, "Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him, but I know him because I am from him and he sent me."

 John 10:18

No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father."

The famous author C.S. Lewis wrote in his classic book "Mere Christianity" that we live in an "enemy-occupied world". That is exactly what this world is "enemy-occupied"; even though God has the ultimate power, our world is occupied by the enemy. The demons are rebel angels lead by the devil, Lucifer, who God has allowed to rule this world for a short time in order to test whether we our trustworthy citizens or wither we are also treasonous rebels. If Biblical Christianity is true, then death will be mind-blowingly spectacular for the loyal trustworthy citizen and horribly dreadful for the treasonous rebels.

Mere Christianity (Book II Chapter 2) by C. S Lewis

Why is God landing in this enemy-occupied world in disguise and starting a sort of secret society to undermine the devil? Why is He not landing in force, invading it? Is it that He is not strong enough? Well, Christians think He is going to land in force; we do not known when. But we can guess why He is delaying. He wants to give us the chance of joining His side freely. I do not suppose you and I would have thought much of a Frenchman who waited till the Allies were marching into Germany and then announced he was on our side. God will invade. But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realize what it will be like when He does. When that happens, it is the end of the world. When the author walks on to the stage the play is over. God is going to invade all right: but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else—something it never entered your head to conceive—comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature. It will be too late then to choose your side.

Matthew 13:24-30

Jesus told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. "The owner's servants came to him and said, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?' "'An enemy did this,' he replied. "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and pull them up?' "'No,' he answered, 'because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.'"

Matthew 13:36-43

Then he left the crowd and went into the house. His disciples came to him and said, "Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field."

He answered, "The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.

"As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear.

Matthew 13:47-50

"Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish. When it was full, the fishermen pulled it up on the shore. Then they sat down and collected the good fish in baskets, but threw the bad away. This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

 Matthew 24:14

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

 Mark 10:15

Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it."

 Luke 8:10

He said, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, "'though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.'

 John 18:36

Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place."

This world has definitely gone horribly wrong and is full of pain and suffering. Sometimes it just seems like nothing could ever justify God allowing so much pain and suffering to occur in the world or ever make it worthwhile. The clear response is that it was designed to appear that way; if it was easy to see through the immersive simulation, it wouldn't be able to test our true character. Every legitimate military sends its new recruits through a "boot camp", which Jesus Christ went through and was arrested, beaten, tortured, and killed. When Jesus Christ rose from the dead he opened the path for naturalization into the Kingdom of God. When we are living in the Eternal Kingdom of God for all eternity, then all the pain and suffer in this world may seem like less than a finger prick or a vaccination shot in comparison.

 1 Corinthians 11:32

Nevertheless, when we are judged in this way by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be finally condemned with the world.

 Hebrews 12:6

because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son."

 Hebrews 12:7

Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?

 Hebrews 12:8

If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.

 Hebrews 12:9

Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!

 Hebrews 12:10

They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness.

 Hebrews 12:11

No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

There is a reason why companies tend to register their trademarks. It would be very tempting for parasitic companies to take advantage of a more established company by stealing its trademark. Furthermore, the reputation of the more established company could be tarnished by being associated with the inferior counterfeit products. Unfortunately, Biblical Christianity does not hold a trademark for the word "Christianity". Anyone and everyone can claim they are "Christian". Every single Atheist could claim they were "Christian" and still live like an Atheist. What would they be? They would be hypocrites. The word "Christian" was originally supposed to someone who believed and strived to live according to the teachings of Jesus Christ recorded in the Bible. However, now many people who claim to be "Christian" have never even read or heard the teachings of Jesus Christ, let alone believe and strive to live according to them; many hypocrites only pretend to be reading the best-selling book of all time and only pretend they are not actually ignorant of what it actually says. When I was in college, I made a promise to myself that I would live with two sets of conflicting beliefs, but rather I would continue to genuinely investigate the facts and evidence and sort through them until I arrived at one unified consistent intact worldview based on what the evidence actually reveals. There is only one way that reality actually is even if we are ignorant of what it is. We will still have to bear the consequences of the way reality actually is even if we choose to remain ignorant of what it actually is. A person can still be convicted of a crime even if they claim to be ignorant of that law. It is not only lawyers who can be convicted of a crime. In the same way our choices will still have consequences even if we choose to remain ignorant of how reality actually is. There is only one kind of truth that matters, true truth. Therefore, it is wise to genuinely choose to investigate to determine how reality actually is. The choice to investigate for ourselves how reality actually is could be one of the most important choices we make in life.

2 Peter 2:1-5

But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment, if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;

Matthew 7:15-23

"Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'

Romans 3:5-8

But if our unrighteousness brings out God's righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.) Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world? Someone might argue, "If my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?" Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—"Let us do evil that good may result"? Their condemnation is just!

 2 Corinthians 4:2

Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.

2 Timothy 4:2-4

Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

 Ephesians 6:17

Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

 James 3:1

[ Taming the Tongue ] Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.

 1 Peter 4:17-18

For it is time for judgment to begin with God's household; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God? And, "If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?"

Romans 2:12-16

All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) This will take place on the day when God judges people's secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.

 Hebrews 13:4

Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

 Romans 14:10

You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God's judgment seat.

 James 2:10

For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

 Romans 2:1

[ God's Righteous Judgment ] You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.

 James 4:12

There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?

1 Corinthians 5:12-132

What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge those outside. "Expel the wicked person from among you."

1 Corinthians 6:3-5

Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, do you ask for a ruling from those whose way of life is scorned in the church? I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers?

John 8:9-11

At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" "No one, sir," she said. "Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."

Matthew 7:13-14

"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

 John 14:6

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

PART III: OBJECTIVE ARGUMENT

Chapter 11: The Definition of Knowledge

I am to write about only the universes that I live in. There may be many universes in existence. However, only the universes that I live in are of any concern to me. There may be universes that have eternal gods. There may be universes that have temporal creatures. However, if the eternal gods cannot affect the universes I live in, then to me they do not exist. If the temporal creatures cannot affect the universes I live in, then to me they do not exist. Indeed everything that cannot affect the universes that I live in does not exist. All that exists are things that can affect the universes I live in.

I am to write about only the knowledge that I can obtain. Knowledge is a clear and certain perception of that which exists, or of truth and fact. There can be no knowledge of universes that do not exist. There may be abundant information about universes that do not exist. Such information is not knowledge but a distraction. The pursuit of distractions leads to ignorance if it interferes with the pursuit of knowledge. The pursuit of distractions leads to error if it caused me to forsake knowledge. All information about universes that do not exist is not knowledge but rather a distraction. There may be an abundant amount of information available. However, if the information is not knowledge, then it is useless to me.

I am to write about the knowledge that I can obtain. There may be much knowledge of existence. However the knowledge that I can obtain is all that concerns me. Of the knowledge of God, some can be obtained. I am to write about the knowledge that I can obtain. There may be much knowledge of existence. However the knowledge that I can obtain is all that concerns me. Of the knowledge of God, some can be obtained.

The knowledge I can obtain can only be obtained in the present even if the knowledge was first revealed in the past. Indeed, I can only learn about the past through what I can observe in the present. I can observe my senses and thoughts in the present, and I can recall my past memories with my present thoughts. I can recall my past memories only if they were recorded in an accessible location. Indeed, if my past memories were not recorded or are not accessible, then I cannot recall them. The knowledge that I can obtain is in the form of records. Some knowledge is recorded in my mind. Some knowledge is recorded in books. Some knowledge is recorded in the temporal universe I live in. Therefore I can only obtain knowledge if I choose to access the records available. I am to write about the knowledge that I can obtain. There may be much knowledge of existence. However the knowledge that I can obtain is all that concerns me. Of the knowledge of God, some can be obtained.

The limitations of my knowledge are only two. The knowledge contained in the records available to me is the first limitation. The knowledge in the current records is partially incomplete. Many of my memories were never recorded or are lost to me in the present. Many of the people who have lived died without recording all their knowledge or the records of that knowledge have been lost. Much of the evidence of the past records has been destroyed through natural processes. Indeed memories, people, and evidence are knowledge but many of the records are unattainable to me. I am ignorant of the things that are unattainable to me in the present. However, in the future these things might be obtainable if there are records stored where I do not have access to them now. Indeed simply because a record is currently unattainable, that does not make the record irrelevant. The record will only be irrelevant if it is never to be obtainable in the future. Therefore all records that can be obtainable in the future are relevant to the present.

The limitations of my knowledge are only two. The knowledge I choose to access in the current records is the second limitation. There may be much knowledge that is unavailable to me because the records are lost to me in the present. However some of these lost records might be preserved in copies that will be available in the future. There is knowledge in these records that have been shielded from me for a time, and they may affect me later. However in the present it is futile to speculate about the records available to me in the future. I can only plan in the present how to access the records available to me. My failure to plan how to access the record available to me is the source of the preservation of my ignorance. Indeed, I was born ignorant. For until I have obtained all knowledge I still have ignorance. The fact that I have ignorance is not something to be ashamed of. The choice to preserve my ignorance is all the cause for much shame. For sometimes I choose not to plan how to access the records available to me. I sometimes fail to obtain the records that re within my reach. I sometimes fail to analyze the records that are within my comprehension. I choose to do so when I flatter myself with pride in valuing my present state of the knowledge and failing to improve my future state. I reject the records and knowledge that insults my vanity in my present state. I choose to mistake pride and vanity for knowledge and this is a willful choice to preserve my ignorance. I love willful ignorance more than knowledge and when I lie to myself saying this is not true, I fail to test the lie with the record of my true thoughts and actions. I tell myself I love knowledge more than ignorance even when my thoughts and actions say otherwise. I rationalize the disparity between the truth and my lies with an excuse, an exception, an advantageous reason why my lies are more correct and the truth is mistaken. I reject the truth because it conflicts with my lies. My lies are more trustworthy than the records. I fabricated my lies and tell myself that if I cannot trust myself, then I choose to trust nothing. I tell myself I love knowledge more than ignorance. My lies are knowledge and the records mislead people into ignorance (hopefully you can identify the devil's advocate). This is what I tell myself when I mistake pride and vanity for knowledge; and this willful choice preserves my ignorance. But it is not a choice, it is just who I am, and I am perfect just as I am. This is what I tell myself when I flatter myself by pride in valuing my present state over the knowledge that could have improved my future state. It is my choices that determine my future state, but it is knowledge that guides choices and gives the confidence to make the choices. Without knowledge there is no knowledge of the alternative choice. Without knowledge, there is no confidence to make the difficult beneficial choice. Without knowledge I would naturally make the easy choice by default regardless of whether it was beneficial or destructive. Without knowledge I would naturally choose short-term advantage that may result in longer term destruction as the byproduct. Without knowledge I do not know what a byproduct is and cannot comprehend adverse side-effects. With knowledge, I can plan to choose to escape long term destruction and choose not to create adverse side effects that lead to my own suffering. For not all pain is suffering. Pain that leads to long term benefit is discipline. With knowledge, I can learn discipline. With knowledge I can learn to choose short-term disadvantage that results in long term benefit. When I was without knowledge, I was a slave to the short term advantage that leads to destruction. With knowledge I am now a servant to my long-term benefit.

What is the knowledge that I can obtain? A single book could not contain it. I will therefore only record the pertinent knowledge that acts as a foundation and a guide that leads to the rest of knowledge founded in the vast stores of records, past, present and future. For indeed there are records of the past that have been preserved for my knowledge. Indeed there are records in the present that can be measured for my knowledge. Indeed there is light in the future that will be accessible to me although it is shielded from me now by time. There are the vast stores of records past, present, and future. Records can easily be copied and preserved; even if the original is destroyed. There is knowledge of many forms. There is knowledge of what was, what is, and what is to come. There is knowledge of how the knowledge came to be known. There is knowledge of alternative choices. There is knowledge of the consequences of alternative choices. There is knowledge of catalysts and factors that prompt or deter choices. There is knowledge of what can be known. There is knowledge of what cannot be known. There is knowledge of what other people mistake to be knowledge. There is knowledge of what other people know. There is knowledge of how people learn knowledge. There is knowledge of information. There is knowledge of how to generate information. There is knowledge of how people mistake information for knowledge. There is knowledge of why people mistake information for knowledge. There is knowledge of what people experience. There is knowledge of what people think. There is knowledge of what people believe. There is knowledge of people's preferences. There is knowledge of how people preferences are formed. There is knowledge of what people want to be true. There is knowledge of what is false. There is knowledge of what people trust. There is knowledge of why people trust or distrust. There is knowledge about why people accept or reject knowledge.

I am to write about the universes that I live in. The temporal universe I live in is not an isolated universe. The temporal universe I live in is not eternal, although it is linked to a universe that is eternal. The temporal universe I currently live in is bound by time and changes in time. It had a beginning and it has an expanse. There are conditions in the universe that were not cause by other conditions in the universe. There are a set of rules that govern the universe. There are a set of fundamental conditions. The set of rules in the universe were created by another eternal universe. The fundamental conditions in the universe are created by another universe that is eternal. The eternal universe has authority over the temporal universe. The eternal universe has the power to influence the temporal universe by determining the fundamental conditions. The fundamental conditions are conditions that are not determined by the previous conditions in the universe. The fundamental conditions include the initial conditions at the beginning of the universe. The fundamental conditions also include the conditions at the edge of the universe. The fundamental conditions also include the seemingly spontaneous conditions at the atomic level. While there are three possible fundamental conditions (initial, boundary, and quantum), it may be revealed that they are all the same type of condition from different perspectives. The eternal universe is not bound by perspective, but the temporal universe is bound by perspective. The temporal universe I live in in was created by the eternal universe, which set both the rules of the temporal universe and the fundamental conditions of the temporal universe. The fundamental conditions of our temporal universe were created in such a manner to allow life to develop, complex life to develop, intelligent life to develop, and sentient life to develop. I am sentient, capable of free will choices. These choices I am responsible for. Although I live in in the temporal universe, my sentience comes from the eternal universe. It is my sentience in the eternal universe that sets the fundamental conditions of the universe which implements my choices.

For although the body I live in now within this temporal universe is mortal, my sentience that controls my choices resides within the eternal universe and is eternal. Indeed the choices I make in the temporal universe are merely a projection or shadow image of the choices my sentience makes in the eternal universe. For indeed the entire temporal universe is just a shadow of the eternal universe. The rules and fundamental conditions of the temporal universe were created by the eternal universe and are preserved eternally. The temporal universe is therefore just an interface in the same way a computer can act as the interface between two people in the temporal world. In the same way that a computer can copy and preserve actions on it, all the fundamental conditions of the universe have a copy within the eternal universe.

Knowledge is a clear and certain perception of that which exists, or of truth and fact; the perception of the connection and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy of our ideas.

Error is a wandering or deviation from the truth; a mistake in judgment, by which men assent to or believe what is not true. Error may be voluntary, or involuntary. Voluntary, when men neglect or pervert the proper means to inform the mind; involuntary, when the means of judging correctly are not in their power. An error committed through carelessness or haste is a blunder.

Ignorance is want, absence or destitution of knowledge; the negative state of the mind which has not been instructed in arts, literature or science, or has not been informed of facts. Ignorance may be general, or it may be limited to particular subjects. Ignorance of the law does not excuse a man for violating it. Ignorance of facts is often venial. Ignorance is preferable to error. Knowledge is preferable to ignorance.

Chapter 12: An Inductive Proof

A philosopher or mathematician may mistakenly believe that people can be persuaded by deductive logic and a deductive proof. It is very rare that someone has ever been persuaded of something new by a deductive proof. Rather, a person is first persuaded by trusting the person who did the deductive proof or by already trusting the conclusion of the deductive proof beforehand. A deductive proof can rarely be used to persuade someone of something they don't already believe and trust. A deductive proof usually just confirms and provides confidence in something that is already known. The way that we learn and can be persuaded of something new is through inductive arguments. All science is done in an inductive manner, not a deductive manner. Science takes specific experiments and generalizes the results. We see the results of a specific experiments as evidence, we trust the principles we obtain from them, and we have faith that that those principles will logically predict an accurate result. Sometimes that predication is accurate and we gain further trust in the principles. However, there is always the chance that we can logically make a prediction that turns out to be inaccurate. Sometimes we would need to then reevaluate the principles. However, many times we might still trust the principle is correct and try to figure out which of our assumptions was wrong that caused the apparent contradiction. We can evaluate the evidence of prophesy in the same way we can evaluate the evidence of an experiment. All experiments must be analyzed to determine the limitations of the devices and the corresponding experimental uncertainty. After all the information has been analyzed, a best answer is given with it corresponding level of precision or uncertainty. Some results are very precise or focused, whereas other results may be less precise or vague. Past experiments serve as evidence for predictions of future experiments. Prophesy that was fulfilled in the past serves as evidence for prophesy predicted to be fulfilled in the future. The gospel of Matthew goes step by step to use the evidence of prophesy to prove that Yeshua (Jesus) is the Jewish Messiah. The Jewish prophets recorded prophesy in the past, which can be researched to determine whether they were accurate about Yesuah (Jesus). The level of precision would correspond to how likely it is for such prophesy to be accurate about a person.

Matthew 1:18

This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.

Isaiah 7:13-15

Then Isaiah said, "Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience of my God also? Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. He will be eating curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right,

Matthew 1:20-23

But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: "The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel" (which means "God with us").

Zechariah 3:8***

"'Listen, High Priest Joshua, you and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic of things to come: I am going to bring my servant, the Branch.

Jeremiah 23:5***

"The days are coming," declares the Lord, "when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land.

Zechariah 6:11-12***

Take the silver and gold and make a crown, and set it on the head of the high priest, Joshua son of Jozadak. Tell him this is what the Lord Almighty says: 'Here is the man whose name is the Branch, and he will branch out from his place and build the temple of the Lord. ***[The name of the Branch is Yeshua (or Yehoshua) which means "Yahwey Saves" in Hebrew and it is translated to "Joshua" or "Jesus" in English.]

Matthew 2:1-6

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and asked, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him." When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. When he had called together all the people's chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born. "In Bethlehem in Judea," they replied, "for this is what the prophet has written: "'But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.'"

Micah 5:2

"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me  
one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times."

Genesis 49:10

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs shall come and the obedience of the nations shall be his.

Matthew 2:13-15

When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him."

So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: "Out of Egypt I called my son."

Hosea 11:1-2

"When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. But the more they were called,  
the more they went away from me. They sacrificed to the Baals and they burned incense to images.

Matthew 2:16-18

When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: "A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more."

Jeremiah 31:15

This is what the Lord says: "A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more."

Matthew 11:9-11

Then what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. This is the one about whom it is written: "'I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.' Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Malachi 3:1

"I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come," says the Lord Almighty.

Matthew 12:6-7

I tell you that something greater than the temple is here. If you had known what these words mean, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the innocent.

Hosea 6:6

For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.

Matthew 12:39-40

He answered, "A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Matthew 16:4

A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah." Jesus then left them and went away.

Jonah 1:17-2:1

Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God.

Jonah 2:7-10

"When my life was ebbing away, I remembered you, Lord, and my prayer rose to you,  
to your holy temple. "Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God's love for them.  
But I, with shouts of grateful praise, will sacrifice to you. What I have vowed I will make good. I will say, 'Salvation comes from the Lord.'" And the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

Matthew 13:13-15

This is why I speak to them in parables: "Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: "'You will be ever hearing but never understanding;  
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears,  
understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'

Isaiah 6:8-9

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?"

And I said, "Here am I. Send me!" He said, "Go and tell this people:"' Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.' Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed."

Matthew 13:34-35

Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world."

Psalm 78:2

I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter hidden things, things from of old—

Psalm 78:1-2

My people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter hidden things, things from of old—

Hosea 12:10

I spoke to the prophets, gave them many visions and told parables through them."

Proverbs 1:5-7

let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance—for understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Matthew 15:7-9

You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you: "'These people honor me with their lips,  
but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.'"

Isaiah 29:13-16

The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught. Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish." Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the Lord, who do their work in darkness and think, "Who sees us? Who will know?" You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, "You did not make me"? Can the pot say to the potter, "You know nothing"?

Matthew 21:2-5

saying to them, "Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them, and he will send them right away." This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet: "Say to Daughter Zion,  
'See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.'"

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Matthew 21:12-13

Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. "It is written," he said to them, "'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you are making it 'a den of robbers.'"

Isaiah 56:6-7

And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant—these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations."

Jeremiah 7:9-11

"'Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, "We are safe"—safe to do all these detestable things? Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord.

Matthew 21:15-16

But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, "Hosanna to the Son of David," they were indignant. "Do you hear what these children are saying?" they asked him. "Yes," replied Jesus, "have you never read, "'From the lips of children and infants you, Lord, have called forth your praise'?"

Psalm 8:2

Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

Isaiah 59:21

"As for me, this is my covenant with them," says the Lord. "My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever," says the Lord.

Matthew 21:42

Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures: "'The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?

Psalm 118:21-22

I will give you thanks, for you answered me; you have become my salvation. The stone the builders rejected  
has become the cornerstone;

Isaiah 28:16-18

So this is what the Sovereign Lord says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who relies on it will never be stricken with panic. I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line; hail will sweep away your refuge, the lie, and water will overflow your hiding place. Your covenant with death will be annulled; your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by, you will be beaten down by it.

Zechariah 10:4-5

From Judah will come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler. Together they will be like warriors in battle trampling their enemy into the mud of the streets. They will fight because the Lord is with them, and they will put the enemy horsemen to shame.

Matthew 22:30-32

At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of the dead but of the living."

 Genesis 26:24

That night the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham."

 Genesis 28:13

There above it stood the Lord, and he said: "I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.

 Exodus 3:6

Then he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

Matthew 22:35-40

One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

Deuteronomy 6:5

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

 Leviticus 19:18

"'Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.

Matthew 22:43-44

He said to them, "How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him 'Lord'? For he says,

"'The Lord said to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet."'

Psalm 110:1

The Lord says to my lord: "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."

Isaiah 66:1-3

This is what the Lord says: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be? Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?" declares the Lord. "These are the ones I look on with favor: those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word. But whoever sacrifices a bull is like one who kills a person, and whoever offers a lamb is like one who breaks a dog's neck; whoever makes a grain offering is like one who presents pig's blood, and whoever burns memorial incense is like one who worships an idol. They have chosen their own ways, and they delight in their abominations;

Matthew 23:37-39

"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'"

Psalm 118:22-29

The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes. The Lord has done it this very day; let us rejoice today and be glad. Lord, save us! Lord, grant us success!

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. From the house of the Lord we bless you. The Lord is God, and he has made his light shine on us. With boughs in hand, join in the festal procession up to the horns of the altar. You are my God, and I will praise you; you are my God, and I will exalt you. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.

Matthew 24:15-21

"So when you see standing in the holy place 'the abomination that causes desolation,' spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand— then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let no one on the housetop go down to take anything out of the house. Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak. How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.

 Daniel 9:27

He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' In the middle of the 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him."

Matthew 24:22-28

"If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. At that time if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Messiah!' or, 'There he is!' do not believe it. For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you ahead of time. "So if anyone tells you, 'There he is, out in the wilderness,' do not go out; or, 'Here he is, in the inner rooms,' do not believe it. For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.

Deuteronomy 28:25-27

The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth. Your carcasses will be food for all the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away. The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.

Jeremiah 19:7-8

"'In this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hands of those who want to kill them, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds and the wild animals. I will devastate this city and make it an object of horror and scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds.

Matthew 24:29

"Immediately after the distress of those days "'the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;  
the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.'

Isaiah 13:9-13

See, the day of the Lord is coming—a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger—to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it. The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light.  
The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light. I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins. I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless.  
I will make people scarcer than pure gold, more rare than the gold of Ophir. Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the Lord Almighty, in the day of his burning anger.

Matthew 26:14-15

Then one of the Twelve—the one called Judas Iscariot—went to the chief priests and asked, "What are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to you?" So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver.

 Zechariah 11:13

And the Lord said to me, "Throw it to the potter"—the handsome price at which they valued me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the house of the Lord.

Matthew 26:39

Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will."

Job 21:19-20

It is said, 'God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.' Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it! Let their own eyes see their destruction; let them drink the cup of the wrath of the Almighty.

Psalm 16:5

Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure.

Psalm 75:6-8

No one from the east or the west or from the desert can exalt themselves. It is God who judges: He brings one down, he exalts another. In the hand of the Lord is a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices; he pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to its very dregs

Psalm 116:13

I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord

Isaiah 51:17

Awake, awake! Rise up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath,  
you who have drained to its dregs the goblet that makes people stagger.

 Isaiah 51:22

This is what your Sovereign Lord says, your God, who defends his people: "See, I have taken out of your hand the cup that made you stagger; from that cup, the goblet of my wrath, you will never drink again.

 Jeremiah 25:15

[ The Cup of God's Wrath ] This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: "Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.

 Jeremiah 25:17

So I took the cup from the Lord's hand and made all the nations to whom he sent me drink it:

Jeremiah 25:27-29

"Then tell them, 'This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk and vomit, and fall to rise no more because of the sword I will send among you.' But if they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink, tell them, 'This is what the Lord Almighty says: You must drink it! See, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears my Name, and will you indeed go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword on all who live on the earth, declares the Lord Almighty.'

Jeremiah 25:28

But if they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink, tell them, 'This is what the Lord Almighty says: You must drink it!

Jeremiah 49:12

This is what the Lord says: "If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, why should you go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, but must drink it.

 Jeremiah 51:7

Babylon was a gold cup in the Lord's hand; she made the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore they have now gone mad.

 Lamentations 4:21

Rejoice and be glad, Daughter Edom, you who live in the land of Uz. But to you also the cup will be passed; you will be drunk and stripped naked.

 Ezekiel 23:31

You have gone the way of your sister; so I will put her cup into your hand.

 Ezekiel 23:32

"This is what the Sovereign Lord says: "You will drink your sister's cup, a cup large and deep; it will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.

 Ezekiel 23:33

You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, the cup of ruin and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.

 Habakkuk 2:16

You will be filled with shame instead of glory. Now it is your turn! Drink and let your nakedness be exposed! The cup from the Lord's right hand is coming around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.

 Zechariah 12:2

"I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem.

Matthew 26:48-50

Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them: "The one I kiss is the man; arrest him." Going at once to Jesus, Judas said, "Greetings, Rabbi!" and kissed him. Jesus replied, "Do what you came for, friend." Then the men stepped forward, seized Jesus and arrested him.

 Proverbs 27:6

Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.

Matthew 27:5-7

So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself. The chief priests picked up the coins and said, "It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money." So they decided to use the money to buy the potter's field as a burial place for foreigners.

 Zechariah 11:13

And the Lord said to me, "Throw it to the potter"—the handsome price at which they valued me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the house of the Lord.

Matthew 27:27-31

Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. "Hail, king of the Jews!" they said. They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again. After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.

Isaiah 53

Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. By oppression and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished. He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer,  
and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand. After he has suffered, he will see the light of life and be satisfied;  
by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities. Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Matthew 27:46

About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" (which means "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?").

Psalm 22:1-8

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the one Israel praises. In you our ancestors put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them. To you they cried out and were saved; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by everyone, despised by the people. All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads. "He trusts in the Lord," they say, "let the Lord rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him."

Matthew 27:62-64

The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. "Sir," they said, "we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, 'After three days I will rise again.' So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first."

Daniel 9:26

After the sixty-two 'sevens,' the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.

Matthew 28:8-10

So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. Suddenly Jesus met them. "Greetings," he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.".

Psalm 22:27-31

All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations will bow down before him, for dominion belongs to the Lord and he rules over the nations. All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before him—those who cannot keep themselves alive. Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord. They will proclaim his righteousness, declaring to a people yet unborn: He has done it!

A fully mature follower of Jesus has repented of past shortcomings and is already presently obedient to his teachings. An immature follower has repented of past shortcomings and is still working on goals of becoming more obedient to his teachings. A hypocrite has either not repented of past shortcomings or is not presently working toward any goals of becoming more obedient to his teachings. It is sometimes difficult to discern the difference between a hypocrite and an immature follower. An immature follower will sometimes temporarily backslide, but will still be working on recovering and eventually progressing. A hypocrite will pretend they care about Jesus but have no desire to try to follow the actual teachings of Jesus. Therefore, to identify an actual follower of Jesus versus a hypocrite it is important to know what Jesus actually taught.

Matthew 5:27-28

"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.' But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 5:31-32

"It has been said, 'Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.' But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Matthew 5:21-22

"You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, 'You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.' But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, 'Raca,' is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, 'You fool!' will be in danger of the fire of hell.

Matthew 5:33-37

"Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, 'Do not break your oath, but fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made.' But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all: either by heaven, for it is God's throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. All you need to say is simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.

Matthew 5:38-42

"You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

Matthew 5:43-45

"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Matthew 15:18-19

But the things that come out of a person's mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

Matthew 6:1-2

"Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. "So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

Matthew 6:5-8

"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

Matthew 6:9-13

"This, then, is how you should pray: "'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come,  
your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

Matthew 6:14-15

For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

Matthew 6:16-18

"When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Matthew 6:19-21

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Matthew 6:24

"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Matthew 6:25

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

Matthew 6:32-34

For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Matthew 7:1-5

"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

Matthew 7:7-8

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Matthew 7:9-12

"Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 18:21-22

Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?" Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.

Matthew 19:4-6

"Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."

Matthew 19:8-9

Jesus replied, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery."

Matthew 18:15-17

"If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over. But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that 'every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.' If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

Matthew 18:18-20

"Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. "Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them."

Jesus gives a strong condemnation for choosing to sustain rather than rebuke lustful thoughts, adultery, and divorce. Jesus gives a strong condemnation for hate towards people, and murder. Jesus gives a strong condemnation for swearing an oath by God or anything God has created. Jesus clearly advocates for integrity and keeping all promises regardless of changing situations and not making any promises that cannot be guaranteed to be kept. Jesus is clearly gives a strong condemnation for vigilante vengeance. Jesus gives a strong condemnation for harboring hate for any person or withholding love from any person, including a personal enemy. Jesus advocates for praying for those who persecute you. Jesus clearly loves people but hates evil intentions, evil choices, and evil behaviors such as murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander. Jesus condemns not forgiving other people, which leads to withholding love from them and not praying for them. Jesus clearly condemns hording wealth and personal greed. Jesus condemns pursuing money as goal or objective rather than using money as a tool to serve God. Jesus advocates for focusing on what needs to be done today and trusting God instead of worrying about what might need to be done in the hypothetical future. Jesus clearly advocates for treating other people in a beneficial manner and treating yourself in a beneficial manner. Jesus clearly condemns taking advantage of people by treating someone else in a disadvantageous manner in order to obtain personal advantage. Jesus clearly advocates for life-long marriage and condemns divorce as being as destructive as adultery. Jesus clearly gives the Church authority to confront and correct sin within the church. Jesus clearly gives the Church authority to at least temporarily expel people who refuse to repent within the church. Jesus warns about hypocrites who like to teach what Jesus taught out of pride rather than love because they do not strive follow it themselves.

Matthew 5:17-20

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 7:15-20

"Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.

Matthew 7:13-14

"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Matthew 7:21-23

"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'

Matthew 9:12-13

On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

Matthew 10:37-39

"Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 11:25-27

At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do. "All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

Matthew 12:30-32

"Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

Matthew 12:35-37

A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned."

Matthew 13:10-11

The disciples came to him and asked, "Why do you speak to the people in parables?" He replied, "Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.

Matthew 15:12-13

Then the disciples came to him and asked, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?" He replied, "Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.

Matthew 16:24-27

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.

Matthew 18:3-4

And he said: "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 18:6-7

"If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!

Matthew 19:21

Jesus answered, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

Matthew 19:23-24

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."

Matthew 23:3-4

So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.

Matthew 24:4-8

Jesus answered: "Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Messiah,' and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.

Matthew 24:9-14

"Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

Matthew 24:30-33

"Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. "Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door.

The Law was given to the Jewish people for the purpose of exposing their sin and training them to be obedient to the Lord. However, the Jewish people mistook the purpose of the Law as being a way to earn righteousness through sacrifice. The Jewish people added more man-made precepts to increase their level of sacrifice to appear more righteous. The Jewish people then criticized other people including Jesus for not following those extra man-made precepts. The Lord values obedience and not extra sacrifice. A person trying to pay off sin with sacrifice and extra good deeds is like a dangerous terrorist convicted of treason and sentenced to death who tries to pay off the looming death sentence through community service. The purpose of the Law was not to train the Jewish people to sacrifice more. God is self-sufficient and doesn't need sacrifice. The purpose of the Law was to train the Jewish people to be obedient. God cannot allow anyone to enter the Kingdom who are treasonous and are not loyal and obedient. Allowing unrepentant sinful people to enter the Kingdom would be like allowing terrorists infected with a virulent contagious disease to freely enter a nation. It is nearly impossible to treat a patient who refuses to believe that he or she is sick.

The purpose of the law was not to cure the sin, but rather to diagnose the sin. Once the sin was diagnosed, Jesus could be sought as the cure and vaccination. Jesus was the only person who was capable of living a fully human life without sin. Jesus was the only person who could actually fulfill the Law and earn righteousness. Jesus earned the vaccine of righteousness and is able inoculate those who follow him so that they can enter the Kingdom. Jesus is the only way to enter the Kingdom. However, those who do not acknowledge that they have the sickness of sin, and those who refuse to be treated cannot enter. God created people with free that could be loved and who could love back. The problem with free will is that people can choose to corrupt love with sin. God created Jesus to inoculate us against sin. The problem with free will is that we can choose not to be inoculated. If God coerces us to be inoculated, then it would no longer be free will and it wouldn't test our true loyalties. Those who are infected with sin and refuse to be inoculated by following Jesus will be sterilized in the lake of fire.

Jesus uses parables to teach about the kingdom of heaven. Each parable is like a photograph of a 3 dimensional object. Any one photograph will not reveal everything about the object. However, if you have enough photographs from different perspectives, then eventually you can imagine what the object looks like. In a similar way Jesus uses parables to give us different perspectives of what the Kingdom of Heaven is like.

Matthew 13:3-8

Then he told them many things in parables, saying: "A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.

Matthew 13:18-23

"Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path. The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful. But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown."

Matthew 13:24-29

Jesus told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. "The owner's servants came to him and said, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?' "'An enemy did this,' he replied. "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and pull them up?' "'No,' he answered, 'because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them.

Matthew 13:37-43

He answered, "The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels. "As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear.

Matthew 13:47-50

"Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish. When it was full, the fishermen pulled it up on the shore. Then they sat down and collected the good fish in baskets, but threw the bad away. This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 18:12-14

"What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.

Matthew 18:23-34

"Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand bags of gold was brought to him. Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt. "At this the servant fell on his knees before him. 'Be patient with me,' he begged, 'and I will pay back everything.' The servant's master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go. "But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred silver coins. He grabbed him and began to choke him. 'Pay back what you owe me!' he demanded. "His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, 'Be patient with me, and I will pay it back.' "But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. When the other servants saw what had happened, they were outraged and went and told their master everything that had happened. "Then the master called the servant in. 'You wicked servant,' he said, 'I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?' In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.

Matthew 20

"For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard. "About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. He told them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.' So they went. "He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, 'Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?' "'Because no one has hired us,' they answered. "He said to them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard.'

"When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.' "The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 'These who were hired last worked only one hour,' they said, 'and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.' "But he answered one of them, 'I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?' "So the last will be first, and the first will be last."

Matthew 21:28-31

"What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work today in the vineyard.' "'I will not,' he answered, but later he changed his mind and went. "Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, 'I will, sir,' but he did not go. "Which of the two did what his father wanted?" "The first," they answered.

Matthew 21:33-41

"Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit. "The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way. Last of all, he sent his son to them. 'They will respect my son,' he said. "But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him and take his inheritance.' So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. "Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?" "He will bring those wretches to a wretched end," they replied, "and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time."

Matthew 22:1-14

Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come. "Then he sent some more servants and said, 'Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.' "But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business. The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them. The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. "Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.' So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. "But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. He asked, 'How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?' The man was speechless. "Then the king told the attendants, 'Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' "For many are invited, but few are chosen."

Matthew 24:45-51

"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, 'My master is staying away a long time,' and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 25:1-12

"At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise. The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. The wise ones, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep. "At midnight the cry rang out: 'Here's the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!' "Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. 8 The foolish ones said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.' "'No,' they replied, 'there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.' "But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut. "Later the others also came. 'Lord, Lord,' they said, 'open the door for us!' "But he replied, 'Truly I tell you, I don't know you.'

Matthew 25:14-30

"Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them. To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. The man who had received five bags of gold went at once and put his money to work and gained five bags more. So also, the one with two bags of gold gained two more. But the man who had received one bag went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money. "After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them. The man who had received five bags of gold brought the other five. 'Master,' he said, 'you entrusted me with five bags of gold. See, I have gained five more.'

"His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!' "The man with two bags of gold also came. 'Master,' he said, 'you entrusted me with two bags of gold; see, I have gained two more.' "His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!' "Then the man who had received one bag of gold came. 'Master,' he said, 'I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. So I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.' "His master replied, 'You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest. "'So take the bag of gold from him and give it to the one who has ten bags. For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

Matthew 25:31-46

"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. "Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.' "Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?' "The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.' "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.' "They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?' "He will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.' "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

Jesus reveals that many people will hear the word of God, but only a few will understand and obey it to become fruitful. Jesus reveals that the earth contains both seed from God and seed from Satan. The world was created to be good by God, but it has been corrupted with sin by Satan who is the Father of Sin. Those who are the seed of God will choose to worship Jesus, but those who are the seed of Satan will choose to worship the false religions Satan has spawned through sin. God lets both the seed of God and the seed of Satan live together until the harvest. At the harvest the angels will gather the seed of God into the kingdom of heaven and the seed of Satan will be thrown into the lake of fire. There are some people who have already made the choice to be the seed of God. There are some people who have already made the choice to be the seed of Satan. There are some people who may still yet choose to change. God is desperately pursuing those who still may choose to be saved, but eventually the harvest will come and their choice will have already been made. Our debt of sin is so terrible and infectious that it is beyond our ability to pay it off and eliminate. God is merciful and has provided Jesus to pay off our debt and forgive us of our sin. However, if we abuse this forgiveness by not being merciful to those around us, then God will not be merciful to us and we will have to pay back the wages of sin, which is being quarantined and thrown into the lake of fire. There are some who say they follow Jesus, but do not. There are some who say they will not follow Jesus, but eventually do. Only those who genuinely follow Jesus will have an inheritance.

The people who follow Jesus their whole lives might expect to receive a larger inheritance than those who choose to follow Jesus moments before they died. However, they may find that they receive the same reward of entering the Kingdom of Heaven, which is given out of generosity and not earned. Entering the Kingdom of Heaven is a pass or fail test, whether or not to follow Jesus; it does not have grades. Anyone could die at any moment, and if they have chosen poorly they will fail that test. While there is no reward for the amount of time being a follower of Jesus, there may be certain extra privileges or responsibilities and eternal honors given to those who have passed the test and persevered with certain deeds that are done, which are the treasure stored in heaven. Some people who have done few deeds may pass the test but have no extra treasure in heaven, even if they were followers their whole life. Some people who became followers at the end of their life and suffer martyrdom for their love of Jesus may pass the test and have extra treasure in heaven for their deeds. God knows the difference between deeds done out of selfish pride and deeds done out of love for Jesus and for each other. God reveals himself to those who seek him and he has written his principles into our conscience, he has sent the prophets, and he sent Jesus. Anyone who does not choose to follow Jesus is without an excuse.

Chapter 13: A Deductive Proof

The gospel of Matthew records many of the miracles that Jesus performed. Jesus performs some miracles to give him a platform to communicate his teachings and the gospel message. Jesus performs some miracles to validate his authority and reveal his power and humility. Jesus performs some miracles out of the love, compassion, and generosity of his very nature. Jesus performs miracles to show that the kingdom of heaven has dominion over the material world and to reveal that the power to control life and death is within its jurisdiction. The combination of prophesies that have already been fulfilled and miracles that have already witnessed and recorded in human history serve as evidence for the followers of Jesus to have trust in his words and his teachings and faith in the predictions made in the prophesies about the future. A person who chooses to discount the evidence and believes miracles are impossible would still need to account for the evidence of prophesy. A person who has already rejected God will choose to believe that no amount of evidence could prove that prophesy and miracles are possible. A person who has already rejected God will attempt to falsely disprove God with circular reasoning. If God does not exist, then prophesy and miracles do not exist. If prophesies and miracles do not exist, then any evidence for prophesies and miracles must be discounted. If the evidence for prophesy and miracles must be discounted, then God does not exist. Therefore if God does not exist, then God does not exist. A person who has already chosen to reject God cannot be convinced of the existence of God by evidence or reason.

Matthew 8:1-3

When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him. A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, "Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean." Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. "I am willing," he said. "Be clean!" Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy.

Matthew 8:5-9

When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help. "Lord," he said, "my servant lies at home paralyzed, suffering terribly." Jesus said to him, "Shall I come and heal him?" The centurion replied, "Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and that one, 'Come,' and he comes. I say to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."

Matthew 8:13

Then Jesus said to the centurion, "Go! Let it be done just as you believed it would." And his servant was healed at that moment.

Matthew 8:23-26

Then he got into the boat and his disciples followed him. Suddenly a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. The disciples went and woke him, saying, "Lord, save us! We're going to drown!" He replied, "You of little faith, why are you so afraid?" Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm.

Matthew 8:14-15

When Jesus came into Peter's house, he saw Peter's mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever. He touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and began to wait on him.

Matthew 9:1-2

Jesus stepped into a boat, crossed over and came to his own town. Some men brought to him a paralyzed man, lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, "Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven."

Matthew 9:5-7

Which is easier: to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up and walk'? But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins." So he said to the paralyzed man, "Get up, take your mat and go home." Then the man got up and went home.

Matthew 9:23-25

When Jesus entered the synagogue leader's house and saw the noisy crowd and people playing pipes, he said, "Go away. The girl is not dead but asleep." But they laughed at him. After the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took the girl by the hand, and she got up.

Matthew 9:27-30

As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, "Have mercy on us, Son of David!" When he had gone indoors, the blind men came to him, and he asked them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" "Yes, Lord," they replied. Then he touched their eyes and said, "According to your faith let it be done to you"; and their sight was restored.

Matthew 11:4-5

Jesus replied, "Go back and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor.

Matthew 12:13

Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other.

Matthew 14:18-21

"Bring them here to me," he said. And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.

Matthew 14:25-27

Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. "It's a ghost," they said, and cried out in fear. But Jesus immediately said to them: "Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid."

Matthew 14:35-36

And when the men of that place recognized Jesus, they sent word to all the surrounding country. People brought all their sick to him and begged him to let the sick just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.

Matthew 15:35-38

He told the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves and the fish, and when he had given thanks, he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and they in turn to the people. They all ate and were satisfied. Afterward the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. The number of those who ate was four thousand men, besides women and children.

Matthew 17:2-3

There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.

Matthew 17:27

"But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours."

Matthew 20:30-34

Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, "Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!" The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, "Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!" Jesus stopped and called them. "What do you want me to do for you?" he asked. "Lord," they answered, "we want our sight." Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him.

Matthew 21:14

The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them.

Matthew 21:18-19

Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, "May you never bear fruit again!" Immediately the tree withered.

Matthew 28:18-20

Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

The gospel of Matthew clearly documents that Jesus called himself the "Son of Man" and he was called by other people the "Son of God"; the gospel of Matthew says that Jesus was be called Emmanuel "God with us". If Jesus is God in clothed in human flesh, then Jesus is not just the "Son of God", but rather he is God. He is one of the persons of the trinity that form a single being God. Since Jesus was born from a human being, Marry while she was still a virgin, Jesus called himself the "Son of Man" to distinguish himself from the other two persons of God. It is not a contradiction for God to be three persons but one being. It may be similar to how conjoined Siamese twins can have two heads but one heart and one body, so that they are two persons but one indivisible organism. God is an eternal being that values love and community precisely because a three person eternal relationship exists. God is one eternal being that contains three persons each with their own emotion, intellect, and will; three persons of God are the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. Jesus is fully one of the three persons of God, but he also is fully human also. It is not a contradiction for Jesus to be both fully a person of God and fully human. It is similar to how it not a contradiction for a person to be both the director of a movie and also an actor within the movie. Jesus is fully human and fully one of the three persons of God. Jesus is the Lord, Judge, and Arbitrator for humanity precisely because he is fully human and fully one of the three persons of God.

Matthew 14:32-33

And when they climbed into the boat, the wind died down. Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, "Truly you are the Son of God."

Matthew 16:14-17

They replied, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets." "But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?" Simon Peter answered, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God." Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven.

Matthew 16:21-23

From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. "Never, Lord!" he said. "This shall never happen to you!" Jesus turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns."

Matthew 17:22-23

When they came together in Galilee, he said to them, "The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men. They will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised to life." And the disciples were filled with grief.

Matthew 19:28-29

Jesus said to them, "Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.

Matthew 20:17-19

Now Jesus was going up to Jerusalem. On the way, he took the Twelve aside and said to them, "We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will be raised to life!"

Matthew 26:1-2

When Jesus had finished saying all these things, he said to his disciples, "As you know, the Passover is two days away—and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified."

Matthew 26:61-64

and declared, "This fellow said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.'"

Then the high priest stood up and said to Jesus, "Are you not going to answer? What is this testimony that these men are bringing against you?" But Jesus remained silent. The high priest said to him, "I charge you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God." "You have said so," Jesus replied. "But I say to all of you: From now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven."

Matthew 27:38-44

Two rebels were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left. Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, "You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!" In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him. "He saved others," they said, "but he can't save himself! He's the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, 'I am the Son of God.'" In the same way the rebels who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him.

Matthew 27:50-54

And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. They came out of the tombs after Jesus' resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people. When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, "Surely he was the Son of God!"

Matthew 28:2-7

There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men. The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples: 'He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.' Now I have told you."

Now I would like to provide extra proof that Jesus claimed to be God for those who would benefit from it. The gospel of Matthew is not the only gospel account of Jesus. I only choose to focus primarily on the gospel of Matthew so as not to this book more overwhelming than it might already be. There are also 3 other gospel accounts that document the same historical events from different perspectives. Witnesses provide different perspective of the same event that can be cross-examined. Sometimes the testimony of one witness will provide detail to clarify the testimony of the other witnesses that seems vague or causes confusion. There are 4 gospel accounts that were collected to put into the Bible: The gospel events from the perspective of Matthew, the gospel events from the perspective of Mark, the gospel events from the perspective of Luke, and the gospel from the perspective of John. The following is proof that Jesus claimed not only to be just the Son of God, but Jesus is our Lord and our God. Please bear with me for belaboring the point because some people may simply refuse to acknowledge that Jesus claimed to be our Lord and our God and will try to find any way to rationalize their choice to completely overlook the evidence.

Mark 1:9-11

At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: "You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased."

Mark 2:5-7

When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, "Son, your sins are forgiven." Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, "Why does this fellow talk like that? He's blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

Mark 3:11-12

Whenever the impure spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, "You are the Son of God." But he gave them strict orders not to tell others about him.

Mark 10:18

"Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good—except God alone.

Mark 11:28-30

"By what authority are you doing these things?" they asked. "And who gave you authority to do this?" Jesus replied, "I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. John's baptism—was it from heaven, or of human origin? Tell me!"

Luke 2:43-49

After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him. After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers. When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you." "Why were you searching for me?" he asked. "Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house?"

Luke 4:2-4

where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry. The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread." Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man shall not live on bread alone.'"

Deuteronomy 8:3-5

He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.

Luke 4:5-8

The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And he said to him, "I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. If you worship me, it will all be yours." Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.'"

Deuteronomy 6:4-7

"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. And these words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Luke 4:9-12

The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. "If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down from here. For it is written: "'He will command his angels concerning you  
to guard you carefully; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'"

Jesus answered, "It is said: 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'"

Psalm 91:9-13

If you say, "The Lord is my refuge," and you make the Most High your dwelling, no harm will overtake you,  
no disaster will come near your tent. For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. You will tread on the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent.

Deuteronomy 6:14-18

You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you; for the Lord your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth. "You shall not put the Lord your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah. You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you. And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land which the Lord swore to give to your fathers

Luke 5:19-21

When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus. When Jesus saw their faith, he said, "Friend, your sins are forgiven." The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking to themselves, "Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

Luke 7:47-50

Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven—as her great love has shown. But whoever has been forgiven little loves little." Then Jesus said to her, "Your sins are forgiven." The other guests began to say among themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?" Jesus said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace."

Luke 9:33-34

As the men were leaving Jesus, Peter said to him, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah." (He did not know what he was saying.) While he was speaking, a cloud appeared and covered them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud.

Luke 10:21-22

At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do. "All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

Luke 20:1-4

One day as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the good news, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, together with the elders, came up to him. "Tell us by what authority you are doing these things," they said. "Who gave you this authority?" He replied, "I will also ask you a question. Tell me: John's baptism—was it from heaven, or of human origin?"

Luke 22:67-71

"If you are the Messiah," they said, "tell us." Jesus answered, "If I tell you, you will not believe me, and if I asked you, you would not answer. But from now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the mighty God." They all asked, "Are you then the Son of God?" He replied, "You say that I am." Then they said, "Why do we need any more testimony? We have heard it from his own lips."

Luke 23:40-43

But the other criminal rebuked him. "Don't you fear God," he said, "since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong." Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom." Jesus answered him, "Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise."

Luke 24:25-27

He said to them, "How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?" And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

John 1:15-18

(John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, "This is the one I spoke about when I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.'") Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.

John 1:29-34

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! This is the one I meant when I said, 'A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.' I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel." Then John gave this testimony: "I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him. And I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.' I have seen and I testify that this is God's Chosen One."

John 1:48-51

"How do you know me?" Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, "I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you." Then Nathanael declared, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel."

Jesus said, "You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You will see greater things than that." He then added, "Very truly I tell you, you will see 'heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on' the Son of Man."

John 2:18-19

The Jews then responded to him, "What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?" Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days."

John 3:13-15

No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man. Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him."

Numbers 21:6-9

Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, "We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us." So Moses prayed for the people. The Lord said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live." So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.

John 3:16-18

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.

John 3:32-36

He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. Whoever has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit. The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on them.

John 4:13-14

Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

John 4:25-26

The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us." Then Jesus declared, "I, the one speaking to you—I am he."

John 5:16-24

So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. In his defense Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working." For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. Jesus gave them this answer: "Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him. "Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.

John 5:31-45

"If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is true. "You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth. Not that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved. John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light. "I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing—testify that the Father has sent me. And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form, nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent. You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life. "I do not accept glory from human beings, but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God? "But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?"

John 6:35-40

Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day."

John 6:66-68

From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. "You do not want to leave too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve. Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.

John 8:12-19

When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." The Pharisees challenged him, "Here you are, appearing as your own witness; your testimony is not valid." Jesus answered, "Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going. But you have no idea where I come from or where I am going. You judge by human standards; I pass judgment on no one. But if I do judge, my decisions are true, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent me. In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is true. I am one who testifies for myself; my other witness is the Father, who sent me." Then they asked him, "Where is your father?" "You do not know me or my Father," Jesus replied. "If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

John 8:40-47

As it is, you are looking for a way to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things. You are doing the works of your own father." "We are not illegitimate children," they protested. "The only Father we have is God himself." Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me. Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don't you believe me? Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God."

John 8:54-59

Jesus replied, "If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies me. Though you do not know him, I know him. If I said I did not, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and obey his word. Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad." "You are not yet fifty years old," they said to him, "and you have seen Abraham!" "Very truly I tell you," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!" At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.

Exodus 3:13-14

Moses said to God, "Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' Then what shall I tell them?" God said to Moses, "I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I am has sent me to you.'"

John 10:25-33

Jesus answered, "I did tell you, but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father's name testify about me, but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. I and the Father are one." Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?" "We are not stoning you for any good work," they replied, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God."

John 10:34-39

Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I have said you are "gods"'? If he called them 'gods,' to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be set aside— what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, 'I am God's Son'? Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father. But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father." Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.

Psalm 82:6-8

"I said, 'You are "gods"; you are all sons of the Most High.' But you will die like mere mortals; you will fall like every other ruler." Rise up, O God, judge the earth, for all the nations are your inheritance.

John 11:24-27

Martha answered, "I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?" "Yes, Lord," she replied, "I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world."

John 11:39-44

"Take away the stone," he said. "But, Lord," said Martha, the sister of the dead man, "by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days." Then Jesus said, "Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?" So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me." When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.

Jesus said to them, "Take off the grave clothes and let him go."

John 14:9-11

Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.

John 14:15-17

"If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.

John 14:23-26

Jesus replied, "Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me. "All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

John 16:26-28

In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father."

John 17:1-5

After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: "Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.

John 18:36-37

Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place." "You are a king, then!" said Pilate. Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me."

John 19:7

The Jewish leaders insisted, "We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God."

John 19:33-37

But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water. The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: "Not one of his bones will be broken," and, as another scripture says, "They will look on the one they have pierced."

 Psalm 34:20

he protects all his bones, not one of them will be broken.

 Zechariah 12:10

[ Mourning for the One They Pierced ] "And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

Isaiah 14:19

But you are cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch; you are covered with the slain, with those pierced by the sword, those who descend to the stones of the pit. Like a corpse trampled underfoot,

Isaiah 53:5

But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.

John 20:17

Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

John 20:27-29

Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe." Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!" Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."

Could anyone still not be convinced that Jesus claimed to be our Lord and our God? Thank you for bearing with me in belaboring the point, and we can now get to the punchline. Why is it so important to prove that Jesus claimed that he is our Lord and our God? Why did I need to spend that much space on it? Every single false religion that Satan has created has one fundamental feature, which is that they deny the deity of Jesus; more precisely they deny that Jesus is our Lord and God, they deny that Jesus died on the cross, and they deny that Jesus rose from the dead on the third day. Why would Satan ensure that every false religion has those key features? It is precisely because those are the key features that lead to Salvation.

 Romans 10:9

If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Every occult and every false religion that Satan has ever created will deny that Jesus is our Lord and our God and deny that Jesus died and God raised Jesus from the dead. The evidence of prophesy, evidence of miracles, and historical evidence for Jesus is so strong that Satan cannot blatantly deny that Jesus ever existed. Rather Satan chooses to create false religions that deceive people into thinking that Jesus only claimed to be a prophet and he did not claim to be our Lord and our God. Therefore these occults and false religions with go to great length claim that Jesus was just another prophet and he did not claim to be our Lord and our God. Jesus clearly claimed to be our Lord and God. If you still do not believe me, there is one last think I want you to think about. Jesus never rebuked anyone for worshiping him as their Lord and their God.

Matthew 14:32-33

And when they climbed into the boat, the wind died down. Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, "Truly you are the Son of God."

 Matthew 28:9

Suddenly Jesus met them. "Greetings," he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him.

 Matthew 28:17

When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.

 Luke 24:52

Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy.

 John 9:38

Then the man said, "Lord, I believe," and he worshiped him.

If Jesus was not claiming to our Lord and our God, then he would have rebuked his follower for worshiping him and would have told them to worship God and not him. Since Jesus did not rebuke people for worshiping him, he clearly was claiming to be our Lord and God. Jesus claimed to be our Lord and God. The mere fact that Jesus did not rebuke his followers for worshiping him is enough to prove that he claimed to be God.

Revelation 22:8-9

I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing them to me. But he said to me, "Don't do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your fellow prophets and with all who keep the words of this scroll. Worship God!"

 Exodus 23:24

Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones to pieces.

 Exodus 34:14

Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

 Deuteronomy 8:19

If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed.

 Deuteronomy 11:16

Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them.

 Deuteronomy 12:31

You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

Deuteronomy 13:1-4

If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a sign or wonder, and if the sign or wonder spoken of takes place, and the prophet says, "Let us follow other gods" (gods you have not known) "and let us worship them," you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul. It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him.

Satan is a fallen angel that rebelled against God. Satan has created the occults and false religions of the world to steal worship away from God specifically for Satan. When the Jewish people rebelled against God and used killed their children and sacrificed them to Baal, they were making sacrifices to Satan. When people kill their sons and daughters for converting away from Islam to Christianity, they are making sacrifices to Satan. When people choose to kill their own children, they are really making sacrifices to Satan. It is God alone who will judge, and God always condemns vigilante justice. When people bow down in worship of a false religion, they are really bowing down to Satan. Satan has created false religions and occults specifically to deny that Jesus claimed to be our Lord and God.

Matthew 4:8-10

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. "All this I will give you," he said, "if you will bow down and worship me." Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan! For it is written: 'Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.'"

Luke 4:6-8

And he said to him, "I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. If you worship me, it will all be yours." Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.'"

Colossians 2:18

Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind.

Why is it so important that Jesus claimed to be our Lord and God? If Jesus claimed to be our Lord and God, then Jesus cannot be just a prophet. If Jesus claimed to be our Lord and Savior, died on a cross, and rose from the dead, then any religion that claims otherwise is an institution created by Satan. If Jesus is our Lord and God, then Islam, Mormonism, and the religion of Jehovah's Witness are all actually institutions created by Satan. The decision we make about Jesus may be the most important decision we ever make in our lives. The famous author C.S. Lewis wrote in his classic book "Mere Christianity" that we are faced with a trilemma. Since Jesus clearly claimed to be our Lord and God there are three possibilities. Jesus was either completely insane, Jesus is a deceiver or Satan himself, or Jesus truly is our Lord and God. As I have mentioned before people are very rarely persuaded by a deductive proof if they do not already trust the conclusion beforehand. The purpose of deductive proof is not to prove and answer, but rather give confidence and certainty in a conclusion that is already trusted. People are not persuaded by a deductive proof because they will always resort to speculation to rationalize a loophole if they have not already been persuaded of the conclusion by the plethora of inductive evidence.

Mere Christianity (Book II Chapter 3) by C. S Lewis

"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."

Chapter 14: A Final Conclusion

The Bible has prophesies that clearly point to Yeshua (Jesus) as the Jewish Messiah. The whole Old Testament is filled to the brim with symbolism and foreshadowing screaming Yeshua (Jesus) is the Jewish Messiah. The Bible has numerous cases of Jesus performing miracles to validate his claim of being the Jewish Messiah. The Bible is clearly overwhelming evidence for the fact that Jesus claimed to be our Lord and God. Therefore if all this evidence is taken into account, clearly Jesus is our Lord and God. If we do not believe that Jesus is our Lord and God, then clearly we would need to find some way to reject the evidence. A person who has already chosen to reject Jesus as their Lord and God cannot be convinced of it by any amount of evidence or reason. If Jesus is not our Lord and God, then the evidence supporting Jesus being our Lord and God must be rejected. If the evidence supporting Jesus being our Lord and God is rejected then there is no evidence remaining to prove that Jesus is our Lord and God. If there is no evidence remaining to prove that Jesus is not our Lord and God, then Jesus is not our Lord and God. Therefore, if Jesus is not our Lord and God, then Jesus is not our Lord and God. A person who has already rejected Jesus as their Lord and God will choose to believe that no amount of evidence could prove that Jesus actually is Lord and God.

Luke 16:31

"He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'"

If someone has rejected Jesus as Lord and God, the last thing they are going to do is pray to God for wisdom and understanding and then read the four gospel accounts and apostles' letters for themselves. God promises that he will reveal the truth to those who genuinely seek him. If someone has rejected God, they will not genuinely seek the answer to whether Jesus is their Lord and God. Satan uses a number of tactics to discourage people from genuinely seeking God. One of the main tactics of Satan is to prevent people from genuinely reading and listening to what the four gospel accounts and apostles' letters actually say. Occults and false religions often provide pamphlets and hand-outs that have specially selected superficial excerpts that avoid genuine teachings of the Bible. Occults and false religions may even forbid members for genuinely reading investigating the Bible themselves or having genuine debates about it. The occults and false religions will heavily scrutinize passages out of context with false assumptions while not even scrutinizing their own documents and are told just to trust the authority of their false prophets with little to no evidence. I challenge you to genuinely scrutinize the evidence for any religious document with the same scrutiny you use on the evidence for the Bible and see how it compares.

 1 John 4:1

[ On Denying the Incarnation ] Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

If someone has not rejected truth, they will be willing to genuinely investigate it and gain more understanding or more confidence. If someone has already rejected truth, no amount of evidence could persuade them of the truth because they will simply reject the evidence. One of Satan's strategies is to circulate false speculations and hope that no one genuinely investigates for themselves. It is a historical fact that Jesus was a real person, who really claimed to be Lord and God, who really died on a cross, who really rose from the dead, and really had his disciples who were willing give up their lives to spread the gospel message. There is substantial evidence that this historical fact has not been altered or changed in the Bible. There is substantial evidence verify the historical authenticity of the Bible. You can go online and look up the "Dead Sea Scrolls". They have been digitally photographed for you to observe online. You can go online and look up the "New Testament Manuscripts". They have the ancient manuscripts digitally photographed for you to observe online. There are thousands of manuscripts that verify that the fact that Jesus claimed to be Lord and God is historically accurate. The people who have rejected Jesus as their Lord and God will fabricate false conspiracy theories about the Bible precisely because the evidence in the Bible is so strong for Jesus being Lord and God. The people who slander the Bible with false speculation have no evidence and will use words like "could" or "might" or "may". Examine the actual evidence and make an informed decision.

Chapter 15: Closing Statements

With his power, God Almighty created heavens and the Earth. With his power, God Almighty created a host of beautiful and powerful angels. God Almighty abides with the angels, imparted the angels with free will, and delegated power and responsibilities to them. The angels had different ranks and were given different power, functions, and responsibilities. The angels worshiped God Almighty and served God Almighty by using their power to fulfill these different functions and responsibilities. Out of all the angels God created one to be more beautiful, one to be more powerful, and one with the potential to be greater, Lucifer "the light bearer", who held the highest rank of all the angels.

God Almighty is immeasurably more beautiful, powerful, and greater than Lucifer. Lucifer was not content to serve and worship God Almighty. Lucifer envied the worship the angels gave to God Almighty. Out of pride Lucifer chose to defy God Almighty. Lucifer commanded all the angels to worship himself and rebel against God Almighty. Lucifer led some of the angels in rebellion against God Almighty. God Almighty banished Lucifer and the demonic angels purposefully to the Earth. Power and splendor departed from Lucifer and the demonic angles in their exile apart from God Almighty. Lucifer and the demonic angels shall never again abide with God Almighty. Lucifer is the "Adversary", the "Deceiver", the "Father of Sin", the "Accuser", and the "Evil One". God created the systems of the world to serve different functions and purposes. Lucifer chose to create sin and corrupt the world with sin; Lucifer works to manipulate and pervert the functions and purposes of the systems of this world. Lucifer has set himself as "king" of this world, and desires the whole world to worship him. God Almighty has allowed Lucifer and the demonic angels to roam the Earth and deceive it for a time and for a purpose, to test those who are faithful.

The Evil One has chosen to abuse free will and has led a host of demonic angels in rebellion against God Almighty. The Adversary has dared to defy God Almighty. The Accuser has dared to corrupt and accuse God's children. The Deceiver has dared to deceive this world. The Father of Sin has dared to declare himself "king" of this world. The Adversary, the Accuser, the Deceiver, the Evil One has chosen to corrupt this world with sin. God Almighty knew this. God Almighty planned for this. God Almighty has allowed this for his purpose. God Almighty designed and created this world. God Almighty allowed sin and corruption to enter this world. The Adversary, the Accuser, the Deceiver, the Evil One can do nothing beyond what God Almighty has allowed. God Almighty will destroy this world with a purging fire. The destruction of this world will be the new birth of the new kingdom that will be made perfect. This will happen all according to his plan. The Adversary, the Accuser, the Deceiver, the Evil One, knows his time is short and his destruction is imminent. Lucifer and all the demonic angels will perish in the Lake of Fire and will suffer eternal death apart from God Almighty.

The Adversary and fallen demonic angels have worked to corrupt this world and pervert the design of this world. Lucifer and his demonic angles have corrupted all of mankind with sin. Lucifer and his demonic angels have deceived this world. All of mankind have been deceived into choosing to sin. All of mankind have sinned and become corrupted and imperfect. It is impossible for sinful humanity to abide with God Almighty, it is impossible for sinful humanity to enter the New Kingdom, it is impossible for sinful humanity earn Eternal Life. All of sinful humanity will perish in the Lake of Fire and will suffer Eternal Death apart from God Almighty. All of humanity has become sinful and corrupted. There is not one among us who has not sinned. It is impossible for sinful humanity to save itself and earn Eternal Life. What is impossible for mankind to accomplish, God Almighty has made allowance to accomplish according to his plan.

God Almighty is eternal. He was, he is, he will always be; beyond time and space. God Almighty is all-powerful. There is nothing beyond his Power. God Almighty is creator. Everything was created by his design including free will and its consequences. God Almighty is unchanging. His will cannot be undone. God Almighty is communal. He created free persons with free will. God Almighty is all-knowing. Everything unfolds within the constraints of his plan. God Almighty is all-seeing. Nothing escapes his knowledge. God Almighty is pure and undefiled. No imperfect sinful being shall abide with him. God Almighty is trinity. Holy Father, Spirit, and Son are three persons, but one almighty being; three-in-one. God Almighty is Holy Father. The Holy Father uses his knowledge to ensure all things unfold according his plan. God Almighty is Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit uses his power for divine intervention to fulfill his plan. God Almighty is Holy Son. The Holy Son was clothed in human flesh to be the arbitrator and for all mankind. God Almighty is Son of Man. By the power of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son was conceived in a virgin Jewish woman. God Almighty is redeemer. The Son took on the form of man to forge the way for all mankind to inherit eternal life. God Almighty is perfection. Out of all mankind, only the Son is perfect, sinless, and worthy to enter eternal life. God Almighty is gracious. The blood of his only Son was shed to cleanse sin, so that others may inherit Eternal Life. God Almighty is Lord. Only those who choose to trust in the Son as their Lord have accepted his arbitration to be cleansed of sin by his blood and made perfect. God Almighty is savior. Mankind is sinful, but those who sins are cleansed will be made perfect and inherit eternal life. God Almighty is judge. All who refuse the Son as their Lord are imperfect, sinful, and cannot enter Eternal Life. God Almighty is merciful. Those who refuse the Son as their Lord have been given the time and opportunity to repent. God Almighty is Just. Those who refuse the Son as their Lord sinfully refuse Eternal Life, and will suffer Eternal Death.

God Almighty chose Abram (Abraham) to be the father of his nation. Abraham's trust in God Almighty was counted as righteousness and to foretell that the Holy Father would sacrifice his only Son. Abraham was instructed to sacrifice an animal in place of his son. The Jewish people symbolically sacrificed animal for sin place of his Holy Son. The Jewish people were instructed to shed the blood of animals for their sins to foretell that the Holy Father would allow the blood of his Holy Son to be shed to cleanse the sins of mankind. God Almighty instructed the Jewish prophets to prophesy and foretell the coming of his Holy Son. His Holy Son was to be the Messiah (Anointed One, King), the Christ, the Savior of the Jewish people and of all nations who are all blessed through him. According to prophesy, the Messiah was to be a "Son of David" and was to be born in the town of Bethlehem, but would be called a Nazarene. The virgin Jewish woman Mary conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and gave birth to the Holy Son, Yeshua (translated to Jesus in English). Yeshua (Jesus) is the Messiah, the Christ, the Holy Son of the living God Almighty, God with us, Emmanuel.

God Almighty chose the Jewish people to be the instrument through which his Holy Son would be born and raised as a Jewish man by a Jewish family in a Jewish culture, as the "Son of David", whose kingdom would never end. Mary and Joseph lived in Nazareth were forced to briefly travel to back to Bethlehem to fulfill their obligations of the Roman census. The Holy Son, Yeshua (Jesus) was born in Bethlehem, but was raised in Nazareth.

His only Son chose to always be obedient to his Father and chose to live a perfect human life without sin. The Holy Son taught truth to his disciples to prepare them for their mission of spreading his Word. His only Son chose to offer himself as a willing sacrifice and shed his own blood to cleanse the sins of mankind. God Almighty allowed his only Son to be scourged, be humiliated, endure the torture of a Roman execution, and die, and be pierced with a spear, but none of his bones were broken. He was buried in a tomb placed under Roman guard. On the third day the Holy Son was resurrected from the dead. In his resurrected body, the Holy Son appeared to his disciples and to hundreds of people. God Almighty delegated the responsibility and the mission of recording and spreading his word to his prophets and his disciples. God Almighty sent the Holy Spirit to encourage and empower his disciples and apostles to build his Church.

His Holy Church is the bride of Christ. His first coming was just the engagement ceremony, but his second coming will be the wedding ceremony.

God Almighty gave us free will and he has and is everything to overflow with generosity. He lacks nothing and needs nothing from us except our love. Love is the purpose; for him to lovingly give to us generously and for us to lovingly receive from him thankfully. His Holy Church is not a building or institution. His Holy Church is not any one denomination; Lucifer is the Deceiver who works to cause distractions, works to cause frivolous rivalry, and works to divide his Holy Church. Satan uses hypocrites in each of the denominations to try to make them point the finger at each other. His Church is made of all those who trust in the Holy Son as their Lord and Savior. Obedience is not the cause of trust nor is it a requirement of trust, but rather obedience is the fruit of trust and consequence of trust. His Church is made of those whose sins will be cleansed by the blood of his Holy Son. His Church is made of those who will be made perfect and inherit eternal life. Not all who enter a building or participate in an institution will enter eternal life. Not all who call the Holy Son "Lord" will inherit Eternal Life. Many will hypocritically call the Holy Son "Lord" and not inherit eternal life. Wide is the path that leads to destruction and narrow is the path that leads to eternal life.

Even the demonic angels call him "Lord". Rather than obedience, the oxymoronic satanic response is, "Never, Lord!". Only those who are willing to follow him and repent and give up their sinful habits will inherit Eternal Life. To those who call him "Lord" but still cling to their sinful habits, he will say "Depart from me you evil-doer. I never knew you". Many unsaved humans will not choose eternal life. Those who do not choose eternal life will all perish in the Lake of Fire along with the Adversary and the fallen demonic angels. The saved humans who choose Eternal Life will be remade perfect with new uncorrupted bodies and shall abide with God Almighty and his holy angels in the New Kingdom forever without end. The New Kingdom will be paradise, and there will be life, love, hope, meaning, joy, purpose, and peace. God Almighty will delegate powers, knowledge, abilities, responsibilities, and freedoms to God's Children. God's Children will be reunited with one another, celebrate the wedding feast, judge angels, perform, and make new creations all to the glory of God Almighty. Death, pain, suffering, and sorrow will cease to exist, the vaccination against sin will be complete, and life, hope meaning, joy, purpose, peace, and love will remain forever.

God Almighty gave the angels free will and the responsibility to choose. Free will comes with both the freedom and responsibility to choose, but it also comes with consequences for abusing that free will by choosing wrongly. Lucifer and the demonic angels abused that free will and will face eternal death. Lucifer is a murder, a deceiver, and the Father of Sin. God Almighty has allowed Lucifer has to be the ruler of this world for short time for a purpose of testing us to expose and vaccinate our sin. God Almighty has given mankind free will and the responsibility to choose. Lucifer has corrupted this world with sin. Sin is a parasite. Sin is a virus. Sin perverts God Almighty's creation and from its purpose, function, and benefit. God Almighty hates sin and will not tolerate it. When mankind chooses not to sin, they fulfill the desire of God Almighty. When mankind chooses to sin, they fulfill the desire of Lucifer, the Father of Sin. Is your father the Holy Father, the Father of Eternal Life, or is your father the Ruler of This World, the Father of Sin? If your father is the Father of Eternal Life, then you will listen to his Word and you will obey His word. For a father and child speak the same language. If your father is the Father of Sin, then God's Word will be dismissed, and you will choose obedience to sin instead of obedience to God Almighty.

Sin does not affect only the person or people who chose to sin, but rather it often causes others in society to suffer, it forces others in society to bear the burden of that sin, and it force others to pay the price of that sin. God Almighty has not given the authority and responsibility to the individual nor the mob to provide vigilante vengeance against that sin. God Almighty allows for the individual to use reactive self-defense against imminent peril, but God Almighty hates when the individual or mob uses proactive vigilante vengeance and premeditated retribution. When the sin of one person causes others who are innocent of that sin to suffer, bear the burden from that sin, or pay the price of that sin, then it is the responsibility of the government to intervene. God Almighty has delegated authority and responsibility to the government to intervene and provide justice against such oppressive sin. The penalty of treason against a mortal government is mortal death. The penalty of treason against the eternal government is eternal death.

God Almighty alone will judge a person. No person is to judge another person. If we disobey God Almighty and judge another person, then God Almighty will judge us by the same measure or even more severely. All mankind was created in the image of God Almighty. Every human being has human dignity bestowed and protected by God Almighty. Therefore, no person should judge another person and thereby tarnish another person's human dignity. God Almighty has commanded us not to judge people, but He does command us to have discernment and judge words and actions. God Almighty has commanded us to love the person who sins, but hate the act of sin. We must not discriminate against the person who sins, but we must discriminate against the act of sin. The Church is responsible only for judging the sin of those inside the Church. God will judge the sin of those outside the church. The Church is only responsible for lovingly informing those outside the Church of the gospel message and then letting them choose freely.

Every person has the freedom to choose, but the responsibility to bear the consequences of their own sin when they encounter the white throne judgment. God Almighty loves us. God almighty has given us the truth of his Word. God Almighty has warned us of the consequences, but allows us to choose. So too should we share the truth of his Word. So too should we love our neighbor. So too must we warn our neighbor of the consequences, but let our neighbor choose.

God Almighty has sent his prophets. God Almighty has sent his Son. God Almighty has given this generation his Word. This Generation has been warned. This generation has ignored the truth. This generation claims ignorance. This generation mocks the truth. This generation can still choose to repent.

The Church should only be offended by those within in the church that do not repent and thereby tarnish his name. The Church should only judge those within the church who are hypocrites. The Church should not be offended when those outside the church do not repent. The Church should merely lovingly inform those outside the church of the truth of the gospel and the truth of the consequences for not repenting and let them freely choose. If those outside the church hear the gospel message but freely choose not to repent, then the Church with a clear conscience can let them depart. God gave us free will and informs us but does not coerce us to repent, so too should the Church do to those outside the church. Those inside the church must repent and be corrected or at least temporarily expelled from the Church lest they tarnish his name. The Church should feel no insult and no shame about a person who has heard the genuine gospel message but freely chooses not to repent. The Church should be ashamed of itself for allowing hypocrites to freely remain within the Church without being corrected or temporarily expelled. The Church should be ashamed of itself for those outside of the church who have never genuinely heard the gospel message. There is no shame in having the gospel message rejected. The only shame is in having the gospel message not being heard. The Church needs to get outside of the church and do loving acts of charity and kindness in the community to give it the platform to communicate the gospel message and let people freely choose to accept it or reject it.

Reality has already been determined; you have no power to cause historical facts to be true or false. We have abused our free will and separated ourselves from God our Loving Father by choosing to commit sins. Out of his love for us God has offered us a way back to him forever. If we but follow him, we will have eternal life, love, hope, meaning, joy, purpose, and peace. Yeshua (Jesus) is Lord our redeemer. Yeshua (Jesus) died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins. Yeshua (Jesus) rose from the dead on the 3rd day to create the only path to be restored to God. These are historical facts. If you do not believe me, then genuinely research them yourself and choose to make an informed decision.

Do you think that creation assembled itself? Do you think you will not face death? Do you have the power to conquer death? Do you have the power to keep your decaying body alive in a decaying universe forever? Who alone has the power to conquer death and give you eternal life, love, hope, meaning, joy, purpose and peace? If you were not created from oblivion, then when you die, you not face oblivion, but rather you face eternal death. Do you think ignorance is a valid defense against the rule of law? Do you think that God Almighty can be deceived?

The choice is one; repent now and be saved or face the white throne judgment. The choice is one; be sealed with eternal life or be marked for destruction and eternal death. The Holy Son shed his blood so that your sins might be cleansed and forgiven. All sin can be forgiven except for one. The one is pride. The pride to abuse free will and the pride refuse to call the Holy Son "Lord". The one is pride, which can be manifest in a prideful abuse of free will, a prideful clinging to an addiction to sin, and a prideful complacently to remain in slavery to sinful habits.

God Almighty loves you. God Almighty is merciful and gives you the opportunity to repent. You have been warned. It is foolish to reject eternal life and cling to your slavery to your habit of sin. Judgment is imminent. If you choose to reject eternal life, there is no one to blame but yourself. You cannot blame God. You cannot choose both the Kingdom of God and treason. You must choose one or the other. You have been warned about the penalty of treason. The freedom and responsibility to choose is yours. God Almighty loves you.

A friend or relative or altruistic person will give a loving warning when a person they love is doing something harmful that could result in death. That loving warning about how reality actually is can either be gratefully acknowledged or stubbornly rejected. When someone is stubborn, they will think the most loving warnings to be an insult to their pride. The question is one: Is the warning given for purpose of taking advantage of you or is the warning given for your own benefit? If the purpose of the warning is to take advantage of you, then you would be right to be offended by the deceptive warning. However, if the purpose of the warning is for your own benefit, then the only reason to be offended by the genuine warning is stubborn pride. You can choose your sinful habits, but you cannot choose the consequences for them; reality determines the consequences.

The choice is yours. The question is one; if you were to die today, are you right with God? Do you trust in him who is worthy of your trust? Make an informed decision for your eternal dwelling place; don't just choose out of ignorance, misinformation, or habit. If you still choose to cling to your habit of sin, then that you will face the white throne judgment when you die; he is coming soon.

John 3:16-18

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.

 Romans 10:9

If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

2 John 1:6

And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.

James 1:27

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

Matthew 28:17-20

When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

Matthew 25:32-40

All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. "Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.' "Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?' "The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.'

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