Evil exists, and the only people who can overcome it are knowledgeable, spiritual Christians. Unfortunately, most Christians are not.

By Jack Heckathorne, Author of the book “Separation of Church and God”

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” (Ephesians 6:12)

“And these are they by the way side, where the word (Bible Doctrine) is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.” (Mark 4:15)

Virtually all major denominations and religions are teaching things that are totally contrary to the Bible. In addition, they are not teaching many of the life changing concepts which are found in scripture. They mix in enough truth as to make their ideas and psychology sound plausible but the messages on key points are totally opposite of God’s word therefore, whole biblical concepts are lost.

Why does this happen? As the above verse says, Satan comes and takes away the word. How does he do this? He will get peoples eyes on entertainment, false doctrines, psychology, social activities etc. and off of the true teachings of scripture. People love to be entertained and despise having to study, but in the end their lust for entertainment will be their downfall. They will go through life ignorant of God’s word and Satan will have his way with them. Along the way they will be easily deceived, make wrong decisions and elect the wrong leaders for their country. Many pastors, especially mega-church pastors, not only allow this type of thing in their church, but vigorously promote it, so that their church will increase in size and stature.

Christians have been deluded to the point where they believe that it is their responsibility to “reform” the world. This will never happen. They will never overcome Satan who has dominion over the entire world and its systems. Despite all of their efforts the world has only been getting worse in past years.  Jesus told the church to go into the entire world and preach the gospel to everyone. He said nothing about trying to reform the world. You will never put an end to evil by passing laws or forcing your will upon others. All you are doing is fighting Satan through men and neglecting the gospel message. Only true Bible teaching will change the heart of man. Incidentally, as the churches have watered down their teaching in the past one hundred years evil has been increasing at about the same rate. When a maximum amount of Christians are led by the Holy Spirit they will make the right decisions and elect the right leaders.

If your church is not teaching the Word of God, as the Apostles did in the early church, then regardless of how social and pleasant it seems to be, there is no doubt that it is controlled by carnal Christians and ultimately by Satan.

All one has to do is take a good look at the so-called political leaders which we now have. We have liars, traitors, socialists, radicals and perverts in office and, to a large degree, Christians put them there.

America, and the entire world for that matter, has become apostate and even anti-God. The Church, because of its many false teachers and preachers, has now fallen into tradition, psychology and ignorance. In addition, they have become entertainers and have turned the world away from God’ truth because of their holy rolling, money collecting and other non productive superficial antics which turn many unbelievers away from the church. Liberal churches, that is, churches who teach their own ideas rather than the Bible are absolutely useless and even harmful because they foster spiritual ignorance.

Sermons are normally about how YOU can improve your life or your marriage from a philosophical standpoint rather than teaching what the Bible has to say.  Consequentially, Christian marriages and their children have only been getting worse for many years now.

The remedy for sin is never talked about, nor is Satan and his schemes. It is all about you and how to live a better life from mans perspective which, by the way, never works in Satan’s world. People will put up an honorable appearing facade around others but within they are empty. Jesus referred to such people as white washed tombstones, beautiful on the outside, but inside, full of dead men’s bones and iniquity. Church buildings often reflect this. In appearance, they are beautiful structures but inside there is nothing pleasing to God. Without the Holy Spirit’s guidance a Christian is no more enlightened or happy than an unbeliever. They will simply live on their emotions and this is the type of person that the vast majority of the churches are producing today.

The church at Corinth couldn’t even understand the basic things of God because they had unconfessed sin in their life and were not “walking in the light.” They were not filled with the Holy Spirit which is our enlightener and comforter. Therefore, their deeds and actions were superficial and meaningless and they ended up with envyings, strife and divisions.

“And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, (Christians) but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk (basic bible doctrine), and not with meat (more advanced things) for hitherto (up until now) ye were not able to bear it, (understand it) neither yet now are ye able. (you still can’t) For ye are yet carnal: (unconfessed sin in their lives) for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk (live your lives) as men?”  (Unbelievers)   (1-Corinthians 3:1-3)

Nearly all local churches, protestant and Catholic, have become as ineffective and as superficial as false religions or worldly psychology. The spiritual things of God are not taught. Our nation will go down in a heap and there will never be a revival if pastors and church leaders do not either start learning and teaching the scriptures correctly or resign and let someone who has the true gift of Pastor/Teacher take over their pulpit. All churches should be teaching the Bible as written and nothing else. But this is an unthinkable idea for many in the church today.

People in the Church Reject Truth

“But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily (silently/secretly) shall bring in (to the local churchs) damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many (in the congregation) shall follow their pernicious (destructive) ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.”(2-Peter 2:1-2)

“And (these people) have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended. And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,
And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.” (Mark 17-19)

Church Gimmicks

This subject has virtually has no end. The schemes and gimmicks that churches will use to get people to fill up their pews is astounding. Listed below are just a few of them:

Trips: Churches will offer a trip to some exotic place to whoever can bring in the most visitors within a specified time.

Dinners: Churches will often have a banquet and offer a door prize to some lucky individual.

Free Dinner give-a-ways:  For the most “souls won.” Restaurants will often give free meals to church members in exchange for mentioning their name and telling the congregation how wonderful their food is on Sunday morning. Most often people think they have won souls when they get people in the church door.

Raffles, bake sales, clothing sales: Of course the church members furnish all of these things and the church rakes in the proceeds.

Other gimmicks include Car Shows, discounts for camping trips, trips to Holy Land, Products of the month, holy water, prayer cloths etc. and all of this is designed for nothing more than making money. People are drawn to it because they believe they will derive some benefit from it and to them it is why they go to church.

The problem with all of this is that people are going to church specifically to be entertained or for a meal or whatever a church happens to offer and they ignore and even become hostile toward scriptural teaching.

What would Jesus say about all of this?

“Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. Labour not (put forth no effort) for the meat (dinners, entertainment etc.) which perisheth, but for that meat (God’s word) which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.” (John 6:26-27)

False teaching, entertainment, commercialism and social activities have become so ingrained in peoples minds that when they hear the truth taught they turn away. People in church will actually speak evil of God’s word. Why? They have become arrogant and legalistic. They think that they know it all but in reality know nothing simply because they are not controlled or enlightened by the Holy Spirit. They focus on their pastor because he is friendly or charismatic and they DO NOT seek truth. In addition, they don’t want to give up their social life or their sins because they love darkness more than light.

Occasionally, a pastor may realize his error and desire to start teaching the truth. However, when confronted with these apostate people that he has created he may cave in because they may be large contributors to the church or seemingly important in some way.

This country is made up of mostly Christians but yet our most of our politicians, our representivies and our judges are God hating, Christian hating people. These evil people were put in office by deceived and ignorant Christians. 

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge (God’s word) because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.” (Hosea 4:6)

What Churches Will Not Teach

What to Do When a Christian Sins

This is something that is absolutely essential to being guided by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is our “enlightener” and with out him controlling our lives we will make the wrong decisions in nearly everything we do in life.

When a Christian sins he is commanded to immediately confess that sin directly to God. This is taught in both the Old and New Testaments

“If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me…(Leviticus 26:40)

“Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.” (Ezra 10:11)

“I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.” (Psalms 32:5)

“And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins. (Mark 1:5)

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9)

But what are the churches teaching? They either tell you to ask for forgiveness or to repent of your sins and then they define repent to mean “turn away from sin.” First of all repent [Greek metanoeo] means to change your thinking. It is used in the Bible to mean changing your unbelieving mind about Jesus Christ. Rejection of Christ (Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit’s conviction) is the unforgivable sin and we must turn from unbelief to belief. Jesus Christ could not die for the rejection of himself which is the only means of salvation. All others sins such as overt sins, mental attitude sins and sins of the tongue are forgivable and must be confessed. Repentance concerns salvation and confession concerns carnality.

Read the above verse again. It says “If we confess…(name or cite) He will forgive.” It does NOT say if we ask to be forgiven of our sins, confess that we are a sinner, feel sorry that we are a sinner or turn away from sin he will forgive. We should turn away from as much sin as possible, but that does not bring about forgiveness. We should confess each individual sin that we can remember and then forsake those sins so that we will not soon become carnal again. If there is no forgiveness of sins the Christian is carnal. Then God’s discipline will follow.

Jesus himself said repentance is for unbelievers only, not Christians.

“But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous (believers), but sinners (unbelievers) to repentance. (Matthew 9:13)

Confession of sin directly to God the father is the basis upon which all doctrinal teachings depend. If sin is not confessed, the Christian will not be led by the Holy Spirit and will not be able to understand or apply any Biblical concepts to their lives.

“But the natural man (Anyone who is not led by the Holy Spirit) receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” (1 Corinthians 2:14)

Why do we need to confess sin? God knows what sins we commit but he wants us to examine our lives and admit our failures to him. This keep us humble before Him. Arrogance comes from not admitting our sin.

Double Mindedness

This is one of the most common faults that Christians have. They will live in a carnal state and all the while claim to be a spiritual Christian. Its party time Saturday night and church on Sunday morning and they believe as long as they are saved things are just fine. Jesus said, however, that you are either for him or against him. There is no middle ground either for salvation or the spiritual life. For salvation, it is believing in the person and work of Christ that establishes your eternal status and it is confessing your sins that establishes your spiritual status while on Earth.

“He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.” (Matthew 12:30)

Human Good Verses Divine Good

Anything done in our own efforts, regardless of what it is, (including teaching), is counted as dead works if the Christian is carnal. God does not recognize these types of works as good because they come from the mind of man and are not the result of a spiritual Christian. Works done thru a spiritual Christian (sins confessed) is counted as good works for which we will receive rewards in Heaven.

“Now if any man (Christian) build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved (because he is a believer); yet so as by fire.” (1 Corinthians 3:12-15)

Filling of The Holy Spirit and The Indwelling Holy Spirit

When anyone becomes a believer in Jesus Christ the Holy Spirit “indwells” or lives within your being. In other words, you are saved. As a result, a believer cannot lose his salvation or become demon possessed because of the Holy Spirits presence, whereas an unbeliever can be. However, a carnal believer can be demonically influenced externally and deceived but not possessed or totally controlled by Satan. All too often it is these types of Pastors and teachers that are out there teaching false doctrines and leading Christians astray. People in the church who resist sound Biblical teaching have also been satanically influenced.

A person cannot be “filled” or controlled by the Holy Spirit when he is in a carnal state. This means that his prayers will not be heard, he will make the wrong decisions in life and he can expect discipline from God.

“If I regard (allow) iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.” (Psalms 66:18)

Many well meaning Christians pray for things for the right reason but their prayers are not heard for the simple reason that they have unconfessed sin in their lives. There are perhaps millions of Christians in the country praying for our country but with little success and it is all because their prayers are not heard.

If a person is not filled with the Holy Spirit he cannot understand true Bible teaching because the Holy Spirit is our “Enlightener” and our guide through life.

“Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.” (John 16:13)

Human Viewpoint vs. Divine Viewpoint

A spiritually mature Christian views everything from the divine view point based on the scriptures and years of diligent study. In other words, his view of life is from Gods perspective because he has the Word of God metabolized in his soul. A weak immature Christian will not have the knowledge of scriptures to the point where he will operate his life accordingly. Therefore, he will view everything the very same as an unbeliever would or from the human viewpoint which is man’s worldly perspective.

Relative Righteousness

All false religions around the world teach that one would have to be “good enough” to get into Heaven through his own efforts. This, they say, is accomplished by performing good works. The types of works vary from religion to religion but all of them come from the imperfect sinful mind of man.

I’m sure you have known people who you consider to be good, and you have known people who you have considered to be bad. To me, a good person is someone who is honest, thoughtful, kind and patient. A bad person, in my opinion, is someone who is dishonest, mean spirited, egotistical or obnoxious. I have observed that bad people have at least some good in them, and good people have some bad in them. So, I can say as a human being, that certain people are good, and others are bad. In other words, my idea of righteousness, as a human being, is relative, but God’s righteousness is absolute. It is perfect and uncompromising. No matter how good we appear as human beings, and no matter how hard we try to resist sin, the fact is that we are imperfect and can never attain God’s perfect righteousness on our own. We have a flawed and corrupt nature. If we do good works to please God in an effort to get into heaven, and this is what religion does, our efforts are in vain because we have done nothing to attain a righteousness like God has. We must have a righteousness which is equal to God’s righteousness in order to live with God forever in his Kingdom. God detests sin and he is not going to allow a bunch of “pretty good” sinners to live with him for all eternity. Only perfect righteousness will exist in Heaven.

“Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe…For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare (proclaim/require) his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance (Mercy/patience) of God…” (Romans 3:22-25)

Results of Carnality

Any person who remains carnal for any length of time can expect confusion in every aspect of life, he will try in vain to reform the world through activism, he will have ineffective prayers, his needs will not be met by God, and therefore, he will focus upon money. He will succumb to false teaching and exhibit a holier than thou attitude. Also, he will believe he has to live up to impossible, non scriptural man made church rules and try to avoid all of mans taboos. When he is unsuccessful with the taboos he may turn the other way and become involved deeply in sin.

He will be easily deceived by Satan since he does not have the Holy Spirit leading and controlling his life, he will vote for the wrong leaders for the country and the church. He will marry the wrong person, and his children will grow up and become disrespectful and rebellious He will fear being alone and will have an insatiable lust for social life and entertainment.

He will give his money to money grubbing false TV teachers in a desperate and vain effort to please God. He will get into more serious sins and cause other people to sin. This will lead him to having a hardened heart even to the point of becoming a God hater. Discipline from God will not be effective because he will ignore the implications of living in his sin. Then he will wonder why God did all this to him when in reality he did it to himself all because he did not seek God’s truth. At this point he is subject to dying the horrible sin unto death. God will literally hand a person over to Satan and allow him to have his way with him until he dies.

Is it any wonder that Satan does not want these simple doctrines taught in churches today? Most likely you are being dumbed down by your church. However, God in His grace will provide everything you need to know if you SEEK THE TRUTH and nothing else. It is available somewhere and it is the only road to happiness, spirituality and the Christian way of life. Your enemies, evil politicians and the circumstances of life will overtake you and conquer you unless you heed the scriptures. If sins are not confessed the Holy Spirit will not guide you and you will be on your own and Satan will kick you around.

“For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.” (Lamentations 1:16)

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32)

“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things (the details of life) shall be added unto you.” (Matthew 6:33)

False Things The Church Does Teach 

“But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.” (John 5:42)

Giving-The Prosperity Gospel?

There is no such thing as the prosperity Gospel. It is a totally false teaching. The only Gospel is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Gospel means good news. Prosperity gospel then would mean the good news of money and totally it excludes Jesus Christ and the Bible. Money hustlers have dreamed up this scheme to coerce ignorant Christians into giving money to them for their so-called ministry which consists of a lavish lifestyle and more sermons on giving.

“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammom.”(Wealth and riches) (Matthew 6:24)

“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”

(1 Timothy  6:10)

Christians are instructed to give freely as he is able and not because he thinks God will make him rich. One cannot buy God’s blessings.

“Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.” (2 Cornithians 9:7)

“Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.” (Deuteronomy 16:17)

Sow and Reap

Churches will teach that sowing a seed is giving money to them. Sowing a seed, according to scriptures, is teaching or hearing the scriptures which will reap a harvest of mature, spiritual Christians. It has nothing to do with money.

The sower soweth the word. (Mark 4:14)

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh (physical things) shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit (as a spiritual Christian) shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.” (Galatians 6:7-8)

Invite Jesus-False Gospel

How many times have you heard a preacher say: If you invite Jesus into your heart and repent of your sins you will be saved?  The Gospel is salvation, the thing that keeps you out of the Lake of Fire, and these so-called preachers refuse to teach it correctly. Why? Who is their God?

“For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies” (Matthew 15:19)

You are going to invite Jesus into that? Sin must be forgiven through faith and faith alone in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Jesus doesn’t come to you when sin is present. You must go to him on faith first in order to be saved.

“And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst…All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.” (John 6:35,37)

Note to Pastors:

If your church is all about money and you are worried that large contributors might leave your church if you should decide to preach the true Word of God, let them go. Stand your ground and use your faith. God will provide your needs. These people are doing the work of Satan by trying to obscure the truth and you don’t want such people in your church.

Time is getting short and God expects his truth to be properly disseminated. If the Bible is not being accurately taught in your church then whatever your church is doing is useless to God. Who do you serve; God or Satan? Who is your master? Remember the words of Jesus:

“Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
 
Ye (truth seekers) are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, (effectiveness) wherewith shall it be salted? It (You, the salt) is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
 
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
 
Let your light (Knowledge and wisdom) so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” (Matthew 5:11-16)

The true purpose of the local church is to teach the truth of God to Christians and in turn they are to evangelize the world. Then, and only then, can we begin the revival of a great nation.

“For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. (Isaiah 55:10-13)~

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” (2-Chronicles 7:14)          

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By: Jack Heckathorne, Author of “Separation of Church and God”

“And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.” Isaiah 13:11

There will be a total of twenty one worldwide Judgments from God during the seven year tribulation. These will be an attempt by God to bring the hardened unbelievers to Christ and it will be their last chance to accept him. At the same time, Satan and the Antichrist will be plotting to enslave the world and destroy Israel. In addition, there the twelve tribes of Israel will be preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ all over the world..

As God’s judgments are passed down to the world they will become progressively more sever and there will be no doubt to anyone that these judgments will be of a supernatural origin. It should be pointed out that the world has never experienced anything like this at anytime in its history. Men will be terrified at what they see and they will know they are experiencing God’s wrath for rejecting the sacrifice of his Son, Jesus Christ.

There will be three sets of seven judgments, twenty one in total. The first seven will happen during the first three and one half years and the rest during the final three and one half years.

The Seal Judgments,

First seal:

The first four judgments are commonly known as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

The White Horse.

The antichrist will deceive unbelievers into thinking that he is a wonderful man with all the answers to the problems of mankind. The unbelievers on the earth will have little or no Biblical knowledge so they will buy into his lies. Jesus Christ will give the Antichrist his power.  He will be perceived as a good man of peace, represented by the white horse, but his peace will be a false peace.

The Antichrist will be released upon the world. He will rise to power very quickly and be turned lose with his evil schemes to do as he wills. There will be no restraining ministry of the Holy Spirit or help from God of any kind as the Holy Spirit was removed at the beginning of the Tribulation, along with the Church.

"Now I saw when the Lamb (Jesus) opened one of the seals; and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a voice like thunder, "Come and see." And I looked, and behold, a white horse. And he who sat on it (The Antichrist) had a bow ;( weapon) and a crown (power) was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer." (Taking control of the world) (Revelation 6:1-2)

Second Seal:  

The Red Horse. 

The Conquering Antichrist. He will be given the power to conquer by killing people and by causing war, murder and confusion. This time the prophecy reveals him riding on a red horse, indicating blood.

"When He (Christ) opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, "Come and see." And another horse, fiery red went out. And it was granted to the one (the Antichrist) who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword."(Massive weaponry) (Revelation 6:3-4)

Third seal:  

The Black Horse.

Food shortages and starvation for all except the wealthy. The Antichrist will need the assistance of the rich unbelievers to accomplish his goal of conquering the world. In addition, this prophesy reveals that he will be able to “tip the scales” in his favor.

When He (Christ) opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come and see." And I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A quart of wheat for a denarius (a days wages), and 3 quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine." (The wealthy) (Revelation 6:5-6)

Fourth Seal:

The Pale Horse:

Death and Hell. Power will be given to the Antichrist to kill one fourth of the world’s population in the first twenty one months of the tribulation. These will be people whose hearts have been hardened against God to the point where they cannot change. They hate God and that’s it. No amount of reason, discipline, common sense or judgment will change them. God will hand them over to the Antichrist. These unbelievers are the very people who thought the Antichrist was so wonderful in the beginning will be killed by his hand and sent to Hell. This is an illustration to the world that Satan has absolutely no mercy on anyone, not even his own followers.

"When He (Christ) opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, "Come and see." And I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. (unbelievers who will be cast into Hell)  And power was given to them (The Antichrist and other world leaders) over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth." (Revelation 6:7-8)

Fifth Seal: 

Persecution of the Tribulational believers. Many people who do become believers during the tribulation will be killed for their belief. They will not be allowed to buy or sell anything and food will be in short supply by this time. In Heaven, they will urge the Lord to avenge them but He tells them to wait till the end of the seven years, until prophecy is fulfilled.

"When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"

And a white robe was give to each of them; And it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed." (Revelation 6:9-11)

Now remember that each judgment gets worse than the one before, because of God’s magnificent love He is doing everything in his power to get people to turn to Christ. However, God will never force his will upon anyone. The church taught the gospel for two thousand years and men rejected it even though the Lake of Fire has been succinctly described in the scriptures. God created the Lake of Fire for Satan and his demons originally. He knows how horrible it will be for individuals and he is doing everything possible to get unbelievers to accept the sacrifice of Christ. Many will still resist God, even after they see these things happening, so God still has sixteen judgments to go.

Sixth Seal:                      

God will cause great destruction of the earth. God will indicate his wrath by turning the sun black, the moon will turn blood red (indicating that he will avenge his people) and meteors will bombard the earth. All men of the Earth will tremble in fear from this judgment of vengeance. Yet unbelievers in their arrogance will still resist Christ even though they know he is the one who is passing judgment. As for those who have already taken the mark of the beast, and pledged allegiance to him, they know they will go to hell because they will know by now that God is real and His Word is true so Christ is giving them a taste of Hell on Earth. God is not causing these things to happen to men for no reason, but rather he is going to extreme lengths in an effort to have them change their minds about Christ. There is an old saying that “You can’t save a fool from himself.” However, in the end, God will have done everything possible to save people from the Lake of Fire but He will never impose His will upon the free will of man.

This tribulation period will be the epitome in the battle between good and evil. Such is the deception of Satan that, in the face of truth and reality, many men still reject Christ. Is it any wonder that the Bible says that “they will be without excuse” (Romans 1:20)

"I looked when He opened the sixth seal and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. And the stars of heaven (falling stars or meteors) fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind.

Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave, and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountain and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?" (Revelation 6:12-17)

When the Sun is darkened it will very likely become extremely cold on the entire Earth,

Seventh Seal:

There will be silence in Heaven for half an hour. This is the calm before the storm. God is about to unleash the Seven Trumpet Judgments which will be so horrifying that all of Heaven sits in utter silence.

"When He opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. And I saw seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets. Then another angel, having a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. And he was given much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel’s hand. Then the angel took the censer, (a container of incense) filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it to the earth. And there were noises, thunderings, lightnings, and an earthquake. So the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound." (Revelation 8:1-6)

The First Trumpet Judgment

"The first angel sounded: And hail and fire followed, mingled with blood, and they were thrown to the earth; and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up." (Revelation 8:7)

Hail and Fire will bombard the Earth to such a point that one third of the trees and ALL of the green grass will burn up. This means that there will be a sever food shortage and with so much of the plant life burned up it will be very difficult to breath. Plant life produces oxygen so there will be an overabundance of carbon dioxide, expelled from people and animals, (which will become toxic) and a shortage of oxygen. In addition, the great fires will have burned up even more oxygen. God is putting nature out of balance in this and other judgments. Those who survived the Seal Judgments will be made totally miserable. This is how God will wipe the smirks off of the faces of the arrogant in an attempt to get them to humble themselves before Him.

“… and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease,” Isaiah 13:11

The Second Trumpet Judgment

“And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.." (Revelation 8:8-9)

A massive pile of something will be thrown into the oceans and turn it as red as blood and killed one third of the fish and other ocean creatures. I think it is interesting that this judgment follows the plant life being burned up. People who rush to the sea in a panic to  fish for food will find that the ships are sunk and the oceans had been poisoned.

The Third Trumpet Judgment

"Then the third angel sounded: And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of the water; and the name of the star is Wormwood; and a third of the waters became wormwood; and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter." (Revelation 8:10-11)

A huge meteor will crash to the Earth and cause one third of the rivers and springs to become poisoned. Now those folks who were trying to fish in the ocean will head to the rivers and find them poisoned as well. Evidently, people tried to drink from the rivers and died from the water. Money will be no good, most communications will be cut off and governments will be in chaos. There will be one judgment after the next during the tribulation. All of man’s attempts to run away from God will be in vain. At some point every man will have to make a decision for or against God and time will be very short.  The 144,000 Jews will be preaching all over the world at this time so everyone will be aware of what is happening on the Earth.

The Fourth Trumpet Judgment

 "Then the fourth angel sounded: And a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them was darkened; and a third of the day did not shine, and likewise the night.

And I looked, and I heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, "Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!" (Revelation 8:12-13)

A third of the moon and a third of the stars will be darkened and give no light to the earth. Here is man’s situation; He has been frozen, burned, killed, starved, made extremely sick, can hardly breathe and then suddenly an Angel flies by in the darkness and says loudly “Watch out for the next three judgments you miserable, stubborn people because you haven’t seen anything yet!

The Fifth Trumpet Judgment

"Then the fifth angel sounded: and I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. And to him was given the key to the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit.

Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. They were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. And they were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for 5 months.

And their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

And the shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads were crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men. They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle. They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails.

And their power was to hurt men 5 months. And they had a king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon.

One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after these things." (Revelation 9:1-12)

Obviously, these will not be ordinary locusts. They will have sharp teeth. They will be hard to kill (breastplates of iron) and they will have a scorpion like poisonous tail. Everyone, except the twelve tribes of Israel which have the seal of God, will be stung, become sick and live in fear of these things for five months.

The Sixth Trumpet Judgment

“And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.” (Revelation 9:13-21)

The four angels are demons which are bound on the Euphrates River. When they are loosed hey will release 200 million demons to kill off one third of the world’s population. Don’t confuse this with China. This will occur before the battle of Armageddon at which time China will have a 200 million man army. These people will see one third of the world’s population killed and yet continue in their sin. They will not turn to God. God is allowing the killing those who have a hardened heart against Jesus Christ and those he knows will never believe. Even though nearly sixty percent of the earth’s population will have been killed before their eyes to this point in these judgments, the majority of people who are left will still not accept Christ. This attitude reflects just how powerful the deceit of Satan is and how these people love their sin more than God. The idols of brass, gold etc that this speaks of are the false god’s that people will turn to in hopes of being saved from the wrath of the True God. Ironically, their idol worship and their Satan worship are the very things that caused the wrath of God to fall upon them in the first place. These people will be “religious” totally depending upon their religion, their idols and their traditions for salvation.

“Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.” (Exodus 20:3-6)

The Seventh Trumpet Judgment

“And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.

And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.” (Revelation 11:15-19)

By this time most homes and buildings will be destroyed because of so many earthquakes, comets, fires and “great hail.” The food supply will be very limited and people will be starving, sick and dead. Families will be separated and people will be miserable. God could very easily kill everyone and send them all to Hell. However, because of his grace he is giving people a chance to accept his Son and His plan of Salvation. As bad as these judgments will be, the Lake of Fire will be far worse and it will never end.

The First Bowl Judgment

“And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.” (Revelation 16:1-2)

Anyone who takes the mark of the beast can never be saved. So, is God trying to get these people to repent? No, the Bowl judgments mean a “pouring out” of God’s vengeance upon these people for taking the lives of Christians and swearing allegiance to Satan. A large sore boil will come upon them which will not go away. The people who become believers during the tribulation will not be affected. I imagine that they will get some pleasure out of seeing God’s vengeance upon their persecutors.  God has a way of getting even.

The Second Bowl Judgment

“And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.” (Revelation 16:3)

The Third Bowl Judgment

And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments. (Revelation 16:4-7)

There will be nothing to drink on the Earth except blood.

The Fourth Bowl Judgment

And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. (Revelation 16:8-9)

Now men will be tortured with scorching heat but still will not change their minds about Christ.

The Fifth Bowl Judgments

“And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.” Revelation 16:10-11)

These people, like so many today, blamed God for their misery while they lived in their sin. They did not understand that God does not tolerate sin under any circumstances because He is righteous and will never accept man in his sinful condition. God is also immutable and will never change no matter how great the pain. His judgment upon these people is righteous and it will be in total darkness.

“And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” (John 3:19)

Only by faith in Christ on the cross can man be made righteous. If these people never accept God’s plan of salvation their condition will only worsen, not only while they are on Earth but for all of eternity. They are receiving their just due for killing and persecuting Christians.

The Sixth Bowl Judgments

“And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.” (Revelation 16:12-14)

The Euphrates River will dry up so that the kings of the East (Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and China) can cross it near the Tigress River just North of the Persian Gulf.  They will join the king of the North, king of the West and king of the South in the march to Israel and the battle of Armageddon. This battle will be demonically organized in an effort to wipe the Jews from the face of the Earth.

The Seventh Bowl Judgment

“And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.” (Revelation 16:17-21)

This is a worldwide earthquake so great that all of the cities of the Earth and the mountains were leveled. The city of Jerusalem will be divided into three parts by this earthquake.  There was great hail the weight of a talent. (A Hebrew talent was about 57 to 70 lbs). God says “it is done” indicating that his judgment of the sinner is complete on the Earth just as Jesus said “it is finished” indicating that The Fathers judgment of sin was completed upon the cross. This last judgment sets the stage for the Battle of Armageddon near the end of the tribulation. 

“Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.”

“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31)

"Now I will avow, that I then believe, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity, are as eternal and immutable, as the existence and attributes of God; and that those principles of liberty, are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system."– John Adams”

It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." — Patrick Henry

No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life."– Albert Einstein

"In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle have observed frequent instances of superintending Providence in our favor…. And have we now forgotten this powerful Friend? Or, do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing I see of this truth: "that God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his Aid?— We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel; we shall be divided by our little, partial local interests; our projects will be confounded; and we shall become a reproach and a byword to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war, or conquest.

I therefore beg to move that, henceforth, prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven and it’s blessing on our deliberation be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business."– Benjamin Franklin

"In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed….No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people."

"God’s Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct …The Bible was America’s basic text book in all fields… Education is useless without the Bible."–Noah Webster (The father of public education in America)

"Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary…"If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be; If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy, If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will; If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end."—Daniel Webester

"The thing that separates the American Christian from every other person on earth is the fact that he would rather die on his feet, than live on his knees!"–George Washington

"If you ask an American, who is his master? He will tell you he has none, nor any governor but Jesus Christ." Jonathan Trumbull

"The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but the God of Israel is He that giveth strength and power unto His people. Trust in Him at all times, ye people, pour out your hearts before him; God is a refuge for us.

"A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men? Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is undermining the very bonds of Society?….The Scriptures tell us "righteousness exalteth a Nation." — Abigail Adams

"I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.

"A virtuous citizen will regard his own country as a wife, to whom he is bound to be exclusively faithful and affectionate; and he will watch…every propensity of his heart to wander towards a foreign country, which he will regard as a mistress that may pervert his fidelity." Alexander Hamilton

"RESOLVED, That it be, and hereby is recommended to the good People of this Colony of all Denominations, that THURSDAY the Eleventh Day of May next be set apart as a Day of Public Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer…to confess the sins…to implore the Forgiveness of all our Transgression…and a blessing on the Husbandry, Manufactures, and other lawful Employments of this People; and especially that the union of the American Colonies in Defense of their Rights (for hitherto we desire to thank Almighty GOD) may be preserved and confirmed….And that AMERICA may soon behold a gracious Interposition of Heaven." By Order of the [Massachusetts] Provincial Congress, John Hancock, President.

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!…It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."

"The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed."

"It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains."

"The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun."

"This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed."– Patrick Henry

"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers…"Unto Him who is the author and giver of all good, I render sincere and humble thanks for His merciful and unmerited blessings, and especially for our redemption and salvation by his beloved Son."–John Jay (America’s first Supreme Court Chief Justice and Co-Author of the Federalist Papers)

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever."

"To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines in preference to all others…"

"I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught but I hold in the most profound detestation and execration the corruptions of it which have been invented…"

"A more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen; it is a document in proof that I am a real Christian; that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus."

"I have always said, I always will say, that the studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands."

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be…No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government…The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." –Thomas Jefferson

"The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness, a lantern to his feet and a lamp unto his paths.’ He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation…." — Francis Scott Key

"There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation."

"…it is indispensable that some provision should be made for defending the Community agst (against) the incapacity, negligence or perfidy of the chief Magistrate."

"Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ."

"We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." James Madison (Architect of the U.S. Constitution & Co-Author of the Federalist Papers)

"What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; ’tis dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Where, some say, is the king of America? I’ll tell you, friend, He reigns above.

"The Almighty implanted in us these inextinguishable feelings for good and wise purposes. They are the guardians of His image in our heart. They distinguish us from the herd of common animals."

"I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God."—Thomas Paine

"If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him….Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." William Penn (Founder of Pennsylvania)

"Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a "halter" intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men." Josiah Quincy

"By removing the Bible from schools we would be wasting so much time and money in punishing criminals and so little pains to prevent crime. Take the Bible out of our schools and there would be an explosion in crime."

"I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat." Benjamin Rush

By: Jack Heckathorne Author of the book "Separation of Church and God, The Final Judgment"

The Rapture

The word “Rapture” is not found in the Bible. It is taken from the Latin word “Repair” which means to “snatch up.”  It has become a common term in theology to describe the event outlined in

1 Thessalonians 4:14-18. The Greek phrase Ex-Anastasis, though less common, is more accurate meaning, exit resurrection.

"For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus (believers who have previously died) will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord (the rapture) shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words."

 (1 Thessalonians 4:14-18)

The Bible speaks of Christ returning three times, once as the suffering Messiah, once in the clouds at the rapture, and once returning as a King to put down evil and establish his Kingdom on Earth for a thousand years.

Two things must happen in order for the Antichrist and the one world government to function unencumbered; the removal of the Church, i.e. believers at the rapture along with their resistance to the one world government, and the removal of the restraining ministry of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit “indwells” (lives in) every Christian, so the Christians must be removed as well. This will trigger the tribulation period.

Dispensations.

Many people are confused about the timing of the removal of believers from the earth. In order to understand if it comes before, during or after the tribulation it is essential to know something about the theological “dispensations” (time periods) of the world’s history and how God deals with mankind in them.

There are 7 major dispensations. I have illustrated them in chronological order. God never changes but the way he deals with mankind changes in each dispensation.

ßEternity past

1. The Age of Innocence. Creation/Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

2. Age of Gentiles-Continued until the flood. Judgment of unbelievers.

3. Age of Israel-The history of Israel and God’s dealings the Jews.

4. Hypostatic Union-Jesus time on earth. The Cross

5. The Church Age- Interrupted the Age of Israel. Advent of the Holy Spirit.

6. The Tribulation- Final seven years of the Age of Israel. Removal of the Holy Spirit. Judgment of unbelievers. “Seven days of Years”

7. The Millennium-Gods kingdom on earth for 1000 years.

Eternity future –>

The dispensations do not overlap. The church age and the age of Israel cannot exist at the same time. At the end of every dispensation there is always a major event. At the end of Innocence, it was the fall from Eden, at the end the Gentiles, there was the flood, at the end of Israel, there was first coming of Jesus Christ to the earth. At the end of the Church age, it will be the return of Jesus Christ in the clouds (the rapture) and at the end of the Tribulation, it will be the return of Jesus Christ to the Earth on the Mount of Olives as a conquering king. At the end of the Millennium the Earth will be destroyed by fire and finally the Great White Throne Judgment of all unbelievers.

We will start with the dispensation of Israel. It continued up until the time of Christ.

There were seven years left in this time period for the Jews, as God’s chosen people, to initiate the preaching the gospel around the world before the church existed. The problem is that the Jews rejected Jesus as the Messiah. Someone had to preach the gospel. Therefore, God interrupted the age of Israel and intercalated the Church age in which we now live. The great tribulation will be the last seven years of the dispensation of Israel which will occur after the church age. During these seven years the Jews will finally be convinced that Jesus is the true Messiah and will go forth with one hundred and forty four thousand witnesses in the face of the Antichrist.

Indwelling Holy Spirit

During the entire Old Testament, which includes the age of Israel, there was no indwelling of the Holy Spirit. That is, the Holy Spirit did not live in the believer as he does in the church age today. [John 14:17, Jn 15:26, Jn 16:13] The Holy Spirit did not come until Jesus ascended into Heaven after His resurrection, which began the Church age. During the final seven years of Israel the Holy Spirit will be removed in order to fulfill the age of Israel just as it was before, without the indwelling Holy Spirit. This will require the removal of the church which consists of all believers. When Christ returns seven years later, after the tribulation, the entire church returns with him because the age of Israel will have been completed.

“And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war…And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean…And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God…And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. (Revelation 19:11,14,15,16)

So, since the Jews refused Jesus, God instituted the gentile church as a substitute for Israel to preach the gospel. He also chose a substitute nation (client nation) to be predominant in preaching the gospel. Many countries have been client nations. For example, in the 350 AD Ethiopia was the client nation for Christianity and very prosperous until the wars with Satan’s religion of Islam came along a couple of centuries later. Satan deceived them and eventually, they fell away from Christ. Various nations have been a substitute for Israel ever since. Currently, the United States is the client nation but, for the same reason, it is rapidly turning from God.

When the church has served its purpose-when the last person accepts Christ-the Church age will be over and it will be removed.  There will be a seven year peace deal between the Antichrist, the Palestinians and Israel which will mark the beginning of the final seven years of the age of Israel. Shortly after, or possibly immediately after, this event happens the rapture will happen. This peace deal will also allow Israel three and one half years to rebuild the temple. After 31/2 years the antichrist will be killed by someone and come back to life (mocking the resurrection of Christ) and then go to the Holy of Holies in the Temple and claim to be the Messiah.

 Is The Rapture after the Tribulation?

Obviously not, but this is something Satan wants Christians and non-Christians to believe for two reasons: He wants Christians to think that God will not deliver them from his wrath and to lull unbelievers into having a “wait and see” attitude concerning the acceptance of Christ so that he will have a much stronger hold on them during the tribulation.

We will receive our resurrected body at the Rapture. When Christ returns to the Earth at the end of the tribulation, with the saints to rule and reign for a thousand years, we will come with him to the Earth and already have our resurrected body. In addition, if this post-tribulation idea were true it would contradict the Bible when it says in 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18, that we will receive our resurrected body when we meet him in the clouds. In fact, it would preclude this event altogether.

The Seals

God will use a seal to protect the one hundred forty four thousand Jewish witnesses who become believers at the beginning of the tribulation.

“And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.” (Rev 7:4)

Everyone else on the Earth is an unbeliever. They will be stung by “locusts” of some sort which will be released from the bottomless pit prior to the time Satan is cast into it.

“And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star (angel) fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.” (Revelation 9:1-6)

What do we notice here? There are only two groups of people, the Jewish witnesses, who are sealed, and the unbelievers which do not have the seal of God. There are no Christians other than the 144,000 Jews. The church is gone. The Jews of Israel have changed their minds (repented) about Jesus as the Messiah and the 144,000 are preaching, so the church would not be necessary during the tribulation. Therefore, the Rapture must happen prior to the last seven years of Israel.

Evaluation Judgment of Believers

While the tribulation is happening on Earth, the believers, which have been previously raptured and have received a resurrected body, will be in Heaven being evaluated for their works which they did while they were on Earth. This is God’s judgment of the believer’s works and it will take place in Heaven.

“Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day (of Judgment) shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.”  (1 Corinthians 3:13-15)

. At the “Evaluation Judgment of believers” some will be called “great” and some will be called “the least.” We will be ranked similar to a military ranking, because we will rule and reign with Jesus on earth, in our indestructible resurrected spiritual bodies during the final one thousand year period of world history known as the millennium.

Some of you may be placed in charge of highly important things or personal assistant to the King and some of you may be dog catchers. Jesus will not have any important tasks for ignorant Christians, who have spent their life entertaining themselves and ignored his word, in his kingdom on earth.

“Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so,( dead works) he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them,  (good works) the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:19)

Christians, which make up a large percentage of the world’s population today, will be removed at the rapture and another one third of what is left will be killed in the battle of Armageddon and other battles. In addition, many will be killed because of Gods wrath being poured out in the form of his seven judgments upon the earth (possibly one per year.) This will leave the world sparsely populated at the end of the tribulation

The final three and one half years of the tribulation will be marked with war against Israel and God’s judgment upon mankind until Christ returns with all the believers in their resurrected bodies to rule and reign with him for a thousand years in God’s kingdom on Earth. We are preparing for our assignments now and with our knowledge and indestructible body we will have full power to carry out our assignments from our King, The Lord Jesus Christ.

The Holy Spirit has controlled history through Christians in the past to keep evil from becoming rampant in order that the Gospel could be taught and to fulfill prophecy, but once it is removed at the rapture Satan will have full control of the world, until his man, the antichrist and his armies of evil men, are destroyed seven years later by Jesus Christ himself. During this horrible tribulation period every being in the universe will be observing. They will see exactly what Satan would be like if he were a god. All love, knowledge, truth, happiness, power, life, wisdom, justice, creative ability, and righteousness originate from the true God and neither Satan, the angels or any human is capable of providing these things. Therefore, Satan is not qualified in any way to be a god. God has always known this and so will every other creature in existence at the end of the tribulation. Christ returns at the end of the tribulation to destroy the evil works of Satan.

Prior to the creation of man, God’s character was impugned by Satan and his fallen angels.  Satan had declared himself to be a god when he said “I will be like the most high” God knew that Satan could not be God and would not allow this disruption in his perfect Kingdom of Heaven. Therefore, Satan and the demons were judged, sentenced and cast out of Heaven and onto the Earth in order to resolve this conflict. He has appealed his case and is awaiting his condemnation. Earth’s history will vindicate God’s character of condemning Satan and his followers (men and angels) to the Lake of Fire.

The goal of Satan has always been to destroy the Jews in order to prevent the return of Christ, thereby negating God’s promise to the Jews that he would preserve them to the end. Since powerful client nations (such as the United States) have stood beside Israel throughout history, he has tried to destroy them in order to get at the Jews. This is his attempt to show God to be a liar and therefore imperfect and thereby justifying his own claim to be a god. The tribulation period will be his final chance and he will be extremely desperate because he knows what the Lake of Fire will be like far better than any of us. His attempt will fail and those who march against the Jews will be destroyed. Satan will be bound and cast into a bottomless pit for one thousand years.

Satan will have had his time to show what he would be like as a god and accomplished nothing but sending people to Hell and in the process destroyed the world. Now Jesus will demonstrate what the real God is like with his millions of righteous believers in his Kingdom on earth. We can look forward to one thousand years of world peace and a time of unparalleled happiness during the Millennium. There will no longer be nations or politicians. Jesus Christ will be the Perfect King and the righteous believers will carry out his instructions.

“And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms (nations), and it shall stand for ever.” (Daniel 2:44)

“And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms (nations) of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou should give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear(trust) thy name, small and great; and should destroy them which destroy the earth.” Revelation 11:15-18

If you should be unfortunate enough to find yourself living in the tribulation whatever you do, DO NOT TAKE THE MARK OF THE BEAST OR PLEDGE ALLIGENCE TO HIM OR WORSHIP HIS IMAGE. Remember, there will be no restraining ministry of the Holy Spirit during that time and Satan will rule the entire world. He will not want Christians around preaching the true gospel so, many tribulational believers will be killed and go to Heaven, but that is much better than the alternative of living more comfortably for those seven years and spending eternity in the Lake of Fire. Better yet, believe on the one who took the punishment of death upon himself so that he can save you right now and avoid the tribulation altogether.

God declares that we must be "made righteous" to live with him forever. Your religion will not save you, your good deeds will not save you, your denomination will not save you, nor will your unbelief change reality. Only through Christ will you receive a pardon from sin.

“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour” (Titus 3:5-6)

"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14:6)

“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12)

What are we saved from? We are saved from the wrath to come, on Earth and the Lake of Fire.

We, as believing Christians, need not worry about having to live through the tribulation. Although many of us may suffer some persecution, by Godless men, until the Rapture occurs, we will not have to endure the full brunt of Satan’s evil schemes or the wrath of God’s judgments during the Tribulation.  If you are now saved you could not be unsaved by taking the mark of the beast. You have already made your decision. Only unbelievers will enter the tribulation. To Church age believers we have a promise from the Lord himself.

All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise (under no circumstances) cast out. (John 6:37)

God will deliver us from the wrath of the tribulation as he has delivered so many of his children in the past.

“The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me. He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me. He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man. Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.” (Psalms 18: 2, 17, 19, 43, 48, 50)

The prophet Isaiah wrote about Christ’s Earthly Kingdom.

“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice (snakes) den.

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign (an emblem or sign that indicates authority or command) of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.” (Isaiah 11: 6-10)

The Apostle Paul instructs Church age believers;

“And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.” (1 Thessalonians 1:10)

Jesus delivered us from the wrath of Hell at his first coming. Paul is speaking about all of the wrath to come, including the tribulation. He will deliver us from wrath at his second coming. God will never declare his wrath upon his own children.

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness…For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. (Isaiah 41:10, 13)

Yom Kippur- Ark of the Covenant   

The Jews celebrate a day called “Yom Kippur” or as we call it “The Day of Atonement.” The blood of animals would be shed in a ritual as a picture of the blood of Christ being shed for the sins all of mankind. It points to a literal day during the tribulation as the last opportunity for salvation. Then will come the wrath of God upon the unbelieving wicked.

“The place where the blood was put was symbolic, as was the whole ritual.  It was called the mercy seat. Being on the lid of the ark, (of the covenant) the mercy seat was between the stone tablets of the law of Moses (within the ark) and the space between the outstretched wings of the cherubim over the ark (symbolizing the place of God’s dwelling).

Without the blood the ark with its law and cherubim paints a terrible picture. There is the law, which we have broken. There is God, whom we have offended. Moreover, as God looks down, it is the law broken by us that he sees. It is a picture of judgment, of our hopelessness apart from grace. But then the sacrifice is performed, and the high priest enters the Holy of Holies and places the blood of the innocent victim upon the mercy seat, which thus comes between God in his holiness and ourselves and our sin. There has been substitution. An innocent has died in the place of those who should have died, and the blood is proof. Wrath is averted. Now, God looks in grace upon the sinner.” [James Boice, Foundations p. 224]

“But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you”… (1 Peter 1:19-20)

A covenant is a solemn agreement. The Lord Jesus Christ has done his part in providing salvation by the shedding of his blood for all sin on the cross. Have you done your part?

 “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” (Romans 10:9) ~

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By: Jack Heckathorne       

Author of the book “Separation of Church and God, The Final Judgment”

“One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are—as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation.”

[George Wald, Evolutionist and former professor of biology at Harvard University “The Origin of Life,” in ‘The Physics and Chemistry of Life’ (Simon & Schuster, 1955), p. 9]

“But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, with men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.” (Matthew 19:26)

If you believe in your mind that there is no God, there is no right and wrong, there is no creator, no absolute truth, no moral authority in this universe, then you must believe that “nothing” turns into chemicals, and chemicals turn into plants, animals and people, with no power, intelligence, purpose or design, leaving no evidence, and all it takes is time.

You must believe that there was no guiding intelligence which wrote the DNA code or assembled these chemicals, and that a single cell, with its trillion parts arranged in a precise order, and its ability to reproduce itself, just happened one day, and that life created its own self. You must believe that you, your children, your pets, the food you eat, and everything that you can see and comprehend, are the result of trillions upon trillions of random accidents, over billion upon billion of years. You must believe that blind random chance, given enough time, created a perfectly ordered universe. You must believe that everything was either created from nothing by a supreme intelligence, or that everything arose by nothing and from nothing, and that life is nothing but a combination of chemicals and there is no such thing as morality, a human soul or conscience and that mankind is just another animal. And you must believe this in spite of the fact that there is not one iota of real scientific proof to support your belief. There is simply no other choice. The Bible declares, however, that all life was created by God in “kinds.”

Creation in Kinds

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth and the earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” (Genesis 1:1, 2)

“And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.”

(Genesis 1:9-10)

“And the Earth brought forth grass and herb yielding seed after his kind, and tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:12)

“And God created great whales, after their kind, and every living creature that moveth after his kind, which the waters brought fourth abundantly after their kind: and every winged fowl after his kind and God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:21)

“And God made the beast of the earth after his kind and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.” (Genesis 1:15)

Evolutionists claim that animals, plants and humans evolved gradually over millions of years and that certain features, such as the eye, evolved as time went along. Is this real science or an imaginary story? First of all, science has never proven, scientifically, that humans, or anything else, evolve from one kind of organism to another kind. One of the best examples of evolution in the school text books, is the fact that insects become resistant to pesticides. They tell students that this is how we can see evolution happening today. This isn’t evolution at all. The fact that they throw in the word “evolve” means nothing. It only amounts to resistance, not the changing of one animal into another, higher form. If an insect could become resistant to every pesticide in existence, it would still be the same insect. A bug starts out as a bug, and ends up as the same bug, no matter what you squirt on him.

The same thing is true of the AIDS virus. Evolutionists say that it “evolves” to form another resistant virus, which is impervious to the AIDS medication. It does not evolve, it becomes resistant. It is still a virus. It does not become a higher being; it simply puts up a new defense. All life forms change from generation to generation, and so does a virus. There is a limit to the amount of change. The virus is just smarter than the people who make the vaccine. It will never become a duck or a buffalo. Ultimately, evolution is the changing of one animal into another higher animal, and this has never been observed in nature.

Nor has anyone proven that life came from non living matter, i.e. spontaneous generation. Claiming that it happened and proving that it happened are two totally different things. If it is a fact, as some claim, then they should have the step by step proof to demonstrate how a rock became a living organism. Step by step speculation is not proof, nor is it science, so until evolution overcomes this huge obstacle its supporters cannot declare it to be a fact. Because it is not provable, evolution stops before it starts.

Evolutionists start out with a belief that things evolve, based on no evidence, and then try desperately to find something in nature to prove their point. In other words, their thinking is “there just can’t be a God-so we must have evolved-so let’s figure out how things evolve.” They can’t find any real evidence in nature to support their idea, so oftentimes they intentionally misinterpret their evidence to make their ideas seem more tenable, but usually end up scratching their head, and making weird statements. Read the first paragraph in this chapter again, and realize that this came from a very intelligent and honest man who was the leading evolutionist of his time, but just could not believe in an intelligent creator. What else could he say? This type of mentality stems from spiritual blindness.

The idea that life evolves from non-life has been around for a long time.

Francisco Redi

In the 1600’s “science” believed that maggots and flies were generated from rotting meat and garbage. Redi performed a simple scientific experiment in 1668 which proved beyond any doubt that flies breed in garbage, but do not arise from it. The idea of maggots from meat was dismissed, but the hope of spontaneous generation lived on. Later tests were conducted by John Needham in 1745, in an attempt to prove spontaneous generation. His chicken broth experiment seemed to be successful, and he claimed victory. People started developing the belief that there was no God. It wasn’t until a brilliant young chemist came along, and performed an experiment, which disproved Needham’s experiment and spontaneous generation once and for all.

Louis Pasture

Pasture believed that life only comes from life. The topic of spontaneous generation was so widespread and debated by this time, that in 1859 the French Academy of Sciences held a contest among leading scientists in an effort to finally prove, or disprove, the claims of spontaneous generation. Pasteur performed an experiment, based on Needham’s chicken broth experiment, proving that he was in error, and that the spontaneous generation of life was a false claim. It was so convincing that he won the contest, and spontaneous generation was considered to be a dead issue. Scientists to this day cannot disprove Pasteur’s experiment. Nevertheless, the idea that life spontaneously generates, lives on.

First, science thought that life came from garbage, and then they thought that it came from chicken broth, and finally today, in this modern age of intelligence, scientists declare (with a straight face) that intelligent life came from rocks. Please understand that they have to believe this for two reasons. For one thing, there is nothing else left from which life could have been spontaneously generated. Either life came from something living, or it came from lifeless chemicals. Secondly, without spontaneous generation, evolution has no starting point, and so this infers that the creation of life must have originated from a supernatural means i.e. a living God. Evolutionists cannot accept this because they are committed to materialism and in addition, are unable to understand the spiritual things of God, as we will see shortly.

Creation

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon

the earth.

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. (food) And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” (Genesis 1:27-31)

So, nowadays we are an enlightened people, no longer believing that life spontaneously comes from rotting meat or moldy chicken broth right? Wrong! As I said previously, evolutionists have now declared that life came from a rock, which became a soup, and the soup was struck by lightning, or something, and caused molecules to conveniently get together and create a life forms of a trillion parts, called cells, instantly complete with DNA and the ability to reproduce themselves. Then, they tell us, that these cells formed fungus, bacteria and fish. Then after millions of years fish grew feet, for some reason, and climbed out of the water and became animals. Then the animals decided to lose their tail, stand up and become man. Now, many believe, that man is evolving into gods.

Physical Things

Everything is physical to the evolutionists because of his inability to understand spiritual things of God. All unbelievers have a dead human spirit which perceives spiritual things. He rules out a creator from the beginning because he considers it foolishness, but often ends up looking foolish himself because, without God, impossible things, such as spontaneous generation, cannot happen or be explained. The Bible teaches that biological life did, in fact, come from non-life. Man was fashioned by God from the dust of the ground. “God breathed” the soul and spirit into the dust, and it animated man. However,

this is not spontaneous generation. It would be best described as divine generation or simply, creation. Life came from the living God, not random chemicals. Human, animal and plant life came from God who is the source of life. Pasture was right-life only comes from life. Man is much more than a combination of chemicals.

God rested his creative acts on the seventh day (Genesis 2:2) and this is why we cannot see anything new coming into existence today.

“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested (stopped) on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” (Genesis 2:1-3)

Whatever we believe, it must be by faith. We cannot see God via any scientific means nor can we know of our own beginnings through science. The beginning cannot be observed or tested therefore; it is outside the realm of science. To make things even worse for evolutionists and atheists they cannot understand anything about God with their own intellect. For one thing, they aren’t looking for it and another thing is, like all unbelievers, they are spiritually dead.

“But the natural man (the unbeliever) receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: (the Holy Spirit) for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them because they

are spiritually discerned.” (1 Corinthians 2:14)

Even when we (believers) were (spiritually) dead in sins, hath (God) quickened (made alive) us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) (Eph. 2:5)

God did not just create one cell, he created all of the cells at once to work together and form complete living organisms, and he put them in kinds so that they could reproduce and give us the varieties of plants, animals and people that we find all around us today. Life would be quite monotonous if we all looked the same, if all food were the same, and all plants looked alike? The millions of life forms that we see around us are so common

that we often take them for granted. Because of advancements in science, we now know that all life forms come from information contained in DNA, which is a set of instructions on how to build a living organism to put it simply.

Think of DNA as a computer software program and the body as the computer hardware. Once the program is put into the computer it will do whatever it was designed to do, and nothing else. The soul and spirit of man are the thinking apparatus for the body. The soul comprehends physical things and the spirit comprehends spiritual things of God.

However, a computer needs more than hardware and software. It must have had a creator and must have an operator, just as a person must have a creator (God) and operator (the soul and spirit).  The soul contains our free will and the spirit is our connection with God and this makes us complete so that we can understand physical things of the world and the spiritual things of God.

The reason that plants, sea creatures and land animals still exist in “kinds” is because they contain DNA which will only allow them to reproduce within their family or kind. In addition, animals have a built in instinct to only reproduce with their own kind. Any cowboy can tell you that if you put a male and female horse in a pen with fifty cows, the male horse will find the female horse every time. Horses aren’t stupid. If you are a man, suppose you were in a zoo with all the different animals and a tall, gorgeous, long legged brunette gal walked by and winked at you. Which would capture your attention, her or the monkeys?

If you tried to artificially cross a horse and a cow the offspring, if it even lived, would always be sterile. A horse and a donkey are closely related, and when mated produce a mule. Mules are always sterile, and would not survive as a separate animal.

Man has to intervene to produce a mule. So, in the wild a mule or any other kind of manipulated breeding could not reproduce and eventually turn into another kind of animal, as evolution requires. They would simply die and produce no off spring, and the kind would be preserved. DNA will build whatever organism it was designed to build.

Dogs are always dogs, roses are roses, and people are people. There are different types of each of course, and they can breed within the kind. For example, you can breed a greyhound and a collie, and get a dog with features of both. If you breed a long haired dog and a short haired dog you will get a dog with medium length hair. This is a loss of information because the offspring here has lost the ability to have long hair. You have to have more information to get a higher animal. What you will never get is a cat or a horse. Why? Because the dog’s DNA has no instructions on building a horse or a cat.

Any breeding will result in a loss of information from the original animal even though you may get the desired animal. Horses are often bred to be lighter for racing. They may be faster because of their smaller size, but they lost the ability to work and can no longer pull the plow or wagon as easily as a larger stronger horse.

Mutations

In the case of mutations, the same is true. A mutation might cause a turtle to have an extra head, but it will never cause a turtle to have feathers. Mutations can only produce a mixed up version of the information which already exists. Mutations can not add anything new to DNA because the information is not available to start with.

Evolution theory claims that eventually you will get another kind of animal because of mutations and natural selection. The fact that all living things only exist in kinds today, proves that evolution doesn’t happen. Even extinct animals, such as dinosaurs, existed in kinds. If evolution did happen then all living things would be a mixture of different animals, and there would be no “kinds.”

To top it all off we are told that all animals, and all other life forms, came from a type of rock, which doesn’t exist, in an ammonia atmosphere that never existed. This is the absurdity of evolution, and it is being taught to our school kids as a fact, for the sole purpose of proving that there is no Creator God, and thus no Jesus Christ. Evolution serves no other purpose.

“Christianity has fought, still fights, and will fight science to the desperate end over evolution, because evolution destroys utterly and finally the very reason Jesus’ earthly life was supposedly made necessary. Destroy Adam and Eve and the original sin, and in the rubble you will find the sorry remains of the son of god. Take away the meaning of his death. If Jesus was not the redeemer that died for our sins, and this is what evolution means, then Christianity is nothing.”

[G. Richard Bozarth, The Meaning of Evolution, American Atheist, p. 30, Sept. 20, 1979.]

People who have this attitude toward Jesus would be well advised to invest in a good pair of asbestos underwear, because Jesus Christ will be the judge on judgment day.

Science means “knowledge.” Notice how the writer, matter of factly, calls evolution “science.” Evolution is not science because, unlike true scientific facts, such as gravity, we cannot see it in a lab, observe it happening or prove it to be false or true. I could claim that I was abducted by space aliens and taken to the planet Zoron, nine hundred million light years from earth, and found out that it is made of green cheese. How would anyone be able to prove me wrong? I could make up all sorts of rationalizations of how I got there, but I couldn’t prove scientifically that my story was true, and no one could prove it to be false. If my story was pounded into your head from childhood, all the way through school, and for the rest of your life, by school teachers and people with Ph.D.’s rationalizing it, you would eventually think that there was something to it, even if you had no facts to prove it. My story may be ridiculous, but the story that a man came from a rock with no intelligence involved, is even more ridiculous.

If you hear a lie enough times from people, who you believe are knowledgeable, you will eventually accept it as truth especially if you never hear an opposing view. This is the agenda of evolution. Liars always mix truth with their lies to make their story more believable.

They want you to think that if you don’t believe in evolution that you are not an open-minded, intelligent person. The communists use a technique called indoctrination. They will only allow one side of a story to be told, so that you will have nothing to compare their story with. By the way, communist countries always ban Christianity, and indoctrinate with evolution. Creation scientists, many of whom are former evolutionists, have demonstrated scientifically, that most of things evolutionists rely on as evidence is not accurate and better explained in a creation context. This is why evolutionists fight so hard to keep the teaching of creation out of any public forum and why they mix their philosophy with true science. They furiously fight to keep anything that Christianity teaches out of the public eye.  The battle is over undecided people.

“Creationists are disqualified from making a positive case, because science by definition is based upon naturalism. The rules of science also disqualify any purely negative argumentation designed to dilute the persuasiveness of the theory of evolution. Creationism is thus out of court and out of the classroom-before any consideration of evidence. Put yourself in the place of a creationist who has been silenced by that logic, and you may feel like a criminal defendant who has just been told that the law does not recognize so absurd a concept as "innocence." [Evolution as Dogma: The Establishment of Naturalism  First Things  October 1990]

The Superior Minds

“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools…” (Romans 1:22)

Evolutionists claim that the earth is four and one half billion years old and the universe is some twenty billion years old. One scientist said that he knew what happened in the first one billionth of a second after the big bang explosion. Boy howdy, he must really be a smart guy. Where does he get his information? It’s not information. Unless he was out there in space with a really fast stop watch when it happened, it was not observed and is not science at all, but rather dogmatic speculation. Now they are spending a fortune to to try and find out what happened in the first one trillionth of a second thirteen billion years ago! They would save a lot of money if they would just ask me. I would tell them “not much.” All they are trying to do is get some useless data so they can interpret it to support the big bang theory which, by the way, has lost nearly all of it’s credibility in recent years among many scientists because of so much contradictory evidence. It amounts to assumptions on top of assumptions and is subject only to their interpretation in yet another veiled and futile effort to “prove” the non-existence of a creator God.

Of course, evolutionists use a lot of big meaningless words, so as to make people think they know what they are talking about. They don’t “know” anymore about evolution than you do, because there is no scientific evidence for it, much less proof. What they do know is their own very complicated ideas, and then they try to work their ideas into true science to make evolution seem scientifically credible. Even what they claim to know about the Bible is atrocious. They freely mix fact and fiction to the point that, I don’t believe even they know which is which. Evolution will never be clear in your mind because it is impossible, illogical, non observable, self contradictory, and goes against true science, but why do so many elitists try to find proof of it?

“We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, and in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated justso- stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.”

[Richard Lewontin ‘Billions and billions of demons’, The New York Review, January 9, 1997, p. 31.]

Lewontin says here that materialism is an absolute, but another evolutionist says:

“There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
   [Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, All-too-Human 1930]

I wonder if these guys are absolutely sure about their position. The fact that he says there are no absolutes is an absolute statement itself.  If there are no absolute truths then that would be an absolute truth! Ok, now we are getting somewhere!

In plain language they, the superior minds, have to dream up something without God, and totally natural, i.e. evolution, and present it as a fact to explain to us uneducated morons why there is no God, regardless of fact that they may not believe it themselves. The only thing that I cannot quite figure out about this quote is, who it is that forces them to have an “adherence to material causes” and why they “cannot allow a divine foot in the door.”

Is this just their way of making people not believe in God even though you must believe in the impossible, i.e. spontaneous generation, in order to achieve unbelief? They have actually admitted that creation is true but won’t accept God. If they are not compelled by science to accept a material explanation then who are they forced by? Perhaps by their god who is prodding them with a pitchfork.

“For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent… Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men…But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.” (1 Corinthians 1:19, 25, 27)

Micro, Macro Evolution

Evolutionists call breeding within the kind “micro evolution” which is possible of course, and claim that micro evolution somehow causes “macro evolution” which is the changing of one animal into another animal, either by gradual steps or all at once, depending on who you talk to. This goes against all scientific knowledge, and we certainly do not see it happening today, nor can we see it in the fossil record. Mutations and natural selection is the basis for the idea that features on an organism develop over time. This is flawed thinking to say the least. For instance, how could any organism reproduce and evolve over thousands of generations, before the organs to reproduce evolved?

The ability to reproduce had to be present at the very beginning. This means that the heart, stomach, lungs, nervous system, brain etc. had to exist at the beginning as well in order to support the reproductive system no matter how primitive the organism was or how small its size. Remember, that even the simplest cell that we know about has some trillion parts, which must be arranged in a precise order for it to work. Life is made up of these cells, and they form every part, of every complex system, of every living thing, from information contained within them. It takes a lot more faith to believe that all of this happened by random chance, than to believe that a great intelligence brought this into existence for a reason. Evolutionists talk about simple cells. None have ever been observed, but ok, for the sake of argument, how about half that; five hundred billion parts? As you can see, life has never been simple. If ten thousand of the worlds greatest scientists got together and formed an organization, and had unlimited funding, they wouldn’t have a clue as how to build a single cell. But yet, they believe evolution, which is not an entity, nor intelligence, nor a process and has no substance, or power, did. Evolution is an ambiguous philosophy, not science.

How could an animal with a partial brain or stomach exist? Try to imagine how the eye gradually evolved from a light sensitive patch, and how a partially developed brain, stomach, nervous system etc. could keep an animal alive over millions of years while these things were gradually evolving. No organism can survive without its many vital organs and systems fully developed. That is why they are called “vital” because an organism cannot survive without them fully functioning. In addition, the vital organs cannot exist without the non vital organs. Eyesight is non vital but how could cats, for example, live for millions of years not being able to see his prey?

No part of an airplane will fly on its own. A wheel won’t fly, a propeller won’t fly, a wing won’t fly, and fuel won’t fly. To say that organs evolved as time went along is to say that a plane built itself, while it was flying in the air. It has been said that an airplane is made up of non flying parts. Nothing works unless it all works. The plane won’t fly unless it is completely assembled and everything is working from the beginning. No life form will work unless it is completely assembled and everything is working from the beginning. Creation makes sense, evolution does not. Anyone knows that every airplane was designed and built complete by intelligence, and so why would biological life be any different? You may be thinking, “Well now, I know that people can live without a number of limbs and organs, even with no arms and legs.” You would be correct, but how long would we be around if no one had any arms or legs? The plane can fly without the wheels too, but how would it take off and what happens when it runs out of fuel?

The Cosmic Egg

When you buy into evolution from the standpoint of life, you must buy into the idea that the entire universe evolved since you believe that there is no creator God. Evolution teaches that the entire universe came from an explosion of a so called ‘cosmic egg’. This begs the question “where did the cosmic egg come from?” Of course, evolutionists have postulated several vague ideas, but someone has suggested the perhaps the “cosmic chicken” laid the cosmic egg. You never know, there may be a KFCC restaurant somewhere out there in space.

Quantum Mechanics

There is one thing that we know for sure and that is, there was a beginning. This means that there was a time before the beginning when physical matter and energy did not exist. There is no way that anything can evolve when there is no matter, no energy, no anything. The problem with cosmologists is that they do not know the definition of the word “nothing.”

“What is a big deal—the biggest deal of all—is how you get something out of nothing. Don’t let the cosmologists try to kid you on this one. They have not got a clue either—despite the fact that they are doing a pretty good job of convincing themselves and others that this is really not a problem. ‘In the beginning,’ they will say, ‘there was nothing—no time, space, matter or energy. Then there was a quantum fluctuation from which ’ Whoa! Stop right there. You see what I mean? First there is nothing, then there is something. And the cosmologists try to bridge the two with a quantum flutter, a tremor of uncertainty that sparks it all off. Then they are away and before you know it, they have pulled a hundred billion galaxies out of their quantum hats… You cannot fudge this by appealing to quantum mechanics. Either there is nothing to begin with, in which case there is no quantum vacuum, no pre-geometric dust, no time in which anything can happen, no physical laws that can effect a change from nothingness into somethingness; or there is something, in which case that needs explaining.”

[David Darling, New Scientist, vol. 151 (September 14, 1996). p. 49]

For those of you who may not know, quantum mechanics is the study of matter and energy at the atomic level.

The following words were written long before the concept of evolution or the cosmic egg was dreamed up by man’s imagination.

“For by him (Christ) were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him and for him: And he is (existed) before all things, and by him all things consist.(Colossians 1:16-17)

We often hear the phrase “evolutionary process” on television programs, or see it in books. However, it is an oxymoron. The term is used for effect only and it is not a real process. “Evolution” implies random chance events with no guiding force, power or intelligence behind it. “Process” implies a well thought out system in which every phase of it works to achieve a predetermined goal. You can’t get a can of beans without intelligence, and we were designed and built in the beginning by an intelligence far greater than our own.

Bible Thumping Monkey Thumpers

Today many churches are accepting and even teaching evolution. They do this partially out of ignorance, but primarily to draw in evolutionary minded people to the church. It is commonly called the numbers game. They recognize that evolution cannot explain the origin of all things, but are not willing to give up on evolution itself. They then have to come up with more barnyard theories about how God made evolution happen – bla, bla, bla – and thereby twisting or ignoring the Bible as all religions do. This is pseudo-science, and amounts to nothing more than someone’s wild guess. These guys believe the Bible is true, but not literal. The Bible however, tells us that the first man (Adam) was alone on the earth, and that God created a woman (Eve) for him, from his rib.

“And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him… And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.” (Genesis 2:18, 21, 22)

If the man was alone, and the first woman did not exist, but came along later, as the Bible teaches, how could people be a result of evolution? Things get even more impossible when they try to stretch the days of creation out into long ages, rather than twenty four hour solar days. Did one man evolve all alone for millions of years before the woman evolved? So, why isn’t the man millions of years more evolved than the woman?

Some of these types of churches say that science and the Bible do not disagree. This is true if we are talking about true, testable, observable science, but they are lumping true science and evolution together, as if they were the same thing. We are being hoodwinked. There is only one truth in this world, and the rest of the world is smoke and mirrors when it comes to the things of God.

Since evolution cannot be tested or observed, it is not true science. True science can only determine facts. It can never interpret facts, or tell us what the facts mean. Science can tell us the fact that life comes from other life, but it cannot tell us where life came from originally, or what the purpose of life is. Science has limits. Origins, and our purpose, must be reveled to us.

Who could reveal these things other than a creator? Either man’s preconceived notions about himself will account for the meaning of all things, or God has revealed the meaning to us in the Bible. We must believe one or the other since there is no third option. So, we can conclude that the book of Genesis was written to be taken literally, and trying to mix God and evolutionary thought is pointless and misleading.

Can Atheists Be Good Without God?

“There is a new atheist’s ad out with a picture of Santa Claus and the words: “Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness sake.”  This is clever, but is it possible?  Let’s analyze it more carefully.
           

First, if there is no Moral Law Giver (God), then how can there be a moral law that prescribes: “Be good.”  Every prescription has a prescriber, and this is a moral prescription.

Second, what does “good” mean?  How is good to be defined.? If it can mean anything for anyone, then it means nothing for anyone.  It is total relativism. Being “good” for some (like Nazis) can mean killing Jews.  But for Jews it is evil.  Hence, on this view there is no objective difference between good and evil.

Third, what does “goodness” itself mean in the atheist slogan?  Being good “for goodness sake” implies that something is just plain good in itself.  That is, it is an ultimate goodness.  But this by definition is what Christians mean by God.  Everything else has goodness, but only God (the Ultimate) is goodness.  In this case, the atheist is using “goodness” as a surrogate or substitute for God.

This maneuver is not uncommon for atheists. Before the Big Bang evidence, (that the universe has a beginning) atheists were fond of doing this with the word “universe.”  It was supposed to be eternal and, hence, needed no Cause since only what begins needs a Beginner.  Carl Sagan employed the term “Cosmos” as a God-substitute.  He said, “The COSMOS is everything that ever was, is, or will be.”  It sounds a little like what Psalm 90 declares: “From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.”  Bertrand Russell attempted the same tactic in his famous BBC debate with Father Copleston.  When asked what caused the universe, he replied that nothing did.  It was just “there.”  But how does an eternal, uncaused universe from which everything else came to be differ from an Uncaused Cause (God)?

However, in the light of the Big Bang evidence that the universe had a beginning, these answers lack scientific support.  As agnostic Jastrow put it, "The scientist’s pursuit of the past ends in the moment of creation."  And”This is an exceedingly strange development, unexpected by all but theologians.  They have always accepted the word of the Bible: `In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth’" (God and the Astronomers, 115)

Fourth, Dembski and Wells give another objection in recent book (How to be an Intellectually Fulfilled Atheist (or not), 115): “Atheism is a belief with scientific pretensions but no scientific backing.”  It has no scientific backing for believing in an eternal universe, The Second Law of Thermodynamics still holds.  The universe is running out of useable energy and, therefore, cannot be eternal.  And it has no scientific backing for the spontaneous origin of first life.  Again, as Dembski notes, “Until science can show that physical process operating under realistic prebiotic conditions can bring about full-fledged cells from nonliving material, intellectual fulfillment remains an atheistic pipedream.”

Fifth, the truth is that many of the great atheists themselves understood well that without God there is no basis for being good for goodness sake.  The famous French atheist, Jean Paul Sartre said, without God, “I was like a man who’s lost his shadow.  And there was nothing left in heaven, not right or wrong, nor anyone to give me orders” (The Flies, Act III).  Nietzsche said that when God died (see the “Madman” in Gay Science), then all objective values died with Him.  And a subjective understanding of goodness to which everyone can assign their own relative meaning, is not goodness at all–let alone being goodness for goodness sake. 

 Sixth, atheists fail to make an important distinction.  One can be good (as many atheists are) without believing in God.  But one cannot be good without there being a God.  That is, they can believe in a moral law (and live accordingly) without believing in God.  But they cannot justify this belief without reference to a Moral Law Giver (God).  This leads to one last observation.

Seventh, the fact is, that you cannot have an objective moral law without a Moral Law Giver.  But atheists are the first to insist there must be a moral law–otherwise, how can they mount their argument against God from the injustices in this world.   C. S. Lewis said this clearly when he wrote, “[As an atheist] my argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust.  But how had I got this idea of just and unjust?  A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line” (Mere Christianity, 15). Thus, he reasoned from this objective moral law to a Moral Law Giver (God).  The atheist must make his painful choice: Either he loses the basis for his argument against God from evil, or he must admit there is an objective moral law which leads to a Moral Law Giver.  One thing is certain: without God, the atheist cannot have objective goodness for goodness sake.  Indeed, since “for goodness sake” is a euphemistic phrase meaning “For God’s sake,” then the atheist ad, both literarily and logically, should be rendered, “Why believe in God? Just be good for God’s sake.”  In other words, it is precisely because there is a God that we can really be good.  Without an absolutely good God, there is no real objective basis for being good. [Dr. Norman Geisler has a BA, MA, ThM, and PhD (in philosophy].

Dinosaurs

People tend to believe in evolution because they think dinosaurs “prove” it. Dinosaurs are extinct animals and the same questionable dating methods are used on their fossil remains as any other animal. There is evidence that dinosaurs lived at the same time as man. The first dinosaur bones were dug up in 1809 so that should be the first time that man ever knew what they looked like if indeed they became extinct sixty five million years ago as evolutionists claim. Yet we find accurate drawings of dinosaurs in caves, drawn by Indians, in the fifteenth century. The word “dinosaur” was made up in 1841 so naturally you don’t find the word in ancient writings. The word dragon is found in quite a number of old writings. Marco Polo, upon returning home from a trip to China, reported that the Chinese Emperor was raising dragons to pull his chariots. Why would he say that if it dragons were mythical? Dragon legions are everywhere. Someone once said to me that dinosaurs and dragons do not look exactly alike. All we see today are the bones, so we have to make up the hyde, shape to some degree, color and so on. If the people who drew pictures of the dragons actually saw them living, then their drawings might be more accurate than ours. In the book of Job, God describes the behemoth as a great animal, and a careful reading indicates that this animal may indeed be what we call a dinosaur.

 “Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee (man); he eateth grass as an ox. Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. He moveth his tail like a cedar (very large tail): the sinews (muscles) of his stones are wrapped together His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. He is the chief (largest most powerful) of the ways of God (God’s creation) he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him. Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens (swamp). The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass. Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth (believes) that he can draw up Jordan (river) into his mouth. He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.” (Job 40:15-24)

Creationist John Whitmore has this to say regarding the relatively recent demise of the dinosaurs.

 “In the early 1900’s on the Doheny expedition into the Grand Canyon, Indian cave drawings were found which closely resembled a duck-billed dinosaur. Legends from ancient China to ancient England have recorded descriptions of dinosaur-like creatures. The Kuku Yalanji aboriginal people have paintings which look exactly like plesiosaurs. These and other intriguing evidences seem to indicate that perhaps that age of the dinosaurs ended more recently than is commonly taught. Christians do not need to feel foolish about standing on Scripture in their understanding of the world around us. There is ample evidence to support the Biblical record. Evolution serves as the foundation basis for the religions of humanism and atheism. These world views are popular because man, instead of God, decides on rules and moral standards. Creation serves as the foundational basis for Christianity which acknowledges that all things were created by God, that we live in a fallen universe, and that it will be restored to perfection in the future.”

[John Whitmore from the article “What happened to the Dinosaurs” from Kent Hovinds website www.drdino.com]

The Fossils

Fossils are formed when a plant or animal is covered over with sediments settling out from running water or mud flows. Then when it dries out, it leaves an imprint in the resulting sedimentary rock. The plant or animal usually decays, and the sediments turn to stone, leaving an impression. Fossils are only found in sedimentary rock which was laid down by water and never in rock, such as granite. Evolutionists would have us believe that the fossils are millions of years old, and formed very slowly. They date fossils by the strata (layers in the earth) in which they are found. If a certain animal is found in a particular layer it is deemed to be the same age as the layer. Then they date the layers by the fossils which are found in them. This is circular reasoning, and the dates are only

assumed.

Dating methods such as uranium thorium lead; rubidium strontium and radiocarbon yield such wildly different results, and are so full of assumptions and politics that they are basically useless in their accuracy. Carbon dating can only date the remains of something that was once alive. Since fossils are stone, it is useless for this purpose. When someone takes a fossil into lab for dating they have to tell the lab how old they “think” it is. Then the lab throws it in the tank, pulls the choke, grinds the starter, pushes buttons and twists knobs until they get the dates they want. Assumptions on top of assumptions are made in such tests, and when the results are in the evolutionist, who must believe in very old dates, simply discards the dates he doesn’t want. Then the public is then told that this fossil is 5.5 million years old, and this is considered proof. This is self serving evidence, and what does it prove, and how can anyone prove it is not true?

They assume that great ages are required to form the earth’s strata so the fossils must be very old as well. However, things other than plants and animals are also fossilized. Raindrops, a mans hat, a mans leg inside a pair of cowboy boots, a set of car keys, human footprints, and a hand axe are a few examples of things that have been found inside sedimentary rock or coal, and could not have been fossilized over eons of time. In addition, jellyfish are commonly found fossilized. A jellyfish will melt away in just a few days time after it dies. A fish has been found fossilized in the process of eating a smaller fish. An extinct marine reptile, called an ichthyosaur, was fossilized while of giving birth. Such examples prove a rapid burial. Such as would occur in a large flood.

Living Fossils

Here is a subject that no evolutionist wants to talk about. Today there are many recently discovered animals, plants and fish living, which evolutionists have been telling us for decades became extinct millions of years ago. Some of these, they have told us, far predate the dinosaurs. These animals and plants have shown no evolutionary change whatsoever when compared with their supposedly very old “dated” fossils. If these living things did exist so long ago, and are now living, why in the world didn’t they evolve? Although many examples exist, I will list but a few:

Fish-The Coelacanth; Fossils were claimed to be four hundred million years old. These fish were discovered living in 1938. Since then, a whole population has been discovered living off of the coast of South Africa. No evolutionary changes were observed when the living ones were compared with the “four hundred million years old” fossils.

Trees-The Wollemi Pine; Said to have existed with the dinosaurs 150 million years ago. Discovered living in Australia in 1994. No evolutionary change when compared to fossils.

Neopilina mollusks; Fossils claimed to be 400-500 million years old. Discovered living in the early 1950’s. No evolutionary change.

Salamanders: Recently discovered fossils were dated at 150 million years old in China. Shortly after the discovery, they were found to be living in a nearby swamp. No evolutionary change.

One of two things are true here; either something is haywire in their dating system, and the fossils are not nearly as old as thought, or things simply don’t evolve, or both.

“If a living thing survives in a flawless form down to the present day with all the features it displayed millions of years ago and having undergone no change whatsoever, then this evidence is powerful enough to entirely dismiss the gradual evolution model anticipated by Darwin. Moreover, far from there being just one example to demonstrate this, there are in fact millions. Countless organisms exhibit no differences from their original states, which first appeared millions or even hundreds of millions of years ago. As openly stated by Niles Eldredge, this state of affairs is causing paleontologists to avoid the idea of evolution, which is still supported today” [Steven J Gould-Famous evolutionist. Harvard University.]

Every other extinct animal that has been found living shows no evolutionary change whatsoever. In fact, no fossils do.

‘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?’

 ‘Yet Gould [Stephen J. Gould] and the American Museum people are hard to contradict when they say there are no transitional fossils. … 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.’  [From the book “Evolution” by Dr. Colin Patterson]

“The liberal media frequently attract attention with such headlines as "20-Milion-Year-Old Spider Fossil Discovered" or "35-Million-Year-Old Lizard Fossil Unearthed." Each of these reports is actually further proof that nothing like the evolutionary process ever happened. There are many examples of living fossils and in addition, these examples go back hundreds of millions of years according to the evolutionists.

The crocodile is a reptile that was living 200 (supposed) million years ago, as is confirmed by the fossil record. Yet it is of course alive today. Ginkgo trees were living 125 million years ago, but living specimens were found in China in our own time. Neopilina mollusks were living 500 million years ago, the tuatara lizard 200 million years ago, and archaeobacteria as long ago as 3.5 billion years ago. These are still alive today, with all their complex systems and perfect structures. The nautilus, another mollusk, was living in the seas 300 million years ago, and these creatures are living, feeding and reproducing in exactly the same form in today’s seas.

The Australian and African lungfish is another example of a living fossil that was alive 400 million years ago and still thrives in the present. Charles Darwin was astonished by the survival of these fish down to the present day, and in his Origin of Species, he therefore referred to them as "anomalous forms" that "may almost be called living fossils." 

This is by no means the end of the list of creatures that still survive today unchanged, in exactly the same form as they displayed millions of years ago. The sturgeon, mackerel, freshwater bass, herring, needlefish, lobster, crawfish and the Devonian-period shark are all examples of living fossils. Other examples include the jellyfish, sponges, frogs, bees, ants, butterflies and termites. The 230-million-year-old dragonfly, soldier ants dating back 100 million years, and the 150-million-year-old salamander are all still living today in a nearby pond where the fossils were discovered. The same applies to arachnids such as the spider and myriapods such as the millipede.  

Finally, a spider fossilized in amber, and estimated as being 20 million years old, was one of the most important discoveries of the 2000s. A statement from Manchester University announced that this spider, 4 centimeters long and 2 centimeters wide, was identical to present-day specimens. It is hoped that a blood specimen from the spider can extract the arachnid’s DNA. However, this fossil spider is certainly not the only specimen found. Other fossil spiders unearthed in excavations have been estimated to be hundreds of millions of years old, and are now on exhibit in museums in various countries of the world. The oldest known and most perfect sea spider fossil dates back 425 million years—important evidence that these creatures have remained unchanged for millions of years. 

The Earth contains countless other fossil specimens from millions of years ago of organisms still living today, such as this spider, and of other creatures now extinct. These are just a few of the millions of specimens kept in various museums.” 3

My question is, what in the world does evolve, why do they stop evolving or why would some animals evolve and some not? Are we to believe that “none” of these millions of living fossils needed to evolve for the past multi-millions of years but yet they evolved to complete creatures in the multi-millions of years prior to that then suddenly stopped? The very fact that all of the fossils have been living all of this time and evolutionists said they were extinct millions of years ago demonstrates that they don’t even know what is extinct and what isn’t, so how can they be trusted when they say “natural selection-mutations” causes animals to turn into a different animals?

Natural Selection, Survival of the Fittest

Why would an evolutionist say these animals went extinct because they couldn’t survive before they were found living and then say, once they were found living, that they were a product of the “survival of the fittest?”

How does “survival” turn one animal into another? It doesn’t, natural selection simply keeps the animal population healthy by eliminating the weaker or sick ones. At least in theory it does, however, we have to depend on the Lion for example, to sift through a herd of deer to pick out the most unfit one. Or a whale to examine all of the hundreds of fish he swallows to determine which is not fit to live. I think it is more like the survival of the luckiest. Where did all information to produce life originate? Evolutionist’s sort of skip over this tidbit by saying that all information, all life, consciousness, thought etc. etc. originally came from a rock in an ammonia atmosphere! There was never an ammonia atmosphere because all rocks, including the oldest basement rocks, are all oxidized indicating that there has always been an oxygen atmosphere.

They say this because cells cannot evolve or survive in an oxygen atmosphere and in addition there is nothing else from which life could have evolved other than dirt and rocks, water and lightning and there is no information for life in any of those.

If you think cells can survive on their own, put a banana on the counter and see how long it will live. For that matter, put it in an ammonia atmosphere and see how long it lives. It will die and there is no stopping it once it is remove from the source of life. Everything is this way in nature. In order to live, cells must be within a fully formed life source which nourishes it. So, for this reason and many others we can see that life could only have been created fully formed and functional by a creator.

 “The history of most fossil species includes two features particularly inconsistent with gradualism: 1. Stasis. Most species exhibit no directional change during their tenure on earth. They appear in the fossil record looking much the same as when they disappear; morphological change is usually limited and directionless. 2. Sudden appearance. In any local area, a species does not arise gradually by the steady transformation of its ancestors; it appears all at once and ‘fully formed.‘  [Steven J.Gould, Evolutionist Harvard Uni.]

Fossil Trees and a big flood

Common sense dictates that neither animals, plants nor humans would die and lay on the ground for millions of years while they were being fossilized. Dead things decay very rapidly. Some fossils are found in coal seams which evolutionists claim took millions of years to form. Trees are commonly found around the world running vertically through what they claim are millions of years of strata. How could a tree stand in one place for millions of years without rotting away, while the strata were forming? In addition, some of these trees are found upside down. It is evident that the fossils are not as old as some would have us believe. It follows then that neither are the animals that have been fossilized. Some evolutionist came up with the idea that these trees were growing, and were just covered over by a mud flow by some local flood. If this is the case then how did the millions of years of strata form around them? How about the upside down ones?

Many of these fossilized trees are located in strata which run for many miles, and are found in high elevations. So, a small local flood could not have buried these trees high up in the mountains. Creationists believe that there was a world wide flood at some time in the past, and that the stratum was laid down by running water. The animals, plants etc. which were fossilized were trapped by sediments or mud flows. This would explain why there are literally billions of fossils, and why they are found in all parts of the world at different depths in the earth. It would also explain why there is sedimentary rock

and marine fossils in high elevations, and on mountain tops. Sharks and whales have been discovered buried in elevated desert areas. We know that strata can form very rapidly from mud flows. A miniature grand canyon was formed by mud flows in just a few days complete with thousands of layers of strata, and a small river running down through the middle of it as a result of just one medium size volcanic eruption. This happened before our eyes in a few hours at Mount St. Helens in May of 1980. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if there are tree and animal fossils found in the strata one day in the near future.

We might even find people who lived and died there.

Misplaced Fossils

The textbook strata drawings which you find in school textbooks do not exist in the real world. There are not six or eight nice neat layers, each representing a time period. In some places there are no layers at all and, in other places there are many thousands of layers. Some layers are thick, and some are micro fine. Furthermore, any given fossil is not always found in the same layer. In other words, some animal might be found three feet deep in one area, and fifty or a hundred feet deep in another location.

These are called misplaced fossils, and are not at all uncommon. From an evolutionary standpoint one would think that the specimen nearest the surface would be millions of years more evolved than the other, but they are always virtually identical. Evolutionists claim that all species of animals change gradually over millions of years. They also boldly claim, and necessarily so, that there are numerous transitional links which have been found in the fossil record. When creationists have ask for proof of these claims they are either ignored or shown drawings and skulls made from plaster, or perhaps a tiny fragment of bone. Sometimes evolutionists will line up several fossils of the same animal from the smallest size to the largest size to give you the impression that one evolved from the other. In reality such specimens are merely different ages or a different breed of the same animal.  You could line up different size people today from three feet to seven feet tall. So what has been proven? Nothing-it is all deceit. The fact is that the real fossils which have been found, are fully formed and functional. We never find a half bird, half reptile fossil for example.

Fakes

Archaeoraptor-Fake

There was one claimed to have been found in China recently. They called it ‘archaeoraptor liaoningensis’ and it was sensationalized in the news, and in National Geographic magazine. Evolutionists were jumping up and down with glee because they thought that evolution had finally been proven. However, the only thing to be proven was that it was parts of different animals glued together. It was a total fraud but fooled many people. It was such an obvious fraud that National Geographic had to do a correction of the article. A prominent paleontologist in Beijing, Xu Xing had this to say:

“The fossil is not even genuine. Rather, ‘archaeoraptor liaoningensis’ was really combined from the body and head of a birdlike creature and the tail of a

different dinosaur.” He added that a fossil in a private collection in China contains the mirror image of the tail of this so called ‘archaeoraptor.’

Piltdown Man -Fake

He was supposedly half man, half ape and he deceived many of the world’s greatest evolutionists, and scientists from 1912 until 1953. It was discovered that it was made up of a six hundred and twenty year old human skull, and a five hundred year old orangutans jaw. Obviously, the dating methods were off a bit. The apes’ teeth were filed down to make it appear human. It was stained to make it look old, and artificially “fossilized,” then buried in a gravel pit. Then it was “discovered,” and the media made a big whoop-de-do about it. Forty one years later it was declared to be a total fraud. How many millions had it deceived? Some evolutionists knew it was fraud from the beginning, and other evolutionists, who were fooled for many years, finally examined it, and were forced to expose it as a fraud, because it did not match up with their idea of man’s evolutionary progression. It was getting in their way, so they did away with it. The big question is, why would trained scientists, if they are searching for true knowledge, do such a thing, and lie to the world? Is this kind of thing still happening today?

Lucy-Fake

‘Lucy’ was supposedly a link between apes and man and, three million five hundred thousand years old. She was three and one  half feet tall and had a hip joint and knee joint which suggested upright walking, claimed the evolutionists. They did admit that she looked very apelike, but since she walked upright she must have been an ape man link. Chimps walk upright today, so what would that prove. Upon further examination the hip joint claim was declared to be untrue. The knee joint was found a mile away, and two hundred feet deeper, than the rest of the bones. This leaves no reason to believe that ‘Lucy’ was a human ancestor.

Neanderthal man-Fake

When originally discovered he had a somewhat stooped over appearance, and it was thought that this was man in the process of walking upright. Years later, more of these ‘Neanderthals’ were discovered, and they appeared to be totally upright, and completely human. Upon examination and x-rays of the original bones, it was discovered that the few stooped over examples had a bone disease (possibility rickets) which caused them to be stooped over. So now, Neanderthal man is classified as human, and not an ape-man. We find people today, walking around, stooped over so, what has Neanderthal man proven? This was not an outright fraud, but like so many of the other “examples” of early man it was embellished beyond reason by evolutionists without detailed study, such as the bone x-rays, and was just assumed to fit their preconceived belief system. Nevertheless, these folks are still deceiving millions of unwitting people, with no factual basis, into believing that we came from four legged ape like creatures, and gradually became man in his upright form.

Java man: Fake

 Initially discovered by Dutchman Eugene Dubois in 1891, all that was found of this claimed originator of humans was a skullcap, three teeth and a femur. The femur was found 50 feet away from the original skullcap a full year later. For almost 30 years Dubois downplayed the Wadjak skulls (two undoubtedly human skulls found very close to his "missing link").

[Hank Hanegraaff, The Face That Demonstrates The Farce Of Evolution, [Word Publishing, Nashville, 1998], pp.50-52)]

Orce man: Fake

Found in the southern Spanish town of Orce in 1982, and hailed as the oldest fossilized human remains ever found in Europe. One year later officials admitted the skull fragment was not human but probably came from a 4 month old donkey. Scientists had said the skull belonged to a 17 year old man who lived 900,000 to 1.6 million years ago, and even had very detail drawings done to represent what he would have looked like.  ["Skull fragment may not be human" [Knoxville News-Sentinel, 1983)]

Bees’ Nests Baffle Evolutionists

Ancient bees’ nests in Arizona‘s Petrified Forest are baffling evolutionists. How, they ask, could the bees have survived for more than 100 million years before the evolution of the flowers they fertilize and depend on for nectar? Palaeobiologist Dr Stephen Hasiotis, from the US Geological Survey, discovered that fossilized logs in the Petrified Forest are riddled with holes which he believes are the nests of bees. The logs with the nests are dated at 220 million years old on the evolutionary time-scale, while the flowers that provide nectar for bees allegedly date from only half as long ago. Evolutionists are forced to conclude that either flowers appeared earlier, or the first bees did without flowers for a long time.

[Daily Telegraph ( London), May 26, 1995 (p. 5]

If evolution were indeed true, there would be many transitional fossil forms in various stages of evolution, rather than just fully formed ones. In fact, there should be many more transitional forms than fully formed fossils. We should also see living examples of animals changing into other animals. Yet all we find are fully formed fossils, and fully formed living animals, in kinds. No matter if it is an animal, plant or human fossil they are always fully formed. When asked by a creationist why we can’t see evolution happening today, the evolutionist will say that evolution happens so slow that we can’t see it happening. Then asked why we can’t see evidence of it in the fossil record, they say that evolution happens so fast that it doesn’t leave any fossil evidence. Or, they may say that the intermediate fossils have been eroded away and only the fully formed fossils remain. Dealing with an evolutionist is like playing a football game against a team that can change the rules whenever they want to.

Charles Darwin himself in his famous book ‘Origin of Species’ states;

“…why if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine graduations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? The number of intermediate and transitional links, between all living and extinct species must have been inconceivably great”

In the same book he states again;

“…innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them imbedded in countless numbers in the earth? Why is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this is perhaps the most obvious and gravest objection which can be used against my theory.”

Darwin assumed that one day the links would be found, but today after having cataloged well over two hundred and fifty million fossils, of two hundred and fifty thousand fossil species, evolutionists cannot hold up a single undisputable transitional fossil. Darwin weighed in heavily on the fact that certain birds of the same species, for example, would have a slightly different beak. One might have a straight beak, and in another location, one might have a slightly curved beak. He assumed that all of these small changes over eons of time added up to a completely different animal, but could not find any intermediate forms in the geological record. What he was actually seeing was variation within the kinds.

Certain characteristics become prominent in isolated populations. He assumed that things evolved slightly different in different parts of the world, by gradual steps, until they all become a different plant or animal. Decent with modification he called it. Now we know that it is the dominate genes that modify things, but they do not turn things into a different kind of animal.

I once saw a tall man in a restaurant who had a very, very long nose. He had three teenage kids with him who were also tall and had very long noses. His genes dominated. If he and his family moved to an isolated place with just a few other people, over several generations you could expect to find tall people with long noses, whereas in another part of the world you might find people with short noses, curly hair, dark skin, big ears, tall or short, or what ever characteristics the dominate gene happened to produce. To assume that he will evolve into another type of creature from these small changes, is where science ends and fantasy world begins. The point is that even though people and animals change somewhat in physical appearance, because of genes, they remain people, birds, dogs or whatever they started out as. It is what gives every person a different appearance. Thus in nature everything remains in “kinds” just as the Bible says, and this is what we see in nature today.

Mutations don’t help the cause either, because we now know that mutations tend to become corrected. If someone had a mutation that caused him to have an extra toe, this doesn’t mean that everyone in his line will have an extra toe. Mutations do not add up forever and cause one animal to become a different kind. If they did, the guy with the extra toe might have an offspring which had another mutation, which gave him a deformed ear, from his mother’s side. Then the next mutation might give his offspring narrow eyes, and so you would wind up with an eleven toed, one eared, beaded eyed grandkid.

Mutation Correction

Mutations can match up and cause deformities in closely related people. The body has a way of correcting any such mutations. If it didn’t, then even if we did not marry closely related people, over time, we would all be consumed with mutations, because they would just keep adding up. As of this writing, science (real science) has identified one hundred and forty five genes that serve to protect the integrity of DNA by repairing mutations. With the discovery of DNA and RNA we now know that it is impossible for one animal to change into another animal by mutations, as Darwin assumed, because the DNA of an ape, or any other animal, does not contain the information needed to produce a human, no matter how many how many generation go by. In addition, evolution must have positive or helpful mutations which are far rarer than the harmful mutations that we have been discussing. So rare in fact, that many scientists don’t believe they even exist. In any case, none have ever been observed. New information must be added into the DNA to make the switch to another type of animal. How this would happen is highly speculative. Harmful mutations can in no way make any organism better or move it to a higher level. Harmful mutations are destructive to any organism. How could a cow with an extra leg on his back, or a dog with three short legs and one long one be a benefit to them?

Positive mutations

You have to have “positive mutations” for an organism to evolve to a higher level. The problem is that positive mutations have never been observed in nature and so as far as we know they don’t exist. They are imaginary…like a child would believe in Santa Clause because he assumes he has been told the truth. You might assume they exist, not because anyone has observed them, but because you start from a false premise; that evolution is true. In other words, to the evolutionist, there is no God so evolution happens, consequently there must be positive mutations. So they made up the evolution model based on the assumption that they do exist.

“There is an array of human diseases that are caused by mutations, what of positive effects? With thousands of examples of harmful mutations readily available, surely it should be possible to describe some positive mutations if macroevolution is true. 2

These would be needed not only for evolution to greater complexity, but also to offset the downward pull of the many harmful mutations. But, when it comes to identifying positive mutations, evolutionary scientists are strangely silent.” 2

Sickle Cell Anemia-Positive Mutation?

“The mutation responsible for sickle cell anemia has been put forward as an example of Evolution. The problems with this are obvious, as the sickle cell mutation, like the many other described hemoglobin mutations, clearly impairs the function of the otherwise marvelously well-designed hemoglobin molecule. It can in no way be regarded as an improvement in our species, even though its preservation is enhanced in malaria-endemic parts of central Africa by natural selection.” 2

Put simply, to say that sickle cell anemia is a positive mutation is like saying that if you cut off your legs you won’t get athletes foot. That is a true statement but does it have a positive or beneficial result?

Punctuated equilibrium

The famous evolutionist and paleontologist the late Steven J. Gould of Harvard University in the book ‘The Return of the Hopeful Monsters’ says;

“The fossil record with its abrupt transitions offers no support for gradual change…All paleontologists  know that the fossil record contains precious little in the way of intermediate forms; transitions between major groups are characteristically abrupt.”

Where did they go? Why can’t we find them? Maybe the Indians took them. Could it be that they never existed? Gould believed in the idea that a reptile laid an egg one day, and a bird hatched out of it, or that a dog gave birth to a rabbit or something like that. He called this the hopeful monster theory. Without realizing it, Gould throws the “millions of years” idea out the back door, and makes creation a necessary fact. Any animal would have had to be a fully functioning animal originally for his theory to even be plausible, if indeed, he did not believe in a gradual evolution. This theory was invented to try and explain away the lack of transitional forms. However, it raises even more questions. What did the first bird mate with? Why isn’t this happening today? Darwin said that unless the transitional forms were found his theory way just a bunch of useless speculation, and he was right. The theory of evolution does not even qualify as a legitimate scientific theory by sciences own standards. To qualify as a valid scientific theory an idea must be observable, repeatable and falsifiable. Evolution is none of these. Evolution pretends to be science.

“The interpretation of evolution is in a state of upheaval: the rapid advancement of Molecular Biology has led into question many of the tenets of Darwinism and neo-Darwinism which, although valuable approaches at the time they were formulated, never fulfilled the criteria demanded by real scientific theories … In the author’s opinion, no real theory of evolution can be formulated at present.”

[Publisher’s advertising of an evolutionary book, Evolution Without Selection, by A. Lima-de Faria, Elsevier Science Publishing Co. Inc., New York, 1988.]

Real Science and Evolutionary Brainwashing

“The reason the theory of evolution is so controversial is that it is the main scientific prop for scientific naturalism. Students first learn that "evolution is a fact," and then they gradually learn more and more about what that "fact" means. It means that all living things are the product of mindless material forces such as chemical laws, natural selection, and random variation. So God is totally out of the picture, and humans (like everything else) are the accidental product of a purposeless universe. Do you wonder why a lot of people suspect that these claims go far beyond the available evidence?    ["The Church of Darwin" Wall Street Journal August 16 1999]

“If you are going to define science as applied materialist philosophy, then of course you are going to end up with a materialist creation story, one that excludes the possibility of a personal God who created us and answers prayer. Just don’t make the mistake of thinking that this new story has been validated by scientific testing. The important questions are all decided in the assumptions and definitions.

The root of the problem is that "science" has two distinct definitions in our culture. On the one hand, science refers to a method of investigation involving things like careful measurements, repeatable experiments, and especially a skeptical, open-minded attitude that insists that all claims be carefully tested.

Science also has become identified with a philosophy known as materialism or scientific naturalism. This philosophy insists that nature is all there is, or at least the only thing about which we can have any knowledge. It follows that nature had to do its own creating, and that the means of creation must not have included any role for God. Students are not supposed to approach this philosophy with open-minded skepticism, but to believe it on faith.”  [Commonweal June 5, 1998  p.14]

Peddling their religion

Evolution, Materialism and Humanism are simply godless examples of religious indoctrination. They are belief systems which exclude God, and the deity of Jesus Christ, in lieu of materialism. Whereas many other religions, just exclude Jesus Christ. When you get right down to it, they accept the creation, but not the creator.

“Secular Humanism is an attempt to function as a civilized society with the exclusion of God and His moral principles. During the last several decades, Humanists have been very successful in propagating their beliefs. Their primary approach is to target the youth through the public school system.”

"Education is thus a most powerful ally of humanism, and every American school is a school of humanism. What can a theistic Sunday school’s meeting for an hour once a week and teaching only a fraction of the children do to stem the tide of the five-day program of humanistic teaching?" (Charles F. Potter, "Humanism: A New Religion," 1930)

“Yet evolution has not been proved. In fact, it seems that the theory of evolution is contrary to established science. When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way. Spontaneous generation was disproved one hundred years ago, but that leads us to only one other conclusion, that of supernatural creation. We cannot accept that on philosophical grounds; therefore, we choose to believe the impossible: that life arose spontaneously by chance!” George Wald  ( prominent Evolutionist , Harvard University biochemist and Nobel Laureate "The Origin of Life," Scientific American, 191:48, May 1954))

Is he saying that you have to believe the impossible to be an unbeliever? Ah yes, the great faith of the unbeliever. Because he starts with the premise that evolution is true when he discovers the truth he gets in a quandary. So he rejects it on philosophical grounds, whatever that means. To these types of thinkers materialism is more important than God. Of course, materialism can’t save you but God can. What is so important about materialism that a man would believe in something that he knows is impossible and sacrifice his eternal future to worship? Is he worshiping a different God? A false god who has no interest in saving you from the Lake of Fire?

The Humanist Religion

Evolution is the main tenant of the humanist religion as so stated in the humanist manifesto. If evolution is nothing, then humanism is nothing. It is the atheists’ godless religion and requires a tremendous amount of faith to believe in it, especially in light of what we know today. Every field of science goes against evolution, despite the fact that many evolutionists claim to have tons of proof. But…just don’t insult them, and ask to see the proof. Evolutionists oppose any other teaching in the schools other than Evolution. Why is this? If they are so sure that evolution is a “fact” as they say, why not teach both evolution and abrupt appearance with no religious connections. They know that if abrupt appearance or intelligent design is taught that no one will believe in evolution, because the fossils and true science do not back it up. So the evolutionists, who control education, suppress creation. Personally, I believe that if evolution is allowed to be taught, and implies that there is no God, why shouldn’t creation be taught which implies that there is a God. What is wrong with that?

The constitution of the United States does not ban God; it bans the government from establishing an official religion by passing laws. Leaving a teacher alone to teach something is not law making. However, many school teachers today are forced to teach something that they don’t believe themselves or lose their jobs. School children are forced to give answers on tests, on a subject which they don’t believe in, or fail the course. You cannot get a formal education without being forced to learn their illogical nonsense. Banning an opposing view is, in effect, establishing a religion. Banning God establishes the religion of humanism. God is not a religion, and even if he were, the government cannot not ban any religion, or the free exercise of religion. Where did we ever get the idea that we can force anyone, even government employees, to refrain from acknowledging God, and force people to accept only a humanist’s point of view?

To only allow the teaching of one side of anything, and ban all other points of view is nothing less than communist style indoctrination, not freedom of expression. You can only make people believe false things by suppressing the truth! Don’t misunderstand, I don’t want, nor does any creationist, the Bible taught in public schools. That is the job of the church. Schools are supposed to be teaching the ABC’S, but are now it seems they are just teaching the B and the S. Doesn’t it make sense to simply present and acknowledge another viewpoint of origins, based on the evidence, and let the kid’s make up their own minds as to what is true? This is what freedom of expression is all about. There is no such thing as separation of God and children, or separation of church and state for that matter, but still the humanists and evolutionists use your tax dollars to promote their religion in the schools.

“I am convinced that the battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects the spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being. These teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach, regardless of the educational level—preschool day care or large state university. The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new—the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism.”[John Dunphy, A Religion for a New Age, The Humanist, January– February 1983, p. 26.]

This guy must think he is president of the Hooterville P.T.A. if he believes that he has the right to demand that his religion be exclusively taught in our public schools, at our expense. No one showed up at the ‘First Church of Humanism’ because they had no one to preach about. So now the humanist’s wants to force our children to listen to their cronies preach their religion in our public schools, where religion, according to the evolutionists and humanists, is supposed to be separated from the state. “Faith of humanism?” Faith in what, ourselves? I would hate to think that my eternal future depended upon my power. It’s all I can do to keep up with my girlfriend. This man lumps together the church and its human failings together with God, as so many do, and then proclaims that we should have faith in ourselves. He proposes that God is the problem and men are the solution. I propose that the opposite is true. Evolutionists nearly always loose the debates with creationists because their arguments are so very weak when confronted with facts. They rarely present facts in public debates because they really don’t have any, and they know that the creationists have logic, common sense and a void fossil record on their side. So, they resort to tactics such as questioning their opponents education, name calling, telling people that evolution is so complicated that the average person can’t begin to understand it, implying that we should take their word for everything because they are the sole possessors of knowledge and truth.

There are some evolutionists that are honest enough to admit when they are proven wrong, but most try to shove their baseless dogma down our throats through the media, schools and magazines, and when they are proven wrong, try to dance between the raindrops with their explanations of how it was an honest mistake, or try to wiggle out of it some other way.

The Bible has never changed since it was written. It still stands. Neither have the laws of biology. But evolution changes like the wind. By the way, every time evolution changes, this means that the previous idea was wrong, even though we were told it was fact. Truth has no need to change. There can be only one truth. Someone once told me that at least evolution is honest enough to change from time to time. Then he ask me, with a smirk on his face, if I ever found something better than my creation position, would I change. I told him “Of course I would, if I find something better than God, you will be the first to know.”

Illogical Logic

Evolutionists use what I call “illogical logic.” For instance; if one man can chop down a small tree in one minute, then sixty men could chop down the same tree in one second. Is that statement true? Of course not, sixty men couldn’t even get around a tree and swing their axe in one second. You see, we thought the issue through, and took other things into consideration, and came to the conclusion that the logic was faulty. Few evolutionists do this. They simply have a story that makes evolution seem true without telling you about the other considerations, and then they hope no one notices. The origin of life is far more distant and complicated than chopping down a tree. Evolutionists know they can deceive innocent people by using this type of logic, because no one is able to truly comprehend their theories. (Including them) They will pretend to understand them, but when they try to explain them to a thinking person, they oftentimes come across looking like the court jester, with cosmic egg on his face, and the yoke is on them.

They are completely absorbed into their way of thinking just like the religious do gooders are absorbed into theirs. This is the result when Christ, the creator, is left out of the picture. The pieces don’t fit. Most people simply don’t have the time to study everything on both sides of the issue, so they take this so called science of evolution as truth, just because some atheist scientist says it is. They aren’t trying to convince me, they are trying to convince our innocent children and our grandchildren, that there is no God. So, I take it personally, and so should you.

No God, means no Christ, which means no salvation, which means Satan is victorious over you and you will spend eternity with him in a place called the Lake of Fire.

Evolutionists will present lifelike plaster skulls of imaginary ape men, made up by artists to their specifications, many times using only a tiny part of the skull (in one case a single extinct pigs tooth) and then try to hornswogal people into thinking they are real. They not only make up the skulls, but the whole body as well, and put a lot of hair on them, give them a family, and a stick, and then bend them over a bit to make them look ape like. Then they publish this useless garbage in school textbooks, hype it as fact, and absolutely will not tolerate any other view. Then when someone wants to challenge them they scream “separation of church and state” as if there were such a thing. What a deceit! They may indeed get their wish one day and be separated from the church forever.

Many evolutionists will no longer debate in public and who can blame them. Evolution is at best unsubstantiated conjecture, and at worst the greatest hoax in human history has deceived many, and it isn’t science. The debate is not between ‘science and religion,’ it is really ‘Satan vs. God.’ The following quote typifies the evolutionist’s beliefs that they have become the sole possessors of knowledge and truth and have actually become gods.

“We no longer feel ourselves to be guests in someone else’s home and therefore obliged to make our behavior conform with a set of pre-existing cosmic rules. It is our creation now. We make the rules. We establish the parameters of reality. We create the world, and because we do, we no longer feel beholden to outside forces. We no longer have to justify our behavior, for we are now the architects of the universe. We are responsible to nothing outside ourselves, for we are the kingdom, the power, and the glory for ever and ever.” [Jeremy Rifkin, Algeny, Viking Press, New York, p. 244, 1983.]

 “Architects of the universe” Gee whiz, I want to meet these people who created the universe. Why don’t they create another one and move there? Let’s see, they created the universe and the universe created them… or was it the other way around? Notice that he says, “We (the evolutionists I assume) establish the parameters of reality” In other words, they tell us what is real, and what isn’t, as if we are a bunch of ignorant idiots, running around in circles with our hands on our heads, awaiting instructions from their superior intellect. I hope you can understand the mindset of the evolutionist. What it boils down to is this “There is no God therefore, we are God.” I have often wondered to whom Mr. Rifkin was referring as the creator when he used the words “our creation” in his quote since “we” (whoever we is) claims to be God. Satan has also claimed to be a god and according to the Bible, the fate of the unbeliever will be as sure as Satan’s destruction. By the way, he tries to mock the Bible and then misquotes it.

Where is their kingdom, their power and their glory? The kingdom is heaven, the power is God’s omnipotence, and the glory is God’s perfect righteousness. Man is saying the same thing as Satan did by making himself a god. Why? Because he is following Satan, and not the Lord, and his fate will be the same as Satan’s fate. The followers of Christ will have the same inheritance as Christ.

“You have said in your heart… I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most high. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell; to the sides of the pit.”

(Isaiah 14:14-15)

The Apostle Paul has this to say about evolutionary thinkers:

“Because that which may be known of God is manifest in (made real to) them; for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse; (on judgment day) Because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God, neither were they thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man and to birds and four footed beasts and creeping things…Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator who is blessed forever” (Romans 1:19-23, 25)

Some evolutionists become indignant because creationists have questioned their life’s work. This implies that they believe that only they are qualified to conjecture about the origin of life. They are, in effect, trying to find proof that there is no God.

The apostle Peter writes;

“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of his coming? For all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they are willingly ignorant of, that by the Word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, by which the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished. But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men”

(2 Peter 3:3-7)

“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” (Revelation 1:8)

“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” (Genesis 2:7)

The Bible is not a science book although it does contain a lot of information which has been confirmed by archeologists and other statements about animals being created in kinds and reproducing within their kind etc. It is a revelation to mankind from God. It does not try to prove how God created everything because if it did do you honestly think we could understand how everything was brought into existence from nothingness, from the spiritual to the physical realm?  The process could not be expressed in a human language. To create just a single cell with its trillion parts arranged in a precise order and operating like clockwork would take a lot more intelligence than we could ever muster from our finite minds and very limited knowledge.

Two Tricks evolutionists use to make their theory appear to be sound

Again, please be reminded – you must decide for yourself when you read the following.  However, if you look for these two "tricks,"   the Theory of Evolution will lose a lot of its perceived validity.

Trick 1

Be on the alert for the incredible faith the evolutionist has in time. Time is vital  to their theory.  Ask an evolutionist how did reptiles become birds, and they will tell you it took "millions of years."  How did fish become amphibians, "it took millions of years."  Whenever you probe an evolutionist with questions, they will quickly rely on time. Do not expect fossil evidence, and biological answers.  Instead, just a hand wave and a tremendous faith in time.

But is their "time" explanation satisfactory?   No, it is a confession that the processes they profess to believe in are thought to occur, but they are not observed.  The evidence was lost in those eons of time. There are two explanations why there is no evidence for fish evolving into reptiles: Either it never happened and thus there is no evidence (Creation); or it did happen but the evidence is missing due to time (Evolution).  Does time lead to increased complexity in chemical reactions or systems?  No (see the Second Law of Thermodynamics).  For a system to increase in complexity it does not just need energy, it needs the proper type and quantity of energy.  If you put a leaf on a driveway and expose it to the sun, it will dry up and whither, not become more complex.

Remember the fairy tales we heard as children like  – “a long time ago, in a place far away there was a frog.  A princess kissed the frog, and it instantly turned into a prince”.   In Biology, they informed us that a long time ago, in an unknown place there lived an amphibian, and over millions of years the amphibian became a mammal.  The first story is a fairy tale because a kiss turned an amphibian into a prince.  The second story is taught as science because "millions of years" turned the amphibian into a mammal. Supposedly, believing that time (and not a kiss) can turn an amphibian into a mammal makes it "science".

Trick 2

When someone asks you if you believe in evolution, do not answer yes, and  do not answer no.  Instead ask them "What do you mean when you say evolution?"  Become aware of how the word "evolution" is used.  What does the word "evolution" mean?   It simply means change.  Does change happen?  Absolutely.  If you changed your socks within the past month you could say you evolved.  But does that degree of change support the Theory of Evolution?  Lets explore that thought.

In item #9 of the above list, we showed that natural selection and survival of the fittest are true phenomena.  Change happens within species all the time.  But for the Theory of Evolution to have merit there must be evidence for new species, families, orders, classes and phyla.  For example, teachers will often say that evidence for evolution is the fact that people are taller today than they were 500 years ago.  Is that evolution?  Well it is change, but does it support the Theory of Evolution?   No, because they were people then and they are people now, no species change.  Or a teacher will say that England had many light colored moths and few dark moths when England was unpolluted (due to camouflage advantages).  After England became polluted, the population of the dark moths increased and the light moths decreased.  Is that evolution?  Well, it is a change in the population density, but it does not support the Theory of Evolution because there was no species change.  You started with light moths and dark moths, and you ended up with light colored moths and dark moths.  If you mention this to an evolutionist they will go to trick #1 and say over millions of years that new kinds of animals will emerge.

Creationists often say they believe in micro-evolution (change within a species) but not macro-evolution (one species becoming a new species).  Creationists may also say they believe in horizontal evolution (change within a species) but not vertical evolution (new species emerging). [AIG]

“My purpose was to show that what is presented to the public as scientific knowledge about evolutionary mechanisms is mostly philosophical speculation and is not even consistent with the evidence once the naturalistic spectacles are removed. If that leaves us without a known mechanism of biological creation, so be it: it is better to admit ignorance than to have confidence in an explanation that is not true.”    [Reason in the Balance (1995) p.12]

No Scientific Answers

When you ask a Darwinist, ‘What evidence do you have for your mechanism that random variation and natural selection can actually do any creating?’ the Darwinist will say, ‘Well, tell me what God looks like, Why did he do this or that? I want you to show me God doing the creating because if you can’t show me that, we can get rid of God or the creator and what’s left is Darwinism, so it’s got to be true.’ It’s the variation of, ‘This is the only thing that could have happened, so it doesn’t have to be demonstrated, it can just be assumed to be true.’ And anyone who doubts that it could be true has to provide ironclad proof and justification for an alternative.    [Phillip Johnson's Assault Upon Faith-Based Darwinism  East Bay Express July 27 2005]

One could argue with this logic; ‘I want you to show me evolution doing the creating. Show me ironclad proof that the universe came from nothing and that life came from a rock and that one animal turns into another animal because if you can’t do that, then we can get rid of evolutionism, humanism, materialism, naturalism, atheism, socialism, Marxism, communism and elitism and what’s left is God the creator, so God doesn’t have to be demonstrated, he can just accepted by faith.

Evolutionary ideas shifts and changes, gets disproven and scrapped and another idea pops up and nothing is ever settled. Truth never changes, God never changes and the Bible never changes. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. Evolutionists go to great links to try to rationalize their confusing ideas which only serve to confuse people. Evolution is a deliberate attempt by blinded Godless people to blind the eyes of others to the truth of God. I believe that the whole evolutionary philosophy was satanically inspired. It is much more difficult to teach or understand the gospel for most people now than in the past because of evolution. Satan knows this and has gone to great lengths and done everything in his power to confuse the real issue of salvation. There is no directed attack upon any of the Christless major religions of the world-only Christianity-because Satan knows it is the one true salvation.

“And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.” (Revelation 12:9)

“Ye (unbelievers) are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” (John 8:44)

“Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” (John 8:12)

The Great White Throne Judgment

God wants those who choose to live with him to love him and have faith in him. Then he will forgive all of your sin past, present and future and make your eternal status righteous, as he is righteous, so that you can live with him for eternity.  Neither evolution nor God will ever be proven scientifically. There is no middle ground, either you are for Christ or against him and with Satan.

“He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.” (Matthew 12:30)

You will be without an excuse when you stand before God at the Great White Throne Judgment and discover that you name is not written in the Book of Life. And you finally awaken to the fact that you are going to the Lake of Fire forever because you have failed to believe in the simple Gospel of Jesus Christ. Don’t be deceived, the evidence for evolution is Satan’s non-existent hoax, but the evidence for God is everywhere.

 “There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.” (Luke 13:28)

“And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, (Jesus Christ) from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. (the things they have done)

And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” (Revelation 20:11-15)

                                                ~It is a matter of Faith~

“To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.” Acts 26:18

Our purpose on earth is to demonstrate God’s judgment upon Satan was just and fair to all people and angels. When someone sides with Satan their judgment will be the same as his because he is their father and they follow him rather than Christ.

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” (Romans 10:9)~

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America, since it inception, has been different than any other country in history. We are a nation, barely two hundred and thirty years old, and yet in our first century became the richest, most powerful and influential nation the world has ever known.

Our land has produced many natural resources such as iron ore, oil and gas, and timber which were seemingly vital to our success in becoming a world power. However, in later years it has been discovered that many other countries have as much, or more, natural resources as America has ever had. So, the obvious question is, why did they not become world powers considering the fact that they are much older than America?

America did not become the world power because of its natural resources. America became a world power because of its faith in, and reverence toward God. Its people were mainly Christians who desired to not only live in freedom, but to have religious liberty for everyone, free from the religious bigotry of Europe.

God has given every person alive a free will, to choose for or against Jesus Christ. With religious liberty built into their constitution, Americans chose Christianity as it main faith. However, others were welcome with no persecution allowed from the government. Congress was prohibited from even passing a law to establish a religion, and it was also prohibited from telling any American that he could not freely exercise his religious faith in whatever way he wanted to.

This arrangement should make everyone happy because everyone has the right to believe and worship anyway he wants to, or to not believe and not worship. This is free will. Everyone has a free will and our government was designed to allow that free will to be expressed.

But what do we see happening in our country now? We see the Supreme Court telling Christian people that they are not allowed to express their religious faith through prayer, public speaking, displaying the Ten Commandments, or in other ways. The constitution does not only tell the government to be neutral regarding religious matters, it tells them to stay out of it. But why is this happening? We often forget that Satan-the most powerful creature in existence next to God-wants to be a god himself.

Satan’s Five “I wills”
“But you said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars (angels) of God, and I will sit on the mount of the assembly in the recesses of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the most high.” (Isaiah. 14:13-14)

In order to become his own god, Satan must destroy knowledge of the true God and exalt himself before men. To this end he has infiltrated our government, our churches, our institutions of learning, our press, and every other place where we might learn truth. He has replaced truth with his own doctrines of lies. Over time, people who have little or no true knowledge of God’s word, have bought into these lies, and therefore, they have turned away from God, and toward Satan.

Naturally, such people would want to keep others from knowing the truth in order to serve their master. Many people are serving Satan, and don’t even know it. They make a great effort to blind the eyes of people to truth in an effort to prevent people from becoming followers of Christ.

The greatest infiltration of Satan and the place where you would least expect to find deceit is in Churches. Not all of them, but many have allowed Satan to do his work through their teachings or their lack of teaching. There are many false things taught in churches today when compared to the Bible.

The Ten Commandments which God gave to Moses are for the purpose of defining what sin actually is. Sin is rebellion against God. Sin is an absolute. Either we sin or we don’t. We either obey God or we don’t. No one can keep all of these commandments all of his life because we have inherited a sin nature passed down from Adam. The Mosaic Law, of which these commandments are a part, would not save you even if you could obey them all of your life. Faith in the coming Christ, as declared by the prophets or faith in the historic Christ, as declared by New Testament pastors and evangelists, has always been the way of salvation. Grace does not end the Law but rather it brings it to fruition. These are not the only sins mentioned in the Bible but they were intended to be the law by which the Jews lived under the old covenant to demonstrate to them that they could not keep them, and thus the need for a savior. We are now under the new covenant and the law of Grace.

“Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness (using the law as a means of salvation), have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law (the fruition) for righteousness to every one that believeth. For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, that the man which doeth those things shall live by them.” (Romans 10:1-5)

1. I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

When God brought the Jews out of the bondage of Egypt he was demonstrating that he was the only savior and provider. These “other gods” are false gods and have many names, but are actually all Satan. Satan exposed this when he declared “I will be like the most high.” Therefore, the true God will absolutely not tolerate anyone who worships anyone or anything other than himself directly.

2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

This means that idols, icons, statues, figurines, paintings, relics or anything else that can be construed as a “graven image” are strictly prohibited. Not only should we not use them in worship, but we should not even make them. God shows mercy to those that love him directly and obey these commandments.

3. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

This is not referring to all profanity; it is referring specifically to the name of God being used in profanity. To do so demeans the name of God and his perfect righteousness.

4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

This commandment was given so that we would have a time to worship God and not forget him by working seven days a week. It was a time of worship to be set aside under the law and for the coming church. It refers to the six days of creation which determines our work week; six days of work, and one day of rest. It also refers to the six thousand years of the world’s history when Satan is loose, deceiving the nations and the one thousand years of rest of the millennium period when Satan will be bound and Jesus Christ, along with the believers, will rule and reign during this time of world peace.

“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day (2 Peter 3:1)
“And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years…And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison.” (Revelation 20:2 &7)

5. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

This is telling us to honor our parents regardless of what they have done. If they are good it may be easy to honor them, but if they were not good we should try to respectfully help them however we can. The honor and dignity comes from you and is a characteristic of a Christian living a spiritual live.

6. Thou shalt not kill.

This refers to murder only. It does not refer to killing animals, capitol punishment or the defense of a nation or individual.

7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Sexual sins with another man’s wife, sex out of marriage, incest, homosexuality etc. are all forbidden by God.

8. Thou shalt not steal.

Small theft or big theft is all sin to God.

9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Do not tell lies about another individual to another person, in court or anywhere else. This includes judging others. If you do, you will suffer the consequences of your words.

“Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.” (Luke: 6:37)

10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

Covet means to have a strong desire to posses something that belongs to someone else. This is telling us to not have that desire. The desire itself is the sin. It is a form of lust that will leads to many other sins. For example, if you have a desire to have someone else’s wife this can lead to adultery, sexual disease, divorce or even murder. Children can be adversely affected as well.

All of the commandments were given for a reason. They not only define what sin is but if we adhere to them as much as possible we can live the life that God desires for us. Everyone has a sin nature and will stumble from time to time, but if we continually break them out of our own lust our lives will become useless. God has a plan for us and we cannot be led by the Holy Spirit, nor can our prayers be heard, if there is any sin whatsoever in our life.

“If I regard (allow any) iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. ” (Psalms 66:18)

“If we confess our sins, he (God) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9)

God the Father giving us God the Son for salvation, and the ability of restoration to his fellowship when we sin…is grace. Grace is the fulfillment of the Law and Jesus Christ did all of the work of salvation on the cross.

“Now the LORD had said unto Abram, get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” (Genesis 12: 1-3)

The nation of Israel was founded by God himself. God made a promise to Abraham that his descendants would eventually become a great nation. It would become a blessing to the entire world, but is this the Israel that we see today? Israel is a war torn nation that has been under constant attack throughout its history. Even when the Jews were dispersed around the world they were attacked as a people. The holocaust was the just the latest desperate attempt to wipe out the Jews from the face of the earth just a few years prior to the rebirth of their nation in 1948.

Abraham had two sons, Ishmael by his Egyptian handmaiden Hagar, from which Mohammed eventually descended, and founded the Muslim religion. Fourteen years later Abraham had another son by his wife Sarah named Isaac. Isaac had two sons, Jacob and Esau. These twin sons were fighting even before they were born.

“And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD. And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner (kinds) of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger. And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.” (Genesis 25: 22-24)

Esau hated and despised Jacob because he had sold his birthright (inheritance) to Jacob for a bowl of stew and bread and later Jacob was given his fathers birthright blessing of material wealth. The hostility has continued through the generations. The descendants of Esau married into the descendants of Ishmael and formed the Arabic nations. The descendants of Jacob became the Jewish nation of Israel. The aggressive hatred now seen in the Arabs towards the Jews is a reflection of Esau’s hatred of Jacob.

Prior to man’s creation Satan declared that he wanted to be a god himself. For this reason he was cast out of Heaven onto the Earth and condemned to the Lake of Fire. A false God must devise false religions in order to have worshipers and he must deceive people about the true God in order to achieve his goal.

“I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.” (Isaiah 14:13-14)

But in the next verse God had a word for Satan and his followers.

“Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. (Isaiah 14:15)

Satan knew that he couldn’t overthrow God but yet wanted to be a God himself. There are really only two religions, the false one of Satan and the true one of God, although the false religion is veiled under many different names in order to appeal to different cultures of the world. The false religion teaches that man achieves salvation by his own merit, but the true religion teaches that Jesus Christ provided salvation by his work on the cross. This is why the false religions of the world deny Jesus as the Son of God and exalt their own works. If Satan allowed his religions to follow Jesus then he would have no followers. Therefore, he will deceive men by any means possible.

Satan is known as “god” by many religious names. Allah is the one that the Muslims worship. Muslims and Christians do not serve the same God. Satan is a deceiver and a counterfeiter. Every one of his religions, prophets, doctrines, books and methods of salvation are false although he makes them appear as genuine as possible.

The descendants of Jacob, the Jews, believe in the true God of Abraham. However, when they rejected Jesus as the Son of God they were placed under divine discipline by God and have been ever since. The Jews were God’s chosen people to preach the Gospel around the world but they refused to believe that Jesus was the Messiah or preach the Gospel. As a result, God has allowed Israel to be attacked in every way possible throughout history. Even though they have been disobedient, God has preserved the Jews as a people.

God has had to use other nations to preach his Gospel and each one that has, received the blessings that could have been Israel’s. The United States has been God’s client nation for the past two hundred plus years, but if and when it goes against Christ it will lose its blessings and become just another liberal bankrupt country struggling to survive.

The Jews have been like a rebellious child but at some point they will finally awaken to the realization that Jesus is the true Messiah and the Sanhedrin, which has been reconvened, will declare it publicly. The twelve tribes of Israel, consisting of twelve thousand evangelists each, will go around the world and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to every person on the Earth. The blessings that God promised Abraham will finally be realized and Israel will live in peace forever.

“If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.”  (Leviticus 26:40-42)

“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he has saved us…”

True salvation comes through faith in Jesus Christ:

“Ye are the children of God through faith in Jesus Christ.” (Gal. 3:26)

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast” (Eph. 2:8&9)

So, first you must believe in the saving work of Jesus Christ on the cross and accept him as your savior. This is salvation and it is simple.

Good works are fine, however good works are produced by a Christians faith. Good works do not save us.

“This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that you affirm consistently, that they which believe in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.” (Titus 3:8)

We are saved through our faith/belief in Jesus Christ.

Jesus tells us: “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead (spiritually), yet shall he live: and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die…” (John: 11:25 & 26)

Ok, so now you have accepted Jesus Christ as your savior. Now what? The first thing that we must know is what to do if we should sin. It is Gods purpose for all believers to tell others the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If we have sin in our own life we will not be led by the Holy Spirit to accomplish the things that God wants us to do and rest assured you will still sin because you still possess that sin nature that has been passed down from Adam. That is why John tells us: “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us” (1 John 1:8). The next verse tells us what to do when we sin:

“If we confess (name each sin to God the Father) our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9)

This verse does not tell us to repent of our sins or ask for forgiveness of our sins. It says confess. Notice something here. This verse says: If we confess…he will forgive…and cleanse us from ALL unrighteousness. If he cleanses from all unrighteousness when we confess then what is the point of asking for forgiveness or repenting.

The word repent means to have a change of mind about something. (see commentary “Repent What Does it Mean? Part 2 for details) Repent is normally used in the New Testament to tell People to change their unbelieving mind about Jesus Christ. When used in conjunction with sin it means to change your mind about your sinning ways in general.

Confession is naming each sin to God. This is how we are forgiven of sins that we commit after we become believers.

Ok so now you have accepted Jesus Christ and you will confess your sins what’s next?

You are now in the first grade starting school. What do you do in the first grade? You start to learn. Basic things first such as we have on this website are a good start and others that we link to are good as well.

This is important. Find a Church that teaches the Bible correctly. Stay away from organized religion in total and denominational churches as a general rule although there are some exceptions. If you can’t find one on your own write to me and I’ll locate one in your area. If you live in another country (outside the USA) or some remote place there are ministries that will send you Bible study lessons on tape or cd’s free of charge anywhere in the world. We can put you in touch with them. Evaluate a church by what they teach and not by how they make you feel.

For example: If someone personally asks you for money or tells you that you are required to tithe 10% of your income, even once, walk out the back door and keep walking! “Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity; for God loveth a cheerful giver.” (2 Corinthians 9:7) A 10% requirement is of necessity and not scriptural. The 10% requirement was a Jewish tax for 1/10 of their flock or crops. Offerings were just that; the amount that you freely offer the Lord.

If you hear someone speaking in tongues (gibberish) or if they tell you that you have to join the church and get baptized get out! “But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness” (2 Timothy 2:16)

If the pastor just seems to tell stories and jokes and is not teaching from the Bible this is a bad sign. Obviously you will learn nothing at this Church.

If the Church condones homosexuality or has a homosexual or a female pastor (pardon the expression) run like hell! Female pastors and homosexuality are forbidden by the Bible. 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 says” Let you women keep silent in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak” (as a pastor). For homosexuality see Romans 1:26-32

If the Church has rituals other than the Lords Table or requires penance or worships anyone other than Jesus Christ such as Mary it is a false teaching church.

If the Church has beliefs and requirements not found in the Bible or if it does not believe that the Bible is the infallible word of God you would be well advised to stay away from it. “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine (teaching), for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the Man of God (believers) may be perfect (become spiritually mature) thoroughly furnished (prepared to do) all good works.” (2 Timothy 3: 16)

You must realize that Satan is trying to destroy your thinking by filling your head with false beliefs in an effort to keep you from telling others about Jesus Christ and to prevent you from learning what the Bible really has to say. He attempts to do this by infiltrating the churches and he has been somewhat successful. As a new Christian you have limited knowledge of the Bible and are vulnerable to Satan’s attacks. However, there are a number of churches who are aware of this and have kept out the false teaching and continue to teach the Bible the way is was intended to be taught. If you are truly seeking the truth ask God to show you the way and he will.

“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. If the Son shall make you free ye shall be free indeed” (John 8:32 & 36)

“Study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth.”

Therefore, we have seen that we must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ for Salvation, we must be filled with the Holy Spirit for guidance by confessing our sin to God the Father and that we must first learn the basic things of God through Bible study and continue in study in order that we can reach spiritual maturity, increase our faith and become an effective witness for our Lord Jesus Christ. This is our journey to the high ground and our victory over Satan.

Paul said: “For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast” (Eph: 2:8, 9).

James said “Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead being alone. (James 2:17)

So, who is right Paul or James? Answer: Both are right.

Paul is speaking of a genuine faith and James is speaking of a vain man who claims to have faith but cannot demonstrate it because he is not producing good works.

“But thou will know (on judgment day), O vain man, that faith without works is dead. (James 2:20).

What is dead here? The vain mans faith is dead which of course implies that he has no faith otherwise he would be producing good works.

“What doeth it profit, my brethren, though a man SAY he has faith, and has not works, can faith save him?” Of course not since his faith is dead. In other words actions (works) speak louder than vain words (dead faith) as it were. Or, actions prove words.

What James is teaching here is that anyone who has a genuine faith will be producing good works because of his faith.

“Yea, a man may say, you have faith and I have works, show me thy faith without thy works (impossible) and I will show thee my faith by my works” (the things I do). (James 2:18). It is the faith that saves but the true works are the evidence of that faith.

A simple illustration may help. When my son was very young he would stand on top of his bunk bed and I would tell him to close his eyes and fall forward and I would catch him. Since he trusted me he would say OK (had a genuine faith) close his eyes and fall and I would catch him. If he had said that he trusted me to catch him but really didn’t believe that I would, he would not have fallen. In other words, his falling demonstrated his faith. This was my way of teaching him about faith.

Suppose you started a business and prayed that God would help you become successful. Then all you did was sit around and do nothing. What would happen to the business? It would fall flat even if you claimed to have faith that it would succeed. We must step out in faith believing, not wavering or doubting God. We should work the business and all the while believe that God will keep his promises to us. Here again we have faith first then proceed with our works. Our faith is no good if it’s not real.

Saying we have faith and truly having faith are two different things. So, how do we obtain a true faith? Our faith comes by a consistent study of the Bible. We first have a faith in Jesus Christ when someone explains the Gospel to us from the Bible and then when we continue to learn our faith will grow as a result of our knowledge about Jesus Christ.

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

Look at what happened to Abraham: (Genesis 22: 1-13) God told Abraham to offer up his son as a burnt offering to the Lord.

Abraham took the fire and a knife to kill his son as an offering because he had a genuine faith. At the last minute an angel of the Lord said: “Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do anything unto him for now I know that thou fearest (trust, a genuine faith) God seeing thou hath not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.” (Gen 22:11).

Abraham had proved his faith by his works. It should be pointed out that Abraham had no idea that God was testing his faith yet he trusted the Lord. If we truly believe and trust God we can’t help but live our lives doing good works. Anything that an unbeliever can do in the energy of the flesh is NOT good works even though it may seem to us as good. For example, an unbeliever can be religious, give to the poor, visit the sick and elderly, sing in the choir, donate to charity etc. but these are not good works as far as God is concerned because good works are generated by faith in God. We cannot please God without faith no matter what kind of good works we do.

“But without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him” (Hebrews 11:6)

There are two types of good works. There is the type we generate from ourselves in an effort to gain the approval of God and there is the type that we produce under the guidance of the Holy Spirit as a result of our faith and love for the Lord Jesus Christ.

“But we are all as an unclean thing and ALL OUR righteousnesses are as filthy rags…” (Isaiah 64:6)

Many atheists are good and decent moral people and many do a lot of good things, humanly speaking, but works do not save them nor or their works counted as good by God. In Hebrews 11 Paul gives examples of Old Testament believers who produced good works because of their faith. Able, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sara, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Sampson, Rahab the prostitute, Sampson, David, Samuel and more.

“They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted (tested), were slain with the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented, they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. (Heb 11: 37-38). These people did what they did because they believed in God not because they were trying to be seen by men as a good person or earn their salvation.

The human race exists to resolve the conflict between the elect angels (those who stayed with God) and the fallen angels (those who followed Satan). They are watching us. Satan deceived many of them and they were judged and cast out of Heaven to the earth. God knows that many of us believe in him and that’s what saves us. However, as a demonstration of his fairness in judging Satan and the Fallen Angels to the Lake of fire he allows us to be tested for all to see. When we use our faith during a time of hardship God considers this good works. Such is the case with Abraham. This is quite different than many of the things we often consider good deeds. It is easy to have faith when things are going smoothly in our lives but when the pressure of an impossible situation is upon us we are forced to make a decision as to which way we will go. We will either turn away from God (dead faith) or we will rest in Gods promises while we are enduring our period of suffering. Others will be observing what we do. This is a part of our witness for the Lord.

James gives the same example of Abraham as Paul did. Paul, remember, was speaking of a genuine faith and James was speaking of the works that Abraham produced because of his faith.

“Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered up Isaac his son upon the alter? “ (James 2:21)

If you stop reading here you might think that Abraham was saved because he did good works. Abraham was a believer long before this time so he wasn’t saved by his works. In the next verse James tells us:

“See how faith wrought with (produced by) his works, and by works was faith made perfect.” (James 2:22)

Perfect means mature in the old English. In other words, Abraham in demonstrating his faith became a more mature believer having been through what must have been a time of agony knowing he was to sacrifice his son. This is how our faith grows.

“…Abraham believed (faith) God, and it was imputed (credited by God) unto him for righteousness: and he was called the friend of God.” (James 2:23) Notice here that James says that it was Abraham’s belief (faith) that made him righteous not his works.

As an unbeliever we have a dead human spirit which makes our body dead in that we are unable to do good works that are pleasing to God. So, if we say we have faith but really don’t our works are useless and our faith is dead.

“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.” (James 2:26)

This is why James tells us “Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only deceiving your own selves. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continues therein he, being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

Good works are the result of a genuine faith in Jesus Christ. Good works are not something that we must generate in the energy of the flesh.

“For by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. For we (Christians) are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” (Eph: 2:8, 9, 10)

Notice that we are saved first and then the good works come as a result of our faith.

. Salvation comes by faith, a genuine faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and at some point in your life you can expect that faith to be tested not only for the benefit of the angels but for your spiritual growth as well. Your obedience to God as a result of this testing will be counted as good works and is evidence of your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. God wants you to grow in your faith and to become spiritually mature and at the same time demonstrate to unbelievers, angels and Satan that you are truly a child of God.

“But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. (Isaiah 64:8)

“Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: For we walk by faith, not by sight.” (2 Corinthians 5:6-7)