Yet, again my many thanks to the above for their works John B.
NOTE(JB) As I wrote in the intro on the previous post, "If God The Father did not put specific limits upon Satan. he'd already made sure that humanity would be extinct! What we can NOT know, if the huge natural disasters, that take much life and property are allowed by the Father, if only to get our attention, must be dismissed as human speculation, What IS NOT such speculations are all those Mary sittings, and all those "Bleeding" carvings, and all the wounds {which are real} yet caused by Satan working on the Stigmatics to deceive the Biblical illiterate!
1) Had God a definite purpose in creating the earth?
Isaiah 45:18 " 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."
NOTE(JB) "..He created it not in vain The Hebrew word translated "IN VAIN" is Strong's # 8414
TOHUM [to'-hoo] meaning: to lie in waste, a surface desolation
Where else is this word used?
Genesis 1:2 " And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."
The word" form", is from the translated word TOHUM plus another word used here is "..VOID..." that comes from the Hebrew word BOHOO meaning empty or distinguishable ruin!
Now can we safely understand that earth, itself was created a long time before Our Creator began to rework this earth to sustain life? NO!
Not if you know anything about the "Halo's" in Granite rock, for they prove that with their short "Life-span", in granite rock, the foundation stone of earth, had to be cooled and solidified almost instantly to preserve these Halos within the granite rock! GOOGLE "Granite Rock Halos or Robert V. Gentry and "Polonium Halos".
QUESTION: Evolutionists hold to their "Survival of the Fittest" right? So how does that produce the human need to love and be loved? Not to mention the creation of the human conscience! In my study of evolution, when one removes all fur, and get to the bare skin so to speak here's what it says-- DEAD stuff created life, but it needed billions of years to do it!" REALLY?
2) How completely are the plans of God laid for the out-working of His purpose?
Acts 15:18 " Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world."
3) How perfect are the counsels of the LORD?
Psalms 147:4-5 " He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite."
Job 12:13 " With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding."
Note (JB): Science says "Stars are being 'Born' today with the Steller clouds, right? But God said--- "Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them." So should we belive man or God? Can man or men save themselves for eternal life? NO, that only God is able to do!
NOTE(JB) In the O.T. K.J.V .when we read LORD in upper case letters its the transliteration of YHVH or the Hebrew Ye'HOVAH which is the Hebrew transliteration of "I AM THAT I AM [or wish to be} From which we have the GREAT I AM! To which Pat Robinson claims I AM TOO! {If Pat claims to be a god let him walk on water or raise the dead!]
4) Who was entrusted with the divine purpose for this earth?
2 Timothy 1:9 " Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,"
NOTE: Psalms 19:1" The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handy-work." To which anyone looking through a telescope, or even human eyes only on a clear, dark night must surely say "AMEN!"
5). How has God emphasized that His counsels are unchangeable?
Hebrews 6:17 "Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:"
Malachi 3:6 " For I am the LORD, I change not; -----"
Hebrews 13:8 "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever."
6) Though men may plan wisely, what often frustrates their desires?
Romans 7:18 " For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not."
NOTE(JB) I have found myself in this spot, have you? Repent and seek His forgiveness!
7) By what attribute, however, is God's wisdom reinforced?
Psalms 62:11-12 "God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God. Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work." Joel 2:11 "And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?"
8). Is there any room for doubt, then as to god's ability to bring His counsels to fruition?
Ephesians 1:11 "In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:"
Isaiah 46:9-11 " Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it."
NOTE (JB) God is Omnipotent, meaning nothing He can not do.. Luke 18:27 " And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God."
9) By what name does God declare His omnipotence?
Genesis 17:1 " And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect."
NOTE (JB) here read that Abram {latter called Abraham the father of many nations]was ninety years old, and Sarah his wife barren and childless was going to become a Mother! Science says impossible, right, as with so many other bible facts!
10) How was God's omnipotence demonstrated in Creation?
Psalms 33:9 " For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast."
Jeremiah 32:17 "Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:"
Job 26:7 "He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing."
NOTE (JB) I asked YOU, Dear reader, to read the Book of Job, previously, for its scientific announcements well look also the Jeremiah But take note of three words in the above verse, Stretcheth, North and nothing..
It was Hubble, after whom, the Space telescope is named, showed, in late 1920' and early 1930's that the Universe is expanding, or being "STRETCHED". Yet it was not until men took a picture from space during the moon landings, the we knew about about the "NORTH EMPTY PLACE and when did man finally accept that earth just "HANGS" in space upon nothing? Yet it was written Centuries before Christ's birth, so who told these two men??? Only God is able. right:?
11) How is His Power continually manifest in nature?
Genesis 8:22 "While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
Hebrews 1:3 "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;"
NOTE (JB) Who else but Jesus Christ died to pay for all sin, for all time? So, what does the above verse do to those who say "Jesus a good man, but only a man?" "...BY the Word of His Power......."?
12) What does the ever-recurring cycle of day and night teach concerning God's character?
Jeremiah 33:20-21 "Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers."
NOTE: (JB) fear not, all his Covenants [contracts} are fully intact!
13) What authority does God of Heaven exercise in the kingdom of men?
Deuteronomy 32:8 "When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel."
Daniel 4:17 "This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men."
Colossians 1:17 "And he is before all things, and by him all things consist."
NOTE(JB) Th " he" here is Jesus Christ, and the word consist in the Hebrew is Susistao [soon-is-tah'-o] meaning from strong's # 4921 to set together, to constitute, would be of little value unless connected to human science's statement, "We know not what holds the Atom together!" Yet scientists and Bible are for the most part strangers!
Note (JBH) If we need proof of this please read Daniel's chapters,1-7 and learn that sas this prophecy is expanded like layers of an onion from the inside out, know also that Daniel wrote this while in Babylon as a captive, some 450 years before the birth of Christ, yet his total fore-tellings will take us all the to to the return of Christ! But my point in this request is that he set forth the kingdoms of mankind, that human history also recorded in the exact same order! Babylon, Medo-Persian, Greece, and the Roman Empire as the great and Terrible beast, the only power not directly I,D!
This is one of the best way to prove the Bible is filled with truth!
Note: "In the annals of human history the growth of nation, the rise and fall of empires, appear as dependent on the will and prowess of man. The shaping of events seems, so a great degree, to be determined by his power, ambition, or caprice [lust for money-power]. But in the word of God the curtain is drawn aside, and we behold, behind, above, and through all the play and counter play of human interests and power and passions, the agencies of the all-merciful One, silently patiently working out the counsels of His own will" E.G. White Education, p.173.
One prophecy time frame time- times, and half time using one day for a year principle {Ezekiel 4:6-- Numbers 14:34 and Genesis 29:27-28 all one day +one year of prophetic time] The Roman church gained full powers, Government and church in 538 A.D. and lost it in 1798, thus 1260 days/years or 42 months! Daniel also foretold the day is Christ's baptism and begin ing ministry and His death 3.5 years latter! {Daniel 7-9] No man can predict with 100% accuracy, but God knows the Future as well as the Past!.
14) How does God make even the acts of wicked men work out His will?
Psalms 76:10 "Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain."
John A. MacKay: "Crucial Alternatives." Theology Today vol.4 No 1, p 10. "God is still God. The Lord God omnipotent reigneth: He controls the contingencies of history. What happens tomorrow., the future of civilization, the fate of life upon this planet will ultimately be determined not by scientific wisdom, nor by political folly, but by God!"
THE HISTORIANS' HISTORY of the WORLD." VOL 12 PP. 631.632.
"Was it possible that Napoleon should gain this battle {Waterloo]? We answer NO!. WHY? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? NO!
Because of God! Bonaparte a victor a t Waterloo-- that was no longer according to the law of the 19th Century. Another series of events was preparing, wherein Napoleon had no further place. The too great heaviness pf this man in human destiny troubled the balance. The moment was to come for the incorruptible Supreme equity to take the regular gravity of the moral, as of the material order, complained. The blood that smokes, the overplus of the graveyards, , the mothers in tears, these are redoubtable pleaders. When the earth suffers a surcharge, there rise mysterious groaning in the dark, which eve n the very abysm understands. Napoleon had been denounced in the infinite and his downfall was resolved. He bothered God. Waterloo is not a battle; it is the universe changing front."
NOTE(JB) It has been reported that in one of final letters he wrote "God you are too much for me"
Referring to this verse: Daniel 2:43 "And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay"
Even-though European Royalty has been so intermarried, over the years, they will not mix as one, just as iron and clay will not mix, and Napoleon knew his Bible's meanings to bad he ignored it message!.Even today's E.U. they are not ONE!
15) Can anything prevent the fulfillment of God's will in the lives of those who yield themselves to Him?
Romans 8:37-39 " Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
John 10:29-30 " My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one."
16) Though, in His all-seeing purpose, He may permit evil for a time to hold sway, how completer will be His final triumph?
Romans 9:28 " For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth."
Romans 9:31-33 "But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed."
NOTE(JB) Christ is The Stumbling block if He's not accepted as our personal Savior! Thus as a Nation Israel will not receive Salvation, but each JEW, can so be saved by his por her full acceptance of Christ as their savior! Christ the ROCK will either heal us or crush us, depending upon OUR WILL to either accept or reject Him, Period!
NEXT:"WHAT IS MAN?" Isaiah 43:7 " Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him."
Thanking YOU for your time>
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