The Proof The Eternal Creator Exists.
The Irrefutable Proof of the Existence of a Supreme Being.
How you can know for certian, that an Almighty ETERNAL CREATOR, truly exists.
Let us imagine that you are Indiana Jones, the famous archeologist and the year is 1939. Your team has dug down to bedrock and embedded within the bedrock you see something that looks like it might be the top of some sort of man made object. You wonder, how could this be? This bedrock was formed millions of years ago. The team manages to chip away the rock to reveal a small box with ornate markings on it. You open the box and inside there is a small golden plate. On the golden plate, inscribed in modern day English, you read:
Be it acknowledged, that in a year to be known as 1963 a President named John F. Kennedy, of a nation called the United States of America will be assassinated while riding down a street in a moveable object that will be known as an automobile, while sitting next to his wife.
What would this tell you? One of three things:
1) You could be dreaming or drunk.
2) You could have found the result of an expertly concocted hoax.
3) Or lastly, this could be the legitimate evidence of someone who lived a million years ago. They had received information in a strange language, to them, regarding the future; and inscribed it on a golden plate. Then they buried the box containing this written information into what was then dirt, which later became rock and then later bedrock.
Several days pass and you realize you were not dreaming and you do not have a hangover, so you were not drunk. Scratch the first possibility. You bring in a panel of experts who inspect the bedrock and the site, do all kinds of tests, and determine that there is no way this could this be a hoax. So, scratch the second possibility.
It must be the real thing. Newscasters gather around you. Your news is in all the media. The tabloids have all offered you millions for your scoop. Then some pranksters come forward. They show how they faked the whole thing. They redo the procedure and invite scientists to come in and investigate. These scientists do all the same tests, and conclude that, after all, yes this was how it was done. The world is both amazed and disappointed. It was a fake after all.
But neither you nor the world could be blamed for believing you had real proof, because you had done everything scientifically known to prove or disprove; and all scientific evidence available to man for proving or disproving proclaimed your artifact to be genuine.
What I am saying is that the best physical evidence can be faked given enough genius, resources, and motive. Any proof based on the three dimensions of length, width, and height can be questioned, and can possibly be inconclusive. So, when we are talking about physical proof involving the three dimensions we are talking about potentially inconclusive proof.
There is one more factor to this physical world however, and that is the factor of time. One might argue that the three-dimensional evidence of the box and the revelation you found involved time as well. No, it did not involve time; it only appeared that it did. The box had not been there for a million years, but it only appeared to have been. In the case of your box, there was the possibility of the factor of time being involved could have been faked. If not, there would have been no need to test the site and the box by all the scientists in the first place.
The only time involved in your archeological discovery that could count as proof time began the moment you made the discovery. Until you made this discovery, insofar as the actual test of time was concerned, the apparent million years had come and gone without witnesses. The public witnessing of your discovery only began when you found the artifact. If you found it three months ago, then the actual proof of the test of time was only three months, not millions of years.
In order for time to be involved in a proof, the world needs to have had the proof in front of them for the duration of the span of time required for the proof to become legitimate.
Proof Time.
Suppose, for example, the chunk of rock in which you made your discovery had not been untouched, but had in fact been in a museum since the days of Napoleon's rape of the Egyptian artifact world. Suppose that instead of being in the ground unfound until three months ago, your box had been encased in the obelisk standing in St. Peter's Square, which the church in Rome took from Egypt with many thousands of witnesses, and is a matter of historic record. The world knows the obelisk is ancient, and without being adulterated by tricksters (except for the church itself, of course).
Therefore, when your box was pulled out of the obelisk three months ago, the need for genuine testing to date the box was simply for the record, only to date the age of the box, but not for proof. The proof is that the box has been in public view and knowledge inside the obelisk for hundreds of years at St. Peter's Square; and thousands of years prior to St. Peter's Square, when the obelisk was first standing in ancient Egypt. Thus, a proof is unquestionable, insofar as the time of exposed existence is a matter of accurate public knowledge and record.
Furthermore, since the pranksters would not have had the technology at that early in time, the earliest date of public knowledge and record of the obelisk. Thus, it would have been impossible for the pranksters to travel back in time, to a date prior to the public exposure of the obelisk, to effect the scam; much less travel forward in time to the present in order to reveal their trick.
Einstein's theories seem to allow for forward time travel, which consists of traveling at speeds approaching the speed of light. At such a speed, time for you slows relative to the time for the rest of the universe. However, traveling through time is not possible although aspects of Einstein's theories will allow reverse time travel IF certain laws of physics can be overcome. For example, another theory is that it is possible to "slingshot" around a black hole and theoretically surpassing the speed of light to unwind history; this is on the condition that the relative speed-of-light limit can be breached. And then there is the wormhole theory, which allows you to punch a hole in space and move apparent thousands of light years in space without going through the actual space. This is not really time travel, just a way of cheating relative speed-of-light limit by not passing through the actual space in which this limit exists.
Can we, with our present technology, make such travels through time? Some people believe that we can. Maybe it has happened; maybe at some top-secret level we are harboring a time travel machine. Maybe Elvis is still alive[1] and living with aliens. I am sorry, but while science fiction pretends the possibility exists, the evidence says otherwise. In addition, there is no record, even in Scripture, of freestanding traveling through time. Time is as close to an absolute constant as anything can be.
Time Travel in Reality.
Before continuing let us understand that even the ETERNAL SOVEREIGN, Who created the universe and is in total control of everything there is, did-not/can-not move forward or backward in time. This is a vital point needed to understand our SOVEREIGN and how He operates. Because He has given human beings free moral agency, He does not know what we will do, or what will happen tomorrow.[2]
He could have preprogrammed all history and future events as a movie and just let it play, but that would not serve to develop His character in us. Only by trial and error can we learn, so He has given us free moral agency. However, He can and does intervene in the affairs on the earth any time He chooses[3] in order to bring His statements and will to pass. Now let us understand His statement:
(Isaiah 46:9-10) [4] (KJV) 9Remember the former things of old: for I am the ETERNAL, and there is none else; I am the ETERNAL, and there is none like me, 10Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I WILL DO all my pleasure:
So how can the ETERNAL "declare the end from the beginning" if He does not travel back and forth in time? A good question, but let Him answer, "My counsel shall stand, and I WILL DO all My pleasure". Simply put, The Mighty One decides what He is going to do, then He does it; as an expert pool player might call "the eight ball in the side pocket" and then he makes it. The CREATOR has an overall plan for humankind, however, He does not know the details of what will happen tomorrow, unless some particular event is required by His overall plan. In another example, the ETERNAL did not know that David would think to build a Temple, for The Mighty One of Israel to dwell in, until David thought of it. The ETERNAL then included David's Temple, into His overall plan of action.
This is why, when Isaiah put the words of our CREATOR into writing, some of it was for the specific purpose[5] of giving us proof, in our day of advanced physics and knowledge, that there is a Supreme Being. Isaiah's prophecies were written over two thousand, five hundred years ago. They were placed into public record during the time of Israel's captivity, long before anyone even suspected that the House of Judah[6] would also go into captivity. Since then, this evidence has been in front of us all this time, as a matter of public record, contained in the Hebrew Scriptures all over the world.
Thus, for the evidence that we will discuss to be a fraud, the perpetuator(s) would need to have traveled back in time to before Isaiah's prophetic writings became known publicly. He would have to manufacture the phony prophetic evidence in such a way that it would appear to be authentic Isaiah prophecy, and then return to our time to point out the "proof."[7]
What is this "evidence"? We will cover two examples, although there are many more. These particular examples are unique because they contain dates, and they name names. No, not numerical dates, but rather these dates are presented by way of signposts in history. Of course, such signposts are only provided when the prophecy is to be understood after these historical signposts have occurred. Until these signposts have occurred in history, the understanding of such a prophecy is always garbled because the signposts have not happened yet. It is like someone giving you directions which say to "turn right at the gray building" so you keep looking for a gray building, only to discover the building has not yet been built.
Isaiah Chapters 44, 45 and 46.
To begin a discussion on Isaiah's first set of evidence we will start in Scofield's Notes for chapter 45:
Isaiah, whose name means "salvation of the ETERNAL," was the greatest of the writing prophets. He carried on his ministry during the reigns of four kings, possibly 740 to 680 BC, a period of about sixty years during which time Israel was captured and carried away (722-721 BC). (There are in Isaiah many important prophecies concerning Jerusalem.)
The context for Isaiah 45 actually begins in (Isaiah 44:28), which should actually be the first verse of chapter 45 [remember, the King James translators added and played around with, chapter and verse breaks]. As Dr. Scofield notes, the time frame of the Prophet Isaiah is prior to and after the capture of Israel. Thus, this prophecy was written about 200 years prior to the captivity of the southern kingdom of Judah, when the Jews were taken as captives to Babylon. Starting in (Isaiah 44:28), the story flow is about the release of Judah, from their captivity, seventy years after being captured. Notice the discourse begins with:
(Isaiah 44:24-27) (KJV) 24Thus saith the ETERNAL, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the CREATOR that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; 25That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish; 26That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof: 27That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers: 28That saith of Cyrus, He is My shepherd, and he shall perform all My pleasure, Saying to Jerusalem, 'You shall be built,' and to the Temple, 'your foundation shall be laid'.
So, about 200 year before Cyrus was born; the ETERNAL names him as the king that will release the Jews to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple. Since the Jews were in captivity for 70 years, this prophecy was given about 270 years prior to the Jew's release. The signpost for this prophecy was not the captivity of Judah, but that a King of Persia named Cyrus would overthrough the Babylonians, and allow the Jewish captives to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple.
How did the ETERNAL know that, did He travel in a time machine? No, take note of what He stated:
(Isaiah 46:11) (KJV) Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man [Cyrus] that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
Consider an architect who declares [plans] the way a building will look before he begins work. Did he travel in a time machine to see how it would look? No, he made the building come out according to his plan, like he wanted it to. Likewise, when the Mighty One declares the end from the beginning; He does not jump into His handy time machine, to go see how it would end. No, He makes it come out the way He said it would. With that in mind, consider the next verse:
(Isaiah 45:12) (KJV) I [the CREATOR] have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even My hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
Did you get that? The CREATOR tells us information that only people in our day could possibly verify as authentic. He tells us that He stretched out the heavens. He did not toss stars onto a black Velcro background. He did not hang little lanterns in the sky-dome. He created the universe from a singularity,[8] stretching it out into what it is today. We know this is how it happened; but we only know it because the evidence proving it, was only discovered in the last half of the twentieth century. He created the universe as a single unit at a single time, and stretched it out. We know this because we can still see it expanding today. Scientists call it the 'Big Bang'.
Religion has tried through the centuries to compete with science on several points regarding nature, the creation, etc. When science came out with the 'big bang' theory that the universe began as a singularity expanding out to become the universe, religion was adamantly against the theory. Then in the late 1950's, two Bell Labs engineers[9] discovered evidence that confirmed, that a so-called 'big bang' was indeed the way the universe came into being, but crucial to our intent is that the universe is continually expanding. The universe was literally stretched out, just as the CREATOR said it was. On the other hand, scientists steadfastly refuse to acknowledge the hand of the CREATOR, in their 'big bang' theory. They can't quite grasp how all matter exploded from nothing, and evolved into the universe, which of course violates all their laws of thermodynamics.
The statement that the CREATOR stretched out the universe is not unique to this prophecy. It is found in several prophecies, all of them being understood only after the theory of the 'big bang' expanding universe was established, in other words, only after the late 1950's. Before this time, the true understanding of these prophecies could not have been accurately understood, unless it was known to the ancients and then lost to the world in the Dark Ages. In any event, mankind could not understand the meaning of 'He stretched out the heavens', until the signposts of history (in the late 50's) had been reached.
These statements of prophecy concerning the CREATOR's awesome powers of creation, His sole Sovereignty over His creation and mankind, as well as His plans for Cyrus, Jerusalem, and the Temple, and even the time these events would happen were all given to Isaiah centuries in advance, and they all came to pass exactly as the CREATOR said they would.
The best proof that there exists a Supreme Being, an ETERNAL CREATOR and SOVEREIGN of the universe, is posed in a question by the CREATOR Himself; 'Who but the CREATOR has said that these things concerning Cyrus would come true? What idol ever told you they would happen'? (Isaiah 45:21) He then goes on to decalre: 'I am the ETERNAL, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure'. (Isaiah 46:9-10).
Had the prophecies in the book of Isaiah been hidden away in some ancient temple or crypt, or cave like the dead sea scrolls, and had not become known until now, they would not have been absolute proof that they are valid. Why not? Because the events had already transpired, and could easily have been inserted by anyone finding them after the fact. However, these events were foretold in advance, by the CREATOR who said He would make them come to pass, and since they did come to pass, naming exactly who HE said they would come to pass with [Cyrus, Jerusalem, and the Temple], at the exact time HE said they would come to pass [270 years in the future], you would be hard-pressed to explain them away as mere myths, musings, or fantasies.
The Truth is Out There.
The prophecies of Isaiah, were written long before the world had the capability to find the evidence that proves that the way the universe was created, is exactly as the CREATOR said it was created. Isaiah's prophecies, have the indisputable proving factor of time, to validate them. We cannot dispute the fact, that the book of Isaiah has been before us since antiquity. We cannot dispute what these words have prophesied, or who is said to have made them to come to pass. We cannot dispute that these prophecies give us signposts in time, which were all in the future. Somebody who knew not only the way the universe was created, but also knew of Judah's (then) future return to Jerusalem, and the rebuilding of the Temple.
Moreover, one of these prophecies were meant for a time when Isaiah's record was an ancient record. Not just an old record, but an ancient record. A time which wouldn't exist until scientific proof that the singularity of the universe was a reality, and that it really was created, and then 'stretched out' just as the CREATOR said it was.
Such prophecies indisputably establishes that those who wrote of these things, had to learn them from someone who already had the knowledge [impossible without a time machine], or someone with the awesome power and ability to make them come to pass. Isaiah's prophecies declare that this someone was the ETERNAL CREATOR; The Mighty One of Israel. The mathematical probabilities that all this information could have been predicted accurately by chance, are incalculable, because the possible prophecies that could have been predicted if the prophets were merely guessing, are pragmatically infinite. To even get one of the prophecies correct would have been at incalculable odds. To get all of them correct, well...
The prophecies in Isaiah 45, indisputably prove the existence of a Supreme Being, beyond all doubt or mathematical probability. They prove that an all-powerful CREATOR, who calls Himself the ETERNAL, really exists. Moreover, He makes plans, and has the means to cary out those plans. Either that, or they prove that someone has a time machine and went back and gathered all this information from the very beginning of creation, just to perpetrate a colossal hoax on mankind. You can question many things, but you cannot question the facts that are irrefutably proven regarding the prophecies in Isaiah 45.
Historically, men have concluded that these words were simply analogous poetry, because they really had no means to come to any other conclusion. They simply did not have the scientific, archaeological, or historical vantage point to see the signposts before they existed. Today, anyone who seriously looks at it, and researches it themselves, will see and know that these words were never mere poetry, but were seriously literal, revealing information no one except those living in our time could verify through science, archaeology, and history. The universe was indeed stretched out from a purposefully created singularity, and the CREATOR says He did it alone; by Himself. And in these prophecies, the ETERNAL is telling this not only to a people in Isaiah's near future, but also for us to whom Isaiah was indeed very ancient, in the time of the end spoken of by the prophet Daniel:
(Daniel 12:4) (ESV) But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.
Isaiah was not the only prophet, who was told about this specific piece of creation information by the CREATOR. Jeremiah knew it, and the writer of Job knew it, as did the writer of some of the psalms of David. When you see a reference to 'stretched out the heavens' in scripture, you can know that, this is something that was written specifically to the people of our time, who would discover that indeed the heavens were literally stretched out.
We are certainly living in the time mentioned by the prophet Daniel, "the time of the end" when many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased (Daniel 12:4). It is time to take advantage of this increased knowledge, and use it to gain an understanding of our CREATOR and HIS message. By doing so, you will discover that what I have presented here is unquestionably irrefutable 'Proof The Eternal Creator Exists'.
After all, where else could Isaiah have obtained this information, about the universe that only we could properly understand in our time, or what the ETERNAL would do concerning Cyrus, Jerusalem, and the Temple, some 270 years before they occured, in the exact order, with the exact names, locations, places and time they were stated to occur, but from an all-powerful CREATOR, who calls Himself 'The ETERNAL'?
Footnotes:
[1] As for Elvis? Mr. Mays' mother (of Northern Mississippi) was a personal friend of Elvis' undertaker who stated that, "For a fact Elvis is truly dead".
[2] (Genesis 22:12) And He [ETERNAL] said, "Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear [your] SOVEREIGN, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me" (please read in context). The ETERNAL did not know for sure what Abraham would do, until he did it. That is why (Deuteronomy 13:3) (AMP), states this is all a test; The Mighty One wants to see and score our actions. If this is a new concept for you, pray about it and study these other Scriptures (Genesis 18:21; Genesis 22:12; Isaiah 46:9-11; Isaiah 48:3; 1 Samuel 3:12; and Ecclesiastes 3:11).
[3] Some examples are Sodom & Gomorrah, bringing the Children of Israel out of Egyptian captivity, determining that Persia would conquer Babylon, and that a king named Cyrus would reign.
[4] [a]All scriptural links point to the Bible Gateway, A Searchable Online Bible In Over 100 Versions And 50 Languages, located at "BibleGateway.Com", a vast biblical resource containing all the major texts and reference materials useful for in-depth bible studies. Most scriptual quotations are from the (KJV) of the Bible, however versions noted in (parentheses) should also be consulted. [b]All Strong's scriptural references point to the Blue Letter Bible Lexicon, located at "BlueLetterBible.Org", another vast biblical resource which has over 4,000,000 links available, pointing to more than 165,000 pages of concordances, lexicons, dictionaries, commentaries, images, and several Bible versions.
[5] There are five general purposes for prophecy:
1 To expose the sins that need changing.
2 To call for repentance and returning to the ETERNAL's Way.
3 To explain what will happen if there is no repentance.
4 To provide hope to the people, that after the coming calamity, that in the latter days ALL thirteen tribes of Israel will be brought back to the Promised Land by the ETERNAL's Mashiach, King David. See: Quest For The Messiah for an in-depth study on The Mashiach. Only then will the ETERNAL's Righteous Mountain be established in peace.
5 An additional reason for prophecy is to show proof of the authenticity of the Scriptures or of the ETERNAL Himself.
[6] The House of Judah consisted of two tribes, Judah and Benjamin in ancient times, and is at present, the tribe comprising the State of "Israel" today.
[7] In a broad statement, Mr. Mays stated in his original article, "Since I am the only one pointing out this proof, and maybe the first to point it out since the Isaiah's prophetic writings became public, then the perpetuator would have to be me, and me alone. Until I made this proof public for the first time in the late 1990's AD, no one had ever made this knowledge available; and probably, no one had ever even seen it."
[8] The understanding that the universe appeared completely formed as a single action and has been expanding outward from its original creation as a single unit.
[9] In 1978, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson won the Nobel Prize for their paper, "A Measurement of Excess Antenna Temperature at 4,080 Mc/s," in the Astrophysical Journal Volume 142, page 419. To make a long story short, his event is commonly called the 'big bang'. They had found evidence that the universe appears to begin from a "singularity" of unmeasurable dimension and appears to expand outwardly from a single point.
Note: But the 'big bang' really was not a bang at all. For something to go "bang", you have to have something to go "bang" with. Since all of time and space came from "inside" the so-called 'big bang', and before the singularity stretched out, something had to be put there by someone first. (Do you have any ideas on who that someone might be?)