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, especially GRACE. 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)
