Alan Finch

I have decided to take Penny's suggestion of posting my articles in the main body of the comment section. By doing so, more people will read it. In the past, I have been posting my articles in the attachments. I have decided to post them in the main body of the comment section, and also in the attachments. The articles that are posted in the attahments, make for better reading, but in the future, I will post them in both sections. Before, I had "The Bible is for all Eternity," posted in the attachment section. I am now putting it in the main body of the comment section.

The Bible is for all “Eternity”

I will start out by bringing our attention to God’s “ETERNAL PURPOSE” for creating us. From I Peter 1:20, it becomes clear that God’s plan from the very beginning of creation was to bring forth a people who would become JOINT-HEIRS with CHRIST, who will “rule” and “reign” with CHRIST forever. This has only been made possible by the Sacrificial death of CHRIST on the CROSS for us and by “His” Resurrection.

When it comes time for the Lord to distribute the rewards to each Saint, it will be rewards of “Authority.” Have you ever thought about what exactly it is that the Saints will be ruling and reigning over? It is clear from“Scripture” that the unbelievers who survive the Great Tribulation Period will be allowed to enter into the Millennium Kingdom Age of Christ on Earth, in which they will continue to bear children and populate the earth.

There are estimates that 80 Billion people to several hundred Billion people could be born during this period of time. The Age that will follow the Millennium Kingdom Age will be the New Earth Age. It is unclear from “Scripture” if people will continue to be born in the New Earth Age.

Recently, through the use of the South Pole Telescope there has been a discovery of a cluster of Galaxies that has been calculated (up to our present date of 2011) to have an estimated 3,200 Trillion Suns. Also, there has been another discovery recently of an estimated 80 Billion Planets in our Galaxy (The Milky Way). Through the use of the Hubble Telescope, there is now believed to be more than 170 Billion Galaxies in our Universe. (WOW!) There is certain to be many more Galaxies in our Universe, because these estimates come only from the observable Universe. In fact, it is estimated that only 4 percent of our Universe has been observed. We now know that our Universe is continually expanding and that it is now expanding at an accelerated rate of speed.

God did not create all that “HE” has created just because “HE” got bored and had nothing else better to do. All that God does and has done “is for a specific purpose.” God has “a specific purpose” for the vastness of outer space and all that it contains.

If new generations of people are going to continue to be born in the New Earth Age that follows the Millennium Kingdom Age, then the earth will soon reach it’s limit as to how many people it can support. Maybe this is why God created such a vastness of outer space that is incomprehensible to the human mind. There is little doubt that each new generation of people that will be born in the Age or Ages to come, will be taught about the “INCOMPREHENSIBLE SACRIFICE” of CHRIST on the CROSS, and it’s RELATIONSHIP TO THEM.

For all of eternity nothing will ever SURPASS or EQUAL the MAGNITUDE of what CHRIST did on the CROSS. All of creation revolves around CHRIST and “His” “INCOMPREHENSIBLE SACRIFICE” on the CROSS.

I believe that when it becomes time for the Saints to rule and reign with CHRIST, that the authority given to the Saints will be far beyond what we could ever have imagined. The Bible makes it clear that there will be different degrees of “authority” for each Saint. I have put together this document for the purpose of addressing this very issue. It is my strong belief that the Saints will rule and reign from the “Authority” of God’s Written Word. On several occasions JESUS referred to the Written Word of God by declaring “IT IS WRITTEN.” By declaring those words, JESUS was declaring the “AUTHORITY” of the Written Word of God.

Even Satan understands the “AUTHORITY” of the Written Word of God, because in the 4th Chapter of Matthew, Satan “declares” to JESUS, “IT IS WRITTEN.” We are told in the Book of Psalms that God’s Word is ETERNAL. We are told in 1st Peter that God’s Word will REMAIN FOREVER. Also, JESUS declared, “My Words shall NEVER pass away.”

For all eternity, the Bible will NEVER become outdated. There will never come a time in eternity when the Lord decides to put the Bible away in some majestic bookcase to be remembered as an ancient piece of history. The average Christian in America does not really appreciate the priceless treasure (The Bible) that they have in their possession. The Lord chose “His” Written Word as “His” GREATEST MEANS to REVEAL HIMSELF “to us.”

If we as Christians profess to have a hunger for God, but do not have a hunger for “His” Written Word in which the Lord reveals “Himself” to us through the work of the Holy Spirit, then something is amiss. We need to take a much closer look at where our true desires lie. In the Book of Hosea, the Lord tells the nation of Israel, “I have written to you the Great things of My Word, but they have been counted as a strange thing to you.” Tragically, these same words hold true for many Christians today, especially in America.

All that I have shared so far, has been for the purpose of leading up to my main point, which is: The ones of us (Born-Again Believers in Christ) who have been fortunate enough to have free and unhindered access to God’s Written Word, if we place “SUCH LITTLE VALUE” on feeding upon God’s Written Word which “HE” has given to us as “His” main source for revealing “Himself” to us, then when it comes time to rule and reign with Christ, just how much “Authority” can we really expect to receive?

We must not forget that the authority that we will rule and reign with, will not be for only 1000 years, or 10,000 years, or 100,000 years, or a million years, or a billion years, or a trillion years, or untrigintillion years (untrigintillion has 123 zeroes after the 1). Even untrigintillion years is just a drop in the bucket compared to ETERNITY. We become so concerned with the cares of this world that we seem to give little thought to, and lose sight of what the Lord is trying to PREPARE US FOR in “His” grand scheme of ETERNITY.

Of course feeding upon God’s Written Word is only part of the equation. How much we allow God’s Word to transform our lives through the work of the Holy Spirit is another large part of the equation.

In a recent Gallup Poll, 41% of Americans who call themselves Born-again Christians said they “rarely read” or “never read” the Bible. 12% say they “read” the Bible monthly. 10% say they “read” the Bible less than monthly. Another statistical research showed that less than 10% of professing Christians have ever “read” the entire Bible. If these studies are even close to being accurate, it is a startling revelation of the “TRUE CONDITION” of the Church today in America!

( REVELATION 22:12 – “BEHOLD, I come quickly; and MY REWARD is with ME.”)

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PeterS

If god is eternal wouldn't his word be?

susanblange Loc: USA

If people were interested in the Truth of God they would read the bible. As of now, they are deaf and blind. Isaiah 34:16 "Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail..." It's unfortunate that people rely on the interpretations of others for their understanding of the bible. That is a decision we must each make for ourselves.