Sunday, October 21, 2018

The Present State of the Kingdom of God

Mixed - you cannot tell the difference between true and false believers easily.
He put another parable before them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?' He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' So the servants said to him, 'Then do you want us to go and gather them?' But he said, 'No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, "Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn."'" (Matthew 13:24-30 ESV)

Growth - the kingdom started small by ordinary people and grew big and influential.
He put another parable before them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches." (Matthew 13:31-32 ESV)

Potent - a small group of believers can bring great changes to the society they are in.
He told them another parable. "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened." (Matthew 13:33 ESV)

Thursday, October 4, 2018

Closer And Closer

For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth. (2 Corinthians 13:8 ESV)

Science is beginning to confirm the Bible. It is getting closer and closer. Time seems to be the major point of disagreement.

Universe has a beginning
Science
The universe was the result of a big bang 13.7 billion years ago.
Bible
The universe was created in six days about 6000 years ago.

All men are descended from one man and all women are descended from one woman
Science
All men are descended from Y-chromosomal Adam (Y-MRCA), estimated to live about 60,000 to 340,000 years ago. He wasn't the only man around, but he was the one whose descendants survived.
All women are descended from Mitochondrial Eve (mt-MRCA) who lived about 200,000 years ago. This doesn't mean she was the first modern woman, rather it indicates that only her descendants survive to the present day.
Bible
All men are descended from Noah (remember the flood?) about 4500 years ago.
All women are descended from Eve about 6000 years ago.

Flood
Science
In a massive genetic study, senior research associate at the Program for the Human Environment at Rockefeller University Mark Stoeckle and University of Basel geneticist David Thaler discovered that virtually 90 percent of all animals on Earth came to being at the same time as humans did some 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
Bible
All land animals were saved in Noah's ark 4500 years ago. The sea animals were not in the ark since they won't drown. There were no fish or octopus in the ark.

For the word of the LORD holds true, and we can trust everything he does. (Psalm 33:4 NLT)

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Genetics - Beginning of the End of Evolution

The discovery of genes and DNA coding is no friend of evolution. But evolutionist still manage to appropriate the findings to their favour.

Evolutionist:
All living things shared the same genetic code, implying a common ancestry!

Creationist:
All living things shared the same genetic code, implying an intelligence using the same code base, as one may expect from a good programmer.

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

God Bless Those Who Bless Israel

I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you." (Genesis 12:3 NIV)

Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!" (Genesis 27:29 ESV)

He crouched, he lay down like a lion and like a lioness; who will rouse him up? Blessed are those who bless you, and cursed are those who curse you." (Numbers 24:9 ESV)

Monday, October 1, 2018

The Lord Does Whatever Pleases Him

Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him. (Psalm 115:3 NIV)

If I have the power to do whatever pleases me, what will I do? Maybe I will organize a sex orgy. But God cannot do that. So I said, "Ha! there you are, there is a limit to God's power. He cannot do evil."

Then I think again. It is out of my sinful nature that a sex orgy pleases me. If I am as powerful as God, why didn't I think of dying for the sins of the world? Because I am selfish and sinful. I think of pleasing myself first.

God has the power to do whatever pleases Him. But He chose to come in the flesh to die for the sins of the world. Organizing a sex orgy does not please His sinless nature. Because of His sinless nature, whatever that pleases God are the righteous acts and He has the power to do them.

But he is unchangeable, and who can turn him back? What he desires, that he does. (Job 23:13 ESV)

All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to him: "What have you done?" (Daniel 4:35 NIV)

The LORD does whatever pleases him, in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all their depths. (Psalm 135:6 NIV)