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To: Boogieman

Eventually -- it will all be burned up in a fervent heat, right?

There won't be any baubles left for any of us to gaze upon. Nor (I imagine) would we need or desire too either, if we be with Him, and have Him for "light" while in presence of the Holiness which is His very "nature" (using "nature" here for lack of a better term).

But in the meantime, most now living, pretty much seem to need this planet we are presently living on. So we get distracted and gaze at baubles, sometimes..?

...in that meantime, before this "fervent heat" it could be hoped one of those wandering black holes doesn't get to close? Though one of those might be seen from an earth perspective to roll up the heavens as a scroll, if that passage need be understood as to relating to visible "universe", and not have something otherwise more fundamental even than that, which 'science' has yet to gain some grasp of.

Though as to this "meantime" (while we on this earth, await?) I confess to being more concerned with comets disturbing Jupiter and Saturn's titans enough, along with other asteroids, to have put (some of) them on a collision course with this planet, or having done so in times past --- having us be cruising for a bruising, but scarcely knowing it. Astronomers do occasionally catch sight of some good sized objects passing quite "close" to us.

The velocity we are traveling in orbit is tremendous. The velocity of our entire "orbit" as it were, as that is moving along with the Sun itself, is a bit more difficult to calculate? Add potential movement of the mass of the Milky Way galaxy itself in relation to other galaxies (or even inter-galactic "dusts") and we are boogy-ing right along.

A few space rocks could ruin an entire day...

368 posted on 09/07/2013 9:50:32 AM PDT by BlueDragon
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To: BlueDragon; Boogieman
Eventually -- it will all be burned up in a fervent heat, right?

I ponder upon those verses from II Peter 3:10-12

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed.

Since all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what sort of persons ought you to be in leading lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set ablaze and dissolved, and the elements will melt with fire?

That every worldly thing we place value upon and strive to possess will one day be vaporized SHOULD make us realize where our TRUE treasure should be. And, when we truly get it that nothing tangible on this earth (art, money, jewels, mansions, cars, etc.) will escape this end, WHAT kind of people will we be and how will this knowledge effect the way we live our lives before Almighty God??? When I first read that passage, it hit me right between the eyes and gave me an entirely new outlook on what really matters in this life.

Sure, we like to look at pretty things - but I have YET to view a painting, no matter how talented the artist, that compares to the real thing. I've seen some amazing sunsets in my life but none I ever photographed came close to the reality. Will not the creator of it all not have much better to replace it with? Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. (I Cor. 2:9)

389 posted on 09/07/2013 5:13:05 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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