The Ascent Of Man Part 2
copyright 2003 by Greg
Nichols
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Mankind's Choice and Folly
What
mankind has mostly missed through vanity and vain pursuits is that God
highly favors and esteems man, as the crown of His creation.
God loves man, and does not desire that any person go to hell, not
even Charles Darwin. Hell was made for Satan and the fallen angels, and if
any human being ends up there, it is not God’s will.
God wants His kids around Him for eternity.
In addition to this fact, man has missed through his own blindness and
stubbornness huge Earthly blessings throughout the generations and
relief from, and abatement of, human suffering, these things God was willing
to do, because He is a loving Father!
Why is man so blind to this
fact? There is an ignorance of
these facts in man’s mind. But mankind is not simply plagued with
ignorance. This is a deeper problem, than mere ignorance. Man can awaken
from the sleep of ignorance fairly easily, once he is enlightened.
So what is the real root of the problem here?
“And
this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men
loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.”
John 3:19
Men choose evil.
That is the simplicity of it. Men
find out about the light of Jesus and reject the light.
Why? Because they do not
want to release their evil deeds and thoughts.
This is the root of the problem that seems like ignorance, but it is
really a very odd phenomenon called “unbelief.” Unbelief is
defined as hearing the truth and turning from it.
Doubt is not as severe. Doubt
exists due to a lack of information. Doubt
is more easily overcome. Just get more information!
Unbelief has received the information, but refuses the information. Unbelief
is a sin, and it is the condition of the heart that causes one to go to
hell.
Darwin And
Intellectualism!
The intellectual mind can
be saved, but must overcome more obstacles to have simple faith in Jesus
Christ. All things are possible
with God, and God loves the intellectual.
God gave them their minds in the first place.
If you are an intellectual, God wants to use your mind, you simply
need to submit it to God first, in a humble manner using raw child-like
faith!
Darwin, an intellectual,
was a student of science, and utilized his mind to question his world.
Once Darwin got to Heaven, (if he got there) as He faced His Maker,
who had no similarities to apes whatsoever, I think he was in awe of what he
saw. I can imagine this being
said: “Lord, I thought I was
using my mind to disprove You and Your existence, I had no idea all those
years I was supposed to use it to prove You, and to bring You glory.
Oops!”
You and I can learn this
now, while yet on Earth, that we must prove God, and glorify God with our
love, and our goodness, and our keen minds. If you are reading this article,
you are interested in God’s kingdom, and its workings, and its
furtherance. Get a grasp on
Creationism and other principles, and on the Word of God, and build people
up around you in your sphere of influence!
Soon, you will be face to face with your Maker, and you will have His
smile at your service to Him!
Neanderthals
Some bones were found and
evolutionists classified them as a grouping of early man known as
Neanderthals. Although the WWF and professional wrestling gives me an urge
to believe in this kind of human, we know that this is a poor proof of our
originating from apes, and man was not actually once totally Neanderthal
looking. The creationists have
found that Neanderthals were a group of humans suffering from a malady, and
evolutionists took a severe wrong turn in classifying them as some kind of
evolved ape-man. All joking aside, the Neanderthal rabbit trail is just
that, and a good example of “wrong premise-biased theory” which has
happened over and over again.
Common sense dictates to me
and many others that Creation provided us many species and enjoyments of
creatures for our benefit, and every other species on Earth was placed here
for the use and benefit and service of man.
Man was to be a type of God to the animals, not to evolve from them.
I want to show you some Darwinian reverse gospel and reverse logic
here!
Here is an excerpt from The
Descent Of Man, by Charles Darwin. (1871)
“Many kinds of monkeys
have a strong taste for tea, coffee, and spirituous liquors: they will also,
as I have myself seen, smoke tobacco with pleasure.6 Brehm
asserts that the natives of north-eastern Africa catch the wild baboons by
exposing vessels with strong beer, by which they are made drunk. He has seen
some of these animals, which he kept in confinement, in this state; and he
gives a laughable account of their behavior and strange grimaces. On the
following morning they were very cross and dismal; they held their aching
heads with both hands, and wore a most pitiable expression: when beer or
wine was offered them, they turned away with disgust, but relished the juice
of lemons.7 An American monkey, an Ateles, after getting drunk on
brandy, would never touch it again, and thus was wiser than many men. These
trifling facts prove how similar the nerves of taste must be in monkeys and
man, and how similarly their whole nervous system is affected.”
End of Excerpt.
Monkey Rugs
I’d like to shine light
on this poor soul’s darkness! Yes,
monkeys may smoke tobacco with pleasure, but I also think they would smoke
manure with pleasure also. They like to use their hands, do tricks, and all
kinds of mischief dexterously. Darwin
makes many comparisons to man and animals, in observations like this one.
When I was a boy, birds would fly into our windows drunk on fermented
berries they had been feasting on. A
drunken animal does nothing to prove man and animal are related.
Alcohol will effect a fruit fly or a lizard also. What alcohol does to
a monkey is not impressive. Many
dogs love beer, and stagger drunkenly at the massive consumption of it.
Guys all over America at Super Bowl parties give their dogs beer, to
amuse their friends, and the dogs really seem to love it.
Some dogs get the cans or bottles right from the fridge. But I will
not share the gospel with dogs, or monkeys, or birds and try to save their
souls. They are absolutely not
in the same life sphere as man.
Many many people do,
however, show the utmost concern for an animal in some movement to save seal
skins or whales, or certain animals from suffering, and it is possible some
of those people would not walk across the street for a suffering person.
This kind of thinking has a Darwinian flavor to it, if that word is
appropriate, for that kind of thinking is not flavorful at all. Also
Darwinian in design is the act of abortion, for people are thinking of the
unborn babies as a lower species, when each of those are a human being in
the image of God. Many would read this and say, a fetus is not a baby,
it is a woman's body part. This justification is also of this
Darwinian brand of thought - the denial of the Divine creation of man, in
any generation.
The Peterson murder case in
Modesto, California reveals an interesting fact. News reporters all over
America, the day the mother and baby washed up on shore, reported that a
full term fetus had washed up on shore. Although this baby got through
nine months, and was dead, it was full term and not a fetus, but a baby.
I watch NBC in the mornings, and Matt and Katy and others on there, all said
"full term fetus." I thought a full term pregnancy was a
baby, according to medical thought, and not a fetus. I think this slip
up reveals much of the true heart of the abortion movement, the
dehumanization of man, the rejection of God's role as the giver of life, and
common sense. The media and the medical people and the liberal abortionists,
should just get honest with themselves, and use the terms they are really
thinking. What are those terms? "Wanted baby" or
"unwanted baby." This Darwinian thought and Godless mindset
is permeated throughout our society, in every crook and cranny, down to
every social level and age group. Hitler used Darwinian thought for
his holocaust, and this lowering or descendency of man in decency and self
esteem will create one holocaust after another in this world.
The fact that monkeys have
the same "nervous system make up" as a man does not prove they are
distant cousins, but only proves the intelligent Creator understood that if
they were to survive and prosper in the same environment He was placing man
into, that they would need a similar nervous system to function.
Remember, monkeys and apes were created for our pleasure, to watch
and to inhabit a bountiful Earth, but if they had no nervous system like
man, they would lay around like rugs.
Monkey rugs. How enjoyable would that be for man?
One huge wrong turn by
evolutionists is that the Earth is over 100,000,000 (100 million) years old.
Darwin’s theories would need this kind of time for the evolving to
take place. Man could simply
not evolve from apes in a few thousand years.
But I believe this is a huge pitfall, for the Earth is truly only a
few thousand years old. Creationists
are finding out there was a flood about 5,000 years ago, from the Earth
terrain and from certain findings, but that is another teaching.
Earth, You Have
Aged Well!
To switch gears here,
let’s discuss the age of the Earth, and mankind. The Earth is said by
Creationists to be about 6000 years old.
Biblical scholars have confirmed this fact.
This is broken down with 4000 years from Adam to Jesus, and about
2000 years from Jesus to now! I
personally do not believe we are over 6000 years, but under it.
Yes, I know it is 2003, but we were not using the calendar 2000 years
ago. It came much later, and
people had to guess the beginning of A.D., the birth of Christ. Genealogies
have been used to support the age of the Earth, and scripture has been used.
Evolution states the Earth has existed millions of years, and the
dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago.
But creation scientists have found serious problems with these
theories. Trees at Spirit Lake
in Washington State were found petrified in a 10-year period after the 1980
eruption of Mount St. Helens, in a process that was thought to take
thousands and even millions of years. This
caused scientists to re-look at other things already dated and question
dates of rock sedimentation, of fossils, and much more.
It seems our wonderful Earth and nature has a way of tricking us as
to dates and times. Even carbon
dating was once debunked because a living mussel shell was read to be
millions of years old by the carbon dating process.
But remember, everyone sets out to prove the premise of their bias,
whether it be true or not. We
have a planet that can be proven to be millions of years old, with less than
perfect methods, because our mysterious planet does not give up her
mysteries easily, and many can be made a fool in the process.
In the Word, God speaks of stumbling blocks, which would trip up lost
man, but His people would be able to wade through or to step over the
stumbling blocks, through wisdom. God is not about to clue in the
grossly wicked to anything, or those who do not know Him intimately.
He once had all mankind, two people, in a close harmonious relationship with
Him, where He shared everything with them. Ever since the fall, man
has been groping in the darkness. This is not God's doing, it is man's
doing. It is more man's problem than it is God's, but He loves us!
One explanation that more
proof of Biblical facts has not survived for examination is that God
requires faith, as faith is God’s own personal characteristic, and we
are made in His image. Proof of everything God states in the Word actually
shipwrecks faith, or invalidates it, and that must not be done in a fallen
world, which is under the curse of sin.
If we had the Ark of the Covenant, or the Ark of Noah, or even the
Cross of Christ, in our possession, in museums somewhere, those would be the
objects of worship of mankind, instead of Biblical and scriptural faith in
an invisible God, which is the God kind of faith!
Could it be that we will find those artifacts someday, right before
the end, as God wills?
There is an invisible
spiritual war for the hearts of man, between God and Satan, and hosts of
other beings in the two realms of good and evil, and God’s realm is based
on faith, while Satan’s realm is based on sense knowledge, reason and
fear. Darwin functioned in this
latter realm. Faith is a force issuing from the human heart, while reason is
a product of the human mind. If faith and reason go to battle, reason
receives a TKO every time. Reason
must yield to faith. One of the biggest misunderstandings religious people
have had is this fact: God
wants mankind itself to settle the battle and the war, between faith and
reason, under the leadership of Jesus, using his own faith, in personal
victories all over the globe. Individual
man is called to individually conquer Satan and evil in his own life, with
God’s help, and also collectively as the church of Jesus Christ. This
becomes the enforcement of the Cross of Calvary and the redemption of man!
God’s Word says the
planet is about 6000 years old. It says He made man in His image. It says He
caused a great flood. It says Jesus came and died for the sins of the whole
world. Jesus, a man, ascended back to Heaven, the ascent of a man!
It says that Jesus would return one day to get believers. This will
be the final ascent of all men. (Please be aware that the term men includes
men and women, and it is only a figure of speech to say “men”) I believe
it all. But why do I believe the Earth is not quite 6000 years old?
1000 Years As One
Day!
In 2 Peter 3, the Apostle
Peter gives a serious discussion of the last days and the return of Christ.
He does not give a date, of course.
But there are clues hidden there. In verses 3-5, it says,
“Knowing this first, that
scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,
and saying, where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell
asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.”
What a great question.
Things seem to just continue on.
Even the doomsayers that thought we’d see an apocalypse at the
millennium were somewhat taken aback, when nothing happened.
All things seem to continue. The
Earth keeps turning on its axis. People keep doing business. Scoffers today
mock and laugh at Christians, who outwardly seem to have their hopes in
fantastic promises that will supposedly not be fulfilled.
But Peter writes more as we
look at verse 4-5. I think you
had better read this carefully. If
you are not saved, read it even more carefully.
“For this they willfully
forget: by the Word of God the heavens were of old, and the Earth standing
out of the water and in the water, by which the world that then existed
perished, being flooded with water.”
Peter is saying, God
flooded the Earth while people scoffed, and only spoke a word to do it.
The scoffers perished. Only a few were saved. Peter goes on in verse
7:
“But the heavens and the
Earth which now exist are kept in store by the same word, reserved for fire
until the Day of Judgment and perdition of ungodly men.”
Now Peter is saying that
using the same word, God’s Word, at God’s will and timing, fire and
judgment will come and people will perish as before, just like the flood.
Can the context be any clearer here what the theme of this writing in
scripture is? I believe the
context is, “when will it be?”
The next verses finalize it
and give the clue.
“But, beloved, do not
forget this one thing, that with the Lord, one day is as a thousand years,
and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His
promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not
willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”
Peter explains that God
could have fried the ungodly a long time ago, but is very patient in hopes
that they will repent and hopefully all men can be saved.
He would not even want Charles Darwin to go to hell. I personally
think what Peter means, is that in his generation, God might give us another
1000 years, because of His patience, which would be a day on God’s
timetable. Maybe it would be 2000 years, which would be two days on God’s
timetable. If God said, “I
will wait one more day,” man would get an additional 1000 years.
Why stretch one day to one thousand years?
I believe it is for one reason and can be stated in one word:
“Mercy!” Mankind was
evil enough in 1000 AD, the dark ages, or medieval times, and God said,
“one more day,” out of mercy. But at 2000, the evil in man has even
grown more from a millennium ago.
But God knew all this at
the beginning. Many Christians
believe, as I do, that He wove man's timetable into creation.
He took six days to create the Earth, and on the seventh day He
rested. Many believe that the
six days are 6000 years of human history, and the seventh day is the
1000-year millennial reign of Jesus. Remember,
one day is as a thousand years. I do not believe God will give more
time than 6000 years. Why? Because He knows the end from the
beginning, and if was going to give more, I believe He would have taken
another day or two for creation.
Let me strip some words
from the text and lay them together: Verse
4 - creation, Verse 7 – day of judgment, Verse 8 – one
day, Verse 8- one thousand years.
We see a contextual tying together of creation’s one day periods,
and the Earth’s judgment and several thousand year periods.
This is a secret key. Read this paragraph twice if you need to catch
this. This seems to indicate that if you count how many one day periods are
in Creation, you will know how many one thousand year periods there are
until the Day of Judgment. The apostle is referring to timetables and
time periods, in God's plan. Don't get upset at me for relaying this,
Peter wrote it under the unction of the Holy Spirit.
Look at this chart based on
2 Peter 3 and Genesis 1:
God
Man
God
Man
1 Day
1000 Years
6 Days
6000 Years
Let’s take one more
deeper look at this coded creation timetable. God made the sun and moon on
the 4th day. (Genesis
1:16) The sun is a bright light, giving life and growth, and the moon
reflects the light to the world at night. Interestingly, at exactly the 4th
day on man’s timetable, He sent Jesus, the Son, (Sun) at the end of the
4000-year point of human history. Along with Jesus came the church, which
reflects the light of God’s Son to the world during darkness.
The sun is representing the Son, and the moon is representing the
church. The church began on the end of the 4th day, as did
Jesus’ Earthly ministry to the lost.
4 days is equal to 4000 years according to 2 Peter 3.
The calendar is obviously
off, because I believe Jesus will return at the 6000-year mark.
But I will not say when
that is, because that is not possible.
One thing is sure. If I am correct, then 2000 A.D. was not the
2000-year mark, obviously. Only God knows the timetable.
Here is another clue. Jesus
rose at the beginning of the 3rd day, or, right after the
end of the 2nd day. He also
left Earth around 4000 AD, and said He’d be back soon. That is no
accident. That is exactly on
the same timetable as the 6-day creation scenario. Two days is as 2000 years
with God according to 2nd Peter 3.
At the end of two days, He came back from the grave. At the end of two
thousand years, He is due back. His return from the grave
symbolizes and earmarks a timetable, of His return to Earth from Heaven.
Am I being irresponsible or
predicting the time of the return of Christ? No! I am only
pointing out that there is a time-table. The date, and year, is still a
mystery, even according to this teaching.
Remember, there is this
sentence:
“But the day of the Lord
will come as thief in the night,” (2
Peter 3: verse 10)
God alone knows when this
period is up. I am just a Bible teacher showing you some cool stuff that I
believe all fits together and is very accurate.
I am not the first to teach it, I am just a delivery boy.
Many teachers are teaching this timetable information right now. I
cannot tell you when, but I can say it could be today.
In one hour, we could have the rapture of the church.
If you buy a car on a 3-year loan, you may not get to the end.
This thing is close. Do
you see why I started this ezine? Could
we get some solid teaching out about this information?
Am I being an alarmist, or just practical? Should we warn
people of immanent danger in ungodly living and a lack of faith? Can you
help by sharing this with people? Is
the Internet possibly the way the gospel will go around the globe, in mass,
at the end?
Wow, That’s A
Close One!
If that information did not
pop your cork, get this next part! According to many
excellent Bible scholars, the millennial reign cannot begin until after the
rapture and the tribulation, which lasts seven years.
To state it another way, the last 1000-year millennial reign of Jesus
doesn’t start for at least 7 years from now onward.
That means we are still earlier than 5993 years of human history from
Creation. (6000 minus 7 years)
Remember, the calendar is not correct. If this teaching is correct,
it is very soon and sooner than most of us thought.
Some of you may be
confounded or reeling from this information.
Let me say this one last time and another way.
Ancient man, in his cleverness, figured out the calendar. But since
men can error so easily, as we have seen, all he would have had to do was
miss the thing by 12 years. If
man incorrectly stated the correct date of the birth of Christ, then that
could be the reason Christ has not returned yet.
Let’s say the date on our calendars is only 12 years off.
Let’s say the scriptural timetable is correct, and it is God’s
plan. If we are 12 years off,
then that would make the year right now, in actuality, 1991 A.D., or 2015
A.D. If it is 1991 A.D., we
would have just 2 years to the rapture, and 7 years to the final judgment,
and so on. The true Biblical
year of 2000 A.D. (not our calendar year) is very pivotal, and key! Do you
see this scenario? If we
are 10 years off, then Christ could return this year, in 2003 A.D.!
This month! Today!
No one knows, but God.
If we believe the Bible is
true, and that it is God’s Word, and we do, and we believe Peter was
writing under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and he was, then we can
plainly see the context of his warning and sober words. We can then
surmise that we are very soon to see Christ's return, and the ungodly are
very soon to perish. According
to the Genesis timetable, the end could not have been before now, not in
1600 A.D., or 1850 A.D., or 1965 A.D., but only now, in this
generation.
Mankind’s final ascent is
very soon, and it also shows here that man did not evolve, over millions of
years, for the Earth is not that old. Darwin
was wrong about that also, but, let’s cut the guy some slack, for there
are millions today who subscribe to the darkened error of mankind’s folly.
Man came from God, and through
Jesus Christ, man returns to a place of sonship in God.
Man ascends to his eternal home finally,
in the end, and this is the true ascent of man!
What can we learn
from this?
1)
Mankind out their darkened minds can really miss the whole thing by a
mile! (Darwin is a good
example)
2)
God is kind and merciful and does not want any person to go to hell,
even Darwin.
3)
God’s timetable does not match Earthly calendars. The fact
that believers have not seen the promise of His coming does not mean it is
not on schedule!
4)
With the illumination of God’s Word, and the help of the Holy
Spirit, mankind can find out truth, and he can even find out God’s hidden
clues, which God wants him to find.
5)
Jesus is the focal point of all human history, and if you use the sun
as a symbol of Jesus, and weigh the importance of the sun to the Earth, then
you can fathom the importance of Jesus to man. The Sun (Son) gives life and
growth, nurturing whatever it or He shines upon!
6)
If the moon is the symbol of the church, then it’s importance is
plainly seen, but the church must be warned that she has the ability to
either reflect the Son in all His glory, or to eclipse the Son, to block him
from men’s minds, as the moon does to the sun at times. Let the church
step forward to her rightful destiny. The
church has at times blocked or eclipsed the view of compassionate Jesus in
her own dark times.
7)
The Earth is not as old as it seems, and it does not have as much
time left as it seems.
8)
You need to accept Christ before another day passes of Earth’s
history.
9)
Darwin tried to create a descent for man, but God has in mind an
ascent for man!
I have much more on this,
but this ezine must end, so trust that more will be coming.
Charles Darwin may have found his redeemer just in time to escape
judgment. So can you! You can
receive Jesus or come back to Jesus at any time, and God the Father will
accept you with open arms.
Coming next time:
The Ascent Of Man Part 3