Tidbits from the life of a Pastoral Care Pastor

Tuesday July 20, 2010
This morning, after being awakened by my alarm clock needing to go outside, I found myself wondering about the knowledge we as human beings have acquired in such a short time. I have heard that knowledge will increase very fast as we approach the end of this age. God inspired His prophet Daniel to give two indicators of the close of the age and the coming establishment of His Kingdom to supersede all other kingdoms of man. It is found in Daniel 12: 4 – “But you, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book [so no one could understand its meaning], even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro [world travel], and KNOWLEDGE shall be increased.”
In my life time we have developed TV, put a man on the moon and many other things that I can’t even start to name. I remember when the interstate highway system was developed and worked as a policeman on that highway keeping it safe so we could move quickly across the US.
I have witnessed skyscraper buildings that were built to withstand earthquakes. The computer and electronics industry seemingly is always coming up with something new and faster. Recently I was reading in my Popular Science magazine of a new development in the speed of computers…atom catching. The catching of atoms and blasting them with electricity makes computers run 1,000’s of times faster than the fastest computer we have now. The first computer I bought was a 286 and I thought that was really fast. When I purchased a faster, more advanced computer, it was nearly obsolete when I un-package it and proudly set it up for use. Truly, Solomon was correct when he wrote “and there is no new thing under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1: 9).
Archeology has proven there was a “golden age” of understanding that dwarfs our modern achievements. For instance, on a tremendously high and nearly straight up mountain in the Andes Mountains of Peru, South America, a city was discovered. It had many terraces that ran a distance down the mountainside. The city is perched on a very narrow peak hidden by the clouds. Massive stones were taken from quarries, some 250 miles away, and somehow transported straight up to the top of the mountain. These huge stones weighed tons each. Each massive stone was placed in the exact location to build an earthquake-proof city! Other cities are being found in these dense jungles in South America that are just as surprising as this one described.
Truly, there is nothing new under the sun. Just when we thought we are the most advanced civilization that has ever lived, we find buildings and mysteries that dwarf our abilities. Surely, God had at one time revealed certain principles upon which those before and shortly after the great Deluge in Noah’s day built upon – hidden knowledge of which modern scientists know nothing.
According to archeological finds, the ancients learned the technique of softening the hardest of rock formations to a “putty” like substance, put hand or feet prints or whatever they chose and harden the rock again to its original hardness. Modern scientists have never even entertained such technology.
Can you and I imagine the beauty and splendor of “New Jerusalem” that the Father will bring down out of heaven when His plan of salvation is finished? What energy source will He use to levitate a city as huge as New Jerusalem? We have no idea as yet! We will have 1,000 years under Christ’s rule to learn. The “golden age” of the past will pale into insignificance by comparison!!!

Books Currently Reading: Leading on Empty by Wayne Cordeiro; just started reading The 100 Most Important Events in Christian History

Current Bible Readings / Studies: I am currently reading and doing some studying in Isaiah chapter 53.

Devotions: Still currently reading through the bible with a program that chronologically lays out the scriptures in the sequence they occurred or more likely to have occurred.