Before the discovery and invention of modern investigative
techniques, mankind had no idea of the physical causes of diseases. With
insight, we now can peer into, understand and take ready precautions against
viruses, bacteria, pathogens, etc., things that remain invisible to the
so-called naked eye. Had we never discovered or invented means and
protocols to "see" them, we would still be very much "in the
dark".
While we have come a long way, in many respects, we
remain in the dark ages of forces that "live and move on the earth". Battered and beaten by the consequences of unseen things, mankind has
forged ahead in the fight to "see", understand and conquer the unseen
and unknown. Unknowingly, this is in direct fulfillment of God's
commission to the first man in Genesis 1:28 -- Then God blessed them, and God
said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have
dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every
living thing that moves on the earth.” Bacteria, viruses and pathogens
fit into the category of "living things in the earth".
On another plane, too many of us still remain largely
ignorant and un-accepting of the unseen spiritual forces that 'move on the earth', and are mysteriously
at the core of everything physical, much like a buried root of some kind is
responsible for every fruit and vegetable we consume. With all our progress, we remain
about as ignorant and un-insightful of these greatest "movers and
shakers" on planet earth as our ancestors in Old Testament days!
Consider the insight from this very simple data set, the number of times
the following words appear in the Old vs. the New Testaments (OT, NT) of The
Bible (NKJV):
Does this suggest to you that people in those days were pretty much clueless, just as many are today?Word OT NTdevil 0 34hades 0 11lucifer 1 0demon(s) 4 78satan 14 40hell 35 16angel 105 175heaven 405 287
Beyond any other insightful discovery or invention of
mankind, only The Bible may offer such a combination of a magnifying glass,
microscope, binoculars, and telescope into this unseen, and generally un-denied
world of forces that "live and move on the earth". Yet we
writhe and wrestle with the consequences of their movements, much like a ship
buffeted by unseen winds across the ocean!
Because He is unseen, The Holy Spirit manifested as
"a mighty roaring wind' when He re-filled earth's atmosphere on The Day of
Pentecost. His "filling presence" had been withdrawn from the
earth when Adam and Eve sold themselves and the earth into satanic slavery. Jesus' death and resurrection was the price God paid to redeem (buy-back)
His creation, and especially His beloved mankind, from satan's dominion and
control. In this buy-back, God, in an extremely gracious move, decided to
reinstate and retain man's "choice" of whether to follow and obey
God, or not -- for man to 'choose his god', so to speak. My, my, what a gamble!
After Adam and Eve's flub-up, would you have taken this great risk?!
Like microscopic organisms, choice is often unseen, but it's consequences are lived and experienced. This is the pinnacle of our problems on the earth -- people like you and me making the wrong choice, again, just like Adam and Eve, in favor of the wrong 'influencers'. The influencers are good and evil spirits, and the on-going battle they wage between each other, through us. What if we could "see" and understand these as well as mankind now sees and understands microscopic organisms? How do you imagine such insight might impact the quality of life on earth?
Oh that we would more clearly
perceive and 'see' the unseen~
perceive and 'see' the unseen~
