To: Those I Love
From Grandpa Pratt
Re: The Second Coming: (Foolish World Philosophies)
“We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (The New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.” 10th Article of Faith
In other words the earth will be restored to the condition it was in at the finish of its creation which is likened unto Paradise which is like unto heaven.
In order, then, to understand the second coming we must go back to the beginning and discover what the earth was like as it issued forth from the womb of creation. In doing so we will be going counter to the teachings and philosophies of the world. Which are diametrically opposed to the revelations of God. These man-made philosophies are freely taught as though true in all our schools and the media from the earliest grades through college. And are so thoroughly implanted in our minds, that if believed in, can weaken or destroy our faith in God who is our only hope. I will mention first a few and their absurdities.
1. Darwins theory of evolution usually taught as fact and it hasn’t a leg to stand on because the science of microbiology, which has only developed since 1950 by the invention of microscopes of a nature and strength to study the single cell which is the building block of all animal and plant life, shows that the single cell is a tiny solar system with a nucleus (sun) in the center and many tiny revolving particles around it even to its own garbage system to rid itself of waste. The cell is so complex say these scientists that it could not evolve. IT HAD TO BE RIGHT AT ITS FIRST INNOVATION. It constitutes in itself a complete organism.
2. Cavemen are the remnants of a highly organized and advanced society as the American Indian shows, whose ancestors built a great civilization including 10,000 miles of superior concrete highways and vast cities of millions and the world has caveman just backwards. Caveman is not man on his way up, he is man on his way down because of the sins of his forbearers.
3. The so called glacial or ice age or ages is much harder to believe than a universal flood the remains of which are found on the highest mountains.
4. But the most absurd is the current lie, Global Warming. And most real scientists ridicule the idea by pointing out that better than 99 percent of the gases which are supposedly contributing to this calamity are emitted naturally from the earth and its plant and animal life. Yet this element in Australia is so concerned about the flatulence (gas) of cattle that they are trying to devise an emissions system to fasten on each end of the cow similar to the emission systems on cars. These believers also ignore the climate records of the past 100 years that show the earth has cooled sightly.
So as I outline the creation as described by the scriptures try not to let these world taught absurdities weaken your belief. Remember: we have learned by sad experience, that it is the nature of most men as soon as they get a little learning as they suppose, and they are presented with the truth and the false, they will choose the false and cast the truth aside and even after the lie is exposed the majority will go on teaching and believing the lie for two or three generations or longer. Peter tells us...”There shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.” 2nd Peter 2:1
Karl Marx, the father of Communism in his manifesto, which is the communist constitution, wrote, “Communism abolishes Eternal truths; it abolishes all religion and all morality.”
And here is another big lie, we are currently taught by the media, “Communism is dead.” well sorry to say it isn’t. They’ve just changed their name. The majority of the worlds people even now are suffering under its bloody rule. Witness from Cuba to China to Russia to many of the nations in Africa and the terrible slaughter going on by guns, starvation and disease under communist rule.
The day before Columbus discovered America his crew threatened mutiny if he didn’t turn back because of the centuries of old teaching that the earth was flat and one could sail to the edge of it and fall off. And this continued to be taught and believed even after Ferdinand Magellan sailed around the earth in 1520-1523.
Now the creation. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” and he did it in six periods of time each of 1,000 years duration. And after each DAY beginning, with the second, he pronounced, “it was good.” and at the end of the sixth day he said, “Behold it is very good.” and Peter tells us, “Be not ignorant of one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years. And a thousand years as one day.” 2nd. Peter 3:8
also from Peter: knowing this first, that their shall come in the LAST DAYS scoffers, walking after 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 the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of Judgement and perdition of ungodly men. 2nd. Peter 3:3-7
Then Peter continues on in language that cannot be refuted: “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long suffering to us-ward not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness. Looking for and hastening unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.” 2nd Peter 3-10-12
TO BE CONTINUED the next several months with a description of the earth from Adam to the present.
It is an exciting time to prepare to meet our Heavenly Father. I love each one of you with all of my heart. Just as I know you pray for me, I pray for each one of you that you will build a relationship with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.
Love, Grandpa Pratt
