Author: petebeck3

Pete Beck III ministered as a pastor and Bible teacher in Burlington for over 34 years. He is married to Martha, with whom he has four children, ten beautiful grandchildren, and four amazing great grandchildren. He ministers in his local church as a Bible teacher and counselor. He has written several books, including two that are available on Amazon - Seeing God's Smile and Promise of the Father - as well as a wide variety of Bible-related articles.

Devotion to the Globe Is a Form of Self-Worship

When I first began to share what I have come to believe about the shape and nature of the earth on which we live, I was surprised by the level of animosity and resistance I encountered, even from family, friends, and people who say they believe the Bible. Clearly something beyond intellectual disagreement was at the root of this hatred of all things related to biblical cosmology. It did not matter if I appealed to the Bible for support. Then it dawned on me.

The ubiquitous globe is actually an idol.

It sits in almost every home and classroom. It makes regular appearances in movies, television, and other forms of media. The non-biblical words “globe” and “planet” are used in preference to the biblical word, “earth.” We have completely swallowed the globe lie, “hook, line, and sinker.” We absolutely love our globe! It has become an idol.

The globe idol represents a self-worship of our own intelligence, as opposed to reliance upon God. It stands for our rebellion against the truth of the Bible, and it illustrates our determination to go beyond the confines of the region God assigned to us, called the earth.

Our love for “outer space” is actually a form of rebellion against God in two ways. First of all, it does not even exist. Everything beyond the dome of the firmament is an unknown region, perhaps what the Bible calls the “third heaven,” where God’s throne is located, or perhaps it is the region Jesus called “outer darkness,” a place of judgment, sorrow, and regret. When we devote so much time, effort, focus, and money on an imaginary place, created by our own minds in opposition to what the Bible teaches, it is an escape from reality rooted in rebellion against the truth and God himself.

Secondly, our love for outer space represents our sinful determination to go beyond what God has assigned to us. As I wrote in a previous article, the “grass always looks greener” on the other side of the firmament. We seem determined to discover “truth” for ourselves, rather than rely on what God has revealed in his Word. This goes all the way back to the Garden. Modern evolutionary astrophysics is nothing short of a complete rebellion against God’s Word. The quest to explore “outer space” links us to Satan’s longing to oust God from heaven, one that goes all the way back to the tower of Babel.

Idolatry is the only explanation of why people so ferociously oppose anyone who dares challenge the globe and modern ideas related to astrophysics.

People always hate anyone who threatens their idols. (Judges 6:30) People will fight “tooth and nail” to hold on to their fantasies. Otherwise, one would expect to encounter more intellectual curiosity. One would hope that Christians would seriously consider if their way of looking at the cosmos agrees with what the Bible says. But that is not usually the case. Most of the time one encounters hostility against any attempt to tear down the high place of heliocentrism.

My love for God and biblical truth is what motivates me to remain committed to exposing the satanic deception behind the idolatry of globe earth and modern astrophysics. Is this issue really so important? Yes, it is. May the Lord open our eyes to understand and accept what the Bible says about the heavens and earth. Let us repent of self-worship. May God cause his church to once again esteem what the Bible says above the words, dictates, and opinions of men. Amen.

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Heliocentrism Fails Logical Test

Astronomy and astrophysics tends to be extremely complicated when it comes to mathematical calculations and physics. This is because we are dealing with so many unknowns and all we know is derived from what we can observe in the heavens from this place called earth. Another reason for the complexity is to obfuscate matters deliberately so that the average person feels as if he or she is not adequate to even think about such things. It is better to leave it to the experts and simply accept their proclamations as the truth. This devilish strategy has worked amazingly well.

God gave us minds and senses through which we can observe and know the world around us. It is only reasonable to conclude that God, if we first accept that he created all this, wants us to trust in the senses and mind he gave us.

But even more importantly, God wants us to trust what he says more than anything or anyone else, even our own mind and senses. That is one of the most important lessons of Genesis. Adam and Eve failed that test, but you and I have an opportunity to pass it.

The Bible makes it clear that God’s Word is always true. Most of the Christians I know, agree with this principle in theory, but when it comes to practice sometimes we betray that we do not always think so. We have come up with ingenious ways to avoid the plain truth of the Bible. Jesus addressed this sinful tendency, when he said:

Jesus replied, “You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote, ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 7 Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.’ 8 For you ignore God’s law and substitute your own tradition.” 9 Then he said, “You skillfully sidestep God’s law in order to hold on to your own tradition. Mark 7:6–9 (NLT)

Jesus warned us that the words of God cannot be “broken,” (John 10:35) meaning that they are inviolable and always true. Jesus should know, since his name is the Word of God, the eternal Logos. (John 1:1 and 1:14) He warned the Jewish leaders on another occasion that they were in error because they did “not understand the Scriptures or the power of God.” (Mark 12:24) We learn from these verses of scripture that we fall into error when we fail to understand and believe what God says in the Bible or when we discount God’s words because we fail to grasp the enormity of his power to accomplish whatever he wishes.

We err when we, for whatever reason, determine that God’s words are not really true after all.

Heliocentrism was advanced most famously by Nicolai Copernicus, who used his powers of reason and deduction to formulate a theory that contradicted what the Bible says and what was generally believed for millennia. He deduced that the sun was the center of the “solar system,” and the earth revolved around it. By what has become known as the Copernican Principle, mankind is now regarded as having minuscule importance in the vastness of a very impersonal and dangerous “universe.”

Genesis Chapter One stands in complete contradiction to heliocentrism.

It declares that the earth the center of things with the sun and moon running a circuit or course over it. The stars are fixed in the dome of the firmament. Man is the focal point of God’s creation and God observes and rules from on high. (Isaiah 40:22) The order of creation in Genesis also makes it impossible for a heliocentric system to have ever come into being. This is why the evolutionary Big Bang theory had to be developed to explain how all we see came to be. It must be either creation or evolution, it seems.

Here is the logical failure of the heliocentric system for all who say they believe God’s Word if true.

  1. God’s Word is always true.
  2. The heliocentric system opposes God’s Word.
  3. Therefore, heliocentrism is a lie.

If heliocentrism is accepted as true, then the following must also be true.

  1. Heliocentrism is true.
  2. Heliocentrism opposes God’s Word.
  3. Therefore, God’s Word is a lie.

Which syllogism do you support? Will we pass the test Adam failed?

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The Creation Account Cannot Be Harmonized with Heliocentrism

Syncretism is a sin that results from any attempt to combine worship of a false god with devotion to the one true God.

God commanded the Israelites to destroy the idols of the people who lived in Canaan to protect themselves from their deluding influence.

Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst. 13 “But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their Asherim 14 —for you shall not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God— 15 otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone might invite you to eat of his sacrifice, 16 and you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods. Exodus 34:12–16 (NASB95)

The people of that day recognized what many today do not understand. Demonic “principalities and powers” often gain influence and even mastery over those who live in certain areas because of sacrifices made to those evil beings in an effort to procure favor and blessings from them. This is spiritual blackmail. In order to protect themselves, invading conquerors often made an effort to appease the local gods of the land they defeated. They would not abandon their own gods but would simply add some new ones. This eclectic religion seemed very practical to them and revealed that they believed that there was not one supreme God over all, but many gods whose authority was regional. This resulted in a syncretistic blending of elements from the various religions into something new, a sort of hybrid religion.

Another definition of syncretism is “the attempted union of principles or parties irreconcilably at variance with each other.”

In a previous article, I showed how biblical creationism and evolutionary thinking are hopelessly irreconcilable. Nevertheless, many well-meaning Christians over the years have caved to societal pressure and tried to combine the two. They did not want to seem “foolish” or “ignorant” of the latest “scientific breakthroughs.” We want to hang on to our Bible beliefs while simultaneously incorporating the anti-biblical beliefs of modern so-called science. Doing this will lead to our doubting the truthfulness of God’s Word. This is always Satan’s end game. He uses “science,” otherwise called “knowledge,” to cast doubt on God’s words.

Syncretism always wars against our allegiance to God and his written Word.

Today, many believers have unwittingly become syncretistic. We have tried to blend heliocentrism with the creation account in Genesis. This toxic mix requires us to deny the order of creation in Genesis Chapter One. This is not a merger of beliefs. It is a hostile takeover. This compromise with lies results in two things. First, it teaches us to distrust and abandon the literal teachings of the Bible, and, secondly, it renders God irrelevant and unneeded, which is exactly the goal of every satanic philosophy and “scientific” system of thought.

Once we choose to make a stand on the Word of God, everything becomes simple. Since the Bible is always true, then anything that disagrees with the Bible is false.

Since heliocentrism, evolution, and the Big Bang theory do not harmonize with the creation account, they are by definition false.

The Bible does not always satisfy our curiosity by giving us the “how” or “why,” but it does give us “what” we need to know. Some things relating to origins and cosmos are simply past our comprehension and “need to know.”King David wrote these words of worship as he pondered the heavens.

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained; 4 What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him? 5 Yet You have made him a little lower than God, And You crown him with glory and majesty! 6 You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, Psalm 8:3–6 (NASB95)

God intends for us to grow in our knowledge and worship of him. He also wants us to understand that mankind is central to his creation purposes.

The Big Bang theory leaves us thinking that we are inconsequential specks in a vast impersonal universe. We can detect Satan’s hand in this pervasive lie. As a result, many today feel quite hopeless and take the escape route of suicide rather than face a lifetime of meaningless pain.

Coming back to a biblical understanding of creation restores hope to us.

The God who created the earth and seas also made us to inhabit it. Knowing the truth about creation provokes us to want to know our wonderful Creator through our Lord Jesus.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. John 3:16–17 (NKJV)
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Those who want nothing to do with God will have their wish granted for all eternity..

There are only two kinds of people in the world – those who acknowledge and love God and those who refuse to do so. The essence of sin is trying to live without reference to or in outright rebellion against God. We try to create for ourselves a world without God. This is what the media does continually in its many movies and TV shows. The actors generally portray life without any reference to God at all. This is a fantasy with enormous consequences.

In spite of there being abundant evidence of the Creator all around us, many of us refuse to recognize or honor him. Instead we live with an inborn hostility toward God.

King David wrote the following verses in one of his many psalms or songs of praise to God.

Only fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and their actions are evil; not one of them does good! 2 God looks down from heaven on the entire human race; he looks to see if anyone is truly wise, if anyone seeks God. 3 But no, all have turned away; all have become corrupt. No one does good, not a single one! Psalm 53:1–3 (NLT)

Sadly, we come into this world alienated from our Maker because of the sin that has been handed down from previous generations going all the way back to Adam. Unless God comes to our aid, all of us are born into and remain in the group who refuse to acknowledge, love, and serve God. Hearing, understanding, believing, and receiving the gospel message that Jesus died for our sins and rose again as the Lord of lords is the turning point for those whose hearts are open.

John Chapter One makes an insightful comment about this condition of mankind in general that wants nothing to do with God, which in his day included most of his own Jewish people.

He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:10–13 (NASB95)

Why would God care about the rebellious inhabitants of the world who turned their backs on him? It is quite impossible for us to fathom the depths of love that motivated our Creator to send his only Son to come into this world as a human and give away his life to provide forgiveness for our sins and reconciliation to God.

When the Creator in human form arrived on the earth, only a very few recognized and honored him. The same is true today.

Those who through revelation from God see him for who he is and surrender their hearts and lives to him will receive eternal life.

Those who refuse to acknowledge and serve him remain in a perilous condition of spiritual blindness and are hurtling toward an eternity without God. There will be no one in the lake of fire who ultimately did not choose to go there.

Those who opt to live without reference to God here on earth will have their wish fulfilled for all eternity.

And God will provide rest for you who are being persecuted and also for us when the Lord Jesus appears from heaven. He will come with his mighty angels, 8 in flaming fire, bringing judgment on those who don’t know God and on those who refuse to obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will be punished with eternal destruction, forever separated from the Lord and from his glorious power. 2 Thessalonians 1:7–9 (NLT)

The big difference will be that, before going to eternal destruction, they will finally understand the truth. There is a God who made it possible for us to know and love him and to live forever in the joy of his presence. This understanding will no doubt make existence apart from God unbearable, a continual gnawing at the soul. Would anyone in their right mind choose that?

Nevertheless, the choice is ours – an eternity of joy or one of painful regret.

Perhaps you are as I was. I did not know God, but I wanted to know him, if he were real. I asked this God I did not yet know, if he could hear me, to come into my life and reveal himself to me. Amazingly, he overlooked my hubris of questioning his existence. He did not upbraid me for my unbelief and many sins. He simply came into my life and began to remove the scales from my spiritual eyes and soften my hardened heart. Within a very short time, he completely opened my eyes so that I knew (and know still) that he is indeed the risen Lord! I cannot express properly the joy that I experienced on finding out that the God of the Bible loves me and revealed himself to me! I wanted everyone to know him.

That happened over fifty-four years ago, and I have never regretted becoming a follower of Christ.

There is nothing more important than knowing, loving, and serving God.

If you have never put your faith and allegiance in the risen Lord Jesus, you are most likely among that group of people who are trying to live independently from the Creator. Isn’t it time to put up the white flag of surrender? Here is a sample prayer you can use right now, if my words have impacted you.

Prayer

God, I have tried to live without you long enough. Forgive me for being a rebellious creature. I acknowledge that Jesus died for my sins and rose again as the Lord of lords. I come to you now, Jesus, and ask you to come into my life and reveal yourself to me more fully. I want to know you and serve you the rest of my life. I want to be forgiven. I want to be in right relationship with Father God. I want the Holy Spirit to live inside me. I want to know what it is like to experience the joy of your presence and the peace that passes understanding. I give you my life and receive yours. Amen.

Here is a verse from the Bible with which you are no doubt familiar. Think about its significance for you now that you have asked Jesus into your life.

For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16 (NLT)
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How Did We Get Here? Genesis Chapter One or the Evolutionary Big Bang Theory?

Our world view affects every area of thought. It determines our origin, values, purpose, and destiny. Satan has worked long and hard to convince people that the Bible is not a reliable source of information regarding these fundamentals.

At the heart of Satan’s false narrative is the theory of evolution.

The theory of evolution holds that everything in the universe, including life itself, sprang from nothingness, completely by random chance, without the help of a Creator, and developed all by itself into the wonderful complexity we see today. In the evolutionary world view, our origin is by chance, meaning we have no intrinsic value, no purpose beyond reproduction, and no destiny after death.

When Darwin first proposed this theory, those who denied God’s existence pounced upon it because it appeared to give an acceptable scientific basis for atheism. Once evolutionary theory became generally accepted in the “scientific” community, like a giant octopus, it wrapped its tentacles around a wide variety of the “sciences,” including astronomy, geology, sociology, biology, politics, and theology. People began to view most everything through the lens of evolution.

The satanic purpose behind the lie of evolution is to make people doubt God’s existence and the truthfulness of the Bible, thereby enslaving us by robbing us of purpose, value, destiny, and hope.

Evolutionary thought led to the invention of the Big Bang theory by the Belgian Jesuit priest Georges Lemaitre. It has generated other non-biblical theories, such as the multiverse of modern string theory. Once a lie takes hold, it continues to give birth to even more deception.

The seed of evolutionary thinking seems to have been the development of the Copernican model of the “solar system,” which revolutionized how people understood our place in the grand scheme of things. The Copernican Principle, as it is now called, says that the earth is an insignificant speck in an incomprehensibly enormous universe, making human beings “sub-specks” in the cosmos. This egregious lie overturned the Bible’s teaching that the earth is the center of God’s creation, with humans being the crown.

Ideas have consequences, and the outcome of evolutionary thinking has been an abandonment of belief in God and faith in the Bible, exactly as Satan planned.

Many, if not most, astrophysicists now believe that the Big Bang universe self-generated and is still evolving. This absolutely contradicts the Bible, which says God completely created everything in six days. Nothing is still being created. It also directly contradicts the Bible’s order of creation by positing a gradual formation of stars from the chaos of an explosion. These stars eventually, over eons of time, spun off planets and other astronomical bodies. The creation account of Genesis Chapter One states that God created the seas and light on day one. Then he created the solid dome of the firmament on day two. On day three he separated the sea from the dry land and created plants. It was not until the fourth day that he created the sun, moon, and stars. On day five he made sea creatures and birds. On day six, he created land animals and Adam. Then God rested.

If the Bible account offends our sensibilities, we must ask ourselves why?

For thousands of years it was perfectly acceptable. It was only after the introduction of the Copernican model of the cosmos and evolutionary thinking that God’s account came to be regarded as just a story without any “scientific” merit.

Can it be that Satan has hoodwinked us as he did Adam and Eve so long ago?

But I fear that somehow your pure and undivided devotion to Christ will be corrupted, just as Eve was deceived by the cunning ways of the serpent. 2 Corinthians 11:3 (NLT)

Can you not hear the serpent hissing the same words, “Has God really said?”

For many, belief in what is called science has supplanted honoring God’s Word.

If we reject Genesis Chapter One and its order of creation, we have to come up with some other way for everything to appear. The only other way proposed so far is the Big Bang theory.

It appears we have a choice to make: God’s Word or the Big Bang.

Many of us have managed to pretend we have not abandoned the Bible by calling the creation story mere poetry. Imagine that. When God’s Word contradicts the findings of what is called science, many people of God find it easier and more convenient to abandon the Bible than stand against traditions of men. How sad.

We were created to live by faith in what God tells us, without having to know everything for ourselves.

Satan convinced Adam and Eve to abandon their reliance upon God as their source of truth in a quest for forbidden knowledge. As a result of our first parents’ sin, human beings are now even more susceptible to Satan’s lies. We are drawn quite easily toward any supposed system of knowledge that goes beyond or against what God has revealed in the Bible.

Humans now seem to prefer most anything that contradicts God’s Word.

Our minds are useful tools when we are guided by God’s Spirit and protectively fenced in by God’s revealed truth, but when we diverge from God’s revealed truth, we are quite liable to end up being deceived, just as were Adam and Eve. The only escape from whatever fortress of lies in which we may be caged is to fully embrace the Bible’s teachings, even when it makes us appear foolish in the world’s eyes.

Many believers already have made the choice to reject the lies of the spontaneous evolution of life from non-life.

Isn’t it time to fully accept Genesis Chapter One as God’s true account of creation?

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Does God Know Who I Am?

When the Holy Spirit opens our eyes and understanding to know Jesus’ identity as Savior and Lord, he also shows us that God has known all about us for a very long time, as far back as before he created the heavens and earth.

Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. 5 God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. Ephesians 1:4–5 (NLT)

Modern astrophysics has taught us that earth and its inhabitants are insignificant blips on God’s radar in the vast ever-expanding universe. They think he is much too busy governing the universe to take any notice of them and their unremarkable daily routine. But the Bible says that God watches over the earth and those who live here from his throne on high. (Isaiah 40:22) Jesus told us:

What is the price of two sparrows—one copper coin? But not a single sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it. 30 And the very hairs on your head are all numbered. 31 So don’t be afraid; you are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows. Matthew 10:29–31 (NLT)

When we are confronted with the astounding revelation that God knows us intimately and cares about even the smallest details in our lives, it has a life-changing effect.

When Jesus met Nathanael, he told that man things about himself that only God would know, which transformed him from being a skeptic to a believer.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!” 48 Nathanael said to Him, “How do You know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” 49 Nathanael answered Him, “Rabbi, You are the Son of God; You are the King of Israel.” John 1:47–49 (NASB95)

I have a friend whose wife had just gotten a terrible diagnosis and prognosis regarding cancer. In the midst of processing all that, in his heart he heard God say, “I know about this.” He told me that when he heard the Lord say that, his faith in a good outcome went through the roof. In fact, God completely healed her of stage-four cancer afterward.

Knowing that God knows and cares about us and our situation is transformative.

When Jesus met Peter, he let him know that God knew all about him, too.

One of the two who heard John speak and followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. 41 He found first his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which translated means Christ). 42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John; you shall be called Cephas” (which is translated Peter). John 1:40–42 (NASB95)

When Jesus spoke prophetically to Peter, it was not some “parlor trick” designed to awe him into being a disciple. God does not do things that way. The words Jesus told Peter were important at the moment and would be in the future. By changing his name, Jesus altered his destiny. Peter would become a man of faith and stability eventually, which was important for him to know later, especially after he denied even knowing Jesus. When God tells us who we are, it supersedes every other thing ever told us.

Only God has the right to tell us who we are because only he truly knows who we are now and whom he will transform us to become.

When the Holy Spirit reveals Christ’s identity to us, it not only recreates our spirits through what is called the new birth, but it also marks us as one of God’s chosen ones.

And now you Gentiles have also heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago. 14 The Spirit is God’s guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. He did this so we would praise and glorify him. Ephesians 1:13–14 (NLT)

Jesus looks for those whom God has called and who will respond in faith to the gospel message. He understands that his heavenly Father has chosen certain ones to belong to him. When our Lord sees faith spring up in a person, he recognizes them to be part of that group his Father has given to him.

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; 28 and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. 29 “My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. John 10:27–29 (NASB95)

Revelation therefore reveals Christ to us and shows who we are, too.

In the New Testament, any blind person who came to Jesus requesting that his eyes be opened received what he requested. Should we think God would do any less for us? If you have yet to see Jesus in a way that opens your eyes to his true identity and makes you want to worship and serve him, you can ask the Lord to open your spiritual eyes. That is what I did over fifty-four years ago. God mercifully opened my previously blinded spiritual understanding to reveal Jesus to me in a life transforming way. He will do the same for you. He is no respecter of persons.

Prayer

Jesus, I want to open my spiritual eyes so I can know, believe, and serve you. Jesus, I acknowledge that you died for my sins, rose again as the Lord of all, and are calling me to be part of your people. I receive all you died to give me, and I give myself to you. Holy Spirit, come into my life and change me on the inside, Make me a follower of Jesus. Help me to boldly tell others about you. Amen.

If you prayed this prayer and meant it, God will surely do his part to open your spiritually blind eyes. Please let me know when this happens for you.

For it is my Father’s will that all who see his Son and believe in him should have eternal life. I will raise them up at the last day.” John 6:40 (NLT)
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Time to Tear Down the “High Place” of Heliocentrism

I believe we are in a time of reformation. God is exposing ways in which we followers of Christ have made accommodations to paganism so that we can repent.

High Places

When the Israelites conquered the land God promised to give them, he commanded them to destroy all forms of pagan worship to protect the people from their deceptive allure.

Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places; Numbers 33:51–52 (NASB95)

High places were usually elevated locations where various forms of pagan worship took place. Elevation made people feel closer to God, whose throne is above the firmament. That is why he is often called the Most High. Prior to the construction of the temple of Solomon, God allowed himself to be worshiped at such high places. It was a traditional way to worship with which the people were quite familiar and comfortable.This was genuine worship of the true God, but was not meant to last beyond the building of the temple.

Sadly, the people grew so attached to these forbidden places that they refused to renounce them after the Temple was constructed.

The people were still sacrificing on the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days. 1 Kings 3:2 (NASB95)

The Temple alone was designated as the God’s authorized place of worship and sacrifice.

But you shall seek the LORD at the place which the LORD your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come. 6 “There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contribution of your hand, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock. 7 “There also you and your households shall eat before the LORD your God, and rejoice in all your undertakings in which the LORD your God has blessed you. 8 “You shall not do at all what we are doing here today, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes; Deuteronomy 12:5–8 (NASB95)

Worshiping God is a good thing, but to disobey him by doing so at high places instead of the temple was a sin. Solomon dedicated the temple in grand fashion, but it did not take long for him to veer off course. David’s son unwisely and disobediently married foreign (non-Israelite and pagan) wives, who turned his heart away from an exclusive devotion to Yahweh. He consequently built unauthorized high places used to worship other gods. This was doubly evil.

The high places which were before Jerusalem, which were on the right of the mount of destruction which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the sons of Ammon, the king defiled. 2 Kings 23:13 (NASB95)

It is difficult for us to understand how someone so wise could do such a thing, but such is the allure and deception of sin. Even though very few of us feel a pull toward bowing down before a statue or other idol, we should not assume that we are immune to idolatry.

Today we have other forms of idolatry that are quite pervasive and highly esteemed by God’s people.

God is jealous for our exclusive devotion (James 4:5) and warned Israel that he would punish them unless they removed the high places. (Psalm 78:58-59, Leviticus 26:30) Over the years, evil kings of Israel and Judah were noted for their worship of false gods and devotion to the high places. Even many of the so-called “good” kings of Judah, who loved God, failed to get rid of the high places. For example, Jehoshaphat, a godly man in many ways, was such a ruler.

He walked in all the way of Asa his father; he did not turn aside from it, doing right in the sight of the LORD. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places. 1 Kings 22:43 (NASB95)

Why would otherwise devoted servants of God accommodate evil in this way? Were they ignorant? Did they view this transgression as a minor thing? Were they intimidated by the people who were greatly devoted to such unauthorized worship? We can only guess. Perhaps it was all of the above.

The Bible notes three kings who more fully obeyed God by eliminating the high places: Asa, Hezekiah, and Josiah. These men had the courage to oppose high-place-loving citizens in order to please God.

God is looking for wholehearted devotion from his people. Our Lord does not want us to accommodate anything that tends to corrupt that devotion.

Instead of looking for some sort of physical idol, today we should think in terms of how we may have allowed our hearts to become enamored with the ways of the world, which are hostile to the ways of God. (James 4:4-5)

Anything that the world loves should be immediately suspect in our eyes.

The people of the world are devoted to that which is hostile to God because they are of the “flesh,” which bows down to the sinful pull of the old Adamic nature.

because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, 8 and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. Romans 8:7–8 (NASB95)

All of us who have been born again, although we were recreated in the spirit, still have a connection to the flesh, as long as we live in these mortal bodies.

It is easy for us to be swayed into loving what the world loves, unless we have our guard up, understand the truth, and resist the pull. This is a very real danger.

Paul wrote…

But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ. 2 Corinthians 11:3 (NASB95)

So what does this have to do with cosmology?

The High Place of Heliocentrism

For the first 5500 years or so after creation, using Bible chronology, most people believed the Bible’s version of cosmology, which looked something like the diagram on the right. Most cultures around the world had their version of the Hebrew concept. The ancient pagan Greeks began to develop the globe version of the earth. They did not have the Bible from which to gain understanding.
Christians up until the time of Copernicus had a geocentric view of the heavens and earth as described in Genesis Chapter One. Then came an astronomical upheaval.

Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton led what has been called the scientific revolution that changed the way people look at the cosmos and, eventually, all of life. They revolted against being “hemmed in” by God’s Word and decided to rely on their own intellect and interpretation of what they could view in the heavens with the naked eye and primitive telescopes.

This revolution began in the garden of Eden. It is based on man’s desire to go his own way and make his own decisions without reference to God’s Word. I wrote another article specifically on this topic. This time the rebellion against God gained momentum because it was clothed in scientific garb, which poses as truth greater than the Bible. These enlightenment men believed that the pursuit of truth and “science” had to free itself from religion and, in particular, the Bible. From that time until the present, secular scientists generally scoff at anyone who uses the Bible as a guide or reference in any sort of scientific inquiry. The age of reason pushed aside the revelation of God’s Word.

Worldly people love going their own way in contradiction to God and the Scripture. The sad thing is that, generally speaking, especially when it comes to cosmology, the church has gone along for the ride, seduced by the siren song that, using science, we can figure out things on our own, thank you. We don’t need the pre-scientific Bible to guide us. In order to camouflage what they were doing, people who say they believe the Bible is God’s Word cleverly decided that Genesis Chapter One and other verses and passages that describe the biblical earth and firmament are mere poetry, not to be taken literally. We learn the literal truth from science.

This brings us to the focus of this article. Many, probably most at this point, well-intentioned Christians have gone along with the world by rejecting Genesis Chapter One as a true account of creation and by accepting the anti-biblical heliocentric lie.

In fact, many are absolutely devoted to heliocentrism to the extent that they will attack and belittle anyone who dares challenge it. This is confusing because generally they are devoted to Christ and have a love for God’s Word, which only goes to show how strong the allure of science is. Instead of the Reformation motto of “sola scriptura,” we have adopted “sola scientia.”

Heliocentrism is an unauthorized and untrue version of God’s creation. To say that God made the cosmos after this fashion is unbiblical, untrue, and God-dishonoring and paves the way toward evolutionary astrophysics and atheism.

We should never say that God did something that he did not do. As I see it, this is akin to worshiping God in an unauthorized high place. Both were outside the bounds of Scripture and dishonored God.

In a previous article, I showed that heliocentrism is rooted in the occult and is a form of sun worship.

I realize that this is a “hard pill to swallow” for those indoctrinated in modern astrophysics. We have been taught that the Big Bang expanding universe which contains our solar system is proven science, but, sadly, it does not agree with what the Bible teaches nor has it been proved. It is mere conjecture at best.

This places us in a crisis of obedience. Will we accept what modern science teaches or what the Bible declares, no matter what it might cost us?

Adam and Eve failed their test in the garden when they believed the serpent’s lies above God’s truth. We dare not make the same mistake!

Genesis Chapter One states that God first created the earth, making it absolutely central. On the fourth day he created the sun, moon, and stars, placing them in the immense crystalline structure called the firmament. Nothing is said about other so-called planets. God only made the earth, sun, moon, and the stars. You can read more about this in another article I wrote about the Genesis testimony. 

This means that the sun, for example, serves the earth, rather than the other way around. It also means that the sun runs a “circuit” around the earth (Psalm 19:6), rather than the earth revolving around the sun. Consequently, the sun is much smaller and much closer than we have been led to believe. The image on the left is a cartoon, not reality.

We must either believe the Bible and reject modern astrophysics or accept modern astrophysics and consign Genesis to the realm of scientifically meaningless “poetry.” However, once we start down the road of deciding which words of God are actually true and which can be safely disregarded, we are in dangerous territory.

There is nothing in the Genesis account that allows us to classify it as poetry, except our devotion to the supposed science behind heliocentrism.

In my opinion, this is loving a pagan philosophy more that the Bible.

When Christians put their trust in the dictates and pronouncements of modern astrophysicists instead of in God’s Word, it is a form of idolatry.

Here is a simple syllogism.

  • If God’s Word is true and Jesus is the truth personified (John 14:6),
  • Then, any time we value and honor a lie over the truth (the Bible and Jesus), we commit idolatry.
  • Therefore, if we believe the lie of heliocentrism instead of God’s Word, it is idolatry.

If this line of reasoning is correct, and I believe it is, then many Christians are inadvertent idolators.

One of the high places destroyed by Josiah was devoted to the sun god.

He did away with the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem, also those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the host of heaven. 2 Kings 23:5 (NASB95)

He did away with the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the official, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 2 Kings 23:11 (NASB95)

When Copernicus published his book that theorized that the sun was the focal point of supposed planetary orbits, he paid homage to the sun god.

When the United States supposedly sent astronauts to the moon, they named the entire mission after Apollo, the sun god. His horses and chariot were part of the mission logo. This is no accident. NASA’s origins were steeped in the occult, and nearly every mission or undertaking is named with pagan allusions. But that is another topic.

I realize that most of us Christians who ascribe to heliocentrism are not conscious idolators. In fact, we are repulsed by such an idea. Nevertheless, heliocentrists inadvertently honor Satan with their pagan beliefs. To claim that God created a heliocentric solar system is misguided at best. No artist would want credit for creating something that is totally contrary to his values and intent.

The Bible says that the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament his handiwork. (Psalm 19:1) Even Christian heliocentrists are able to glorify God when they consider the heavens, but they are doing so despite the godlessness connected with Big Bang cosmology. As I wrote elsewhere, the Big Bang – Heliocentric Worldview is essentially atheistic by design. Jesus said we can know a bad tree by the fruit it produces. It is no accident that most leading proponents of modern astrophysics are atheists.

The Genesis version of cosmology requires us to recognize the handiwork of God. There is no way that we live within the protection of the firmament unless God created it that way. It could never have happened via the chaos of an explosion. Just as surely as the turtle pictured on the left did not get on top of the fence post by himself, neither did the firmament create itself.

It is extremely difficult to be an atheist when God’s true version of creation is recognized, and that is exactly why it is so important for the church to abandon pagan heliocentrism and embrace the truth.

Biblical cosmology can help people turn to God. We need to be different from the world system. We need to stand for God’s truth. The world may laugh at us for holding to our conviction that the Bible is true, but perhaps they will respect us for being steadfast to what the Bible teaches.

I think the world already laughs at us when we try to blend modern astrophysics with the Bible. They know it is a contradiction and an accommodation.

My prayer is that God will lift the veil of deception. May the Lord remove the “scales” from our eyes so that we can finally see the truth about his glorious creation and tear down the high place of heliocentrism. The good news is that the Bible is 100% trustworthy and true regarding everything it says, even cosmology. How gloriously comforting it is to know that God is looking down on us from his throne above the firmament. He is very near indeed. One day that firmament will be rolled back like a scroll, revealing Christ in all his glory. The entire earth, this terrestrial plane, shall see him all at once! Come, Lord Jesus!

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The Occult Religion of Heliocentrism

Heliocentrism is regarded as an established scientific fact by most of the church in the West. It will probably come as a great shock for many to discover that, first of all, it is not scientifically proven, and, secondly, it is an occult religion.

Heliocentrism Has Not Been Scientifically Proven

Leading astrophysicists over the last five hundred years agree that it is impossible to prove the heliocentric theory through observation from the earth. Models can be constructed that will explain all astronomic phenomena using either the geocentric or heliocentric position.

People need to be aware that there is a range of models that could explain the observations, For instance, I can construct you a spherically symmetrical universe with Earth at its center, and you cannot disprove it based on observations. You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds. In my view there is absolutely nothing wrong in that. What I want to bring into the open is the fact that we are using philosophical criteria in choosing our models. A lot of cosmology tries to hide that.    —Cosmologist George Ellis, in Scientific American, “Thinking Globally, Acting Universally”, October 1995

J.D. Bernal stated:

[Copernicus’] reasons for his revolutionary change were essentially philosophic and aesthetic,” and in a later edition he is more convinced that the “reasons were mystical rather than scientific”   —J. D. Bernal, Science in History, 1st edition, London, Watts, 1954; 2nd edition, 1965).

Conversely, empirical experiments, such as Airy’s Failure and the Michelson-Morley experiment,  prove that the earth is at rest.

The data [of Michelson-Morley] were almost unbelievable… There was only one other possible conclusion to draw – that the earth was at rest. – Physicist Bernard Jaffe, Michelson and the Speed of Light, 1960, p.76.

The only alleged proof we have that seems to prove heliocentrism are the images of a spherical earth suspended in space provided by NASA. That agency has lied to us so often that it is unreasonable to accept as true anything it offers.

Einstein, who accepted that the earth’s revolution around the sun was a given, developed his theory of special relativity to explain away the unexpected results of the Michelson-Morley experiment. His conclusion was that it is impossible for us to tell whether the earth is moving or the sun, moon, and stars. How convenient! Satan always has a clever counter argument that defies all sound reasoning but baffles those who accept that the “experts” are so much smarter than we are that we cannot hope to ever comprehend their wonderful insights. That is how brainwashing works.

Heliocentrism Is an Occult Religion

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye must have faith.’ —Max Planck

[Copernicus’] work, published in 1543, was called On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres. It stated that the center of the universe was a spot somewhere near the sun…The scheme met the requirements of philosophical and theological belief in circular motion. In every other respect, however, Copernicus struck at the heart of Aristotelian and Christian belief. He removed the Earth from the center of the universe and so from the focus of God’s purpose. In the new scheme man was no longer the creature for whose use and elucidation the cosmos had been created. His system also placed the Earth in the heavens, and in doing so removed the barrier separating the incorruptible from the corruptible.  —James Burke, The Day the Universe Changed, p. 135

Both Copernicus and Isaac Newton were devotees of Egyptian “hermetics,” an occult pursuit of alchemy that supposedly originated with Hermes (hence, “hermetics”) Trismegistus from ancient Egypt, according to Masonic author, Albert Mackey. Here are Copernicus’ own words. Judge for yourself.

In the middle of all sits Sun enthroned. In this most beautiful temple could we place this luminary in any better position from which he can illuminate the whole at once? He is rightly called the Lamp, the Mind, the Ruler of the Universe: Hermes Trismegistus names him the Visible God, Sophocles’ Electra calls him the All-seeing. So the Sun sits as upon a royal throne ruling his children the planets which circle round him. The Earth has the Moon at her service. As Aristotle says, in his On Animals, the Moon has the closest relationship with the Earth. Meanwhile the Earth conceives by the Sun, and becomes pregnant with an annual rebirth.  —Nicolaus Copernicus , De Revolutionibus, Of the Order of the Heavenly Bodies

Copernicus uses unmistakable religious language that elevates the sun, Helios or Sol, to god status.

Heliocentrism
Christianity
Sun is enthroned as Ruler of the cosmos. Jesus is enthroned at the Father’s right hand as King of Kings
The Sun has a temple. The church is the temple inhabited by God’s Spirit
The Sun is the Lamp that illuminates all things. Jesus is the Light of the world.
The Sun is the “mind” of the cosmos. God is the Creator, Sustainer, and Redeemer.
The Sun is the Visible God. Jesus is the Word of God become a man.
The Sun is all seeing. Only God is omniscient.
The Sun rules the earth and the planets. God is ruler of the earth. The sun runs a circuit over the earth as a servant to it (Psalm 19:6). There is no such thing as a planet, only “wandering (planetes) stars (asters – lights, luminaries). (Jude 13)
Sun sires life on earth. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. His light is the light of men. (John 1:4)

The Copernican conclusion is that, via “gravity,” the sun rules the earth and the other “wandering stars,” which are all named after pagan gods and goddesses. Put another way, the sun controls the earth, keeping her in submission to Helios or Sol, which are names associated with Satan himself.

NASA images of the sun make it out to be a raging, threatening nuclear inferno that threatens to engulf and annihilate everyone on earth, another clear reference to Satan and hell. The actual sun looks nothing like NASA’s image.

  NASA computer generated image

  Photograph

Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of universal gravitation lends scientific credibility to heliocentrism. He was a secret alchemist, who wrote more than a million words about that occult art of trying to transform inferior substances into gold. Michael White, in his book, Isaac Newton, the Last Sorcerer, quoted John Maynard Keans, who said that Newton was the “last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians.” (pp.2-3) His theory of universal gravitation, according to Dickson White in his book, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology, was “destined to be fatal to the old theory of creation.” (Vol. I, 15) Anyone who believes the Bible is the standard of all truth should question the truthfulness of the theory of universal gravitation. Things fall down at a certain rate of acceleration until they encounter a medium of greater density, or they rise until they encounter a medium of less density. In no way does this prove that all masses exert  force on one another. It also assumes the existence of a vast vacuum called “outer space,” which is nowhere taught in the Bible. 

According to God’s Word, all heavenly lights are contained in the vault of the firmament. None of these lights are said to be solid spherical objects that are part of an evolutionary ever expanding universe. When we observe the stars and “planets” through a telescope, they do not look like NASA’s computer generated images.

Newton claimed to have discovered mathematical and physical proof for the principles found in occult hermetic writings.

Newton was also a fan of Hermes Trismegistus and translated one of his books, The Emerald Tablet, into English. One of the quotes from this book obviously influenced Newton’s work regarding gravity. He said, “The sun’s force is above all force, for it vanquishes every subtle thing and penetrates every solid thing.”

Lynn Picknett, writer for the the gnostic New Dawn Magazine, embraces the hermetic roots of Copernican Heliocentrism:
 
“Essentially, Copernicus was claiming to have found mathematical and physical proof for the principles that are set out– without proof– in the Hermetic books. Contemporary Hermeticists certainly regarded him as a hero for vindicating their sacred texts.” (November-December, 2011)
 

Johannes Kepler, another highly regarded astronomer from that period, wrote in his book titled, Of the Harmony of the World:

“a very few days after the pure Sun of that most wonderful study begin to shine, nothing restrains me, it is my pleasure to yield to the inspired frenzy, it is my pleasure to taunt mortal men with the candid acknowledgment that I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far, far away from the boundaries of Egypt…I cast the die, and I write the book.” (translated by E.J. Aiton, 1997, p.391)
 
Trismegistus came up with the heliocentric idea of heavenly spheres orbiting the sun.
 
“For the sun is situated at the centre of the cosmos, wearing it like a crown. Around the Sun are the six spheres that depend from it: the sphere of the fixed stars, the six of the planets, and the one that surrounds the Earth.” (Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius)
 
Newton effectively legitimized pagan sun worship by giving it an apparent scientific basis, much as Charles Darwin provided a scientific rationale for those wishing to abandon the acknowledgement of a Creator with regard to the origin of life.
No lie has has more effectively turned people away from acknowledging the Creator than heliocentrism and its corollary, the Big Bang.
 
A false explanation of creation presents a false testimony of the Creator.
Even Christians have succumbed to this strong delusion and have been willing to abandon the clear testimony of Scripture in Genesis Chapter One regarding the origin and design of the cosmos in favor of what is called “science.” I believe that God is awakening his church to the truth about the earth and heavens and calling us to repent from elevating pagan cosmology above the clear teachings of the Word of God.
 
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Is God Willing to Involve Himself in Our Everyday Problems?

Many people do not believe that God is interested or wants to be involved with our everyday affairs and problems, as if his attention, time, and resources were limited. Perhaps we think we are not worthy of his consideration. What Jesus did at the wedding feast of Cana says otherwise.

The next day there was a wedding celebration in the village of Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2  and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the celebration. 3  The wine supply ran out during the festivities, so Jesus’ mother told him, “They have no more wine.” John 2:1-3 (NLT)

Jesus’ first miracle is extremely intriguing on several levels. First of all, of all the things he could have done that day, he went to a wedding. We might think that Jesus was totally consumed with heavenly things, walking about with a halo over his head and hands clasped in prayer continually, but that would be inaccurate. Jesus was involved in everyday concerns that matter to the average person. We are not provided with many snapshots of his personality, but I would be greatly surprised if he were not thoroughly enjoying himself and feeling very comfortable at the party. It appears that the guests were drinking wine in large quantities because they ran out, a big “no-no” for the hosts, which put them in an embarrassing situation. Apparently Mary, Jesus’ mother, felt sympathetic toward their plight and asked her son to do something.

Secondly, even though he already had begun his public ministry and had disciples, he still spent time with his mother. Perhaps she was a disciple, too, but based on other passages, I think not at this point. Jesus was most likely fulfilling a family obligation to honor a friend’s family by attending the wedding feast.

Even though Jesus was fully committed to the kingdom of God, he never lost sight of taking care of his family and being with friends.

He loved his Mom, but he looked to his heavenly Father for direction for his ministry and words. Mary’s request for him to come to the wedding host’s aid, was not part of his divine agenda, it seemed.

“Dear woman, that’s not our problem,” Jesus replied. “My time has not yet come.” 5  But his mother told the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” John 2:4-5 (NLT)

When we know someone loves us deeply, it gives us boldness to ask him or her for favors and blessings, not out of a desire to abuse the relationship, but because we are confident in the strength of our relationship. Jesus indicated that he did not wish to do anything, but she put him on the spot by simply telling the servants to do anything Jesus told them. Our Lord had the option of doing nothing, but he decided to honor his mother’s request. We learn from this that we do not need a specific instruction from God to help someone. Jesus responded to the need, which resulted in his first public miracle.

Standing nearby were six stone water jars, used for Jewish ceremonial washing. Each could hold twenty to thirty gallons. 7  Jesus told the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” When the jars had been filled, 8  he said, “Now dip some out, and take it to the master of ceremonies.” So the servants followed his instructions. 9  When the master of ceremonies tasted the water that was now wine, not knowing where it had come from (though, of course, the servants knew), he called the bridegroom over. 10  “A host always serves the best wine first,” he said. “Then, when everyone has had a lot to drink, he brings out the less expensive wine. But you have kept the best until now!” 11  This miraculous sign at Cana in Galilee was the first time Jesus revealed his glory. And his disciples believed in him. John 2:6-11 (NLT)

God is sovereign over all things, but within his lordship he leaves room for us to take initiative.

This is not presumption, but faith. God will work with us in a dynamic partnership when we respond lovingly to needs. He ordains the means as well as the ends. This should give us great confidence as we pray.

This miracle tells us a whole lot about God’s heart for people. God cares about our everyday problems.

He is not watching impassively from heaven. He is right in our midst. We also learn that Jesus (God) is not nearly as bent out of shape about some things as we tend to be. These people were probably a little tipsy. They had drunk up all the wine, and we have to think the host thought he had enough on hand for the entire feast. Nevertheless, instead of piously telling the crowd that running out of wine was probably God’s will because they had been drinking too much, he made between 120 and 180 gallons of the best wine ever! Obviously God is okay with people having a good time. Even though he commands us to avoid becoming drunk with wine (Ephesians 5:18), he provided those party goers with enough wine to get thoroughly inebriated, if they so desired. I wonder if we need to adjust our view of God? If you think he is a stern kill-joy, think again.

Application

What do we learn from this passage that we can apply to everyday life?

  • God cares about the everyday aspect of our lives.
  • God cares about social gatherings and what is needed to make them successful.
  • God will respond to our prayers, even if it seems our request may not be exactly what he was planning to do. Sometimes God tests our resolve and our faith in his loving kindness.

God is not as tense about things as we might imagine. Those who approach life rigidly and legalistically do not understand his heart and misrepresent him to the world.

  • God is willing to demonstrate his love and power in everyday life as a testimony to his goodness, love, and power to save us.

This is the Jesus we preach. This is the Jesus of the Gospels. It’s no wonder people still love and follow him.

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Sola Scientia – Are Christians Worshiping Knowledge Instead of God?

The Protestant Reformation set in motion one of the greatest liberation movements in history. The began liberating people from the enslaving power of the Roman Catholic Church and its works doctrine. One of the cardinal tenets of the Reformation was “sola scriptura,” which pledged total reliance upon the truth of God’s Word. In the midst of this great freedom movement, Satan launched a “counter-reformation” headed up by the first Jesuit, Ignatius Loyola, who convinced the pope to allow his group to fight the Reformation’s reliance upon the Word of God with “knowledge.” Today we see the fruit of this evil plan. 

Now the world’s motto is “sola scientia.” We are exhorted to “trust the science,” even if it goes against common sense and proven facts. Science has become a religion supposedly deserving our complete faith, and many Christians have fallen prey to this scheme to supplant the Word of God with so-called knowledge. Without realizing it, many of us have been eating from the tree of knowledge instead of the tree of life. We have believed the words of men more than we believe the Bible.

Timothy, guard what God has entrusted to you. Avoid godless, foolish discussions with those who oppose you with their so-called knowledge (science). 21 Some people have wandered from the faith by following such foolishness. May God’s grace be with you all. 1 Timothy 6:20–21 (NLT)

Concurrent with the Catholic counter-reformation, a revolutionary (in a literal sense) new understanding in cosmology was introduced. Satan moved the masses from their biblical understanding that the sun runs a circuit around the earth into believing that the earth revolves around the sun. I am convinced that this upheaval in astronomy was part of Satan’s plan to counterattack the Word of God. Satan used a new astronomical theory to dispute the authority of God’s Word at such a fundamental level that it would pull people away from “sola scriptura.” Enter the heliocentric solar system, which Luther’s contemporary, Nicolai Copernicus, presented to the world.

I am convinced that anything the world loves is almost always anti-god, and the world loves heliocentrism and the globe earth. Even Bible-believing Christians have bowed the knee at the heliocentric altar, not realizing that turning our backs on the Genesis Chapter One creation account undermines the authority of the entire Bible.

What Copernicus began was later buttressed by such “luminaries” as Newton and Galileo. Today, heliocentrism has budded and flowered into the Big Bang evolutionary view of the “universe” that no longer requires a creator God. God’s glory has taken a back seat to man’s intellect. What began as a rearrangement of the solar system has become an unbelievable tapestry of interconnected theories that posit multiple self-creating ever-expanding universes, in which God is irrelevant, if there at all, and the earth and humanity are insignificant and have no ultimate meaning or purpose.

The bigger the universe gets, the smaller God becomes and the more irrelevant is the Bible, and that was Satan’s purpose for the counter-reformation and its emphasis on fighting the knowledge of God’s Word with a different kind of knowledge birthed from deception.

Satanic scientism is a religion that wears the clothing of acceptability because it is supposedly based on proven science, rather than mere religious belief. Surprisingly, however, much of today’s science, especially astrophysics, is really a house of cards built on theories presented as facts. It is a false system of belief that leads away from God into confusion, foolishness, and death. Those who have been brainwashed into its core beliefs since childhood regard the biblical version of cosmology as being absurd, not realizing that they have become fools in God’s eyes for rejecting his words.

Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. Romans 1:22 (NLT)

In the above verse, Paul made his statement regarding those who worship idols. Today science is probably the biggest idol in the West. For many people, it towers over God, demanding our loyalty and obedience.

Sir Isaac Newton effectively gave birth to what is now called the scientific worldview. From his time forward, there has been a deliberate separation of religion and science, about which I have written elsewhere. This is much the same as another Enlightenment division between church and state.

The devil was hard at work in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries laying the groundwork for casting aside the Bible and Christianity in both the scientific and political realms.

The Copernican Principle, as it has come to be called, holds that mankind and the earth are small and insignificant, just the opposite of the Bible’s teaching. He was followed by Johannes Kepler, who stole Tycho Brahe’s research and altered his findings to say that the heliocentric view is correct and the “planets” have elliptical orbits. Galileo supposedly invented the telescope and “verified” Copernicus’ and Kepler’s findings. Newton came up with the math and name for the “force” that made all these theoretical motions possible – the theory of universal gravitation. Newton was not a Christian. He denied the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, and the infallibility of the Bible. He also did extensive work in alchemy, regarded as an occult practice. It is said that he was also a Master Freemason.

When the heliocentric view first appeared, there was much opposition, especially from Protestant church leaders, such as Luther and Calvin, but over time these stalwart opponents died out and the younger generation fell for the lie. Nevertheless, much controversy continued into the early 20th century.

In 1871, George Airy conducted an experiment to demonstrate whether the earth is moving or the stars. In the heliocentric view, the earth moves. In the biblical view, the sun, moon, and stars move over a stationary earth. Airy’s experiment proved that the earth is not moving. Consequently modern historians, who are biased toward the heliocentric model, call it Airy’s Failure, because it did not support the already accepted theory that the earth is in motion orbiting the sun.

In 1887, Michelson and Morley set up a very accurately measured experiment to detect any motion of the earth. Much to everyone’s surprise, it showed that the earth is at rest. This experiment was redone many times with the same result. Below is a very short explanation.

In 1913, Georges Sagnac conducted an experiment that proved that the ether (the electromagnetic field through which waves propagate) exists and abolished Einstein’s theory of relativity.

Einstein sought to uphold heliocentrism by devising the theory of special relativity, doing away with the ether and declaring that all motion is relative; therefore, we cannot measure whether the earth is moving or not… but we know it is. Talk about “begging the question” (principia petitii) – attempting the use a premise as the conclusion!

Rather than being enclosed in a solid dome-like firmament, as the Bible teaches, satanic scientism teaches us to believe that the atmos above us is thin and fragile, held in place by a mysterious force called gravity against the unfathomable power of the vacuum of “outer space.”

Maintaining a pressurized atmosphere without a container is a physical impossibility and violates the law of entropy, but that does not seem to bother people who have been brainwashed to believe in the globe model of the earth.

When challenged as to the reality of the globe, most people appeal to the multitude of NASA’s supposed actual photographs of the spherical earth suspended in the void of space, not realizing that NASA was started by satanists for the purpose of galvanizing the deception of the spherical earth and outer space. The following is an unbiased investigation of NASA’s claims.

If we discard the computer generated images of a globe earth suspended in outer space from NASA and other space agencies, we are left with only empirical evidence, which opposes to the science fiction of modern astrophysics and supports the Bible’s claims.

If you wish to investigate this claim in greater depth, I have collected resources to assist you. Here is the link.

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