“Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?” —Job 38:31
If inclined to boast of our abilities, the grandeur of nature may soon show us how puny we are. We cannot move the least of all the twinkling stars, or quench so much as one of the beams of the morning. We speak of power, but the heavens laugh us to scorn. When the Pleiades shine forth in spring with vernal joy we cannot restrain their influences, and when Orion reigns aloft, and the year is bound in winter’s fetters, we cannot relax the icy bands. The seasons revolve according to the divine appointment, neither can the whole race of men effect a change therein. Lord, what is man?
In the spiritual, as in the natural world, man’s power is limited on all hands. When the Holy Spirit sheds abroad his delights in the soul, none can disturb; all the cunning and malice of men are ineffectual to stay the genial quickening power of the Comforter. When he deigns to visit a church and revive it, the most inveterate enemies cannot resist the good work; they may ridicule it, but they can no more restrain it than they can push back the spring when the Pleiades rule the hour. God wills it, and so it must be. On the other hand, if the Lord in sovereignty, or in justice, bind up a man so that he is in soul bondage, who can give him liberty? He alone can remove the winter of spiritual death from an individual or a people. He looses the bands of Orion, and none but he. What a blessing it is that he can do it. O that he would perform the wonder tonight. Lord, end my winter, and let my spring begin. I cannot with all my longings raise my soul out of her death and dulness, but all things are possible with thee. I need celestial influences, the clear shinings of thy love, the beams of thy grace, the light of thy countenance, these are the Pleiades to me. I suffer much from sin and temptation, these are my wintry signs, my terrible Orion. Lord, work wonders in me, and for me. Amen.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92)
Posted by Chris 
THE INCREDIBLE, EDIBLE ‘190 MILLION-YEAR-OLD-EGG
May 18, 2013By Brian Thomas, M.S.
Yunnan Province, China holds some very special eggs, containing the tiny bones of unborn sauropod dinosaurs. Within the Lufeng Formation, a relatively thin bed of red sediment contains these fossil eggs, mixed and buried amidst other fossils. While perhaps providing new clues to the ways sauropod dinosaurs developed from embryos, they also bear distinct marks of very recent flooding.
First, the find’s context fits a watery cataclysm. Science NOW covered this story, describing the fossils as, “one nest after another destroyed by floods.”1 Of course, Noah’s year-long Flood strung together many disastrous tsunami-like flood events, each one covering a broad swath, sometimes blanketing areas the size of whole continents.
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My comment: “You’ll never see an article like this in the liberal news media, although I would have to give a publication like Science NOW credit for their integrity. If there is some discovery that seems to prove Darwinian evolution, it is printed regardless of how much evidence there is for it. Items like this, that reflect thousands, not millions, of years’ worth of aging, are out there, but one has to look for them. Darwinian evolution is being taught in every public institution in the nation. The brainwashing has gone on for quite some time now, and it is interesting to me that still only half of Americans believe we came from some primordial soup or were seeded here by aliens (Richard Dawkins considers this possibility here).
“‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.’
“That’s good enough for me. Any belief about origins ultimately comes down to faith.”
CR
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