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Almighty God and Planet Earth
We now have available to us quite sophisticated video games, such as ‘Minecraft’, where we can control identities and develop outcomes to the advantage of the player.
When we consider the incredible construct of our environment and the information as given to us in the Book provided by our Maker, it does seem that we are actually part of a carefully set up great cosmic plan1. The Creator God has fashioned a whole universe, and He has fixed the heavenly bodies in space, but Planet Earth is specially established as a place for human existence2. He constantly watches3 our progress or lack of, as the case may be and does occasionally intervene with miraculous things4 and a little tweak of the weather5. He can also control our minds6, although we are free to choose our beliefs and that has a bearing on our actions7.
Although Satan is an angelic being that has rebelled against God,8 he is allowed to try to deceive humankind,9 in order to provide us with a choice – follow good or evil.10
God sent Jesus into the world to reiterate how we should live and to provide a way of atonement for all who choose to believe in Him and obey His Commands.11
Only once so far, He has carried out a reset of civilization, when the situation got out of hand, as in the days of Noah12. Then later, He selected Abraham to father a nation who would become His chosen people, to be His witnesses and to show the right way of living to the rest of the nations.13 The ancient Israelites failed at this task and they were exiled out of the holy Land and city that God had chosen for His own.14
Now a small part of the Israelite peoples have returned to a part of the holy Land, but they face constant threats of annihilation from all the surrounding peoples.15 The Prophetic Word says that the Lord is restraining Himself from intervening,16 but when the enemy commences his attack, then He will act.17
Scripture tells us that He is the Potter, we are the clay and He can remould or smash at will.18 Some are actually made for destruction.19 The forthcoming great Day of the Lord’s vengeance and wrath, a terrible judgement/punishment by fire from the sky,20 will once again reset the world’s civilization.21
The survivors of the nations will establish a One World Government, initially ruled by 10 Presidents,22 but all the faithful Christian people will gather and go to live in all of the original Promised Land.23 They will fulfil their destiny, being a light to the nations and proclaiming the coming Kingdom of Jesus.24
1/ Almighty God is the Creator of all there is.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth….
Jeremiah 10:12 God made the earth by His power…
Psalm 33:11 The Lord’s purpose stands forever….
2/ The Earth is made for mankind.
Genesis 1:26-28…God created humans in His own image, they have dominion over the earth.
Isaiah 45:18 The Creator says: I made the earth as a place to be lived in.
3/ The Lord watches all mankind.
2 Chron. 16:9 The eyes of the Lord range through the whole world…
Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the Lord survey everyone, good or evil.
Psalm 11:4 God is on His throne in heaven, His searching gaze tests mankind.
4/ God can and does perform miracles.
Exodus 14:21-28 …the Israelites went over the Red sea on dry land…
John 11:43 Jesus said: Lazarus, come forth.
5/ God controls the weather.
Genesis 41:25-32…there will be seven good years and then seven years of famine.
1 Kings 18:41-45…Elijah prayed for rain to break the drought.
Psalm 135:3-5 The Lord is great, He brings up clouds and makes the rain.
6/ He can control our minds.
Deut. 29:4 To this day, the Lord has not given you a mind to understand.
Isaiah 29:9-11 If you believe false teachings, then the Lord will pour upon you a spirit of deep stupor and the prophetic vision will become as a sealed book.
Isaiah 56:10-11 All Israel’s watchmen are blind, perceiving nothing…
Matthew 11:25 Father, You have hidden the truth from the wise and revealed it to the simple.
7/ We can choose the path we travel through life.
Genesis 2:15-17…you are free to eat of any tree, but if you eat from the tree of the knowledge you will then know of the difference between good and evil.
Proverbs 16:16 Choose wisdom rather than gold, discernment before silver.
8/ Satan, Lucifer, the Devil, that great Dragon.
Ezekiel 28:11-15 You were full of wisdom and beauty…until iniquity came into you.
Luke 4:6 All the earth has been put into my hands….
Rev. 12:3-17…that great Dragon lost his place in heaven… he pursued the ‘woman’, but she was taken to a place of safety, so he went to wage war on the other faithful Christians.
9/ Satan is a cunning deceiver.
Genesis 4:6-7 The Lord said to Cain: Why are you angry? You must keep upright, for sin is a demon crouching at the door, it will take you over
1 Peter 5:8 Look out! The Devil is like a roaring lion, looking for prey.
10/ It’s our choice – follow good or evil.
Joshua 24:15 …choose now whom you will serve, the God of our fathers or of the Amorites.
Isaiah 56:4-5…those who choose to do My will, will receive an everlasting blessing.
11/ The Way of the Lord is the right Way.
Isaiah 48:17 The Lord says: I teach you for your own wellbeing…
Micah 6:8 The Lord has told you mortals what is good, act justly, be loyal and humble.
John 14:6 Jesus said: I am the Way, the Truth and the Light…
12/ The days of Noah.
Genesis 6:5-13 When God saw how great was the wickedness of humans on earth, He wiped them out with a great flood, only Noah and his family survived.
Matthew 24:27 As it was in the days of Noah, again it will be when the Son of Man comes.
13/ A chosen people, the Lord’s witnesses.
Deut.10:15 God loved the forefathers and He chose their descendants after them.
Psalm 65:4-5 Happy are those whom You chose, God our Deliverer
John 15:1-26 I am the Vine, you are the branches…you are to bear fruit in plenty and so be My disciples…You did not choose Me, I chose you…to be My witnesses throughout the world.
14/ The Exile punishment of the Israelites.
Deut. 4:25-27 If you anger the Lord by sinning against Him, then He will scatter you among the nations and leave you few in number in the places where He will lead you.
2 Kings 17:20-23 When God separated Israel from the House of David, they persisted in sinning. So the Lord rejected the descendants of Israel and flung them out of His presence. They were taken to Assyria and remain in exile to this day.
Jeremiah 16:10-13 Tell Judah how they have forsaken Me and do not keep My Law, they follow their wicked and stubborn hearts. So I shall fling them headlong out of this Land, into unknown countries, there to serve other gods.
15/ The Jewish State of Israel is now facing serious threats of attack.
Psalm 83:1-8 …our enemies raise an uproar, they devise a cunning plot against Israel. They say: Let us wipe them out as a nation, let the name of Israel be remembered no more.
Micah 4:11-12 Now; many nations are massed against you, they say: Let Israel suffer disaster, but they do not know God’s thoughts or understand His purposes – they are like sheaves gathered for threshing.
16/ God is refraining from intervening until the last moment.
Isaiah 42:14 Long have I restrained Myself, I keep silence and hold Myself in check. But now I am like a woman in labour, soon I will lay waste to the countryside and dry it up.
Habakkuk 3:12-14 In anger, You traverse the earth, You trample down the nations. You will shatter the wicked, sweeping them away as they commence their secret attack.
Psalm 7:12-16 The enemy makes ready his weapons, but his nefarious actions will recoil upon himself, his violent attack will fall onto his own head.
Joel 3:4 What are you Philistines doing? If you try to take vengeance on Me, I shall make your weapons recoil swiftly onto your own heads.
17/ The Lord will take action against the godless nations.
Isaiah 34:1-8 Listen everybody: the Lord’s anger is against all the nations and His wrath is against their military forces. For My sword will appear in the sky, the atmosphere will roll away as it descends in judgement. There will be a great slaughter in Edom, [non Israelite nations] and a sacrifice in Bozrah. [Places where the exiled Israelites live.]
Isaiah 28:21 But the Lord will arise, as He did in ancient times, He will storm with rage to do what He must do, to perform His task, an unusual act.
18/ He is the Potter, we are the clay.
Jeremiah 18:1-9… My people, I can deal with you just like a potter does with the clay….I can at any moment uproot a nation or plant and build up another nation or kingdom. But if it does evil in My sight, then I will reconsider the good that I had in mind for them.
Romans 9:20-21 Who do you think you are, to answer your Creator back?...Surely the Potter can do what He likes with the clay. Is he not free to make two vessels out of one lump, one to be treasured, the other for common use?
Continued:
We now have available to us quite sophisticated video games, such as ‘Minecraft’, where we can control identities and develop outcomes to the advantage of the player.
When we consider the incredible construct of our environment and the information as given to us in the Book provided by our Maker, it does seem that we are actually part of a carefully set up great cosmic plan1. The Creator God has fashioned a whole universe, and He has fixed the heavenly bodies in space, but Planet Earth is specially established as a place for human existence2. He constantly watches3 our progress or lack of, as the case may be and does occasionally intervene with miraculous things4 and a little tweak of the weather5. He can also control our minds6, although we are free to choose our beliefs and that has a bearing on our actions7.
Although Satan is an angelic being that has rebelled against God,8 he is allowed to try to deceive humankind,9 in order to provide us with a choice – follow good or evil.10
God sent Jesus into the world to reiterate how we should live and to provide a way of atonement for all who choose to believe in Him and obey His Commands.11
Only once so far, He has carried out a reset of civilization, when the situation got out of hand, as in the days of Noah12. Then later, He selected Abraham to father a nation who would become His chosen people, to be His witnesses and to show the right way of living to the rest of the nations.13 The ancient Israelites failed at this task and they were exiled out of the holy Land and city that God had chosen for His own.14
Now a small part of the Israelite peoples have returned to a part of the holy Land, but they face constant threats of annihilation from all the surrounding peoples.15 The Prophetic Word says that the Lord is restraining Himself from intervening,16 but when the enemy commences his attack, then He will act.17
Scripture tells us that He is the Potter, we are the clay and He can remould or smash at will.18 Some are actually made for destruction.19 The forthcoming great Day of the Lord’s vengeance and wrath, a terrible judgement/punishment by fire from the sky,20 will once again reset the world’s civilization.21
The survivors of the nations will establish a One World Government, initially ruled by 10 Presidents,22 but all the faithful Christian people will gather and go to live in all of the original Promised Land.23 They will fulfil their destiny, being a light to the nations and proclaiming the coming Kingdom of Jesus.24
1/ Almighty God is the Creator of all there is.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth….
Jeremiah 10:12 God made the earth by His power…
Psalm 33:11 The Lord’s purpose stands forever….
2/ The Earth is made for mankind.
Genesis 1:26-28…God created humans in His own image, they have dominion over the earth.
Isaiah 45:18 The Creator says: I made the earth as a place to be lived in.
3/ The Lord watches all mankind.
2 Chron. 16:9 The eyes of the Lord range through the whole world…
Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the Lord survey everyone, good or evil.
Psalm 11:4 God is on His throne in heaven, His searching gaze tests mankind.
4/ God can and does perform miracles.
Exodus 14:21-28 …the Israelites went over the Red sea on dry land…
John 11:43 Jesus said: Lazarus, come forth.
5/ God controls the weather.
Genesis 41:25-32…there will be seven good years and then seven years of famine.
1 Kings 18:41-45…Elijah prayed for rain to break the drought.
Psalm 135:3-5 The Lord is great, He brings up clouds and makes the rain.
6/ He can control our minds.
Deut. 29:4 To this day, the Lord has not given you a mind to understand.
Isaiah 29:9-11 If you believe false teachings, then the Lord will pour upon you a spirit of deep stupor and the prophetic vision will become as a sealed book.
Isaiah 56:10-11 All Israel’s watchmen are blind, perceiving nothing…
Matthew 11:25 Father, You have hidden the truth from the wise and revealed it to the simple.
7/ We can choose the path we travel through life.
Genesis 2:15-17…you are free to eat of any tree, but if you eat from the tree of the knowledge you will then know of the difference between good and evil.
Proverbs 16:16 Choose wisdom rather than gold, discernment before silver.
8/ Satan, Lucifer, the Devil, that great Dragon.
Ezekiel 28:11-15 You were full of wisdom and beauty…until iniquity came into you.
Luke 4:6 All the earth has been put into my hands….
Rev. 12:3-17…that great Dragon lost his place in heaven… he pursued the ‘woman’, but she was taken to a place of safety, so he went to wage war on the other faithful Christians.
9/ Satan is a cunning deceiver.
Genesis 4:6-7 The Lord said to Cain: Why are you angry? You must keep upright, for sin is a demon crouching at the door, it will take you over
1 Peter 5:8 Look out! The Devil is like a roaring lion, looking for prey.
10/ It’s our choice – follow good or evil.
Joshua 24:15 …choose now whom you will serve, the God of our fathers or of the Amorites.
Isaiah 56:4-5…those who choose to do My will, will receive an everlasting blessing.
11/ The Way of the Lord is the right Way.
Isaiah 48:17 The Lord says: I teach you for your own wellbeing…
Micah 6:8 The Lord has told you mortals what is good, act justly, be loyal and humble.
John 14:6 Jesus said: I am the Way, the Truth and the Light…
12/ The days of Noah.
Genesis 6:5-13 When God saw how great was the wickedness of humans on earth, He wiped them out with a great flood, only Noah and his family survived.
Matthew 24:27 As it was in the days of Noah, again it will be when the Son of Man comes.
13/ A chosen people, the Lord’s witnesses.
Deut.10:15 God loved the forefathers and He chose their descendants after them.
Psalm 65:4-5 Happy are those whom You chose, God our Deliverer
John 15:1-26 I am the Vine, you are the branches…you are to bear fruit in plenty and so be My disciples…You did not choose Me, I chose you…to be My witnesses throughout the world.
14/ The Exile punishment of the Israelites.
Deut. 4:25-27 If you anger the Lord by sinning against Him, then He will scatter you among the nations and leave you few in number in the places where He will lead you.
2 Kings 17:20-23 When God separated Israel from the House of David, they persisted in sinning. So the Lord rejected the descendants of Israel and flung them out of His presence. They were taken to Assyria and remain in exile to this day.
Jeremiah 16:10-13 Tell Judah how they have forsaken Me and do not keep My Law, they follow their wicked and stubborn hearts. So I shall fling them headlong out of this Land, into unknown countries, there to serve other gods.
15/ The Jewish State of Israel is now facing serious threats of attack.
Psalm 83:1-8 …our enemies raise an uproar, they devise a cunning plot against Israel. They say: Let us wipe them out as a nation, let the name of Israel be remembered no more.
Micah 4:11-12 Now; many nations are massed against you, they say: Let Israel suffer disaster, but they do not know God’s thoughts or understand His purposes – they are like sheaves gathered for threshing.
16/ God is refraining from intervening until the last moment.
Isaiah 42:14 Long have I restrained Myself, I keep silence and hold Myself in check. But now I am like a woman in labour, soon I will lay waste to the countryside and dry it up.
Habakkuk 3:12-14 In anger, You traverse the earth, You trample down the nations. You will shatter the wicked, sweeping them away as they commence their secret attack.
Psalm 7:12-16 The enemy makes ready his weapons, but his nefarious actions will recoil upon himself, his violent attack will fall onto his own head.
Joel 3:4 What are you Philistines doing? If you try to take vengeance on Me, I shall make your weapons recoil swiftly onto your own heads.
17/ The Lord will take action against the godless nations.
Isaiah 34:1-8 Listen everybody: the Lord’s anger is against all the nations and His wrath is against their military forces. For My sword will appear in the sky, the atmosphere will roll away as it descends in judgement. There will be a great slaughter in Edom, [non Israelite nations] and a sacrifice in Bozrah. [Places where the exiled Israelites live.]
Isaiah 28:21 But the Lord will arise, as He did in ancient times, He will storm with rage to do what He must do, to perform His task, an unusual act.
18/ He is the Potter, we are the clay.
Jeremiah 18:1-9… My people, I can deal with you just like a potter does with the clay….I can at any moment uproot a nation or plant and build up another nation or kingdom. But if it does evil in My sight, then I will reconsider the good that I had in mind for them.
Romans 9:20-21 Who do you think you are, to answer your Creator back?...Surely the Potter can do what He likes with the clay. Is he not free to make two vessels out of one lump, one to be treasured, the other for common use?
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