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The Unnatural Elements. Georg Hegel. “The only thing that men learn from history is that men never learn from history”. Ecclesiastes 1:9 – “ The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done : and there is no new thing under the sun .”.
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Georg Hegel “The only thing that men learn from history is that men never learn from history”.
Ecclesiastes 1:9 – “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and thereisnonew thingunderthesun.”
Job 8:8-10 – “For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?”
Job 41:12-14 – “ I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion. Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle? Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.”
1st He tries to get her to question God’s Word (Gen 3:1) Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2nd He changes God’s Word (Gen 3:4) And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: (Gen 2:17) But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
1st He tries to get her to question God’s Word 2nd He changes God’s Word 3rd He reinterpreted God’s Word
Job 41:12-14 – “ I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion. Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle? Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.”
Why The Attack? Because of the Preeminence GOD HAS PLACED UPON IT.
Why The Attack?PRE-EMINENCE • Adam • Israel • Gods Son…Jesus! • The Church • The WORD
Psalms 138:2– “I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy wordabove all thy name.”
Why The Attack?PRE-EMINENCE • Adam • Israel • Gods Son…Jesus! • The Church • The WORD
Why The Attack? Because of the Preeminence GOD HAS PLACED UPON IT. Because Satan Wants to Destroy Your Confidence IN a Final Authority
Matthew 7:28 - “And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at His doctrine” • Matthew 7:29 - For He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
Why Undermine? Satan knows that without a total confidence in the Bible as your final authority that the Bible can’t really effectively work in your life
1 Thessalonians 2:13 – “For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.”
Why Undermine? Satan knows that without a total confidence in the Bible as your final authority that the Bible will not be effective in helping you through the basic problems of life.
Hebrews 4:12-13 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Why Undermine? Satan knows that without a total confidence in the Bible as your final authority that you will not be effective in standing in the battle against him.
Job 40:19 – “He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.”
Behemoth- ch 40 Leviathan- ch 41
Hebrews 4:12– “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
Lu 4:4 – “And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.” • Lu 4:8 – “And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.” • Lu 4:10 -“For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee”
Ephesians 6:13-14 – “Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness” • Ephesians 6:17 - “And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God”
Why The Attack? Because of the Preeminence GOD HAS PLACED UPON IT. Because Satan Wants to Destroy Your Confidence IN a Final Authority Because Satan Must Divert the attention away from the Bibles obvious proof of divine authorship and supernatural construction
“I know I’m right because I feel in my heart that I’m right and Jesus lives in my heart”
“I know I’m right because Christianity has more followers than any of the other religions in the world”
“I know I’m right because the Author of my faith has given me a Book that is UNLIKE any of the books of any religion in the world…God has presented us with a SUPERNATURAL Book, and I can PROVE to you that it has come to us from the very hand of God”
The Supernatural Elements UnexplainableUnity
In GENESIS we read: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (1:1) • In REVELATION we read: “I saw a new heaven and a new earth” (21:1) UnexplainableUnity
In GENESIS we find the FIRST Adam with his wife Eve in the Garden of Eden, reigning over all the earth.” (1:26-28) • In REVELATION we find the LAST Adam (1stCor 15:45), Christ, with His wife, the Church, in the City of God, reigning over all the universe (21:9) UnexplainableUnity
In GENESIS we are told: “And the gathering of the waters called He seas” (1:10) • In REVELATION we are told: “And there was no more sea” (21:1) UnexplainableUnity
In GENESIS God created the Sun, the Moon, and the day and the night. (1:5,16) • In REVELATION it says: “there shall be NO night there” (22:5). “And the city had NO need of the sun, neither the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof”. (22:2) UnexplainableUnity
In GENESIS the Tree of Lifeis denied to sinful man (3:22) • In REVELATION the Tree of Life “yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations”.(22:2) UnexplainableUnity
In GENESIS man hears God say: “Cursed is the ground for thy sake” (3:17) • In REVELATION man will hear God say: “and there shall be no more curse” (22:3) UnexplainableUnity
In GENESIS Satan appears to torment man (3:1) • In REVELATION Satan disappears and is himself to be tormented “forever and ever” (20:10) UnexplainableUnity
In GENESIS the old earth was punished through a flood. (7:12) • In REVELATION the new earth shall be purified through a fire. (2nd Peter 3: 6-12) (Revelation 21:1) UnexplainableUnity
In GENESIS, man’s FIRST homewas beside a river. (2:10) • In REVELATION, man’s ETERNALhomewill be beside a river. (“And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb)- (22:1) UnexplainableUnity
In GENESIS the patriarch Abrahamweeps for Sarah (23:2) • In REVELATION the children of Abraham will have God Himself wipe away all tears from their eyes. (21:4) UnexplainableUnity
In GENESIS God destroys an earthly city, wicked Sodom, from the sands (Chapter 19) • In REVELATION God presents a heavenly city, new Jerusalem, from the skies (21:1) UnexplainableUnity