THE Weird: Foreknowledge and Prophecy

Perhaps why the New Testament records that Christ the Colossians-chapter-1/Hebrews-chapter-1-referred-to-Creator-of-planet-Earth-and-the-entire-Universe uttered the seemingly-ridiculous command for His disciples to [thankfully-NOT-literally] "eat His flesh and drink His blood," was both an acknowledgement of and a retaliation against the humans He had made who seemed to had never gotten out of (and yet have not gotten out of) the oral stage of infantile deterioration (in the case of initially-non-clothed "adult"-formed Eve) or development (in the case of usually-clothed us [except when birthed] here and now):

Genesis 3:6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, and he ate.

Genesis 9:20 Noah was the first tiller of the soil. He planted a vineyard;
Genesis 9:21 and he drank of the wine, and became drunk, and lay uncovered in his tent.

Many examples of various people both eating and drinking for good and for evil occur throughout both Testaments of The Holy Bible.

Job 1:18 While he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house . . .

Matthew 11:19 the Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Hey, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is justified by the works."
Matthew 24:38 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage [beats the heck out of instead saying: "fornicating and giving in fornication"], until the day when Noah entered the ark . . .

Luke 7:34 The Son of man has come eating and drinking; and you say, 'Hey, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'
Luke 10:7 And remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages; do not go from house to house.

Yum.

Speaking of infantile development, before 1948 I personally did not exist in any of my present trichotomy parts (i.e. body and spirit and soul). I therefore had a beginning - for the first time - in July of that year.

In one sense, that is humiliating -- to realize that I did not always exist eternally back whenever, and in that sense Almighty God (i.e. the L, or YHWH, or LORD in all caps) has one over on me.

Oh well. I've always liked being second best. No problem. Too much responsibility to be Number One. Strange that Lucifer thought he was up to it and so vainly rebelled in laughably-pathetic failed futility.

Each sentient living entity has to make up their mind what they want to do pertaining to that, and if they choose to do it right, the semantical term to use is: regarding that . . . but if they choose to do it wrong, the semantical term to apply is: concerning that.

Isn't it wonderful that God has given each of us a sovereign free will (which He will never violate or take away from us) to obey or instead disobey Him, to love Him or instead hate Him, to comply or instead not comply, and to experience the consequences of either positive or negative choice (which is either being tearslessly and painless blessed in His glorious light in the blessed fellowship of angels and saints forever, or instead being tortured in the flames of the Lake of Fire in Outer Darkness eternally)?

Be that as it is, and not may be, we get to the subject of the bizarre: both foreknowledge and miracles.

"Foreknowledge" is mentioned at least, and perhaps only, once in the KJV, MKJV, KJ21, and RSV Bible:

Acts 2:23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ya'll have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain . . .

Perhaps foreknowledge could be also called: "pre-planning." Sort of like a pre-concocted or (better yet) pre-assembled "self-executable" zipfile. Let's not get into the heretical and goofy evolutionary mythological presumption of anything creating itself, and (worse yet) doing it by random hit-and-miss chance here.

Predictive prophecy involves: (1) omniciently knowing what phenomena exist and are available, and (2) omniciently knowing what the animalistic instinctual and/or (in the case of angels and demons and humans) free-will intentions of creatures are.

One might presume that any prophecies given in Holy Writ could have been, are now, or will be negated and deliberately caused to be non-fulfilled by defiant devils or evil-minded humans.

For example, when the Lord told Abram and Sarai they would conceive in their old age, past child-conceiving time, they could have made sure that they never had sex together to make a liar out of God. People nowadays might do their damndest to make sure that no one ever gets marked with 666 for economic exchanges in the future.

But God knows what humans are capable of, what their good and their bad desires are, what He suggests to them and thus causes them to think about and then even plan for.

Three or four or five hundred years ago, if you and I had lived then, knowing what we now know, but telling people back then about it (who, by that time, knew about the wheel and various metals), would they have believed that such "miracles" would exist in their future:

(1) copper and other metal "wires" silently and invisibly conveying "electrical" "current," similar to lightning seen during thunderstorms
(2) "vacuum tubes" in a "circuit board" orderly arranged with a "microphone" and "speaker" to "amplify" sound and create invisible and virtually impossible to detect (without detectors) "analog" and "digital" "VHF" and "UHF" "radio" "waves," "radar" emanations, along with "microwaves" - followed by "transistors" and "integrated circuits"
(3) "radioactive" "isotopes" emitting "alpha particles" and "gamma rays"
(4) using "helium" to build "gravity"-overpowering [not defying] "blimps"
(5) near-"absolute-zero" "circuits" in which "superconductivity" occurs
(6) "nuclear" "fission" and "fusion" for "electrical power generation" and superbombs
(7) "plastics"

The list goes on and on. You get the idea, I'm sure. So how does my toaster know when to pop up toast, or my gas gauge tell me how much gas is in the tank?

The near-magical innovations continue on. Especially in that little New-Jersey-sized State of Israel. Who knows the potential of humans who were told by God to "multiple and subdue the Earth" to understand, mimic, and replicate the following 'miracles' from Hebrew/Jewish Scripture:

Second Kings 2:11 And as they still went on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

Second Kings 6:1 Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "See, the place where we dwell under your charge is too small for us.
2 Let us go to the Jordan and each of us get there a log, and let us make a place for us to dwell there." And he answered, "Go."
3 Then one of them said, "Be pleased to go with your servants." And he answered, "I will go."
4 So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.
5 But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water; and he cried out, "Alas, my master! It was borrowed."
6 Then the man of God said, "Where did it fall?" When he showed him the place, he cut off a stick, and threw it in there, and made the iron float.
7 And he said, "Take it up." So he reached out his hand and took it.
8 Once when the king of Syria was warring against Israel, he took counsel with his servants, saying, "At such and such a place shall be my camp."
9 But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, "Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians are going down there."
10 And the king of Israel sent to the place of which the man of God told him. Thus he used to warn him, so that he saved himself there more than once or twice.
11 And the mind of the king of Syria was greatly troubled because of this thing; and he called his servants and said to them, "Will you not show me who of us is for the king of Israel?"
12 And one of his servants said, "None, my lord, Oh king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedchamber ["electronic" eavesdropping not yet invented?]."
13 And he said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and seize him." It was told him, "Hey, he is in Dothan."
14 So he sent there horses and chariots and a great army; and they came by night, and surrounded the city.
15 When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, hey, an army with horses and chariots was round about the city. And the servant said, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?"
16 He said, "Fear not, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them."
17 Then Elisha prayed, and said, "Oh LORD, I pray you, open his eyes that he may see." So the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw; and hey, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha [done before "cloaking devices" came on the scene?].
18 And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, and said, "Strike this people, I pray you, with blindness." So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.
19 And Elisha said to them, "This is not the way, and this is not the city; follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." And he led them to Samaria.

Matthew 14:28 And Peter answered him, "Lord, if it is you, bid me come to you on the water."
Matthew 14:29 He said, "Come." So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus

Luke 7:15 And the dead man sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother.

John 2:9 When the steward of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward of the feast called the bridegroom . . .

John 9:2 And His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
John 9:19 and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"
John 9:20 His parents answered, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
John 9:32 Never since the world began has it been heard that any one opened the eyes of a man born blind.

John 11:39 Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days."
John 11:44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with bandages, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."

John 20:19 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." [Such happened before the days of Hollywood-special-effects Star Trek "transporters" non-realistically non-instantaneously transported lifeforms in which flowing blood was constantly moving and therefore relocating?]

Acts 1:9 And when He had said this, as they were looking on, He was lifted up [NASA-rocket-style?], and a cloud took him out of their sight.

Acts 9:36 Now there was at Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.
37 In those days she fell sick and died; and when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.
38 Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him entreating him, "Please come to us without delay."
39 So Peter rose and went with them. And when he had come, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping, and showing tunics and other garments which Dorcas made while she was with them.
40 But Peter put them all outside and knelt down and prayed; then turning to the body he said, "Tabitha, rise." And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up.
41 And he gave her his hand and lifted her up. Then calling the saints and widows he presented her alive.
42 And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.

Acts 8:39 And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught up Philip; and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.
Acts 8:40 But Philip was found at Azotus, and passing on he preached the gospel to all the towns till he came to Caesarea.

Acts 13:11 And now, hey, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind and unable to see the sun for a time." Immediately mist and darkness fell upon him and he went about seeking people to lead him by the hand.

Incredible?

Strange goings on. Bizarre. Weird happenings . . . stories and accounts and news reports found in the Judeo-Christian (Both Old and New Testaments) Holy Bible.

All one big lie? Who's to say? On what grounds? Where's the proof? [And the beef - being I prefer hamburger to cannibalistically ingesting Divine human flesh?] Would one say that if he had lived 300 or 400 or 500 years ago before the Age of Inventions?

Keep in mind you were created when conceived in the womb, and did not exist in any way, shape, or form previously. Your parent's sperm and egg were not you, but merely means to a miraculous and supernatural end. As will be your death when your spirit and soul leave your body and your weirdly-lifeless absolutely-motionless carcass reposes in the casket or (for the impoverished and/or anti-religious), crematorium. Sorry about that.

But the best is yet to come . . . despite prejudicial racist bigots, revilers, blasphemers, and anti-Christian-morality Obominites with their Kenyan-born idol. Plus noxiousness of the self-made-capitalist tax-the-poor insolence of guys like Jason Lewis along with smug arrogance of indecently-female-mopheaded-panelists-purveying so-called "conservatives" O'Reilly and Hannity. We'll perhaps get to Lawrence O'Duncehead, Ed Schmuck and Rachel Madcow on MSNBC (not to mention Stephanie Mindless, and Mike Alloy) later.

Addendum

"When one goes to war, one needs more than a featherduster. One at least needs an Uzi."

"Don't poke people in their eyes but instead feed them in their mouths in the process of attempting to witness for Christ to them."

"Are you going to meet a proselitizing self-proclaimed atheist?
Ask him or her if they presume
that nothing created everything."


How do we help make our nation goof-proof against anti-gun subversives AND genocidal school-classroom shooters?

Virulently-anti-firearms, viciously-anti-Second-Amendment, homoqueer-supportive, Piers Morgan of CNN has (in essence) the same type of ruthlessly-violent irrationally-cruel, burn-the-church-with-women-and-kids-inside demonic spirit as portrayed by the redcoat-Brit commander who thankfully got stabbed to death during battle near the end of the Mel Brooks' movie The Patriot.

If there were no scissors nor Walmart-obtainable kitchen steak knives, there might be no more homicidal stabbings or throats or wrists getting slit.
If there was no water on Earth, there might be no more homicidal drownings.
If there was no cotton nor wool on Earth, there might be no more homicidal suffocations.
If there was no gravity, there might be no more homicides by being pushed off a cliff or over a railing.
If there was no rope on Earth, there might be no more homicidal strangulations.
If there were no liquid drain openers on Earth, there might be no more homicidal poisonings.
If there were no rocks nor hammers on Earth, there might be no more homicidal bludgeonings.
If there were no lasers nor acid, there might be no more crippling blindness.
If there was no nitric acid nor drugstore glycerin, there might be no more genocidal bomb explosions.
If there were no matches, fresno lens, flint, lightning, lava, there might be no being-burnt-alive homicides.
If there was no steel metal, there might be no more pistols nor bullet casings.
If nobody on Earth had fingers, no one would probably be able to hold assault rifles nor pull triggers.
If nobody on Earth had eyes, no one would probably be able to see enough to aim revolvers accurately.