Earthquakes, Radioactivity and Volcanoes - God's Judgment

Gen 1:31 "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was VERY GOOD."

 

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?

 

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.

We believe when God destroyed the world and saved Noah and his family, the fountains of the great deep broke open.

 

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."

Haeckel's Fraud Perpetuates

It 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 "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" - 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.

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 here.

New Scientist reviewed a book by Bob Hopwood, a science historian, who had his book recently published. The full review can be found here and reproduced in part below.

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Some of the most iconic images in biology hold a dark secret. Haeckel's Embryos: Images, evolution, and fraud delves into their history

IT's embarrassing but true: some of the most influential drawings in the history of biology are wrong, exaggerated to fit a thesis.

Largest 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.

Just read Job 40 carefully and you will discover its corresponding similarity with the story of discovery of this behemoth that God described there.

15¶Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
16Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
17He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
18His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
19He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

The Discovery

Recently, 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, Dreadnoughtus schrani 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 here).

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.

However, it may be interesting to note Ken's observation of this behemoth:

- that it does not walk much given it can eat easy with its long neck

- that it cannot support such a heavy body weight

- that once it falls over, it will not be able to get up

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.

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.

(The Washington Post video here).

God has the last laugh

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.

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.

(Listen to Bob Enyart on this discovery here. 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.)

ISIS Challenge to the World

In a span of a few months, ISIS (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.

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.

Rosetta Probes Comet to Find Source of Earth's Water

Launched 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 here)

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.

Iran Remains On Course Of Nuclear Plan

Many 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.

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.

The Sixth Day - Part 3

Genesis 1

29 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.

30 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.

31 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.

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.

In the original creation, Man was created for a diet of fruits and herb (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.

The Sixth Day - Part 2

Genesis 1

26 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.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

28 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.

In this second part of Day 6, we learn how God created man and the purpose of man on earth.

Let Us
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.

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.

Purpose of Man
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.

The Sixth Day - Part 1

Genesis 1

24 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.

25 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.

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.

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.

The Fifth Day

Genesis 1

20 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.

21 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.

22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

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.

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.

The Fourth Day

Genesis 1

14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

16 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.

17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

18 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.

19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

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:

• signs - indicators of events and messages
• seasons - indicators of appointed times for earthly purposes like farming, travelling, birth, death, etc.
• days - separator of days in addition to the evening and morning rotation of the earth
• years - indicator of counting years

Then the purpose of the sun (the greater light) and the moon (the lesser light) for lighting the day and night.

Ezekiel 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.

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.

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.

Out-of-Place Fossils

This 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.

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.

Enter the Dragon

A recent discovery of nearly complete skull along with several neck vertebrae of the Dracorex was discovered in the Hell Creek formation in Northwest South Dakota, USA in May 2003 and subsequently donated to The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. The Children’s Museum referred to it as “a new type of dinosaur” that is “66-million-years-old” and “looks like a dragon”. The Children’s Museum displayed a placard next to a Dracorex image that read: “When we saw this creature’s head, we weren’t sure what kind of dinosaur it was. Its spiky horns, bumps and long muzzle looked more like a dragon”.

Dinosaurs in the Bible

How is it that the word "dinosaur" 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. How do we reconcile dinosaurs with the Bible?

Who wrote Genesis?

Why is this a question to even ask?

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 J (Jehovah/Yahwist) Text, E (Elohist) Text and P (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.

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.

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.

Luke 24:27 & 44

²⁷ And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
⁴⁴ 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 law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.


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.

Now, if you do not believe what Jesus says, there is a much bigger problem than the scholarship of Genesis.

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.

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.

An Excerpt from "Who Wrote Genesis" by Henry M Morris pp25 - 30.

Prophecy on the Total Destruction of Damascus - Isaiah 17

Isaiah 17

1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

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.

Damascus is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. 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.

Can we reconcile the Evolution Theory to Genesis 1?

Evolutionists will have to attempt to explain beyond Darwin's Theory of Evolution. They have to start from the very beginning of time, space and matter to explain how the universe began, how the stars and galaxies were formed, how the solar system started, how the earth and moon formed and then how life began the complex forms we now have here.

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.

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?

The Beginning

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 time (beginning - of creation, not of time itself), space (heaven) and matter (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.

From the Big Bang Theory, 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.

Psalm 83 - The End of the Palestinian Israeli Conflict?

We believe that the Psalm 83 prophecy is at hand. It is within our generation. Current news are shaping up for its fulfillment. As we approach the application of this prophecy to current news, we must be mindful not to be dogmatic to the application. We can be dogmatic to the doctrines but not how it is applied to a yet to be fulfilled prophecy.

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 cannot be sure of everything and we must speculate on how God is working but yet guided by His prophecy that must be fulfilled literally as He says.

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.

Hermeneutics - Your method of interpretation matters

Biblical hermeneutics is the study of the principles of interpretation concerning the books of the Bible. It is the science of interpretation rather than the art of it. How you interpret the bible will bring you to different meanings in your study of God's word. The world of higher learning has made this way to complex for Christians to appreciate and God does not need us to be a theologian to understand His word.

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.

In studying prophecy or creation science, it is not different. Our method of interpretation matters a lot to our doctrines and hence, our faith.