Genesis
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This video is from Creation Moments.
<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/240534263″>Creation Moments_Trunk Debunked</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/user72715814″>Jim Park</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
Genesis 9:12 ‘And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.’
This is the first mention of the (rain)bow in Scripture. It is interesting that the introduction of the rainbow follows God’s judgement of a world wide flood upon a human populaton whose ‘thoughts of his heart was only evil continually’ Genesis 6:5. One of those ungodly thoughts of the heart undoubtedly included sodomy.
Also in Chapter 9 God said ‘the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.’ In other words world wide judgment for mans sinfullness will not come again via a world wide flood and the rainbow is a sign from God Himself to mankind to that fact.
So did the flood eradicate the sinfulness of mankind? I think not! Because this discussion is concerning the sin of sodomy the Bible tells us in Genesis 18 that the Lord said to Abraham ‘…Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous’ Genesis 18:20. The destruction of the origianl habitation of sodomites was destroyed not by water but via ‘brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven.’
This gives us a clue as to how God is going to judge the sins of unrrepentant mankind in the end. As Peter states in his Second Epistle, Chapter 3 and verses 6, 7 ‘Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.’
These present day LGBT folk are playing with fire. They have taken that (the rainbow) which God Himself had set forth as a token of the covenant between Himself and the earth in which He would never again destroy the world through a world wide flood AND are seemingly mocking Him! Nevertheless, as God’s Word says ‘Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap’ Galatians 6:7.
<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/235286721″>No need to speculate</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/freedomforfaith”>Freedom for Faith</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
‘Meet Prof Iain Benson, a Canadian expert on civic freedoms. He looks at what happened in Canada after the marriage laws changed, and what is happening now in Australia – and warns that Australia has none of the protections it needs if its people and institutions are to stay free.’
Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
‘1. New York Times: Polar explorer predicts end of ice at the North Pole (1969)
2. Al Gore: Only 10 years left to avoid total disaster (2006)
3. New York Times: ‘New ice age on the way’ (1975)
4. United Nations: ‘Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth’ (1989)
5. Al Gore: The final ‘snows of Kilimanjaro’ (2006)’ http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/07/30/an-inconvenient-commentary-5-times-climate-alarmists-made-horribly-wrong-predictions/
Al and others who made these predictions undoubtedly do not believe Genesis 8:22 ‘While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.’ As for me, I believe God!
Psalm 139:14 “I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.”
Believe it or not, the ‘Satanic Temple,
a liberal anti-Christian group that self-proclaims to represent “compassion and empathy,” is offering hugs and kisses in exchange for donations that fund two pro-abortion lawsuits filed against the State of Missouri, the International Business Times reports.’
‘The Satanic Temple, a Salem, Massachusetts-based organization led by Lucien Greaves, is suing to overturn a Missouri law that requires a 72-hour waiting period before an abortion where a woman can view an ultrasound of her unborn baby and hear the fetal heartbeat; the Satanist group
also is challenging a law ensuring women receiving literature that states life begins at conception, the report continues.
‘“They violate our belief in the inviolability of one’s body,” said the Satanic Temple.’ http://www.lifenews.com/2017/02/10/satantic-temple-celebrates-valentines-day-with-hugs-and-kisses-for-satan-fundraiser-for-abortion/
From the picture above one has to admit that (1) these “women” probably wouldn’t make the best mother anyway and (2) what sober clear thinking man would get them pregnant? However, that isn’t the point to this post.
The main point being that there is something unique about humans! What is it? For one thing humans are made in the image of their Creator. Genesis 1:26 “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
The Non-conformist Matthew Henry states “That man was made in God’s image and after his likeness, two words to express the same thing and making each other the more expressive; image and likeness denote the likest image, the nearest resemblance of any of the visible creatures. Man was not made in the likeness of any creature that went before him, but in the likeness of his Creator; yet still between God and man there is an infinite distance. Christ only is the express image of God’s person, as the Son of his Father, having the same nature. It is only some of God’s honour that is put upon man, who is God’s image only as the shadow in the glass, or the king’s impress upon the coin. God’s image upon man consists in these three things:–” Those three things are (1) “In his nature and constitution, not those of his body (for God has not a body), but those of his soul. This honour indeed God has put upon the body of man, that the Word was made flesh, the Son of God was clothed with a body like ours and will shortly clothe ours with a glory like that of his.” (2) “In his place and authority: Let us make man in our image, and let him have dominion. As he has the government of the inferior creatures, he is, as it were, God’s representative, or viceroy, upon earth…” (3) “In his purity and rectitude. God’s image upon man consists in knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness, Eph 4:24; Col 3:10.”
However, something occurred in Genesis Chapter Three when man disobeyed his Maker and the result as Mathew Henry says is “…this image of God upon man (is) defaced! How small are the remains of it, and how great the ruins of it!”
The Good News is that through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ one may be delivered “…from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins…” Acts 26: 18.
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