One of the things I have noticed (and like) about God the Creator is the benign and non-malevolent triumph of His quite-acceptable impeccably-perfect sovereign will over the deviant and obstinate, wrong-headed and non-compliant, ignorant or deliberate, sovereign will of contrary-minded humans.
It has rightly been stated that "no two objects can occupy the same space at the same time."
Such is operational whether the subject at hand is so-called "gay" "marriage" (an oxymoron) of the sickening and disgusting, luridly-lewd and repulsive promotion of what the perversion actually must rather be termed (i.e. homosodomy unions licensing, with absurd revisionism against dictionary gender definitions of a "husband" or "wife") versus true heterosexual marriage where gender designations are logically congruent and consistent with dictionary-and-Bible-defined naturally-occurring sexually-oriented body parts and functionings....
....or some huge powerhouse of a giant locomotive contrasted with the somewhat puny piffle of anything ranging from a monster-truck SUV to a VW Bug, in which situation the former will win and the latter lose, as to what gets to remain in a certain space at a certain time if there perchance happens to be a competitive confrontation or possibly-even-lethal encounter....
....the immutable principle of natural-law physics always and invariably applies.
The rhetorical answer to:
Job 34:33 Will He then make requital to suit you, because you reject it? For you must choose [Oh? God is "pro-choice - but clearly not the replacement theology of "choosing" abortion-homicide?], and not I; therefore declare what you know.
...should be obvious, in view of:
Ecclesiastes 11:3 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on Earth; and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie [not "obvious" to superstitiously-terrified insane].
and:
Numbers 23:19 God is not man, that He will lie, or a son of man, that He will repent. Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not fulfill it?
In the toss of a coin, it's either "heads" or "tails" - but never both. And heads is never tails, nor vice-versa.
Isaiah 29:16 You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay; that the thing made should say of its maker, "He did not make me"; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding"?
Is not what is plainly obvious and comprehended and deemed "intelligently" "designed" (but only to those who are, in fact, intelligent) designed by an Intelligent Designer?
Circular logic? What goes around, comes around. Simple-logic modus ponens: If A = B, and B = C, then A = C.
Duh.
To deny what is reality, and what is fact, is not only ludicrous, but can even become devastating and fatal.
When Larry King interviewed Aladeen, and asked him if there is anything that Aladeen would like changed, Aladeen replied by stating that when one looks up Ees-rah-ell in the dictionary, everything is in the present tense, and when Larry then informed Aladeen that Larry was Jewish, and Aladeen twice replied: "YOU arrrre Jewish," which Larry twice affirmed, Aladeen then spit on the floor and responded: "Fine. No prrrroblem" after which Larry asked him why he would take offense at that, Aladeen wisely stated: "Because I don't like the floorrrr."
Denials have dire effects, and the interview got even worse when Larry then said: "Let's get right to it. Do you have nuclear weapons?" to which Aladeen gave a big laugh, then replied: "What was the question?" to which Larry repeated: "Are you developing nuclear weapons?" - only to hear Aladeen state the rather laughable but clearly lying response: "I'm sorrrry. I can't hearrr you."
The interview ended with Larry stating "[Barack Husein Obahma, or 666 letters for each word] has said that 'You have lost the right to rule, you should step down' to which Aladeen replied: "Except him. After all, it was my father who helped smuggle him out of British Colony of Kenya causing Larry to retort: "Are you saying that [Obama] was not born in the United States?" with Aladeen responding: "Of courrrrse not" -- only a get a long puzzled look from King, with Aladeen then exclaiming: "This interrrrivew is over. Sahaladan, bring me Piers Morgan!"
Basic attitudes sort of related to such dialogue can be associated with a lot of questions one can contemplate correct answers to:
- "Why did Lucifer choose to rebel against God when there apparently was no recorded incentive (such as some equivalent of a Garden Tempter or Forbidden Tree in Heaven) causing him and his angels-turned-demons [graphically portrayed in the Ark-opening cave scene in the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark] to so rebel?"
- "Why did created Lucifer insanely presume that he could succeed in his defiant and rebellious coup against his Creator who created him?"
- "Did Lucifer not obviously realize that his Creator was in every way superior to himself, and that he was incapable of running and managing the entire Universe and all therein had he succeeded in ousting God off His throne, which Universe and contents thereof his Creator had created?
- "Why wasn't the Forbidden Tree in The Garden (of Eden) more intensely guarded against intrusion and invasion, like with flashing strobe lights blinking warning signs, blaring big-truck or train airhorns, perimeters around which was tall high-voltage razor-wire electric fence with vicious snarling Doberman-Pincer or German-Shepherd pit bulls inside such fencing?"
- "Did Eve really know what "death" meant, and the horrific extent of the disasterous and far-reaching consequences of her merely putting out her hand (which should have been cut off before such misbehavior happened) to merely grab "only some" of the Forbidden Fruit from The Forbidden Tree? Did God previously give her enough of a terrifying audio-visual exhaustive presentation of hours and hours, days and days, weeks and weeks, months and months, of the sordid and explicit holocaustic effects to transpire by the all-nude exploreress "only one time" doing "that little insignificant and harmless" "[allegedly]-non-lethal-according-to-the-Tempter" thing which she should not have done?"
- "How many and what kinds of limitless warning signs is God required to give us about various dangers of our incessantly and stupidly misusing all kinds of entities within His created environment? Must there be large POISON skull-and-crossbone signs on every rattlesnake or venomous spider? A plethora of DO NOT JUMP OFF THE CLIFF HERE signs every ten feet, or may five feet, or maybe two feet, near every cliff everywhere on Earth informing us of a dropoff of a hundred feet, or maybe even fifty feet, or maybe twenty feet to qualify for a sign being posted?"
- "How could Eve, who misused her freewill choice to choose to mistrust, doubt, disregard, and disobey God's simple command to never eat of ONE PARTICULAR Tree (NOT every tree, as Satan mis-suggested), then penitently use her forgive-God freewill afterwards to compliantly utter:
Genesis 4:1 Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, "I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD."(?)
- "Does a child, who disobeys his or her parent's warning and command, then suffer the excruciating-pain consequences of disobedience, thereafter logically and understandably increase their trust and respect in his or her parents after that?"
- "Can angels in Heaven who back then decided to not go along with Lucifer and his demons in rebellion against their Creator, now or at some time in the future suddenly decide or choose (there we go again with the abortionist's favorite irrationalizing pseudo-self-justifying weaselword) to rebel by misusing their freewill as subversive traitors? How about future human saints in Heaven all of a sudden deciding to do the same dastardly treason?"
Both the wife and I, being baby-boomers, grew up hearing train horns in the distance.
The wife's grandpa worked for Soo Line in Wisconsin, and my grandfather was an engineer for The Milwaukee Road, also in Wisconsin.
Trains, and particularly locomotives, have always impressed me. They remind me of "the good old days" when there was more public-Christianity-based restraint, patience, politeness, kindness, prosperity, trust, and non-apprehensive friendliness.
What I also remember years ago (and occasionally yet are aware of) about trains is the sounds of the warning horns. The musical pitch heard was frequently that of a minor chord, sometimes a diminished chord (musically speaking). The frequency of blasts increased when and as the train approached a road or highway intersection.
Sometimes drivers in vehicles tried to race past the train before it got to the intersection. Usually they made it, sometimes they did not make it, and there was a lamentable collision. Many times vehicle drivers were forced to stop for a train, being that the gates near the flashing red lights came down, preventing forward access to the road or highway ahead, until they lifted after the train had passed.
And people, perhaps grudgingly, obeyed and stopped for the train, while others got a chance to relax, sit back, and enjoy the sights of the powerful locomotive chugging away and the various types of pseudo-artistic-graffiti-painted railroad cars rolling on behind it.
The sovereign will of the locomotive engineer outweighed and overrode the sovereign will of vehicle drivers. He had the legality and the physical might of his locomotive to "have it his way" for the time being. The overwhelming physical might and inertia of the locomotive and the tremendous combined inertia of the massive railroad cars in momentum behind it was a somewhat awesome contrast to the inferior inertia of vehicles which could easily come to a halt much quicker than that of the locomotive and railroad cars in motion.
Therefore the locomotive engineer had the right of way, by virtue of his size and the Law, plus his overwhelming inertial superiority - and sensible individuals realized the value and importance of the train traveling to wherever with supplies beneficial for the common good of society in general (of which stopped-to-wait-for-a-while accommodating vehicle drivers were a part of).
Getting back to the loud blasts of the locomotive's air horn, such airhorns were frequently sounded not as nuisance "spam" or disruptively-irritating noise pollution nor even sexual harassment, but as serious warnings to get out of the way of a huge locomotive in motion which cannot "stop on a dime" and which has a more important schedule and mission to fulfill than even some emergency vehicle like a red-and-blue-strobe-lights-flashing squad car or ambulance.
Too bad that God does not give loud airhorn warnings for imminent tornadoes and earthquakes or meteor fallout soon enough before such events happen, or even give any such warnings at all.
That is not, as indicated earlier in this piece, God's fault - but instead the fault of humans who have not learned to get out of God's way but instead prevent His communicating vital warning info to them because of their disregarding-Him wayward sinning as they selfishly screw around abusing themselves with whatever He has created and provided them with.
And the Lord does not sound a loud airhorn warning before someone gets drunk or does not get to bed on time and then in irresponsible drowsiness runs into a tree or cement barrier or over some cliff and causes themselves to become a quadriplegic cripple or even dead.
He does not sound a train horn to warn a lazy indolent to not eat bloody-rare meat or fat, faithlessly worry, ingest or inhale radioactive fallout so as to cause themselves cancer or stroke or heart attack. He does not sound a train airhorn to warn a homopervert to not quasi-erotically kiss and hug and genitally screw with someone of their own gender so as to inflict themselves with VD or AIDS and mentally-ill senile Altzy confusion. Guns themselves do not kill people with a supposed mind of their own, people use guns to kill people. Inanimate dust did not decide to create intricate all-parts-fully-functioning-at-once life out of itself by itself using the heretical and apostate myth of evolutionism.
All witnessing Christians using God's Word, the Bible (both applicable and pertinent verses thereof), are God's truck and train airhorns obediently warning others of imminent potential catastrophes.
Such is not non-qualified self-credentialed nor self-appointed arrogance.
It does not matter what brand of truck or train airhorn is being used for such warnings - whether male or female, whether caucasian or negroid or asian, whether young or old, of whatever culture (e.g. Russian, Scandinavian, European, Asian, etc.).
And warning airhorns are not capriciously sounded. Planning and purpose are quite evident.
Christ can be compared to the Locomotive, and we Christians of His body can be compared to the railroad cars or truck trailers following Him. We all comprise one whole train or eighteen-wheeler having the right-of-way and legal precedence to warn people who should be warned (and comply with such understandable and convenient warning)....whenever and wherever they should be warned -- for everyone's sake, satisfaction, and welfare:
Hebrews 2:11 [RSV] For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified have all one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brethren...
Hebrews 2:11 [KJ21] For both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of One, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren...
There should be no question as to whether trains and trucks should have airhorns to warn people to give way for temporary override access, and in fact readily use them for such purpose - and there should be no question as to whether genuine Christians should publicly use the Bible and its verses (whenever the situation demands it) to override antisocial and lunatic naysayers such as the Anti-American Criminal Licentiousness Union, People Against the American Way, Antagonists United for Separation Against Church/Synagogue/Mosque from State, despicable virulently-vile-vermin-filth homosexual activists, anti-religious humanists, fool atheists, and/or cultic-religion extremists.....to warn people who need to be warned (for everyone's benefit), should be warned (for everyone's well-being), for the sake of their locomotive/truck-like superiority at the time as they take predominance conveying (by unimpeded and non-hindered transport) essentials for the survival and happiness of humankind as individuals, a community, or global group:
Acts 17:22 So Paul, standing in the middle of the Areopagus, said: "Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious.
17:23 For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, 'To an unknown god.' What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
17:24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and Earth, does not live in shrines made by man,
17:25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, being that He Himself gives to all humans life and breath and everything.
17:26 And He has made all nations of humans of one blood to reside on all the face of Earth, ordaining pre-appointed seasons and boundaries of their dwelling,
17:27 that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel after Him and find Him. Yet He is not far from each one of us,
17:28 because 'In Him we live and move and have our being'; as even some of your poets have said, 'For we are indeed His offspring.'
17:29 Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the Deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, a representation by the art and imagination of man.
17:30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now He commands all men everywhere to repent,
17:31 because He has fixed a Day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom He has appointed, and of this He has given assurance to all humans by raising Him from the dead."
Colossians 1:28 Him we proclaim, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man mature in Christ.
First Timothy 4:13 Till I come, attend to the public reading of scripture, to preaching, to teaching.
Such cannot, with all due respect, be hatefully misconsidered "spam" nor "imposing" "spam" -- with or without legalistic "unsubscribe" options imposed on e-mails.
Job 5:17 Hey, happy is the man whom God reproves; therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty.
Job 42:6 "...therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
Psalm 51:17 The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, God, you will not despise.
Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 3:11 My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline or be weary of his reproof....
Jeremiah 23:17 They say continually to those who despise the word of the LORD: 'It shall be well with you'; and to every one who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, 'No evil shall come upon you.'
Micah 2:6 "Do not preach" -- thus they preach -- "one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us."
Matthew 28:19 "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Matthew 28:20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and, get this: I am with you always, to the close of the age."
Titus 3:8 The saying is sure. I desire you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to apply themselves to good works; these are excellent and profitable to humanity.
Those who have already died (e.g. Moses, David, Isaiah, Darius, Cyrus, Hosea, Paul, Peter, John, Mary, Erasmus, Martin Luther, J.S. Bach, Scrivener, Moody, Falwell, etc.) will never ever again see any part of the planet they lived on, because by the time they are resurrected everything in the Universe will have been annihilated as described in Second Peter chapter three.
There will be a Rapture (or snatching up) of "the" "Church" (i.e. the elect saints of the body of Christ) BUT (except in the case of The Two Resurrected Witnesses spoken of in Revelation), that SINGULAR Rapture will ONLY occur approximately 1000 years AFTER Christ Jesus bodily returns at Armageddon to slay The Beast and The False Prophet at the END of the 3-1/2-year (NOT seven-year) Great Tribulation.
That One-and-Only Rapture consisting of those formerly-beheaded living saints (mentioned in Revelation 20:4-5) along with any other yet-alive saints at the END of the Millennium will be Raptured to join myriad resurrected saints (as the heavens and Earth are instantaneously dissolved with a loud noise in fervent heat) and placed with the resurrected wicked of all time previous in the presence of the Trinitarian King on His Great White Throne for Final Judgment of proverbial righteous "sheep" and proverbial wicked "goats" who are THEN apportioned for appropriate eternal allocation "by what they had done" as indicated in Matthew chapter 25.