A Good Black Hole?

God created all things as good. So what’s good about a black hole?

A popular book suggests God, and ergo his man, is Wild At Heart (by John Eldredge). This concept really goes against everything I know and understand about God. I wonder whether it may actually confuse who God is, versus what God allows in order to accomplish His highly strategic, principled plan for life? God is a Father of peace, harmony, unity and life. All that He ‘is’ is reflected in the insights we have been given in The Bible regarding Heaven and eternity. This must be recognized as necessarily and distinctly different from what God allows on Earth and in His broader creation in order to facilitate His plans. What we see and experience on Earth is not who He is. It does illustrate the application of some of His precepts and principles, but these are done within a confined context of ‘tension and resistance’. God is unlike mankind, we who demonstrate our real character under tension, pressure and resistance. His perfect character is revealed in His highest Heaven where there is no resistance, pressure or tension. There, He rules, perfectly.

Jesus said, ‘I beheld satan fall from heaven like lightening’. (Luke 10 and Isaiah 14) Satan fell along with his entourage of one-third of God’s angels who had mounted an unsuccessful coup d’état against God. Talk about tension! God would have nothing of it in His heaven, so ‘out you go!’ Everything they represent is anti-God and anti-life.

Thus, sin occurred first in Heaven, before on Earth. This sin apparently stained certain ‘things/articles’ in Heaven, requiring eventual cleansing by Jesus’ blood (Hebrews 9:23) If sin stained things in Heaven, could the fall of sinful angels from Heaven also have stained the physical creation (under Heaven) with death (anti-life) and darkness? This is the view of the so-called ‘Gap Theory’ that speculates chaos (whether universal or just on Earth) may have occurred between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, and the likely source of such was the fall of sinful angels. Another view is that the fall occurred toward the end of Genesis chapter 1.

Could a ‘death-stained universe’ mean even planets, moons, suns, solar systems and even galaxies, all died? Could kicking satan & co. out of Heaven have automatically meant subjecting all of creation to sin and death, its penalty? Yet, Romans 5:12 says, ‘Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned…’ Does this refute the Gap Theory’s notion that the angelic fall brought sin and death upon the Earth, or does it support the Gap Theory’s notion that Genesis chapter 1 summarizes God’s re-creation of earth following this angelic fall?

Either way, whether in response to the angelic sinful fall or not, God had a plan to establish a perfect world (Earth); create and install mankind as His Earth steward, answerable to Heaven -- right under the noses of fallen angels according to Psalm 8:4 and 144:3; and then, once even mankind was stained with sinful death, to activate His long-term plan to redeem both mankind and all of creation.

God knew sin and death would eventually stain even mankind via satan’s jealous deceptive plot to entice man to join in their God-challenge. And we fell for it, hook, line and stinker!

Thus, it appears the fall of satan and his cohorts may have ignited the engine of death, initially manifested by their separation from God, and subsequently manifested by the ‘dog-eat-dog’ principle at work in all creation under Heaven, and on Earth. This includes death and all things pertaining thereto, for mankind, animals, plants, and also for the suns, planets, moons, solar systems and galaxies flung across the universe: sickness, disease, poverty, lack, disobedience, lying, murder, selfishness, greed, rebellion, indiscipline, the stresses of attacks from insects, microscopic organisms, pollution and climates gone wild, super nova implosions and death to orbiting planets and moons, black holes, and much, much more -- all because of satan’s prideful desire to be God!

Could black holes, thus, be a part of this system of death at work in the universe, e.g., a type of exhaust system. (See: Life Cycle of Circumstances)

But take hope. God’s unfolding redemptive plan includes two additional restorations or recreations of Earth, which will become His home -- Heaven on earth, literally! First, following the tremendous destruction of a large percentage of men and earth’s environment during the predicted seven-year tribulation period (see The Book of Revelation), Jesus will restore Earth’s environment and for a thousand years (a millennium) He and His then im-mortal, human saints (born again believers in Christ) will reign over mortals who will survive the tribulation plagues, and their off-spring born in the millennium. Sometime afterward, He will create new heavens and earth that will last eternally. (Revelation 20 – 21) (Heavens here refer not to the third Heaven, but to universal bodies under the third Heaven.)

Thus, every stain from satan’s fall and man’s sins will be sequentially wiped away - a grand re-set, if you will. satan, his crew, and the death they are and represent will be forever confined to a merciless, hot hell, along with the eternal, im-mortal bodies (not just spirits!) of sinful people who served them as their ‘god replacement’.

During Christ’s Millennial Reign, The Bible hints both people and animals may return to being herbivores, as we were originally. (Genesis 1:29-30) Here’s how and why: 

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole, and the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea…  For the child shall die one hundred years old… (Isaiah 11:6 – 9, 65:20, 25)

Question: Does this sound like a wild God? Hardly!