Issued: 06/04/22
PLEASE NOTE: All bracketed material may be authorial comments, attempts at proper syntax, or minimal rewordings of Scripture for the sake of clarity and continuity. These emendations will not be italicized. The “/” will be used to signify “and/or.”
In differentiating between Yahweh of hosts [later Jesus] and Yahweh the Most High God, lower case letters have been used when discussing the former; upper case letters are reserved for the One and Only Highest God. Since Jesus was at pains to differentiate himself from God the Father, we have followed his lead here.
The term neo-Christian will be used to differentiate between false Christians and Jesus’ true followers.
The prevailing wisdom is that Israelites wrote the Old Testament to establish a national identity, a set of customs, beliefs and stories exemplifying ethical values at odds with alien cultures. Israelites were monotheistic amidst polytheistic and pantheistic peoples; they were chosen for a specific purpose1 by the one, true God; they were wanderers in search of a homeland; and having left Egyptian servitude, they wanted to be free to do as they wished. It is further believed that in creating their mythology, Israelites borrowed from pagan sources, as, for example, the story of a universal flood and assorted goddesses. With these, Israelites ostensibly proved to be no different than any other nation on earth, among which the final objective is always the same: To prove one’s ethnic group superior to the rest—with heavenly endorsement to boot.
What argues against these viewpoints is that the God of the Old Testament had such a low opinion of them: “Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land…for you are a stubborn people,” veritable spiritual lepers, as well as firewalled in hearts and minds when it came to divine obedience (Deuteronomy 9:5-6, 10:16; Isaiah 1:3,6; Jeremiah 4:4,22; Zechariah 7:12). Added to these moral failings were peculiar prophecies about a different reality than the one seen: skies that opened, closed, and were capable of being rolled up; stars falling like fruit from trees—not the Perseids or the Leonids; and a brand new heaven with an upgraded sun and moon (Isaiah 30:26, 65:17). Since this cosmic upgrading was slated to take place in the future, what role did it play in ancient, nationalistic spins?
Obviously none; thus we have two choices: Either the Bible is all that its detractors claim, unreliable and given to hyperbole; or it is the word of God preparing generations to come to deal with spiritual challenges particular to each—the gist of Paul’s argument in Hebrews 11:39-40: “[All Biblical witnesses] were commended for their faith, yet…God also provided something better for us, so that they should not be made perfect apart from us.” If the latter, then all the prophecies about Scripture’s ‘irregularities’ were meant for Generation Omega, the one and only generation able to make sense of—and witness—recorded/predicted events. Why? As warnings that their faith in the integrity of Scripture would be tested by evidence contradicting it, the roles dinosaur bones, hominid remains, and UFO’s now play.
Science-Specific Prophecies for Gen Omega (continued)
Summarizing what we discussed in Part I, the cosmos is some sort of canopy God extended over creation; and this ties in with the notion that the heavens will be rolled up like parchment (Isaiah 34:4; Revelation 6:14). In Isaiah 40:22, which portrays the heavens as a “tent,” humanity is likened to grasshoppers at God’s feet, suggesting the scale and size of divine beings vis-à-vis mankind’s, as Revelation 16:8-9—also a prophecy for end times—does. Similar comparisons are found in Isaiah 40:12, 48:13, 66:1.
Assuming these Scriptures to be literal rather than figurative, divine beings conform to men’s height in order to interact with them.2 If Yahweh of hosts was the de facto Creator (John 1:3; Colossians 1:16) and Angel called into being by God (Genesis 1:3; Exodus 3:2-6; Psalms 2:7; John 3:19, 12:46; Colossians 1:15; 1Timothy 2:5; Revelation 3:14), it was not as a giant that he appeared to Abraham at Mamre (Genesis 18:22,25—cross-reference with John 5:22; Acts 17:31), or to Joshua near Jericho (Joshua 5:13-15), but as a normal-sized man. And so were the angels who continued on to Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 18:2,22, 19:1,10) and those seen by Jesus’ tomb (John 20:12).
In summary, this will be the sequence of events at end times: Immediately before Jesus’ second coming, the cosmos will disappear from overhead—pulsars, quasars, galaxies, nebulas, black holes, all the breathtaking and mind-numbing beauty detected by orbiting telescopes, gone in the blink of an eye. No sun, so darkness at midday (Amos 8:9; Joel 2:31—not solar or moon run-of-the-mill eclipses; Matthew 24:29). Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the darkness: The rainbow that made its first and last appearance in Genesis 9:13-16. Not that he needs a reminder that Floods are off the table, but the rainbow is a sign specific to Jesus’ rank as proxy God (Ezekiel 1:28) and angelic nature (Revelation 10:1). Empiricists will be mind-boggled watching a rainbow independent of sunlight and not necessarily at the precise 42º angle posited by science; though after their initial shock they may find themselves running for the caves with other ‘enlightened’ folk not taken in by arguments of God’s existence (Revelation 6:15-17). Then comes the Last Judgment, followed by the Millennium, Armageddon, and a new heavens and earth “where righteousness dwells” (2Peter 3:13).
UFOs
All fine and dandy: All of these give the family of faith a preview of the Day of Wrath and of events as yet unrealized (2Corinthians 4:18); but what do they do for us now? What role other than God telling us what He plans to do in future do they play in events particular to our generation, currently contradicting and challenging our faith? Well, they do suggest to us that UFO’s cannot be what mankind believes them to be; for although science has given odds that intelligent life may exist elsewhere in the vastness of the universe, none of it makes any sense if the cosmos is to vanish like smoke (Isaiah 51:6). If alien races do exist, what did they do to deserve annihilation? Did Jesus minister to them? Will they migrate in spaceships to the Heavenly Jerusalem that will be the hub of God’s new creation?
It all sounds ridiculous, does it not? And yet modernity is open season for UFO sightings, which paired with pre-historic fossils of all kinds and shapes practically bubbling up from the earth, should make us wonder: Why now in the midst of worldwide apostasy, the precondition to Jesus’ second coming (2Thessalonians 2:3)? Why so? Because the Christian gig is nearing completion; God’s Gospel has failed to transform this world [never the objective, for as long as Satan lived, it could never have happened]; and Jesus will be on course to encounter what he had known before he was nailed him to the cross: Faith would be gasping its last breath at his return (Matthew 24:11-12,22; Luke 18:8.
Does the un-spiritual tenor of the times enable Satan’s deceptions? What does Paul say? “For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts; and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables” (2Timothy 4:3-4). “For this reason, God will send them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie” (2Thessalonians 2:11). And who is always game to deceive men? Satan: by guile or wile (1Kings 22:22; Zechariah 3:1-2; Matthew 24:24; 2Thessalonians 2:8-10; Revelation 12:10).
None of us can prove that UFOs are indeed satanic deceptions, anymore than we can prove the existence of a God we have chosen to believe in, but gives us nothing concrete to show that He in fact does. In faith everything is counterintuitive: No evidence, no proof (John 20:29; Hebrews 11:1); navigating life by faith and not by sight (2Corinthians 5:17); focusing on spiritual matters while rejecting material goodies; guiding our steps by the lamp of prophecy instead of by the vamp of science (Psalms 119:105; 2Peter 1:19); hoping against hope (Romans 4:18, 8:24) for the manifestation of that Kingdom we, like all our brothers in faith, have not yet received, “things that were promised… in the distant future [but welcoming] them, acknowledging that [we all are] strangers and foreigners on earth” (Hebrews 11:13).
As always it all boils down to a matter of choice: Either the Bible is true or it is false. If true, our beliefs must conform to Isaiah 8:20’s golden standard: They must be supported by the written record; if false, everything is up for grabs. We come to the conclusion that extraterrestrials do not exist because of Scripture’s insistence on the disappearance of the cosmos; others believe so because they lack spiritual discernment to tell the difference (1Corinthians 2:12-14).
If these are fooled by semblances of zooming spaceships come to Earth through wormholes and the like, well, expect lots more Satan Generated Images (SGIs) to keep them enthralled. God is a believer that if someone is committed to a belief, more power to him: From the Holy Spirit is the belief is legitimate, or from Satan to enslave his mind and soul if such belief is misplaced. Regarding alien abductees and encounters of the third kind, extrapolate from Marian apparitions, stigmata, or implanted memories like those reported by returnees from the great beyond. The sky is literally the limit under which Satan has been enabled to perform his smoke and mirrors tricks upon soul-in-doubt audiences.
And before we move on, the same holds true for dinosaur bones: Though they litter museums worldwide, they have no place within the chronology of Scripture, or the Flood narrative. Certainly Noah’s Ark did not become seaborne 65 million years, the estimated time for the extinction of all dinosaurs. Neo-Christians are at pains to prove dinosaurs co-existed with men on the basis of their adjacent footprints in the fossil record.3 If this was so, dinosaurs had to have entered the Ark in pairs, since as air-breathers, accommodations had been provided for them to survive the Flood (Genesis 7:14-16,21-22). Yet they are not listed in the passenger manifest of clean and unclean animals; but if this was an oversight, then they must have disembarked the Ark and would still be among us. Since none of these things is true, duh! Oh, and if Noah was some mythical hybrid imported by Israelites from pagan, Flood narratives, God (Ezekiel 14:14) and Jesus (Matthew 24:37-39), who confirm Noah’s existence, need to be twitted to set them straight.
We apologize for the cynicism; maybe we are carrying Proverbs 26:5 too far. Which does not preclude a word of warning from the Shepherd of men’s souls to neo-Christians seesawing between faith and science: “If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and the holy angels” (Luke 9:26). And for good measure, Matthew 7:22-23 tells misguided zealots what to expect from failing to toe Jesus’ non-evidentiary line (John 20:29).
Intimations of Technology
Social Media
Matthew 24:14 suggests a larger picture within the topic of worldwide evangelization.4 History shows that the Christian endeavor has been protracted and costly, brimming with generational challenges summarized and given meaning by Paul in Hebrews 11. But the one modern factor that has brought to completion Jesus’ ultimate objective—that of the Gospel being preached to all nations—is social media. On the main the Internet has been the greatest contributor, though there is no denying that it has become a Babel of contradicting opinions undermining Jesus’ unifying goal. Yet the objective has always been to put the truth out there and let people chose what they wish to believe (Deuteronomy 30:12-15,19; Ezekiel 3:17-21; John 15:22). God wants fully-informed worshippers; as long as they wield absolute power over others, Satan and his minions are not choosy about the quality of worship they get.
Can we then surmise that with Matthew 24:14, Jesus was predicting the Internet? What about Revelation 13:6? How can such global control over spending be accomplished without computers, biometric technologies, access to bank accounts, and the digital manipulation/deactivation of purchasing power? China is a graphic example of the latter. In our days people have been reduced to numbers and statistics. Delete this info from data banks and people are practically wiped out from existence. Cancel their credit and they cannot buy anything.
Tied to electric grids upon which social media depend is the matter of solar interference. When our sun goes hyperactive, plasma ejecting from it creates solar winds that if severe enough can fry electric grids on earth. The solar “plague” in Revelation 13:8-9, which by the sound of it seems unprecedented in human history, is bound to play havoc with communication systems. Is this the scenario prophesied in Amos 8:12? On the assumption that Psalms 2:1-3 includes banning holy texts so that the powers that be can fully control the minds of men, [a ‘men-have-done-that-been-there’ historical reality not new under a hotter sun], is Amos suggesting social media goes black? That all religious, digitalized data will no longer be accessible? That people so addicted to and dependent on technology will be desperate for divine guidance when their smart-phones and computers go on the blink?5
What about Luke 21:25-26? What does “distress among nations confused by the roaring of the sea and the waves” mean? The results of climate change, rising seas, bigger and more powerful storms? Now, this is one prophecy no Biblical detractor can say was written after the fact, as Daniel’s predictions on empire-building and Jesus’ words attesting to the fall of the Jerusalem temple often are. The solar plague is slated to take place at end times, so it is particular to Generation Omega (Revelation 16:9). And the imagery of an angel pouring a cup over the sun should not be taken to mean a unilateral action by God to bake men. Just as He allows Satan to work all manners of deception because men chose not to heed His word (2Thessalonians 2:11-13), why not repay men’s disrespect for and violence towards His creation by ramping-up the heat human technology unleashes and give them a taste of their own medicine? The old standard at play: An eye for an eye. Whether for lucre or political shenanigans Satan’s minions claim no such danger exists; but nature’s living barometers, animals and plants, broadcast a different picture. The Big Heat is a-coming and inescapable.
Weaponry
What about Revelation 13:13? We know what beasts’ horns mean in prophecy (Daniel 8:20-24). Is the two-horned beast of Revelation 13:13 an alliance between two superpowers with the technology to fry first beast’s opponents from orbiting satellites? The point being made here is that the two-horned beast does the first beast’s bidding, compelling those dwelling on the earth to worship her. Because the two horns share the same body, they share a common, cultural heritage; obviously Western, since the rest of the world is off Scripture’s table.6
How the first beast was wounded by sword [think Napoleon] and survived to expand its dominion over the whole world are topics of history and current news (Revelation 13:3). For who is being specifically referenced as the killer of God’s saints is no enigma: An entity without armies, relying on the might of nations to enforce its agenda (Daniel 8:24). This is not rocket science; there is only one candidate in terms of record and uninterrupted, historical longevity (Revelation 13:5—as per Ezekiel 4:6, 1,260 years old and counting). How will it be destroyed? Not by human hand (Daniel 8:25), which in turn directs us to Revelation 17:17 and 18:8.
We do not need to belabor what we have discussed elsewhere;7 but the point clearly made by prophecy is that Revelation 13:6,13, 17:17 and 18:8 take place at a time when technology makes them factual; and that time is the immediate future. But when or for how long is anybody’s guess.
Unusual Physics
Evolution Confusion
Theories about the creation of the cosmos and evolution are relatively new in human history; consequently, if we believe the canard that Israelites waxed nationalistic when penning the Book of Genesis, narratives negating cosmological origins and the evolution of the species make no sense. Israelites did not know the scientific score then; neither could such stories serve a purpose to set nationalistic hormones aflowing.
Once again let us assume that Genesis is God’s written testimony as to how everything from Yahweh of hosts/Jesus to man were called into being by Him Who wills into existence things that were not (Romans 4:17): “Let there be Light”; and the first-born of all Creation came into being, the symbol as well as the person: Yahweh of hosts/Jesus (John 1:9-10, 8:12; Colossians 1:15; Revelation 3:14). Now the Big Bang Theory posits that pre-existent matter had become so compressed that it exploded outwards in a burst of light, ejecting matter that created the cosmos. Since physics states that matter can neither be created nor destroyed, pre-existent matter is a must, and Genesis 1:1-2 supports that notion.
However, in the Big Bang scenario matter was compressed; in Genesis, matter in the form of land and waters was not—point one. Point two is that the “Light” in Genesis 1:3 was not an outburst of energy, but a symbol for the person of Yahweh of hosts/Jesus, who had not been previously compressed in any way but very definitely expressed when God called him into being. Unlike God and the Holy Spirit, both of Whom are accounted for in Genesis 1:1-2, Yahweh of hosts/Jesus was not in the mix nor co-substantial with Them; and unlike Them, he was not eternal, having been created within the phenomenon of time set in motion by his ‘birth.’ Psalms 2:7-12, whose speaker is not King David but the Son who will rule the nations “with an iron rod” (Revelation 2:27, 12:5, 19:15), tells us who that ruler was to be post-crucifixion (Isaiah 22:19-22; Matthew 28:18; 1Corinthians 15:24-28; Revelation 1:18). With all due respect to King David, he ruled over Israel but not outside of it; nor was his kingdom eternal as the Messiah’s is prophesied to be (Ezekiel 37:25; Luke 1:31-33; Revelation 11:15).8
Science then posits that burning chunks of matter cooled off; became planets with molten cores; volcanoes belched clouds that precipitated rains that filled the oceans, which in turn were seeded with organic compounds that over billions of years became living organisms. Genesis pooh-poohs that chronology: Waters above (Genesis 1:2) and below were separated by a canopy called “Heaven” (Genesis 1:7-8—cross-reference Psalms 104:2; Isaiah 40:22); then came land and sea (Genesis 1:9-10), none of it cooled-off matter or the result of prolonged raining; then plants spontaneously materializing at God’s bidding (Genesis 1:11-13); then, lo and behold, stars, sun, and moon after plants had become established (Genesis 1:14-19)—the moon not the result of a proto-planet’s collision with Earth); then sea life and birds (Genesis 1:20-23), the latter obviously not evolved dinosaurs taking off into the air as theorized; then land producing air-breathing creatures (Genesis 1:24-25), presumably with fully developed lungs and legs unlike evolution’s sea-to-land crawlers; and then man, made from earth in the image of God, with features very different from hominids’ remains. (Genesis 1:26-27).
While it is true that every culture has variations of Genesis’ creational ‘myth,’ [and given Genesis 9:19, 10:5, why would they not?], the Jewish version has a more realistic bent to it: No fantastic animals or divine secretions giving rise to assorted phenomena. Still, Genesis’ chronology contradicts science’s version of events, on top of subverting one of Physics’ cherished laws: Matter cannot be created out of nothing—which wanting to make His stance clear from the beginning was God’s mode of undermining scientific wisdom.
Now, we have chosen the word God interchangeably: Though Yahweh the Most High God, the Father, created Yahweh of hosts, the Son, He empowered the latter to complete the rest of Creation (John 1:13; Colossians 1:16-19). In the Bible the Most High God is the ultimate expression of everything, be it Creator, Savior, or what have you; because Yahweh of hosts/Jesus was the de facto Creator, the Yahweh in Isaiah 40:22 extending Heaven’s canopy was Yahweh of hosts, not the Most High. This is one of Scripture’s norms to differentiate Father from Son, a consistent approach contradicting the blasphemy of Trinitarian dogma.
The Rain Fell Plainly throughout God’s Domain
The Flood is a doozy of a narrative. Science sneers at it; empirical-minded neo-Christians, who are embarrassed by it, avoid it, or in a direct challenge to given ultimatums (Proverbs 30:6) try to explain away the ‘illogic’ of the event. Jesus fully endorsed the narrative (Matthew 24:37-39); and so did Paul (Hebrews 11:7) and Peter (2Peter 2:5). Since all of them were channeling the Holy Spirit, to deny the Flood is tantamount to calling the Holy Spirit a liar (2Timothy 3:16; 2Peter 1:20-21). We were warned this to be a non-forgivable offense (Matthew 12:32); as well as the fact that Jesus will not look kindly on those embarrassed by his teaching (Mark 8:38). “Let God be found true, but every human being a liar” (Romans 3:4); so you of faith embrace the Flood narrative and milk it for all its worth.
In light of how the natural world works, the Flood narrative seems preposterous. Yet in light of Scripture Creation was made to conform to the Creator’s specifications (Job 38:8-41; Psalms 104:9; Proverbs 8:29; Jeremiah 5:22), suggesting that the Creator who placed such constraints on it could also make them inoperative if he so wished. Let us take Jesus’ walk over the stormy sea (Matthew 14:22-33). According to the law of gravity, he could not have done so; and if we accept he did on grounds of who he was, why could Peter? Because Jesus could subvert the physical laws he had put in place, a privilege he extended to Peter as long as Peter believed he was able to levitate. Why? To reinforce the teaching that everything was possible to those who truly believed (Mark 9:23); when Peter doubted, he lost his edge and gravity pushed him down. On another occasion, Jesus commanded the weather to settle down: “Then he rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm” (Matthew 8:26).
Thus when we approach the Flood narrative, we must consider that the phenomenon was not physics as usual. Otherwise, how could all the air-breathing animals in Creation, of which seven pairs were ‘clean’ and one pair ‘unclean’ (Genesis 7:2), fit into the finite dimensions of the Ark (Genesis 6:14-16)? How were Arctic polar bears and Antarctic penguins brought over; and after disembarking, how did they return to their habitats? How did sea-life [no air in their nostrils (Genesis 7:19,22)] and plants (Genesis 8:11-12) survive the crushing depths of waters submerging Mount Everest (Genesis 7:19)? What were those God-sent winds capable of evaporating the waters and drying the land of all the mud and silt that should have accumulated (Genesis 8:1,3,7,13)?
Let us now focus on where the waters came from. Science-minded neo-Christians posit they bubbled up from underground. But Genesis tells us that they fell from above: “All the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened” until they were closed again (Genesis 7:11, 8:2). That phrase, “fountains of the great deep,” does not refer to underground waters: In Scripture “the deep” is the impassable abyss between Heaven and earth (Genesis 1:2; Isaiah 14:15—referring to Satan, who is now on earth (John 14:30 / Revelation 20:2; Luke 16:26). Are the waters in Genesis 1:2 those that fell from above during the Flood? Were they stored in some heavenly reservoir like the hail predicted to fall upon mankind (Job 38:22-23) during the final plagues (Revelation 11:19, 16:21)?
What is all of this leading to? That what men see up there is not necessarily all that is up there; at the very least they do not register in instruments probing space. Which reminds us of the force (?) preventing human senses from perceiving spiritual realities (2Kings 6:17; Isaiah 29:11; Mark 4:12; Luke 19:42, 24:16; 1Corinthians 2:14; 2Corinthians 4:3-4; Hebrews 13:2). Does the same force work on instruments of science? Conversely, as is the case with human vision and implanted memories, can such instruments be made to register faked phenomena? Food for thought but outside Scripture’s prescribed ‘filters’ for discerning spiritual truths.
One final example: Joshua’s plea to Yahweh that sun and moon be stopped on the sky (Joshua 10:12-14). What does this imply? That the planet had stopped spinning, which would have nullified the force of gravity and would have sucked up all earthly matter into space—or so science postulates. But again, what was at work here? The Creator listening to Joshua’s plea and subverting physical laws put in place by him. While such divine intervention was proof that Yahweh had Israel’s back, the secondary objective was to corroborate the claim there is nothing impossible for God or His co-ruling proxy (Matthew 19:26). If He can make a new sun and a new moon both exponentially brighter than their actual counterparts (Isaiah 30:26), it was a small thing to freeze the latter in their positions while Joshua routed his enemies. Then we have the crossing of the Red Sea (Exodus 14:21-22—again the mysterious wind); Elijah stopping rainfall for three years and six months (James 5:7); foodstuffs being replenished out of nothing (1Kings 17:14-16; John 6:9-13); even intimations of teleportation (Acts 8:26-39).
What is the common factor in all of these? Yahweh’s direct intervention, not Yahweh the Most High, mind you, but His steward and co-ruler, Yahweh of hosts/Jesus. The message threaded throughout Scripture is that creation is not corseted by physics, but that he who made the mold can manipulate it as he sees fit, switching the laws of science off and on to fit divine priorities. It goes without saying that supernatural events like those above are no longer the norm, as they were in those times of ignorance (Acts 17:30) when faith needed to be hammered in into people’s heads to lay the background for the blessed who would believe sight unseen. Jews of antiquity, as do professed Judeo-Christians today, read these as inspirational allegories rather than factual history; precisely because of this attitude, the faith they should elicit never blossoms to become deeply entrenched. Though we go to synagogues and churches professing to commune with God, ostensibly rejoicing in His testimony as written in our Bibles, we do not wholeheartedly believe and so flunk the attempt (Isaiah 29:13; Jeremiah 29:13). Once faith is established, confirming evidence is withdrawn; evidence is only given in the presence of unfaith (John 4:48); even then, results are mixed (Matthew 13:58).
This brief review should at the very least encourage deeper reflection in and appreciation for the unplumbed depths of Scripture. With their song-and-dance, inspirational routines, religious leaders fail to ignite faith by reducing God-imparted wisdom to apologetic drivel, pragmatic advice, or pious bromides.
But let none of us be excused for not doing what gives us a leg up in matters of salvation: The serious, contemplative study of God’s word. Not only does it tell us how to behave to please God and curry favor with Him; but it maps for us the path to follow through the fog Satan’s mind-games as the end looms near by following the beacon of Jesus’ torch (2Peter 1:19).
1 To demonstrate His power (Deuteronomy 7:7; Romans 9:22; 1Corinthians 1:27.
2 Apparently not in modernity: The evangelist Oral Roberts claimed to have had a vision of a 900-foot Jesus in 1977. Unless there was some sort of humongous measuring stick next to this vision, the exactness of Jesus’ height brings to mind the calibrated vision of Predator or Iron Man.
Whether true or not, Mr. Roberts was fund-raising for a medical complex to churn out debt-free missionaries graduating from the university that bears his name. When the endeavor faltered financially, God-zilla gave him an ultimatum to make ends meet or die. This must have alarmed his followers because donations poured in to preempt the self-same deliverance every person of faith in the Bible has been desperate to achieve: Leaving this world to be with God and Jesus (Mark 9:19; Philippians 1:23; Hebrews 11:13-16,35; Revelation 22:20). Go figure.
3 Neo-Christians love their dinosaurs, as does the world at large, but have outdone non-believers with dinosaur-themed parks where science is reputed to have “playfully co-existed” for decades with a Gospel that contradicts their existence. For good measure, perhaps to nudge ambivalent believers, they have conscripted Jesus as their welcoming host.
4 The Judeo-Christian objective is not to convince people of Scripture’s truth, but to present them with the choice of embracing or rejecting it. That is the goal implicit in Deuteronomy 30:11-20 and Ezekiel 3:18-21: Personal choice leaves it up to the individual, of his or her own free will, to decide his or her own fate. Inserted in this is God’s vetting of peoples’ hearts: Those willing to believe, like Lydia in Acts 16:14, will get a spiritual assist from Him. And because here is only one Teacher, Jesus (Matthew 23:8), and only one Tutor to God’s truth, the Holy Spirit sent by Jesus (1John 2:27), anybody seeking to ram his/her version of the Gospel down anybody else’s throat is a vector for Satan and everyone’s enemy. Here, alas, we have one doctrine specific to all generations that to this day remains unheeded.
5 Though to cover all bases, we can go with the symbolism: Humanity as the sea; waves as peoples displaced by and seeking to escape natural upheavals.
6 An event unfolding as of this writing, coupled with one of Fatima’s prediction, suggests the identity of one of the beast’s horns.
7 See All About Satan.
8 Or as Psalms 45:6-7, contradicting Trinitarian dogma, puts it: “Your throne [King of Kings—Revelation 19:16], [proxy] God, exists forever and ever, and the scepter of your kingdom is a righteous scepter. You have loved righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God [the Most High], your God, has anointed you with oil of joy above your companions [angels].”
Could not be clearer, folks, for the Most High God knows no gods above Him or with Him (Deuteronomy 32:39; Isaiah 44:8). And Jesus knew his place within the divine hierarchy (Matthew 12:32; John 14:28).
BIBLE FOR END TIMES 