Popular views about Armageddon are almost all wrong. As I have written here, Armageddon is not a “final battle” between good and evil. Rather, it is the decisive battle to determine who will control God’s creation out into the future. Is it the Creator? Or is it his creation?
Our modern, self-styled elites are confident that Armageddon will never happen. How can it? The supernatural does not exist! Everything can and must be explained with the natural laws already in existence – but if not we will postulate the necessary ones until they are discovered. Religion? How quaint! Just don’t bring it outside that church.
The elites believe this because they have substituted a materialistic explanation for the creation of the universe and the existence of humanity. The “big bang” is the materialists’ creation “ex nihilo” that is recorded in Genesis. It just happened.
The second law is like unto it: Thou shalt not dispute the account of evolution from the inanimate debris of the big bang that formed itself into the men and women you see walking the streets today. No, no, no!
So you see, the big debate is not between religion and science, as the materialists would have you believe.
The big debate is between the materialists and supernaturalists.
The supernatural is called such because it is larger than the material universe. Yet it stands at once both inside and outside of the natural, material world that it created. Thus, the supernatural is, well, super-natural.
Mankind went down this path once before. It was very early in our recorded history. We were engaged in a large cooperative building project. Genesis 11 records that God visited the effort and had this observation:
“The Lord said, ‘If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other'” (Genesis 11:6-7 NIV).
It was a pretty simple solution, really. And it lasted a very long time. And the implementation was supernatural.
Mankind has reached that point again, hasn’t it? We have discovered enough about our own genetics to alter our offspring – and they, theirs – out into all future generations. We’ve made glorified bits of sand into silicon chips, the most powerful of which will soon challenge our own intelligence. And we have developed a sense of ownership about the material world that wasn’t there when we believed in a Creator.
This time God has permitted a real challenge to emerge. Perhaps he is a fan of high drama? Or perhaps he intends to make an example of fallen human intelligence that will stand for all his created intelligences to observe throughout all of eternity?
What do you think?
See armageddonstory.com for the full story.
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