12/8/23
World History, Chapter 1: Creation to Final Judgment
Creation to Final Judgment
I will do a series of articles that brings us from the creation to the fall, from the flood of Noah’s day to the days of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Esau, and Ishmael, followed by Moses and David. Then, through the great empires of the Babylonians, the Medes, and Persians; Alexander the Great and his four generals; the Hellenization of foreign lands followed the secular Rome Empire; the Holy Roman Empire and its Popes on through to the division of the Catholic Church, its two capitals Constantinople and Rome, the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans, the growth of the Christian church, Christian’s Jesus; Islam’s Isa (Islam’s Jesus), their Caliphate, and including the Catholic Church today. Mohammed followed these and was the reason for the growth of the Muslim religion.
From Abraham forward, each of the above will focus on Jehovah God., the birth, death, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ; the Christian Church; the Jews of today, the Land of Israel and the role of modern-day countries, including America, the Europeans; Asians and the Middle Eastern nations.
From the time of King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream to its interpretation by Daniel the prophet, each kingdom, from the head of gold to the feet and toes of miry clay, had direct contact with the Jewish people and the land, bringing us to that very last day of the rapture of the church, 1 Thessalonians 4:16, then through the tribulation period; the beginning of the 1000-year reign of Christ, Revelation 20:3; the end of the 1000-year reign, Revelation 20:7; and lastly to the final judgment day, Revelation 20:15; so let’s begin our journey:
Part 1: From beginning to end:
The sacred Volume, which we call the Bible, by way of distinction, consists of two wonderful parts, the Old and New Testament, uniting a variety of compositions: historical, political, judicial, moral, prophetical, and perceptive.
This author considers the Bible to be God’s inspired, infallible word, having written words spoken and directed at the prophets by His Holy Spirit on its pages.
The Written Word carries us back into the vast oceans of eternity and then forward to the very threshold of creation, and upon this threshold stood the Creator, Jesus Christ, who is called the Word and the Wisdom of God.
The Greeks were fond of speculating upon the origin of all things. Aristotle thought the world, in its organized form, was eternal and that the Supreme Being put it in motion.
Anaxagoras, Socrates, and Plato believed in a supreme mind who organized the world out of matter which had always existed. Epicurus, the father of Atheism, traced the beautiful order of the earth and all its inhabitants and productions to an accidental coming together of atoms. And to add to this, no scholars, philosophers, or scientists in ancient Rome or Greece ever acknowledged a Creator of the world.
The ancient heathen nations, ignorant of their origin, were fond of ascribing to themselves vast ages. As do the Chinese and Hindus, the Babylonians and Egyptians boasted of their astronomical observations and counted their dynasties through thirty and forty thousand years.
“Ex buguki buguk fut” means “from nothing, nothing comes?” Because of the falseness of this maxim, which opposes it, Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth,” will bring us to the infinite intelligence: Jehovah God, the maker of all things.
Without excluding the idea that angels, principalities, and powers were created by God ages before our world, Genesis presents to us the Almighty, producing and bringing to perfection in His great and excellent majesty and goodness, both the heavens and the earth, in six days.
And at the close of His work, He instituted the Sabbath. He had labored for six days, but on the seventh day, he rested from all his work, blessed and sanctified it. And from the time of the fall, some 6000 years have passed; the whole human race stands on the threshold of that great Day of Judgment: The timekeeper’s hourglass is about to be emptied!
In Psalms 46:10, we are to “Be still, and know that I am God: (for) I will be exalted among the heathen (nations), and I will be exalted in the earth.”
Isaiah 1:10, “Hear the word of the LORD you rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.”
Humanity is again in a freefall; its leaders consider God’s word to be nothing more than an ancient relic, having little value and filled with lunatic expressions.
2 Thessalonians 2:7, “For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he (the Holy Spirit) who now letteth will let until he be taken out of the way. Verse 10, “and with all deceivableness (unrighteousness) in them that perish: because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.” Verse 11, “And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.”
Paul warns us that the mystery of iniquity will come in gradually until it reaches its height of arrogant, overbearing, and domineering effects, terminating in the man of perdition, the anti-Christ. And to what result?
John wrote Revelation 20:11, “I saw a great white throne, and him (Jesus) that sat on it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away —- and I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up its dead —- and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second (and last) death.”
Sin as a virus has spread itself through all generations and to all people. The destroyer walks to and fro, from the extreme North parts of the earth to the South and from East to West. And for the second time in creation history, God can look down on this world and say, Genesis 6:11-12 (paraphrased), “Most all have corrupted their way for the earth is again filled with violence, and because they hear me not, I shall, in my wrath return to judge the world.”
Our God is a patient God.
Psalms 86:15, for you, “O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, long-suffering (patient), and plentiful in mercy and truth.”
2 Peter 3:9, “The Lord is —- long-suffering to us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
But that patience is to run out soon!
Revelation 14:10, man “Shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he (man) shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and the presence of the Lamb.”
Phillip LaSpino www.seekfirstwisdom.com