Do you or someone you know suffer from a lack of sleep?
Did you know that at least one out of every three adults in America actually suffer from a lack of sleep? Now, before we can talk about why this is happening we need to talk about the big elephant in the room…STRESS!!
The #1 Killer In Our Modern World
Over 70% of people say that they are living under stress and over 85% of doctor’s visits are related to stress. I’ve read a lot on this topic and now believe that stress is the number one killer in America and in the civilized World for that matter. But what is stress?
At a glance, stress is nothing more than an emotional or a mental strain that you feel to a threat. Now, it’s important to mention that the threat can be a real threat, for example, if you are out in a jungle and you all of a sudden you see a tiger come after you, your fight or flight system will enter survival mode. Or, let’s say you’re in a dangerous city and you see a bad person who’s going to rob you, so your system known as the sympathetic nervous system now activates and when the sympathetic nervous system gets activated it unfortunately deactivates the parasympathetic which is our immune system. There’s a good reason for this. Let’s say that you have a really bad cold at this very moment, you’re sneezing and then you see the physical threat. Under this conditions, it makes sense that the brain prioritizes the immediate threat and stops working on your cold ,right? The issue is for how long? Normally animals enter stress for short periods of time to increase their chances of survival, but when it comes to humans, our immune system function gets shut down or down regulated and the body never returns to homeostasis or balance.
Threats Are Real To Our Minds and The Response Is The Same
The reason for this is that most times we’re not turning on our stress response to survive, we’re doing it because perceived threats can also happen only in the mind…that’s right, we can produce the same chemicals and response when we encounter the neighbor, the spouse, co-workers, bills, kids, school, traffic, etc, those are all threats to your brain, and they are just as real as the tiger.
So, while you’re having this reaction to a perceived threat, which is only happening in your mind, your brain will start firing and wiring incoherently and you may not even be aware this is happening in the background. We have been equipped with something unique…our prefrontal cortex. It is the part of the brain that plans, the one that is reading music ahead of time when you’re playing an instrument and pretty much where we hold our conscious wishes and desires. You can think of it as the CEO. When you’re working with your conscious brain you’re operating out of your wishes and desires. Unfortunately, this part is not as powerful as our survival mechanism or subconscious mind. This is why, under survival mode, the subconscious mind tends to block information going to the conscious. There’s no time to act remember? The enemy is after you and any split second can make the difference. This is where survival instinct kicks in.
Living In Stress Will Criple You Like Nothing Else
It turns out that we operate 95% of our time from our subconscious mind. There’s people that operate from their subconscious 99% of the time. The problem with this is, if you choose to live under stress, you’ve now chosen to live out of programs that you have no control of, and because your immune system is down, you’ll be a lot more prone to disease. Not only are you more likely to develop auto immune disease, but most people go by their lives without living out their conscious dreams and desires because of this state. When you’re in survival for such a long time, it’s not a time to create, or a time to realize love, or have expectations about beautiful things happening in your life. It’s not a time
to do that. It’s a time to survive. It’s a time to fight, run, hide or freeze. That’s why they call it the fight-or-flight reaction.
Becoming Addicted To A Life You Don’t Want
When people have a prolonged stress response they basically become addicted to the life that they don’t want which is funny because you know that you don’t want to live that way. You know you don’t want live in fear, anger or frustration, but you have become addicted to this lifestyle.
Part of it is related to adrenaline being released in your system and the adrenaline actually can be addictive so when people have experienced stress for a prolonged period of time they will become addicted to that feeling, to that situation, to that energy. To make things worse, they will also feel like they are victims to their environment, to their
spouse, to their co-workers, their jobs and in general to all circumstances that surround them. Of course, they won’t be able to come out of that easily because they will rather cling to that fear, that hatred, that guilt, that shame, etc., than actually take a chance on love, take a chance on a new life, take a chance on happiness.
Remember that if you are in survival mode there’s no time for happiness, joy, and no time to create a better life.
What Does Stress Have To Do With Sleep?
As a direct result and coming back to sleep, this is how sleep and stress are so strongly correlated. When people choose to live under stress, they’ll have a much harder time sleeping. Remember, you are in survival mode so you shouldn’t sleep too much because the predator is out there. You actually want to stay awake as much as possible because if you fall asleep the predator is gonna catch you so this is why your brain will reduce the production of melatonin which is a key hormone that you need for sleep. Under stress, you’ll be on high cortisol (also known as the stress hormone) and you’re on low melatonin which is the state of stress you created. This is why you won’t last through the night asleep. Remember the predator is any perceived threat in your head, your spouse, your bills, your neighbor…
Something else to notice is that because you are re-living a situation that you have created by yourself with your mind you will have over 90 percent of your thoughts repeating day after day. So your thoughts will be the same as yesterday. That’s right, we typically tend to repeat our thoughts every day unless we change the pattern and that means your same behaviors, same patterns, same thoughts are going to rule over your life and this is going to happen subconsciously. Remember your conscious mind is going to get shut down when you are in survival mode. This is why it becomes so hard for most people to start new projects in their lives.
Also, when you’re in stress mode another thing that’s gonna happen when you sleep is you may experience heightened senses. So you might develop better hearing, better smell, etc. The reason for that is because if you’re being chased by a predator you could use all the help you can get. So, even the slightest noise 2 blocks away will wake you up. The vague smell of something far away will bother you, and so on…your senses are now really attuned to the outside world.
Materialism Kicks In
Speaking of the outside World, you’ll notice something else that happens. You will tend to live more in a very materialistic world when under stress. you’ll tend to seek pleasure in things like a new car, a new phone, a new TV, etc., because you are trying to find in those things the happiness that you are craving for. So, you’re actually craving for a
better life but your subconscious will not let you unless you can get out of that stress pattern. And if you don’t do anything it will become a very hardwired situation in
your life, especially if you are older than 35. By the time we’re 35 our brains have been hardwired and while it’s not impossible to change (and neuroplasticity now shows us virtually anything is possible) it becomes harder and harder the more your neurons fire.
You’ll Live In The Past…Or In A Very Predictable Future
During this times you’ll also experiment your mind living in the familiar past. This presents yet an additional problem because it is estimated that about 50% of our thoughts from the past are actually fake! That’s right, we tend to embellish them so we are going to try to tune in to the bad feelings, bad thoughts that we had in the past a lot more than the positive, and we might even twist the positive memories into negative ones. You’ll not only be living in the past, but this will actually make your future very predictable. This can make you running your day to day with a program almost like a robot. Remember this is a program you don’t like and you may not even be aware it’s in place in your everyday life. Unless you are able to break the cycle, this sleep deprived rollercoaster can affect you indefinitely.
What Can You Do To Improve Your Sleep?
So, now that you know what could be affecting your sleep what can you do to improve your sleep quality? What can you do to actually break the cycle and live a happier and better life?
These are some tips and, just a fair warning, these are going to be hard to implement in the beginning because remember when you are in stress you would rather hold on to the negative behaviors, attitudes, etc. So you will say to yourself “I can’t do this”, “I’m too…”, “this is not for me”, etc. And any new information that comes your way as way of books, summaries, documentaries, you will make all efforts to push it away. Any people who come with this information you will also try to push them away too because they are not
supporting your present limiting beliefs. So, when you when you approach this try
to approach this with an open heart.
The Time Machine Is Broken…Live In The Present
The very first thing that I tried doing was I focused on being in the present moment. This is the whole trick to meditating but I try not to call this process meditation because when you talk about meditation people tend to think about monks in Tibet or something along those lines. But the truth is meditation, in its most basic for is nothing more than living and observing the present moment and we can all achieve living in the present moment. When you try this initially, your subconscious will still try to sabotage you because you’ll be off schedule from the bad habits and repeating patterns of bad behaviors. So it will miss the out of balance experience you typically have, and it will try to force you back into that place. But the more you do it, over time, you’ll experience living in the present more and more and when you do that your brain chemistry will change and shift more every day towards positive thoughts.
Be Grateful
As you are enjoying the present moment more what you want to aim is for a sense of gratitude. You want to visualize being thankful for good things that are happening in your life. Even if they’re not happening in your life you want to imagine that everything you need is already there. So, the financial security that you’re seeking is already there, the love of your life is already there, you have everything you need every day. If you want to supercharge this, try it in the morning. The reason why is your brain is not fully awake in the morning, so if you force your brain to go down the path of change first thing in the morning you are likely to encounter less resistance. Being in the present moment and grateful is likely to come easier.
Maintain In The Happiness Lane Everyday No Matter What
The more you do this and it becomes a habit, the more victories you’re going to experience in your life. Over 70% of our thoughts in our day to day tend to be negative and as you may have experienced it requires so much more than will power to change this. Will power is rooted in your conscious mind, and because the subconscious mind is one million times more powerful than your conscious, it will win every time. This is why you have to reprogram it to live out of your conscious wishes and desires and that’s where meditation and being in the present moment comes into place and being grateful everyday supercharges that mindset.
Stop The Mindless Screen Time
I also recommend one very powerful strategy which you need to start doing right now. It is turn off your cell phone at some point in the afternoon and don’t turn it back on until the next day way after you have started your morning and are fully awakened. Don’t do what everybody does, which is look for your cellphone and loose mindless time doing whatsapp, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, etc. That habit will leave you stuck in your familiar past.
You want to first tackle yourself being in the present moment, being grateful and then at some point in the day you go and get distracted with that stuff. Our addiction to these devices is so strong when I was beginning to break this bad habit I actually had to leave my cell phone physically outside because I knew that if it was near I would reach for it and waste precious time on other people’s agendas. Now that I broke that pattern, the cellphone can be anywhere, I’m not tempted to reach for it anymore. So I did this and so can you.
You Are The Average Of The People You Hang Out With…So Choose Your Friends Wisely
The last thing I wanted to suggest is to look for a support group. People that are on the same page as you. Avoid the people who will bring you down on this journey and look for the ones that will help you to be happier and live a better life. Most people that are
under stress hang out with other people that are under stress so you’ll see a group of sad people, sleep deprived people, etc, but what you want to look for is the opposite. People who you can learn from. So becoming a support group with each other will be a powerful thing on this journey. If you have a very close friend, partner or spouse that you can rely on and you can walk on this journey together to better sleep, better stress management, etc, that’s even better!
Living Wth Other Close Friends And Family Under Stress?
Now, what happens if, through circumstances, you are the one that has been living your life consciously and fully and you are experiencing either living or being very close to other people that suffering from high levels of stress? My suggestion to you is that you continue on your journey because you can only serve yourself first and like dieting, nobody likes being pushed into something they don’t even believe in. So you don’t want to pressure other people because remember they are unconsciously behaving the way they do. What you do want do do is to try to have acts of love. And it can be very simple things like closing the door for someone, cleaning up after them, etc. You definitively want to do this without any hidden agenda or expecting something in return. Sometimes it is necessary to do these acts of love without them even noticing because when they become aware of it they might lash out on you for doing it. “I’ll do my own laundry”, “I can take care of myself”, “I don’t need your help”, are common things you might get from people living under stress. You still want to do what you can for that person because that person really needs you…
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Hi,
I wanted to share some very important news that has been spreading around the internet concerning our future well being.
We are approaching a future of a one-world cashless society in which they will mandate us to have an RFID microchip implanted in our body. This chip will contain all our personal information and we will lose much more of our privacy because of the tracking capabilities.
More importantly, did you know that this was all prophesied almost 2000 years ago by a man named Jesus? Don’t believe me? Keep reading…This may be the most important thing you will ever read.
“He (the false prophet) causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666” (Revelation 13:16-18).
Revelation 13:16-18 is speaking of the end times, and this could only be speaking of a cashless money society, which we have yet to see, but are heading towards. Why? Because we could still buy or sell without receiving the mark among one another if physical money was still currency. It logically deduces itself to this reason.
This mark could not be spiritual, because the word references two different physical locations stating one “OR” the other.
This is where it really starts to come together. It is shocking how accurate the Bible is concerning this RFID microchip. These are notes from a man named Carl Sanders who worked with a team of engineers to help develop this RFID microchip in the 90’s.
“Carl Sanders sat in seventeen New World Order meetings with heads-of-state officials such as Henry Kissinger and Bob Gates of the C.I.A. to discuss plans on how to bring about this one-world system. The government commissioned Carl Sanders to design a microchip for identifying and controlling the peoples of the world—a microchip that could be inserted under the skin with a hypodermic needle (a quick, convenient method that would be gradually accepted by society).
Carl Sanders, with a team of engineers behind him, with U.S. grant monies supplied by tax dollars, took on this project and designed a microchip that is powered by a lithium battery, rechargeable through the temperature changes in our skin. Without the knowledge of the Bible (Brother Sanders was not a Christian at the time), these engineers spent one-and-a-half-million dollars doing research on the best and most convenient place to have the microchip inserted.
Guess what? These researchers found that the forehead and the back of the hand (the two places Revelation says the mark will go) are not just the most convenient places, but are also the only viable places for rapid, consistent temperature changes in the skin to recharge the lithium battery. The microchip is approximately seven millimeters in length, .75 millimeters in diameter, about the size of a grain of rice. It is capable of storing pages upon pages of information about you. All your general history, work history, crime record, health history, and financial data can be stored on this chip.
Brother Sanders believes that this microchip, which he regretfully helped design, is the “mark†spoken about in Revelation 13:16–18. The original Greek word for “mark†is “charagma,†which means a “scratch or etching.†It is also interesting to note that the number 666 is actually a word in the original Greek. The word is “chi xi stigma,†with the last part, “stigma,†also meaning “to stick or prick.†Carl believes this is referring to a hypodermic needle when they poke into the skin to inject the microchip.”
Mr. Sanders asked a doctor what would happen if the lithium contained within the RFID microchip leaked into the body. The doctor replied by saying a terrible sore would appear in that location. This is what the book of Revelation says:
“And the first(Angel) went, and poured out his vial on the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore on the men which had the mark of the beast, and on them which worshipped his image” (Revelation 16:2).
The Bible tells us we cannot buy or sell without the mark of the beast, or the number of its name. This number is identified as 666. The Bible tells us to calculate the number 666. How do we calculate 666?
This is where it gets really interesting. Calculating the number 666 has been long debated throughout the centuries, but has now been revealed in these last days by God. What I will show you confirms itself with the Bible the true meaning to calculate 666.
Throughout the Bible, God uses the number 3 as confirmation of things. Here are a few examples:
“For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one” (1 John 5:7 NKJV).
“and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:4 NKJV).
“…Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!” (Revelation 4:8 NKJV).
Now what is interesting is the the mark of the beast is described in detail in three separate verses (Revelation 13:16,17,18), and each verse lists three different examples of the given topic. The last three being the number 6 being used three times in a row. This is a key point to unlocking how to calculate the number 666.
What does it mean to count? It means to add up. So how could we add up 666? Remember my previous point about God confirming in threes. So logically, what would be the best way to count the number 666? To count it equally in threes based off the number. We cannot count it equally as 600+60+6, this would also bring us back to the start. We cannot count it as 600+600+600, or 60+60+60, because there are no zeroes in between or at the end of 666. The only logical option is 6+6+6=18. What is interesting is that the verse that reveals for us to count the number itself is verse 18, being the third verse out of three verses that describe the mark of the beast. What is 18 divided by 3? 6. So 3×6=18, or 6+6+6=18.
Another interesting point is the only two other combinations (making a total of three possible combinations) for placing a “+” symbol in between the 6’s are 66+6=72, and 6+66=72. Add both 72’s together and you get 144. Why the number 144 is interesting is because the verse following Revelation 13:18 is the first time in the Bible where the 144,000 are being described in detail:
“Then I looked, and behold, a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s name written on their foreheads…” (Revelation 14:1).
Now if you add up all three numbers by counting 666 by moving the “+” symbol around in all three possible combinations, it would be 72+72+18=162. What is interesting about the number 162, is, if you divide 144,000 by 162, you get 888. The name of Jesus in Greek gematria adds up to 888. The New Testament was orignally written in Greek. Revelation 14:1 not only mentions the 144,000, but also the Lamb who is Jesus.
Now what is interesting about the number for Jesus, 888, is that if you apply this same formula, you get 8+8+8=24. Why the number 24? Revelation chapter 4 tells us there are 24 elders seated around the throne of God. This is the same throne where Jesus sits:
“Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne. And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald. Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white robes; and they had crowns of gold on their heads” (Revelation 4:2-4).
Now if you take 8+8+8=24, and 8+88=96, and 88+8=96, you get 24+96+96=216. Take 144,000 divided by 216 and you get 666. Remember that this was the same exact formula to get the number 162 out of counting 666 that brought about the number 888 when dividing 144,000 by 162. It is perpetual.
With using the same formula of counting by adding the “+” symbol in between the numbers, why do all these numbers relate in such a way?
Another interesting point to note is that if you add up all the numbers from 1 to 36, it totals 666. The number 36, as in three sixes? Could this be a hint that we should add up three sixes instead of perceiving the number as six-hundred sixty six?
So what could this mean? Well we know in this world we are identified by numbers in various forms. From our birth certificate to social security, as well as our drivers license, being identified based on a system of ruler ship. So it is possible that this RFID microchip will contain a new identification that has a total of 18 characters.
Could this be the name of the beast, the number of its name? The one-world beast system that is identified by 18 characters? This would fit scripture that speaks of a mark that we must have to buy or sell in our right hand or forehead, and that it also contains the number of the beast, during a future cashless money society.
Go to: http://voice-truth.com to see all the proof!
The Bible warns us in the end times that a false prophet will rise up doing miracles to deceive many to receive this mark:
“Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image” (Revelation 19:20).
No matter the cost, DO NOT TAKE IT!
“Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name” (Revelation 14:9-11).
We are living in very prophetic times with major Biblical prophecies being fulfilled. When Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as capital of Israel in December of 2017, this was a big step to bring about the Third Temple prophesied in the Bible.
The Bible tells us that the Antichrist will seat himself in this temple:
“…and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God” (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4).
In the Islamic religion, they have man called the Mahdi, known as their messiah who they are waiting to appear. There are many testimonies from people online who believe this man will be Barack Obama who is to be the biblical Antichrist. I myself have had strange dreams about him. He came on stage claiming to be a Christian with no affiliation to the Muslim faith, but was later revealed by his own family members that he indeed is a devout Muslim.
His real name is said to be Barry Soetoro, and he had his name changed to Barack Obama. But why?
Jesus says, “And He said to them, ‘I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven'” (Luke 10:18).
In Hebrew, the word Barack means “lightning”, and the use of Bama (Strongs Hebrew word 1116) is used to refer to the “heights” of heaven.
The day following the election of Barack Obama (11/04/08), the winning pick 3 lotto numbers in Illinois (Obama’s home state) for 11/5/08 were 666.
Obama was a U.S. senator for Illinois, and his zip code was 60606.
Regardless, whoever seats himself in that Third Temple in Jerusalem declaring himself to be God IS THE ANTICHRIST. DO NOT BE DECEIVED.
Why do we need Jesus?
“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23).
Our good works cannot save us. If we step before a judge, being guilty of a crime, the judge will not judge us by the good that we have done, but rather the crimes we have committed. If we as fallen humanity, created in God’s image, pose this type of justice, how much more a perfect, righteous, and Holy God?
God has brought down His moral law’s through the 10 commandments given to Moses at Mt. Siani. These laws were not given so we may be justified, but so that we may see the need for a savior. They are the mirror of God’s character of what He has put in each and every one of us, with our conscious bearing witness that we know that it is wrong to steal, lie, dishonor our parents, and so forth.
We can try and follow the moral laws of the 10 commandments, but we will never catch up to them to be justified before a Holy God. That same word of the law given to Moses became flesh over 2000 years ago in the body of Jesus Christ. He came to be our justification by fulfilling the law, living a sinless perfect life that only God could fulfill.
The gap between us and the law can never be reconciled by our own merit, but the arm of Jesus is stretched out by the grace and mercy of God. And if we are to grab on, through faith in Him, He will pull us up being the one to justify us. As in the court of law, if someone steps in and pays your fine, even though you are guilty, the judge can do what is legal and just and let you go free. This is what Jesus did almost 2000 years ago on the cross. It was a legal transaction being fulfilled in the spiritual realm by the shedding of His blood, with His last words being, “…It is finished!…” (John 19:30).
Now why did Jesus have to die for us?
Because God is Holy and just, the wrath that we deserve could not go unnoticed. Through the perfect righteousness and justice of God’s character, it must be dealt with, it must be quenched and satisfied.
For God has no pleasure in the death of the wicked (Ezekiel 18:23). This is why in Isaiah chapter 53, where it speaks of the coming Messiah and His soul being a sacrifice for our sins, why it says it pleased God to crush His only begotten Son.
This is because the wrath that we deserve was justified by being poured out upon His Son. If that wrath was poured out on us, we would all die and go to hell. God created a way of escape by pouring it out on His Son who’s soul could not be left in Hades, but was raised and seated at the right hand of God in power.
So now when we put on the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 13:14), God no longer see’s the person who deserves His wrath, but rather the glorious image of His perfect Son dwelling in us, justifying us as if we received the wrath we deserve, making a way of escape from the curse of death.
Now what we must do is repent and trust in the savior, confessing and forsaking our sins. This is not just a head knowledge of believing in Jesus, but rather receiving His words, taking them to heart. Where we no longer live to practice sin, but rather turn from our sins and practice righteousness:
“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Corinthians 6:9-11).
By doing so we may become transformed into the image of God through faith in His Son Christ Jesus Who is willing to give the Holy Spirit to those who ask of Him:
“Most assuredly, I (Jesus) say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ (John 3:5-7).
“But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His” (Romans 8:9).
What are you waiting for? Our Father in heaven only wants the best for us, restoring everything this world has stolen from us. This is what it means to be “holy”. To be made whole.
He is waiting to hear from you. That God given tongue to speak language, through faith, pray to Him, ask Him to forgive you by confessing your sins and be willing to forsake them; that you accept the sacrifice of His Son Jesus on the cross, and that you want His Holy Spirit living inside you transforming you into a child of God.
Jesus says, “but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him (the Holy Spirit) will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
Did you know that Jesus spoke more about hell than anyone else, even more than He spoke about heaven?! For this very reason He came to die for us, to rescue us from this place that we deserve.
He describes hell as a real place where,
“Their worm does not die
And the fire is not quenched” (Mark 9:44).
And where,
“There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth…” (Luke 13:28).
Jesus tells us who to fear,
“And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:28).
“Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, ‘Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.’
Then He who sat on the throne said, ‘Behold, I make all things new.’ And He said to me, ‘Write, for these words are true and faithful.’
And He said to me, ‘It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.'” (Revelation 21:1-8).
Out of all the world religions, how can we be sure the Bible got it right? The scientific data has established and continues to support that the universe once had a beginning in which space, time and matter were created. Many know this as the big bang.
“The non-biblical religions tell us that god or god’s create within space and time that eternally exist. The Bible stands alone and says that time and space don’t exist until God creates the universe.” – Astronomer (Phd) Hugh Ross
The Bible not only got it right that space, time and matter all came into existence at the beginning of the universe, it also states in 7 different places that the universe is expanding thousands of years before scientists discovered these things.
Did you know that the real Noah’s Ark was discovered in the location where the Bible told us it would be, as well as having the correct dimensions? As well as proof for the destruction of Sodom Gomorrah and the Exodus account of the Red Sea crossing?
The Bible is the most translated and read book in the history of the world, full of predictive prophecies, matching what we find in the book of nature. Wouldn’t you expect God’s word to be so?
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