Copyright 2004 by Roddy Kenneth Street, Jr., Used By Permission.
Taken from his book Earth-Trekker's Voyage: Exploring The Solar System.

2. A Godlike Overview Of UNIVERSAL DEATH, DISEASE, AND DECAY

From My Own omniscient viewpoint, THERE ARE VALID REASONS FOR THE PRESENT EXISTENCE OF DISEASES AND PHYSICAL DEATH. . . . AND EVEN WHEN THESE SERVE AS PRESENT-DAY TEMPTATIONS AND ASSAULTS OF SATAN, THEY HAVE A VALID AND USEFUL FUNCTION.

1. I HAVE DESIGNED PHYSICAL DEATH TO SERVE A VALID AND USEFUL FUNCTION IN MY DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAM FOR EARTH.

1) I have designed physical death TO LIMIT THE SPREAD OF WICKEDNESS in human society.

Physical death terminates the earthly activities of evil human beings. Death is AN INSTRUMENT OF RESTRAINT AND RESTRICTION that puts a cap on the amount of damage that one wicked human being can do while on Earth. Without it, there would be unbridled wickedness on Earth. Death is used by Your God to terminate the evil careers of dictators, criminals, crooked businessmen, cruel bosses, etc -- to limit the injuries and contamination caused by their life-long activities.

2) I use physical death TO LIMIT SELF-DEGRADATION and SELF-ABASEMENT of the person who rejects Me and My moral code.

Without the existence of My restraints (diseases, a short life-span, etc), human beings would tend to become totally depraved with the passage of time. Your God knows that only a certain amount of time is needed for a human being to make the critical life-choices. After a certain point, a person has had ENOUGH TIME to either accept or reject My training and My offer of reconciliation. For a reprobate to have TOO MUCH time on Earth would be unhealthy -- for himself, and for others.

3) I use death TO PUT A PROTECTIVE SEAL ON LIFETIME ACCOMPLISHMENTS of the faithful person who has chosen to accept Me and My offer of reconciliation.

Your God in this way guards the faithful person from any further harassment or testing at the hands of Satan. My faithful martyrs are among those sealed in this fashion.

4) I use physical death TO FUNCTION AS A DEVELOPMENTAL TOOL that promotes My transformational program for Earth.

Death is also AN INSTRUMENT USED BY YOUR GOD TO IMPLEMENT A MAJOR RESTRUCTURING OF THE EARTH. . . through a lengthy, millennia-consuming process of DIVINE SELECTION. I am continuously TESTING, SELECTING, AND REJECTING as I harvest the Earth.

2. I HAVE DESIGNED DISEASE AND DECAY TO SERVE A VALID AND USEFUL FUNCTION IN MY DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAM FOR EARTH.

1) Both disease and decay are designed TO BE CLEAR SIGNS OF DEGENERATION in the Earth.

The present Earth has been DEGENERATING from its original pristine state ever since My original Creation became corrupted with sin. As a result of sin entering the initially perfect Creation of Your God, the Earth has been cursed with diseases, decay, famines, natural disasters, etc.

2) Both diseases and decay are designed TO BE EVIDENCE THAT THIS PRESENT EARTH IS CORRUPTED AND CONDEMNED by Your God.

3) Both diseases and decay are designed TO TEACH ALL THE EARTH'S INHABITANTS THAT THIS PRESENT WORLD IS NOT WHAT I INTENDED FOR HUMANITY.

Instead, this present Earth is just a testing-ground, just one stage in a transformational process that will lead to My New Earth. The Earth's ailments, like its earthquakes, continue to increase with ever-greater distress and ever-greater frequency, as the present Earth completes its last days and approaches the time of the birthing of God's New Earth.

3. I HAVE DESIGNED DEATH AND DISEASE TO BE A SOURCE OF SPIRITUAL PROTECTION FOR HUMAN BEINGS.

1) A very long life-span TENDS TO PROMOTE WICKEDNESS AND NOT RIGHTEOUSNESS in the life of an individual or a society.

Evidence of this fact is found in My Book, in the Genesis, which informs you of the extremely long life-spans of the earliest peoples on Earth. Wickedness quickly overcame those cultures, and by the time of Noah, I decided to eradicate them from the Earth. A short life-span, however, tends to safeguard a righteous life, and so I have often been seen to remove a good and faithful human from Earthly life at a very early age. A wicked human being is often given a long life-span so that he has had every possible opportunity to repent.

2) An absence of suffering TENDS TO PROMOTE WICKEDNESS AND NOT RIGHTEOUSNESS in the life of an individual or a society.

Mourning for the dead and enduring painful diseases causes humans to experience great suffering, but your suffering is USED BY GOD TO DIRECT YOU TOWARD MORALITY AND RIGHT BEHAVIOR. The person trying to cope with poverty and health problems must depend on His God and may be less likely to waste his time on wicked behavior. The healthy, wealthy, and comfortable human being is often inclined to waste much time on pleasures and evil pursuits. (Thus you have your sayings, "Idle hands are the Devil's playthings" and "Busy hands are happy hands.") Likewise, an affluent culture tends to become morally bankrupt and sees a prospering of wickedness in its later years.

3) I use death and disease TO RESTRAIN HUMAN BEINGS FROM EVIL ACTIONS THAT YOU WOULD BE MORE INCLINED TO PERPETRATE WITHOUT THEIR EXISTENCE.

Death and disease may be used by Your God as a punishment for your earthly sins, and this knowledge may dissuade some human beings from continuing to practice evil. (For example: Capital punishment for wickedness is a deterrent that was designed by God, by My Own decree, for the people of ancient Israel and even earlier peoples. Similarly, the threat of getting a sexual disease may discourage some people from reckless and immoral sexual depravity.)

4) Physical death is designed by Your God TO TERMINATE THE DISTRESS OF HUMAN LIFE AND MAKE YOUR PERIOD OF SUFFERING ON EARTH RELATIVELY BRIEF.

The Earthly life-span of the human body is extremely brief when seen from the omniscient perspective of Your God -- especially in comparison to the eternity that lies ahead for the human soul. Unrepentant humans, if they reject My offer of forgiveness and reconciliation, must anticipate an eternity of pain, remorse, and mental anguish in a Penalty Zone called Hell, where they are forever separated from My glory and My New Earth. My faithful on Earth die knowing that they can anticipate My forgiveness, and can expect that I will bless them with an eternity spent first in a glorious Heaven, and later on a glorious New Earth that I Myself have re-created -- an Earth that is reconstructed and restructured, and ruled by the LORD Your God.

4. I CREATED PHYSICAL DEATH SO THAT HUMAN BEINGS MIGHT HAVE THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING RESCUED FROM SPIRITUAL DEATH.

1) WITHOUT THIS RESTRAINING INFLUENCE, human beings would be totally depraved and PRACTICE ONLY WICKEDNESS.

Even when limited by My environmental restraints, humans are so wicked that you can by no means get close to a God of Perfect Righteousness.

2) A SINFUL HUMAN NATURE is common to all persons on Earth and makes all unconverted adults "spiritually dead" to Me. Death is a necessary prerequisite to the rebirth of humanity.

You humans have all been "born dead" to Me, so to speak, in the sense that you are born spiritually defective. Therefore I was forced to find a device by which you might again be "made alive" to Your God, a way by which you might become "reborn" to Me. Only then could a rapport and communion between us be re-established. The initial link was broken when sin first entered my Creation and humanity chose to turn away from Me.

3) By a PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE AND ACCEPTANCE OF MY OWN SON Jesus Christ, you can KNOW THE TRUE NATURE OF YOUR GOD AND CAN EXPERIENCE YOUR GOD'S LEADERSHIP -- and you will then have THE RESTRAINING INFLUENCE of My Own Holy Spirit working in your lives.

Humans can gain My forgiveness and My fellowship in only one way. There is a critical life-choice that must be made some time before the occurrence of your physical death. I require that you recognize My Own Son, My chosen Messenger, Jesus Christ, and choose to accept My offer of reconciliation. You can be reconciled with Me only through the act of merciful self-sacrifice by which He died on a wooden cross for the sins of your world. My offer of rescue and reconciliation through Jesus Christ is the only means by which I am able to salvage your life from the consequences of sin.

4) It is ONLY IN THIS WAY that you HUMANS CAN BE TRULY RESCUED FROM DEATH and become "spiritually alive" to Me.

The natural wage of your inborn sinfulness is "spiritual death" (being separated from fellowship with Your God, due to an inherently wicked nature), and this will eventually be followed by a physical death of the Earthly human body. But far worse than a physical death or any disease is the hellish eternity of separation from Me (and from My glorious New Earth) that awaits any person who continues to reject Me throughout life all the way up to the very moment of physical death.

5) It is ONLY IN THIS WAY that you HUMANS CAN TRULY ESCAPE FROM DISEASE AND DECAY and a sin-devastated Earth.

When any human being chooses to accept My offer of rescue from the devastation of this present Earth, that person gains a place of real safety and stability which becomes fully materialized at the moment of physical death.

I Myself have promised the faithful believer a dignified position as an Honored Guest in My glorious Heaven, to be soon followed by a position of significance on My glorious New Earth! It will be a completely New Earth, where there is no more disease, nor death, nor any decay -- just an eternity of beauty in a glorious new environment, and much productive work to do as a creative and dedicated servant of God!

Copyright 2004 by Roddy Kenneth Street, Jr., Used By Permission.
Taken from his book Earth-Trekker's Voyage: Exploring The Solar System.

The above material is one section of a book by Kenneth Street entitled

Earth-Trekker's Voyage: Exploring The Solar System

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