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- The Witness Of The Animal Kingdom
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- by Brian Donovan
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- Men are going to have a rough time at the Judgment trying to justify
- their disobedience, in view of the fact that from Genesis to
- Revelation you have a chain of references showing immediate, complete
- obedience in the animal kingdom. Ignorance will be a lame excuse for
- any man in the face of lions, birds, and even jackasses with a track
- record of obedience to the Lord's commands. Won't it be something to
- see a Yale professor claiming that he didn't know (agnostic), and the
- Lord brings in a skunk to explain how he walked a couple of miles to
- get on the ark simply because he was told to by his Creator?
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- According to Romans 1:19-20, the whole creation sits in front of our
- eyes as a testimony to the Lord's work. Instead of observing and
- learning from the animal kingdom, educated men have tried to change
- the glory of God into an image of his corruptible self (Rom. 1:21-
- 23). All through the ages men have ignored the obvious lessons shown
- not only in the Bible, but in the natural creation they see from day
- to day.
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- The Bible records a number of incidents where animals carry out the
- Lord's wishes without hesitation. In Daniel 6, some hungry lions are
- told to leave God's prophet alone for the night. Because they obey,
- they are rewarded with a much bigger meal the next day. It is amazing
- to watch how men react under the same revelation. When Stephen is
- brought before a council in Acts 6, the men are shown that this is
- God's man (Acts 6:15--they see the face of an angel!). Their reaction
- is to stone him anyway, proving that an educated, religious man
- doesn't have the sense of an untamed lion.
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- The Lord uses ravens to keep Elijah alive during a famine (1 Kings
- 17), yet He cannot depend on rich American Christians to keep
- missionaries on a foreign field, preaching the gospel. He tells some
- jackasses to get lost in the field so that Saul can be anointed by
- Samuel (1 Sam. 9), but has trouble getting Peter to go to a lost
- Gentile (Acts 10). Beasts sing and give glory to God before His
- throne during the great Tribulation (Rev. 4:8), while men on earth
- refuse to repent and give up their fornication and murder (Rev. 9:20-
- 21). The Lord has always had more trouble with men than with His
- brute creation. If Darwin was right and you came from a lemur, man
- has degenerated from when he was an animal. Unless, of course, you
- believe that disobedience to God is progress.
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- I realize that we are living in a time when man has found a myriad of
- "scientific" reasons why he cannot believe the Biblical account, but
- the Lord has given him ample chance to see and believe. Thou art
- inexcusable, O man; you will give an account of what you know in your
- heart in spite of what you say with your mouth. Luther Burbank, who
- studied and experimented with plants all his life, ignored what his
- own experiments proved (you can mix all you want, but you cannot
- create a new species). Instead of giving glory to God, he rejected
- the revelation given and said, "The idea that a good God would send
- people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me--the ravings of
- insanity .... I prefer and claim the right to worship the infinite,
- everlasting, almighty God of this universe as revealed to us
- gradually, step by step, by the demonstrable truths of our savior,
- science."
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- In 1926, Burbank found out the hard way that science is no savior. He
- died. If only he had gone to Job 12 and believed his laboratory.
- "But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of
- the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it
- shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
- Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought
- this?"
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- Be honest. Can you look at the flight of the falcon, the path of the
- dolphin, or the birth of your child and believe that it all was once a
- paramecium? Who doesn't know that the hand of the Lord has done all
- this? He has created you for His glory, and gave His Son, Jesus
- Christ, so you can enjoy eternity forever in His presence. As
- Burbank, you have a right to worship the god you please, but know
- this: "Thou art inexcusable, O man."
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