There is a video clip at the beginning that lasts a few minutes; the talk begins right after that.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Audubon Park Baptist Church--Creation Seminar Session 4 of 4: Tower of Babel, Language Development, Ethnicity, Racism, & The Great Commission
For, Audubon Park Baptist Church--Creation Seminar Session 4 of 4: Tower of Babel, Language Development, Ethnicity, Racism, & The Great Commission, click here.
Audubon Park Baptist Church--Creation Seminar Session 3 of 4: Noah's Ark, Flood Geology, Fossils, Ice Age, Carbon Dating
Audubon Park Baptist Church--Creation Seminar Session 2 of 4: Creation, Intelligent Design, & Effects of the Fall
Audubon Park Baptist Church--Creation Seminar Session 1 of 4:Worldview & Genesis Compromise Theories
For Creation Seminar Session 1 of 4: Worldview & Genesis Compromise, click here.
There is a video clip at the beginning that last a few minutes; the talk begins right after that.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
The Farmer's Garden: Agriculture From A Creationist Farmer's Perspective
Creationists today are often caricatured as incompetent when it comes to the hard sciences, yet such character attacks prove to be the result of losing a worldview debate. In light of this, it is my intent to demonstrate that creationists contribute to the hard sciences all the time. Though there are many fields of science that interest me, my greatest experiential knowledge lies within the realm of agriculture.
Besides experience I gained from assisting with a rather large family garden (3-5 acres annually), I have been blessed with an enormous amount of experience in field crops because I was raised on a farm for most of my youth. Without hesitation, I attribute most of this insight to my father; may God bless him for passing this on to me.
Tragically, I was unable to grow anything of substance for over a decade (Oh, the weeping I know!). However, I was able to begin gardening again two years ago, and our recently purchased home has reopened some excellent opportunites. To my suprise, questions are posed to me regularly, so I have decided to publish weekly (more or less) insights on various gardening suggestions from a farmer's perspective while at the same time contribute to the field of creation science.
Not everyone will agree with my suggestions or comments, but I will do my best to lend out some practical knowledge that I have found resourceful.
Besides experience I gained from assisting with a rather large family garden (3-5 acres annually), I have been blessed with an enormous amount of experience in field crops because I was raised on a farm for most of my youth. Without hesitation, I attribute most of this insight to my father; may God bless him for passing this on to me.
Tragically, I was unable to grow anything of substance for over a decade (Oh, the weeping I know!). However, I was able to begin gardening again two years ago, and our recently purchased home has reopened some excellent opportunites. To my suprise, questions are posed to me regularly, so I have decided to publish weekly (more or less) insights on various gardening suggestions from a farmer's perspective while at the same time contribute to the field of creation science.
Not everyone will agree with my suggestions or comments, but I will do my best to lend out some practical knowledge that I have found resourceful.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Phd Field Essay and Staff Interview
Meggan and I went up to Louisville on Thursday, so that I could take the Phd Field Essay and Staff Interview on Friday. I felt prepared and comfortable, and I pray the results are positive. I was told that the review process takes about a month. Should I be accepted in this new modular/long distance Phd program at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, I would be doing it under the School of Theology in Apologetics and Worldview. Not only would I be able to use it when I speak & teach, but it would most likely open professoral opportunites in the future. Unless Christ comes in the near future, our generation must carry the torch when the present one is taken home to be with the Lord! Amen!
Bryant and Hanna Glisson gave us lodging, and we are most thankful for their hospitality. Nancy and Richard McDonald (who is currently in a Phd Program-OT Studies) dropped by for a while as well, so it was great to fellowship with folks that we had not seen in quite a while.
May the Lord's will be done in all of this.
Bryant and Hanna Glisson gave us lodging, and we are most thankful for their hospitality. Nancy and Richard McDonald (who is currently in a Phd Program-OT Studies) dropped by for a while as well, so it was great to fellowship with folks that we had not seen in quite a while.
May the Lord's will be done in all of this.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Faith: What does that mean?
Faith is the assurance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen (Heb 11). What then does that entail? Contrary to popular opinion, faith in Christ is not a blind leap into oblvion, which is like a 'hope for the best' kind of theology. On the contrary, this assurance is based on a historical event, and that event is Christ's bodily resurrection from the dead. What was not seen from of old, as detailed in Heb 11, was how God was going to make good on His promise to the woman in the Garden of Eden. It was not until Christ came, died, and raised from the dead that what was once concealed became revealed. Even so, those who are not eyewitnesses (like us who live well beyond that era) trust those who were eyewitnesses. We trust their accounts of the fulfillment of One who was to come and that Christ will make good on His promises to raise us as He has been raised.
Therefore, our faith in Christ today is based on the fact that we trust Christ at His Word that He will make good on His promise to raise us from the dead (that is those who trust in Him). This is why His resurrection from the dead is so critical and thus is so vehemently attacked. Just as He made good on His promise to rise from the dead on the third day, we have no reason not to take Him at His Word in future promises. For this reason, our faith in Him is assured because though we (being those who have lived past that era) have not seen Him, we believe/trust/have faith in Him because He made good on His promises. This then gets into the reliability of the text itself
The crediblity of the NT text is magnfied in the transformed lives of the Apostles who were able to testify to His resurrection and thus document that He made good on His promise to rise from the dead because they were eyewitnesses. They cowered in fear until they saw Him raised; it was then that their courage was renewed and had no reason to doubt His ability to them raise them from the dead and fulfill all which He declared.
The next fundamental issue is then how one becomes empowered to accept the Scriptures that document His Resurrection as being reliable. Obviously, many refuse to do this, so they fabricate other reasons to explain Christianity, etc. However, when one does that one then faces an incredible burden of proof in explaining why Christ was crucified, the fact that even his opposers never denied his miracles (except the resurrection) only the power by which He did them, that He raise from the dead and was seen by many, the incredible growth of the early Church, etc.
It is important to point out that the burden of proof is on the person who wants to reject the claims in the same way that one is innocent until proven guilty (otherise any claim about even the most mundane thing is suspect thus skepticism--which men claim but don't actually live out). For example, one can deny the resurrection, but, if one is going to be intellecutally honest, then one has to explain the immediate and tremendous growth of the Church itself in a cogent and coherent way. If that is denied, then one has to deny extrabiblical texts that attest to this also. To then denies these as well leads to further and further denial until any and all texts on any matter are shown to be unreliable and dubious.
This puts the assailant between a rock and a hard place. If he accepts the NT accounts and the resurrection documented therein, then he is commanded to repent and trust in Christ, something He does not want to do. On the other hand, if he rejects the text and ends up rejecting the reliablity of all human texts as explained above, then he is forced into a position whereby He must reach into absurdity to even accept that George Washington was a real man and that he was the First President of the United States. If he decides to reach into absurdity so as to 'cope' and not end up as mental patient in the local insane ward, then his position is exposed as extremely shaky and unsubstantiated. One then either repents, ends up as a patient in an insane ward, or reaches into the absurd so as to 'cope' but all the while realizing the extreme foolishness that one must take to deny the Resurrection from the Dead.
The desire to reach into the absurd is the Post-modern answer, and this magnfies the depravity of man, for He will willingly submit to that which is absurd before repenting before a Holy God. The truth is that he states he is reaching for abusrdity, but what He is really doing is stealing from Biblical Christianity under a disguise of 'absurdity' in order to justify his suppressing the truth in unrighteousness. This is demonstrated by the fact that he wants his position to be accurately represented, but this cannot be done if rationality cannot be undergirded. He is boxed in and his position is shown self-destructive. This is why his presuppositional bias must be exposed.
For this reason, the Holy Spirit (Jn 3) must change a man's heart so as to empower him to receive the Bible as authoritative and be set free of all this madness. Only by the Agency of God Almighty will a man ever submit to Him as He has commanded in His Word.
Glory to Him Who sets men free when He was certainly not obligated to do so! Faith in Christ then is far from absurd; on the contrary, denial of Him leads to absurdity! Amen!
Therefore, our faith in Christ today is based on the fact that we trust Christ at His Word that He will make good on His promise to raise us from the dead (that is those who trust in Him). This is why His resurrection from the dead is so critical and thus is so vehemently attacked. Just as He made good on His promise to rise from the dead on the third day, we have no reason not to take Him at His Word in future promises. For this reason, our faith in Him is assured because though we (being those who have lived past that era) have not seen Him, we believe/trust/have faith in Him because He made good on His promises. This then gets into the reliability of the text itself
The crediblity of the NT text is magnfied in the transformed lives of the Apostles who were able to testify to His resurrection and thus document that He made good on His promise to rise from the dead because they were eyewitnesses. They cowered in fear until they saw Him raised; it was then that their courage was renewed and had no reason to doubt His ability to them raise them from the dead and fulfill all which He declared.
The next fundamental issue is then how one becomes empowered to accept the Scriptures that document His Resurrection as being reliable. Obviously, many refuse to do this, so they fabricate other reasons to explain Christianity, etc. However, when one does that one then faces an incredible burden of proof in explaining why Christ was crucified, the fact that even his opposers never denied his miracles (except the resurrection) only the power by which He did them, that He raise from the dead and was seen by many, the incredible growth of the early Church, etc.
It is important to point out that the burden of proof is on the person who wants to reject the claims in the same way that one is innocent until proven guilty (otherise any claim about even the most mundane thing is suspect thus skepticism--which men claim but don't actually live out). For example, one can deny the resurrection, but, if one is going to be intellecutally honest, then one has to explain the immediate and tremendous growth of the Church itself in a cogent and coherent way. If that is denied, then one has to deny extrabiblical texts that attest to this also. To then denies these as well leads to further and further denial until any and all texts on any matter are shown to be unreliable and dubious.
This puts the assailant between a rock and a hard place. If he accepts the NT accounts and the resurrection documented therein, then he is commanded to repent and trust in Christ, something He does not want to do. On the other hand, if he rejects the text and ends up rejecting the reliablity of all human texts as explained above, then he is forced into a position whereby He must reach into absurdity to even accept that George Washington was a real man and that he was the First President of the United States. If he decides to reach into absurdity so as to 'cope' and not end up as mental patient in the local insane ward, then his position is exposed as extremely shaky and unsubstantiated. One then either repents, ends up as a patient in an insane ward, or reaches into the absurd so as to 'cope' but all the while realizing the extreme foolishness that one must take to deny the Resurrection from the Dead.
The desire to reach into the absurd is the Post-modern answer, and this magnfies the depravity of man, for He will willingly submit to that which is absurd before repenting before a Holy God. The truth is that he states he is reaching for abusrdity, but what He is really doing is stealing from Biblical Christianity under a disguise of 'absurdity' in order to justify his suppressing the truth in unrighteousness. This is demonstrated by the fact that he wants his position to be accurately represented, but this cannot be done if rationality cannot be undergirded. He is boxed in and his position is shown self-destructive. This is why his presuppositional bias must be exposed.
For this reason, the Holy Spirit (Jn 3) must change a man's heart so as to empower him to receive the Bible as authoritative and be set free of all this madness. Only by the Agency of God Almighty will a man ever submit to Him as He has commanded in His Word.
Glory to Him Who sets men free when He was certainly not obligated to do so! Faith in Christ then is far from absurd; on the contrary, denial of Him leads to absurdity! Amen!
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Heart of God Saturdays: Psalm 3
Psalm 3
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
1O LORD, how many are my foes!Many are rising against me;
2many are saying of my soul,
there is no salvation for him in God.
Selah
3But you, O LORD, are a shield about me,
my glory, and the lifter of my head.
4I cried aloud to the LORD,
and he answered me from his holy hill.
Selah
5I lay down and slept;
I woke again, for the LORD sustained me.
6I will not be afraid of many thousands of people
who have set themselves against me all around.
7Arise, O LORD!
Save me, O my God!
For you strike all my enemies on the cheek;
you break the teeth of the wicked.
8 Salvation belongs to the LORD;
your blessing be on your people!
Selah
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Worldview Wednesdays: The Great Modern Deception--Evolutionary Materialism=Observational Science
Goo-to-you evolution has insulated itself for the past two centuries by equating evolutionary materilism to observational science. Evolutionists have done this to give the facade of being 'neutral'. However, evolution from molecules-to-man is in fact a worldview because it makes fundamental assumptions about reality that cannot be tested through observation. For example, evolutionary materialism presupposes that the world contains only matter. The issue is that one would have to know all things to validate that statement. Therefore, this exposes the above position as a being worldview, so it cannot claim neutrality.
This is a critically important point because the insulation that evolutionists have used to protect their religious system from scrutiny exposed. This stings deeply, and they fight bitterly to maintain their 'hedge of protection', and this is especially guarded in the public school system. They claim that religion doesn't belong in the schools due to 'separation of church and state', but the truth is that it is impossible for neutrality to exist where education exists, for education is always founded upon certain principles that stem from a worldview no matter what that worldview is. Therefore, a religion does exist in the nation's public education system: atheistic materialistic evolutionary naturalism.
Now that more and more people are aware of this, they have become sensitive to the problems that exist within this worldview and why its positions conflict with what is observed. The only solution evolutionists have is to bend their worldview into a pretzel to make it fit what is observed. For example, no legitimate transition fossils have been found; Darwin himself saw the need to find them, and he even noted that his position would be problematic if they are not found. To account for this, the theory of punctated equilibrium (basically the hopeful monster or dinosaur laying a chicken egg) was ushered in. It states that evolution happened so fast in the distant past that it was not recorded in the fossil record. The problem with this is that we find 'displaced' fossils, or fossils remains of plants and animals that are 'too deep' in the rock strata for them to be descendents of living things after them. The best explanation for 'displaced' fossils (a convenient term used to disguise the problem) is the Genesis Flood, but the implications of this are too hard for evolutionists to handle because their worldview resists submission to the Lord.
God's Word is always vindicated, and this era is no exception. Observations being made today testify to the truth of Holy Scripture more and more, so the real fight is not with the data but with evolutionary materialism, a viruently religiously charged worldview that despsises the Lord God of the Bible.
Even so, let us confront such men who are blinded by their own sinful desires and the god of this age with grace and mercy, for were not many of us just as blind at one time? That's what makes us different. Our worldview as Christians demands love, and it can account for that demand at the same time. To Him be the glory alone! Amen!
This is a critically important point because the insulation that evolutionists have used to protect their religious system from scrutiny exposed. This stings deeply, and they fight bitterly to maintain their 'hedge of protection', and this is especially guarded in the public school system. They claim that religion doesn't belong in the schools due to 'separation of church and state', but the truth is that it is impossible for neutrality to exist where education exists, for education is always founded upon certain principles that stem from a worldview no matter what that worldview is. Therefore, a religion does exist in the nation's public education system: atheistic materialistic evolutionary naturalism.
Now that more and more people are aware of this, they have become sensitive to the problems that exist within this worldview and why its positions conflict with what is observed. The only solution evolutionists have is to bend their worldview into a pretzel to make it fit what is observed. For example, no legitimate transition fossils have been found; Darwin himself saw the need to find them, and he even noted that his position would be problematic if they are not found. To account for this, the theory of punctated equilibrium (basically the hopeful monster or dinosaur laying a chicken egg) was ushered in. It states that evolution happened so fast in the distant past that it was not recorded in the fossil record. The problem with this is that we find 'displaced' fossils, or fossils remains of plants and animals that are 'too deep' in the rock strata for them to be descendents of living things after them. The best explanation for 'displaced' fossils (a convenient term used to disguise the problem) is the Genesis Flood, but the implications of this are too hard for evolutionists to handle because their worldview resists submission to the Lord.
God's Word is always vindicated, and this era is no exception. Observations being made today testify to the truth of Holy Scripture more and more, so the real fight is not with the data but with evolutionary materialism, a viruently religiously charged worldview that despsises the Lord God of the Bible.
Even so, let us confront such men who are blinded by their own sinful desires and the god of this age with grace and mercy, for were not many of us just as blind at one time? That's what makes us different. Our worldview as Christians demands love, and it can account for that demand at the same time. To Him be the glory alone! Amen!
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Love Your Enemy!
Love your enemy is the critical statement made by the author of Son of Hamas. He stated that many religions speak of loving family and even neighbor, but only Christianity explicitly commands to 'love your enemy'. Loving your enemy is hard and downright opposed by the sinful flesh. When we are hated by those who seek to ridicule, slander, or even murder us, the flesh immediately wants to hate right back. However, that is the opposite of what Christ commands, and, remember, while we were still enemies Christ died for us. As Christians, we are not merely encouraged to love our enemy; rather, we are commanded to do so!
Therefore, when we are reviled, cursed, and beaten down, let our first reaction be that of restraint. This does not negate justice, of which we are commanded to execute as well, but vengeance is the Lord's and not ours.
Therefore, when we are reviled, cursed, and beaten down, let our first reaction be that of restraint. This does not negate justice, of which we are commanded to execute as well, but vengeance is the Lord's and not ours.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
He is Risen!
He is Risen! One can only imagine how great privilege it was to have been the angel to say that, for Christianity rises and falls on the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ as Paul lays at out in 1 Cor 15. For this reason, those who oppose Christ as He is laid out in the gospels work extremely hard to discredit this incredible event. What drives this is not the evidence; on the contrary, it is their presuppositions that force them to deny the resurrection. Even moreso, they assume certain things about the world so that they can deceive themselves in their denial of Christ the Lord, for accepting the Biblical worldview leads to repentance and submission, something the flesh hates.
The Mind of God Sundays: Proverbs--Proverbs 2
1My son, if you will receive my words
And treasure my commandments within you,
2Make your ear attentive to wisdom,
Incline your heart to understanding;
3For if you cry for discernment,
Lift your voice for understanding;
4If you seek her as silver
And search for her as for hidden treasures;
5Then you will discern the fear of the LORD
And discover the knowledge of God.
6For the LORD gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
8Guarding the paths of justice,
And He preserves the way of His godly ones.
9Then you will discern righteousness and justice
And equity and every good course.
10For wisdom will enter your heart
And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11Discretion will guard you,
Understanding will watch over you,
12To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things;
13From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To walk in the ways of darkness;
14Who delight in doing evil
And rejoice in the perversity of evil;
15Whose paths are crooked,
And who are devious in their ways;
16To deliver you from the strange woman,
From the adulteress who flatters with her words;
17That leaves the companion of her youth
And forgets the covenant of her God;
18For her house sinks down to death
And her tracks lead to the dead;
19None who go to her return again,
Nor do they reach the paths of life.
20So you will walk in the way of good men
And keep to the paths of the righteous.
21For the upright will live in the land
And the blameless will remain in it;
22But the wicked will be cut off from the land
And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.
And treasure my commandments within you,
2Make your ear attentive to wisdom,
Incline your heart to understanding;
3For if you cry for discernment,
Lift your voice for understanding;
4If you seek her as silver
And search for her as for hidden treasures;
5Then you will discern the fear of the LORD
And discover the knowledge of God.
6For the LORD gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
8Guarding the paths of justice,
And He preserves the way of His godly ones.
9Then you will discern righteousness and justice
And equity and every good course.
10For wisdom will enter your heart
And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11Discretion will guard you,
Understanding will watch over you,
12To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things;
13From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To walk in the ways of darkness;
14Who delight in doing evil
And rejoice in the perversity of evil;
15Whose paths are crooked,
And who are devious in their ways;
16To deliver you from the strange woman,
From the adulteress who flatters with her words;
17That leaves the companion of her youth
And forgets the covenant of her God;
18For her house sinks down to death
And her tracks lead to the dead;
19None who go to her return again,
Nor do they reach the paths of life.
20So you will walk in the way of good men
And keep to the paths of the righteous.
21For the upright will live in the land
And the blameless will remain in it;
22But the wicked will be cut off from the land
And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.
Friday, April 2, 2010
ESL & Mission Fridays: People Are Not Objects
ESL went great today. They really are improving, and it's awesome to see things 'click' mentally with regard to language. I do continue to pray that God will bless their home and their family. May the light of Christ within me and within other believers shine before them as they see our genuine love for them.
I abhor when people are treated as mere convertable objects that we flippantly write off or give little time and energy too when it comes to bringing the good news of Christ. God does not do that to us, so woe to us when we act that way towards others. Rather, the love of Christ that we share is a tough love that rejoices in the truth while remaining patient with people at the same time.
Oh may the Lord forgive me when my love becomes dull to either the lost or saved for that matter! Amen!
I abhor when people are treated as mere convertable objects that we flippantly write off or give little time and energy too when it comes to bringing the good news of Christ. God does not do that to us, so woe to us when we act that way towards others. Rather, the love of Christ that we share is a tough love that rejoices in the truth while remaining patient with people at the same time.
Oh may the Lord forgive me when my love becomes dull to either the lost or saved for that matter! Amen!
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Exposition Thursdays: 1 Peter The 24/7 Christian--1 Peter 1:3-12
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 7so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, 9obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls. 10Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, 11inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. 12It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look. (ESV)
In this glorious passage, the major theme is the great imperishable salvation brought about by God the Father through the blood of Jesus Christ by which we now have a living hope via his resurrection from the dead, and in this we rejoice, which is something that those beforehand longed to have knowledge of.
When God is 'blessed', it means that He is exalted and lifted up in all His glory, and in this passage it is in relation to what He has done for the saints in Christ. The Lord God is a merciful God who chose to save sinners from the wrath that they rightly deserve. This living hope is grounded in the historical resurrection of Jesus Christ who is not dead but is risen! Amen! It is a living hope because Jesus is not in the grave, and just as Christ was raised imperishable, so shall we who trust in Him be likewise raised imperishable. Even more so, this salvation is being reserved by God through faith, so it cannot be lost as it is to be revealed in the end.
In this we rejoice, for, even though we suffer many trials, these hardships test our faith which is more precious that gold when it is test by fire. God uses these difficult times to conform us into the image of His Son, and they are specifically used to test the validity of our faith. It has already been stated in the previous verses that our salvation is being kept and Eph 1 speaks of us being sealed, so this does not indicate that our salvation can be lost. However, we do continue to live in the presence of sin, and our great God is not a deceiver, for through these trials we are made aware of Who we are trusting in: Creator or creation. Let us be thankful for these trials because they keep us from deluding ourselves into believing in Christ when our lifestyle may reflect the complete opposite. All of this will be to His glory when Christ comes in all His glory! Amen!
It is true that we who have lived well past the Incarnation, Crucifixion, Burial, Resurrection, and Ascension have not seen Him, yet Christ pronounces blessing upon those who believe and yet have not seen as was told in His appearance to Thomas. We believe because God has given us a heart to believe the authority of His Word; the Holy Spirit is the Agent by which regeneration occurs (John 3), and this application of salvation is made true because Christ conquered sin on the cross for His beloved sheep and three days later conquered death on the cross. From this, His joy is made known to us, and it is a joy that He promised in Jn 15 which is inexpressible and filled with glory to the salvation of our souls.
Today, we take for granted the glorious salvation brought by our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who is King of kings and Lord of lords! Amen. However, those who lived before the Incarnation were still looking to Him who was to come. They wrote and read about Him, yet they were not fully aware of when and who the Christ was going to be. One can only imagine how mysterious it was to write the very prophecies that spoke of Christ as glorious King yet also write that He would be executed. Even the angels were ignorant of the events that we now have revelation of. Truly, "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law." Deut 29:29 In Christ the Law was fulfilled, and in Him we are empowered to keep this Law.
Glory to Him who is Holy, Holy, Holy! Amen!
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