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Now the whole earth had one language andf a common speech. And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.  The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.  Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”(Gen. 11) 

It seems as if the human race is descending into an abyss of egocentric grandiose deification of self. Rushing headlong into what is the most evil aspects of the human nature.  Explore, claim and conquor.  And we want sinful, fallen people to populate other dead worlds on the moon and mars? (well it at least it will match our natures!) Mankind has an insatiable curiousity to know the why, what, how, and way of anything and everything around us. And to explore the unknown regions of our existence.                  But there is a limit to that knowledge. For the serect things belong to God.                                                

By nature we desire the control of everything around us. I must admitt I love all those things that make our lives easier to navigate. Electricity. Wow. Imagine a life without that. No recharging anything. We would still be washing clothes clean with a rock in a stream.  Indoor toilets? A walk to the outhouse would be a daily routine. And that smell. Yikes! No thank you!  Imagine No lightbulbs. Matches and a candel at your nigh table. Try reading by that. (thank you Mr. Edison)  No oil lamps to light our existence. Night was very dark back then.  And No Radio. NO RADIO!!!!!, (I don't know what I would have done for 54 years? Thank you Mr Marconi).                                                                                       

And no TV,....Saturday morning was my favorite. Sky King, What a neat air plane; Fury, what a smart and beautiful horse, and his boy Joey;  Lassie, the dog who was always the hero, with his boy Jeff ; Timmy came much later;  Rin Tin Tin --a german sheperd and his boy Rusty. Taking place at a fort in the old west in the 18 hundreds;   And I can't and won't forget Rocky Jones Space Ranger, a small group of space travelers that featured a forerunner to Star Trek's (which came 12 years later) United Federation of Planets. Called the Office of Space Affairs. I think Gene Roddenberry was busy taking notes and copying all this down for His 1966 rendition of Star Trek. Rocky Jones also had a small bridge but a good sized view screen from which to communicate with others. Like that BIG VIEW  screen on Star Trek. 

                                                           

                                                                                     

                                            

And when I was really a small little boy Froggy (the strangely weird  frog) on Andy's Gang... He was always plucking his magic Twanger. Plus the Mickey Mouse Club, and Circus Boy (*starring Mickey Dolenz now an old man who became the drummer for The Monkees TV Program and rock group...i actually saw them live in concert summer 1967 in Washinton DC... I think My roomate and I were the only males in the audience of 5000 screaming teen girls. and the screammed it seemed the entire concert) Imagine  No records, No cassette or 8 tracks, that lined the desks and shelves of our past. And on that desk a phone wired with a cord (A CORD!!!!) that's right a cord plugged in the wall. You sure didn't get far with that. Oh, the humanties!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!                                                                                 

No computers, no digital anything, and for many what stops their hearts from beating, NO SMART PHONES!!! Yikes perish the thought. No instant communication of everything or anything on the world wide web. The youth today have no idea what that was like. Actually in a way it was a lot better. But for the youth of today,  that would be the destruction of them all. Now a word of warning to us all.                 

In the sci film Forbidden Planet, instrumentalities of the alien race of the Krell were not necesssary anymore to do anything. You didn't even need computers. They had advaned to such a state that just a thought could materialize into solid matter. What you think is what you get. Yet the Krell(aliens on this planet...Altar....) forgot one thing. They too hard a wicked, fallen, evil  nature. A beastly nature. A hateful and  murderous nature. And while the Krell slept all that hatred and anger came to fruition as they dreamt of killing those they disagreed with. Whether, their neighbors, friends, co workers, anyone and everyone, who had bothered or disagreed with them.                                                                      

They manifested in their minds monsters from the ID (from the unconsicious mind) to go forth and in one night the entire race of  the Krell, as intelligent and advanced as they were  completely obliterated from existence. Only their technology remained.  That Science Fiction masterpiece might just be a harbinger of our arrogant, violent, hateful and Godless world we inhabit today. We need to examine ourselves, who we are, where we are headed. Hopefully that kind of  destruction won't be a part of our future.  (For thus says the LORD, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.   It seems as if humanity is descending into the darker aspects of our fallen human nature. 

The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.  So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” But Noah found grace  in the eyes of the Lord. (Gensis 6)

6,000-Year-Old Underwater ‘Lost City’ Discovered Off the Coast of Cuba Stuns Scientists

This challenges our understanding of history and human development....could challenge existing theories about early human civilizations and their capabilities.....the builders of this city possessed advanced engineering skills and organizational capabilities....raises intriguing questions about the extent of human history and the potential for undiscovered cultures that flourished in what are now submerged areas of the world....

                                                             

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.  And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. (Gen. 6)

Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered. The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died. So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive. And the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days. (Gen. 6)

                                                        
                 We just may be witnesses to God's destruction of the then known world......

As Peter proclamed in his 2nd letter chapter 3 verses 3-6) scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,  and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.”  For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water,  by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water.

But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.  For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,  and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. (Matt. 24:37-39)

The people of Noah's time sinned without restraint. They were consummed with the works of the flesh, the cravings of sinful man, the lust of the eyes, as Gen. 6 tells us , "The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.  So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. (Gen. 6:11-12)Men fashioned wicked philosophies, They fashioned ansd formed obscene artifacts, they eagerly endorsed and promoted filthy causes, they made fashionable vile sins, they poured societyn into their mod. 

                 

Jesus the Christ says, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.” (Mark 1:15)

All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God....

If you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord  and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:9-10)

And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,  in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,  among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. (Eph. 2) 

Yet to all who have believed he gave the right to become children of God....

On the Cross Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Father, ‘into Your hands I commit My spirit.’ ” So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, .He breathed His last. He gave up His spirit. 

Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand,  by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,  and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, (1 Cor. 15:3-4)