How does God make himself known?

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How does God make himself known?

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• St Peter writes,
• I want you to remember a couple of things
• the words the holy prophets spoke in the past.
• the command our Lord and Saviour gave through
  your apostles.
• 2 Peter chapter 3

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• Here is what you must understand.
• In the last days
• people will make fun of the truth.
• They will laugh at it.
• They will follow their own evil longings.
• They will say, "Where is the promise of his
  'return? Doesnt everything goes on in the same
  way it has since our people of long ago died? It
  has continued that way since God first created
  everything.
• (2 Peter chapter 3)

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• And then Peter writes, vs. 8-9
• The Lord is not slow to keep his promise.
• That is, He is not slow in the way some people
  understand it.
• He is patient
• He doesn't want anyone lost
• He's giving everyone space and time to change.

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How did God speak to the world he created?
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Modern languages are only about 1500 years old
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God speaks 1) in creation, 2) in the history of
Israel the Church, 3) in the pages of the
Bible, 4) in Jesus, and 5) in the heart of the
believer
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An earlier form of language is
the Semitic letters. 1400 BC
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Theres also the Hebrew script
1500 BC.
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But, Chinese characters were in use 1000 years
before Moses
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These characters are 4,500 years old
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Chinese wrote on ...
... oxen bones
...tortoise shells
... on bronze
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Lets see what the earliest language - Chinese -
knew about the beginnings - Genesis
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Our Bible says, The Word was in the beginning.
... all things were created by the Word. (John
1)
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The Chinese writings of Lao Zi, In Greek,
"Tao" is "logos", In English, it is "the
Word. The Word evolves/follows Itself (or)
The Word acts according to its own law.
???? The Tao is the beginning of the heavens
and the earth is the mother of all things.'
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Lao Zi hints at the three-in-one Creator God of
the universe
???????????? One generates two, two
generates three, and three generates the
creation. (or) The creation comes from a
trinity, which comes from a duality, which in
turn comes from a unity.
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The revered teacher, Confucius, had revelation
from God. In the 5th Century before Christ he
wrote a code for life
Kong fuzi 551-479 BC
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But, what writings record the beginnings?
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The Hebrews said (Genesis 28) God planted a
garden in Eden, and there He placed the man He
had formed
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God caused plants to grow - they were pleasing
in appearance and good for food ...
... a tree of life in the middle of the
garden, as well as the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil. (Genesis 29)
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But, 1000 years earlier, the Chinese recorded the
beginnings in pictograph characters
Garden
is made up of 4 symbols
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Their word
is made up of 4 symbols
(the pictograph create represents a Living
Dust Person)
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The Chinese word for HAPPINESS or BLESSING
strangely reflects the Genesis story.
GOD and MAN (ONE) in a GARDEN.
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The Chinese used 2 trees to make ...

Divine command
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DEVIL in Chinese is
They used 4 symbols

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To make tempter you take devil and add
cover
Add cover to devil tempter

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Why did our 1st parents disobey?
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Ask the Chinese. This is their ancient word
It means ...
Take 2 trees ... Add woman ... and you get
covet
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The ancient Chinese word for sorrow also uses
two trees
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The Chinese have 3 words for NAKED All three
include the word FRUIT
When they disobeyed, Adam Eve discovered their
nakedness, and they covered their nakedness with
the leaves of a fruit tree.
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Adams Eves 1st question must have been How
can a sinner come back to God?
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The Chinese knew, 5000 years ago! You could only
come back to God through a lamb (sacrifice)
To be right with God is yi
Righteousness is 2 words On top is yang. It
means lamb. Below is wo. It means me, or
self yang above wo makes yi
Righteousness ... only if you have the lamb
between you and God
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At the beginning of Chinese civilisation (5000
years ago) the Chinese knew that the Lamb was
the means of righteousness !
Lamb above me righteousness
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No yang (lamb)
No yi (righteousness)
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Their word for flood is ...
Chinese also knew about a total flood
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Chinese knew Noah his family were saved in an
ark.
Large boat
has 3 words in it
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The Chinese have a word for tower. Its the
story of Babel
Tower in Chinese uses 5 words
                                                                                                                                                                                            
Grass
Mouth
Man
One
Clay
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After Babel, people split into language groups.
Those going east would have travelled along the
Silk Road
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The Chinese pictograph for MIGRATE combines 4
words
GREAT,
DIVISION,
WEST,
WALK

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About 50 years after Babel, a kingdom was
established. It was called Shen Zhou Land of
God
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The 1st Dynasty was established. They called it
the Dragon kingdom But, why didnt they call
it the Lamb kingdom
Huang Di, was Chinas 1st Emperor, (2697-2597
B.C.) He became known as the Dragon Emperor
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Although, in ancient times, China was known
as Shen Zhou, Land of God.
They now call their country Zhong Guo, meaning
Middle Land (the geographical centre of the
world)
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Shen Zhou / Zhong Guo
The Dragon
will be conquered
by the Lamb
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The only real hope for China (and the world) is
... in the Lamb of God
The Lamb is the only means of obtaining
righteousness before ShangDi, (the Sovereign
Ruler)

Lamb (above) me Righteousness