Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland have found that the bacteria that cause cholera spear neighboring cells with a kind of poison-tipped spike (“Cholera bacteria spear their prey,” Live Science, Jan. 1, 2015). After spearing their prey, Vibrio cholerae release proteins that dissolve the cellular membrane, thus bursting the cell and releasing the DNA which the bacterium absorbs. The warfare that is going on throughout the creation is the result of man’s sin against God. The good creation was plunged into confusion. “... the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now” (Romans 8:22). Redemption and restoration is the subject of the book that is in the hand of the One sitting on the throne in Revelation 4-5. “And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals” (Rev. 5:1). In these chapters of Revelation, we see the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, having won the right to sit on David’s throne, victoriously taking the book containing God’s program for the establishment of God’s kingdom on earth, preparing to open it and bring the events to pass. The book sealed with the seven seals contains the events we find recorded in Revelation 6-20. It contains God’s program for judging the world and overthrowing the devil and putting Christ on the throne of the world forever. It is the fulfillment of all Messianic prophecies. (Friday Church News Notes, March 27, 2015, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143) Comments are closed.
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