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Thou madest him a little lower than the angels...” (vs. 7). So that puts
he angels in pretty rough shape according to some irreverent thinkers. Others
have said: “He was made a little lower than angels and has been getting lower
ever since.” “Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst
him with glory and honour,” (All right, there is old Adam with his original
commission: Gen. 1:28) “and didst set him over the works of thy hands.”
Again the reference is to Adam (see Gen. 1:26). “Thou hast put all things in
subjection under his feet...” (That is Adam again, and the commission is
repeated to Noah: Gen. 9:1–2.) “For in that he put all in subjection under
him, he left nothing that is not put under him...” (v . 8). That is, everything on
this earth up to the flight of the eagle (Psa. 115:16) was given to man to conquer
and run “...But now we see not yet all things put under him” (vs. 8). Then all
things are not in subjection to man because Adam fell and fallen man is under
the DEVIL. The kingdoms of this world are not “man’s”; they are the Devil’s
(see the exact Biblical statement in Luke 4:6). What God promised, Adam didn’t
get. The Lord told Adam to “be fruitful” and to “multiply, and replenish the
earth” with painless childbirth. Eve didn’t get painless childbirth. God told
Adam to have dominion over the earth, and he wound up being buried in it.
Observe how all of this matches Luke 1:30–33 where God promised the “last
Adam” (1 Cor. 15:45) THE THRONE OF DAVID. Did He get it? He got a
wooden cross and a crown of thorns. “...But NOW we see not yet all things
put under him” (vs. 8).
Something interrupted the original conunission. If God told Adam to
“multiply, and replenish the earth,” where would all of his descendants have
gone to find a place to sit down? Eve could have had as many children as she
wanted (one a year if she wanted them) without any pain. No pain, no
discomfort, no hospital bills! Why, if she had had only one child every five
years, and each of her descendants had had one for five years, there would have
been over 500,000,000,000 people on this earth before Noah was born! If there
had been no universal flood to wipe out such a population explosion, there
would now be on this earth (after all the wars, pestilences, floods, earthquakes,
and famines had taken their toll) more than 500,000,000,000,000 people. You
wouldn’t have room to lie down.
One of the very strongest scientific arguments against evolution is a
computerized, mathematical argument which all evolutionists simply refuse to
discuss. If “man” has been here more than 500,000 years—and Leakey has now
run it back to 2,000,000—where are all the people? If each “man” had had only
two children in his family since 500,000 B.C., and there was no flood to wipe
them out in 2300 B.C., where are the 500,000,000,000 people that should have
been here, before Christopher Columbus?
What did God mean by telling Adam to do such a thing? Obviously, there
are some more “worlds” available (see the correct reading of the AV in Heb.
11:3 and 1:2!!) to populate.
A fellow said to me one time: “You mean to tell me that all that salvation
stuff happened here on earth with just one Saviour? I’m sure there are other
saviors and other gods on other planets to populate.”
I said, “Yeah, man, it all happened right down here.”
He said, “Well, what about that out there?” (He pointed up to the galaxies.)
I said, “That’s exactly why God let it happen down here. He didn’t want to
stink up the whole mess.”
You see, there is “power in NEGATIVE thinking” where you can get some
truths much quicker than with “Positive” thinking. In positive thinking you think:
“Well, man is good, and everything is alright. It’s meant for us to go up there
and populate those galaxies, now, in our present condition. After all, I’m all
right, and you’re all right!”
That is the way you can’t get the truth.
Look at it this way: “That whole thing out there is to be populated someday,
and God is not going to let us do it because we are no good, and all we would do
would get some interplanetary wars started.” That way things begin to make
sense, because you see why God let the whole drama of sin and death be worked
out in the smallest place he could find; He got an old peanut of an earth back
here in the back end of an S shaped nebula at the rear end of a solar system.
What would be the point in populating outer space with a pack of sex crazy,
moneymad, Bible rejecting, self righteous, God defying sinners? Wouldn’t that
be rather stupid? A killer is a killer no matter where you put him. Men say, “ Oh,
no, we wouldn’t do that,” and then spend over $20,000,000 watching Star Wars,
Star Trek, and Battlestar Galactica. People are weird, aren’t they? You tell them
what they will do with outer space, they deny it, and then go ahead and do it
anyway. Some incredible idiot at a state university is always babbling about
“new frontiers,” and the superstitious nut (all evolutionists are superstitious nuts)
says, “Well, what if Columbus had taken that attitude and not discovered
America?” I suppose that you would still have just intracontinental wars instead
of two world wars. I also suppose that the American Indians would still be
enjoying nature. They would have all of the fresh food and meat they wanted all
year round, and their women would do the cooking and the work while the men
were fighting, hunting, and fishing. Do you know of a better way to live? No
carbon monoxide, no taxes, no telephones, no hospital insurance, no integration,
no inflation, and no electric bills. I don’t understand things. If I had been in
Spain, and Columbus had come back and said, “I found it,” I would have said,....
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