General
He formed it to be inhabited
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The bottomline “vain thing” from which all other societal ills emerge is the question of evolution versus creation. If man evolved from a blob, then life is meaningless and there is no future and there is no moral compass by which to live.
Psalm 2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,
3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
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If man devolved through disobedience and rebellion (known as the Fall in the Garden of Eden) after being created by God, (and history records the effects of the Fall as well as God’s attempt to reclaim mankind from the rule of satan through Jesus Christ), then this is true.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Beyond the secular atheist lie of evolution (they still haven’t found the missing link and the links they have “found” have been debunked) another secular push is that the world needs to be depopulated. This agenda was behind the toxic jab and also behind transgenderism which makes it impossible for children to later have children (unless there is a miraculous intervention by the Lord Jesus Christ). Any agenda to decrease the population is contrary to God’s original command to mankind, which has never been removed or abrogated.
Interestingly, one of the formal definitions of abrogated is “formal : to suppress or prevent (a biological function or process and especially an immune response)” Where have we seen the suppression or prevention of a biological function? through transgender operations? through toxic jabs or “vaccines“?
Genesis 1:28 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.
Genesis 9:7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
Psalm 127:3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Leviticus 26:9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
Deuteronomy 7:13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
Isaiah 45:For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
Psalm 115:6 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
[not to the trees or to the earth]
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Wisdom
She is right. If it weren’t for the United States, the Ukranian War would not be happening. The US and NATO forced Russia into defending their borders. As Pogo said, “We have met the enemy and it is us (US).” We have an occupier-in-chief administration. If the duly-elected President, from whom the election was stolen, had been in office, this war would never had happen. There has been so much anti-Russia propaganda, in politics, and in prophecy, that it has set the stage to condition the minds of the people to let this occur.
And her wisdom is correct. If the world is the boat and it overturns in a WW III, then all the jockeying for position and power won’t matter one whit. Too few people are aware of what is going on and/or too many are either clueless or intellectually dishonest and willing to go along to get along hoping they will emerge unscathed without having to pay any kind of a price to see these things corrected.
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Repost: Adam, Not Apes | Dr. Brian Thomas, Ph.D.
Psalm 2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,
3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
The evolution vs creation question is at the crux of every law created by man to “break the bands” of the laws of God. If man evolved from the slime then he answers to no one and it becomes the survival of the most brutal and most treacherous and most lawless that win over mankind. We see that happening today. If man was created by God (which he was) then all of mankind is answerable to the laws of God.
This is why the evolution vs creation question matters. It may seem like an moot, unimportant word game or argument, but all of the ills of society rest on the answer to that question and up until now, the wrong answer has prevailed. This is why all thinking people should simply follow this man’s example; if you can’t articulate the discussion yourself, simply send a video link and let him do the talking.
As he says, you don’t have to be the Ph.D. Simply send a video link or post it on your Facebook page and let the video do the talking.
Psalm 68:11 The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.
It does not take every member of the body of Christ doing the research of answering any particular question. What is important is that the “company” gets the information out. All can participate in that either in person or through social media.
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All Scripture
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The Apostle Paul spoke of the importance of learning, including from the Old Testament
II Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
I Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
The Bible covers all topics that concern mankind. If the answers have been given, and they have, “the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.”
Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
Some like to say that the law no longer applies. What Jesus brought is a higher application of the law, but basics are still in effect. In other words, if you love your neighbor, you will not steal from him, lie about him, or commit adultery with his wife (all of those being part of the Ten Commandments). Jesus did not die for people to keep on in sin and lifestyles contrary to the scriptures.
Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
One of the areas in the Old Testament where it is important to “take heed” or pay attention is that of tithing. Perhaps it was because Paul ministered primarily to Gentiles, who had no history or background in the tithes and offering system of the Jews, that he talked about “giving” instead of “tithing” in order to make himself culturally relevant. Maybe that is true, maybe it is not. In any case, he did say to go back to the Old Testament to learn things. Tithing is in the Old Testament.
Abraham tithed to Melchisedek. They both lived before Moses (through whom came the law). So those who say that tithing is a part of the law are actually not correct; tithing precedes the law.
Malachi 3:6 For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts.
13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?
The reason I mention this topic is because I saw a post with a reprint of something nearly 100 years. In it, Philippians 4:19 was mentioned.
In my opinion, Philippians 4:19 needs to be mentioned in context. Paul wrote that to a giving church.
Again, IMO, I think that unless a person is tithing and giving offerings according to the will of the Lord, that person may not see the fullness of Philippians 4:19. I personally don’t think that you can separate Philippians 4:19 from the commands to tithe and give.
We live in an entitlement world where there is an expectation in the world to get benefits out without putting anything that is constructive in to create those blessings. God is not a welfare office or a lottery or a slot machine where one can throw in a little or even nothing and expect the blessings to flow.
In my opinion, I believe God blesses as much as he is able in any situation, but there are many things that can block blessings or open someone to the curse because the wages of sin is (still) death. Overall, there is a tendency to over-emphasize God’s responsibility while under-rating personal responsiibility. Personal responsibility may in some way as part of an answer, even if that responsibility is simply to pray and ask. But personal responsibility can involve other things as well.
James 4:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
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