tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24238547922167437642024-03-15T00:44:39.951+08:00Prophetic TimesWe are living in the end times. This blog is designed to update all who are interested in knowing what is happening today as it shapes up for the final days according to bible prophecies.
Creation Science and Prophecies show who God is and how He is affecting our past, present and future.
Study these articles, teachings and views and search the Scriptures daily to see if this is so.
Come back regularly as more postings are being made to complete the Creation Science and Prophecy Series.Prophetic Timeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16754431401713681287noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423854792216743764.post-81133228774665872902015-04-19T10:45:00.001+08:002015-06-06T08:37:30.109+08:00Earthquakes, Radioactivity and Volcanoes - God's Judgment<blockquote><p style="margin: 0px;">Gen 1:31 "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was VERY GOOD."</p></blockquote>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Did you ever wonder if God had made everything very good, then where did earthquakes, radioactivity, volcanoes, hurricanes, and what we call natural calamities come from?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">We believe that God says what He means and means what He says. So when He says His creation was very good, it truly was indeed. Such natural calamities were not part of that original creation.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;">We believe when God destroyed the world and saved Noah and his family, the fountains of the great deep broke open.</p>
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<blockquote><p style="margin: 0px;">Gen 7:11 "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were ALL THE FOUNTAINS OF THE GREAT DEEP BROKEN UP, and the windows of heaven were opened."</p></blockquote>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Earthquakes, radioactivity and volcanoes came about from the breaking up of the earth's crust along the mid-oceanic ridges, plates cracking up, and water and magma came up in great force resulting in what we see as natural calamities today. These are not God's original creation. They are effects of God's judgment on our sin during the days of Noah.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">For more information, you can check out Dr Walt Brown's <strong>Hydroplate Theory</strong>.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">There are competing views like <strong>Catastrophic Plate Tectonics</strong>, etc but we feel Dr Brown's theory is more systematic and complete to explain all these so-called natural calamities which are not so natural but resulting from God's judgment on sin.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">Doesn't this deserve another look? If God's creation of the then perfect world was very good, why will it cause suffering to Adam and Eve by earthquakes, radioactivity and volcanoes? </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;">We think not. What do you think?</p>
<p> </p>Prophetic Timeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16754431401713681287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423854792216743764.post-20783067943842038542015-02-03T09:41:00.001+08:002015-02-03T09:41:19.199+08:00Haeckel's Fraud PerpetuatesIt is refreshing to see the fraudulent works within the scientific community being highlighted. It is unfortunate that Ernst Haeckel's illustrations of embryological stages of vertebrates published between 1868 and 1908 is still being used as proof of evolution. He wanted to convince his readers that all vertebrates share a common ancestor. His famous phrase "<i><b>ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny</b></i>" - our embryonic development repeats our evolutionary past - still finds its way into our biology text books even today. And this was disproved over a hundred years ago and Haeckel made an admission which was also part false.<p>Many may not know but Haekel's work were adopted by Nazism following his racist views. Haekel said that the Germans were members of a biologically superior community (akin to Nietzsche's 'super-man'). More about Haekel <a href="http://creation.com/ernst-haeckel-evangelist-for-evolution-and-apostle-of-deceit">here</a>.</p><p><b><i>New Scientist</i></b> reviewed a book by Bob Hopwood, a science historian, who had his book recently published. The full review can be found <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530041.200-how-fudged-embryo-illustrations-led-to-drawnout-lies.html#.VNAcP5IaySM">here</a> and reproduced in part below.</p><p>-----------------------------</p><p class="infuse" style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font face="Times"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Some of the most iconic images in biology hold a dark secret. </i>Haeckel's Embryos: Images, evolution, and fraud<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"> delves into their history</i></span></font></p><p class="infuse" style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font face="Times"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">IT's embarrassing but true: some of the most influential drawings in the history of biology are wrong, exaggerated to fit a thesis.</span></font></p><a name='more'></a><p class="infuse" style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><img class="article-img-left" src="http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/mg22530041.200/mg22530041.200-2_1200.jpg" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; float: left; max-width: 40%;"><font face="Times"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As we discover in <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;">Haeckel's Embryos</i>, German biologist Ernst Haeckel included illustrations of the embryological stages of vertebrates in a series of books published between 1868 and 1908. Fudging the data, he placed the drawings into a comparative grid, highlighting similarities between species and blurring differences. The results are highly inaccurate.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"></p><p><p></p></p><p style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"></p><p><font face="Times"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><p class="infuse" style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font face="Times"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Haeckel wanted to convince his readers that all vertebrates share a common ancestor, and that, as he put it, "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" – our embryonic development repeats our evolutionary past. This aphorism was soon disproved, but the use of Haeckel's drawings persisted, particularly in education. There were waves of criticism, from the 1870s when the drawings were published, up to 1997 as Haeckel's "fraud" was rediscovered and exploited by creationists.</span></font></p><p class="infuse" style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font face="Times"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></p><p></p><br>Prophetic Timeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16754431401713681287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423854792216743764.post-84652007681239416702014-10-19T11:08:00.001+08:002014-10-19T11:30:09.863+08:00Largest Land Animal Found - Behemoth!For many Christians, when they read of the Behemoth in Job 40, they cannot imagine what animal is God referring to. They may not believe that God made dinosaurs with man. For those who believe in a literal 6-day creation of Genesis 1, accepting that God made the Behemoth on Day 6 together with the other land animals and man is taking God at His word. You do not need to explain away Job 40 to be a hippopotamus or elephant. It is a sauropod dinosaur, the biggest of its kind. It lived with Job at the time God spoke to him in the whirlwind.<p><br></p><p>Just read Job 40 carefully and you will discover its corresponding similarity with the story of discovery of this behemoth that God described there.</p><p><br></p><p><font face="Times"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="pocketsword:versemenu:15" id="vv15" class="verse" style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">15</a><span id="vvv15">¶Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.</span><br><a href="pocketsword:versemenu:16" id="vv16" class="verse" style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">16</a><span id="vvv16">Lo now, his strength <i class="transChangeAdded">is</i> in his loins, and his force <i class="transChangeAdded">is</i> in the navel of his belly.</span><br><a href="pocketsword:versemenu:17" id="vv17" class="verse" style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">17</a><span id="vvv17">He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.</span><br><a href="pocketsword:versemenu:18" id="vv18" class="verse" style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">18</a><span id="vvv18">His bones <i class="transChangeAdded">are as</i> strong pieces of brass; his bones <i class="transChangeAdded">are</i> like bars of iron.</span><br><a href="pocketsword:versemenu:19" id="vv19" class="verse" style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">19</a><span id="vvv19">He <i class="transChangeAdded">is</i> the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach <i class="transChangeAdded">unto him</i>.</span></span></font><br></p><p><br></p><p><b>The Discovery</b></p><p>Recently, <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Drexel University professor Ken Lacovara unveiled a new supermassive dinosaur species he discovered and unearthed with his team between 2005 and 2009 in Patagonia, south Argentina. Weighing in at nearly 65 tons, <i>Dreadnoughtus schrani </i>is the largest land animal ever found of calculable mass and also the most complete skeleton ever found for a dinosaur in this mass range (read <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/09/04/this-is-the-kind-of-dinosaur-you-find-in-hollywood/">here</a>).</font></span></p><p></p><a name="more"></a><br><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZeReDUyUUfBd4xp-RvUbXtH4C03Ryix99Y8OUT5YMCi4EmJFHunJJBsj3wwkZ-7NJl4cmC-r32enXvgdJ9eH5uC2Gp2YoZxGht1XvgS_P-ti2BgNs8MK-nVbsBZQ-5-j4HGnKl0rV6yM/" style="width: 407px; height: 383px; float: left; display: block;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">To put it into perspective, this behemoth is heavier than the Boeing 737. It is about a dozen African Elephants squished into one, explains Ken.</font></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">However, it may be interesting to note Ken's observation of this behemoth:</font></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">- that it does not walk much given it can eat easy with its long neck</font></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">- that it cannot support such a heavy body weight</font></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">- that once it falls over, it will not be able to get up</font></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Luis Chiappe, director of the National History Museum of Los Angeles's Dinosaur Institute observes that this behemoth must be eating all day long to produce enough energy to mobilize such a huge body.</span></font><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></p><p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They appear to scoff at the design of this behemoth which baffles their human knowledge. How can God make such an animal? The behemoth is a type of sauropod, the type of dinosaur with a long neck and a long tail. Ken notes that it has an immense tail, 18 feet of muscular protrusion that can defend itself from predators. He has such large skeleton that is larger than all previously discovered fossils. He notes the rib cage, the femurs, and understands how much weight the legs must carry. In his naiviety of God, he thinks that this behemoth is flawed in design.</span></font></p><p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(The Washington Post video <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/c/embed/90d549de-32e0-11e4-9f4d-24103cb8b742#">here</a>).</span></font></p><p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>God has the last laugh</b></span></font></p><p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">God must have purposedly created and designed such animals that defy man's logic. This behemoth and even the T-Rex with its short forelimbs are generally thought that they have great difficulty to get up after they fall. Look at the elephant. It gets up quite well and carries itself very well. God knows how to build such massive creatures that even man today fails to understand and appreciate. Look at the bumblebee that scientists feel is wrongly designed and should not be able to fly. But fly it does.</span></font></p><p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></p><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">God's creation is to show how foolish man is and how wise and powerful God is. This discovery is yet another point to give glory to God.</span></font></p><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">(Listen to <b>Bob Enyart</b> on this discovery <a href="http://kgov.com/behemoth-aka-dreadnoughtus">here</a>. I also agree with him that if the paleontologists check for soft tissue materials, they will find it. And more importantly if they check for existence of C14, they will find it. These will prove that this behemoth is recent, not hundreds of millions of years.)</span></font></p><p></p>Prophetic Timeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16754431401713681287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423854792216743764.post-16938950483277766952014-10-13T09:30:00.001+08:002014-10-19T11:15:27.711+08:00ISIS Challenge to the WorldIn a span of a few months, <b>ISIS</b> (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) has caused a massive upheaval around the world with their fast paced attack which is ruthless and criminally horrible. Backed by a large number of non-Arab fighters who came from all over the world, they have quickly established their might and presence in their Islamic style of fighting. First, under the guise of defending hapless Syrians against President Assad and suddenly the next in taking over large portions of Iraq and declaring a Caliphate.<p><br></p><p>The western world is appalled at their brutality of killing the men, raping the women and beheading anyone who stands in their way. In recent times, the public beheading of western captives who are innocent civilians and provoking anger of the western world. Finally, they get together to participate in a US-led bombardment of ISIS positions in Iraq and now in Syria. On the ground, the Iraqis and Kurds are regaining their territory but this is not enough. The only reason the western world is keen to stamp out ISIS is to prevent these foreigners from engaging in similar attacks back in their home countries, if they still have home countries to return to.</p><p><br></p><p></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p>For the other Islamic nations, they collaborate with these western powers for different reasons. Their authority is undermined and they are trying to gain leadership advantage. Here's how each Islamic nation is using the ISIS situation to play their hand:</p><a name="more"></a><br><ul><li><p>Saudi Arabia and allies - to avert a potential ISIS strike on Mecca and Medinah after they clearly threw the gauntlet at them from the start of the declaration of the so-called Caliphate. This action tantamounts to taking over the helm of Islam from Saudi Arabia.</p></li><li><p>Iran - to prevent ISIS from taking Bagdhad and the southern parts of Iraq as it is a buffer zone of Shia territory else ISIS will continue into Iran. That will be a serious threat to Iran.</p></li><li><p>Turkey - to position Edrogan as the new Islamic power replacing Gadhaffi and Saddam Hussein in the Suni world with negotiation powers with the Western world. Edrogan is a fundamentalist and will not be upstaged by ISIS leader Ibrahim. (<b>UPDATE</b>: As of today, Turkey has yet to allow its airbases for the US-led forces to launch their strikes.)</p></li></ul><p><br></p><p>It is difficult for the western world to appreciate what ISIS is doing and why they are doing it. The vacuum created in the Syrian civil war spilling into Iraq mismanagement of the country gave ISIS a golden opportunity which they took with relative ease. It sprung up a group of jihadis that was able to attract muslims of like-minds from all over the world to join them. It was reported that citizens of UK, France, Spain, Germany, US, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Australia have found their way to Iraq and Syria to join up with ISIS. Estimates put them at nearly 10% to 20% of the ISIS army at the present time.</p><p><br></p><p>Why would such citizens give up their comfortable world and opt to join such a mission? It has to do with their belief of joining the jihad, their belief that the ISIS jihad is valid and to do their part to making that vision real. Their view of ISIS and Islam gave credence to their cause. Did they think wrong? Obviously they think they are right and have committed their lives to it. Some even brought their entire family believing in the just cause of ISIS.</p><p><br></p><p>They have access to social media and must have read the heinous acts of the ISIS jihadis as they slaughtered, raped and plundered the territories they fought in and yet stayed with them. It is not for the lack of information. It is because they believe Islam teaches that and ISIS has released such bulletin to defend their actions. These foreigners believe in the cause of ISIS and willingly join them, not for money but for a belief that ISIS is right and fighting with them will give them favor in judgment day.</p><p><br></p><p><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZlHlC9QKaFRoNbgrWKO8CwZrrcV_oGmb8S_pfrJL2l5iWhtFCt5QsugFMYgVzuxRkbRPc0umngtC1nxMgCwvrwfwT4fAQGjKowCLkrbCT6ElAZP9hnbx-rrEbAGMxrvEIQrsayQlo1Pk/" style="float: left; display: block; width: 262px; height: 87px;">Other Islamic nations claim that ISIS hijacked Islam and that ISIS does not represent true Islam. ISIS insists all their practices are maintained in proper Islamic teachings. Their magazine, <i><b>Dabiq</b></i>, is used to propagate and justify their actions of taking sex slaves and defending their abhorent actions of beheading captives. </p><p><br></p><p>The end goal of ISIS in declaring the Caliphate is world dominance, to continue what was not accomplished before and to bring Islam to the forefront of global attention and rule. While the other Islamic countries have been using more stealthy means like controlling the world through oil prices via OPEC, stealth jihad in exporting millions of muslims to take "<i>refuge</i>" in western countries and bring up their birth rates there, ISIS has chosen the more direct path of confrontation and its message is clear.</p><p><br></p><p>Some apologists say that while the world is shocked at the gruesome actions of ISIS in raping, forcing conversion by the gun, beheading captives and rampant killing of their enemies, they believe that ISIS is following the literal Islamic teachings stated in the Quran and Hadiths. Their Dabiq magazine also clearly attempts to justify along the same lines. In reality, ISIS has never hidden their intentions and have spoken ever so clearly.</p><p><br></p><p>Yet the opposing Islamic nations claim that ISIS has totally misinterpreted the Quran and Hadith. How is it that both side who read these books in Arabic can declare positions that are totally at odds with each other? One must be lying! Perhaps, these are times that will force the world to learn a bit more about the real Islam in the Quran and Hadith so that they can answer such questions.</p><p><br></p><p>One should not assume that Islam is like any other religions in the world and should appraise the Quran and Hadith by itself. Obviously, with ISIS claiming new grounds by the day, the world cannot sit back and watch the brutality over news channels. At this time, the US-led initiatives of bombing ISIS held areas have loosen their grip but not defeated them. The Kurds, the Yazidis, the minorities, the Shia in the south are all in danger of facing certain death, defeat, rape and plunder at the hands of ISIS. And all the while, the world ignores their religious beliefs that justified their actions. This is a serious problem in the west today.</p><p><br></p><p>Assertions that ISIS has hijacked Islam do not hold water and proponents against ISIS must clearly show how ISIS have done so against Islam and openly declare those grounds. Till today, not a single imam, mullah, ayatollah or religious leader have openly stated exactly how ISIS has hijacked Islam. All we hear are political claims and wild assertions that ISIS is unIslamic. But is it true? Just prove it to the world so that it is just as clear as ISIS has proclaimed their Caliphate.</p><p><br></p><p>It is time for the world to know the real ISIS and oppose them responsibly. Without knowledge of what drives ISIS, the western bombs will merely dent their positions but not stop their hearts and minds to doing what they do. They will continue taunting the western world with more beheadings. This war is beyond bombs and bullets, beyond Syria and Iraq. It will come to our own shores and lands before you realize it. </p><p><br></p><p>ISIS is going for world dominance whether you like it or not! Stop them before they stop us.</p>Prophetic Timeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16754431401713681287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423854792216743764.post-55029958367595550952014-08-05T09:37:00.001+08:002014-10-19T11:16:50.833+08:00Rosetta Probes Comet to Find Source of Earth's WaterLaunched in 2004, the space probe Rosetta was sent to learn if Comet 67P holds the secret of seeding water on Earth. Evolutionists believe that water is crucial to the spontaneous generation of life and that such water must have come from outer space. They are hoping to find the crucial chemicals that may have made up the formation of life on Earth on the comet. (Read <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/art-of-movement/rosetta-comet-chaser/chapter/1" target="_blank">here</a>)<p><br></p><p>Scientists is expecting Rosetta to chart the surface of the comet so that they can send a landing probe in November this year towards the comet. Its gravity is too weak to land and the probe will have to harpoon to anchor a landing.</p><p><br></p><p></p><a name='more'></a><p><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3GxR_nIcZWwecWMeaALgcijt-CxX1nm33tv-tlMlCl-p2irkQJvZFhfnUsmvEi8i9Dyr5XycTM7jy3R0YS54RPF8OtuJRxVhBSn2HI6Vs6eB2K9qN-Vc6-fVFQwlI91XH-a4p-N1tQ00/" style="float: left; display: block; width: 346px; height: 299px;">Furthermore, <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">ESA’s Website adds: “Did life on Earth begin with the help of comet seeding? Rosetta may help us to find the answer to this fundamental question.”</span></p><p><br></p><p>Comets are more like dirty snowball and not stars. Scientists acknowledge that and there are less than 4,000 comets orbiting the sun at the last count in 2010. The tail of a comet is really the evaporation of the ice creating a trail that always points away from the sun.</p><p><br></p><p>If the universe is 20 billion years old, all comets will have disappeared since the estimated lifespan of comets is between 10,000 to 12,000 years. Hence, the Oort Cloud theory came about to explain a theoretical cloud beyond the distance that can be viewed that will spawn new comets to spit back into our solar system. More imaginary than science. Cannot be observed nor tested. How then can we explain the existence of comets?</p><a name="more"></a><p>According to Dr Walt Brown, his <b>Hydroplate theory</b> (creationscience.com) explains the comets are formed during Noah's flood about 4,500 years ago when all the fountains of the deep broke (Gen 7). Many bodies and water were ejected at such high power that escaped the Earth's gravity causing craters on the side of the moon facing Earth as well as on Mars. The rest that escaped formed comets and asteroids and appears to be returning home if the theory is true.</p><p>As a prediction, when the probe examines the comet it is chasing, scientists will only find elements that are already found on Earth and nothing more since the theory suggests that comets came from the Earth. In fact, there may be life forms like bacteria and other microscopic sea life that remained in the comet while traversing space. They will also discover the life forms on the comet not evolved and will be very similar, if not alike, as those existing on Earth. So far, the meteoroids have revealed facts consistent with the Hydroplate theory. What about the comets?</p><p>It is not possible for comets to retain water for billions of years. Their weak gravity will allow water to escape and faster when nearer to the sun. They will surely disappear soon enough, in less than 10,000 years for those we can observe in our solar system.</p><p>We anticipate with excitement to see if Dr Brown's theory holds true or if life was really seeded by comets as the evolution scientists expects.</p><p><br></p><p></p><p></p><br>Prophetic Timeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16754431401713681287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423854792216743764.post-55699987743763588992013-11-23T11:56:00.001+08:002013-11-23T11:56:04.839+08:00Iran Remains On Course Of Nuclear PlanMany Western leaders are duped to think that the new Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani, is any better than the previous President Ahmadinejad. Iran will never give up their nuclear goal and any hint of brokering a halt to Iran arming themselves with a nuclear weapon are lies.<br />
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The Iranian leaders from the Ayatollah to the President to the main Islamic sect are from the Shia school and opposes the Suni school which forms the 85% of the Islamic believers. They believe in the last Imam (12th) and is called the Mahdi, the Islamic version of the "Messiah". Their nuclear goal is to cause a conflagration to usher in the Mahdi and it is religious in nature. They believe this conflagration can be started by a nuclear attack on Israel.<br />
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When we understand that their aspiration is religious and their behavior is shaped by their commitment to their Quran, Allah and Muhammad, no amount of talks and brokering will change their minds. No amount of actual meetings, UN sanctions, nuclear disarmament actions, and even threats of attacks on Iran can stop their will nor break their zeal to build their nuclear bomb. Any willingness to discuss and meet are shows to deceive, delay and distract from their nuclear plans which will not stop until their goal is attained.<br />
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At the same time, we should also be aware that the Suni Islamic nations led by Saudi Arabia are very wary and afraid of the Shia Iran gaining such power that can be used on them as well. Quietly, they are urging the UN and US to stop Iran but rhetorics will not overcome them.<br />
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Israel can only depend on themselves to defend their tiny nation. And they have resigned to this fact that US under Obama will not do anything to help Israel. In fact, Obama will probably do everything to weaken Israel.<br />
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One thing is for sure. YHWH will protect Israel to ensure His plans will happen in the end days. As He has protected them in the past, He will surely protect them in the present and not let Satan thwart His plans for the future.<br />
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Read <b>Psalm 83</b> and see what God has said about the impending war on Israel.Prophetic Timeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16754431401713681287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423854792216743764.post-77351678000995508842013-07-13T12:12:00.002+08:002013-07-13T12:12:48.985+08:00The Sixth Day - Part 3<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #5c1101; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">
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<span class="text Gen-1-29" id="en-KJV-29"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">29 </span>And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Gen-1-30" id="en-KJV-30"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">30 </span>And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Gen-1-31" id="en-KJV-31"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">31 </span>And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.</span></span></div>
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When God made this world, He made it with intelligence and wisdom. He first prepared the environment and then created the life to enjoy the environment. Finally, He made Man, male and female, to take charge over all the earth.<br />
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In the original creation, Man was created for a diet of <span style="color: red;"><i>fruits and herb</i></span> (vegetables) (v29). In short, Man is intended to be a real vegetarian in the absolute sense. And in the wisdom of God, all the herb and fruit He created is sufficient to ensure the health of Man.<br />
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Furthermore, this vegetarian diet was also for <i><span style="color: red;">all living creatures</span></i> created in Day 5 and Day 6 (v30). God had prepared this ahead of time in Day 3. The English word "<i>meat</i>" in verse 30 means <span style="color: red;"><i>food</i></span>. It seems that all animals were herbivore at the time of Creation. They did not eat each other until after the flood.<br />
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Animal meat was allowed for food after the global flood of Noah but with specific rules in Genesis 9. So for the first 2,000 years of Creation before the flood, everyone ate herbs and fruits as food.<br />
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Interestingly, it is also recommended by dietitians today that we should eat more fruits and vegetables as animal meat gives us more toxicity and harm to our bodies than we think.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i>Man was made to consume herbs and fruits and this is not by accident. It was designed by God.</i></span>Prophetic Timeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16754431401713681287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423854792216743764.post-75677674436707467492013-07-13T12:00:00.002+08:002013-07-13T12:18:57.870+08:00The Sixth Day - Part 2<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #5c1101; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">
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<span class="text Gen-1-26" id="en-KJV-26"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">26 </span>And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Gen-1-27" id="en-KJV-27"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">27 </span>So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Gen-1-28" id="en-KJV-28"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">28 </span>And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.</span></span></div>
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In this second part of Day 6, we learn how God created man and the purpose of man on earth.<br />
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God expresses Himself here in the plural form. Man is created in God's image. The plural form expressed here cannot refer to angels as Man is not created in the image of angels who are also created beings. If God is talking amongst Himself, this can only refer to the reality of the Trinity Godhead, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. The mystery of the Trinity is not regarding three Gods but ONE GOD in three persons. The Godhead is a collection of persons, each distinct and individual but always together as one.<br />
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We can already see God the Father in the acts of creation throughout the 6 days. We see God the Holy Spirit in verse 2 and implicitly all over. We see God the Son (the Word) all over the creation acts as God said and it was so. God in three persons are seen in this act of creating Man.<br />
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<b>Purpose of Man</b><br />
The original intent of God creating man is to have dominion over all life that God had made (v26) - the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, the cattle, the earth and every reptilian beasts. Basically, man is to take charge of all of God's creation on earth. All living creatures are to be subservient to man.<br />
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Besides dominion, man is to fill the earth with people (v28). Man is to be <span style="color: red;">fruitful </span>and <span style="color: red;">multiply </span>and to <span style="color: red;">fill </span>(replenish - the then meaning in English, not present day meaning) the earth and take control (subdue) the earth. God made this earth to be populated by man and man is to be responsible to manage and take charge of it.<br />
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<b>In the image of God - Male and Female</b><br />
The Bible is the only book which tells us that God made man in the genders of male and female. It is not by accident but by design and the details of which is found in Genesis 2. This is a definite design and creative act by God. More importantly, man is different from animals. We are specially and wonderfully made in the image of God. We reflect God's characteristics and represent Him to take charge of the creation on earth.<br />
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Evolution tells us that by accident, life appears as a protoplasm washed ashore in a primordial soup. This simple life form then evolved into more complex life forms to animal life and then man. We have serious questions without answers:<br />
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<li>Why are there just two genders that fit so well and not more? If evolution is true, there must be more mutation that will result in many genders and we will have evidence to this but there is none.</li>
<li>If man came into being as a random chance, what is our purpose on earth? If evolution is true, man is not responsible or accountable to anyone. There is no purpose in life except to survive and die.</li>
<li>When you teach children that they have no meaning in life and is a result of some random accident and they evolved from animals, how can you expect them to be any more than just that?</li>
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<span style="color: red;"><i>But God is clear in telling us that it is He who made us specifically male and female. We are responsible for what we have been entrusted and we are accountable to Him, our Creator God. Only in God do we find the real purpose and meaning of our lives. We are made in His image, with a higher purpose, not by chance or accident. And one day, God will judge us.</i></span></div>
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<br />Prophetic Timeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16754431401713681287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423854792216743764.post-70004141628926593542013-07-13T11:36:00.000+08:002013-07-13T12:23:15.785+08:00The Sixth Day - Part 1<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #5c1101; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">
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<span class="text Gen-1-24" id="en-KJV-24"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">24 </span>And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Gen-1-25" id="en-KJV-25"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">25 </span>And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.</span></span></div>
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After God created the environment to sustain life on Earth, He made the sea life and winged life on the fifth day. And on the sixth day, the land life was created. Up to this time, all creation was done by God's Word - "and God said". Remember, in John 1, the Word is Jesus Christ, God the Son.<br />
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On this sixth day, all the land creatures were created. They were broadly noted as living creature from the earth. We shall take a closer look at the living creatures as described in Day 5 and Day 6 and consider that plant life created on Day 3 is different from these living creatures.<br />
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According to the Word of God, there is a difference between plant life and animal and human life. Throughout the Bible, the Hebrew words <b><span style="color: red;">nephesh chayyâh</span></b> are used to describe <span style="color: red;">human </span>and <span style="color: red;">animal </span>life. When referring to mankind, nephesh chayyâh means “<i>living soul</i>” or “<i>soulish creature</i>,” and when it refers to animals, it means “<i>living creature</i>.” However, this word is never applied to plant life. There is a plain distinction. It is easy to see that plants do not experience pain, suffering, or death in the same way that humans and animals do. Their death is not the death of a “<i>living soul</i>” or “<i>living creature</i>.” Included with plants are possibly invertebrates, since they too were excluded from the nephesh chayyâh creatures. (read <a href="http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/kw/museum-guide-corruption" target="_blank">here</a>).</blockquote>
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God further elaborates that these land based living creatures are categorized as:<br />
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<li>cattle - possibly those that are domesticated or herded</li>
<li>creeping thing - reptilian type, possibly includes dinosaurs</li>
<li>beast of the earth - everything else to cover those that are not particularly important to man's life in later years</li>
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And God so determined that all these living creatures are to reproduce <span style="color: red;"><b><i>after its kind</i></b></span>. This ensures that every life that God had created until this day will continue to reproduce and to do so after its kind and not become something else that God did not make it to be. This is a clear blow to the theory of evolution as God has so designed all life to continue to be what it is and today, we know that the boundaries of the kind is determined by <b><span style="color: red;">DNA</span></b>.</div>
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According to DNA, the intelligent code that was embedded in all life ensures that it acts within the confines of the code. Mutation is a removal of the code, not an increase of information. As evolutionists require "<i>good mutation</i>" to tell the evolution story, DNA clearly denies this key pillar of evolution and it remains only as a good fairy tale story, not science. Mutation has been shown to be detrimental to life, not beneficial.</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i>We are thankful to God that as science progresses that His handiworks of life remains a testimony to His deity, even more so to testify of His presence in our daily lives.</i></span></div>
Prophetic Timeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16754431401713681287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423854792216743764.post-79539631452146815292013-07-05T18:32:00.002+08:002013-07-05T18:41:27.333+08:00The Fifth Day<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #5c1101; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">
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<span class="text Gen-1-20" id="en-KJV-20"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">20 </span>And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Gen-1-21" id="en-KJV-21"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">21 </span>And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Gen-1-22" id="en-KJV-22"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">22 </span>And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Gen-1-23" id="en-KJV-23"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">23 </span>And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.</span></span></div>
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God had already prepared the environment to be able to sustain animal life and man in the earlier days of creation. God made light, then dry land, then plant life, then stars, sun and moon, and now the stage is set for the ultimate plan of God for life on earth.</div>
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With light, plants can make food via photosynthesis. But reproduction of plant life also requires insects, birds and animals. This is called symbiosis. You cannot have one without the other else both will not survive. Millions of years of evolution will never work. And in turn, plant life is also food for all birds, fishes, animals and man.</div>
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The sea brought forth life in abundance. Flying creatures were also created. The bible calls them fowls or birds. Do not limit the definition to our modern day classification of the animal kingdom. Fowls or birds will also refer to creatures that fly, including pterodactyls, the flying dinosaurs and bats.</div>
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In verse 21, the translation for great whales means large sea creatures which includes pliosaurs, pleisosaurs, icthyosaurs, and mososaurs.</div>
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It is important to note two key points when God created the sea life and birds. They are to fill the seas and multiply in the earth. And more importantly, they are to bring forth <b><span style="color: red;">after their kind</span></b>. God leaves no ambiguity for the theory of evolution to take place. A fish will bring forth a fish. A bird will bring forth a bird. Not another kind of creature.</div>
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Evolutionists have long theorized that the whale evolved from something like a cow who mutated to such an extent over millions of years and walked away from land to live in the water. You can see how preposterous such theory sounds but yet many intelligent people still prefers such explanations rather than believing that God made them exactly the way they are.</div>
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At the same time, evolutionists also theorized that birds evolved from dinosaurs. Small dinosaurs mutated such that their bones hollowed out, their hair became feathers, learnt to fly and developed a homing compass over millions of years. There is no fossil evidence nor any scientific evidence of any kind to support. In fact, we have encountered fraudulent reports like the ‘<i>Archaeoraptor liaoningensis</i>’ which was really combined from the body and head of a birdlike creature and the tail of a different dinosaur (<i>Sloan, C.P., Feathers for T. Rex?, National Geographic 196(5):98–107, November 1999</i>). For a more complete dissertation of this hoax by Answers In Genesis, read <a href="http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2000/03/02/archeoraptor-hoax#fnList_1_1" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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<span class="text Gen-1-15" id="en-KJV-15"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">15 </span>And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Gen-1-16" id="en-KJV-16"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">16 </span>And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Gen-1-17" id="en-KJV-17"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">17 </span>And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Gen-1-18" id="en-KJV-18"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">18 </span>And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Gen-1-19" id="en-KJV-19"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">19 </span>And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.</span></span></div>
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God creates the heavenly bodies on the fourth day and they are identified as lights in the sky. These lights or starts have their own functions as God has ordained in His creation pattern. They are for:<br />
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<li>signs - indicators of events and messages</li>
<li>seasons - indicators of appointed times for earthly purposes like farming, travelling, birth, death, etc.</li>
<li>days - separator of days in addition to the evening and morning rotation of the earth</li>
<li>years - indicator of counting years</li>
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Then the purpose of the sun (the greater light) and the moon (the lesser light) for lighting the day and night.</div>
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God made the sun and moon on the fourth day to show us that they are not needed to define the day. A day is the rotation of the earth since the first day. Typical question to the creationist is how can you get a day when the sun is only created on the fourth day. Now you know the answer.</div>
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More importantly, the stars in the sky had significant purposes which is mostly lost to us today. The bible tells us that the ancient civilizations had used the stars as indicators of time and dates long before we had our Julian calendar and our 24-hour clocks.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The constellation of stars bore meaning to the people of old. The Mazzaroth are the 12 specific constellations that aligned to 12 periods of a year. These are also aligned to the zodiac of today's astronomy names of the constellations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">God told us that He gave names to the stars.</span></div>
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God must have told someone, if not Adam, at least some of the names of the stars since we know from the bible that God had made references to a few of them. EW Bullinger was one man who popularized the Jewish zodiac (Mazzaroth) to give it some biblical interpretations. The table below must not be held as a dogma but for special interest of research purpose only.</div>
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<tr><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Constellation</b></td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Picture</b></td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Interpretations</b></td></tr>
<tr><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Virgo</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Virgin</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Virgin Mary</td></tr>
<tr><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Libra</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Scales</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Sin must be paid for</td></tr>
<tr><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Scorpius</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Scorpion</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Sin brings death</td></tr>
<tr><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Sagittarius</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">archer</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Demonism</td></tr>
<tr><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Capricorn</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Goat-fish</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Earth corruption</td></tr>
<tr><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Aquarius</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Water pourer</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Living water or Noah's flood</td></tr>
<tr><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Pisces</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Fish</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">God's remnant</td></tr>
<tr><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Aries</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Ram</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Sacrifice</td></tr>
<tr><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Taurus</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Bull</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Resurrection</td></tr>
<tr><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Gemini</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Twins</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Christ's dual nature</td></tr>
<tr><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Cancer</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Crab</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Gathering of redeemed</td></tr>
<tr><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Leo</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">Lion</td><td class="smalltext" style="font-size: 14px;">The King</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is now abused by astrology where people believed that the positions of the stars affect the lives of man. Horoscopes are used by millions to dictate the way they live on a daily basis instead of inquiring into God's word. The original intent by God is to depict messages and indicate events. These stars have no effect on the our lives at all. Satan has corrupted the Mazzaroth since Babylonian times and misled people away from God, the creator of the stars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Evolutionists believe that the Big Bang cause the formation of gas and dust which somehow fusing into a mass over millions of years. Star birth has never been observed but star death can be seen over the centuries in the nova or super nova. This is really a theory to explain away God in the creation by replacing Him with natural laws. Where did the energy come to cause the fusion? Why is it that we cannot see a single star birth if evolution is still continuing?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is no consensus as to whether the stars formed before galaxies or the other way round. The theory has gotten more complex and has serious problems as how a star gets the energy to form itself as compressing gas has limits according to the Gauss Law. Many say that it requires many stars to explode to form a star. Where did those original stars come from then?</span></div>
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Many evolutionists claim that since light travels at 186,000 miles per second and stars are many light years away, the world cannot be that young after all. But it is. Read <a href="http://creation.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter5.pdf" target="_blank">How can we see distant stars in a young universe</a> to find out more.</div>
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Scientists have found that the speed of light is not constant and has slowed down over the years. Which may mean that light traveled much faster in the past. Then again, time is different in different parts of the universe and seems to be affected by gravity. We find that a clock at a higher altitude moves faster than a clock at sea level. Einstein proved this using his theory of relativity and the example of the twin paradox to explain the dilation of time.</div>
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There are two twin brothers. On their thirtieth birthday, one of the brothers goes on a space journey in a superfast rocket that travels at 99% of the speed of light. The space traveller stays on his journey for precisely one year, whereupon he returns to Earth on his 31st birthday. On Earth, however, seven years have elapsed, so his twin brother is 37 years old at the time of his arrival. This is due to the fact that time is stretched by factor 7 at approx. 99% of the speed of light, which means that in the space traveller’s reference frame, one year is equivalent to seven years on earth. Yet, time appears to have passed normally to both brothers, i.e. both still need five minutes to shave each morning in their respective reference frame. (watch an animated video <a href="http://vimeo.com/19768968" target="_blank">here</a>).</blockquote>
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What is more important for creationists to understand is that God made the stars on the fourth day and that observation from the earth can already see them in place. Then God stretched the heavens out from here so that we can continually see the stars but it is moving away from us (Psalm 104:2 "<i>Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain</i>", Isa 40:22, Job 9:8, Isa 42:5, Isa 51:13, Jer 10:12, Zec 12:1).</div>
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In 1929, Edwin Hubble published a paper that would lead to the realization that the universe was expanding. This means that at one time, it must have be stretched out from one place and according to the bible, that place is earth. At least that is what God implied when He created the stars on the fourth day.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Do you know how many stars are there in the observable universe? <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/07/22/stars.survey/" target="_blank">CNN reported in a news article</a> that there are 70 sextillion stars. That is 70 followed by 22 zeros or 70,000 million million million. There are more stars than all the sand on earth's sea shores.</span></div>
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<b>The Civilizations of the Past in Telling Time</b><br />
God made the stars and sun and moon to help man tell time. Before the invention of clocks, there were already mechanisms like sun dials and various calendars of different cultures that worked on the orbit of the moon as well as the seasons of the year.<br />
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Even today, we can devise a <a href="http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/dec97/876849573.As.r.html" target="_blank">simple mechanism to tell time of day, month and year</a> by looking at the pointer stars of the Big Dipper called Merak and Dubhe together with their alignment of Polaris, the North Star.<br />
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<b>Note</b>: More on calendars of the ancient civilizations to come.</div>
Prophetic Timeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16754431401713681287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423854792216743764.post-23815870113318359902013-06-18T12:47:00.000+08:002013-06-18T17:04:12.609+08:00Ezekiel 38 & 39: The Russian Confederation of Islamic Nations?God has told us about 2,500 years ago that there will be a time when Israel dwells in peace and is very rich. There will come a time when Russia forms a confederation of Islamic nations and they will come upon Israel for the plunder. God also alludes to something akin to a nuclear fallout as a result of this war. And it is clear to us that the Israeli Defense Forces are not involved. It is God who will step in to destroy the attacking armies. Strict instructions are given to Israel on the clean up that will take 7 months and only specific people can act on the clean up job. The prophecy is that specific.<br />
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That, in a nutshell, is what Ezekiel 38 and 39 is all about. This is a prophecy of a war that has yet to happen. And we believe that it is different from the Psalm 83 war and will take place after that war. Exactly when, we are not certain. It can be prior to the Rapture or sometime after the Rapture but it is after Israel clearly establishes its wealth for the world to see.<br />
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After the Psalm 83 war, the resulting Israel geography is believed to become bigger than it is today. Israel will possibly occupy extended land into Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Lebanon. This larger land may resemble closer to the geography of the Promised Land at the time of David. Again, remember, we are speculating as these wars have not yet happened. But clearly the stage is being set even now.<br />
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The reason that the Ezekiel war is different from the Psalm 83 war is because the players in the two wars are different. In fact, the ones in the <a href="http://prophecycreationwatch.blogspot.com/2013/06/psalm-83-end-of-palestinian-israeli.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><b>Psalm 83 war</b></span></a> is conspicuously <b>absent </b>from the Ezekiel list.<br />
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<span class="text Ezek-38-2" id="en-KJV-21428"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">2 </span>Son of man, set thy face against <span style="color: red;">Gog</span>, the land of <span style="color: red;">Magog</span>, the <span style="color: red;">chief prince</span> (Rosh) of <span style="color: red;">Meshech </span>and <span style="color: red;">Tubal</span>, and prophesy against him,</span></span><br />
<span class="text Ezek-38-3" id="en-KJV-21429"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">3 </span>And say, Thus saith the Lord <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span>; Behold, I am against thee, O <span style="color: red;">Gog</span>, the <span style="color: red;">chief prince</span> (Rosh) of <span style="color: red;">Meshech </span>and <span style="color: red;">Tubal</span>:</span></span><br />
<span class="text Ezek-38-4" id="en-KJV-21430"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">4 </span>And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:</span></span><br />
<span class="text Ezek-38-5" id="en-KJV-21431"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">5 </span><span style="color: red;">Persia</span>, <span style="color: red;">Ethiopia</span> (Cush), and <span style="color: red;">Libya </span>(Put) with them; all of them with shield and helmet:</span></span><br />
<span class="text Ezek-38-6" id="en-KJV-21432"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">6 </span><span style="color: red;">Gomer</span>, and all his bands; the house of <span style="color: red;">Togarmah </span>of the north quarters, and all his bands: and <span style="color: red;">many people</span> with thee.</span></span><br />
<span class="text Ezek-38-6"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">13 </span><span style="color: red;">Sheba</span>, and <span style="color: red;">Dedan</span>, and the merchants of <span style="color: red;">Tarshish</span>, with all the young lions thereof,</span></span></div>
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<li><b>Gog </b>- possibly the name of an individual, not a nation</li>
<li><b>Magog </b>- Central Asia covering Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, etc (<i>Ancient Scythians – Islamic southern republics of the former Soviet Union with a population of 60 million Muslims. This territory could include modern Afghanistan and Southern Russia north of the Black Sea.</i>)</li>
<li><b>Meschech </b>- Turkey (<i>Ancient Muschki and Musku in Cilicia and Cappadocia.</i>)</li>
<li><b>Tubal </b>- Turkey, southern Russia and northern Iran (<i>Ancient Tubalu in Cappadocia.</i>)</li>
<li><b>Persia </b>- Iran (<i>Name changed from Persia to Iran in 1935.</i>)</li>
<li><b>Cush-Ethiopia</b> - Sudan, Ethiopia (<i>Ancient Cush, south of Egypt</i>.)</li>
<li><b>Put - Libya</b> - Libya, Algeria (<i>Ancient Put, west of Egypt.</i>)</li>
<li><b>Gomer</b> - Turkey (<i>Ancient Cimmerians – from the 7th century to 1st century BC in central/western Anatolia.</i>)</li>
<li><b>Togarmah </b>- Turkey (<i>Til-garimmu – between ancient Carchemish and Haran, southern Turkey.</i>)</li>
<li><b>Sheba and Dedan</b> - northern Arabia</li>
<li><b>Tarshish </b>- Cyprus, England(?)</li>
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We have attempted to map the names of the ancient nations to the present day countries. We find that the list of nations are all Islamic nations today with the exception of Russia which is still a communist nation. And if England is included in the list, they are supposedly a Christian nation. However, recent news gives us an alarming perspective that <a href="http://rt.com/news/christianity-decline-uk-islam-rise-405/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red;">Islam could be a dominant religion in England in 10 years</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/details/105136/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><b>Russia could be a Muslim country in 50 years</b></span></a>. If this trend persist, the entire Ezekiel list of nations will all be Islamic.</div>
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In today's political scene, Russia is already a close ally of Iran, Syria and many other middle eastern nations. Russia supplies a vast amount of arms to these countries and in return gets to participate in their oil and gas business.</div>
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According to Ezekiel 38:4, Russia appears to be an unwilling party and God influences the changing of Russia's mind to take charge of the attack. In today's world, Russia is already a formidable leader from a technology and a military might for the confederation of Islamic nations. The stage is certainly ready.</div>
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Watch out for Iran in their pursuit for a nuclear ready missile. Their goal to enrich uranium is not for power generation but to be equipped with a nuclear warhead. The missile technology is already obtained from North Korea. Nothing will stop Iran from getting their nuclear weapon in the coming years.</div>
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<b>Sheba and Dedan and Tarshish</b></div>
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These nations are not directly involved in the conflict but they appear to be the backend supporters of the confederation to share the spoils of the victory.</div>
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For the war to take place, Israel must first be in real peace. They are currently not having peace at all.</div>
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<b>Eze 38:11</b> "And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,"</div>
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Strangely, this prophecy foretold the walls that Israel has put up in recent years, about 500 miles of it.</div>
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This is the great walls of Israel and they built it for their daily protection against trouble from the Palestinians and her neighbors.</div>
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Ever since Israel's independence as a nation on 14 May 1948, there have been war after war and the on-going Intifada. Even when Israel gave the Sinai Peninsula back to Eygpt, there has been no real peace. There are 3 peace treaties with Egypt, Jordan and Syria, none of them have ever been enforced. Not even Egypt as President Anwar Sadat was assassinated for his willingness to negotiate peace with Israel.</div>
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According to the Ezekiel prophecy, Israel will one day remove these walls and shall declare real peace. They shall dwell safely in the land. There will no longer be walled villages. And when that day comes, watch out for the fulfillment of this prophecy.</div>
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<b>What is there for Russia and Confederation to plunder in Israel?</b></div>
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From the time of Israel's independence in 1948, the land that was assigned to them by the United Nations after the British Mandate expired was very much a land which no one desired. It was largely in waste and sheer wilderness.</div>
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Today, Israel has transformed the land to one that is the most fertile in the region. They are a world exporter of citrus fruits and flowers. Wine is also sought after. But this is not worth a massive military attack to plunder.</div>
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But things have changed in recent days.<br />
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Since March of 2013, Israel has started putting the Tamar gas field online. The expected production is sufficient for Israel for another 20 to 30 years. Israel is looking to put a bigger gas field online soon next to the present one called Leviathan. This has caused some to moot a strategy of "gas-for-peace".<br />
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Furthermore, unverified reports that <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/with-its-oil-treasure-israel-gets-a-shield-from-tyranny/article625668/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><b>Israel may have up to 250 billion barrels of recoverable shale reserves</b></span></a> putting them third behind US and China. If this is true, then this will be the <b>booty </b>that everybody wants in the prophesied attack on Israel one day in the future.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Israel's shale oil deposits is an unverified 250 billion barrels of recoverable reserves</td></tr>
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<b>Nuclear Carnage</b></div>
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Ezekiel 39 alludes to a post-war nuclear carnage. There appears to be allusions to reusing the nuclear weapons as fuel for 7 years, special instruction to burying the dead, only designated people can do that and it will take up to 7 months to finish burying them.</div>
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<span class="text Ezek-39-9" id="en-KJV-21458"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">9 </span>And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall <span style="color: red;">burn them with fire seven years</span>:</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Ezek-39-10" id="en-KJV-21459"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">10 </span>So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span>.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Ezek-39-11" id="en-KJV-21460"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">11 </span>And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Ezek-39-12" id="en-KJV-21461"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">12 </span>And <span style="color: red;">seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land</span>.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Ezek-39-13" id="en-KJV-21462"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">13 </span>Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span>.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Ezek-39-14" id="en-KJV-21463"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">14 </span>And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Ezek-39-15" id="en-KJV-21464"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">15 </span>And <span style="color: red;">the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it</span> in the valley of Hamongog.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Ezek-39-16" id="en-KJV-21465"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">16 </span>And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they <span style="color: red;">cleanse the land</span>.</span></span></div>
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Some Bible commentators feel that Ezekiel 38 and 39 provides the expansion of details to the Armageddon of Revelation 19. The main reason being that in Eze 39:17-20 speaks about the the fowl participating in the cleansing of the land. This appears similar to Rev 19 Supper of God where the fowl came to clean up after Armageddon.</div>
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<span class="text Ezek-39-17" id="en-KJV-21466"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">17 </span>And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span>; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Ezek-39-18" id="en-KJV-21467"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">18 </span>Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Ezek-39-19" id="en-KJV-21468"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">19 </span>And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Ezek-39-20" id="en-KJV-21469"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">20 </span>Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span>.</span></span></div>
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Although there is this particular similarity, it appears the time for Israel to use the fuel for 7 years and that Israel was in their own land at the time of the attack indicates that it is not speaking about Armageddon. From Rev 13, we can see that in the last 3 1/2 years, Israel will be running away to hide as the Anti-Christ causes the Abomination of Desolation of Daniel 9:28 that Jesus spoke about on the Olivet Discourse.</div>
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Furthermore, it is Jesus Christ who fights the Armageddon and in <b>Ezekiel 38:14 through 39:8</b> shows that it is <b>God </b>who defeats Russia and the Confederation. The Israeli Defense Forces do not feature in this war. The events do not quite parallel each other in their details.</div>
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Unless, not all of Israel abandons the country during this time, then it puts Israel in the position of peace as the Anti-Christ confirms the peace treaty with them for 7 years at the beginning of Daniel's 70th week. And the fuel for 7 years apply to the 7-year tribulation period. But it will place the war at the beginning of the 7-years and not at the end when Armageddon happens.</div>
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<b>The Stage is being set</b></div>
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We feel that the Ezekiel 38 & 39 war is still in the future and is not Armageddon but a different combat possibly during the Tribulation years or right prior to that. No matter when this happens, we are seeing the stage being set. The wealth of Israel is quickly coming true. All of a sudden, Israel will become a very rich and power nation from the standpoint of oil and gas, essentially a world power in that sense.</div>
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So watch the news as Israel brings their gas and then their oil online. Oil should come online in the next 10 years when shale oil production becomes cheaper or oil becomes so much more expensive that it warrants shale oil recovery in bulk.</div>
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Next is also to watch the peace treaties and when the walls will come down. We already have the walls up and the prophecy tells us they must come down.</div>
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At present, do not lose sight on Iran securing their nuclear weapon. All the pieces must come together for the fulfillment of this prophecy.</div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">Clearly, we are living in the season of the return of Jesus Christ. Watch and pray!</span></b></div>
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</script>Prophetic Timeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16754431401713681287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423854792216743764.post-90400339291489575122013-06-17T15:22:00.000+08:002013-06-18T17:35:13.978+08:00Out-of-Place FossilsThis posting is one of a series of articles to enlighten you to appreciate how to interpret the same data and evidence that evolutionists look at but from a biblical perspective. Creationists and Evolutionists all look at the same data but interpret using different perspectives.<br />
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The evidence is very compatible and consistent with what God says in Genesis. You will be amazed with the following article. We have added the latest pictures to assist you in the reading and understanding the issues.<br />
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Adapted from <a href="http://creation.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter19.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><b>The Creation Answers Book, Chapter 19</b></span></a>.<br />
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In Chapter 15, we saw how, according to an evolutionary long-age interpretation of the fossil record, many fossils are ‘out of place’. That is, they do not fit the supposed bottom-to-top progressive order of appearance claimed by evolutionists.<br />
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‘Out-of-sequence’ fossils are a challenge to theories of dinosaur evolution, too. For example:<br />
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<li>The fossilized remains of a small dinosaur (<i>psittacosaur</i>) have been found in the belly of a fossil mammal named <i>Repenomamus robustus</i>. This specimen, and another newly-discovered large <i>Repenomamus </i>fossil, are a real surprise for evolutionists because evolutionary assumptions say that mammals living during the so-called ‘age of the dinosaurs’ had to be small to avoid the huge reptiles. While a surprise for evolutionists, it’s no shock to creationists—mammals, dinosaurs and man originally lived at the same time.</li>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Fossil skeleton of Repenomamus giganticus © Nature/Chinese Academy of Sciences" height="295" src="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2005/jan/images/repenomamus_3713_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A fossil mammal with the remains of a small dinosaur in its belly.</td></tr>
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<li>Another evolutionary idea that only tiny, shrew-like mammals lived with the dinosaurs was overturned when a fossil of a beaver-like mammal unearthed in Inner Mongolia was dated by evolutionists to 164 million years. By evolutionary reckoning, that is around 100 million years before dinosaurs are said to have died out.</li>
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<li>Dinosaur fossils are often found in rock strata containing few plant fossils, yet there must have been huge amounts of vegetation to feed the large herbivorous dinosaurs such as <i>Brachiosaurus</i>. However, from a creationist perspective, there’s no mystery. The dinosaurbearing strata do not represent a buried ecosystem or dinosaurian ‘age’—rather, dinosaur-bearing strata are simply rocks that have hardened around dinosaurs buried during the Flood. One might expect that the mobility of the dinosaurs compared to the plants would mean that they were not buried together—the dinosaurs would try to escape the rising floodwaters, whereas the plants could not.</li>
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<li>Evolutionary researchers who discovered the remains of at least five types of grasses in dinosaur coprolites (fossilized dung) say ‘it was a complete shock’. It was a shock because according to the standard evolutionary line, based on a long-age fossil record ‘chronology’, grasses evolved around 55 million years ago, which would be 10 millions years after the extinction of the dinosaurs (supposedly) around 65 million years ago. But the discovery that dinosaurs ate grass left evolutionists with a dramatic grassy ‘timetravel’ conundrum: how could dinosaurs have eaten something that supposedly hadn’t yet evolved?</li>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="The pollen bearing organs of the early "flower" Crossotheca" height="253" src="http://eyeonicr.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/crossotheca_nodule.jpg?w=490" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr>
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<li>The popular evolutionary idea that dinosaurs were the ancestors of birds contradicts itself, as, according to their own dating, fossils of ‘bird-like dinos’ (the supposed precursors of birds) are millions of years younger than the famous fossil <i>Archaeopteryx</i>, which was a fully developed flying bird. Even fossils of the beaked bird Confuciusornis are older than its supposed ancestors.</li>
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<li>The extinction of the dinosaurs is a great mystery for secular science. Little wonder, then, that it has so captured the attention of popular culture. Various evolutionary theories have been mooted as explanations for the demise of the dinosaurs, e.g. mammals appeared and ate dinosaur eggs; new narcotic plants evolved; and global cooling/warming. However, by far and away the most popular idea is that an asteroid impact was responsible. But that notion has insurmountable difficulties. For example, (evolutionary) extinction dates don’t correlate with (evolutionary) crater dates; and the famous iridium layer found in rocks worldwide—supposedly a key proof of meteor impact—is much less clearly defined than was once claimed.</li>
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From a biblical perspective, there is no dinosaur extinction ‘mystery’—the sedimentary rock layers containing fossils are not a ‘record’ of evolution and extinction over a millions-of-years timeframe, but rather a legacy of burial in the global Flood (around 4,500 years ago) and its aftermath. All the kinds of land animals (including dinosaurs) and birds survived aboard the Ark, repopulating the Earth afterwards. Since then, many creatures have gone extinct, not just dinosaurs, in an ongoing display of the Curse on Creation. Just as with the dodo, it’s likely that some dinosaurs perished through human influence, e.g. because of being a direct threat to man’s safety or because of loss of habitat (to agriculture or urban encroachment).<br />
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A modern parallel can be seen in that the tiger, the rhino and the elephant have either died out or are on the ‘endangered species’ list in many parts of South-East Asia through the ongoing post-Babel dispersion of man. Heroic accounts of brave young men in Indonesia slaying ‘rogue’ tigers and elephants bear a striking parallel with centuries-old stories of ‘<i>St George and the Dragon</i>’, <i>Beowulf</i>, etc, where the dragonslayers were also protecting others.<br />
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Some might wonder how people could kill some of the larger dinosaurs without modern weapons. But people killed whales that were larger than any dinosaur, from sailing boats, using team work and hand launched harpoons. And this on the whales’ ‘home turf’. Hunters have used such things as fire, traps and curare to capture/kill large animals.<br />
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The drying out of the continents after the Flood—all continents once had extensive inland seas—could also have been a factor in the demise of the dinosaurs. It seems that dinosaurs were like hippos, inhabiting areas with plenty of water, and the drying out of the land resulted in a contraction of areas suitable for them. The wax and wane of the post-Flood Ice Age (Chapter 16) would have also impacted dinosaur survival.<br />
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Thus dinosaur extinction is readily understandable from a biblical perspective.<br />
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Interestingly, according to an evolutionary interpretation of the fossil layers, lots of other organisms became extinct millions of years ago, e.g. the coelacanth (sometimes referred to as the ‘dinosaur fish’ because it was said to have become extinct around 65 million years ago), and the Wollemi pine (also known as the ‘dinosaur tree’ for the same reason). But evolutionists were surprised when these, and many other ‘living fossils’ or ‘Lazarus taxa’ were found to be still living today. Such discoveries did not surprise creationists. Similarly, it would not be a surprise if someone happens to find a live <i>dinosaur </i>today, e.g. <span style="color: red;">in the remote jungles of the Congo or Papua New Guinea</span>. But for evolutionists, the shock would greatly exceed that experienced when the coelacanth and the Wollemi pine were discovered to be still living today.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Living-Fossil Fish’s Genome Gives Clues to Landlubbers’ Life " height="271" src="http://www.bloomberg.com/image/ikT0OnAqi.6E.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marcellin, a Congolese biologist, showing Mokele Mbembe, a dinosaur, when he was in the swamp of Congo</td></tr>
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Carl Werner has produced an excellent DVD entitled "<i>Living Fossils</i>" that clearly shows that the so-called fossilized animals, insects, birds, invertebrates, plants and dinosaurs are in existence in our world today. Read <b><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://prophecycreationwatch.blogspot.com/2012/10/carl-werner-spectacular-production-on.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a> </span></b>for more details.</div>
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A recent discovery of nearly complete skull along with several neck vertebrae of the <b><span style="color: red;">Dracorex </span></b>was discovered in the Hell Creek formation in Northwest South Dakota, USA in May 2003 and subsequently donated to <i>The Children’s Museum</i> of Indianapolis. The Children’s Museum referred to it as “<i>a new type of dinosaur</i>” that is “<i>66-million-years-old</i>” and “<i>looks like a dragon</i>”. The Children’s Museum displayed a placard next to a Dracorex image that read: “<i>When we saw this creature’s head, we weren’t sure what kind of dinosaur it was. Its spiky horns, bumps and long muzzle <span style="color: red;">looked more like a dragon</span></i>”.<br />
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The name <i>Dracorex hogwartsia</i> comes from two very different sources. Dracorex, from the Latin meaning "<i>dragon king</i>" and hogwartsia from author J.K. Rowling’s (disturbing to us) "Harry Potter" series of books.<br />
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It is very possible, even highly likely, that many of the dragon legends that are known in some cultures are the distorted memories of when people lived with dinosaurs. However, in the case of Dracorex it seems that dragon legends may not have been greatly distorted from the real thing.<div>
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Normally, if historical experiences are not written down, but passed orally from generation to generation, errors creep in. The pattern over time is that experience becomes memory, memory becomes legend, and legend becomes myth.</div>
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Legends of dragons do imply that man once lived with dinosaurs and possibly with the Dracorex culminating with stories around them. Man do not create stories from looking at fossilized bones but from real experiences with the dinosaurs.</div>
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</script>Prophetic Timeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16754431401713681287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423854792216743764.post-72198436840293022192013-06-17T11:01:00.001+08:002013-06-18T17:04:46.495+08:00Dinosaurs in the BibleHow is it that the word "<i><b><span style="color: red;">dinosaur</span></b></i>" never appears in the Bible? We know for certain that dinosaurs existed in the past from the fossil records that have been excavated all over the world. <i><span style="color: red;">How do we reconcile dinosaurs with the Bible?</span></i><br />
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First, the taxon <b><span style="color: red;"><i>Dinosauria </i></span></b>was formally named in 1842 by paleontologist <b><span style="color: red;">Sir Richard Owen</span></b>, who used it to refer to the "<i>distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles</i>" that were then being recognized in England and around the world. The term is derived from the Greek words <b>δεινός</b> (deinos, meaning "terrible," "potent," or "fearfully great") and <b>σαῦρος</b> (sauros, meaning "lizard" or "reptile"). Though the taxonomic name has often been interpreted as a reference to dinosaurs' teeth, claws, and other fearsome characteristics, Owen intended it merely to evoke their size and majesty.<br />
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Second, the English Bible was translated in 1611 into the King James Bible which was way before the word "<i>dinosaur</i>" was invented. The Bible translators were familiar with another term "<i>dragon</i>" and used that in the English translations.<br />
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Third, in modern English Bible translations, we also never see this word appearing at all because the bible translators <b>did not believe</b> that dinosaurs and man existed together at the same time. They were influenced by <i>evolution theory</i> that dinosaurs lived at least 65 million years before man and had already died off. Hence, these translators attempted to use footnotes to explain some <i>unknown creature</i> or a <i>hippopotamus </i>or a <i>crocodile</i> when it came to animals resembling the dinosaur.<br />
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Fourth, we do find the word "<i><span style="color: red;"><b>dragon</b></span></i>" appearing all over the Bible. Legends of "<i>dragon</i>" in many cultures like the English, Indian, Chinese, African, Middle Eastern, American, etc are told with creatures like the dinosaurs we have come to know from the fossilized bones.<br />
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<b>Dinosaur and the Behemoth</b><br />
Next, let us review Job 40:15-24 concerning the <span style="color: red;"><b>BEHEMOTH</b></span>.<br />
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<span class="text Job-40-15" id="en-KJV-13880"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">15 </span>Behold now <span style="color: red;"><b>behemoth</b></span>, which I made <span style="color: red;">with thee</span>; he <span style="color: red;">eateth grass as an ox</span>.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Job-40-16" id="en-KJV-13881"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">16 </span>Lo now, his <span style="color: red;">strength is in his loins</span>, and his <span style="color: red;">force is in the navel of his belly</span>.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Job-40-17" id="en-KJV-13882"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">17 </span>He <span style="color: red;">moveth his tail like a cedar</span>: the <span style="color: red;">sinews of his stones are wrapped together</span>.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Job-40-18" id="en-KJV-13883"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">18 </span>His <span style="color: red;">bones are as strong pieces of brass</span>; his <span style="color: red;">bones are like bars of iron</span>.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Job-40-19" id="en-KJV-13884"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">19 </span>He is the <span style="color: red;">chief of the ways of God</span>: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Job-40-20" id="en-KJV-13885"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">20 </span>Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Job-40-21" id="en-KJV-13886"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">21 </span>He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Job-40-24" id="en-KJV-13889"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">24 </span>He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.</span></span></div>
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Certainly, as you can tell, this animal is the chief of the ways of God or the biggest God has made. Furthermore, God clearly tells Job that this animal was made together with man. The description of this animal shows how <span style="color: red;">big and strong</span> it is - his loins, belly, tail, sinews, bones, the way it drinks, etc.<br />
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A quick comparison with the cedar tree in this picture will show you how big and tall the cedar tree really is. The tail of this animal is really big.<br />
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Unfortunately, many scholars attempt to explain that the behemoth is really an <span style="color: red;">elephant </span>or even a <span style="color: red;">hippopotamus</span> (from ancient Egypt writings - river ox). But take another look at the tails of these two animals and you can tell that God was not referring to these animals when He was telling Job to consider the Behemoth.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elephant's Tail</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hippopotamus' Tail</td></tr>
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God says what He means and means what He says when He talks about the Behemoth. God knows best what the Behemoth really is. From dinosaur fossil evidences today, we believe that the Behemoth may be one of the Sauropod family of dinosaurs.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="211" src="http://www.sauropod-dinosaurs.uni-bonn.de/bodysize.gif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sauropod Argentinosaurus is the largest dinosaur found. The sauropods were found in Germany, China and Argentina.</td></tr>
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You can see the sauropod's loins, belly, tail, sinews, bones as compared to God describing it to Job. This is certainly a magnificent beast which is a herbivore. It eats grass like an ox like a gentle animal and it must have been just incredible to watch it drink, taking in huge amounts of water, like God says it drinks up the river.<br />
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<b>Dinosaurs, Adam and Noah</b><br />
God has declared that He made the Behemoth with man. God made the land animals on <b>Day 6 of Creation</b>. The dinosaurs were given names by Adam and he had dinosaurs as companions in the Garden of Eden. Which also means that dinosaurs were also in the Ark of Noah to be preserved for breeding after the Flood. Remember, it was God who brought the animals to Noah and God must know which dinosaurs to bring so that they can survive the world after the Flood. They must have been babies and of the smaller kind of dinosaurs as the <span style="color: red;">post-Flood environment</span> did not avail to large creatures like the Behemoth to breathe.<br />
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For further studies, you can research on the <span style="color: red;"><b>Leviathan </b></span>in <b>Job 41</b> as well as in other passages. Do not forget to study the <span style="color: red;"><b>dragon</b></span> as well like <b>Eze 29:3</b>, <b>Psa 91:13</b> and <b>Jer 9:11</b>.<br />
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<b>Faith in God and Genesis</b><br />
Those who wish to deny God that He created the world and the dinosaurs attempt to show that dinosaurs lived long before man and died out before man ever came into being through the slow process of evolution. Remember, these arguments are all <b><span style="color: red;">THEORIES</span></b>, not science. Sadly, there are many Christians who embrace the theories as if they were scientific facts and find themselves having to explain away the Bible when it comes to this topic. These theories require <b>FAITH </b>to believe them as there is no <b>REAL </b>scientific evidence to back it up. Dating methods using the geological column and key fossil indicators are circular reasoning which cannot hold up as REAL science.<br />
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We can believe God and believe what He says about dinosaurs and believe that it is He who created them on Day 6 with man.<br />
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And we have even <span style="color: red;"><b>more scientific evidence</b></span> to support Genesis as well.<br />
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Watch out for newer postings to come....<br />
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Further reading:<br />
1. <a href="http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/tj/v15/n2/behemoth" target="_blank">Could Behemoth Have Been A Dinosaur?</a> - Answers in Genesis<br />
2. <a href="http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/1999/11/05/dinosaurs-and-the-bible" target="_blank">Dinosaurs and the Bible</a> - Answers in Genesis (with audio download)<br />
3. <a href="http://www.creationtoday.org/dinosaurs-in-the-bible/" target="_blank">Dinosaurs in the Bible</a> - Creation Today<br />
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</script>Prophetic Timeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16754431401713681287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423854792216743764.post-1487122225020842812013-06-15T21:18:00.001+08:002013-06-18T17:04:58.646+08:00Who wrote Genesis?<b><span style="color: red;">Why is this a question to even ask?</span></b><br />
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The reason is that liberal German scholars have attempted to show that Genesis is not written by Moses and deliberated the various authorship according to the so-called styles by <b>J</b> (Jehovah/Yahwist) Text, <b>E </b>(Elohist) Text and <b>P </b>(Priestly) Text to explain the apparent variants they identified. This has caused great anxiety to many fundamental Christians as these German scholars tried to allude to the point that Genesis has been written and/or edited over many generations.<br />
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However, let us not lose heart. Modern scholarship does not negate the authority of Jesus Christ and the Bible. God has said it, we must believe it. Not blindly but factually.<br />
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To cut to the chase and save you hours of research and anguish in deciphering the Germanic scholarship, let us understand from the following passage first.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Luke 24:27 & 44</span></span></h3>
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</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="text Luke-24-27" id="en-KJV-26019"><b><sup class="versenum">27 </sup></b>And <span style="color: red;"><b>beginning at Moses</b></span> and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="text Luke-24-27" id="en-KJV-26019"><span class="text Luke-24-44" id="en-KJV-26036"><b><sup class="versenum">44 </sup></b>And
he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I
was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written
in the <span style="color: red;"><b>law of Moses</b></span>, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning
me.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="text Luke-24-27" id="en-KJV-26019">Jesus had no problems with according the authorship of Genesis to Moses (v27). In fact, Jesus ascribes the entire Torah or the Law to Moses (44). He did not complicate the scholarship of the text and shows us what God attest to - the Scriptures attest to Jesus must be fulfilled.</span><br />
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<span class="text Luke-24-27" id="en-KJV-26019">Now, if you do not believe what Jesus says, there is a much bigger problem than the scholarship of Genesis.</span><br />
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<span class="text Luke-24-27" id="en-KJV-26019">Suffice to say that since Jesus has no problem with Moses as the author of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament, neither have we.</span><br />
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<span class="text Luke-24-27" id="en-KJV-26019">However, to satisfy the curiousity in our minds about the authorship of Genesis and to reaffirm our faith that it is Moses who wrote or compile it, we reproduce an excerpt of an excellent treatise on this matter by a faithful servant of Jesus Christ. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i><b><span class="text Luke-24-27" id="en-KJV-26019">An Excerpt from <a href="http://www.nwcreation.net/genesisauthor.html" target="_blank">"Who Wrote Genesis"</a> by Henry M Morris pp25 - 30.</span></b></i></span><br />
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<b>Moses as the Author </b><br />
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Probably most conservative scholars in the past have accepted the view that Genesis was written by Moses. This has been the uniform tradition of both the Jewish scribes and the Christian fathers. Genesis is considered to be the first book in the Pentateuch (the others being Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy), and all of them together taken as the Law (Hebrew, torah) of Moses. This general view was apparently accepted by Christ Himself: "And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.... These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me" (Luke 24:27,44). <br />
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Assuming that Moses was responsible for the Book of Genesis as it has come down to us, there still remains the question as to the method by which he received and transmitted it. There are three possibilities:</blockquote>
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<li>he received it all by direct revelation from God, either in the form of audible words dictated by God and transcribed by him, or else by visions given him of the great events of the past, which he then put down in his own words, as guided subconsciously by the Holy Spirit;</li>
<li>he received it all by oral traditions, passed down over the centuries from father to son, which he then collected and wrote down, again as guided by the Holy Spirit;<span style="color: red;"><b> </b></span></li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><b>he took actual written records of the past, collected them, and brought them together into a final form, again as guided by the Holy Spirit. </b></span></li>
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Evidently any of these methods would be consistent with both the doctrine of plenary verbal inspiration and that of Mosaic authorship. However, neither of the first two methods has a parallel anywhere in the canon of Scripture. "Visions and revelations of the Lord" normally have to do with prophetic revelations of the future (as in Daniel, Ezekiel, Revelation, etc.). The direct dictation method of inspiration was used mainly for promulgation of specific laws and ordinances (as in the Ten Commandments, the Book of Leviticus, etc.). The Book of Genesis, however, is entirely in the form of narrative records of historical events. Biblical parallels to Genesis are found in such books as Kings, Chronicles, Acts, and so forth. In all of these, the writer either collected previous documents and edited them (e.g., I and II Kings, I and II Chronicles), or else recorded the events which he had either seen himself or had ascertained from others who were witnesses (e.g., Luke, Acts). <br />
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It is also significant that, although the Book of Genesis is quoted from or alluded to at least two hundred times in the New Testament, as we have already noted, in none of these references is it ever stated that Moses was the actual author. This is especially significant in view of the fact that Moses is mentioned by name at least eighty times in the New Testament, approximately twenty-five of which refer to specific passages attributed to Moses in the other books of the Pentateuch. <br />
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While this evidence is not conclusive, it does favor the explanation that, while Moses actually wrote the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, he served mainly as compiler and editor of the material in the Book of Genesis. This in no way minimizes the work of the Holy Spirit, who infallibly guided him in this process of compilation and editing, just as He later did the unknown compiler and editor of the Book of Kings and Chronicles. It would still be appropriate to include Genesis as one of the books of Moses, since he is the human writer responsible for its present form. In fact, this explanation gives further testimony to the authenticity of the events recorded in Genesis, since we can now recognize them all as firsthand testimony. </blockquote>
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<b>Compilation of Patriarchal Records </b><br />
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It is suggested in this commentary, therefore, that Moses compiled and edited earlier written records that had been handed down from father to son via the line of the patriarchs listed in Genesis. That is, Adam, Noah, Shem, Terah, and others each wrote down an individual account of events which had occurred in his own lifetime, or concerning which he in some way had direct knowledge. These records were kept, possibly on tablets of stone, in such a way that hey would be preserved until they finally came into Moses’ possession. He then selected those that were relevant to his own purpose (as guided by the Holy Spirit), added his own explanatory editorial comments and transitional sections, and finally compiled them into the form now known as the Book of Genesis. <br />
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It is probable that these original documents can still be recognized by the key phrase: "<span style="color: red;">These are the generations of</span>...." The word "<span style="color: red;">generation</span>" is a translation of the Hebrew <span style="color: red;"><i>toledoth</i></span>, and it means essentially "<span style="color: red;">origins</span>," or, by extension, "<span style="color: red;">records of the origins</span>." There are eleven of these divisions marked off in Genesis: <br />
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(1) "These are the generations of the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 2:4). <br />
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(2) "This is the book of the generations of Adam" (Genesis 5:1). <br />
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(3) "These are the generations of Noah" (Genesis 6:9). <br />
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(4) "Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth" (Genesis 10:1). <br />
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(5) "These are the generations of Shem" (Genesis 11:10). <br />
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(6) "Now these are the generations of Terah" (Genesis 11:27). <br />
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(7) "Now these are the generations of Ishmael" (Genesis 25:12). <br />
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(8) "And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son" (Genesis 25:19). <br />
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(9) "Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom" (Genesis 36:1). <br />
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(10) "And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in Mount Seir" (Genesis 36:9) <br />
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(11) "These are the generations of Jacob" (Genesis 37:2) <br />
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Assuming that these toledoth divisions represent the original documents from which Genesis was collected, there is still the question whether the specific names are to be understood as subscripts or as superscripts, or some of each. Are they headings applied to the material following, or closing signatures of that which precedes? <br />
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The weight of evidence suggests that the respective names attached to the toledoth represent subscripts or closing signatures. The events recorded in each division all took place before, not after, the death of the individuals so named, and so could in each case have been accessible to them. The main difficulty with this view is that most of the portions that would be assigned to Ishmael and to Easu under this formula hardly seem appropriate for them to have written. However, this problem can be avoided by assuming that "the generations of Ishmael" constituted a small subdivision within the broader record maintained by Isaac, and finally transmitted by him. Similarly, the "generations of Esau" may have been appropriated by Jacob in his own larger account later transmitted under the heading "the generations of Jacob." <br />
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If this explanation is correct, then the Book of Genesis can be divided into nine main subdivisions, as follows: <br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>(1) "The generations of the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1-2:4) </b></span><br />
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This section, describing the initial Creation and the work of the six days, has no human name attached to it, for the obvious reason that no man was present at the time to record what happened. It must either have been written directly by God Himself and then given to Adam, or else given by revelation to Adam, who then recorded it. <br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">(2) "The book of the generations of Adam" (Genesis 2:4b-5:1) </span></b><br />
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This section, written by Adam, describes the Garden of Eden, the temptation and fall, and the experiences of Cain and Abel. Adam was obviously the logical one to record this particular history. The use of the word "book" makes it clear that these primreview records were actually written down, and not simply handed by word of mouth. It also is significant in light of the beginning phrase of the New Testament: "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ" (Matthew 1:1). <br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">(3) "The generations of Noah" (Genesis 5:1b-6:9) </span></b><br />
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The patriarch Noah, sometime before that actual coming of the Flood, compiled the records of the patriarchs before him. According to the genealogies listed in Genesis 5, Noah’s father, Lamech, had lived contemporaneously with every one of these patriarchs, including Adam. Noah himself had known all of them except Adam, Seth, and Enoch. Noah then also recorded his own observations of the rapid degeneracy of men in his day and God’s determination to destroy them, mentioning, however, that he himself had found grace in God’s eyes. <br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">(4) "The generations of the sons of Noah" (Genesis 6:9b-10:1) </span></b><br />
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Shem, Ham and Japheth evidently took the responsibility of recording the preparations for the Flood, and then describing the Flood itself. They also recorded the immediate postdiluvian events, including Noah’s prophecy concerning themselves, and then later his death. <br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">(5) "The generations of Shem" (Genesis 10:1b-11:10) </span></b><br />
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After Noah’s death, and after the dispersion at Babel, it seems that the three sons of Noah became separated, and Shem took the responsibility of keeping the records. Accordingly, he wrote about the confusion of languages at Babel and the resultant scattering of the families. He also recorded the names of the descendants of Noah down to about the time of the scattering, in the so-called Table of Nations in Genesis 10. Presumably he more or less lost track of the descendants of Ham and Japheth after this, even though he himself lived five hundred years after the Flood. <br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">(6) "The generations of Terah" (Genesis 11:10b-11:27) </span></b><br />
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This is a very brief document, containing only the genealogies in the Semitic line, from Shem down to Terah and his three sons. It is important, however, in that it gives us the only possible basis for a chronology from the Flood to Abraham. <br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">(7) "The generations of Isaac" (Genesis 11:27b-25:19) </span></b><br />
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In contrast, this is quite a long document, giving all the details of the life of Abraham from the time of his call by God to the time of his death, and also including events in Isaac’s life until his father died. Isaac apparently also appended to his own record the "generations of Ishmael" (Genesis 25:12), the record of his half-brother’s sons, which he must have obtained from him at the time Ishmael returned home to help Isaac bury his father (Genesis 25:9). Isaac also included mention of the death of Ishmael, about forty-eight years after Abraham’s burial. <br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">(8) "The generations of Jacob" (Genesis 25:19b-37:2) </span></b><br />
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Jacob’s record, like Isaac’s, is much longer than most of the others in Genesis, giving the later events in the life of his father Isaac and then including all his own history through the time of his twenty-year sojourn with Laban and his return to Canaan, with the record of the death of both his wife Rachel and his father Isaac. As Isaac had appended Ishmael’s record of descendants to his own, so Jacob also included two documents from his brother Esau (Genesis 36) after his brother had joined him in burying his father (Genesis 35:29). It is also possible that some of this material, in particular the eight generations of Edomite kings listed in Genesis 36:31-39, may have been inserted later as an editorial addition by Moses. <br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">(9) "The generations of the Sons of Jacob" (Genesis 37:2b-Exodus 1:1) </span></b><br />
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Although the regular formula is not used in this case, the wording in Exodus 1:1 is very similar to the others: "Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt..." The events in the life of Joseph and his brethren, as recorded in these latter chapters of Genesis, could have originally been known only to them. Whether they wrote them down, as their fathers had done, or transmitted them orally, somehow their stories must finally have come into the possession of Moses, as is indicated by the smooth transition from the last verses of Genesis to the first verses of Exodus. The formula would be exactly repeated, in fact, if the word "names" in Exodus 1:1 were replaced by the word "generation". It would then read" "Now these are the generations of the children of Israel..." </blockquote>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Thus it is probable that the Book of Genesis
was written originally by actual eyewitnesses of the events reported
therein. Probably the original narratives were recorded on tablets of
stone or clay, in common with the practice of early times, and then
handed down from father to son, finally coming into the possession of
Moses. Moses perhaps selected the appropriate sections for compilation,
inserted his own editorial additions and comments, and provided smooth
transitions from one document to the next, with the final result being
the Book of Genesis as we have received it.</b></span></blockquote>
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Although this theory of the authorship of Genesis cannot be rigidly
proved, it does seem to fit all available facts better than any other
theory. It is consistent with the doctrine of Biblical inspiration and
authority, as well as with the accurate historicity of its records.
Furthermore, this approach provides vivid insight into the accounts, and
a more vibrant awareness of their freshness and relevance, than any
other.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Isaiah 17</b></span></div>
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<span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; left: 0px; position: relative;">1</span><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.</span></div>
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<span class="text Isa-17-1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a very clear prophecy of Damascus that has yet to happen. It refers to Damascus being a ruinous heap. God declares that Damascus will be completely destroyed. Although it has been captured many times by many peoples, it has never ceased from its existence.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Isa-17-1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Damascus is the <b><span style="color: red;">oldest continuously inhabited city in the world</span></b>. It has a present population of 1,711,000 (2009 est). It was first mentioned in the Bible in Genesis 14:15 in the War of the Kings where Abraham led a successful rescue of Lot who was captured when dwelling in Sodom.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Isa-17-1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Damascus was also mentioned earliest in the Egyptian records and was part of the Hyksos Kingdom as early as 1720BC. </span></span>Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Nabataeans, Romans, the Umayyad caliphate, Seljuk Turks, Mongols, Ottomans, French and many others all once held sway here. For more information of Biblical background of Damascus, read <a href="http://www.bible-history.com/links.php?cat=40&sub=544&cat_name=Bible+Cities&subcat_name=Damascus" target="_blank">here</a>. <span style="font-family: inherit;">For more secular history of Damascus, please read <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The prophecy may be fulfilled soon. A number of incidents may just tilt the balance over Damascus.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Accidents - Jane's Weekly Defense (19 Sept 2007) see below.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the event of an Iranian nuclear missile strike against Israel - when Iran succeeds in obtaining or manufacturing their first nuclear warhead, they will most likely take a strike at Israel taking the route over Syria. Some speculate that Israel could scurry the strike and take the missile down on mid-route. Perhaps it can drop over Damascus.</span></li>
<li>Civil war - watch the present civil war in Syria. The stakes are high and tensions are mounting where a possible nuclear accident can happen during this scuffle between Assad and the Opposition troops.</li>
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<b><span style="color: red;">All we can say is that the stage is being set for the fulfillment of this prophecy clearer than any previous periods of time.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">An accidental explosion in a secret weapons facility in Syria killed dozens of Syrian and Iranian military engineers as they were trying to mount a chemical warhead on a Scud missile in July, a report has claimed.Fifteen military personnel and “dozens” of Iranian advisers died when the fuel for the missile caught fire and the weapon exploded.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A cloud of chemical and nerve gases, that included the deadly VX and Sarin agents as well as mustard gas, was sent across the facility in the northern city of Aleppo, according to a new report in Jane's Defence Weekly.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The July 26 explosion had been reported earlier by the official Syrian news agency Sana, which said that only 15 Syrian military personnel were killed and 50 others injured in an accident involving “very explosive products.” It made no mention of Iranian officers also being killed in the blast, which it said was not an act of sabotage.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The engineers were trying to weaponise a Syrian-made Scud missile with a range of around 300 miles when the explosion occurred.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The Iranian engineers were working at the facility as part of a 2005 strategic co-operation agreement between the two countries, whose close ties are seen by Israel and the United States as a major threat to regional security.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Jane’s Defence Weekly said the project included Iranian assistance to develop five pilot facilities in Syria to produce chemical weapons, allowing Syria to advance its programme of such non-conventional weapons that it began in the 1970s.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The report coincided with widespread speculation that an audacious Israeli air strike against another Syrian facility two weeks ago may have destroyed a nuclear shipment from North Korea.</span></blockquote>
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Since the 19th century, atheists have latched on the Theory of Evolution to explain the origins of everything without the need of God. As so-called science claims evidence of evolution, it challenged Christians to rethink Genesis 1 to explain in light of these so-called evidences. Evolutionists have claimed that "science" clearly proves from geology, anthropology, biology and cosmology that the origins of everything can be seen.<br />
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But is that true? Unfortunately, many Christians are not equipped to defend Genesis and have embedded evolution thinking into interpreting Genesis. The question we are asking today is this - can we reconcile the Evolution Theory to Genesis?<br />
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<b>The Beginning</b><br />
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We believe that "in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" Gen 1:1. Summed up neatly in this verse is the origin of <span style="color: red;">time </span>(beginning - of creation, not of time itself), <span style="color: red;">space </span>(heaven) and <span style="color: red;">matter </span>(earth). God tells us that everything in this world is created by Him. We can see the intelligent design of this world and the designer is God. He told us so.<br />
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From the <a href="http://prophecycreationwatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-big-bang-theory-for-origin-of.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red;">Big Bang Theory</span></b></a>, nobody yet can explain what exploded, when it exploded and where it exploded. All they can tell us is that in the beginning (by faith), all energy and matter was squished into a small dot (by faith) and suddenly it exploded giving time, space and matter in that split second. Further to this, they will not be able to explain the origin of the natural laws like gravity, thermodynamics, etc. All of these must come into being else it cannot exist.<br />
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And where did light come from? The Bible tells us that God said "Let there be light, and there was light" Gen 1:4. From the Big Bang Theory, light must have been part of that dot which exploded. What cannot be explained must be squished into that dot. Can you see how all of these explanations require faith to believe? There is no empirical evidence to prove this at all.<br />
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Of course, scientists who believe in the Big Bang will show you charts of Red Shift, the remnant of the sound captured from the edge of space, and tells you that this is all too complex for the normal person to understand. We just have to accept (blindly) that this is all true. But is it?<br />
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Suffice to say that anyone who thinks they have the explanation of the origin of the universe with the Big Bang Theory requires an enormous amount of faith to believe in it. Hence, some has called the Big Bang Theory or Evolution a religion as it requires faith. The evidence is just not there.<br />
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Nobody can repeat the origin of the universe. Hence, this is a matter of HISTORY, a one-time event that occurred in the past. How far back in time, nobody knows, but the one who was there. And we believe that He is the God of the Universe, our Creator God. He has shown us how far back in time all these things in Genesis 1 happened. But do you believe in it or you rather believe in so-called science which requires faith?<br />
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<b>From Bang to Stars or Galaxies?</b><br />
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As we progress from the Big Bang (which requires faith to believe), how did the stars come about? Did the stars form first then comes the galaxies or the reverse? Evolutionists tells us that the formation of stars come from the explosion (or death) of many stars else there is not enough energy to compress the gas into matter. Then if you need stars to form another star, where did the first stars come from? And why don't we see many stars exploding (or dying) to form another star? Nobody has seen a star born but we are seeing the end of stars in the nova or supernova.<br />
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Did you know that nobody knows exactly how the moon came about? There is much speculation but until today, there is no specific theory that is widely accepted. Some say that the earth caught a foreign object in space as it passed by. Why is it round? Why is the earth and the planets all round? Some say that the moon is from the Pacific Ocean. How did it get up there in orbit?<br />
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We read from the Bible that God made the stars, sun and moon on Day 4. God placed them there for signs and seasons (Gen 1:14). We are told that each of them have a purpose and does not exist by accident as from the Big Bang. We can see that the formation of stars have guided sailors and travelers who journeyed far and wide without GPS and they have successfully used the stars, sun and moon to guide them. Stars includes the planets in our solar system too.<br />
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The moon has its function too. It was made on Day 4 before the sea creatures were created. The seas were already separated from dry land into one place on Day 3. Plant life came into existent on Day 3. This is in preparation of animal life on Day 6. The moon is required to give tides to the seas to stir them so they will not be stagnated. It is placed sufficiently far away so as not to cause tidal waves but not too far where its gravity will have no effect. Then on Day 5, life in the sea was created. One of the life in the sea is phytoplankton, a simple life form that God created to ensure that there is oxygen and food to sustain life. Scientists now believes that at least 50% of the world's oxygen comes from these sea life and the rest comes from plant life on land. The moon stirs the water to ensure that oxygen is circulated to sustain life in the sea.<br />
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<b>What about Life?</b><br />
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The Evolutionists will now tell you that life popped up suddenly in a primordial soup in simple life forms like the single celled amoeba or the equivalent, exactly what it was, we really do not know. In the days of Darwin, when the microscope was not so developed, scientist guessed that a cell is just a black box of very simplistic life. Today, we know that a single cell is <b><span style="color: red;">as complex as a city</span></b> with systems and processes that is so well defined. How can such a cell evolve from non-life material (spontaneous generation)? It can't.<br />
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The law of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogenesis" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red;">biogenesis</span></b> </a>was defined by Louis Pasteur and he disproved spontaneous generation. He stated that "<i><span style="color: red;">all life is from life</span></i>" and a related statement that "<i><span style="color: red;">all cells are from cells</span></i>". There is no such thing of the law of abiogenesis where life comes from non-life. However, Evolutionist theorized that this abiogeneis "<i><span style="color: red;">must have happened</span></i>" once in Earth's history. But there is no evidence whatsoever. Hence, you must have faith to believe that life came from non-life.<br />
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The Bible tells us that God made plant life on Day 3, birds and sea life on Day 5, land animal life and man on Day 6. God spoke all life into existence except for the creation of man. He was special and God tells us that He made man in His image, both male and female. Moreover, every life form that God created was to "<b><i><span style="color: red;">bring forth after its kind</span></i></b>". Today, we can clearly understand that God had programmed the DNA life code into all life forms on earth. They cannot become another "kind" and from our understanding of genetics, one cannot change into a different life form because there is no genetic information in the DNA to take on those characteristics. Hence, DNA points to an intelligent designer and that designer is God.<br />
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<b>Evolution Explanations cannot follow the order of Creation</b><br />
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As you can now tell, the explanations afforded by Evolutionists cannot follow the order of Creation as recorded in Genesis 1. Day 1 of the Big Bang must be followed by Day 4 of the galaxies and back to Day 1 of the origin of the earth and then to Day 3 of Plant Life or Day 6 of Land Animal life before Day 5 of Sea Life and eventually lead to Day 6 of Man.<br />
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The gap of billions and millions of years also will not bear any meaning for if Plant Life had to evolve over hundreds of millions of years, there is no evidence to this effect at all. When Plant Life exist in Day 3 and it takes millions of years before the Sun came into existence in Day 4, there will not be any Plant Life any longer. But if is just a gap of 1 Day, that is not a problem. In fact, Evolutionists cannot tell the evolution of plant life. They spend all their time trying to find evidence of human life to fill the "missing links" which will remain missing.<br />
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The evolution theories put land animals before sea animals, sun before earth, because they are attempting to explain this world without God. And they claim to solely use naturalistic explanations but they cannot explain where the laws of nature come from. Are they not putting the cart before the horse? They assume or believe these laws just happen to exist as we now know it and use this to explain the past being a uniformed history, which we know is not uniform at all. The earth has seen a mega catastrophe in Noah's Flood which can explain all the effects we see in the geological column across the world.<br />
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If we are honest, there is really no way to reconcile the explanations for the origin of the universe and of life using evolution theories. You cannot fit this into the Days of Creation in Genesis 1. Although some Christians invent the <a href="http://prophecycreationwatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-gap-theory.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: red;">Gap Theory</span></b></a> to attempt to explain the billion of years and that Genesis 1 talk about the re-creation of a destroyed Pre-Adamite world, they begin to wade into dangerous grounds of dwelling on what God never says.<br />
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It is <b><span style="color: red;">either </span></b>Evolution Theory by itself <b><span style="color: red;">or </span></b>Genesis 1 by itself and <span style="color: red;">the two cannot mix</span> nor can Genesis adapt Evolution Theory. You will have to tell a pretty far fetched story to weave Evolution into God's Creation account. And it remains a story, not truth.<br />
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If we read Genesis as how God lays it out of us, there is<b><span style="color: red;"> no contradiction with known scientific evidence and laws</span></b>. God created the world in <b><span style="color: red;">6 days</span></b> and how he did it, the sequence He did it, and why He did it, is clearly known to us. Read Genesis 1 carefully and prayerfully and you can see the wonderful wisdom of God proven by real science.
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As bible prophecy students, we must be aware that God is setting the stage for this Psalm to be fulfilled, more so in our days than any other previous period. Again, we must be duly reminded that we <b>cannot be sure of everything </b>and we must <b>speculate </b>on how God is working but yet guided by His prophecy that must be fulfilled literally as He says. <br />
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Psalm 83 was written 3,000 years ago but we believe that although as a national lament psalm, it has never been a time of its applicability like today. Let us take a closer look and we can see why the fulfillment of prophecy is at hand.<br />
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Keep not silence, O God: hold not your peace, and be not still, O God.</span></span><br />
<b><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">[This is a lament and appealing to God to act. It appears that God has not done anything but keeping quiet. This psalm is a prayer to move the hand of God to take action.]</span> </span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="vertical-align: super;"> 2 </span>For, lo, your enemies make a <span style="font-weight: bold;">tumult</span>: and
they that <span style="font-weight: bold;">hate </span>you have lifted up the head.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: magenta;"><b>[<span style="font-family: inherit;">The reason being the enemies of God is making a big uproar and these people who hate God have decided to stand up for their cause.]</span></b></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="vertical-align: super;"> 3 </span>They have taken <span style="font-weight: bold;">crafty
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your people, and consulted against your hidden ones.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: magenta;"><b>[<span style="font-family: inherit;">These people have decided to join forces to go against Israel, God's people.]</span></b></span> </span></span><br />
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have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of
Israel may be no more in remembrance.</b></span></span></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">[Their intent is to get together and wipe out Israel as a nation and obliterate them from history.]</span></span></span></span></b><br />
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they have consulted together with one consent: they make a covenant against you</span>:</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: magenta;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[<span style="font-family: inherit;">They have come to agreement as a confederation united to act. This act is against God, not just the people of God.]</span></span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As we can see, the war cry of the Palestinians and the Arab nations is united to wipe out Israel. The Palestinian cause is to take back the entire land without the presence of Israel. The PLO constitution is to push back Israel into the Mediterranean Sea. They are all united to obliterate Israel. Speeches by Ahmedinejad of Iran has resounded in the United Nations. But the world does not quite believe the intention of the Arab nations until it really happens.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We can clearly see that the existence of such people living around Israel harbors such intent and they are united to this cause. We can literally understand that God is referring to our times and we must pay close attention to the Psalm.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Bible uses ancient names to refer to the people who are bent on destroying Israel. Let us discover their Present Day names. There are some which we may not be very clear on but generally, most of the names are well known.</span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Edom </b>- Jordan to Arabia; the tabenacles of Edom may also refer to the Palestinian refugee camps all over the place in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Ishmaelites </b>- Saudi Arabia (North)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Moab </b>- Jordan (South)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Hagrites </b>- Egypt; maybe Saudi Arabia (North)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Gebal </b>- Lebanon</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <b>Ammon </b>- Jordan (North, Central)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Amalek </b>- Jordan</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Philistines </b>- Gaza (Hamas)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Tyre </b>- Lebanon (South) (Hezbollah)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Assyria </b>- Syria, Iraq, Turkey</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Observe that the Psalm does not tell us what happens at the end. We believe that Israel will prevail and preserved by God for the Tribulation and we place this war to happen before the Tribulation.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We are also mindful that this war is fought between Israel and the nations that share a common border with Israel today. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) plays a key role to defend Israel as in all previous wars launched upon Israel by the Arab nations.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We also believe that as Israel prevails over the definitive war of the Palestinian conflict that Israel will also occupy parts of the lands of the losing nations. Perhaps we will see Israel expanding into Jordan in the East, Lebanon and Syria in the North and Egypt in the South. All of Gaza, the West Bank and Golan Heights will no longer be claimed by the losing nations.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is speculative on our part. Please be mindful that we are sharing our observations and views as God sets the stage for the fulfillment of Psalm 83. You, too, can observe that the fulfillment is at hand and can happen in our lifetime, soon!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We recommend you to consider the video below by Bill Salus as he describes his view on Psalm 83.</span></span></span><br />
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He has promised us the Spirit of Truth to guide us into all truth. His word is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that we might be prepared for good works.<br />
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In studying prophecy or creation science, it is not different. Our method of interpretation matters a lot to our doctrines and hence, our faith.<br />
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You should approach the Bible like any other literature. It is God's written word for us to read, study, memorize and apply. It is not a mysterious book although it does contain mysteries. It is not a symbolic book although it contains symbols. It is God's communication to us. As such, we should read it for all it is worth.<br />
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We should read it <span style="color: red;"><b>literally </b></span>unless it is clear that it isn't. Then again, we should always let God speak. That mean we should always interpret Scripture with Scripture and not our own imaginations or experiences.<br />
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That said, there are many Christians who interpret the bible <span style="color: red;"><b>allegorically</b></span>. They tend to symbolize or spiritualize the meanings of Scripture.<br />
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So how you interpret the Scripture will lead you to understand prophecy and the bible differently. For example, if you hold to the <b>allegorical </b>approach, you will tend to observe an <b>Amillennial </b>position where there is no 1,000 year kingdom of Jesus and that we are already in the millenium, a symbolic age and there is no rapture. Along the continuum, we have those who hold to a position that is <b>Post-Millennial</b>, that the 2nd coming of Jesus will be after the millenium for the final judgment. The <b>Pre-Millennial </b>position is one that believes in the 2nd coming of Jesus prior to the millenium and to reign during the millenium. You will tend to take this position if you interpret the Scripture literally.<br />
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With the Pre-Millennial position, the belief of when the rapture of the church takes place also differs to one that is before the tribulation (<b>Pre-Tribulation</b>), one that is at the middle of the tribulation (<b>Mid-Tribulation</b>) and one that is after the tribulation (<b>Post-Tribulation</b>).<br />
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It is important that you understand your own position. We believe God says what He means and means what He says. Hence, the literal approach is best suited to understand what God wants to teach us. Else we will have a difficult time understanding His word because in an allegorical approach, you can almost make the Bible say what you want because there is no fixed basis. It is a matter of personal appeal and what you feel best suits the meaning of the passages.<br />
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Most churches and seminaries tend to teach the allegorical approach to interpretation. Few churches hold to the literal approach. However, this matter is not to be decided by numbers but by principle. How does God speak to us? When it is clearly non-literal, the Bible will be very clear. There is no worries to read the Bible as it is.<br />
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Finally, in bible prophecy, the allegorical approach will lead to <b>Replacement Theology</b> where the <b>Church</b> replaces <b>Israel </b>in God's focus today and that Israel forfeited their right when they nailed Jesus to the cross. This will also mean that to them, Israel is no longer important and does not need any special treatment. The focus is on the Church. Hence, there is <b>no tribulation</b> period and Revelation is a depiction of the struggle of Good over Evil to comfort the ones who are suffering.<br />
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In the literal approach, we believe that God deals with the <b>Church and Israel </b>separately and that Israel will be preserved by God for the <b>tribulation </b>period. There will also be a <b>rapture </b>of the Church and Jesus will return to reign as King. Hence, Israel is very much a focus of God and things that God says will happen with them.<br />
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We trust that you will come to terms with your own approach to interpreting Scripture and may the Holy Spirit guide you in this matter.<br />
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1. Recently, Israel's Tamar field which came online in March with an estimated 10 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas, can meet the nation's needs for decades. The nearby Leviathan field, which is expected to begin production in 2016, is estimated to hold 19 tcf. Some Israeli leaders are now mooting a country stance of "<i>gas for peace</i>" strategy, offering its energy resources to neighbors at discounted prices to cement peace ties. (read <a href="http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2013/May29/293.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">here</a>). <b><span style="color: magenta;">[This is the stage set for Eze 38-39 when the war is about the wealth of Israel. Besides gas, Israel will also be rich in oil. Stay tuned for more latest news.]</span></b></div>
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2. The murder of a soldier in London, the stabbing of a soldier in Paris and the violent outbreak in Sweden – Europe's alarm clock has been ringing once again over the past week. The negative birthrate compared to the increase in Muslims, the heavy unemployment and the social-religious isolation of European immigrants are all back on the agenda. According to many, demographics, which is the topic for many studies, is the red light. It points to the path in which the continent is headed – the European birthrate is at a continuous standstill while Muslim immigrants are doubling their rates. (read <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4385024,00.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">here</a>). <b><span style="color: magenta;">[Islam seems to be unstoppable in taking over Europe. The stage is being set for EU to be the revived Roman Empire, unifying them in many ways. Meanwhile, pay close attention to the new phenomenon called "Chrislam", the combination of Christianity and Islam. There will be a universal religion at the end days. Could this be it?]</span></b><br /><br />3. Dinosaurs may have farted themselves to extinction, according to a new study from British scientists. The researchers calculated that the prehistoric beasts pumped out more than 520 million tons (472 million tonnes) of methane a year -- enough to warm the planet and hasten their own eventual demise. Until now, an asteroid strike and volcanic activity around 65 million years ago had seemed the most likely cause of their extinction. (read <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/07/dinosaurs-farted-their-way-to-extinction-british-scientists-say/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">here</a>). <b><span style="color: magenta;">[Most dinosaurs died in Noah's Flood Gen 7-8 while some smaller ones may still be around today. Many dinosaur stories from ancient cultures and artifacts depicting dinosaurs are found around the world, proving that man has seen dinosaurs. How sure are the scientists that dinosaurs are extinct?]</span></b><div>
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4. Prof Richard Dawkins told the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams: “What I can’t understand is why you can’t see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that <i>life started from nothing</i> – that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?”</div>
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Dr Williams replied that he “entirely agreed” with the “beauty” of Prof Dawkins’s argument but added: “I’m not talking about God as an extra who you shoehorn on to that.” There was surprise when Prof Dawkins acknowledged that he was less than 100 per cent certain of his conviction that there is no creator. Prof Dawkins said that he was “6.9 out of seven” sure of his beliefs. “I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low,” he added. (read <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9102740/Richard-Dawkins-I-cant-be-sure-God-does-not-exist.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">here</a>). <b><span style="color: magenta;">[Richard Dawkins finally admits that his evolution religious beliefs which cannot be proven cannot discount God fully out of the picture either. God cannot be taken out of His creation. Yahweh is the Creator, whether Richard Dawkins like it or not.]</span></b></div>
<br />5. The question of whether man was specially created directly from the hand of God or whether he evolved from an ape-like creature has long been a controversial issue. In today’s secular culture it is common to view the biblical history of Adam as a story, myth, or a parable but this is now also becoming the standard interpretation for many within the evangelical community.</div>
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In order to understand Genesis this way we have to sacrifice the clear teaching of the Bible to fit with a particular evolutionary view of earth’s history. (Read <a href="http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/arj/v6/n1/importance-of-historical-adam" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">here</a>). <b><span style="color: magenta;">[If there is no Adam, there is no sin. And there will be no death. Which means no need of salvation. And Jesus did not die on the cross. And Satan wins - we shall all be gods. Be very careful with your studies in Genesis. It is the foundation of your faith. If Genesis falls, so does your Scriptural foundations.]</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Genesis 1:9-13</span></h3>
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<span class="text Gen-1-9" id="en-KJ21-9"><span class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">9 </span>And God said, “Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.</span></div>
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<span class="text Gen-1-10" id="en-KJ21-10"><span class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">10 </span>And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas; and God saw that it was good.</span></div>
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<span class="text Gen-1-11" id="en-KJ21-11"><span class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">11 </span>And God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth”; and it was so.</span></div>
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<span class="text Gen-1-12" id="en-KJ21-12"><span class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">12 </span>And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind; and God saw that it was good.</span></div>
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<span class="text Gen-1-13" id="en-KJ21-13"><span class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">13 </span>And the evening and the morning were the third day.</span></div>
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<b>Dry Land</b><br />
Remember that at the beginning of creation in verses 2 and 3 that the entire Earth was covered with water, deep water in fact. That means that there is no dry land and whatever solid land was in existence at the time will be submerged under the water.<br />
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On the third day, God said to gather the waters into one place and allow the dry land to appear. The world that then was is a single continent surrounded by water, given the description of the creation act of God here.<br />
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At the same time, God named the dry land Earth and the waters the Seas (plural to denote the wide expanse). And God liked what He saw and called it good.<br />
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But did you know that as the tectonic plate action caused the continent or dry land to be pushed up above the water level, we read that the Earth also has a foundation that is fastened, probably to the layer below the crust.<br />
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38:4</b> Where </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">wast</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> thou
when I laid the </span><span style="color: #a93a00; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 9; mso-effects-shadow-alpha: 65.0%; mso-effects-shadow-angledirection: 5400000; mso-effects-shadow-color: black; mso-effects-shadow-dpidistance: 3.4pt; mso-effects-shadow-dpiradius: 5.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-linearshade-angle: 5400000; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: linear; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 \#a93a00 9 100000 shade=20000 satm=200000\,78000 \#ff7e11 9 100000 tint=90000 shade=89000 satm=220000\,100000 \#fff0e8 9 100000 tint=12000 satm=255000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;">foundations
of the earth</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">?
declare, if thou hast understanding. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">knowest</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">? or
who hath stretched the line upon it? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">6 Whereupon are the </span><span style="color: #a93a00; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 9; mso-effects-shadow-alpha: 65.0%; mso-effects-shadow-angledirection: 5400000; mso-effects-shadow-color: black; mso-effects-shadow-dpidistance: 3.4pt; mso-effects-shadow-dpiradius: 5.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-linearshade-angle: 5400000; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: linear; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 \#a93a00 9 100000 shade=20000 satm=200000\,78000 \#ff7e11 9 100000 tint=90000 shade=89000 satm=220000\,100000 \#fff0e8 9 100000 tint=12000 satm=255000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;">foundations</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">
thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; </span></div>
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8:29</b> When he gave to the sea his decree,
that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the </span><span style="color: #a93a00; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 9; mso-effects-shadow-alpha: 65.0%; mso-effects-shadow-angledirection: 5400000; mso-effects-shadow-color: black; mso-effects-shadow-dpidistance: 3.4pt; mso-effects-shadow-dpiradius: 5.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-linearshade-angle: 5400000; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: linear; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 \#a93a00 9 100000 shade=20000 satm=200000\,78000 \#ff7e11 9 100000 tint=90000 shade=89000 satm=220000\,100000 \#fff0e8 9 100000 tint=12000 satm=255000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient; mso-style-textoutline-type: none;">foundations
of the earth</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">: </span></div>
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The diagram shows the conceptual depiction how it has since been discovered that there are pillars that fasten the continents to the mantle. Perhaps, this is the foundations of the Earth. The Earth's crust is very thin, equivalent to the skin of an apple. There is very little known about what is under the Earth's surface. We have great difficulties looking into the Earth both on the dry land and beneath the Sea.<br />
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Perhaps, as more advanced exploration is undertaken that we may find out more of the glory of the creation of God in the near future.<br />
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<b>Plant Life</b><br />
In verse 11, God makes plant life. It is very interesting to pay attention to the order that God is creating the world. It is all in proper, meaningful order in preparation to receive Man to dwell. It is not by accident.<br />
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<li>God begins by forming the Earth and covered with lots of water but it was shrouded in darkness that no one can see.</li>
<li>He makes visible light to unveil the glory of His creation.</li>
<li>He then separates the water and forms the atmospheric environment to receive life.</li>
<li>He then gathers the water and pushes the land beneath the water up to form dry land.</li>
<li>With this dry land, God decrees the existence of plant life.</li>
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There is no room for the Theory of Evolution. God tells us that He first prepare plant life before He formed animal life. There is a very good reason for this too.<br />
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That plant life is intended for food is God's wisdom to think ahead that when animal life and Man was created, they will not go hungry and die. Death has no part in God's creation. Furthermore, God decreed that plant life was to reproduce after his kind. This is now very clear to us to refer to the DNA of plant life where a <i>durian </i>tree cannot become a <i>mango</i> tree. They will always reproduce after its kind and this predictability and the code within the genes governing the reproduction is God's decree, God's code of life.<br />
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At least, the farmer will never be surprised that his crop can become something else one day.<br />
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With the discovery of DNA and the appreciation of its yet to fully fathom depth of information, we can clearly see that life is by design and not by chance. Evolution is about chance. Creation is about design.<br />
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Let us consider the Theory of Evolution. If it took millions of years to evolve, all plant life will have died out and withered. Earth will be barren. Anyone who has tried to grow plants, trees or grass from seeds will know that if left by themselves, over time, they will just die. Evolution says that single cell life forms evolved to higher life forms and plant forms came from the same protoplasm washed ashore.<br />
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How then can plant life exist unless God formed them fully grown and with reproducing seeds as well. Evolution over millions of years just won't do and sounds really ridiculous as well.<br />
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In closing, this is the THIRD DAY and God prepared <b><span style="color: red;">food </span></b>and <b><span style="color: red;">oxygen</span></b> producing plants in store for animal life and Man in the coming days of creation.
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</script>Prophetic Timeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16754431401713681287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423854792216743764.post-29700343508509106462013-05-29T23:38:00.001+08:002013-06-18T17:06:31.767+08:00The 2nd Re-Gathering of IsraelThe Diaspora or Dispersion of Israel began in 70AD with the destruction of Jerusalem by General Titus. This event was in fulfillment of prophecy given by Jesus on the Olivet Discourse, a confidential briefing to His inner circle apostles comprising of Peter, Andrew, James and John as recorded in Mathew 24.<br />
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This time around, the Jews were scattered across the farthest seas all the way to Russia and all across Europe. Not forgetting that in the events of the Captivity of Israel by the Assyrians and Babylonians, there were already Jews in present day Iraq and Iran and most of them did not return to Jerusalem in the 1st Gathering of Israel but rather tried to assimilate into the culture of the land of the captors.<br />
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It was no different in the dispersion of Israel. They tried very hard to assimilate into the way and life of the European nations but somehow they just cannot make it stick. As much as they had wanted to be an Austrian, a Polish, a Russian, etc, their Jewish nature and background just did not allow them to be one of the Europeans. And it was probably God's providence that He was watching them and not let the Jews be lost forever.<br />
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In the 2nd Gathering of Israel, it is in fulfillment of a number of passages of Scripture. Amongst the few key ones is Ezekiel 37 of the Vision in the Valley of Dry Bones.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; vertical-align: super;">19</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim,
and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; vertical-align: super;">20</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">And the sticks whereon thou writest
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; vertical-align: super;">21</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">And say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold;">Behold, I will take the children of
Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on
every side, and bring them into their own land:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; vertical-align: super;">22</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold;">And I will make them one nation in
the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all:
and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two
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Somehow, the dried bones gathered sinews and became alive once again. It depicts the nation of Israel being dead yet coming alive once again. For this to happen, the Jews must never lose their identity and somehow, the Promised Land must come back into existence and into their control once again. This is just too impossible from a statistics point of view but it is in God's plan and His prophecy holds true.<br />
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It is God who caused the re-gathering of Israel and it is not something man can do. God gave this prophecy over 2,000 years before it happened. So let us trace back how God fulfilled this prophecy and all the prophecies related to Israel.<br />
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Read <a href="http://www.lamblion.com/articles/articles_mepolitics6.php" target="_blank">The Middle East Crisis in Biblical Perspective</a> by David Reagan, an excellent overview of this topic.<br />
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Allow me to reproduce the relevant parts of his article here.<br />
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The Regathering in Unbelief</h3>
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Regarding the end time regathering in unbelief, God set it in motion in the late 19th Century when He began to raise up prophetic voices among the Jews in Europe, calling them to return to their homeland. God knew the Holocaust was coming, so He called the Jewish people to return to their roots.</div>
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The key individual He used to spread this warning message was a Viennese journalist named Theodore Herzl. Like most European Jews, Herzl believed the Jews had been assimilated into European culture and would never again suffer from outbreaks of Anti-Semitism. But in 1894 he went to Paris to cover the trial of a French Army officer named Alfred Dreyfus. This man had been accused of treason, primarily because he was a Jew. When Herzl arrived at the courthouse, he was astonished to see tens of thousands of sophisticated Parisians standing in the streets shouting, "Death to the Jews!"</div>
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His eyes were opened to the fact that Jews had not been assimilated and never would be. He responded by writing a pamphlet called "The Jewish State." In it, he called for Jews worldwide to return to their homeland, which at that time was called Palestine. In 1897 he convened the first international Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland. At that conference, he proclaimed his belief that a Jewish state would come into existence within 50 years.</div>
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Herzl's vision motivated waves of immigrants to return to Palestine. These waves were dubbed "aliyas" — after the Hebrew word, aliya, which means "to go up." This word was used because the immigrants were viewed as "going up to Jerusalem."</div>
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By 1900 there were 40,000 Jews in Palestine. During the years immediately preceding World War II, and during the war itself, many barriers were placed in the way of Jewish immigration, but even so, by the end of the war, the Jewish population had swelled to over 700,000. Today there are over 6 million Jews in Israel who have come — as prophesied — from the four corners of the world (<a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="Isaiah 11.12" data-version="nasb95" href="http://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Isaiah%2011.12" style="color: #71674b;" target="_blank">Isaiah 11:12</a>).</div>
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The two world wars were the key events that led to the return of the Jews to their homeland, proving once again that God can bring good out of any calamity. World War I prepared the land for the people; World War II prepared the people for the land.</div>
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The Impact of World War I</h3>
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During World War I the Turks sided with the Germans. Their realm, called the Ottoman Empire, included most of the lands of the Middle East, including Palestine. When the Germans lost the war, the Turks did also, and their empire was divided up among the Allied victors. In a secret pact signed in 1916 (called the Sykes-Picot Agreement), the British and French agreed to divide the Middle East between themselves when the war ended. Britain received Palestine while the French were given Syria.</div>
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In November 1917 the British announced that they intended to create a homeland for the Jews within the territory of Palestine that had been allotted to them. At that time Palestine consisted of all of modern day Israel and Jordan — an area of 45,000 square miles.</div>
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Jews worldwide were elated over the Balfour Declaration. But the ink was hardly dry before the British government changed its mind. To placate Arab animosity, they decided in 1922 to give two-thirds of Palestine to the Arabs, creating a Palestinian state called Transjordan.</div>
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Jewish leaders were terribly disappointed by this decision, and many felt betrayed by the British. But they still looked forward to establishing a Jewish state within the part of Palestine that was left — a sliver of land only 10,000 square miles in size, smaller than Lake Michigan or the state of New Jersey.</div>
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Even after God had miraculously produced a homeland for the Jews out of the horrors of World War I, the Jewish people did not return in great numbers. Most felt comfortable in Europe and simply could not believe the rising chorus of prophetic voices who warned of an approaching time of widespread persecution.</div>
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World War II produced the Holocaust which, in turn, provided the motivation for the Jews to return home. They came out of the war saying, "Never again! Never again! Never again will we live under a Hitler. We are going to have our own land, our own government, our own state." This feeling produced a flood of refugees.</div>
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In November of 1947 (50 years after Herzl's proclamation), Jews worldwide were elated when the United Nations voted to allow the establishment of a Jewish state. But they were severely disappointed when the United Nations decided at the same time to divide the remaining portion of Palestine once again. Half was apportioned to the Jews for the creation of a Jewish state. The other half was assigned to the Arabs for the establishment of a second Palestinian state.</div>
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Despite their disappointment, the Jews accepted the UN resolution and proceeded to declare the existence of their new state on May 14, 1948. The Arabs rejected the UN vote and declared war on Israel.</div>
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The plan provided for the establishment of two states, one for the Jews, the other for the Arabs. The Jewish state was to consist of the Galilee, the Mediterranean coastal plain, and the Negev Desert. The Arab state was made up mainly of the heartland of ancient Israel (Samaria and Judea). The Arab state also included the Gaza Strip and a portion of the Galilee.</div>
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Remember this date, May 14, 1948, the birth of the nation of Israel in one day after 1,878 years scattered all over the world. In 1900, there were 40,000 Jews in that area. In 1948, there were 700,000. Today, there are 6,000,000 Jews living in Israel. The re-gathering of Israel has been the fulfillment of Scripture.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; vertical-align: super;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span>And in that day there shall be a root
of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; vertical-align: super;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">11</span>And it shall come to pass in that day, that
the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his
people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros,
and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the
islands of the sea.</span></div>
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nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the
dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.</span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The ensign or flag of the nation of Israel shall be a root of Jesse who is David. Notice the flag of Israel which is designed as a prayer shawl with the Star of David in the center of the ensign.</span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: super;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Notice the fulfillment of prophecy to bring the Jews who were left in Assyria, Egypt and Shinar (Iraq) and the islands of the sea (the ends of the earth, the furthermost places). God has brought together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. Plane loads of Jews have been brought back to Israel since 1948.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; vertical-align: super;">14</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">And I will bring again the
captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and
inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they
shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; vertical-align: super;">15</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">And I will plant them upon their
land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given
them, saith the LORD thy God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Jews came back to Israel in 1948 to which they had to rebuild the waste cities and inhabit them. The land of Israel at the time was a barren wilderness which nobody wanted. Yet they are planting vineyards and making wine and growing fruits. Israel produces the Shiraz variety of wine and is the biggest exporter of citrus fruits to the European Union.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; vertical-align: super;">7</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Before she travailed, she brought
forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; vertical-align: super;">8</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Who hath heard such a thing? who
hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or
shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought
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The nation of Israel was born in one day. Nobody has heard such a thing but yet God can. He preserved the people and prepared the land for them to become a nation once again.</div>
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However, the prophecy continues that the nation of Israel was born before child birth pains. Immediately after their Independence, the very next day saw the beginning of an unending series of wars upon Israel and they have had no peace until today.</div>
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They are the very epicenter of the world and is the boiling pot where the world's biggest issues will brew.</div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Behold</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">, </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold;">I
will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">, </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">when
they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; vertical-align: super;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; vertical-align: super;">3</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; vertical-align: super;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">And in that day will I make
Jerusalem</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">
</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold;">a burdensome stone for all people</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">: all that burden themselves with
it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth are gathered
together against it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This prophecy is clearly fulfilled as we can now understand the Middle East crisis from God's perspective. This is not a human plan but a divine plan that God is staging for the end days.</span></div>
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Remember, God is in full control over all the world and His end time prophecies will come to pass to be fulfilled. He is God and He shows us the end from the beginning.</div>
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</script>Prophetic Timeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16754431401713681287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2423854792216743764.post-1515032664225490282013-05-29T22:29:00.002+08:002013-06-18T17:06:45.491+08:00What about Ishmael?Although Abraham and Sarah sought their own way of bringing about their descendant through Hagar, a bondwoman of Sarah, this had displeased God but yet God in His mercy did not forget Hagar and her son, Ishmael. God remembered His covenant with Abraham that through him shall blessings be brought forth to all.<br />
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Ishmael was not the intended descendant of Abraham that God had promised. As he and his mother wandered in the wilderness, God heard her cries and bestowed blessings upon Ishmael recorded below.<br />
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thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Helvetica;">multiply
him exceedingly</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">;
twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Helvetica;">a
great nation</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">God blesses Ishmael to have 12 princes similar to Jacob. God blesses Ishmael to have a great nation similar to Jacob. Furthermore, the descendants of Ishmael will be very fruitful and many. This seems to imply that Ishmael will have a much bigger number of descendants than Jacob.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: super;">12</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">And he will be </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Helvetica;">a
wild man </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">[wild
ass man]; </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Helvetica;">his hand will be against every man, and
every man's hand against him</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">; and he shall </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Helvetica;">dwell
in the presence of all his brethren</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The character of Ishmael and his descendants seems to depict them to be restless and always fighting everybody. They will continuously live amongst the Israelites.</span></div>
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bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: super;">18</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Arise, lift up the lad, and hold
him in thine hand; for I will make him </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Helvetica;">a great nation</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Again, the comfort of God's blessings upon Hagar being the mother of a great nation. Her son, Ishmael, is bestowed God's appointment to be a great nation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Many people are mistaken that the Ishmaelites are the Arabs. How can Arabs come from the Egyptians since Ishmael's mother is from Egypt who are descendants of Ham via Mizraim in Genesis Chapter 10.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The correct view is that the Arabs were already in existent before Ishmael (see below). However, a number of his children eventually established themselves at the northern parts of the Arabian peninsula.</span></div>
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After roaming the wilderness for some time, Ishmael and his mother settled in the Desert of Paran, where he became an expert in archery. Eventually, his mother found him a wife from the land of Egypt. They had 12 sons who became 12 tribal chiefs throughout the regions from Havilah to Shur (from Assyria to the border of Egypt). His children are listed as follows:</div>
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<li>Adbeel, established a tribe in northwest Arabia.</li>
<li>Mibsam</li>
<li>Mishma</li>
<li>Dumah, associated with Adummatu described as "a fortress of Arabia" in Saudi Arabia.</li>
<li>Massa, father of a nomadic tribe that inhabited the Arabian desert toward Babylonia.</li>
<li>Hadad</li>
<li>Tema</li>
<li>Jetur</li>
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The original Arabs can be traced back in the lineage of Shem in Genesis Chapter 10 from the descendants of Joktan in Southern Arabia. The Ishmaelites came later and assimilated into the northern Arab tribes.</div>
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However, in today's vocabulary, we now refer to the Arabs as the broad all encompassing people who embraced Islam who originated from the Arab Peninsula. Hence, in general, it does include the descendants of Ishmael as well and since muslims claim that Muhammad was a descendant of Ishmael which is actually incorrect (read <a href="http://religionresearchinstitute.org/Mohammad/ishmael.htm" target="_blank">Is Mohammed A Descendant Of Ishmael?</a> and <a href="http://inthenameofallah.org/history.html" target="_blank">History of the Arabs</a>).</div>
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The better view is that ever since the muslims from Muhammad's days conquered many peoples and forced them to become muslims or die, we consider the view that all the people in the Middle East and Northern Africa who embraced Islam to be Arabized. This means that although they are not originally Arabs by birth, they consider themselves Arabs because they conform to the Arabic culture, language, politics and beliefs.</div>
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For example, most people in Egypt consider themselves as Arabs although they are technically not of the Arab stock but Arabized. Egyptians are Copts who are the descendants of the Pharaohs who are descendants of Ham. Iranians are Persians who are descendants of Japheth. However, the inter-marriage of Arabs with the conquered peoples have made the Arab world a much bigger population than it actually is. And they somehow assimilated the characteristics of Ishmael and his descendants.</div>
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Do you know just how large is the Arab world compared to Israel? The Arab world is actually one nation, Ummat al-Islamiyah, the Islamic nation, commonly used to mean the collective community of Islamic peoples.<br />
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<li>The Arab states contain 5.3 million square miles of oil rich land. </li>
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This is a Population ratio of 43 to 1 and a Land ratio of 662 to 1!</div>
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Did God fulfill his promises to Ishmael and Hagar? Indeed He did.</div>
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<span class="text Gen-1-8" id="en-KJ21-8"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">8 </sup>And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.</span></div>
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On this day, God made the <i>firmament</i>. This word is H7549 רקיע (râqîya‛ raw-kee'-ah. From H7554; properly an expanse, that is, the firmament or (apparently) visible arch of the sky: - firmament.) according to Strong's Concordance.<br />
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Remember that the entire earth was covered with water at this point and God calls it the deep (v2). God here divided the waters in such a way that there is a firmament or an expanse of a sky in between the waters.<br />
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Some Christians believe that the waters above is really at the edge of the universe separating us from God's throne. They take the firmament of the heaven described in v14 to be the same firmament here.<br />
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I tend to believe that the firmament as described here is the creation of the <i>atmosphere</i>. The waters above the atmosphere could be a canopy of sorts whether thick clouds or even a layer of ice. This is commonly called the <b><i>Canopy Theory</i></b>. Again, this is a theory to show that God was protecting the earth with a Green House effect where it can be a tropical climate from pole to pole. The canopy may also be used to deflect harmful radiation away from the earth so that the eventual life that He creates are protected and live long. This can be a type of <i>hyperbaric biosphere</i>.<br />
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Certainly, there are many detractors of this theory too and it cannot be proven. We can see canopy-like atmosphere in Saturn, Saturn's moon called Titan, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. Each has a different composition and effect on their surfaces from extreme cold to extreme hot. Only our earth is the right temperature.<br />
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An alternative view of the firmament refers to the <i><span style="color: red;">crust of the earth</span></i>. Proponents argue that the descriptor "<i>of heaven</i>" only refers the last 4 references in Genesis 1 to mean the outer space but in the first 4, it refers to the crust separating water above and below it and <b>not</b> the atmosphere separating clouds or canopy to the waters of the sea.<br />
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Dr. Walt Brown's Hydroplate Theory helps to understand the global flood, geology and the relevant scriptures. On Day Two of creation, God formed the crust of the earth, called the firmament, which was miles above a worldwide subterranean ocean, and the crust of course also held waters upon its surface. If this is true, we would expect to read in the Bible that initially, the surface of the earth was covered only with water, and that then God made the earth's crust above the water. (read <a href="http://kgov.com/what-is-the-firmament-in-Genesis" target="_blank">here</a>)</blockquote>
Recent discoveries point to the fact that ancient earth had a higher composition of Oxygen as well as a higher atmospheric pressure which is needed for larger insect and animal life. A creationist, Dr Carl Baugh, claims that his experiments with poisonous snakes shows an alteration of the structure of venom to be non-toxic under the original conditions of the earth.<br />
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There are many people who have tried to argue that the Canopy Theory is wrong and unscientific and that it will be too hot for life on Earth. Alas, this can neither be proven nor dis-proven because it was a historic act and cannot be reproduced for scientific observation.<br />
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Interestingly, there will be no mention of stars observed from the Earth until God tells Abraham that his descendants will be as numerous as the stars in the sky. Perhaps, prior to the flood, there were no clear skies to observe because of the canopy? And neither did it rain until the time of the Flood. Still, this is a speculation indeed.<br />
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There is another part of the separation of water where the earth was described as standing out of the water and in the water as written by Peter. It has been discovered that there is actually a lot of water beneath the earth's surface but above the mantle. This water is called subterranean water.<br />
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This is the water that is called the fountains of the deep in Genesis 7 when the crust broke and the pressure of the subterranean water gushed powerfully upwards. This additional amount of water added to the Seas that is already there caused the water level to raise significantly.<br />
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Just how much water is there under the crust today? A recent report by LiveScience posted that scientists have found evidence of a vast water reservoir beneath eastern Asia that is at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean. This incredible discovery of such a vast body of water beneath China presents new challenges to this country particularly the fear of it breaking apart during a future violent earthquake. One cannot imagine the pressure of the subterranean water suddenly released and the damage the amount of water can do to China. It can wipe it out and flood the most part of China in very short time.<br />
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And THE SECOND DAY is just that. An evening and a morning made it the second day.
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