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Reflection on Isaiah 48

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Scripture

Now I will tell you new things, secrets you have not yet heard. They are brand new, not things from the past. So you cannot say, “We knew that all the time!”

Observation

The Lord revealed a long time ago what was to happen, and all of His predictions came true. This way they could not claim that their idols had made it happen.

The Lord says he is going to tell his people new things, things they have never seen or heard before. The Lord will rescue His people for the sake of His reputation.

The Lord is raising up Cyrus of Persia to destroy the Babylonians. The Lord’s people are to leave Babylon and return to Israel.

Application

The Lord is always bringing fresh revelations to His people. This is not knowledge that contradicts the Bible nor information that goes against God’s nature.

In both the Old and New Testaments, there is a thread of teaching in which the Spirit of God, the Lord Himself, is our teacher. We don’t need prophets or pastors to teach us the truth about God because we have the Holy Spirit Himself.

After my wife became a christian, she became aware of truths about tithing and the baptism in the Holy Spirit, even though these things were not taught in the church she attended. She knew these things were true, and scripture confirmed what the Spirit had revealed to her.

There have been many times when the Holy Spirit has revealed to me truth about other people, directions for the church, and so on. Revelations often come as a whisper in my head, rather than a booming voice from heaven. They are real nonetheless

Prayer

Holy Spirit, thank you for the revelations you bring to your people. Please help me to listen carefully for your voice. Amen.

Apollo Astronaut Doubts Consensus Age of Moon

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How Old Is The Moon?

From Creation Evolution Headlines

It started when he was told the same
moon rock had two vastly different ages

How old is the moon? Is it 4.6 billion years old, as consensus geologists insist, and as textbooks uncritically teach?

The Apollo astronauts were given extensive training in geology so that they would know what rocks on the moon were significant. This was true for Brigadier General Charles M. Duke (USAF), the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 16 who became the 10th man to walk on the moon. One of his geology trainers was Harrison Schmitt, a PhD geologist, who would fly on the final mission, Apollo 17 (see 14 Dec 2022). Apollo 16 (April 16-27, 1972) was the only mission to study the lunar highlands in the Descartes region, with its elevation 7,400 feet higher than the Sea of Tranquillity explored by Apollo 11. (Charlie Duke was also the CapCom, or capsule communicator, for Apollo 11.)

During their three extensive extra-vehicular activities (EVAs), including 16.6 miles of drives on the lunar rover, Charlie Duke and Mission Commander John Young collected 209 pounds of lunar samples.

Moonrock, by Alan Bean, depicts John Young and Charlie Duke (Apollo 16) collecting lunar samples. Used by permission from Alan Bean (Apollo 12 astronaut).

On April 6, during an interview before an audience of nearly a thousand people, Duke related a strange thing that the experts said about one of the lunar rocks he collected.

I picked up a rock on the moon, and it was about the size of my hand. And on one end it dated 3.9 billion years. On this end it dated 1.6 billion years. So there was two billion years between six inches! [audience laughter]. And, something was wrong here, somewhere!

Duke went on to say that he “began to doubt a little bit,” but not to the point of disbelieving evolution. At the time, he was a non-Christian, thoroughly preoccupied with his own career success within the NASA community. It was only later, when he became a Christ follower after seeing the dramatic change in his wife Dotty’s conversion, that his earlier doubts about that rock made sense. “I became a believer, and I went from an evolutionist to a creationist.”

At age 88, Charlie Duke is the youngest of four surviving Apollo astronauts among the 12 men who walked on the moon. Another Apollo astronaut who was a young-earth creationist and Christ follower was Apollo 15 astronaut James Irwin (1930-1991).