This gravity Is feeling like a tether I want to want to be So high above the weather
All frequency around Round, round, round, round Without a sound
And there’s today And there’s two spaces And too many places Not to go to, ooh
This big old sea Is feeling like a pleasure I look cautiously At all the falling treasure
With some frequency it comes down Down, down, down, down Without a sound
And there’s today And there’s two spaces And too many places Not to go to, ooh
–Frank Black, “Two Spaces”–
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Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. –Romans 12:2 (KJV)–
Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you. –1 Corinthians 6:19 (KJV)–
Evolutionists confidently tell us that every single dinosaur went extinct at a grand total of no less than 65 MILLION YEARS AGO! That’s right! National Geographic says it, BBC says it, Bill Nye says it, schools and colleges say it, heck even the pope says it. An astonishing amount of time that would stagger the mind of any person. They say that a meteor of great size hit the Yucatán Peninsula and caused the entire world to burn on fire. The big dent in the ground that it left is called the Chicxulub crater. This is the reason why no dinosaurs exist today–is what these evolution teaching scientists say. Then life appeared all by itself again, and eventually monkeys, and the people that came from them in Africa. God had nothing to do with this either. This just happened by itself. I guess one of the forms of life that they allow to not be extinct anymore is this very old crocodile…which, incidentally enough, looks a whole lot like a dinosaur.
So why is it that dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago? Because the scientists say: always remember this: SCIENCE says so. That makes it right, right? WRONG!
Not only the KJV Bible, but practically every account of ancient history, presents an entirely different vision about the distant past of earth’s beginnings. And one of the details you will find in many of the histories of ancient civilizations, is THE COEXISTENCE OF DINOSAURS WITH HUMAN BEINGS, like in the Flintstones cartoon, or the old Lost World film from 1960. There is no picture of them existing before people in ancient history. Not at all. The world was then viewed as beginning around 4000 B.C.; and humanity emerging out of Iraq in the beginning. Iraq used to be called Mesopotamia by everyone in society as recently as the 1700s. A plain fundamentalist reading of Genesis was the popular opinion about the human history timeline. Millions of years is a figment from the imaginations of modern-day atheistic scientists, communists, natural history museum curators, confused philosophers, and confused theologians that reject a plain reading of the Bible. There was no Yucatán Peninsula extinction event that happened 65 million years ago–that is a FALSE TEACHING. But there was something similar. The Bible says that God flooded the entire world in the time of Noah, around 2500 B.C., because he was so mad at people for their widespread violence (Genesis 6:11). Only Noah’s family was saved from the flood, but then they repopulated the world after it was over; and God created the rainbow as a sign to man that he would never do anything like that again. The word “dinosaur” was invented in the year 1851 by Sir Richard Owen. Before that, they were always known by the word DRAGON. And so there have always been many such species of dragons that have coexisted with mankind, some of which were probably on the ark with Noah; but most of these dragons were eventually killed off by, you guessed it, DRAGON SLAYERS. It might be that the reason why crocs and gators were not hunted to extinction is because they are aquatic, and can evade capture easier. –J.B.
Adams Synchronological Chart or Map of History (1881).
DEAD BODIES EVERYWHERE! DEAD BODIES EVERYWHERE! DEAD BODIES EVERYWHERE! DEAD BODIES EVERYWHERE!
–Korn, “Dead Bodies Everywhere”–*
And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. –Isaiah 66:24 (KJV)–
That their thankful sense of God’s distinguishing favour to them should be very much increased by the consideration of the fearful doom and destruction of those that persist and perish in their infidelity and impiety. Those that have been worshipping the Lord of hosts, and rejoicing before him in the goodness of his house, shall, in order to affect themselves the more with their own happiness, take a view of the misery of the wicked. Observe, (1.) Who they are whose misery is here described. They are men that have transgressed against God, not only broken his laws, but broken covenant with him, and thought themselves able to contend with him. It may be meant especially of the unbelieving Jews that rejected the gospel of Christ. (2.) What their misery is. It is here represented by the frightful spectacle of a field of battle, covered with the carcasses of the slain, that lie rotting above ground, full of worms crawling about them and feeding on them; and, if you go to burn them, they are so scattered, and it is such a noisome piece of work to get them together, that it would be endless, and the fire would never be quenched; so that they are an abhorring to all flesh, nobody cares to come near them. Now this is sometimes accomplished in temporal judgments, and perhaps never nearer the letter than in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Jewish nation by the Romans, in which destruction it is computed that above two millions, first and last, were cut off by the sword, besides what perished by famine and pestilence. It may refer likewise to the spiritual judgments that came upon the unbelieving Jews, which St. Paul looks upon, and shows us, Romans 11:8, c. They became dead in sins, twice dead. The church of the Jews was a carcass of a church all its members were putrid carcasses; their worm died not, their own consciences made them continually uneasy, and the fire of their rage against the gospel was not quenched, which was their punishment as well as their sin; and they became, more than ever any nation under the sun, an abhorring to all flesh. But our Saviour applies it to the everlasting misery and torment of impenitent sinners in the future state, where their worm dies not, and their fire is not quenched (Mark 9:44); for the soul, whose conscience is its constant tormentor, is immortal, and God, whose wrath is its constant terror, is eternal. (3.) What notice shall be taken of it. Those that worship God shall go forth and look upon them, to affect their own hearts with the love of their Redeemer, when they see what misery they are redeemed from. As it will aggravate the miseries of the damned to see others in the kingdom of heaven and themselves thrust out (Luke 13:28), so it will illustrate the joys and glories of the blessed to see what becomes of those that died in their transgression, and it will elevate their praises to think that they were themselves as brands plucked out of that burning. To the honour of that free grace which thus distinguished them let the redeemed of the Lord with all humility, and not without a holy trembling, sing their triumphant songs.
—MATTHEW HENRY’S COMMENTARY—
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These words of the prophet are applied by our blessed Saviour, Mark 9:44, to express the everlasting punishment of the wicked in Gehenna, or in hell. Gehenna, or the valley of Hinnom, was very near to Jerusalem to the south-east: it was the place where the idolatrous Jews celebrated that horrible rite of making their children pass through the fire, that is, of burning them in sacrifice to Moloch. To put a stop to this abominable practice, Josiah defiled, or desecrated, the place, by filling it with human bones, 2 Kings 23:10; and probably it was the custom afterwards to throw out the carcasses of animals there, when it also became the common burying place for the poorer people of Jerusalem. Our Saviour expressed the state of the blessed by sensible images; such as paradise, Abraham’s bosom, or, which is the same thing, a place to recline next to Abraham at table in the kingdom of heaven. See Matthew 8:11…for we could not possibly have any conception of it but by analogy from worldly objects. In like manner he expressed the place of torment under the image of Gehenna; and the punishment of the wicked by the worm which there preyed on the carcasses, and the fire that consumed the wretched victims. Marking however, in the strongest manner, the difference between Gehenna and the invisible place of torment; namely, that in the former the suffering is transient:-the worm itself which preys upon the body, dies; and the fire which totally consumes it, is soon extinguished:-whereas in the figurative Gehenna the instruments of punishment shall be everlasting, and the suffering without end; “for there the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.” These emblematical images, expressing heaven and hell, were in use among the Jews before our Saviour’s time; and in using them he complied with their notions. “Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God,” says the Jew to our Saviour, Luke 14:15. And in regard to Gehenna, the Chaldee paraphrase as I observed before on Isaiah 30:33, renders everlasting or continual burnings by “the Gehenna of everlasting fire.” And before his time the son of Sirach, Sirach 7:17, had said, “The vengeance of the ungodly is fire and worms.” So likewise the author of the book of Judith, Judith 16:17: “Wo to the nations rising up against my kindred: the Lord Almighty will take vengeance of them in the day of judgment, in putting fire and worms in their flesh;” manifestly referring to the same emblem.**
—ADAM CLARKE’S COMMENTARY—
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* I would not generally recommend listening to this band in the sense of entirely approving of their albums 100% or wholesale. I’ve only extracted a part of this song to illustrate a point. This goes for several of the songs on my podcasts. Amos 8:10: “I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation.” Ecclesiastes 7:5: “It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.” –J.B.
** “Woe to the nations that rise up against my people! The Lord Almighty will take vengeance on them in the day of judgment; he will send fire and worms into their flesh; they shall weep in pain forever” (Judith 16:17, NRSV).
Mass cremations in Bengaluru, India in 2021 due to COVID-19. What God sees on earth, he repeats and amplifies in eternity.
REBUKE THEM SHARPLY, that they may be sound in the faith. –Titus 1:13 (KJV)–
OPEN REBUKE is better than secret love. –Proverbs 27:5 (KJV)–
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather REPROVE THEM. –Ephesians 5:11 (KJV)–
Preach the Word; be instant in season, out of season; REPROVE, REBUKE, EXHORT with all long suffering and doctrine. –2 Timothy 4:2 (KJV)–
These things speak, and EXHORT, and REBUKE WITH ALL AUTHORITY. –Titus 2:15 (KJV)–
As many as I love, I REBUKE AND CHASTEN: be zealous therefore, and REPENT. –Revelation 3:19 (KJV)–
THEM THAT SIN REBUKE BEFORE ALL, that others also may FEAR. –1 Timothy 5:20 (KJV)–
CRY ALOUD, SPARE NOT, LIFT UP THY VOICE LIKE A TRUMPET, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their SINS! –Isaiah 58:1 (KJV)–
O GENERATION OF VIPERS, who hath WARNED YOU to FLEE FROM THE WRATH TO COME!? –Matthew 3:7 (KJV)–
WOE UNTO YOU, scribes and Pharisees, HYPOCRITES! –Matthew 23:13 (KJV)–
THOU CHILD OF THE DEVIL, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to PERVERT THE RIGHT WAYS OF THE LORD!? –Acts 13:10 (KJV)–
If THE WATCHMAN see the sword come, and blow not THE TRUMPET, and THE PEOPLE BE NOT WARNED; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but HIS BLOOD WILL I REQUIRE AT THE WATCHMAN’S HAND. So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and WARN THEM FROM ME. –Ezekiel 33:6-7 (KJV)–
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb DOGS, they cannot BARK; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. –Isaiah 56:10 (KJV)–
GODLY SORROW WORKETH REPENTANCE TO SALVATION not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what INDIGNATION, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter. –2 Corinthians 7:10-11 (KJV)–
Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, TRULY THIS IS A GRIEF, AND I MUST BEAR IT. –Jeremiah 10:19 (KJV)–
When they heard this, THEY WERE PRICKED IN THEIR HEART, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? –Acts 2:37 (KJV)–
I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But HIS WORD WAS IN MINE HEART AS A BURNING FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. –Jeremiah 20:9 (KJV)–
After my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I CEASED NOT TO WARN EVERY ONE NIGHT AND DAY WITH TEARS. –Acts 20:29-31 (KJV)–
GRIEVE not the Holy Spirit of God. –Ephesians 4:30 (KJV)–
Since ye say, THE BURDEN OF THE LORD; therefore thus saith the Lord; Because ye say this word, The burden of the Lord, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the Lord. –Jeremiah 23:38 (KJV)–
A man of sorrows, and ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF… he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows… HE HATH PUT HIM TO GRIEF. –Isaiah 53:3-4, 10 (KJV)–
Woe to them that are at ease in Zion! –Amos 6:1 (KJV)–
I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest THAT WOMAN JEZEBEL, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. –Revelation 2:20 (KJV)–
Jezebel is “the name of a symbolic woman who pretended to be a PROPHETESS, and who, addicted to ANTINOMIANISM, claimed Christian liberty of eating things sacrificed to idols.” –Thayer’s–
They will go out and look on THE DEAD BODIES of those who rebelled against me; THE WORMS THAT EAT THEM WILL NOT DIE, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind. –Isaiah 66:24 (NIV)–
Think about this next time you think about Hell. The Bible reveals the people in Hell suffer a similar torment of DECOMPOSITION BY MAGGOTS. But Hell is worse, because God’s enemies are also seen by Biblical visionaries as BURNING ALIVE FOR ETERNITY. Let us never lightly esteem our Savior’s substitutionary sufferings on the cross to save us from that ancient wrath and punishment from Almighty God! –J.B.
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