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You can be signed, sealed and delivered forever once saved. Neither anyone or anything can change that! How can any man or angel wrestle us from the palm, the mighty hand of God and Jesus (Jhn 10:28-29). Do you want to rest in the knowledge of God's free gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ for which we were ordained from before the earth even existed (Eph. 1: 4-5, Rom 8:29-30, Rev. 13:8, 17:8, II Thes 2:13, Gen. 17:11, Ish. 55)? The grace and call are both freely given...Call 1-888-NeedHim (888-633-3446).
Wouldn't it be wonderful if you knew that you could live forever and even the forces of nature or mankind could not prevent it. It is true and just as incredible. God tells us plainly;
All which He has given me, I will lose none...and everyone that believes in Him (Jesus) may have everlasting life and I will raise him up on the last day (Jhn 6:39-40). I will in no way caste out (Jhn 6:37). No man can pluck them out of my hand, nor...out of my Father’s hand (Jhn 10:28-29). Every one of those that you [God] gave I have kept and none is lost (Jhn 17:12). We can not be lost again.
We are then signed, sealed and delivered (yes, already delivered, yet not present with Him). Once we are saved we are never to be lost again. How reasurring. God has signed us or presdestinated us and chosen specially by God before there was even an earth created (Eph 1:4-5, Rom 4:11, Psl 139:16, Titus 1:2).
We are also sealed forever like a letter that can be opened only by God Himself. Once sealed, it becomes an official document and who is worthy to open seals in the Bible? The King of Kings (Rev. 13:8). How awesome to be sealed by God forever (Jhn 6:27, Heb 7:25, 12:23, Eph 11:13, 4:30, II Tim 2:19, Jude :24, I Pet 1:4-5, John 17:12).
Then He delivers us which God has promised with certainty (Dan 12:1, Ex. 3:8, Ish 4:3, Act 7:34, 13:48, II Cor 3:2, 13:3, Psl 18:17, 22:4, 34:17, 89:48, Rev 3:5, 21:27, Jhn 7:25, 12:23, II Tim 4:18...etc.)
FOSSILIZATION
Doesn't it take millions of years for a dinosaur bone to become a fossil?
 Just because something is "fossilized" does not mean that it is millions (or even thousands) of years old. When the conditions and materials are right, a bone can become filled with minerals fairly quickly. The main ingredients are:
- Quick burial (like a giant worldwide flood or volcanic ash)
- Water, in the right amounts (sufficient pressures for compression)
- Suitable minerals (under seas/oceans, volcanic ash, etc.)
Conditions necessary for fossilization to occur during a catastrophic, worldwide flood (Noah's day?) are absouletly ideal for "fossilizing" millions of animals and plants.
Researchers have found that chicken bones and wood can be replaced with minerals in just five to ten years. A big dinosaur bone might take hundreds of years to completely mineralize. It all depends on the burial conditions over the years. In fact, fossils have already formed under the ashes of the Mt. Saint Helen's eruption.
 Many dinosaur remains are still not completely turned in to rock. More than half of the fossil is still original bone, not stone! Some even have chemicals from the living animals (proteins and amino acids which were not thought to be able to survive millions of years)! Some fish fossils still have a fishy smell when first uncovered. [see more evidence @ www.christiananswers.net and www.answersingenesis.org/.
[Take a side trip to learn about a fascinating expedition to northern Alaska where Creation-scientists found such bones at www.christiananswers.net]
Some of the plants buried during the Flood are not fossilized either. In New Jersey, large amounts of wood from trees that were growing at the same time as dinosaurs can be found in the dirt (Cretaceous clay).  They are preserved, but not turned to stone at all. In England, fragile plant hairs and tiny details of the plant's cells can be seen. The plants are not turned into rock. They are just flattened and blackened. Since the Flood happened only about four or five thousand years ago, these types of discoveries are not surprising.
NEXT - Why did God send the flood?
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DINOSAURS, THOUSDAND OR MILLION OF YEARS OLD?
One of most unusual things about dinosaurs are that they appear to be mentioned in the Bible (Job 40 & 41 will be covered shortly). How can red blood cells still survive, in fact have cellular integrity in some cases, if they are up to 300 million years old or more? Red blood cells normally have a short life span under even the best of conditions. Why would bone marrow and red blood cells still survive if this old? Besides the fact that there are over 2,000 plus descriptions of gigantic sea monsters (leviathons) in captains logs (with crew as witnesses) in human history not to mention personal sightings of old. There have been over 11,000 sightings of the Loch Ness Monster in one place alone.
During the early and late 1800's, many reports were published about Indians sighting and their prior generations sighting a gigantic bird (the Thunderbird's origin) that captured small children, dug up graves of the dead, cowboys sighting and being close enough to shoot at "monsterous leathery birds" (i.e. in the old Arizona Sun/Republic). There are thousands of Indian cave pictures of such a bird that appears to fit the description of a Pteroductyl (ter-uh-DAK-til). Deep in a Peruvian jungle, a 150 foot Boa Constrictor was discovered. In a 50,000 square mile swamp (Likouala, in Swaziland, Congo) which is 80% unexplored and mostly inaccessible, there was found a 54 foot Crocidile that was dead (shortly eaten by the aboriginese). This swamp is equal to the size of Florida.
DOES THE BIBLE MENTION DINOSAURS?
The word dinosaur was a recent invention, first used in 1841. In Job 40:15-24, there appears to be something very much like a dinosaur. The margins say "behemoth" which is the largest in the animal kingdom, could be an elephant or a hippo (vs 15) but there has been none that I've seen that have a tail like "the cedars" (kin of the giant redwoods in California) of Lebanon (vs 17) which could be from 12 to 26 feet in diameter. Elephant or hippo tails are more like a tree sapling. The also reside (live) in the fens (vs 21) which means swamp. The Brachasaurus (up to 150 feet long) fits this description very closely.
What about the sea leviathon mentioned in Job 41:1-34. The margin may say it might be a whale. But what whale have you ever seen that has iron like teeth, terribly sharp, and covers both the top and bottom mouth and can open wide to swallow (vs 14) their prey? What whale has scales (vs 15)? What whale is impervious to any of man's great weapons (vs 26-29) and is fearless of him (vs 31-34) and can kill simply by passing over their prey (vs 30)? This can not be a whale. Only giant sea dinasoaurs seem to fit this description. The dinosaurs apparently can not be millions of years old. Job lived just over 4,000 years ago and absolutely describes what must have been dinosaurs still yet living in his own lifetime. (more later)
EVOLUTION: FACT OR FICTION?
Is there really evidence that man descended from apes? Dr. Louis Bounoure, former director of research at the French National Center for Scientific Research, calls evolution “a fairy tale for grown-ups.” I call it a cruel hoax! In fact, the arguments that support evolutionary theory are astonishingly weak. First, the fossil record is an embarrassment to evolutionists. No verifiable transitions from one kind to another have as yet been found. Charles Darwin had an excuse; in his day fossil finds were relatively scarce. Today, however, we have an abundance of fossils. Still, we have yet to find even one legitimate transition from one kind to another. Furthermore, in Darwin’s day such enormously complex structures as a human egg were thought to be quite simple—for all practical purposes, little more than a microscopic blob of gelatin. Today, we know that a fertilized human egg is among the most organized, complex structures in the universe. In an age of scientific enlightenment, it is incredible to think people are willing to maintain that something so vastly complex arose by chance. Like an egg or the human eye, the universe is a masterpiece of precision and design that could not have come into existence by chance.
Finally, while chance is a blow to the theory of evolution, the laws of science are a bullet to its head. The basic laws of science, including the laws of effects and their causes—energy conservation and entropy—undergird the creation model for origins and undermine the evolutionary hypothesis. While I would fight for a person’s right to have faith in science fiction, we must resist evolutionists who attempt to brainwash people into thinking that evolution is science. In tracing the alleged evolution of humans from primate ancestors, palaeoanthropologists have been frustrated by the existence of two extensive gaps in the fossil record. The first gap, known as the hominoid gap, goes from 32 to 22 million years ago on the evolutionary time-scale. This period is important because it is during this period that evolutionists believe that the ancestors of apes and humans were splitting off from the tine leading to the monkeys. Yet, with one possible exception, this time-frame is devoid of hominoid fossil evidence to document this alleged divergence.
The second gap, known as the hominid gap, extends from 14 to 4.5 million years ago. This second period is equally critical for evolutionary theory because it is the time when the ancestors of the australopithecine and human group were allegedly diverging from the ancestors of the African apes, especially the chimpanzees. This period is also devoid of any relevant fossil material, except for a few fossil scraps too fragmentary for diagnosis. Thus, the recent news that the hominid 'missing link' has been discovered was greeted with great exuberance by the evolutionist community.
Where Are All The Stone Age Skeletons?
Evolutionary anthropologists say that the Stone Age lasted for at least 100,000 years, during which time the world population of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon men was roughly constant, between one and 10 million. All that time they were burying their dead with artifacts. By this scenario, they would have buried millions and millions of bodies. If the evolutionary time-scale is correct, buried human bones should be able to last for much longer than 100,000 years, like the dinosaurs presumably have, so many of the supposed millions of Stone Age skeletons should still be around (and certainly the buried artifacts). Yet only a few thousand bones and fragments have ever been found and these are far too few to fit the Stone Age theory and the thousands or millions of years it was supposed to take place.
Author and writer Luther Sunderland was struck with the same problem that I have with evolution. That is there is insufficient transitional fossil evidence to support evolution. The technology is available to dig deep into the earth, and you don’t need a theory to see what’s in the ground. Darwin was also deeply trouble with the lack of fossil evidence in the earth (literature.org, Darwin, Origins…, Chapters 8,10,11,13...).
When Mr. Sunderland asked to see the transition fossils from the world‘s greatest natural museums, they became a bit defensive. In fact, they were sometimes belligerent. Sunderland started his search with interviews with the five most respected museum officials, who are recognized authorities in their individual fields of study. These included representatives from the American Museum, the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, and the British Museum of Natural History. Not one of the five officials were able to offer a single example of a transitional series of fossilized organisms that document the transformation of one kind of animal or plants into another.
Isn’t this where you would them to be located? With all the placards about evolution and fossilization. It’s natural to assume to any transitional fossils would on public display and at the world’s most prestigious museums, they could not be found. Where are they? Could it be that they cannot find what does not exist? Our first stop, the King of Fossils!
The King of Fossils happens to be The British Museum of Natural History. This museum holds the largest collection of fossils in the world. Mr. Sunderland managed to interview the five most respected museum officials, perhaps in the word. First and foremost, Colin Patterson, Senior Paleontologist at the British Museum and editor of a prestigious scientific journal. Patterson is a well known expert having an intimate knowledge of the fossil record. Regardless, he was unable to give a one, single example of Macro-Evolutionary transition. Mr. Patterson wrote a book for the British Museum of Natural History called “Evolution”. After examining the book, Mr. Sunderland wondered why there was not even a single photograph of a transitional fossil in it. Mr. Patterson flatly said:
“...I fully agree with your comments on the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them. You suggest that an artist should be used to visualize such transformations, but where would he get the information from? I could not, honestly, provide it, and if I were to leave it to artistic license, would that not mislead the reader? I wrote the text of my book four years ago. If I were to write it now, I think the book would be rather different. Gradualism is a concept I believe in, not just because of Darwin's authority, but because my understanding of genetics seems to demand it. Yet Gould and the American Museum people are hard to contradict when they say there are no transitional fossils. As a paleontologist myself, I am much occupied with the philosophical problems of identifying ancestral forms in the fossil record. You say that I should at least ‘show a photo of the fossil from which each type of organism was derived.’ I will lay it on the line - there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument.”
In Darwin’s day, Paleontology was in it’s infancy as a scientific discipline, but now, after about 150 years, Darwin would still lack what he himself required for his theory to be true! Sufficient evidence of transitional fossil records. David B. Kitts. PhD (Zoology) is Head Curator of the Department of Geology at the Stoval Museum. In an evolutionary trade journal he wrote: “Despite the bright promise that paleontology provides a means of "seeing" evolution, it has presented some nasty difficulties for evolutionists, the most notorious of which is the presence of "gaps" in the fossil record. Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and paleontology does not provide them…”.
N. Heribert Nilsson, a famous botanist, evolutionist and professor at Lund University in Sweden, continues: “My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed… The fossil material is now so complete that it has been possible to construct new classes, and the lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to scarcity of material. The deficiencies are real, they will never be filled." [except by artist’s or computer’s drawings…just look in the textbooks!]
The missing link between man and apes remains missing. The more scientists, paleontologists and archeologists have searched for the transitional forms that lie between species, the more they must rely on theory. And evolution does not even address the biggest and most important question of all: What of the origin of matter, which made life possible to begin with? Evolution is helplessly outside of its category, relevance and philosophy here. Evolution, if it were true, would be in chapter two. But what about the first chapter? The one of the origins of the universe and all matter and, by extension, life coming into existence? You don’t start a book in chapter two. Besides, chapter two doesn’t have any “real” pictures.
Darwin’s Legacy
James Darwin, who was only trained in the ministry and stole much of the written material his father had collected, then based everything upon a theory which he knew little about. Even so, he acknowledged life required a Creator (a proper noun in his book) and it was the Origin of the Species, not the Origin of Life he wrote about. Many of the supposed missing-links were from Darwin thugs who had murdered New Zealand aborigines since their skulls fit the pattern they were looking for. The very ones displayed in the Smithsonian Institution are those of the murdered pygmies. How far will scientists go? Apparently far enough to extort evidence to fit a theory, even to the point of killing innocent people. All the missing links are still missing. If they haven’t been found, when and why not?! I believe it is because they are not there.
The Universe: Blind Chance or Intelligent Design?
Does Fossil Evidence Support Evolution?
How did everything, including life, come into existence? Was there a Creator or was it merely by chance that everything in the universe, including all life forms came into existence. The only other option is that everything that exists, materialized out of nothing. Immanuel Kant versus the Princes of Serendip: Does Science Evolve through Blind Chance or by Intelligent Design? attempts to answer this question. Kant‘s response is: "Accidental observations, made in obedience to no previously thought-out plan, can never be made to yield a necessary law, which reason alone is concerned to discover... Reason must not approach nature in the character of a pupil who listens to everything the teacher has to say, but as an appointed judge who compels the witness to answer questions that he himself has formulated“.
Scientists must not remain under the dominance of experience. We should neither heed the accidental observation nor listen to Nature as if we were naive pupils. We should strive to seek the objective truth in facts. For example, the glaring lack of evidence is what has kept evolution as a theory for a hundred and fifty years. Evolution remains hypothetical…unproven. Here’s why.
Evolutionists and anthropologists claim that the Stone Age lasted for at least 100,000 years, during which time the world population of Neanderthal and Cro-magnon men was roughly constant, between one and 10 million. All that time they were burying their dead with artifacts. By this scenario, they would have buried at millions and millions of bodies. If the evolutionary time-scale is correct, buried human bones should be able to last for much longer than 100,000 years. Like the dinosaurs presumably have, there should have been uncountable fossils.
By their time-scale, it is supposed that there should have been four billion Stone Age skeletons, and certainly countless buried artifacts. There should be multiple millions of them in fact, given the enormous time-frame they claim, yet only a few thousand bones and fragments have ever been found and these are far too few to fit the Stone Age theory and the thousands of years it was supposed to have taken place. Why worry about a “missing link” when the entire chain is missing!? In fact, not even one single set of transitional fossils (like reptiles becoming birds) has ever been found in all of human history. They can not find what has never existed.
An accidental world, with chance as a mechanism for life forms, must fall upward against science’s axiom that out of nothing comes nothing. Cause and effect demands some Causer prior to nothingness. Chance, to Emanuel Kant, is an excuse for ignorance. Chance is not even a noun, it can do nothing of itself, it has no power to effect, it is not an x-factor, as many are convinced. And chance is not composed of physical matter. Regardless of those facts, to those who believe in evolution or carry a disbelief in Creationism or Intelligent Design, chance was the x-factor in everything coming into existence. Otherwise, they must admit that they don’t know how matter, and thus life, came into existence. They simply don’t know and can only placate theories (subjective). We should expect science to deal only with facts (objective), approaching things rationally and logically. They have not. Evolution remains in the textbooks. Believing in something does not make it true. Humanity once believed the earth was flat, however their belief in that did nothing to change the fact that it was spherical.
Another consideration is that it is impossible for matter to create itself, spontaneously, out of nothing. Evolutional theory is of no help: it doesn’t explain how matter was formed and thus by extension, it can not explain the origin of life. In fact over time, cells do not gain additional DNA (which, in evolution, must be present for transitional stages), they lose DNA integrity. Each cell is like a carbon copy of the original. With each passing day, the cells are making copies of each other and becoming a little less like the original. The cells are not evolving, they are aging. I’ve got more wrinkles today than ten years ago. Natural Selection produces extinction of the species, not a proliferation of it. Cells do not improve or become superior over time, but in fact do just the opposite. The Law of Entropy says that cells break down or smooth out over time and lose their cellular integrity. It is the polar opposite of a theoretical, evolutional process.
The general approach for those who don’t believe in a Creator, the argument or theory is an equation: Space + Time + Chance = Everything. How can, in what in reality is, 0 + 0 + 0 = everything!? The space did not cause matter to come into existence, nor did time. Neither can chance influence or create events. Can being come from non-being… spontaneous generation of matter from nothing? Can chance actually do anything or cause something to happen? No. Chance is only the likelihood of something occurring. There must first come “cause” before an effect can occur. An a cause logically demand a Causer…and a Creator. Chance is powerless. It can not make something happen or create something from nothing. It is a non-being.
WHAT ARE THE ODDS?
MATHMATICIANS
Dr. Peter Stoner, in his book Science Speaks (Moody Press), shows that the prophecies in the Old Testament are quantifiable. Based upon the number of prophecies, Dr. Stoner calculated the odds of one man fulfilling just 8 of the Old Testament Messianic prophecies. He found it to be 10 to the 17th power, that’s 10 with 17 zeros after it! When he went on to calculate the odds of one person fulfilling all 48 of the prophecies, he found that it was 10 to the 157th power. That’s a 10 with 157 zeros after it! Prize-winning mathematician Emile Borel stated that once you get beyond 10 to the 50th power, you can say with great confidence that that event will never happen at random or by mere chance. Ever! In other words it must have been intentional.
SCIENTISTS
Over 40% of scientists not only believe in God, but that same percentage believes that God answers prayer (Guideposts, Dec. 06). Science should not conflict with belief in God, but it in fact points to a Creator. The processes of life are so complex that they point to some intelligent design and thus require an Intelligent Designer. The odds of life evolving are equally as staggering as the prophetic fulfillments of Jesus Christ. This indicates deliberate, intentional design, not random, chaotic “hit and miss” genomes.
HISTORIANS
I could have also added an Archeological portion to this but since it is a historical fact that all 48 prophecies were fulfilled in one Man in history, Jesus Christ [a proven historical figure by dozens of secular Roman and Jewish Historians] and since these prophecies not only proved that He is the Messiah, I didn’t see the necessity. There are volumes of archeological and manuscript evidence about people and places in the Bible. There are over 25,000 manuscripts from the New Testament alone. Ninety-six percent of the texts agree completely with each other (only differences attribute to spelling). There is nothing else in human archival history to compare to that. These things are good to know when someone asks you about why you believe in the Bible and Jesus (and about the hope that is in you), however, all the evidence in the world did not reveal Jesus Christ to me. That was the Holy Spirit. You can lead a horse to water but you can not make him drink….but you can feed him salty peanuts. Then perhaps the Holy God and Spirit, working in that individual, can begin to work. the Cross is foolish to the world and they have been blinded. I am so thankful to Him that this is revealed to me.
THE LAW OF ENTROPY
The scientific axiom called the Law of Entropy states that once an organism becomes alive, it is then, until death, in a state of continual decline (or entropy). What evolution says goes against scientific knowledge. That organisms are growing more complex after birth, despite natural, genetic mutations and a decline in cellular reproduction integrity. When you make a copy of something, then use that to make another copy, eventually the copies will fade to nothing! A cell is like the original copy, but each replicated cell, being slightly less perfect that the original, begins to break down. Mutations are not an evolving process, but a weakening of the organism. Mutations are caused by a decay in the genetic DNA code, induced by the rigors of time and by what each DNA clock is set for. It is not a hope-so but a know-so. We were a predetermined, pre-thought, intentional act by God who loved us first. The fact is that you and I were no accident.
Many Christians in the prophetic realm today believe that when the rapture takes place, very few individuals left behind will understand the true reason for its occurrence. The common reasoning portrays the people left behind as being stunned at first, but then quickly developing some sort of amnesia. The idea that no one will pay any lasting attention to what would have to be a cataclysmic event seems hard to believe. This is especially true since so much information about the rapture has already been disseminated in the form of millions of books, radio or TV broadcasts, and even in the form of bumper stickers: "In Case Of Rapture This Car Will Be Unmanned."
How the Idea of a Secret Rapture Became Predominant
Most Christian writings, when it comes to the world's reaction regarding the rapture, paint a picture of total ignorance of what has happened. The common understanding is, in order to have the Antichrist come to power, a blanket of ignorance needs to be thrown over all tribulation events. The unsaved typically say, "Where did everyone go?" This thought process has dominated rapture writings for the past 25 years. I believe the whole purpose of the rapture is to get people's attention. In contrast to what some authors think, information about the rapture permeates society, so much so that the occurrence of the rapture will likely cause a good deal of weeping and wailing.
Will the World Take Notice of the Rapture?
The world will most certainly take notice when the rapture occurs. If the Statue of Liberty suddenly vanished from New York Harbor, ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN would break from regular programming to cover this marvel. To have millions of people disappear without a trace, the media storm cannot be imagined. If one car or airplane crashed without a driver or pilot, it would be a major news item. After the rapture, the media will have thousands of examples to choose from. Think of the vital positions that Christians hold in the workplace. Many businesses will be paralyzed by the loss of key personnel; the economy will suffer a devastating blow; and millions of people, who had friends and family members raptured, will be terrified. The rapture will create a media event that will rival any breaking news event from the past. If you turned on your television, you would find 24-hour-coverage on every channel. The President would be calling emergency meeting after emergency meeting, and churches would be filled to overflowing.
The Rapture
First, concerning the disappearance of tens of millions of people. This is what has been referred to as the “Rapture” in common Christian terminology. The term rapture isn’t found in modern English translations of the Bible; but is derived from the Latin Vulgate translation. In verse 16 below, the phrase “caught up” is from the Latin root word “rapio”: to take away by force. The word rapture is simply the label given to the event that the apostle Paul calls a “mystery” in the verse below. That
Above, the Apostle Paul declares the “catching away” as a mystery. The rapture, as we call it, was first revealed to Paul and not entirely understood or accepted by believers throughout the ages. But now, you have witnessed it. Why did it happen? Because the Lord Almighty is about to pour his wrath upon the earth.
IThessalonians 5:12For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. 10He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. 11Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
Revelation 3:10Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth. 11I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.
God has kept his faithful servants from the tribulation the world will soon experience; as He promised to the ancient church above.
Jesus also warned about the times to come and the signs of the age and gave this alert:
(the phrase ‘Son of Man’ was a title Jesus used for Himself)
Luke 21:35For it will come upon all those who live on the face of the whole earth. 36Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man."
There are other similarities between the rapture and the days of Noah and the days of Lot.
Luke 17:24For the Son of Man in his day[ 3] will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other. 25But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
26"Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 27People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
28"It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. 29But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
30"It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed. 31On that day no one who is on the roof of his house, with his goods inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything. 32Remember Lot's wife! 33Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
How the Devil Will Deceive the World
Right after the rapture, millions of people will find "religion," repenting of every sin they have committed--and of some they haven't. The prophecy section in all Christian bookstores will be cleaned out, and you may need reservations to attend Sunday church services. Well, maybe not at all churches. The world will be in a state of supreme chaos, and out of this mess will arise the man who will have an answer to every question. This man, the Antichrist, has been repeatedly mentioned in the New Testament. Paul the Apostle spoke of him frequently. The Antichrist will be the greatest salesman in history because he will sell the people the biggest lie ever. Satan will be so impressed with him that he will give this man his full power. Paul also stated that because the people will have no pleasure in the truth, God will send them strong delusion that they may be damned. Exactly what that delusion is, we can only guess. What methodology the Antichrist will use to explain away the rapture, I have no idea. Some say he will cite space aliens as the reason, and some say the explanation will be that they went into another dimension to receive better understanding. If we are truly grounded in the Word of God, no lie, no matter how beguiling, will be able to shake us loose from the truth.
Becoming a Son or Daughter of God
God says He has not appointed us to His wrath….that wrath is only for the ungodly, not for His son’s and
daughters. This adoption process is open to all, including you and I.. If you would like to become His own child,
right now, then follow the adoption process below.
THE ADOPTION PROCESS
Put your self in the place of the “I” below
I Admit - that I am a sinner and in need of a Savior to escape eternal punishment
I Abandon - self-effort and realize I can not be saved by my works or efforts
I Acknowledge Christ as payment for my sins now and forever, done by His work
I Accept Jesus Christ as my personal lord and Savior
If you have just received Jesus, you have now received God’s inheritance rights.
Congratulations. You are a rich person and can now live forever with Him.
Questions about whether the bible is true, can God's existence be proven, is salvation forever and why does God allow suffering have troubled humans for centuries. God does not leave us ignorant. Once a person is saved, they are then commanded to spread this message to others (Math 28:18, Act 1) and then have them teach others to do the same (make disciples of others). Jesus gave this as His first (sending forth the 12) and last command (Acts 1) to His disciples. If you saw someone in a burning house would you be shy or embarrased about saving them? Certainly not! You would shout at the top of your lungs, scream to the neighbors, perhaps try and save them yourself. It is the same with those still lost (84% of Oklahomans are unchurched, there are more Christians in Africa than in all of North America). We must try and rescue them from the coming fire of hell.
There will be a lot of "nice" people in hell because Jesus is the only way. We must be God's video/audio presentation of Christ to the lost in the world, so that they can be saved and save yet others still. Please join me. We rescue whales...why not rescue others.
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