http://youtu.be/qF9aY49oQTs - Indescribable - Chris Tomlin
And God spoke all these words when He gave Moses the Ten Commandments:
Exodus 20:1: "I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt..."
verse 11: For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but He rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
SIX days! Rested on the seventh. Either days of Creation were normal 24 hour days or that seven day of rest was a really, really long time. But that's just my understanding. I walk by faith. If God says it in His Word, I believe it.
And you know what I just love? When scientific discoveries point right back to God's Inspired Word!!!
Love it! Love it! Love it!
Over the weekend, I had a cold and was in bed watching a show on the History Channel - History's Mysteries - Sodom and Gomorrah. It seems an amazing discover was uncovered. First of all, we now know there was actually a city of Sodom. For years some people thought that was just a "an old bible tale", but then archaeologists began to uncover evidence to support city life in an area right where the Bible said Sodom was located. How many times does that have to happen before we start believing God?
Then a clay tablet was found that may answer some questions about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/226353-Decoded-The-clay-tablet-that-tells-how-an-asteroid-destroyed-Sodom-5-000-years-ago-
A clay tablet that has baffled scientists for more than a
century has been identified as a witness's account of
an asteroid that destroyed the Biblical cities of Sodom
and Gomorrah 5,000 years ago.
Researchers believe that the tablet's symbols give a
detailed account of how a mile-long asteroid hit the
region, causing thousands of deaths and devastating
more than one million sq km (386,000 sq miles).
The impact, equivalent to more than 1,000 tons of
TNT exploding, would have created one of the
world's biggest-ever landslides. ~~~
This disc showed constellations in the sky and another interesting thing. It appeared to indicate that an asteroid may have crashed to earth about 5000 years ago, very near to where Sodom and Gomorrah were located. Archaeologists had already determined that Sodom was indeed left in ashes by some catastrophic incident that happened suddenly, literally destroying Sodom, burning it complete to the ground. The possibility of an astroid convinced the scientific community of a fact that was recorded in the Bible. I'm so glad they finally figured out what God had told us thousands of years ago in His Inspired Word.
Genesis 18
The LORD appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. 2 Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground. ....
Abraham invites the three men, the Lord and two angels, to be his guests. The Lord then tells Abraham that at the same time the following year, Sarah would give birth to their son. Sarah overheard and cannot hold back the laugh of disbelief. I know the feeling. I was 46 when I found out I would be giving birth to another son, Tyler!
But God's promises are true. Sarah became a believer when Isaac was born just when the Lord said he would be born.
When the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way. 17 Then the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? 18 Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him. 19 For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, so that the LORD will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”
20 Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous 21 that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”
22 The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD. 23 Then Abraham approached him and said: “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24 What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it? 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
26 The LORD said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
27 Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes, 28 what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?”
“If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”
29 Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?”
He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”
30 Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?”
He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
31 Abraham said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?”
He said, “For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.”
32 Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?”
He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”
33 When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, he left, and Abraham returned home.
Genesis 19
1 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.”
It was not uncommon for guests traveling through a city to sleep in the square. But Lot knew what reception they would be given if they stayed unprotected in the square. He pleaded with them to come home with him for their safety.
“No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
3 But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. 4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. 5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”
6 Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him 7 and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing. 8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
This passage really upsets me. The idea that Lot would think it better for these sex crazed Sodomites to rape his virgin daughters rather than raping the two men - whom he didn't realize were angels at the time, makes me sick. I can't imagine making this suggestion if I were in Lot's position, but Lot evidently saw no other way out of the disaster that was about to take place. To him, his daughters being raped was the lesser of two evils. 9 “Get out of our way,” they replied. “This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.
10 But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. 11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
12 The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, 13 because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”
14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
16 When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the LORD was merciful to them. 17 As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”
But Lot said to them, “No, my lords, please! 19 Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die. 20 Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”
21 He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of. 22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.)
23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. 24 Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens. 25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.
Astronomers have determined that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by the huge asteroid that landed some miles from these cities and as it sailed in from the atmosphere, balls of fire, possible sulphur? crashed down to earth for miles and miles. Sodom and Gomorrah fell victim to this huge asteroid.
Hmmmm..... How does that contradict what God's inspired Word says? The Lord said he would rain down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah from the heavens. I think He did just that. Whether He used an asteroid or some other means, burning sulfur fell down on Sodom and Gomorrah and destroyed those cities completely. Archaeologist have discovered layers of ashes and bones of people who all died suddenly - I think the documentary said there were at least 20,000 people who died at the same time.
And get this. Dr. Carole Fontaine, a "theologist", says we've misunderstood all these years what the "sin" of Sodom and Gomorrah was. Most scholars agree that the people were extremely wicked in every way and the story we are shown in the bible seems to highlight the sin of unnatural relations between men. Dr. Fontaine is quick to clarify our mistake. She's says the great sin was, are you ready for this? "Inhospitality to strangers!" Well, they certainly were inhospitable. I'll give her that.
True science is not the enemy. Humans who try every way possible to take God out of the catastrophic events described in the Bible have to continually change their "theories" to match new findings. The Bible remains steadfast. The more science shows us, the more we see the Truth in God's inspired Word. There are no contradictions with true science and God's Word. The difference is Creation science starts with a belief in a Divine Designer. Those who don't believe God is creator spend much of their time trying to dismiss the fact the so many "discoveries" were listed in the bible thousands of years before scientists figured it out. How can we explain away that men (inspired by God) who had no great education or wisdom in and of themselves, were able to write truths of how our world operates - natural laws - before man even had the ability to discover those scientific truths?
This show about Sodom really frustrated me. At the very end, the commentator made one little off handed statement to the effect that "Could it be possible that God did cause the destruction with an asteriod?" Are you kidding me?
Why is it so hard for some people to believe that God is Creator? It takes so much more imagination and faith to believe this universe just spontaneously happened. Every time I hear a scientist or archaeologist or astronomer grasping for some way to take God out of the new discoveries being found every day - discoveries that support what God has already told us, it just baffles me. But God told us about the wisdom of this world, too.
1 Corinthians 3:18-20
Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”; 20 and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”
Holy and Divine Father, Creator and Sustainer of everything that is, was or will come, forgive us for failing to give You the praise and worship You so deserve. Everything in Creation shouts Your praise, except "man". We are Your treasured possession and we give you so little respect and honor. I don't know You keep from zapping us into Eternity. Thank You for Your patience. Thank You for loving us and continually showing Yourself to those of us who believe. I know You're with me. I don't need science to proof it, but I sure do love seeing Your science show off Your magnificent glory! I love You, Father, and sing together with all Creation - "You Reign for ever and ever!"
http://youtu.be/O7bD02ZmTqk - All of Creation - Mercy Me
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