We are in the day of the greater things that Christ spoke about. Now, as we obey the voice of God, we fulfill the scriptures He wrote. Walking in His Spirit, we naturally do all the things that God writes about. This is how we become living epistles.
The human race has forgotten where it descended from and what happened to it as a result of eating the forbidden fruit. Unfortunately, even believers in Christ treat the biblical narrative as more of a vague memory of what may or may not be true when it comes to what happened pre-flood. Honestly, when you give more credence to secular scholars than to the Holy Writ, you become blinded by their ignorance.
Take for example, the doctrine of evolution, which is based upon millions, if not billions, of years of random chance that supposedly has resulted in “us” and the incredible biodiversity we see in the world. This secular religion tells us that the earth is very old when has been, according to scripture, barely 6000 years since its creation. The upstart of this type of wrong thinking is that people in a city near where I live are literally building a large resort on a lava field that looks as if it was formed yesterday. They have been told, confidently, that this expanse of volcanic basalt is millions of years old. This, of course, is not true, and the possibility of seismic activity in the near future is very real. Evolution is, at its core, breeding a false sense of security.
It must tickle the fancy of the devil that we have been convinced, at least in the secular world, that we are descended from apes. What God created perfect, Satan has slandered as little more than chance and exchanged our true heritage of Divine creation for mere accident.
I say all this to point out that the deception of our world and its pervasive effect in our lives is much deeper than most of us realize. Left to our own devices and relying on our own intellect, though we be ever learning, we will never come to a realization of the truth. For myself, I am very comfortable believing and confessing that the earth is only 6000 years old and was created in six days, just as God said. I don’t claim the chimpanzee as my ancestor, nor do I believe my distant relatives started out in the cave district on the other side of the evolutionary tracks. Moreover, I believe in a worldwide flood that wiped out all but eight human beings who were saved by faith through building an ark. In fact, to the best of my ability, I believe every single event that the Bible says happened throughout history.
Though it may be difficult for some of my readers to believe, scientists lie. Academics are not paragons of virtue who only desire to know the truth. Many who roam the halls of our higher institutions of learning are not very good people at all, but are ambitious, ruthless, and arrogant. Their success is based on fitting in with their peers and upon advancing whatever new idea is in vogue in order to procure grant money to fund their departments and pay their salaries. No one wants to be labeled as radical or fringe, and thus everyone speaks the same orthodoxy when it comes to established scientific dogma. The theory of evolution is a religion, and you must believe it to be admitted into the hallowed halls of academia if you desire to succeed. It is that simple.
For myself, I simply do not believe what the world says, but rather listen to what God is speaking to me personally. There was a worldwide government before the flood, which was evil. There is a worldwide antichrist government forming now. My Father spoke this world into existence approximately 6000 years ago. The earth was formed before the stars of heaven. Joshua did tell the sun to stand still and YHWH made it so. Jesus did rise from the dead and is living at the right hand of God today, at this very moment, in heaven. Christ is coming back with 10,000 of his saints at the end of the millennium. I believe all these things and many more, as much as the Holy Spirit has spoken to me through His word. I will listen to nothing else if it doesn’t ring true to what my Father has told me through his word and His Spirit – for they agree.
I am not worried that I may be wrong, I am having faith that God is right. Moreover, even if I do not believe everything correctly, I am confident that the Holy Spirit can and will lead me into further truth. My salvation is not based upon the veracity of what I know, but upon the person whom I know. Jesus is my Lord and I listen to Him – that is it.
Therefore, I will not build my house on a lava field. I will not look lovingly at a monkey at the zoo and wistfully imagine that I am descended from an animal. I will not believe that the earth is five billion years old, and I will not champion the woman’s right to end the life of her unborn child.
Don’t fall for the lie. Live the truth.
Amen.