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MIRACLES- the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth!

 

MIRACLES- the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth!

Miracles are mighty works of God to point us to the supernatural world. These mighty wonders should point everyone to God. Unfortunately many have become blinded by their own perceptions and deductions. Their perspective is like that of an ant that determines its universe by what it can touch, sense, or experience. If you are a naturalist you will always try to explain everything within the box of human knowledge. Anything outside that box is discounted as “dark matter”, “junk DNA”, “anti-matter”,  or other jargon that discounts the miracle of His Creation.

If there is a God, then there must be miracles!  Miracles are a sign that there is something outside the box. If God created the Universe out of nothing then everything must be subject to God’s miracle work.  What makes little sense are those highly educated people who claim to follow the Bible, yet try to explain all the miracles away with naturalistic phenomena and events.  If you want to believe in God why would you want to diminish His power and His character?     If you take the miracles away, all you have is human philosophy and conjecture! God gave us the gift of sight and the other senses so that we can enjoy the Miracles that He created past, present, and future.  And He gave us faith so that we could comprehend them.  Miracles have a divine purpose. They are not given to us just for entertainment. They reveal everything God wants us to know about Him;  His character, His creation, and His plan for us. The miracles in essence “open the door of the Universe” to our own finite senses and limited human knowledge and understanding.

Every miracle in the Bible is unique. Creation itself is the greatest of all miracles. When we observe the stars, the billions of species, and the unique miracle of earth itself there is no other explanation than – God Created it! As a doctor, a student of biology, and a dabbler in physics, math, geology, and genetics- I have the joy of knowing that there is no other logical, scientific explanation than, “God designed it”. Yes, God created and organized everything.  He created Life, Time, Space, and Matter.  The study of infinite number sequences called “Fractals” and the algorithms that grow out of them, has enabled cinematographers to replicate on digital film amazing forms of nature and the “supernatural” (Google the “Mandelbrot Set”).

Yes, even the supernatural follows God’s order and mathematics.   Science and God are not in opposition!  One particular scientist at NASA trusted in the Bible and calculated that the moon would have very little cosmic dust, and of course he was right- since he knew that the moon was only thousands not millions of years old.   He was right because he trusted in God’s Word!  The challenge is not “man conquering the unknown,” -it is man accepting the known Truth and allowing God to shine his light in our darkness.  God will give us wisdom as we experience, study, and understand His Creation.  For instance the miracle of Life is a “Miracle” that is only God given. We cannot create life out of chemicals, but we can study the living miracles so that we can treat and prevent diseases and even slow the degeneration of cells.

Our Universe was created by His Word and in His Light!  God created stars to bring the greater light and the angels in the “heavens” to help minister the “light” of His Word to mankind. We cannot measure the supernatural, but we can measure all aspects of life and nature, including invisible matter. For instance do you realize that it only takes about 5000 years to generate a population that we have today. If you believe Academic Anthropologists and their misconception that humankind began about 300,000 years ago, then the population of the earth would be more than a zillion times greater than what we see today! The fact is our earth is a privileged planet where only a slight change in rotational speed or deviation from the sun would have caused catastrophic events that would have destroyed all life. We also have a perfect moon that is at the perfect distance generating life giving tides and currents, and light for the night. God in his mercy gave us a means of navigation even when darkness falls. And most important of all we have enormous amounts of water on this special planet. Water as we know it has not been found anywhere else in the Universe, yet over 75% earth’s surface is covered by water and ice.  This allows for an extraordinary amount of Oxygen production, CO2 scrubbing and buffering of acids. It also gives life to an almost limitless amount of plants and animals. Ask the evolutionist and the proud Astrophysicist where water came from? They will tell you that after the earth cooled off asteroids brought water to earth!   WHAT?

Every kind of animal and plant has its own unique DNA. The human genome is so complex that it was only recently translated, and even then we did not understand how dynamic this language was. We realize now that “junk DNA” is necessary for both the production and repair of cells. We now know that human DNA is not just 10% different from an apes! Yes, we have been lied to, and this lie continues! How could anyone with any knowledge of science and logic suggest that language occurs by accident and that everything came from nothing? With all our accrued knowledge, and with all our specialized medical and research equipment, we cannot create any form of life! So how could even the most basic cell accidently form? The fact is: all of life’s processes are irreducibly complex and could NOT happen by chance. The scientist who tried to create life in a test tube after receiving enormous government grants gave up, and is now one of the authors of the “Illustra” series- which illustrates in beautifully detailed logic that empirical science supports the reality of Design and a Designer.

The miracles you see in your lifetime are countless, so enjoy them and recognize them for what they are- evidence that a Designer or Creator exists. This Creator wants a relationship with you. He loves you and He knows your every pain, thought, fear, and weakness. He seeks your heart. But realize this- it is our natural bent to reject Him and to seek our own way. His Word states, “This is condemnation, that light is come into the world, and man loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil” (John 3:19). We have the “light” of His Creation and of “His Word” and the testimony of people who know the Truth. Yet most want to be “captain of their fate” trusting in their own “goodness”. Again the Word says, “We all have sinned, and fallen short of the Glory of God”. The truth is we are not good and our hearts are inherently selfish and evil. But despite sin, God has a plan, “God showed his love towards us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Jesus Christ said, “I am the Light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Don’t you want to escape the darkness and have the Light of Life? Jesus says, “If you continue in my word you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” Don’t you want freedom from fear, doubt, guilt, and shame? Jesus walked on water, healed the man born blind -and countless others as an example of who he really is: God in human form – born into this world to save us and die for us! Through His Resurrection we are Redeemed and the door to heaven is opened. Jesus said, “I am the Resurrection and the Life, anyone who believes in me, even though he dies, will live”. If you trust in Him, in His ability to set you free from your sin, you will see the greatest miracle of all – your own transformation into a “new creation, “old things will have disappeared, and behold, all things are become new.” Then you will truly understand and appreciate all the miracles in the Bible and everywhere around you!.  You will know Him, and you will know your Identity, and most of all you will know Your Purpose!

Cosmic Coincidences or Not?

First I want to make sure that you understand what “cosmic” means.  Remember when you were a kid and how that word could transport your mind to the world of super human heroes and super natural villains.  Carl Sagan made it a common scientific word that ironically in his world of theory generated more fiction than the cartoons did.  You will not understand this until the end of this essay- so be patient.

Many of you have heard of the Privileged Planet and the simple fact that it appears mankind was “given” a special place to live and propagate.  Nowhere in the entire Universe is there a place like earth.  All our nearby planets and our moon  fit into a precise pattern that either shields us or actively improves the condition for life on our planet.  Thanks to the moon, tidal movements affect and generate ocean currents and other changes in ocean physiology that protects a very diverse ecology on this planet.  The simple fact that the Universe has a beginning implies that a Creator exists.  This Creator, or God, made something from nothing and created time, space, and energy.   This could not have happened by chance since it would go against not only every law of physics, but also every conceivable form of logic and common sense.  Carl Sagan tried to defy this very fact just like Darwin tried to formulate a man centered answer to why we have so many different species.  The fact is  God created the billions and billions of spiral galaxies (which by the way would no longer be in the perfect spiral form if left to chance and billions of years- for energy and time causes the energy of a spiral to unwind).  God also created DNA which is akin to a very sophisticated computer program and anyone who uses a computer or writes or reads knows that information cannot create itself.  This genetic information is what makes you who you are and  differentiates  every “Family” and “Kind” in the animal and plant kingdoms.

The ability to procreate -thus allowing for DNA to recombine into new patterns was God’s gift.   God started with a baseline of DNA combinations that formed the basic pure gene pool that He defined as “kind”.   These pure gene pools or “kinds” produced all the colorful and wild species that we see today.   This is what we call natural selection. For instance wolves produced all the species of dogs that we see today.  However,  it is impossible for two different “kinds”  to procreate with each other.  We do not see one “kind” producing a new “kind”.  For instance we do not see dogs producing a type of cat, or horse, or alligator.  All cats are of the same “kind”; everything from kitties to Lions to Bob cats.  All dogs are of the same kind: from wolves, to poodles, to Hyenas.  Human kind cannot and will never be able to “evolve” into an ape, nor will an ape evolve into a human.

Now back to the Cosmic issue.  Since God created the Universe, the word Cosmic implies a Divine and a supernatural element to our existence.  So as we continue in this vein of logic, we will see that many things that we take for granted or just cannot explain are in essence carefully planned by our Creator- wars for instance that were won by sudden storms or extreme weather.  We are given examples in the Bible of hail storms that destroyed cities (Egypt) or defeated armies (Judges and the battle Deborah fought for Israel);  of droughts that brought Empires to their knees as in the case of Joseph and Egypt;  of navies that we decimated by storms as in the case of Xerxes and Esther (more of historical nature); or of earthquakes that marked the moment of the Resurrection.  We have blood moons, sackcloth suns, falling stars, and a host of other cosmic events promised in prophecy.  In history we also see the weather related defeat of the Spanish Armada, the British marine forces in Washington in the War of 1812, the German invasion of Russia, and the great Chinese naval fleet attacking Japan.  History shows how fog has protected our men and other “good” military forces from being detected during war. There are countless other accounts of “super natural” events and conditions aiding in the survival of noble men and women in war  and in peace.

So lets address the main theme of this essay: is God directing events today?  Can and would God use ISIS or Iran or for that matter any enemy of America in the same way as He used Assyria, Babylon, and Persia?  Are we deserving of Judgment? Many seem to think so including many leading pastors.   Why for instance are we catering to concepts, philosophies, and behavior that mimic the pagan nations that God judged in the Old Testament.  We place the creation over the Creator in our worship of animals and evolution.   We place convenience and personal “rights” over the sanctity of life as in the case of wanton abortion.  It is estimated that with the new abortion pill, that our nation alone commits a million abortions per year!    We place “tolerance” foremost in the formation of new laws that elevate homosexuality and most other deviant forms of sexual behavior.  We glamorize violence, sex, drugs, and cosmetic beauty.  We exploit the young, the innocent, and the weak to promote our materialistic and narcissistic society.  We fill our void of loneliness and rejection with pets, alcohol, fantasy, and fiction. We have turned away from God and from the Truth that He placed on our path.  We have rejected a relationship with the Almighty God

Is it mere Coincidence that we are erecting a gate from the Temple of Baal at our most famous intersection: Times Square?   Is this significant?  It reminds me of the “Harbinger” verse in Isaiah 9:11 where the “curse” is misinterpreted by Congressional and other public leaders as being a blessing. They think that it is a “victory” call –  when it actually is a warning of impending judgement by God.   This pagan gate is not a “victory gate”,  it is a symbolic gate or door to a Hellish Temple and the worse form of worship- the sacrifice of babies. It has recently been reported that multiple “Baal Gates” will be delivered to cities around our country!  As stated earlier that form of pagan worship was why God allowed, and in fact motivated the great pagan Empires to attack and conquer Israel and Jerusalem!  The only Door that honors God is Jesus Christ who called himself the “Door” to eternal life.  He is both the path and  the Light that guides us through this dark, confusing world of sin.  He is the “Strong Tower” and our “Redeemer” who saves us from the penalty of sin and death.  It is no coincidence that the principalities of evil and the powers of darkness erect mosques, pornography shops, or cult structures next to churches and Christian charities.