At low tide, after sunset at Illawong Beach, Mackay, is a great time for my Grandson Matty and me, to observe the amazing Soldier Crabs …that God has designed and engineered with meticulous detail and awesome capabilities.
No one thinks of a crab as having much intelligence at all, but God has put Soldier Crabs in a league of their own.
Soldier crabs are one of zillions of extraordinary creatures that reveal God to be the awesome Designer, Engineer, Creator, Lifegiver, Lawgiver, and Sustainer. “Ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature, namely, His eternal power and deity, is clearly perceived in the things that have been made.” (Romans 1:20, RSV)
Soldier crabs (Mictyris longicarpus) are a unique group of crabs that have amazing God given design features that make them different from other crabs.
Instead of flattened bodies their bodies are spherical which assists in their corkscrew burrowing into the sand.
Unlike other crabs, they can walk forward as well as sideways.
Just as well they can march forward.
Can you imagine what would have happened if the soldier crab had evolved only sideways movement like other crabs?
It would have driven their sergeant major crab crazy!
Just imagine the confusion of hundreds of crabs in army formation moving to the right while hundreds of others are moving to the left.
“Heyyy Oh Ooopps!!” cries the Sargeant Major. “We have a disaster pile up on our hands!”
Soldier crabs enjoy family camaraderie
They emerge from their holes in the sand at low tide and move in large groups of dozens or even thousands of individuals. They move together in the same direction creating the illusion of moving sand.
As they move they place sand into their mouths with their pincers eating the organic detritus matter contained amongst the grains leaving behind small, cleaned round pellets of sand called pseudofaece, now devoid of organic material.
So God has designed them to be a huge army of vacuum cleaners to keep the beach flats sand, filtered and clean …so it is not able to go sour and smelly.
They have some extraordinary internal design features to fit their particular niche.
Within the thorax is a chamber containing the gills and the lungs. The gills occupy the lower part of the thoracic cavity. The upper part of the cavity contains a complex set of tiny tubes, which are highly vascularised, to allow efficient exchange of the gases carbon dioxide and oxygen. These crabs obtain about 90 % of their oxygen from their lungs …but get this fact! They also absorb oxygen through their legs!!
Imagine absorbing oxygen through your legs, like Soldier Crabs!
Yes, Soldier Crabs have joints that are reddish in colour within the legs. These tiny legs have some decalcified areas in each, which allow them to absorb small amounts of oxygen that aids in their respiration process. Evolutionists, go figure!
With the onset of high tide they begin burrowing downward in a corkscrew motion into the sand. As they dig the animals create a breathing cavity around themselves which is four to five times as large as the crab itself! Can you imagine the incredible engineering and instinct, that God has designed into Soldier crabs?
They maintain the air cavity’s structure by placing sand above them like a plug. This plug prevents water from entering the cavity. The crabs burrow down to a depth of about 300mm. At high tide they may be covered by as much as 2 metres of water.
Another behaviour God has given them for protection is by group association or flocking instinct. Operating in armies of thousands causes confusion in their bird predators by providing too much choice, just like the way herd animals do in Africa. The hesitation created in the predator gives the whole group an opportunity to escape simultaneously by burrowing, and improving their chances of survival.
Soldier crabs on the march
They can also tuck themselves into a tight ball for protection and camouflage.
Another amazing feature of their God given design is that they also have a minute hairy fringe on the back of their shell to suck up moisture.
Soldier crabs reproduce through means of copulation. The female can hold the male’s sperm inside her until she releases the eggs. At this time the saved sperm fertilizes the eggs. Females will hold the eggs under her in a sponge-like mass until they are ready to hatch.
Their burrowing into the sand increases the oxygenation within the sediments. This is known as bioturbation.
One benefit of having Soldier crabs around is that they are scavengers. They feed from the dead detritus remains of animals on the beach, that washes in on each high tide …and then they clean it up and oxygenate the sand in doing so.
How wondrous is the fine detail of the inter-connected systems of life that God has designed and created into perfect harmony to balance and sustain the environment.
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So glad you can join my son in law Martin, my son Robert, and yours truly on another Adventure 60 to Scawfell Island, on the outer Great Barrier Reef, 50 kilometres offshore from Mackay, Queensland.
With 60 minutes in every hour and 60 seconds in every minute, we are once again out to savour every second of this great adventure that we all share …life, in God’s creation!
The abovewater and underwater world of Scawfell Island testifies to the genius intelligence of God as our Designer, Engineer, spiritual Programmer of intelligence and instinct, Creator, Lifegiver, Lawgiver, and Sustainer.
For example, in this video you will see Clown fish, which rely on Anemone Polyps for their protection and provision of food, as does the Anemone rely on the Clown fish.
It is a symbiotic relationship of dependence on each other that had to come into existence at the same time or neither creature would exist.
Polyps, including the corals and sea anemones are much more complex in their engineered design, than first meets the eye, due to the development of separate tubular stomachs leading inward from the mouth and a series of radial partitions called mesenteries.
Incredibly the Anemone stings all fish prey but not its friend, the Clown fish. They have a very mutual beneficial living relationship with each other that God has set in place.
We too can learn wonderful lessons about life by observing how God has created things.
Just as the Clown fish and its Anemone companion for life are so happy together, we should apply that principle as well in taking care of each other.
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Welcome to ‘Adventure 60’ at Lord’s Table Mountain, between Clermont and Dysart, central Queensland.
Life is an Adventure, with 60 minutes every hour and 60 seconds every minute to enjoy to the max!
So come with us now and let’s join the talented Wick Brendan Jess and Abby on this exciting Adventure 60.
Yes, Adventure 60 highlights the values of making every 60 seconds of every 60 minutes part of the joy of living this thrilling Adventure of life, that we have all been given.
One of the best ways to instil Adventure 60 into our lives is to trek into the wilderness with some great friends and to develop adventurous talents in our lives, such as:
·the burning desire to achieve;
·family teamwork; and
·loads of happy fun.
What is the answer to the great mystery, of why many people do not succeed in life, even though they might have knowledge of the 7 laws of success??
Simply …to be successful we need to apply a burning desire to succeed.
Nothing of lasting value happens automatically in life. However, with a burning desire to achieve, we can accomplish great things, through desiring:
·close loving relationship with God and His Way of living;
·worthwhile goals in life;
·best education;
·good health;
·Godly drive and determination;
·resourcefulness and creativity; and
·persistence and stick-to-itiveness.
Taking on a challenging hike is like a “mini lifetime” within our lifetime, which reminds us that every obstacle, just like in life itself, is a positive opportunity to grow and develop closer caring loving relationships with each other and with our Creator God.
That’s why Family Teamwork is so important and is better than ordinary teamwork.
Family teamwork takes into account everyone’s strengths and weaknesses …utilising and make allowances for them.
In a loving family, there are all elements of talents and flaws, but when we caringly unite the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Adventure 60 family teamwork people know, that the glory does not go to the one who is first across the river, nor to the first one on top of the mountain. With Family Teamwork the reward goes to the one who helps the most other people reach the other side of the river or the top of the mountain …in the most enjoyable, pleasant, and fun way possible.
Ordinary, competitive, pecking-order Teamwork, of this world is?? …well remember at school when 2 captains were picked and each captain could alternately pick the best players down to the weakest? How did the poor weakest feel in themselves after such a debilitating experience? Lousy! Right?
Now, you’ve gotta say co operative loving Family Teamwork, is a whole lot better than ordinary competitive, pecking-order, teamwork.
Is there anything more memorable and beautiful than to experience together …in a loving Family Teamwork atmosphere …the Adventure in a magnificent sunrise …each artwork unrepeatable …each sunrise a unique expression of the awesome creativity and loving mind of God, for us all.
Just sit back with this You Tube video …and soak up this heady sunrise atmosphere saturated with the joyous adventurous calls of scores of Currawong birds …singing to the joy of life with the dawning of each new adventurous day.
Just beautiful isn’t it!? It really heightens our God given 6 senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch and spiritual.
Adventure 60 shows us how to do what a lot of people don’t do. It stimulates us to:
·look and to really see;
·to hear and to actually listen;
·to taste and to enjoy the savour;
·to smell and to sensitively scent;
·to touch and tenderly feel; and
·to sense with spiritual discernment. (1 Corinthians 2:14)
Adventure 60 shows that the best leader in any group is not the first one to the top of the mountain, but the one who helps the most other people reach the top of the mountain …in the best and most enjoyable fun way possible.
Yes …as the old Chinese proverb goes… “When the best leader’s work is done …everyone says: “We did it!”” (Lao-tsu)
In Proverbs 13:19 is an adventure spirited verse: “The desire achieved is sweet to the soul” and when we take on the adventurous challenges of life together, helping each other, we can say with satisfaction: “None of us could have done this without each other!”
Adventure 60 stimulates us to think creatively in solving challenges that would otherwise be problems and headaches to lots of people.
Understanding that life is an Adventure 60, reminds us to be solution bound not problem bound.
Seeing life as an adventure, better equips us mentally, to visualise future prospects and goals and to bring them to fruition, with God’s inspiration and guidance.
We learn that the intrinsic true values of love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, humility, kindness, faith, confidence in God and self control are our best weapons in the adventure of life in taking on life’s challenges. (Galatians 5:22-23)
For every effect there is spiritual cause.
Good effects have good spiritual foundational causes. Evil effects have evil causes.
Adventure 60 shows us that the way of give is better than the way of get …co operation is better than competition …love is better than the way of hatred …peace is better than war.
Working together in family minded co operative teamwork is better than competitive minded teamwork.
Just like every tree is unique and different, so each of us is unique and worthy of love and respect.
When we look at a beautiful tree it can symbolise a human being or God’s right way of life. The roots symbolise anchoring ourselves with knowledge, understanding and wisdom. The trunk symbolises Godly true character or it can be a twisted distorted nature. The branches and leaves symbolise aspects of Godly personality which gives shade to all.
Each day is the new dawning of an exciting ‘Adventure 60’ for you and me, in this miraculous body, that God has blessed you and me with.
Let’s make the most of the miracle …enjoy our Adventure, with well rooted foundation in the Word of God, trunk of the character and mind of Christ, and branches that spread out lovingly to God and loving goodwill to all humanity.Meantime …keep pumpin’!
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As parents, because we love our children, we desire the best for them, don’t we?
We want them to grow in knowledge, understanding and wisdom and to really enjoy fun and true happiness and fulfillment in their lives.
So …Come with us now into the wonderful fun world of teaching our children.
Let’s join our grandson Matty as he takes us through the first 5 Commandments and whole lot more about loving God and having fun while enjoying God’s fascinating creation.
You know, as children begin their challenging walk of life in this confused world …we should consider the lesson of Timothy.
We know that from a young child, Timothy was taught the Holy Scriptures and knew the Word of God well. Paul said of Timothy, “from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation” (2 Timothy 3:15).
Timothy’s knowledge of Scripture came about as a result of being taught, by his grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice. (2 Timothy 1:5).
We too, can teach our children using the everyday experiences of life to reinforce the laws of God and related principles expounded in the Word of God.
Using situations in everyday life to point out how the Word of God works practically, is so valuable for our children.
Teaching our children directly from the book of Proverbs in the Bible is an excellent way to give your child a head start in wisdom.
To do this in a practical way, simply read to them the Chapter in Proverbs coinciding with whatever is today’s date. For example, if the day is the 7th day of the month read to them and discuss Proverbs chapter 7. The next day being the 8th day of the month, read and have fun discussing with them Proverbs Chapter 7 …and so on …each day.
You will be amazed at the knowledge, understanding and wisdom your children will pick up. Better still …heh heh! …you’ll be even more amazed at what you pick up in wisdom, too!
Why not teach our children inspiring stories such as Gideon and his brave 300 men, who saved the nation.
“So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.” (Judges 7:5-7 …see this applied in the attached You Tube video “Matty shows the Way…”)
In Deuteronomy 6:6-9, God plainly told us Parents …and Grandparents that we are responsible for lovingly teaching our children about God, His principles, ethics and His law.
“You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul (life), and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”
Parents …lets teach our children God’s Way of life using everyday experiences, so that we enjoy . raising well-adjusted happy children …who will be able to cope with this world, with certainty and confidence.
Beginning with teaching the 10 Commandments and Proverbs, daily, is a great place to start.
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Platypus are unique in all of God’s creation and leave evolutionists stunned and flat-footed.
Platypus smile at evolution with a knowing smile
“Old Flatfoot”, which is what Platypus means, (Greek: Platys = broad and pous=foot) is perfectly designed for its environment on which it depends for its survival.
When we look at the pointers of proof of God’s existence, as Designer, Creator, Lifegiver, Lawgiver, and Sustainer, we see all of these elements in a Platypus.
We also see how impossible it would be for a Platypus to evolve.
Native only to Australia, the platypus appears to be a “patchwork” animal to evolutionists in their frustrated efforts to try to imaginatively connect its evolution from about 5 widely differing creatures, nowhere near each other in the fanciful “evolutionary tree”.
Platypus have a bill like a duck (but much more sophisticated), webbed feet like an otter …but which retract and have claws for digging, the males have poisonous spurs in their hind legs like a snake, its tail is like a beaver but covered with fur and not scales. It lays eggs but suckles its young through secretion of milk on its under hairs.
No wonder Evolutionists are baffled by its existence. Platypus are an amazing complex designed, brilliantly created monotreme mammal, given life, and laws that govern its sustenance. It even bamboozles the pseudo-god of “natural selection”.
Male platypus poison spur
At birth all platypus, male and female, are born with poisonous spurs, but, get this fact…after one year the females poisonous spurs fall off! Now, if survival of the fittest is the determining regime …evolutionists go figure?
The male uses his poisonous spurs in the August-September mating season to ward off other male platypus and can inject a potent poison into any predator, which causes a nasty pain. However, during courtship the male uses his spurs gently to hold the female, without injecting the poison. It is the only venomous furred animal.
The crural gland produces a cocktail of venom, composed of over 250 different chemicals but with four major toxins.
Close up of male platypus poison spur
Of the four, three are defensin-like proteins (DLPs) unique to the Platypus. The different chemicals in the poison have a range of effects from lowering blood pressure to causing pain and increasing blood flow around the wound.
Now, please explain to me, how the platypus invented and evolved this unique poison out of 250 different chemicals??
What an amazing design, created into life and sustained by an all-wise Creator.
The waterproof hair of a platypus is nothing short of extraordinary. Their outer hair is dark brown with yellowish hair on its underside. There are about 800 hairs per square millimetre! This is denser than the fur of the river otter or polar bear. It has 2 layers of hair. The top or longer layer is a shiny guard fur with a woolly short fur undercoat. The thermal qualities of the fur allow the platypus to withstand cold temperatures and extended periods in water and underground.
Christ said: “…you cannot make one hair white or black.” (Matthew 5:36)Plainly, not even humans, with all our intelligence, can choose the colour of our hair, let alone 2 layers of waterproof different coloured hair at 800 per square millimetre!
The platypus pliable bill is an amazing engineering feat! The bill contains an electro-receptor system which has about 850,000 electrical and tactile receptors. Even though the platypus has brilliant eyes and ears above water, special membranes seal off its eyes and ears underwater and it fishes for its food, blind! Again …evolutionists go figure?
Its electo-receptor system detects the electric currents created by the muscle activity of small prey such as worms, shrimp, and frogs, and may even help the platypus detect the electric field created when water flows over prey hidden under rocks, mud and small debris.
Grinding bill of Platypus jaw. Notice the engineered ribbing for crushing and elimination of debris
As the platypus gathers food in its mouth during its up to 10 minute stay underwater, it moves the food to its cheek pouches. At the water surface, it pushes the food from its cheek pouches up to its mouth. It has magnificently engineered ribbed grinding pads for crushing the food and dispensing the unwanted mud and debris through its horny serrations.
Platypus ears or grooves are very sensitive to sounds. Its beady eyes are also very sensitive to movement. That is why it is difficult and rare to see them in the wild.
Its 4 legs are a marvel of engineered design and creation as well. The platypus uses its two front feet to propel itself forward in a unique, alternate rowing motion. Its hind feet, also webbed, are held against the body and along with the tail are used for steering. The marine engineering involved with how the platypus can move so quickly and dextrously in the water, is nothing short of awesome!
On land its webs fold back, revealing sharp claws for walking and digging burrows. Its claws are also useful for cleaning its fur and to help keep its fur brushed and waterproof.
Rubbery coated platypus egg
They dig a camping burrow about 1-3 meters long in stream banks. However, the female digs her nesting burrow up to 20 metres long! She lays 2-3 rubbery eggs and when they hatch she suckles them on specially designed milk glands. Her milk has about 60 times more iron than cows milk and 40% more solids. The young lap the milk from the hair of the underbelly, where the milk drips, in utter darkness.
The platypus tail is a wonderment. It is used as a sensitive rudder when swimming; to push soil within the burrow like a shovel; and to store fat for when food supplies are low or for when the platypus needs more energy in store while incubating eggs. Thereby hangs a tail, for evolutionists to ponder.
Platypus red blood cells carry larger amounts of haemoglobin than any other mammal. This allows it to go without air for long periods and for its heart beat to be able to change from 140-230 beats to almost 0 beats per minute.
Unlike reptiles, Platypus are warm-blooded and not cold-blooded. They have one opening for elimination, mating and birth.
There is nothing “transitional” about the platypus. It is highly intelligent and remarkably built to fit its environment. In fact, it is an integral part of its environment functioning in balance. Without its surrounding natural environmental system, platypus could not exist.
Mother platypus suckling babies
Evolutionists claim that the gradual evolution of animals such as the Platypus was determined by the blind per-chance pseudo-god of “natural selection” …and highly complex intricate creatures like the platypus, simply came into being by “adaption” or some sort of required “change” due to changing environment.
Do you know what happens to platypus when their delicate environment changes? Sadly, they die. They are so sensitive that many have perished in the hands of well meaning humans, collecting them for zoos and wildlife sanctuaries.
There is no fossil record of changes or transformations or “natural selection” of the development of platypus. They had to be created perfectly, as well as their unique inter-connected, inter-dependent environment and food sources or else they would die.
The preposterous idea that somehow platypus thought their way to change to become what they are today, is baloney. It is a hoax of the 1st Order.
“Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? …” (Jeremiah 13:23)
No, we cannot change the colour of our skin, just as the leopard cannot change its spots…and nor can the amazingly designed and engineered platypus change, by thinking about it.
It is magnificently designed, engineered, created, and given life and sustenance by its omnipotent Creator.
Let’s be logical. Let’s go back to the future for the moment millions and millions of years ago …even quintillions for the sake of evolutionists.
Multifaceted platypus perfectly designed and created for its environment
Let’s say he lives beside a stream but he can’t swim yet, and like any other normal burrowing animal, he has claws only for digging, but hasn’t developed retractable webbed feet, nor developed a tail for a keel, nor developed the means to seal off his nostrils and hold his breath nor developed waterproof hair at 800 per square millimetre.
The hungry “platywhatever”, launches off into the stream, for whatever insane reason. It can’t see, can’t swim, can’t go underwater, and can’t find any food. If there was no worm food on the land, then why didn’t all creatures on earth, with a similar diet, throw themselves into the water?
If the first “platywhatever” had to evolve water-feeding apparatus and sensitive electro-sonar bills, then he only evolved it because he needed it. And if he needed it then he wasn’t getting enough food where he was, to survive.
But, if he couldn’t have survived where he was …and obviously couldn’t succeed in obtaining food from stream bottoms until he had gradually over millions of years developed them within his 15 year maximum lifespan …then he obviously starved to death, and doesn’t exist today.
No "intermediate" fossils of Platypus exist
But, then, if a male or female evolved …where then was a female or male close by to mate with?
No worries …hey presto! A genie provides a female. Yes …and pigs fly, too!
Babies are born to the “platywhatever”, but the special technique of secreting milk on a given signal that involves a complexity of hormones, nerve endings and sensory techniques in pitched black darkness have not evolved. So, all the young die, too.
All fossil remains of platypuses found look exactly like “modern” platypus. It is called a “living fossil” because, in the geological record, it has never changed.
“Unhappily, no fossils have yet been found in any continent which reveal the lineage of the monotremes (single vent, or the platypus) prior to the last few million years in Australia itself” (The Land and Wildlife of Australia, Life Nature Library, David Bergamini, page 62, 65)
So, how to evolutionists say they know the platypus evolved? Easy. They just say it.
Every untruth is based on a false premise, that is carelessly assumed.
“For the invisible things of him (God) from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,…
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient (right);…” (Romans 1:20-28)
Platypus camping burrow
The fact that a platypus was thought out in detail, with genius design, carefully planned, then created magnificently in all of its engineering and complicated detail, even to electronic mind-blowing sensitivity, then given life and ongoing sustained power …never occurs to an evolutionist, for the reasons shown in the verses above.
No fossil record exists of “primitivus beaverus otterus, duckus, beakus, snakeus, eggus, suckleus incredibilus”.Here’s the first “platywhatever” but without his beaver’s tail, duck’s sonar sensitive bill, snake fangs, otter’s body, mammal’s glands, warm blood, or turtles eggs, etc,.
The brain of a platypus is known to be surprisingly large in proportion to its body weight and than that of any reptile. It is mysteriously well endowed with cerebral cortex and intelligence and highly sensitive electro-recognition, far removed from that of reptiles. This also, is a problem for evolutionists who desperately try to link mammalian warm-blooded platypus, with small brained, cold-blooded reptiles. Nice try, but it just doesn’t compute.
Every intricate part of a platypus takes its place in a co-ordinated, functional, complicated system that makes the platypus one of the awe-inspiring creatures we see, today.
The platypus is one of zillions of amazing creatures that God has made, that testify to why God inspired these following wise words to be repeated twice, so hopefully, we might get the point:
“Only a fool says in his heart that there is no God.” (Psalm 14:1; Psalm 53:1-2)
Here is a copy of a letter I have just sent to one of our outspoken politicians …who still has some backbone …in the hope that he might say something more to alert Australians, in an area of where this Government has us on a self-destruct course.
“Why doesn’t this Australian Government invest our taxpayers money into real capital assets …like, buying what the Chinese want.
For example, why don’t we Australian taxpayers buy a controlling number of shares in OZ Minerals and retain the 2nd biggest zinc mine in the world, Century mine? We could buy the whole shebang for around $1.5billion.
We would then be able to preserve Australian jobs and stop the Chinese Government from nationalising some of our richest turf as part of China.
You know Barnaby, once the Chinese are happily owning a critical mass of Australia’s best resources …they will invoke the 457 Visa, using our own laws …and import their own “skilled labour” coolie workforce at vastly reduced wages.
We could also take a share in Rio Tinto in the same way …rather than spraying borrowed Chinese Bond money all over the world and to criminals. druggies, drinkers and poker machine players.
Then when the Economy picks up again we could sell half our share holdings in these companies and get our money back …as well as retaining our other half of shares and collecting dividends for us Taxpayers.
Why isn’t any politician suggesting some sensible investments of our hard won taxpayers money??
Today, our Diggers, on Anzac Day, figuratively must be moaning and groaning in their graves …to see how our beloved Australia is stealthily being invaded and taken over, piece by valuable resource-rich piece …and how cheaply their sacrifice, paid with their own blood, is being sold for less than a bowl of soup!
Why isn’t someone saying these things in Parliament?”
You know, we need a biblical Joseph or Daniel in charge of Australia, now, more than in any time in our history.
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At dawn this coming Saturday, 25 April many Australian’s will stop, to remember generations of our brave soldiers …men and women …who sacrificed their lives or put their lives on the line for Australia.
Australians such as my wife’s Grandfather, Hubert, served in the Boer War in South Africa, in 1900. Her father, Robert, served in the worst wars in all history, both the 1st World War and the 2nd World War.
Boer War 1900 - Royal Bucks, King's Own Militia
My Grandfather, Charles, also served in World War 1.It was reputed to be such a dreadful traumatic war that it was declared to be: “The War to end all wars” (Woodrow Wilson, President USA).
Well, in actual fact through the horrific wars of the 20th Century more than 102,000 Australian servicemen and women died in war. This 2009 year will be the 95th anniversary of the beginning of World War I.
Insanely, despite the mass casualties suffered in World War I and World War II, the world remains in conflict today.
“Wars and rumours of wars” (Matthew 24:6) continue to rage, and the innocent continue suffer death and maiming, causing us all to ask: “Is war our permanent condition?”
Is it necessary for every generation go through war to relearn why there should be no war?
For everyone who has died tragically in war, there is a very personal story, of a family changed forever.
What is the cause of War?For every effect there is a spiritual cause.
James 4:1-2 gives us the cause of why we have war?
“From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
You lust, and have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you fight and war, yet you have not, because you ask not.”
Notice that is our own human nature of lust, vanity, jealousy and greed that leads people into war.
Yes, the 1st World War 1914-1918 was supposed to be the “War to end all wars” …but was it?
Rising Sun – Anzac Badge
No …World War II, 1939-1945 followed …and numerous subsequent blood baths …but still no end to war.
So let’s ask ourselves a question?
Does the Bible speak of a war to end all wars?
Well, it may serve as a surprise to many who read this, but …yes it does.
There is coming a War to end all wars …and the combatants in this war, would surprise most people …especially the well-informed in matters of news and geopolitics.
Why is Australia in Pakistan fighting against the Taliban and al Qaeda terrorists?
How did we get embroiled into this mess in the first place? We have now lost 10 of our very brave, courageous, dedicated soldiers in this conflict and are sadly likely to lose more.
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Why aren’t national leaders telling us the clear unmistakable truth of why we are in Pakistan?
Here is the simple, clear, unadulterated reason why!!
100+ nuclear Pakistani BOMBS!!
“The NRDC’s and the Carnegie Foundation‘s estimates of approximately 50 weapons are from 2002–03 estimations. In 2000, US Military intelligence estimated that Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal may be as large as 100 warheads”
If the Taliban once again gain control of Afghanistan and use it as a base to overtake Pakistan as well, they will gain possession of over 100 nuclear Pakistani Bombs and also the sophisticated rocketry to deliver them.
So, if people think that 9/11 was terrifying …think for a moment what new “World Order” phase the world would be in if the Taliban gained possession of Pakistan and its 100+ nuclear bombs???
“Impossible! Improbable! Unthinkable!Unimaginable! Surely not!!”…I hear you say.
Well surprise, surprise! …Not.
Senior American general, Head of US Central Command, David Petraes told a US Senate hearing, today: “The extremists that have established sanctuaries in the rugged border areas not only contribute to the deterioration of security in eastern, southern, Afghanistan.
“They also pose an ever more serious threat to Pakistan’s very existence.”
So …now we understand why we are in Afghanistan. It is to try to counteract the Taliban and Al Qaeda from gaining control of Pakistan and its arsenal of 100+ nuclear Bombs.
So …is there a better way to handle the situation in Afghanistan?
Does the Bible indicate some wisdom that could be applied to avoiding this impending disaster?
There is a spiritual cause for every physical effect.
The problem is that the Western powers including NATO, USA, Britain, and Australia are treating the effect in Pakistan and not dealing with the cause.
No one likes to be involved in a war …but if we are going to be in a war, then we should apply all the proper tools at our disposal to win the war.
We need to deal with both the cause and the effect.To beat an enemy we need to look at their weaknesses. For example, neither the Taliban nor Al Qaeda can fight a war without heaps and heaps of money, right?
So, where do the Taliban get their money from?The opium poppy crops, right? Yes.
If we are ever going to beat the Taliban, we have to take them out at the knees …we have to take away their money supply from the opium drug trade. Many years ago the Church of God involved itself in a very effective programme in Thailand to change the spirit of growing Opium to the spirit of growing fruit and vegetable crops instead.It has been a change for the better, to this day.
How did we do that? Well we sent our agri-business and volunteer helpers to re-educate the opium farmers to rip out their opium poppies and to grow potatoes, carrots, vegetables and fruit trees.
We also introduced literacy and positive education programmes for the young.
Gradually the spirit changed to a new culture of a more stable economy and more balanced society.
To win the war in Afghanistan there has to be a change in the spirit if we are going to save the flesh.
There needs to be a change from the way of selfish hatred to the way of outgoing selfless love.
The way of give and not the way of get.
The way of peace and not of war.
Mind you …the good news is that Jesus Christ is returning to this world, to establish His Government on this Earth for 1,000 years!Satan is going to be displaced as the current world mind controller and war mongerer.
When Christ returns the 1st Resurrection of the faithful dead and living takes place. (Revelation 24:4-6; and 1 Thessalonians 4:16)
We have an opportunity now to accept Christ’s calling invitation and to be in God’s family for eternity. (Daniel 7:18)
We will then help in bringing about a full change in the spirit that will not only save all flesh, but humans will have peace, harmony, and prosperity …with never any fear of war, disease or pestilence.
Australia was once the “Lucky Country” and now it is going from Prince to Pauper.
Our richest companies and mines are yours and my God given inheritance.
Now we are selling our birthright for less than a bowl of soup.
In less than 18 months Australia has gone from having reserves of $20 billion and $60 billion in the Future Fund …to begging for loans from China to pay for the $42 billion stimulus package.
Now the government is seeking $200 billion in loans via Government bonds.
That means you and I and our children are going to have a huge $200 billion debt to pay off.
But guess who is buying up our Government Bonds?
China has stepped up its invasion of Australia. It is buying $400 million in Government bonds per week. It is secretly helping to bankroll the Government’s “$42 billion stimulus package” as Friday’s Brisbane Courier Mail pointed out.
“No nation makes a greater espionage effort directed at Australian military and commercial technology than does China”, says Greg Sheridan in this Weekend Australian,
We need to wake up that we are being handcuffed to China politically and financially.
The Weekend Australian has also highlighted how our Government is entangled in Chinese relationships and is becoming a pawn of the Chinese Politburo.
Why is this happening to us? Why are things suddenly going wrong in Australia?
Jesus Christ warned that before the time of the End, prior to His return to this Earth, there would be a change in the World Order.
Jesus spoke of this being “the times of the Gentiles”. Luke 21:24:
“And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations:
and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be
fulfilled.”
There is coming a time of Great Tribulation on the Earth and our nation is going into captivity at the hands of the Chinese and Japanese.
One third of our modern Anglo-Saxon Israelite nations are going to die in war. One third are going to die from disease and pestilence …and one third are going to go into captivity or be scattered in hiding.
“A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.” (Ezekiel 5:12)
Australia is identified as the “land of Sinim” in Isaiah 49:12:
“Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.” (Isaiah 49:12-13)
Yes, God is going to allow Australia to be overtaken by the Gentile powers of China and Japan, because we have sinned grossly against God and His commandments.
But for you and me there is a way to escape the Tribulation to come.
Ultimately, the good news is that God is going to deliver us out of Tribulation and bondage, when Jesus Christ returns to establish His Government upon this earth.
Meantime, we need to be seeking God while He may be found as we read in Isaiah 55:6-7:
“Seek you the LORD while He may be found, call you upon Him while He is near:
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.” (Isaiah 55:6-7)
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