Why are sightings of unexplained phenomena in the Heavens increasing with rapidity? Is there a physical or spiritual explanation?
There are no other life forms in the vast Universe except those existing upon this Earth created for a specific cause and purpose and those existing in the Spiritual Realm that flows through and around Time and humanity incessantly.
When individuals constrained by physics observe unexplained phenomena violating the acceptable rules of physics/energy, these manifestations find their origin in the Spiritual Realm and as we ebb ever so close to the second advent of Messiah Jesus, these sightings and interactions will increase like birth pangs experienced by a woman in labor (John 16:21).
There is a spiritual war of incredible veracity being waged around us and through us over the previous 6000-years and that war is increasing in intensity and viciousness with each passing day. This spiritual war has routinely interfaced with Time and humanity via World Wars and specifically those wars targeting the Nation of Israel and the Israeli people; the Holocaust being but one horrid example. As the final 3.5-years of the Great Tribulation nears, the armies of Elohim and Satan will become increasingly interactive in Time thus prefacing the Millennial Kingdom of our Lord Jesus and the incarceration of Satan.
The atheist/secular humanist/religionist should be taking stock relevant to what is manifesting around them but the overwhelming majority will remain in atheistic arrogance and foolishness and stumble into Hell in blindness and deafness and spiritual ignorance (Matthew 7:13-14). So goes the Adamic sin-nature of the atheist unrestrained by the Holy Spirit gifted to all who trust in Jesus as Messiah (Ephesians 1:13-14).
One Biblical example of the Spiritual World interfacing with the temporary and inferior Realm of Time...
Ezekiel's Chariot, Chapter 1 of the Major Prophet, Ezekiel...
The Chariot of the Lord—God’s Throne
4 I was watching a big storm come in from the north. It was a big cloud with a strong wind, and there was fire flashing from it. Light was shining out all around it. It looked like hot metal glowing in a fire. 5 Inside the cloud, there were four living beings that looked like people.
6 But each one of them had four faces and four wings. 7 Their legs were straight. Their feet looked like calves’ feet, and they sparkled like polished brass. 8 Under their wings were human arms. There were four living beings. Each living being had four faces and four wings. 9 The wings touched each other. The living beings did not turn when they moved. They went in the direction they were looking. 10 Each living being had four faces. In the front they each had a man’s face. There was a lion’s face on the right side and a bull’s face on the left side. There was an eagle’s face on the back.
11 Their wings were spread out over them. With two of the wings each living being reached out to touch the one near it, and with the other two wings it covered its body. 12 Each living being went in the direction it was looking. They went wherever the spirit caused them to go, but they did not turn when they moved. 13 That is what the living beings looked like. Inside the area between the living beings, there was something that looked like burning coals of fire. This fire was like small torches that kept moving around among the living beings. The fire glowed brightly and lightning flashed from it.
14 The living beings ran back and forth—as fast as lightning. 15-16 I was looking at the living beings when I noticed four wheels that touched the ground. There was one wheel by each living being. All the wheels looked the same. The wheels looked as if they were made from a clear, yellow jewel. They looked like there was a wheel inside a wheel. 17 They could turn to move in any direction. But the living beings did not turn when they moved. 18 The rims of the wheels were tall and frightening. There were eyes all over the rims of all four wheels.
19 The wheels always moved with the living beings. If the living beings went up into the air, the wheels went with them. 20 They went wherever the spirit wanted them to go, and the wheels went with them, because the power that moved the living being was in the wheels. 21 So if the living beings moved, the wheels moved. If the living beings stopped, the wheels stopped. If the wheels went into the air, the living beings went with them, because the spirit was in the wheels. 22 There was an amazing thing over the heads of the living beings. It was like a bowl turned upside down, and the bowl was clear like crystal.
23 Under this bowl, each living being had wings reaching out to the one next to it. Two wings spread out one way and two wings spread out the other way, covering its body. 24 Then I heard the wings. Every time the living beings moved, their wings made a very loud noise like a lot of water rushing by. They were loud like the Lord All-Powerful. They were as loud as an army or a crowd of people. When the living beings stopped moving, they put their wings down by their side. 25 The living beings stopped moving and lowered their wings. Then there was another loud sound that came from above the bowl over their heads.
26 There was something that looked like a throne on top of the bowl. It was blue like sapphire. There was also something that looked like a man sitting on the throne. 27 I looked at him from his waist up. He looked like hot metal with fire all around him. I looked at him from his waist down. It looked like fire with a glow that was shining all around him. 28 The light shining around him was like a rainbow in a cloud. It was the Glory of the Lord. As soon as I saw that, I fell to the ground. I bowed with my face to the ground, and then I heard a voice speaking to me.
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RickeyHoltsclaw, who is the number one BIBLE FOOL of this Religion Forum and the runaway from same!
RICKEY, YOUR DUMB ASSSS ...."COPY AND PASTE"....QUOTE WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE AGAIN!!!: "There are no other life forms in the vast Universe except those existing upon this Earth created for a specific cause and purpose and those existing in the Spiritual Realm that flows through and around Time and humanity incessantly."
You have the audacity of stating that there are no other "life forms" in the universe except those existing upon earth?!
Prove your statement above with a peer reviewed panel of experts outcomes to your perceived absolute notion above!
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When you're done with not making yourself another fool in front of the membership as shown above, then get your sorry pseudo-christian assss into this link shown below, that shows how BIBLE STU-PID you truly are at all times, understood BIBLE DUNCE?
https://www.debateisland.com/discussion/comment/197102/#Comment_197102
Rickey, don't be running away from an ATHEIST again in front of the membership and Jesus (Hebrews 4:13), because it shows your "WEAKNESS!"
At Rickey's embarrassment again, the universe image below was created by
the serial killer Jesus as god:
"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." (Genesis 1:1)
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New Science
Better equipment
Oh
And more numpties gazing at the numptiverse and imagining all sorts of stuff.
And then sharing tales online.
Sort of how all religious belief started.
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Which is a worry because we have seen a decline in people who believe in God since people have more access to quality information that they didn't before and can fend off the demons and therefore stay reasonably sane.
But I reckon it could be that kids have easy access to porno and death games so they get sucked into that world. Add some drugs and you have a recipe for a new generation of loonies who go around believing in UFOs and aliens and conspiracies. Hopefully they will grow out of it but chuck enough shite and it can stick so we have to get these kids some psychotherapy before it gets worse.
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The Earth was created approximately 6K-years ago for cause...not millions or billions of years
ROLMAO The holy ghost told me Santa Clause lives at the North Pole and once a year flies around the world in a magic sleigh and 8 mythical flying reindeer in one night!
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The Bible’s history gives us the answer to the age of the earth
Many people write in and ask, “How do we know that the earth is 6,000 years old from the Bible?” Given that the chronogenealogies—genealogies where the age of the father at the time of the son’s birth is given in an unbroken chain—end shortly after Noah, how do we get from ~1600 AM (anno mundi = ‘year of the world’) to today, which we would argue is about 6000 AM?
How precisely can we know the earth’s age?
The precision by which we can know the timing of historical events or ages of things is constrained by the precision of the data we’re given. The timing we’re given in the chronogenealogies is accurate to within one year of the event. By this, I mean we can know that Adam was 130 years old when he fathered Seth, but we don’t know if he was 130 and 3 months, or just shy of 131, for example. This is true for all the ages. So when you add up the chronogenealogies, we know that the Flood happened in 1656, plus up to less than 10 years, because we have 10 numbers that have less than a year of uncertainty. If all of the numbers were recorded just shy of the next birthday (for instance, Adam was 130 and 11 months when he fathered Seth, Seth was 105 and 11 months when he fathered Enosh, and so on), the Flood could have been as late as 1665 AM. But clearly this sort of small-scale uncertainty won’t give any comfort to people who want to add thousands of years to human history.
The Flood to the Patriarchs
There is an unbroken chronogenealogy from Shem to Abraham in Genesis 11, and we’re given the information elsewhere in Genesis1 to extend the chronology until the relocation of Israel to Egypt when Jacob was 130 years old. Going by these numbers, Jacob went to Egypt in 642 + less than 12 years after the Flood, or 2298 + less than 22 years AM. The chronogenealogy ends here, with nearly 2,000 years to go until Christ.2 How do we extend the timeline?
The Patriarchs to the Exodus
Exodus 12:40 says that Israel was in Egypt for 430 years. This harmonizes well with Genesis 15:13 where God tells Abram that his descendants will be enslaved and mistreated for 400 years (enslavement did not happen on their arrival in Egypt but some time after Joseph died, when their number became threatening). So the Exodus happened in 2728 + less than 23 years AM.
The Exodus to the Kings
We know that Israel wandered in the desert for 40 years, meaning that they entered the Promised Land in 2768 + less than 24 years AM. But here the chronology becomes a bit hazier for a while. This is because we don’t know exactly how long the conquest took, or exactly how long it was before the judges started ruling Israel. We’re told how long each judge ruled, and how long each period of peace lasted, but some of these clearly overlap, and some judges clearly only ruled part of Israel while another judge was ruling another part.
What about different dates for creation?
Many people have come up with dates for creation, such as James Ussher (4004 BC), Johannes Kepler (3992 BC), Gerhard Hasel (4178 BC), and Isaac Newton (~4000 BC). Additionally, there are various chronologies competing with each other today (though all with the same ballpark outcome) which would be more precise than this article, but also rely on assumptions that must come from a particular interpretation of the text. It is not the purpose of this article to choose any particular one of these chronologies, but rather to show how the plain interpretation of Scripture gives a straightforward chronology that leads us to believe the world is around 6,000 years old, regardless of which of these other chronological frameworks one uses.
But we have a clear statement in 1 Kings that allows us to continue a reliable chronology. 1 Kings 6:1 says “In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the temple of the Lord.”
So if we subtract 124 years (40 each for the wandering in the desert, Saul’s reign, and David’s reign, and 4 for the partial reign of Solomon), we get a period of about 356 years for the judges, which fits well with the numbers in Judges if we assume a few overlaps. So Solomon began to build the Temple in 3208 + less than 23 years AM. Notice that even though we’re thousands of years into history at this point, the uncertainty about the dates is less than 25 years!
The Kings to the Exile
If we go by the reigns of the kings of Judah, without assuming any co-regencies, from the Temple to the Exile of Judah would have been 429.5 years + less than 21 years. But we know that there were co-regencies in Judah, partly by comparing the kings of Judah to the kings of Israel.3 If we do that, we know that from the Temple to the Exile of Judah is actually around 345 years, at around 3553 AM. At this point, it’s possible to say what the date would be in our terms—and when one adjusts for the differences in calendrical systems, the vast majority consensus is 586 BC. This would mean that 1 AD would be around 4150 AM, plus or minus less than 50 years, and today we would be around 6150 AM, plus or minus less than 50 years.
The Bible is history!
It’s clear that, from the very first verse of Genesis, the Bible is concerned with giving a factual account of how God has interacted with the earth. This means that it must give historically accurate details, as well as being theologically accurate. In fact, what we believe about God is based on historical claims, so if the history is inaccurate, then the theology must be as well! One of the ways the biblical authors communicated that they were giving actual history is by recording lifespans, or measuring the amount of time between certain events.
We can be confident that God’s Word is accurate in its historical details as well as in what it tells us about theology.
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