So, you believe in God; in whom do you believe? The problem with us, God is almost incomprehensible; and so much so that some are easily talked out of the notion of God.
Never trivialize belief.
Even the demons believe in God, so much so that they tremble in fear (Jas
2:19). Again, in whom do you believe?
Demons tremble for a reason — they
fear the Holy Ghost (hagios pneuma in Greek). Pneuma is fairly straight
forward; it is either the wind or breath of God but in bodily
shape (Luke 3:22).
However, Hagios is
somewhat confusing — the existence of “an awful Thing”
Why is invisible God an awful
Thing? The archaic meaning is that the Holy Ghost is “filled with awe” with
“the Power to inspire dread” or “overwhelming greatness.”
So, demons fear God because they dread punishment and Judeo-Christians glorify God because He overwhelms them. That overwhelming power provides either generation or regeneration. One other man besides Jesus had been raised from the dead, according to the acts of the apostles.
2 Being
grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the
resurrection from the dead… 4 Being grieved that they taught the
people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead…
7 And when they (the Jewish officials) had set them in the midst, they asked, “By what power, or by what name, have you done this? (Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost answered)… 9 If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole… 12 Neither is there salvation in any other for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved… 21 all (the) men glorified God for that which was done… 24 they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, You are God, which have made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them. (Acts 4)
The officials questioned the
Power of God because they feared Him. If God could make men whole, he could
also tear them down.
Those who were overwhelmed glorified
God and proclaimed Him to be the Maker of all things (verse 24).
Belief in God is not that He
exists but that He is glorious. The reader should recognize the glorification
of God from The Book of Genesis. The Holiness of God (the awfulness) is the
Glory of God. Glorification is therefore the Power to create or to perish as
the need arises.
Glorification is revealed in “nature” through the filtered lenses of the James Watt Space Telescope (JWST) which reveals God in the Things He has made — both the visible things and with infrared vision, the invisible things as well. Paul revealed God and His Glory to the Romans:
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness 19 because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has shown it unto them, 20 for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse; 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened” (Rom 1)
The photographs from the eyes of
JWST can be found all over the internet whose cameras reveal the invisible God
by the things He has made. What do you see when your eyes are open? You are
surely overwhelmed by the Glory of God revealed in the cosmos.
JWST captured what they say
is the evidence of the beginning of Creation (shown in the photo).
Figure 1: Image of the Creation (NASA)
What you see there is a picture
of what is believed to be the beginning of all material things, but within the
darkness lies the rest of the Creation that cannot be seen. That picture and
those like it reveal God, according to what Paul wrote to the Romans… “The
invisible things of Him from the Creation of the world are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead.”
What you see there before the
picture (July 22, 2022) were mostly unseen things. The “bright eyes” of JWST
revealed most of what you see there that was once invisible. JWST took pictures
of the Glory of God.
God in a sense, is “The Big Bang”
for Genesis 1:1 indicates that it was: “In the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth.” All things, both the seen and the unseen, were created
first. In the beginning is not measured in time, but rank
How does God perform His Power?
Remembering that He surely generates like He regenerates, the Glory of God is
also in what theologians call the “rapture”: “In a moment, in the twinkling of
an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be
raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed” (1 Cor 15:52).
Jesus is the Glory of God (John
7:39) and He comes in Power to regenerate both the living and the dead. As
mentioned in the last commentary, a “moment” is a quantum thing beyond time.
His coming in Power is essentially an atomic thrust from one realm to another —
from heaven to earth. Quantum Power is beyond time, so both the beginning and
the ending for His people is momentous — beyond the concept of time.
Do you see the twinkles which
JWST captured in the photo (figure #1)? That Power is believed to have
made all things around, and it is a twinkling caught in the eye of a camera
from the heavens.
In the cosmos, distance is
measured by twinkling. The frequency of twinkling measured from the Earth
determines relative distances between two or more twinkles; and the more
distant, the longer it takes the light to reach us. In other words, from planet
Earth it is not stars that we see, but only their twinkle. It is not a real
thing but an “atmospheric scintillation” — the absorption of energy from
ionizing radiation.
The twinkling of distant stars is
the evidence that stars were once there, albeit they may no longer not be there
due to the distance light travels. Hence, the twinkling of a star validates that
not real things are evidence of real things just as Paul wrote long before astrophysics.
Who is God? “Lord, You are God,
which have made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them” (Acts
4:24).
That agrees with the first verse
in the Bible, “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth,” not
just planet Earth but both the seen and unseen things such as in the
picture.
It was not the beginning of time
by any measure, but all at once — in a moment in the twinkling of the eye.
Genesis 1:1 describes the
Creation of all things by God, then each following “day” or “age” surely
describes the Creation aeon… an immeasurable period of time (i.e.,
beyond time). If that is true, then the Creation of all things would have been
in moment, or like a thrust of Power.
Genesis is full of atomic
energy (moments), one being this one: “(God) drove out the man; and He placed
at the east of the Garden of Eden Cherubims and a flaming sword which turned
every way to keep the way of the Tree of Life” (Gen 3:24).
“East” therein is archaic and
means before time ever began since the Sun comes up in the east. Hence,
the concept of time would have come from sin and decay (decadence). That
concurs with Michio Kaku’s estimation from JWST that “In the Creation, time did
not exist” and “Time is a construct of man.”
God did not drive Adam and Eve from
the Garden in the manner of cattle. The Hebrew word is garas — to “thrust
out”
Who is God? Literally “Elohim”.
Generally, the mem at the end of words is thought to make them plural
but there is one God, “El”. Elohim is the Virtue (Goodness) of
God to make things “very good” (Gen 1:29). The mem at the end is characterized
by a wave form as if water or blood flowing. The same letter mem can
also imply Virtue from God to make things. There are not many gods (“our
image” as it is written in English), but one God with Almighty Power
distribution to either create or perish as He sees fit. That implies that God
alone is the sovereign deity, not man or any other false image. That is the awe
of the “Awful Breath”.
It is God that is “King of kings
and Lord of lords” (Rev 19:16), or the real Caesar of the cosmos, and all
powers will kneel to Him in the end; “Yea, all kings shall fall down before Him:
all nations shall serve Him” (Psalm 72:11).
(To be continued)
No comments:
Post a Comment