Jeremiah, Bones on Fire

O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
(Jeremiah 20:7-9) KJV

We (that’s me and the Holy spirit) just found the next member of Sophia Proton’s superhero team: Jeremiah. Whenever he gets in a tight spot, his bones burst into flames.

March 18, 2021March 18, 2021

The World Below

(Now this, “He ascended”—what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.)
(Ephesians 4:9-10) NKJV

After the crucifixion Jesus descended into the lower parts of the Earth. We’re to understand that he went to gather the souls of the Old Testament saints who’d been awaiting his coming.

March 18, 2021

He also First Descended

(Now this, “He ascended”—what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.)
(Ephesians 4:9-10) NKJV

Who descended and what are the lower parts of the Earth? Fortunately this isn’t a mystery and we’ve already done the work needed to resolve both issues.

March 18, 2021

God Encompasses Physics

The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for
“‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’^e
(Acts 17:24-28) ESV

When confronted with an accusation on Twitter our impulse (that’s me and the Holy Spirit, except, usually grieving the Holy Spirit) is to be snarky about the poster’s cognitive dissonance (a way to call them stupid).

November 10, 2020December 24, 2020

Constraining Obligations

They shall take care of all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting and fulfill obligations for the Israelites by attending to the service of the tabernacle.
(Numbers 3:8) BSB

A note which was written in an old Bible of ours (which somehow got lost) was taken from something a preacher said at Calvary Baptist Church in Carrboro, NC. We have always felt encouraged by it.

Cherish the tender Spirit of your constraining obligations.
– Preacher at Calvary Baptist Church, Carrboro, NC

June 23, 2020September 9, 2021

The Foolishness of Preaching

For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
(1 Corinthians 1:21) KJV

Preaching may seem like foolishness but the beauty of it, and the grace of God, is that if you believe the message preached: the virgin birth, sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, then you’ll receive the gift of salvation and have everlasting life.

June 8, 2020July 15, 2020

Hell is Expanding

Cutaway of planet earth showing hell at the center

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) KJV

Hell is at the center of the Earth and its expansion is the cause of global warming. This is a predictive testable hypothesis based on ocean water warming data. The location and size of hell are confirmed by seismological data.

August 4, 2019September 10, 2021

Strive Lawfully

And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
(2 Timothy 2:5) KJV

July 13, 2018July 16, 2022

July 13th

Spirits in Prison

By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
(1 Peter 3:19-20) KJV

Jesus descended into the lower parts of the Earth. We can resolve this as being a place in the lower mantle, euphemistically called “Abraham’s bosom” the location that he described in Luke 16.

June 23, 2018June 27, 2022

June 23rd

Jesus’ Law of Thermodynamics 2

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
(Romans 10:17) KJV

Preaching the Word of God is a form of energy which has the potential to transform a soul from being dead to being alive (quickened). The sound of the preaching (energy) acts through the spirit of the listener.