 Our series called Confounding the Wise, what we're doing in this series, turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 1 and keep your place in Genesis chapter 1. It should be pretty easy. It's the first chapter of the Bible, first page of the Bible. But go to 1 Corinthians chapter 1 and let's just recap the point of our sermon series. This morning it's been a couple of weeks. But in 1 Corinthians chapter 1, look down at verse number 27. 1 Corinthians chapter 1, verse number 27. The Bible says, but God had chosen the foolish things of the world that confound the wise. And God had chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. So what we're talking about in this sermon series is we're looking at specific personalities, specific people, modern-day people usually that are considered wise to the world. They're considered, they're very popular, many of them. We looked at Jordan Peterson was the first one. They're very popular. People consider them very smart and intelligent and full of wisdom. And we're showing you that in the light of the Bible, these people, because of their lack of belief in God, that God has actually confounded them. And the more you learn about the Bible and the more you understand about the Word of God, these people would just seem more and more confused to you as a Bible-believing Christian. So today, this morning, we're looking at Mikyukaku. Now, these things that we're going to talk about this morning, we're going to talk about the origin of the universe, but about Mikyukaku. So we'll talk about many different statements from people, but we're going to focus mainly on him. Who is he? He's an American theoretical physicist. He's a professor at City College of New York, and he's into his main study is astrophysics. And I really like astrophysics myself. He's also another one of his titles that he claims is a futurist, which is an interesting job category. I actually searched Indeed.com, and I could not find a job out there for a futurist. And I called a couple of companies, and I said, hey, can you hire me as a futurist? And they're like, what is a futurist? And I just make up a bunch of things that have nothing to do with anything that aren't going to happen. And no one wanted to hire me. So no, I didn't call companies. But the point is, he just comes up with theories about the future of things. So we'll look at some of those this morning. This is kind of like shooting fish in a barrel this morning. I'm just going to go ahead and tell you. But he's also, in fitting with our series, he's a very popular author. He's a very popular commentator. A lot of people are listening to this person, which is why we're talking about him this morning. He has books called The Physics of the Impossible. He's a best seller. The Physics of the Future. He's a best seller. The Future of the Mind is also a best seller. And his latest book in 2021 was The God Equation, The Quest for a Theory of Everything. Well, guess what? I'm going to show you what the theory of everything is this morning. But he's very, very popular. And he's heavily focused on the field of astrophysics, which is the study of the galaxies. It's the study of the, it's basically, you attach physics to the movement of the universe. And that is astrophysics. So let's first focus, as we've started out with every one of our personalities, let's first focus on what Niki Okaku's thoughts and theory is on God, OK? First of all, quote. He says this about God. First of all, he's not an atheist. So I'll give him credit for that. And I've said this before in this sermon series, that there's very, when you actually start talking to people, there's very few atheists out there. Most people are agnostic. If you have somebody that's not a super, I mean, an atheist, a true atheist is someone that is very filled with pride. Someone that can just say, I know that there is not a God. That is someone that thinks they know a lot of the knowledge pie, someone that can just definitively say there's not a God. That is not Niki Okaku. He's agnostic. He says, I don't know. OK, let me give you a couple quotes. He says, there are only two types of God. When you talk about religion, I'd like to quote from Galileo. Galileo said, the purpose of science is to determine how the heavens go. The purpose of religion is to determine how to go to heaven. So in other words, science is about natural law. It's about the laws of nature. While religion is about ethics, about how to go to heaven, how to be a good person, how to earn the favor of God. So right there, he doesn't understand the gospel, obviously, even though he doesn't believe in God definitively. He clearly misunderstands the Bible's definition of going to heaven, which is not surprising. But then he says this. So he says that science is the study of how the heavens and the universes and the physical world works. And then he says, God is just basically, it's about ethics, how to act, how to treat each other. That is what he's saying. And he says, as long as you don't combine the two, Mikyukaku says, there's no problem at all. So you see, as long as you keep these two separate, there is no problem at all. The problem occurs when people from the natural sciences begin to pontificate about ethics. And when religious people begin to pontificate about natural law, that's where we get into trouble. Now, this is where he first goes wrong right here. And he says, now he says, as far as the existence of God, can you prove the existence of God? He says, you cannot. Therefore, you asked the question, is the existence of God provable? Well, what is science? Science is based on things that are testable, reproducible, and falsifiable. But you see, the existence of God is not testable. It's not reproducible. You cannot reproduce God at will. You cannot put an angel inside a box and demand that miracles take place. Doesn't work that way. That's why religion is based on faith, rather than things that are objectively testable, falsifiable, and reproducible. Now, that doesn't mean that God doesn't exist. I don't know. I don't know if God exists or not. All I'm saying is that science is limited by looking at what is testable, reproducible, and falsifiable. But then, as far as who or what created the universe, his answer is you have to either choose God or you have to choose some scientific theory out there. And what we're going to focus on is his theory of how the universe was created. So he believes in what is called the Big Bang Theory. I'm sure most people have heard of the Big Bang Theory. And now, personally, the Big Bang Theory, when I was in high school, when I was even in elementary school and middle school, it was just one of the theories out there. And it was considered, first of all, it was considered a theory when I was in high school. And second of all, it was laughable to everyone that heard it in high school. It was something that we all heard the teacher teach this out of the science book. And we thought it was, I mean, most of us were church kids. And I get that. But most of us, we thought, we looked at this theory and we thought it was the silliest thing that you've ever heard when I was in high school. But now, today, it's just accepted as fact this Big Bang Theory. And this is what Mikyukaku believes. So the theory is basically this. Let me explain the theory to you. And I'm going to spend some time using his illustrations to try to, because I want to help you understand what he believes, and then we'll look at what the Bible says. So the idea behind the Big Bang Theory is that everything, all mass, all energy was in what is called the singularity. At the beginning, before time, he would say. The Big Bang Theory states that the universe began as a hot and infinitely dense point. Only a few millimeters wide, it was similar to a supercharged black hole. About 13.7 billion years ago, this tiny singularity violently exploded. And it is from this explosion, this bang, that all matter, energy, space, and time were created. And he says that this, while you can't produce, reproduce the Big Bang, he does say you can't test the Big Bang. He admits that. He says that you can see evidence for it versus that there is no evidence for God. You cannot reproduce the Big Bang. You cannot test the Big Bang. It's like a detective story. You can only look at the clues. The clues left over from the Big Bang. So to calculate the instant of creation is in some sense outside science because it's not reproducible. You cannot reproduce the Big Bang. But you can then trace the history of what happened afterwards like a murder mystery. And that's where a lot of science is done. I'm going to prove this wrong to you this morning. Okay, let's see if what he says about the origin of the universe. Let's look at the evidence. The evidence is this. Now, the Big Bang, the main evidence for the Big Bang, you say what kind of evidence could be out there that could prove that everything was smashed into this tiny dot and then exploded into what we see today, including us, by the way, billions of years later, of course, but it all comes from a single observation and it's this. From our galaxy, from the Earth, and I don't want to get geocentric on you this morning. So I'll just say from our galaxy, from our solar system, everything that we look at in every direction is moving away from us at 70 kilometers per second. That can be shown. Measurements of light, I love measurements of light. They can actually show that other galaxies are moving away from us at 70 kilometers per second. That is the evidence that they use. So every single direction in a 3D space that we look, other galaxies are moving away from us at 70 kilometers per second. Mikyukaku says this about the Big Bang. He says, as far as we understand it, it was not an explosion like a regular explosion at all. It was an explosion of space, not an explosion in space. According to the standard models, there was no space and time before the Big Bang. There was not even a before to speak of. So the Big Bang was very different from any explosion we were accustomed to and does not need to have a central point. You see, they have to argue against the central point because one would say if you're in a solar system and you look in every direction and everything is moving away from you at the same speed in every direction, what does that tell you about where you stand in that situation? You are in a unique place as things always explode out, do they not? But scientists can't admit that today. So he tries to explain, he tries to explain that it wasn't like any other explosion, but it's not like any explosion that you can imagine in your mind. So he's basically asking you right there to suspend logic and reason and you have to just exit at that point. He's asking you to dismiss the fact that it just doesn't make sense as something that you just don't understand. Sounds like a lot of Bible doctrines out there where people just have to ask you, it's become so complicated, you just can't understand it. Look, if someone tells you something in the Bible that you just can't understand, it's so complicated and they're trying to teach you doctrine that way, you've got to exit that doctrine right there. But look at what the Bible says that there was before. Go back to Genesis chapter one. Go back to Genesis chapter one. So he says it wasn't like, he caveats the Big Bang, it's not like an explosion that you can just imagine in your mind, okay? This little dot, it exploded, but it's not like a regular explosion. So he puts that in there at first. But let's look at what the Bible says was there before or how things became before life anyway. Look at verse number one. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. So there we go, that first verse, God created the heaven and the earth. So there's the earth now. Look at verse number two, though. And the earth was without form and void and dark. So this is before life. This is before life in verse number two. And the earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the water. So what existed before life? There was water before life. This is super interesting. And this is why I believe personally that water is so amazing. This is why I believe that, you know, we should just like as scientists and engineers, we should just like study water. That's all we should do. I've mentioned this before, but I have a book that's a thousand pages long. It's called Steam. It's all about water. We still have not figured out. Think about this, just water. Something that we use and see every day. We still have not figured out all the intricacies and the miracles of this fluid. And it was the first thing, other than God, we'll get to that in a minute, that existed before life came to the earth. We'll never probably figure out everything about water. It's such a miracle. Well, let's go back to the Big Bang. Now, this is how Miki Okaku explains the Big Bang. He says, and I'm going to try to show you with a couple of objective lessons. He tries to explain the explosion and how we fit into the explosion of the Big Bang. He kind of explains it with a soap bubble. And then what is the universe expanding into? Well, if the universe is a sphere of some sort and we live on the skin of the sphere and the sphere is expanding, what is the sphere expanding into? Well, obviously, a bubble, a balloon, expands into the third dimension, even though the people living on the balloon are two-dimensional. So when our universe expands, what does it expand into? Hyperspace. So what I did is I have a balloon here and I just painted some dots on the balloon. And so I'm going to blow this balloon up and kind of explain, you know, I'm going to show you physically some of the problems with this soap bubble theory that we're just in this soap bubble just expanding throughout the universe. Let me blow this balloon up. Right away, we can see some problems here. Is that not only is the balloon expanding, but the dots are expanding too. So that's not a good analogy. And some scientists look at Miki Okaku's analogy of the soap bubble and they're like, yeah, that's not really a good analogy. First of all, that's not really a 3-D space. It's more like a curved 2-D space. We obviously live in a 3-D world. So he's not even really understanding dimensions properly, since, you know, we know we can look at the stars and the moon and the sun and the solar systems and the galaxies. We're clearly living in a 3-D environment. And the dots got bigger. So as everything moves apart and all mass expands, is the Earth expanding? Are we expanding? Maybe I'm really expanding at 70 kilometers per second. Just everything around me is expanding at 70 kilometers per second as well. So I just don't notice, right? Look, it's funny. The kids are laughing. It is funny. It's ridiculous, right? I'm expanding, but hopefully not that fast. I'm trying not to expand as I get older. But the point is, the point is the balloon example doesn't fit. So you can go out and you can find some scientists that use a better analogy. And this is a better analogy. And they use an analogy of a loaf of raisin bread. So I have a loaf of raisin bread here. So I'm trying to explain to you the universe here. So I have a loaf of raisin bread. I couldn't find a full one, but we've got one that's all cut up into slices. So here's the idea with this loaf of raisin bread. This is the universe. And as you bake the raisin bread, the bread, what? When you bake things, it expands, right? The bread expands. Things get further apart. This is the best analogy I have heard of the Big Bang. The only problem is this. There's raisins in there, right? Why you would make anything with raisins is beyond me. But there's raisins in there. For the example of the universe, there's raisins in here. As this expands, the raisins don't expand. The raisins aren't expanding in this. But what they would call the bread, what they call the, what astrophysicists call the bread is the dark matter, okay? The dark matter of the universe. You say, what? What in the world is dark matter? Well, no one knows what dark matter is. Now we know dark matter exists. Dark matter is invisible. So if I held it in my hand, you wouldn't see it. In fact, it would go right through my fingers, go right through the rock underneath my feet, and go all the way to China. It would reverse direction and come back from China all the way here to New York City and go back and forth. So dark matter has gravitational attraction, but it is invisible. And we are clueless as to what dark matter really is. Okay? Dark matter is simply something that is a made up theory that astrophysicists believe that 85% of the entire universe is made up of dark matter, which is mass matter that you can't see. You just can't see it. They don't know what it's made of. They can't see it. They've never captured it. But it's the dark matter that's expanding. But why is only the dark matter expanding and not the raisins? Literally, nothing that we can actually see. The sun, the moon, the stars, the planets, none of those things are expanding. As a matter of fact, did you know that if we were actually, I mean, that even the distances between these things, the distance between the sun and the earth is pretty much exactly the same to a point of a few centimeters every single year. Meaning it's like measurement error. Did you know that if we were moving away from the sun at the speed that they say the universe is expanding, we would all be dead in 21 seconds. I mean, think about it. We are at such an exact point as far as our location from the sun that it's ridiculous. So my point is that these guys can't even understand the reality that we live in correctly. The soap bubble, it's ridiculous. It's not even the right dimensions. Raisin bread analogy. I mean, what good is the raisin bread analogy of the universe from what I just showed you? You know, that's about it. There's no point. It doesn't make any sense at all. So at this point, there's two main starters, two main non-starters of the Big Bang where we have to just suspend all reality. The first one, as I told you, is that all mass on earth was compressed into a tiny little dot. Now look, testable, provable, reproducible. There's not a machine on the planet that can compress this pulpit into a tiny dot. And we're supposed to believe that the pressures and the temperatures that would be required to do something like that are possible. You have to suspend. Oh, they say, you know what the pressure was? You know what the pressures and the temperatures were? They say infinity. I'm like, oh! See, you're talking to an engineer here. This isn't right. I can't just say, well, you know, let's build the strongest bridge ever. How strong should we make it? Infinity. Look, I'd be fired in five seconds. So the point is none of it makes any sense. They're compressed into a tiny little dot. It's ridiculous. It can't be proven. It can't be reproduced. It can't be tested. The second one is the universe as we observe it cannot be explained by an explosion. Period. Where all mass is expanding, where all fake virtual mass that no one has ever proven existed is expanding except the mass we can see. It doesn't make any sense. And not even all masses are, you know, I mean, like there's this explosion that happened and there's a, like our solar system just like is moving together in that explosion and not moving. It's ridiculous. It's not, there's never been any possible explosion that can reproduce that at all. All right. So nothing that we can see or observe, we, you know, we have to, you have to suspend logic and reason to believe this is what I'm trying to get. So this is why, by the way, that the Big Bang theory and, you know, evolution theories, this is why most things that you see about them, you will just have artistic renditions of things. You will have paintings. You will have, you know, graphical designers, you know, doing things because it has nothing to do with observable or testable reality. And the singularity itself, you know, it's not observable. It's not testable. The theories on dark matter, they're completely unproven. They just, they look at the universe and how it moves and they can't explain it. So come up with this mystical mass that explains how the universe is in motion, is where dark matter came from. This is, you know, this goes into theories about black holes and all these types of things, which goes into theories about wormholes and being able to control time. I've preached a whole sermon on controlling time. Look into that. But the first point is, is that the fact that all the galaxies are moving away from us, no matter what direction we look, the only significant conclusion I can come to with that is that we occupy an important place in the universe. It's amazing when you think about it that way. But it makes for good topics and good, you know, conversation and people will, you know, put you on TV to talk about these things. But the irony, the irony is that, you know, we occupy a significant space, but instead, you know, they will go into, instead of, you know, a logical person coming to that conclusion, they'll go into wild theories about raisin cake and soap bubbles and all this, this godless talk about states of matter and things that aren't possible, okay? It's completely confounded. So the evolution theory teaches 20 billion years ago or sometime in the past like that, there was a big bang where nothing exploded and then 4.6 billion years ago the earth cooled down and then it rained on the rocks for millions of years and turned them into soup and the soup came alive three billion years ago. This is what the books teach, okay? That's the big bang theory. 18 or 20 billion years ago, big bang. 4.6 billion years ago, the earth cooled down. Earth, planet earth cooled and a rocky surface was created. This is what all the textbooks teach, okay? Then as the earth formed, it was hot and there was large pools of bubbling lava, but it slowly cooled down and then boys and girls, millions of years of torrential rains created great oceans and swirling in the waters of the oceans is a bubbling broth of complex chemicals. Progress from a complex chemical soup to a living organism is very slow. Sure is, it don't even happen. That's how slow it is. This guy said the first self-replicating systems must have emerged in this organic soup. So their theory would say 20 billion years ago, big bang, 4.6 billion years ago, the earth cooled down. It rained on the rocks for millions of years, turned them into soup and the soup came alive three billion years ago. And so there's grandpa right there. Okay. So let's look at the Bible narrative. All right, go back to Genesis chapter one and let's look at, hopefully I tried to give you kind of an overview there of the ridiculousness of it, how confounded this big bang theory is. And of course, you know, the big bang theory created life as well and then life evolved into us. Right. So I tried to really break that down into like a seven minute explanation. But now let's look at what the Bible says and let's see what is easier to believe. Okay. Let's look at what the Bible says. Look at Genesis chapter one. Let's look at some science in the Bible here. The point is, is that when Mickey Yukaku says, I want to show you this morning, when Mickey Yukaku says, that as long as you don't mix religion with science, you're fine. The point is that science and religion have to be mixed or you become confounded. Is what I'm trying to point out to you this morning and hopefully I can prove that to you. Look at Genesis chapter one and verse number one. The Bible says, in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Now look at verse number two. And the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and there was two things there. Okay. There was two things there. God created the heaven and earth but when the earth was there and it was without form, there was two things that were present. The first one, the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. There was the spirit of God and the water. Okay. Now turn to John chapter one because there was something else there too. There was something else that was present. Turn to John chapter one. So we see in Genesis chapter one and verse number two that we had the spirit of God and we had the water. Okay. This is after God created the earth before God created life. Okay. So there's no life at this point. So where did life come from? You know, where did life come from? Well, first of all, there's no theory out there. Explosions, evolution, anything that can tell you where life started from, except this one. They can tell you all kinds of wild things about things blowing up and moving around in dark matter and wormholes and black holes and all this stuff. They can't tell you how life got created. They can't tell you how that first life started. But look, look at the beginning in verse number two we had water and we had the spirit of God but look at John one, there was something else there. So we know that God was there and now God has how many parts? God has three parts. So if God was there, the spirit of God was there and also the word of God was there. Look at verse number one of John chapter one. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him and without Him was not anything made that was made. Made by who? Made by the word. Alright, in John chapter one 14 it says the word became flesh. We're talking about Jesus Christ here. We're talking about Jesus before He was manifest in the flesh. We're talking about the word of God and things were made by the word of God. So here you had an earth that was without form and then you had the word of God on top of that with water. So you had a formless earth, water and we had God. Now, does this make sense in the physical world? Let's look at this. Let's look at this. I preached a whole sermon on how the universe works as well. I was talking about the second law of thermodynamics. Everything moves to disorder all the time unless energy is added things just move to disorder. If you don't add energy to your body you will be dust. If you don't eat if you don't drink water you will be dust eventually because everything moves to disorder all the time. If you sit your car out in the middle of the field eventually that car will rust. It will rot. It will become dirt because everything needs energy added to it to become orderly. So here we had the earth it was without form. Things don't just get orderly on accident. Physics tells us this energy must be added in order to create order. So look at turn to Hebrews chapter 4 we need energy and what did we have? What did we have? We had water and we had the word of God. But we need energy. So where is that energy coming from? Look at Hebrews chapter 4 and verse number 12. Hebrews chapter 4 look at verse number 12. Hebrews chapter 4 and verse number 12 says this for the word of God is quick and what? And powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. Look I like power I mean like energy power and the Bible says that the word of God is powerful and you're like man that's talking about spiritual power yeah that's true but let's read. Piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and what? To the joints and marrow and as a discerner the thoughts and the intents of the heart there's energy folks yes it's spiritual but joints and marrow that's physical. The word of God is spiritual the word of God yes you will get saved through the word of God the word of God will change your spirit you'll be sealed by the Holy Spirit but the word of God has physical power is what the Bible is saying and that is your energy and where did the life come from? Look at John chapter one of verse four and him was life look life can come from nowhere else show me where else in the world in any test in any experiment in anything that anyone has created life it is God that it contains life it is God so we had the word we had energy and we had God those three things put together that's how the earth then you read the rest of Genesis one that's how he did it that's how he created that order through the power of the word of God it matches it matches physics today it matches perfectly and guess what here's another funny one what does all life need what's the only thing only substance that every single living human not human every single living organism needs on the planet that we know of water doesn't need light some organisms don't even need air they found organisms two miles deep in the ocean but every living organism needs it's beautiful and guess what folks it is science in the Bible right there that's God not only what God could have wrote in the Bible I created everything but he tells us how he did it and then we have scientists these confounded fools that everyone thinks is wise telling us you can't combine science in the Bible look the Bible is science the Bible is the truth it's the only truth that makes any sense look no one can make life look we can copy it we can take a cell and you know implanted in another embryo and make we can play with it we can toy with it we can modify it we can't create it we can't create it that only comes from God and there is no other theory out there including the big bang that can explain where life came from you should go and do this experiment you should go and blow things up for the rest of your life and see how many times you create a living organism don't we see the opposite by the way whenever things are getting exploded whenever things are blowing up aren't things dying usually unfortunately but look it's all right there in the Bible that's what I'm trying to say so you have to ask yourself what makes more sense what makes more sense but guess what there's more God says there's evidence go to Romans chapter 1 God says God says hey I told you how I did it I told you here's the water here's the earth without form here's God here's the power of the word and this is how I did it it matches the laws of thermodynamics that we know today that we've learned today but God says there's more God says there's evidence and every man has this evidence look at Romans chapter 1 I mean look I remember we went to the creation museum many many years ago and my favorite room in the creation museum was that I mean there was all the dinosaurs and all the different things like that that the kids love my favorite room was the bugs the beetles because there's it was such great evidence of God we went into this room and there's just these just hundreds of beetles and bugs on these tags you know they got them all pinned in these these display cases and it's just these beautiful patterns it's just these beautiful artistic patterns you know what's bad camouflage in in nature right angles straight lines you know this doesn't camouflage this is just an artist having a good time you ever seen a sand dollar I was going to bring one today a sand dollar is this cool little thing you get at Pismo Beach it's in the ocean and this is neat little organism it's got holes and it's got this neat little design it's like an airplane wing and all this but on the back or on the top of a sand dollar it's just this beautiful little pattern it has nothing to do with how that sand dollar lives it's just this beautiful flower pattern it's just an artist showing you his artwork is what that is there's no other reason for it look at Romans chapter 1 are you there Romans chapter 1 let me go there Romans chapter 1 the Bible says because that which may be known of God has manifested manifest in them for God has showed it unto them how to I mean God saying there's there's evidence there's evidence of what I'm saying to you on how I created the universe and he says he says for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen he's saying look if you can't look around at the Beatles at the bugs at the sand dollar at the galaxies at the universes and he's like I'm showing you I'm showing you that what my word says is true is what God is saying even even the heavens even the heavens are evidence what the Bible goes into astrology the Bible tells us all about it explains the reasons for the stars and the suns and the moon and the planets it's not look it doesn't mention dark matter and wormholes look at Genesis chapter 1 of verse 14 God is telling you look I gave you this creation I gave you this creation to look at and this is proof of me this is proof of my what of my power of the power that it must have taken to build that look at Genesis chapter 1 verse 14 what God even tells us God even tells us why he created the heavens and the stars and the planets and the solar system he tells us why look at verse 14 and God said let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night and so there's the first reason so we can have day and night he says let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth and so it was so notice how he's speaking it into existence with the power of his word his word has his your word doesn't have power my word doesn't have power unless I'm speaking the word of God God's word has actual spiritual and physical power that's why he's speaking it into existence and God made two great lights verse 16 the greater light to rule the day and the lesser to rule the night and he made the stars also and God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth and to rule over the day and over the night to divide the light from the darkness and God saw that it was good so what does he say he did this for for signs for seasons for days for years first of all it's a clock it's a clock you know that as smart as we are we're so smart we have so much technology you know we can't even make a clock that can match God's clock even the even the most accurate atomic cesium clock today has to be adjusted to solar time every single year because it's always awful little bit because God's time is so accurate we can't even match it we can't even match how precise his clock is so that's the first thing it's a clock and then seasons and look here's another thing and seasons and days and years so we can keep track of time it's a clock for us and the second thing is for signs you know it's a tool it's a tool that God uses to show us things look we'll see tonight turn to Isaiah chapter 13 we'll go into this tonight in very great detail in the Bible but God uses the heavens and the stars and the planets to communicate with us to show us things that are going to happen look at Isaiah 1310 the Bible says I mean he marks events using this tool he's going to mark events for us look at Isaiah 13 and verse 10 for the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light the sun shall be darkened and it's going forth and the moon shall not cause her light to shine this is a marking point for us right here that God is using the heavens the moon and the sun he's going to use this to show us a very specific event that we'll look at this evening he's using this as a way to show us what's going to happen in conjunction with his words mark 1325 I'll just read to you and the stars of heaven shall fall and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken I think we'll notice that don't you I think we'll notice that happening turn to Psalm chapter 19 so God uses he tells us why he built these things it's it's it's so we can see his creation and we can see his power it's a clock for us it's the seasons for us it's day and night for us it is it is a tool for him to show us prophetic events that are going to happen in this world okay but again look at Psalm chapter 19 and verse number one again just showing why God built this universe because he could have just built the earth but why did he build the universe around us look what he says in Psalm 19 one the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork he's like that is proof that's what he's saying he's like that the heavens declare he's like the heavens show you you should look at those things look you should look at these I mean how many of you seen pictures of the the whole Hubble telescope space telescope it's amazing we should look at the Hubble space telescope and look at these amazing far out galaxies and these amazing nebulas and these things that quite frankly we don't even know what they are and we should just look at that and just be like whoa that should invoke fear of the creator to us that should invoke somebody that had that should show us the power of the word of God that created that I mean I mean look that should make people tremble that should make people tremble that's drive people to the Lord that should drive people to the truth of the Bible but instead we have the scientist that deny all this that deny God and in 1st Corinthians chapter 1 of verse 27 God says he's just going to confound those people so is Mikiukaku confounded I mean this is pretty what I've what I've just shown you is just a snippet in the Bible of how amazing you know the word of God is how amazing the story of creation is in the Bible how amazing the Lord is but look these people that deny that power and they deny that start saying things like we live on a giant soap bubble we physicists believe that our universe is like a soap bubble we live on the skin of the soap bubbles we're like flies trapped on fly paper we can't get off our soap bubble but it's expanding in fact it's actually accelerating we can actually see the end well we physicists now believe there are other soap bubbles out there there's no longer a universe there's no longer a one world there are many worlds there are other soap bubbles out there and these soap bubbles are called membranes or brains were short and they can collide they can peel off bud other universes it's so confusing but here's the thing this Mikiukaku when you listen to him he's very charismatic a lot of people listen to this guy he's constantly quoting famous scientists like Woody Allen and as that great philosopher of the western world once said Woody Allen he once said quote eternity is an awful long time especially toward the end like Mark Twain you know and and just like all these pop culture figures I'm just like why are you bringing Woody Allen into a scientific you know discussion he's obsessed and you talk about God confounding people with foolish things this guy is obsessed with aliens he's obsessed with alien civilizations a type one civilization is truly planetary they absorb all the light coming in from their mother star and they control all planetary forms of energy for example they might be able to modify the weather they may not be able to control earthquakes and volcanoes that's type one a type two civilization is stellar they control the entire energy output of a star type three is galactic they control the energy output of the entire galaxy I mean he literally has a video on the internet where he's telling people like advice on how to handle if they get abducted by aliens I tell them that the next time you are kidnapped by an alien flying saucer steal something I don't care whether it's a pan a chip steal something because there's no law against stealing from an extraterrestrial civilization you're not going to go to jail we need to keep our present secret because who knows what the aliens believe in this is what he says now some people say that we should not try to make contact with them because they could be potentially dangerous for the most part I think they're going to be peaceful because they'll be thousands of years ahead of us but we cannot take the chance so I personally believe that we should not try to advertise our existence to alien life in outer space because of the fact that we don't know their intentions in fact if you read the novel war of the world the martians in H.G. Wells Seminole novel were not evil in the sense they wanted to torture us and they wanted to do all sorts of barbaric things to humanity no we were just in the way you know he talks about he talks about colonizing Mars I'm like okay all right maybe he's got some good engineering solutions here we're going to colonize Mars not like that's a good idea Mars is negative 100 degree Fahrenheit in the soil is poisonous good let's go there you know but he's like what we need to do is send a bunch of self replicating robots and have them build Mars into a planet earth for us even though there's no such thing as a self replicating robot I mean he's just it's just it's just stupidity Romans 1 22 says professing themselves to be wise they became fools this is exactly what we're seeing with so many people today Antarctica is minus 60 degrees I mean it's better let's go colonize Antarctica it's a much better than colonizing Mars all right it's closer to I mean you don't have to get in a rocket and travel for I don't know 20 years or whatever it is any volunteers so what the point trying to make is that that would people deny the power of the Lord they deny God God just confounds them and confuses them all right and he just brings them into foolishness in your time quite frankly your time would be better spent listening to a plumber because then last you at least you learn something you learn something about plumbing I mean other than this nonsense but he's even he's even delved into actual physical design of things and actual physical predictions of things that are actually being built let's look at this so let me just bring this one up who's heard of the CERN Halon Collider so in 2008 there was a $16 billion project that was finished and it was this basically it was this big underground tube that was 16 miles in diameter and it was built to smash particles at close to the speed of light into each other all right and Mikyukaku said that what's going to happen is we're going to create all these mini black holes everywhere there's all kinds of I don't know if you remember this if you're a little bit older there's all kinds of conspiracy theories on the internet that the CERN Halon Collider was going to create a black hole and the whole earth and universe would be sucked into it and we're all going to die I'm sure people were building bunkers somewhere for this but the point is he made a prediction on what would happen when this physical device was put into play but look none of that happened none of his predictions came true as a matter of fact you know what they came up with you know it didn't create mini black holes which many people predicted by the way mini black holes and they come up with oh the energy needed to produce a mini black hole is 40 times greater than what CERN can do so we need a bigger CERN you know is what they said but I stumbled across this quote about a man that left the it was a it was an article written by a man that left the field of particle physics and he left for these reasons I just found this so interesting he's talking about CERN but then he talks about you know particle physics in general let me just read this for you from this man he left the field he says the stories about new particles dark matter and additional dimensions these were all predictions that we were going to find with the CERN halon collider they were repeated in countless media outlets from before the launch of the halon collider what happened to those predictions and he says the simple answer is because the things been in it's been in operation now for several years he says those predictions were wrong that much is clear is all these predictions from all these people were just completely wrong on an actual physical device many says this he says the trouble is a prediction in particle physics is today a little more than guesswork in case you're wondering yes that's exactly why I left the field in the past 30 years particle physicists have produced thousands of theories whose mathematics they can design to predict pretty much anything you can prove a lot of things with math folks for example in 2015 when a statistical fluctuation in the LHC data the halon collider data looked like it might be a new particle physicists produced more than 500 papers in eight months to explain what later turned out to be an error it's all about academia just producing theories and producing you know it's vainglory to a large degree the same has happened many other times for similar fluctuations demonstrating how worthless those predictions are so the truth is folks that the older the world gets you know the more that is discovered the more science that is discovered the Bible has just proven true again and again that is the truth I mean from history to archeology through philosophy of rising and falling empires the Bible predicts it all the Bible is the theory of everything and it is science combined with you know your relationship with God but God explains to you how the world works in the Bible how the universe works the purpose of it what he wants you to know he explains to us in the Bible so God you know by his creation can be seen and he's given us evidence we and we see that the big bang and all these godless theories folks they just lead down a road down a road of its absurdity and nothing will ever come from it nothing physical will ever come from it that's why I've explained to you before Einstein invented nothing there's no physical device out there that Einstein had anything to do with because it's all it's all garbage he was confounded just like these people turn to psalm chapter 8 psalm chapter 8 nothing will ever come from it psalm chapter 8 look at verse number 3 psalm chapter 8 look at verse number 3 the Bible says when I consider thy heavens this is somebody who's pondering this is somebody who's looking at that that Hubble space telescope you know amazing image he says when I consider the heavens the work of thy fingers the moon and the stars which thou has ordained thou had made he said what is man that is the attitude right there is the attitude right there so when we look at these things even us were saved believers we know that we're going to heaven we know if I drop dead right now that all would be in heaven in the blink of an eye but when I look at the stars and the moons and the universes and the galaxies I'm just like what am I and that is how we should look at this thing look and I'm not saying that you know it doesn't take faith there's not absolute proof of God but here's the thing it doesn't take blind faith there's plenty of evidence that God has given us I mean for by grace are you saved through faith turn to Hebrews chapter 1 turn to Hebrews chapter 1 so yeah you know we need to have faith you need to have faith that the Bible is true in order to be saved that is true look at Hebrews chapter 1 and verse number 1 Hebrews chapter 1 and verse number 1 the Bible says now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen so the Bible says not seen so yes it takes faith but here's the thing it doesn't take blind faith and God does not expect you to shut off logic and reason because the Bible and everything that we see in the universe is explained thoroughly in the Bible that it may it makes sense to us and that's why you know when you have to shut off logic and reason for any reason you have to exit the building because you're listening to someone who's confounded themselves Mikyukaku completely confounded with power heads