While we look not at the things which are seen,
but at the things which are not seen:
for the things which are seen are temporal;
but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18
What we see.
What we know.
What we can feel/touch, taste, see, smell, hear,
all of it will pass away.
None of it will be here in a few thousand years.
God made it that way.
So that we would have nothing to cling to on this earth.
Just when you think something is solid, it disappears,
whether it’s a reality or an idea,
anything not founded on the word of God is bound to vanish.
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Matthew 24:35
If we trust in riches and fill our barns with plenty,
they may not be here for us.
If we cling to humans, they are fickle and are flesh, mere mortals.
Even if they might not betray us,
they might die,
move away, change, or fail us some other way.
That is a hard truth.
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.
The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
But the word of the Lord endureth for ever.
And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
1 Peter 1:24-25
Scientist are working furiously to try to extend life.
Various manipulations of life at the cellular level
in an effort to preserve youth and life.
At the same time they are trying to destroy life.
I guess we can’t have everyone live forever.
Their plan will not work.
Maybe it will for a time,
but God said,
I will make a new heaven and a new earth:
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth:
and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. Isaiah 65:17
So not only will those mad scientists and their subjects not be here,
but they will not even be remembered nor come to mind.
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth:
for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away;
and there was no more sea. Revelation 21:1
I recently read about Ancient Tyrus in Ezekiel 28
God was so angry at them
because they looked every which way but to Him.
Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus,
Thus saith the Lord God;
Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said,
I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas;
yet thou art a man, and not God,
though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: v2
By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick
hast thou increased thy riches,
and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: v5
In the previous Chapter Ezekiel 27,
In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas
in the depths of the waters thy merchandise
and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall. v 34
I looked up Tyrus today. It was indeed destroyed and is just rubble now, ruins of sorts, some of it is covered with water. Here is a photo of the once beautiful Tyrus/Tyre
God told the prince of Tyrus that his city would be brought to ruins and it was. There are many examples of how Jesus causes earthly kingdoms to fall in the bible. They are but for a time and then they are rubbish. We can become so trusting in our earthly realities. They are temporal.
This is a reminder when Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. John 18:36