Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
( Ephesians 6:13-17 ) KJV
We live in an evil day. Technically, since the fall, all days have been evil. Our time though has an edgy feel to it, where it seems as if depravity is ready to break out in every direction. The various social media platforms have given us an insight into what happens when people can hide behind the cloak of anonymity and have no accountability for their actions. If the personas we project on social media are an accurate reflection of who we really are – who we really want to be – then heaven help us.
This is against the backdrop of science loudly proclaiming that God is dead and anyone who disagrees is ignorant.
How on earth are we to withstand in this evil day? And why wouldn’t we go to a doctor to be prescribed medication that is going to take the edge off life by filling our brains with molten lead? The advice that the Bible gives us is the same as it has always been. That’s the beautiful part. The Bible hasn’t changed. People have changed the Bible, to be sure, but if you are really interested in getting to know who God really is then it doesn’t take long to weed out the weak versions based on corrupted texts. Here’s another beautiful thing about the Bible: it might seem that I am coming up with a bunch of new stuff that no one has ever talked about before, like life began on the first day in zero-G, and God created gravity on the second day, but this is deduced from the same Bible in which Paul wrote to us to put on the whole armor of God.
Am I coming up with something new by talking about the firmament? A wall of rigid crystalline construction on the edge of space. A source of gravitational interaction so obviously necessary to the stability of the cosmos that science invented black holes to account for it. When this was found to be insufficient it went on to derive the need for dark matter, that elusive universal glue which has never been detected. Is it new? Is not the word firmament in the same Bible in which God tells us that the cure for depression, the spirit of heaviness, is to put on the garment of praise?
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified. (Isaiah 61:3)
I get a lot of opposition. It started, as expected, on Twitter. Now that I am running paid promotions on Facebook and Instagram the opposition has become non-stop. The expansion of hell as the cause of global warming is a controversial subject. The most common reaction is something along the lines of: you can’t possibly be serious. They get successively ruder from that point. And yet is not this passage in the same Bible in which Jesus told us the love one another?
For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. (Deuteronomy 32:22)
Does this not clearly say, needing no interpretation, that the expansion of hell is melting the earth from the inside out? If this is the case, would we not expect that ocean water would be warming at the bottom? Would we not expect that the warming ocean water would melt polar ice? Is this not what we find? If the atmosphere was melting the ice, the water would be getting colder. People frequently say, how can hell expand? Is the earth getting bigger? No. Did not Jesus himself give us the internal structure of the earth in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus?
And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. (Luke 16:26)
Is not this the great gulf what we see so very clearly in seismological data as the P-wave shadow? I am not making this up, and this is the same Bible in which we find the most famous quote of all:
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:16-17)
And is it not loving to warn people of the danger they face, if they go into eternity unprepared?
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. (Jude 1:21-23)
Pulling them out of the fire. Christians: we have an entire generation to pull out of the fire.
I’m sorry for how many words there are today. I didn’t have time to write a short post, so I wrote a long one.
Matty (Headwind) 