Savior III (+playlist)

All prose, paintings and illustrations by L.S. James, Copyright 2013

“Eli!..”  John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God..36 He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him." § Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. § 1 John 2:2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. § 1 John 4:10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins. Man’s redemption from the curse of sin is completed in the exhaustive work of Christ Jesus once and for all. The one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God and receives Him as Savior and Lord is completely forgiven and spends eternity in Christ. To however suggest that God has exhausted His wrath in the body of Jesus for the sins of mankind is gross error. This is yet another satanic ploy that gags the truth for a lie. It deceives man to think that no judgment awaits them after death (John 3:36), that annihilation is all there is to it, that hell is but a delusion of vengeful men. As familiarity breeds contempt so a different gospel (Galatians 1:6-10) trades the fear of the LORD for some daddy-God. There will be blood and some will burn!

Hebrews 10:3 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. But whilst the bema seat of judgment sees the assured in Christ judged with mercy and justice (because one is no longer an enemy of the cross), the unforgiven sinner in lieu of the great white throne judgment wrestles with the omen of death. (1 Co. 3:12; 1 Co. 4:4; 2 Tim. 4:8;  Rev. 20:11; 22:12) 2 Co.5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 11 Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences.

Matt.8:36 “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? 37 “Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?  

God's Infinite Galaxies (playlist)

God's Infinite Galaxies (playlist)

Psalm 8:3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained, 4 What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? 

A light-year (symbol: ly), sometimes written light year, lightyear, or Light-year is an astronomical unit of length (not time) equal to just under 9.5 trillion kilometres (or about 6 trillion miles) [One trillion here is taken to be 1012 (one million million)]. As defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a light-year is the distance that light travels in vacuum in one Julian year. The light-year is most often used when expressing distances to stars and other distances on a galactic scale, especially in non-specialist and popular science publications. The unit usually used in professional astrometry is the parsec (symbol: pc, approximately 3.26 light-years; the distance at which one Astronomical Unit subtends an angle of one second of arc).

1 light-year = 9460730472580800 metres (exactly)

  ≈ 5.878625 trillion miles

  ≈ 63241.077 astronomical units

  ≈ 0.306601 parsecs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-year

When astronomers use their telescopes to look at stars, things are different. The distances are gigantic. For example, the closest star to Earth (besides our sun) is something like 24,000,000,000,000 miles (38,000,000,000,000 kilometers) away. That’s the closest star. There are stars that are billions of times farther away than that. When you start talking about those kinds of distances, a mile or kilometer just isn’t a practical unit to use because the numbers get too big. No one wants to write or talk about numbers that have 20 digits in them!

So to measure really long distances, people use a unit called a light year. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second (300,000 kilometers per second). Therefore, a light second is 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers). A light year is the distance that light can travel in a year, or:

186,000 miles/second * 60 seconds/minute * 60 minutes/hour * 24 hours/day * 365 days/year = 5,865,696,000,000 miles/year

A light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles (9,460,800,000,000 kilometers). That’s a long way!

http://science.howstuffworks.com/dictionary/astronomy-terms/question94.htm

Gen 1:16 Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also.

Gen 15:5 Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

Job 7:17 “What is man, that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart on him

Psalm 147:4 He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by name.

Jeremiah 32:27 “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?

Daniel 12:3 Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness Like the stars forever and ever.

Ezekiel 33:6 says "But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand".