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February 16, 2004

move for no man

And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars — all the heavenly array — do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
-Deuteronomy 4:19 NIV

All of the array, including black holes, worm holes, white holes, quasars, supernovas, and all such space objects. True, at times they can be a reminder, or provide a path, or a signal to what we should be doing for God. Such as the so-called wise men who came to see Jesus. They were astrologers, and God used that to show them where they should be worshiping. Not to the stars, but to the King of the Heavens, the creator of the universe.

But there is a deeper matter to this all, and it is that of idols. We make idols in our lives, it’s true. I’m as, if not more, guilty as everyone I know. But there are reasons the Holy Spirit made sure passages like this exist. They serve as a warning to what we shouldn’t be doing, and giving us examples of what we should be doing.

So, the short version is this, worship God and not his creations.

February 14, 2004

all where to run, nowhere to hide

Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
-Revelation 6:15

This is a culmination verse, and really requires reading the passages that lead up to it. But, the point is, when can you imagine everyone running into caves and mountains? NORAD built its headquarters in a mountain to survive nuclear winter. There are bunkers set up around the world to protect people from a nuclear winter. In some countries they actually set up caves to hide into in the case of nuclear winter. The language which is used is very much like what we imagine happening during a nuclear war. The sky becoming black, massive earthquakes, things falling from the sky that are like stars, white robes keeping people safe. As this topic comes up again, I’ll try to add links coming back to this, and from this topic.