God in Everything

Having grown up under the veil of Polygamy and later in my early 20's joining the LDS church, I was taught to look at the Cross as something that should be shunned. Many of my Mormon/Polygamy family and friends would relate the cross as a means of murder, like a gun, and urge everyone to distance themselves from it. It wasn't something to place on your body or in your home. "Why would you celebrate the object that killed your Savior?" 

Did the cross kill Him or was it the Jews? It's like saying Guns kill people instead of people kill people.

The Cross and Crucifixion  have been a large part of history, and, we are finding, our future. All things point to it.  From early Biblical verses, prophesying more then 1,000 years before the event to, with our advanced technology today, finding patterns of the exact cross shape holding our very bodies together, and more.

Let's look at Numbers
In Numbers 21:8-9 we read, "Then the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live. So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived".

This is a most unusual story! The tribes of Israel used to carry around a wooden standard, about 9 feet high, with an insignia of the tribe written on material hung on the Crosspiece. God told Moses to hang a bronze serpent on this wooden Cross bar instead of the standard. Bronze indicates judgement in the Bible, as also does a serpent. The Serpent on a Pole is the Holy Spirit's picture language for God's judgement on Jesus Christ on the Cross.

If an individual was bitten by a snake (which is a type of Satan), there was a way to be healed. If the individual looked up to the bronze serpent on the pole they would be healed. Jesus Himself indicated the connection between the Crucifixion and the Serpent on the Pole in John 3:14-16:
"As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life".

In Psalm 22 there are many verses which clearly look forward to the Crucifixion. The following are a selection of such verses:

vs. 1: "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?"
vs. 6: despised of the people.

vs. 7: All those who see Me ridicule Me; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
vs. 8: He trusted in the Lord, let Him rescue Him; let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him!"
vs. 13: They gape at Me with their mouths, like a raging and roaring lion.
vs. 14: I am poured out like water, and all My bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it has melted within Me.
vs. 15: My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and My tongue clings to My jaws; you have brought Me to the dust of death.
vs. 16a: For dogs have surrounded Me; the congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me.
vs. 16b: They pierced My hands and My feet;
vs. 17: I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me.
vs. 18: They divide My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots.

 

Let's skip ahead to today, with our advanced technology, and talk about Laminin. 

 

 Laminins are major proteins in the basal lamina (formerly improperly called "basement membrane"), a protein network foundation for most cells and organs. The laminins are an important and biologically active part of the basal lamina, influencing cell differentiation, migration, adhesion as well as phenotype and survival. Fourteen other chain combinations have been identified in vivo. The trimeric proteins form a plus sign with one long arm, giving a structure that can bind to other cell membrane and extracellular matrix molecules. The three shorter arms are particularly good at binding to other laminin molecules, which allows them to form sheets. The long arm is capable of binding to cells, which helps anchor organized tissue cells to the membrane. source - Wikipedia

..... in short... Laminin is LITERALLY the glue that holds us all together.

Colossians 1:15-17
"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
For by him all things were created; things in heaven and on earth , visible and invisible,
whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities;
all things were created by him and for him.
He is before all things,
and in him all things HOLD TOGETHER. "

 

Thousands of years before the world knew anything about laminin, Paul penned those words. And now we see that from a very LITERAL standpoint, we are held together...one cell to another....by the cross.

 

 

 

We focused on something small.. Lets change gears and look at something LARGE! 

  

Sometimes known as the Hubble Cross or Cross of Hubble

This image of the core of the nearby spiral galaxy M51, taken with the Wide Field Planetary camera (in PC mode) on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows a striking , dark "X" silhouette

d across the galaxy's nucleus. The "X" is due to absorption by dust and marks the exact position of a black hole which may have a mass equivalent to one-million stars like the sun. The darkest bar may be an edge-on dust ring which is 100 light-years in diameter. The edge-on torus not only hides the black hole and accretion disk from being viewed directly from earth, but also determines the axis of a jet of high-speed plasma and confines radiation from the accretion disk to a pair of oppositely directed cones of light, which ionize gas caught in their beam. The second bar of the "X" could be a second disk seen edge on, or possibly rotating gas and dust in MS1 intersecting with the jets and ionization cones.

The size of the image is 1100 light-years.

 

 

God, who has always been and always will be, shows us He is everywhere. We would be nothing without him. Literally falling apart in all aspects of the human existence. He is our Creator. He created us and knows every part of us. Do we turn our backs on our Creator or embrace him and his saving GRACE. 

 

I wear a cross on a necklace close to my heart  because he changed my heart after I accepted him. He lifted the burdens and removed the chains that held me bound to slavery and death. Through Him and his saving grace, that were performed on that cross, He has set me free. He was born and remained sinless so he could take upon him all the sins of the world. Only someone who was pure could have done such a thing. Jesus, my God, who came down in the flesh to descend below all men, taking upon himself every single sin that was ever committed and then laying down his own life for me. (Yes, no one could have taken his life. He, willingly gave it for everyone who will accept his free gift of GRACE) Died by his own will to save a sinner as myself. I believe him when he said "It is finished" ~John 19:30. I accept his true Gospel. The One and only true Gospel taught from the Bible.

 

 Galatians Chapter 1

 6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
9 As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

 

Mormonism and the ever changing Gospel that started with Joseph Smith has so many confused as to what it is they actually believe. Talking with many of my family and friends that are still blinded by the Mormon faith, frequently say when I bring up known doctrine or church history, "I don't believe that." When I ask what it is they do believe, I'm not ever given the same answer for the one question or I'm just blown off and the subject is changed. 

 

Is it ever a wonder why Mormons don't take head to 1 Corinthians 1:18

"For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God." It is indeed the Power of God in every aspect of the Word. Without it none of us would be here. None of us would have any hope to save us from our sins. None of us would ever taste freedom. 

 

Praise to my God! I will praise you every day and give all glory to you! You are Great! You are my Savior! Thank you for saving me from that awful bondage that held me tight for so long.