WHY ALL THE CRISES, TERRORISM, ACCIDENTS, AND HUMAN SUFFERINGS TODAY?

WHY ALL THE CRISES, TERRORISM, ACCIDENTS, AND HUMAN SUFFERINGS TODAY?

By: Lope Columna

INTRODUCTION

Due to the ever-increasing victims of various accidents, terrorism, and tragedies, both man-made and "acts of God" resulting to horrible destruction and deaths all over the world, many people are asking "Where is God"? Why is God allowing such terrible sufferings and death?

Let's come to God and ask Him personally why all the crises are happening now (economic crisis, energy crisis, climate change, swine flu pandemic, etc.) resulting to great worldwide sufferings, pain, destruction, and death.

GOD: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children (Hosea 4:6).

COMMENTS: What kind of knowledge is God talking about here? Terrorism is now a worldwide concern causing both poor and rich nations spend their precious time, manpower and resources just to combat the so-called terrorism. And it seems that they fail miserably making their efforts, money, technologies, and resources all spent in vain. Terrorists are hard to capture, and even if their leaders are captured and killed, their replacements are even more than before. To the other side of the fence, those captured and punished terrorists just become heroes to their countrymen and brethren. They attract even more and more terrorists who are willing to die for their cause! The more the hunt for the terrorists, they more they increased and become bolder, even suicidal. What is happening here?

We cannot avoid including in the peace vs terrorism equation the factor of religion. In fact, today's religions, particularly the Biblical religions, are the very root-cause of war and terrorism. And if we really want to find the root-solution to this terrorism problem, and those other human problems, we have no other recourse but to go to and consult with the Creator God of the universe! It is very obvious that today’s terrorism involves the 3 major world religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Judaism and Christianity profess to follow and worship the God of the Bible. Islam professes to follow and worship the Allah of the Koran.

We can suppose that the Jews and Christians are masters of the Bible, that they have the knowledge of God and the Bible. In fact, many of them think so, that they feel confident and comfortable of their Bible knowledge. And yet, many of them, Jews and Christians alike are now in constant fear of terrorist's attacks, and surely most of them experienced horribly the very fear they are trying to evade! Why?

PEOPLE DIE BECAUSE THEY DO NOT KNOW HOW TO BE GUARDED

They do not know how to protect themselves from the evil and dark forces. They do not know how to avoid tragedies. In truth, because of their ignorance they even create dangerous and deadly situations for their own destruction. So mankind today is plagued by tragedies of his own making. As the saying goes, “It is what you don’t know that will kill you.”

Thus, we have oil spills and toxic chemical releases that destroy our environment. And the feared Global Warming that is caused by the greedy and selfish ways of man in the conduct of his business and materialistic existence! And despite of our so-called hi-tech and computerized age (or maybe because of them), we still commit and continue to commit terrible transportation accidents on land, sea, air, and even in outer space!

We destroyed also our earth’s protective ozone layer, we warmed the earth (global warming) by our vehicles, factories, and buildings. We reduced the sunlight reaching land and oceans (Global Dimming), and we pollute the very air we breathe, and the very water we drink. What are we doing to ourselves?

Then, as we abuse the Earth, she strikes back, so we are repeatedly stricken by natural disasters. Thus, we have super typhoons and hurricanes, powerful tsunamis, deadly flash floods, earth-breaking earthquakes, forest fires, volcanic eruptions, etc.

Mankind’s culture and way of life (I think it is more accurate to say, “way of death”) have come to the final end of the rope, or at the edge of a deep, dark cliff, wherein all of our humanistic values and solutions are making our terrible problems even worse! All of our man-made solutions: political, technological, legal, social, financial, etc. have reached their shocking dead end beyond which is a fearful “unknown.”

Why all these terrors and destruction?

God, can you give us a precise answer, please?

GOD REASONED WITH MAN

God alone, the Creator of the Universe, has the precise answers and solutions! And for those who thinks that they can solve man’s woes and problems by their own talents and abilities, the LORD God challenges them:

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD... (Isa 1:18)

God thunders: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge... (Hosea 4:6)

MAN: What? We are destroyed for lack of knowledge? Isn’t it that we know a lot about the Bible (if that is what You are asking)? When it comes to the knowledge of the world and the universe, isn’t it that we know more of them than the previous generations?

We now understand how the sun and stars work! We now know how to convert material mass into energy, and we are now harnessing the resulting nuclear energy as an energy source. Fusion, the source of power of the sun and stars, now we know also, and works have been going on to tap it also as an energy source!

And if we “lack” certain knowledge today, it is not our fault, because we never stop searching and learning new knowledge through our experiments, in our laboratories, schools and universities. We spent billions of dollars on research and developments. And we have plenty of brilliant scientists, researchers, teachers and professors who are paid highly just to gather and teach us knowledge. Give us sufficient time, and our scientists and physicists can unlock all knowledge, and very soon we will solve all our problems!

In addition, we now have the Internet where all knowledge and information are available, and it is accessible and affordable to almost everyone. And with our mobile phones, computers, space satellites, TVs, broad band and wireless communications, information and knowledge are instantly accessed by anyone anywhere in the world, and even to and from outer space! We have landed on the moon several times, and now commercial space travels have been made possible to those who can afford to pay.

We are living in a hi-tech world! We have built space stations and humans are actually living on it conducting vital experiments at this very moment! We built the largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to discover the particle (God Particle) that you used to create the Universe. We are living I.T. (Information Technology)! We now have software and hardware that produce knowledge generators -- knowledge that manufactures knowledge!

Even Your Bible, we were able to decode! We now know that Your Torah is like a computer software, and using the ELS (Equidistant Letter Sequence) method, we can even predict the future!

Artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality are commonplace! We can project ourselves in 3D (hologram). We can produce human babies in a test tube! We can now produce animals by the technology of cloning. And we are now in the process of stem cell research and human cloning! Also, we now understand the full human genome! Truly, we have a knowledge explosion nowadays! We now even have such new concepts and terms as “knowledge capital, knowledge bank, knowledge management, etc.

What do you mean, “lack of knowledge,” God?

GOD: ... because thou hast rejected knowledge... (ibid)

MAN: What? We have rejected knowledge? We just mentioned that we never stop acquiring and learning new knowledge, both physical and spiritual or biblical! We hunger and thirst for new knowledge! We have plenty of seminaries and Bible/Evangelistic schools and universities having the full-blast and full-time job of training priests, ministers, and evangelists, all over the world!

Our world-class corporations and governments are spending billions of dollar annually for research and development of new knowledge and technologies. Our top universities are doing the same!

GOD: OK. Good. You don’t want to reject My knowledge. So keep listening or reading My words. Don’t ever turn to the left or to the right. Just keep on listening to Me and My messengers that are after My own heart. And prepare yourself for happy surprises!

MAN: OK. But what kind of knowledge are you talking about, God?

GOD: This kind of knowledge have been already given to your forefathers and My servants of old. Yet,

...seeing thou hast forgotten the law (Torah) of thy God... (ibid)

MAN: Ah, so you really mean the Biblical, the Spiritual, the Religious Knowledge, God? OK. Got it now. But we also have a lot of Biblical knowledge, God. We knew many things about Your Bible. Our pastors and evangelists claim that they received divine revelations from you, as they preached to us in the pulpit. Others have spent many years in seminaries and Bible Colleges studying the Bible, many of them are Bible scholars.

Truly, we can say, that many Christians, with their pastors, priests, evangelists, are well-versed in the Bible. Many churches even have their own schools teaching the Bible knowledge. Many pastors and priests are preaching on radio, TV, the Internet, magazines, etc. on a local and worldwide basis. It seems that there are lots and lots of Bible knowledge in the world today.

We have the regular weekly Bible studies, and we ask questions, our pastors gave us answers, quoting verses from your Bible. We believe them because we looked to them as religious authorities, and as your Representatives here on earth. If we don’t, we are threatened to be thrown into the lake of fire! Moreover, we believe in you, as the one and only true God!

GOD: Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. (James 2:19)

Ask yourself: why do the demons tremble before Me? And why don’t you people tremble before Me?

And I know that you have learned many things, and you are in constant search for knowledge, but you are:

Ever learning, and never able to cometo the knowledge of the truth. (2 Tim 3:7)

What I want you to know is the knowledge of the Truth, that you should know that

I am the LORD your God...... you should have no other gods before me (Exo 20:2-3).

COMMENTS: It’s amazing that most people tremble before the demons or the devil, but not before God! And most people are afraid of ghosts and demons, and yet they mixed that trembling and fear with entertainment such as they still watch satanic and horror movies. Look at the horror movies today, particularly those involving witchcraft and the dark forces. We can surely say that those movies are inspired by Satan and directed and acted upon by demonic personalities. No one can say that those movies are inspired by God!

And because people lack the vital knowledge and understanding of the harm those satanic entertainment may cause them, people just go along to view those movies, destroying themselves!

Despite the claims that they know the Bible or they know God, still many Jews and Christians nowadays still fall victims to various terrorist acts and tragedies. Localized and worldwide terrorisms are on the rampant, destroying many peoples including Christians and their children. Their own churches and synagogues are being attacked and destroyed also. Therefore, it follows that there is a kind of knowledge that these people are still lacking.

What kind of knowledge is this?

This knowledge that man lacks is not scientific or technical knowledge, nor psychological knowledge. It is not even the present spiritual or Biblical knowledge that religious people have come to believe.

ALL knowledge that are produced or developed here on earth by man do not fall into the category of this missing knowledge. Otherwise, Jews and Christians will not be destroyed. Otherwise, terrorism is nonexistent today.

This knowledge that God’s people lack is from above, the pure spiritual knowledge that came from and authored by God Himself. This is the knowledge or Torah that God gave to the Israelites through Moses at Mount Sinai with divine multimedia effects (deafening thunders, very high voltage lightnings, strong earthquakes, smokes and fires, shofar sound blasts, etc.)

MAN: But dear God, we are using the Bible that You gave to Moses at Mount Sinai!

GOD: OK. I understand how you feel. That’s what your pastor and church taught you since your youth. Your parents and grandparents also told you the same things. You believe it sincerely and it becomes your personal belief. Your spiritual mindset was based on these teaching that you, your parents, and your pastors assumed to be true. But the fruits will abundantly show and tell you that the Bible teachings that you learned do not decrease the violence, wickedness, and destruction in the world. In fact, they even increased to the point that if I will not personally intervene, no human being will survive on earth! Judaism and Christianity have been in existence for thousands of years already, and yet you have made My earth and the things on it, more and more corrupt and evil.

COMMENTS: Our Savior Christ the Messiah is supposed to have returned already. But the Messiah is still not here. WHY?

If we honestly search for the root cause of all the wickedness done on earth today, we can easily see that it is man’s immoral and anti-God beliefs and practices that are causing the curses and destruction the world have experienced and are experiencing today.

We can see that the ultimate root cause of all of our problems; political, economics, education, crime, terrorism, environmental (climate change, pollution), unemployment, etc., is spiritual or Biblical. This means that our religious system is an utter failure! Our pastors and priests have greatly failed in their job of teaching God’s pure knowledge of truth to the people. Why is that?

It’s hard to admit, but it’s easy to see the painful truth! People all over the world were destroyed and are being destroyed! We even produced weapons of mass destruction that we know will destroy every man, woman, and child many times over! We cannot argue with the life-and-death issues that regularly bombard us in the news and in ourselves becoming victims!

Now, let’s hear from the pastors and priests of the Christian churches and religious organizations.

PASTORS/PRIESTS: “But, God, we regularly and continuously teach the members of our churches and synagogues with your knowledge from the Bible! Our church membership is increasing tremendously. We have built more and more Churches and the Bible Schools specializing in evangelism. We have covered virtually every nation on earth in our preaching of the Gospel! Our doctrines and teachings are in the Internet, our sermons are broadcasted every day or every week via satellite reaching every corner of the earth!”

GOD: And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart... (Mal 2:1)

For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth...But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law... Therefore, have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law (Mal 2:7-9)

Yes, you Pastors and Priests preached the Gospel and the doctrines that you invented using my Bible. You polluted my Bible with your own ideas and traditions. You mix My teachings with your own teachings! The result is polluted or “untruthful Torah.” The priesthood and Ministry I assigned to the Tribe of Levi were to teach the Torah (Law) of Truth -- the Truthful Torah (Mal. 2:6).

"The Torah of truth was in his mouth..."(Mal 2:6).

PASTORS/PRIESTS: Is there an untruthful Torah or Bible?

GOD: Yes. IF SOMEONE, WHO DOES NOT KNOW THE CORRECT BIBLE INTERPRETATIONS TEACHES PEOPLE THE SAME, THIS IS UNTRUTHFUL. And he is guilty of corrupting the covenant of Levi -- the covenant of Priesthood. One who learns from him learns something untruthful.

And to you, Priests/Pastors/Ministers, for you not to be guilty of being an Untruthful Teachers, preaching an untruthful Torah or Bible, you must therefore:

Remember ye the law of Moses my servant,which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel,with the statutes and judgments (Mal 4:4)

COMMENTS: The ANTIDOTE to the problem of Hosea 4:6 is Malachi 4:4. Religious hypocrisies tilt the very fabric of civilization toward destruction and death! It breeds social ruin. That even a facade of blessings became a curse. Stay away from this kind of religion. Religious leaders must be kosher rabbis, pastors, and priests.

MAN: Dear God, what would happen if we fail to remember the Law of Moses that You gave to him at Mount Sinai (Mal 4:4)?

GOD: Therefore my people go into captivity (exile) for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst. Therefore, She'ol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it. So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled; (Isa 5:13-15 Hebrew Names Version)

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