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Pamphlet 1816 Malachi kc 5-1
How
many times have you heard doubters and scoffers ask the question,
"If
there is a loving God, a just God,
why
does He allow bad and evil things to happen to people?"
This is not a question just asked
by the atheist and the non-believer but by many Christians as well.
and
Many Christian ministers who claim
to be God's messengers.
People who carry the responsibility of speaking for Him
as His spokesman, declare that they have no idea why God allows evil things
to happen to people.
That is an embarrassment and shameful
indeed for it shows their true lack of their understanding of God's Word
and what the love which comes from free will is all about and what His
plan of salvation is for His children!
Of course this is just part of the scoffers' unbelief
because they know not the Word of God wherein true wisdom and knowledge
dwell!
You see, our Father is completely fair and just and so
don't worry...
NO ONE who commits evil is going to go unrewarded, i.e.
unpunished, as may "seem" to be the case to man's way of thinking!
The God of Judgment IS COMING and
as it is written concerning that day, it will be "a day vengeance of our
God" when He will execute justice in all the earth and comfort all those
who mourn (Isa. 61:2)!
Don't these preachers know that?
Earlier we were left with the question asked by the false
teachers of our people, "Where is the God of Judgment?"
Since Peter also addresses this in his second epistle,
let's go there and see what he has to say regarding this matter.
2 Peter
3:3
Knowing this
first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers,
walking after their own lusts,
What exactly are "scoffers"?
scoffers = dìðáßêôçò
empaikteôs emp-aheek-tace' Strong's G1703
From G1702; a derider, that is, (by implication)
a false teacher:—mocker,
scoffer.
One who claims to be a teacher
or preacher of God's Word and yet does his own thing by following after
the traditions of men, does indeed mock God!
[4]
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 the creation.
Where is the "promise"?
How can you give evidence and support to the promise of
His coming, i.e. to the fact that Jesus Christ is going to return and bring
judgment upon the earth?
OK, how about the FACT that He did
it once before, just as His Word declares... or
haven't you read that part?
That's right, God's Word declares
that He brought about judgment and destroyed the first earth
age, the age when the dinosaurs once roamed the earth.
And you know what else?
The fossil records and all the upheavals in the layers
of the earth's crust document that cataclysmic event as a
witness sure and true.
So all things do NOT continue as they were from the beginning...
from Genesis 1:1!
Open your eyes to the Word of
God and come out of darkness!
Peter continues:
[5] For
this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God
the heavens were of old, and
the earth standing out of the water
and in the water:
Note: The heavens weren't destroyed in Noah's
flood!
[6] Whereby the
world that then was, being overflowed
with water, perished:
They are ignorant of the first earth age, "the world
that then was" that God destroyed by "His fierce anger", i.e. by the pouring
out His wrath upon the earth!
Here is a record of that overthrow, written in the Book
of Jeremiah all this time!
Jeremiah
4:19
My bowels, my
bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh
a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou
hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trump, the alarm of war.
Oh My Heart (bowels) says our Father!
It is plainly evident that it pained Him greatly and hurt
Him deeply to have to destroy the beautiful home He had created (Gen. 1:1)
for His children to inhabit (Isa. 45:18).
[20]Destruction
upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled:
suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
Both the earth and
its heaven were destroyed!
Again: The heavens weren't destroyed in Noah's
flood!
All the dwellings (the inhabitable places) were wiped
out and the heavens did yield its water canopy and the earth was reduced
to the state of utter waste and desolation as described
in Gen. 1:2.
[21]How
long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
There is nothing new "under the sun", i.e. in this
earth age, and just as the people were warned at the end of that first
age as to what was about to befall them, so shall they hear the cry (the
herald) and the warning sound of the trumpet in this present earth age
before the God of Judgment comes according to His promise!
[22]For
my people is foolish, they have not known me;
they are sottish children [sottish
= stupid], and they have none
understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they
have no knowledge.
So Peter said the scoffers,
even the false teachers, are willingly ignorant of the fact that the Word
of God declares the destruction of the first earth age, the age of the
dinosaurs.
You see, it was by no accident nor without just cause
that it happened, for the Word also declares His reason which we just read
in Jer. 4:22.
His children angered Him by following after the ways of
the wicked one, Satan, and so He poured out His fierce wrath (Jer. 4:26)
upon the earth and it became
"tohu va bohu" in Hebrew, "without form and void", which means a total
waste and desolation!
And as it is written, there was "no light" for "darkness"
covered the face of the deep waters, and so we
see what transpired from the time of the beautiful creation in Gen. 1:1
to the waste and desolation it became in Gen. 1:2.
Jeremiah
4:23
I beheld
the
earth,
and, lo, it was without form, and void [tohu va bohu];
and the heavens, and they had no light.
Note: Their was light during Noah's flood!
Genesis 1:2
And the
earth was without form, and void [tohu
va bohu]; and
darkness
was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face
of the waters.
The word "was" in Gen. 1:2
is "hayah" in Hebrew which is the exact same word translated "became"
in Gen. 2:7 where it reads "man became (hayah) a living soul".
You see, it is also written that God did NOT
create the world "tohu", in a state of desolation.
He created it as a dwelling place
to be inhabited
by His sons, His children.
But following the rebellion of Satan when that iniquitous
one drew 1/3 of the "stars of heaven" (God's children) away (Rev. 12:4)
from the mercy seat of truth and justice, He chose to DESTROY that earth
age and implement His marvelous plan of salvation in this flesh age.
Here is your documentation that He did not create the
earth in the condition of Gen. 1:2:
Isaiah
45:18
For thus saith
the
LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth
and made it; He hath established it, He
created it not in vain [tohu],
He formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD;
and there is none else.
So all one needs to do is
place Jer. 4:19-27 between Gen. 1:1 and Gen. 1:2 to
understand how and why and by whose hand the earth became in such a state
of "tohu va bohu", utter waste and desolation!
Then too, further details of that
rebellion of Satan and how it all came about can be understood by reading
Ezekiel 28.
Let's repeat 2 Pet. 3:6 where Peter speaks of the destruction
of the first earth age:
2 Pet.
3:6
Whereby the
world that then was, being overflowed
with water, perished:
So the question is: "Do you
think our Father won't also bring down all the evil in this earth age when
He pours out His wrath upon the ungodly?"
Don't be a fool!
He did it once before, as it is written in His Word, and
He will do it again, as it is also written in His Word!
[7]
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the
same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against
the
day of judgment and perdition of ungodly
men.
Where is the God of Judgment?
Again, don't be foolish!
The same Word of God that declared
His judgment in the first earth age has declared the day of His judgment
in THIS PRESENT ONE!
How is it one can be ignorant concerning BOTH?
Where is the God of Judgment?
He's coming... and He shall appear suddenly to those who
dwell in ignorance, which is darkness indeed!
2 Peter
3:10
But the day
of the Lord will come as a thief in the night;
in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise,
and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth
also and the
works that are therein shall be burned up.
The "elements", which are the
"evil rudiments", and all the works of evil in all the earth shall be consumed
by His fire, which is His truth, even the Holy Spirit!
To wit, God is a consuming fire
(Heb. 12:29).
To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits;
to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy
Spirit, you accomplish both.
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