By Pastor Larry DeBruyn
Part 2: Review of CHAPTER ONE authored by Judy Franklin:
The Power of the Zero-Point Field [1]
The Power of the Zero-Point Field [1]
“At present, nobody knows how to
exploit the zero-point energy in a macroscopic device that delivers sizable
amounts of energy. There is, however, a considerable fringe element (similar to
those attracted to UFOs, astrology, numerology and so on) of people who
speculate and fantasize about the possibility of exploiting the zero-point
energy to achieve various technical marvels and the long-sought ‘perpetual
motion.’ Consider yourself warned.”
Atomic
Physicist Steven K. Lamoreaux, quoted by John Obienin, Materials Science Researcher
at the University of Nebraska at Omaha[2]
The Manifest Sons of God
The Apostle Paul told believers that “the anxious longing of
the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God”
(Emphasis added, Romans 8:19, NASB). About this verse and others in the
passage, the author of Chapter 1, Judy Franklin, testifies that something “latches onto your spirit and
you just have to understand what they [the verses] mean.”(TPOH, 1) So she asks, “Hadn’t the children of God
already been revealed by the time Paul wrote this letter to the Romans?”(TPOH,
2) Well... her answer is a qualified “yes” and “no.”
Because Paul wrote Romans years after Jesus’ life and death,
and according to Acts “miracles and healings and deliverances and even
resurrections from the dead were almost common-place,”(TPOH, 2), the
author reasons that in part, the wait was over. With “signs and wonders” as
their calling card, sons of God were manifested during the apostolic era and
intermittently throughout church history. But Judy felt there was a deeper
meaning in the verses (Romans 8:18-22). So she “began earnestly seeking the
Lord as to what they meant.”(TPOH, 2) In three stages, God explained to
her the future and deeper meaning of “the revealing of the sons of God.”
Stage 1—God spoke: “The Sound” is coming
God told her that from the first Pentecost He had continued
to distribute power to the church to do greater works than Jesus did (See John
14:12.). But He explained to Franklin that “no child of God [even the old
Apostles] has ever fully realized the power that has been put within us.”(TPOH,
2) She clarified that, “God has given us the power to raise the dead and heal
the sick and cast out demons and we’ve done that to a point, but... but no
Christian in history has exceeded Jesus’ works.”(TPOH, 2) So given this
deficiency among Christians from the first Pentecost to the present, God
explained more....
The Sound and the Sons
He promised He was going to release a “new sound” from
heaven, vibrations that will shake the church and change the way Christians
think and live.(TPOH, 2) The Lord told her that His release of a new “sound”
from heaven will transform Christians and enable them to fulfill the mandate He
gives them to rule over God’s creation (See Genesis 1:28.). By His release of
the “sound,” God would introduce earth to the “the physics of heaven.”(TPOH,
2, 6-9)
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| NAR's Chuck Pierce's sound "prophecy" |
The Sons and their Signs
When “the sound” comes, the manifest sons of God will rescue
the groaning creation from tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires,
earthquakes and other natural disasters by ordering them to cease. “Jesus
calmed storms,” she states. “We should be able to do that too.”(TPOH, 8)
Provided they keep their hearts are in “an upper room posture,” reception of
the “sound” will empower Christians to work signs—to heal the sick, exorcise
demons and raise the dead.(TPOH, 8) By the God-activated energy they
control in and around them, upper-room believers will cure children of cancer to
live the long life God intends for them (See Psalm 90:10; Genesis 6:3.) Sick
people who even pass near the shadows of the emanating vibrations of these new
Pentecostals will be cured of “every disease or infirmity” (See Acts 5:15;
19:12.).(TPOH, 10) The new Pentecostals will carry within and around
them therapeutic healing energy believed to reside in dolphins.(TPOH,
10) The benevolent sound, light and frequencies within their beings, these
“vibrations from God,” will cure a creation that currently “groans and suffers
the pains of childbirth until now” (Romans 8:22). The “sound” will be in “the
sons,” and fully at their disposal. Welcome to the “new heavens and new earth”
(2 Peter 3:13).
But where would this power come from and how would it work? To
find out, she began to explore the principles of quantum physics, what she
calls “kingdom insights about sound.”(TPOH, 3)
Stage 2—she studied: Quantum Physics
She relates that the whole idea of the word “sound”—the
revelatory “hint” God once gave her during a quiet time and a word whose
meaning she amplifies by describing it as the light, energy, vibrations and
frequencies inherent in the science of quantum physics—reverberated in her mind
and caused her to research everything she could about the subject of “sound.”
In her study, she came across an Internet article by a German astrophysicist
Bernhard (whose first name she spells “Bernard”) Haisch, Brilliant Disguise:
Light, Matter and the Zero-Point Field.[3]
The article begins by noting the contradiction between the
findings of science and the Genesis account of creation; that God created
“light” three days before made the stars, sun and moon (Day 1, “light,”
Genesis 1:3-5; Day 4, “lights,” Genesis 1:14-19). Haisch proceeds to
reconcile what he calls the poetry of Genesis’ opening verses with the physics
of quantum science. He explains how an invisible and omnipresent zero-point
energy (ZPE) permeates the universe. Though unseen, the phenomenon of visible
light is predicated upon ZPE’s existence (the human eye can only see
light-waves which exist above zero-point energy). So from the perspective of
the quantum physical observer, “light” exists before “lights.” This
understanding of a duality of invisible and visible light reconciles the
seeming contradiction between science and the order of creation in Genesis. God
first created the invisible ZPE field. Then He worked on creating the other visible
“lights” (the sun, moon and stars) from ZPE. Admittedly, this knowing about
origins is fascinating. But for Franklin, it did not stop there. Her
fascination with ZPE stimulated her consciousness to see something.
Stage 3—she saw: A Vision of Creation
Overwhelmed by the knowledge in the opening paragraph of
Haisch’s article, ecstasy overwhelmed her soul and transported her back to the
beginning of time. As she describes it, she
[L]ooked up and saw God the Father at
the beginning of time and . . . our universe with nothing in it. It was
completely empty, formless and void. Then the Father said, ‘Let there be light’
and out of His being came wave after wave of what appeared to be light. The
light waves were curved, not straight.(TPOH, 4)
She adds that, “as I watched the light [ironically, she saw
the un-seeable zero-point energy field] I instantly thought, ‘Just like an
artist prepares his canvas before he paints on it, God prepared our universe so
he could create us, and the space in that universe needed light.”(TPOH,
4)
Franklin evidently, or not so evidently, saw a vision of the
type which God denied to Job. Scripture tells us that unlike speaking in quiet “hints,”
the Lord challenged Job from out of “the whirlwind [like a hurricane].” He
asked him:
Where wast thou when I laid the
foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid
the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone
thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted
for joy? Job 38:4-7, KJV
About being transported back in time (a very long time ago... to see the moment when God said, “Let there be light” and to see the “curved”
waves of light (meaning the rays were colliding with matter) emanating from the
Father, it must be asked, “Where were the Son and the Spirit?” Scripture tells
us creation is originally sourced in all three members of the Trinity—the
Father (Genesis 1:1; Romans 1:20), His Son (John 1:2-5; Colossians 1:16;
Hebrews 1:2), and the Holy Spirit (Genesis 1:2). In her vision, why did she not
also see the Son and the Spirit? Hebrews tells us that, “By faith we understand
that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not
made out of things which are visible” (Hebrews 11:3, NASB). On this point it
must be asked, does some claimed vision of the invisible contradict how in our
inhabited reality, we are to understand creation; and that is by faith, “the
conviction of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1)? Any vision of creation
contradicts the means by which we are to understand it; and that is by faith!
But NAR’ers [New Apostolic Reformation followers, ed.] get to look beyond the restrictions imposed by
faith (e.g., the evidence of things not seen). These seers peer beyond the
boundaries imposed by time, matter and space into realities that God had
previously revealed only and exceptionally to Moses (God did reveal to him the
events of original creation) and other of the biblical prophets.(TPOH,
2)
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| NAR "apostle" Cindy Jacobs on the "release" of a "new sound" |
So what Franklin saw was a new Pentecost coming, when God will
release the “sound” that will activate the “square yard” of zero-point energy in
and around every believer—“enough energy to boil all the water in the world.”(TPOH,
7) (The field surrounds unbelievers too. Theirs’ just won’t be activated.) With
this energy, which becomes especially potent when “two or three agree,” the new
Pentecostals will work miracles greater than Jesus did, “signs and wonders”
unprecedented in human history. They will become lightning rods to funnel “positive”
energy on and into this planet. Really electric... awesome! By sending the
sound, God will activate the zero-point energy field (ZPE) in and around
believers thereby empowering them to, among other stunning—even
outlandish—signs and wonders, “say to this mountain ‘be removed’ and it will be
removed’.”[4]
(TPOH, 7)
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| (Rick Joyner's "prophecy" - Source) |
They will possess presence-energy like that NAR prophet Rick
Joyner, who once spent a workday in heaven (8 hours) and regularly converses face-to-face
with Enoch (the great-great grandfather of Noah who, “God took him,” lived six
generations after Adam, Genesis 5:21-24) and the prophet Elijah (1 Kings 17:1-2
Kings 2:14), claims. Recently Joyner reportedly informed his TV audience that
on a recent heavenly visit he
learned that there is no Ebola virus in
Heaven and that Christians are capable of taking authority over the disease
here on earth. In fact, there are certain people who are given “total
authority over Ebola,” allowing them to cure people infected with the disease
simply by being in their presence. “Somebody with Ebola, they come into
the room, the Ebola is gone,” Joyner said. “That person is healed. It cannot
live, cannot exist in their presence.”[5]
Then Joyner says that one day [At the second Pentecost?] every
Christian will have this power. He even saw “a vision of children clearing
entire regions of radiation simply through prayer.”[6]
But just what is ZPE, and is it possible that humans can harness it?
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| (Source) |
What is Zero-point Energy?
In the science of
quantum physics and like the God particle or Higgs boson, the zero-point energy
(ZPE) field attempts to explain why the universe continues to cohere and does
not disintegrate. In their separate ways, both theories seek to address the mystery
of the universe at the quantum level of reality; is light comprised of energy (waves)
or matter (particles)?[7]
As to the energy side of things, quantum physicists marvel that light or energy
exists throughout the universe, even in vacuums. They observe that light ever
oscillates at its zero-point (when it can’t be seen). The oscillation or
movement is everywhere and constant. That’s why they call it a field. The
existence of the field may viewed as the perpetual motion machine within nature
(thus contradicting the laws of thermodynamics and entropy; that energy lost because
of friction is wasted and unrecoverable). Named after the Dutch physicist
Hendrik Casimir (1909-2000), this ever oscillating field of energy is also
called the Casimir effect, or vacuum energy.
May the Force be with
us!
When looking at the
universe as a clock, ZPE theory represents physics’ attempt to answer the
question, “Who or what wound it up?” Science’s answer is, “Nobody,” because the
wave-energy is observed to be ever (and ever is part of forever)
oscillating. Obviously, this eternal “Energy”
explains the universe’s existence. ZPE theory doesn’t need God because in and
by itself “Energy” is the sustainer of everything. Such knowing about
this present reality—that this power as Franklin states, is “within us and
around us”—compliments a panentheistic view (divinity permeates everything) or
pantheistic (divinity is everything) of God. New Age and mystical religion is
based upon this non-personal understanding of God. Furthermore, if ZPE is
universal, then the invisible light equally and indiscriminately resides in and
around every human being, not just the “two or three” that Franklin envisions.(TPOH, 8) “Surround sound” is equally exoteric and esoteric to all
people. As such, any distinction between Christian and non-Christian is lost
(Contra Romans 8:9.). But humanly speaking, can ZPE be harnessed or controlled?
Harnessing ZPE
Scientists are skeptical
that zero-point energy can be packaged to benefit humanity (i.e., on a cold
winter day houses can’t be heated with it). Though dreamed of, construction of a
perpetual motion machine is beyond the realm of reality. Scientist Matt Visser
calls those dreaming about harnessing zero-point energy “the free-lunch crowd.”
After affirming the reality of the ZPE field (a.k.a., vacuum energy or the Casimir
effect), Visser continued to say that though “technologically interesting,”
Notions
of mining the ZPE should therefore be treated with extreme skepticism. From the
way some enthusiasts talk about the zero-point energy, one might think that
unlimited power is lying all around just waiting to be harnessed. Like
many ideas that seem too good to be true, this one falls apart on closer
examination....[8]
ZPE Bankruptcy
John Baez, a member of
the mathematics faculty at the University of California at Riverside,
illustrates the fallacy of thinking ZPE can be technologically harnessed as
follows:
It
is a bit like this: say a bank found it more convenient (for some strange
reason) to start counting at 1,000, so that even when you had no money in the
bank, your account read $1,000 [i.e., the deposit of ZPE residing in the
universe]. You might get excited and try to spend this $1,000, but the bank
would say, “Sorry, that $1,000 is just an artifact of how we do our
bookkeeping: you’re actually flat broke.[9]
To me, the above illustration suggests that thinking God is
going to amplify the first Pentecost by releasing a “sound” (thus activating
ZPE field in and around believers, provided their hearts are in an “upper room
posture) is illusory at best, but quantum quackery at worst. The illusion infers
the relative spiritual deficiency and bankruptcy of the first Pentecost,
thinking that impugns the both the sovereignty and omnipotence of God for as the
Apostle Paul stated, the Gospel “is the power of God for salvation to
everyone who believes” (Emphasis added, Romans 1:16, NASB). The “sounding” of the
Gospel are the words which transform a person’s life (See 1 Corinthians 15:3-4.).
Yet despite this scientific opinion, Charismatic Christians like
Franklin believe that when He unleashes the “sound,” God will connect believers
with the power of the ZPE field in and around them thereby activating a second
Pentecost that will be more dynamic than the first (Compare Acts 2:1 ff.). With
the power of the ZPE field at their control, Christians will be enabled to
perform miracles unlike any ever worked on earth before.
But the Bible reminds Christians that because “the earth
[waxes] old like a garment,” only the sovereign and omnipotent God can make new
what is now growing old (Compare Isaiah 51:6 and 2 Peter 3:11-13.). This means
that in the end, harnessing ZPE holds no promise for saving the universe. Only
the Creator can save His creation.
Interestingly, physicist Stephen Hawking now predicts the
coming of a quantum doomsday when the Higgs boson field (that’s the gravity or
“glue” in the universe which holds particles together to form mass) will
collapse and everything will disintegrate at the speed of light.[10]
One physicist, Dr. Alan Duffy of Swinbourne University in Melbourne, Australia,
explains (though currently the Higgs field is stable) that any potential quantum
instability (the state physicists call “metastable”),
[P]uts the Higgs field in a position
[that may be compared] to that of a rock rolling down a valley. “It may get
lodged in a crevice high up from the valley floor. We [he and other physicists]
think that the Higgs field could be at this point, and something might nudge it
to fall to the true floor (lowest energy state).”[11]
If that “tipping point” happens, Duffy tells us that this
universe “will change into a new universe (called a phase transition). This
would look like a fireball spreading out at the speed of light, converting the
old universe into a new one,” he says.[12]
Upon reading this physicist’s description of the end of this universe and the
beginning of the new, one can only marvel at the Apostle Peter’s prescience
(knowledge of events before they happen) when he wrote,
But the day of the Lord will come like
a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements
(Greek, stoicheia, the fundamental components of the universe) will
be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.
Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people
ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the
coming of the day of God, on account of which the heavens will be destroyed
by burning, and the elements (Greek, stoicheia) will melt with
intense heat! (Emphasis Mine, 2 Peter 3:10-12, NASB).
To this point of the universe’s stability, Hebrews informs
earthlings that as to this system’s continuance, it’s Christ who “upholds all
things by the word [Greek rhema, or “sound”] of His power” (Hebrews 1:3a),
just as Paul adds that “by him [Christ] all things hold together” (Colossians
1:17b). What holds the universe together is neither a quantum particle (Higgs
bosom) nor a quantum power (ZPE), but the Person of Christ! Now to return to
the question asked at the chapter’s beginning....
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“When” will the Sons
of God be manifested?
Judy Franklin asks, “Hadn’t the children of God already been
revealed by the time Paul wrote this letter to the Romans?” (See Romans 8:19.) Then
she proceeds to give qualified “no” and “yes” answers to her question; “no,” explaining
that from Pentecost to the present there has been a minor manifestation of the
sons of God, but “yes,” predicting that a soon-to-be-released “sound” from
heaven will signal the coming of another Pentecost. This second Pentecost will
be more dynamic than the first as recipients of the “sound” will to the amazement
of a watching world, perform signs and wonders greater than those Jesus did two-thousand
years ago when He was physically present on earth. This will be the greatest manifestation
(Greek, apokalupsis, Romans 8:19) of the sons of God. She, as her
co-author and other of the book’s contributors, base their “sound scenario” by interpreting
Scripture according to received revelations (voices they hear and visions they
see). But the Apostle Paul, upon whose statement Franklin bases her question, should
be allowed to answer to the question (Had not the children of God already been
revealed when Paul wrote Romans?). His answer to the question is, “No, not
yet.”
The Unrevealed Sons of God
The Apostle in Colossians informs believers that they “have
died [in relation to primary interest in earthly things] and [their lives
are] hidden with Christ in God” (Emphasis added, Colossians 3:3, NASB).
“Hidden” (Greek, krupto, means to conceal or to escape notice) means
that at that time genuine Christians were not known, had not been fully
manifested as to their identity “in Christ.”[13]
Because believers’ lives are “hidden with Christ in God,” we currently appear in
the world as a people “without visible means of support.”[14]
Hence, Christians can be despised, persecuted and executed by the adversaries
of Christianity. But this anti-Christian prejudice will not continue
indefinitely. It will end when the world finds out who we really are.
The Revealed Sons of God
Returning to the Colossians text, Paul proceeded to write in
chapter three verse four that, “When Christ, who is our life, is
revealed [Greek, phaneróō], then you also will be revealed
[phaneróō] with Him in glory” (Colossians 3:4). See it . . .
when . . . then? Christians whose lives presently are “hidden with Christ in
God” will be revealed for who they really are when Christ is revealed for who
He really is at the time of His Second Coming in glory. Our revelation will not
be a moment sooner or a moment later than His. We will be revealed with Him. As
F.F. Bruce comments, “But when Christ, the true life of all his people, is
manifested in his parousia, then you who share his life now will share his
glorious epiphany.”[15]
Genuine believers will be transformed not when heaven releases the “sound” of a
coming-second Pentecost (The New Testament says nothing about such a Pentecost.),
but at Christ’s Parousia. As the Apostle John wrote, “Beloved, now we
are the children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We
know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as
He is” (1 John 3:2). That’s the chronology for the manifestation of “the sons
of God.” So about our current state of “hiddenness” and the expected moment of the
believers’ unveiling, the Apostle writes: “For now we see through a glass,
darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even
as also I am known” (Emphasis added, 1 Corinthians 13:12).
It should also be noted that Christ Himself “was declared
the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the
Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 1:4). The time of the full
manifestation of the sons of God will be, as was Jesus’, when, coordinate with
His Second Coming, they too shall be raised from the dead and their bodies are
redeemed from “corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God”
(Romans 8:23, 21). This will happen, the Apostle Paul states, when Jesus comes
and translates the church (See 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; 1 Corinthians
15:50-57.).
So the time for the revealing of the sons of God has been
set. This manifestation will not happen when a second Pentecost comes, but when
the Lord Jesus Christ comes. Then at the time of the Second Coming (Parousia)
our corrupted/decayed bodies will be either translated or raised from the dead.
Then our position as “sons of God” will be fully manifested. This NAR idea of
the soon-to-be-released power from heaven does raise an issue regarding the
nature of the church and her relationship to Christ.
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| NAR "apostle" Dutch Sheets' "prophecy" about the "sound" |
“Thy Kingdom Come,” Dominion Theology and the NAR
Thinking that a worldwide revival will take place when the
“sound” is released, the second Pentecost commences and “sons of God” are
manifested, stems out of the NAR assumption the “church” is the present
incarnation of Christ, that,
[T]he Church is Christ in the sense
that Jesus is the head, and the Church is the body. The Second Coming of
Christ, therefore, is through the Church, not Jesus returning in the flesh; we
should not wait for Him to return in order to set the world in order, but we
are to take His authority over the world and spiritual realm now.[16]
But to do that, Christians need
power. That’s why the New Apostolic Reformation is about power... more power... and much power; energy to transform the world, spirit power greater than
Jesus’.[17]
Such thinking about “the kingdom, and the power, and the glory” (See Matthew
6:13, KJV), “reduces Jesus” says Al Dager, “to just one part of a greater
whole.”[18] So Jesus really doesn’t even need to come back
“in the flesh” because He’s already present in and through the Church. The
presence of the Church makes unnecessary the presence of Christ (i.e., parousia).
Thus, the promise of Jesus’ personal and physical return is very nearly reduced
to a non-event (Contra Acts 1:11.). After all, to bring God’s kingdom to earth,
who needs the Son of God when you’ve got sons of God? That the body (the
church) usurps the head (the Christ) in establishing the kingdom of God reduces
Jesus’ first coming to be as unexceptional even as it makes His second unnecessary,
and this despite John’s declaration that Jesus is “the only begotten of the
Father” (John 1:14, KJV). The NAR prophetic scheme places Jesus far beneath the
dignity Peter ascribed to the Lord when he said to Him, “You are the
Christ, the Son of the living God” (Matthew 16:16).
We shall not be manifested as “the sons of God” independent
from the personal and physical revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ from heaven.
The “the sons of God” will not be manifested by their doing “signs and
wonders,” but when there occurs “the sign of His coming and the end of
the age” (Emphasis added, Matthew 24:29-30). His glory will be our glory! When
He finally returns to reign, then we too shall either be translated or resurrected
from the dead to reign with Him on earth in glory (Revelation 20:6;
Romans 8:17). Our lives are hid with Christ now. Our lives will be
glorified with Christ when He comes again.
“For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are
sons of God. . . . The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we
are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of
God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that
we may also be glorified with Him.”
Emphasis added, Romans 8:14, 16-17, NASB
TO BE CONTINUED . . . . .
Endnotes
REVIEW OF: Judy Franklin, Ellyn Davis and others, The Physics of Heaven: Exploring God’s Mysteries of Sound, Light, Energy, Vibrations and Quantum Physics (Crossville, TN: Double Portion Publishing, 2012): xiv + 188.
REVIEW OF: Judy Franklin, Ellyn Davis and others, The Physics of Heaven: Exploring God’s Mysteries of Sound, Light, Energy, Vibrations and Quantum Physics (Crossville, TN: Double Portion Publishing, 2012): xiv + 188.
[1] Judy Franklin, Chapter: “The Power of the Zero-Point Field,” The Physics of Heaven: Exploring God’s Mysteries of Sound, Light, Energy, Vibrations and Quantum Physics, by Judy Franklin & Ellyn Davis (Crossville, TN: Double Portion Publishing, 2012): 1-9.
[2]
John Obienin interacts with article written by Matt Visser, of Washington
University in St. Louis, MO. See Matt Visser, “FOLLOW-UP: What is the ‘zero-point
energy’ (or ‘vacuum energy’) in quantum physics? Is it really possible that we
could harness this energy?” Scientific American, August 18, 1997
(http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/follow-up-what-is-the-zer/). In his
interaction, Obienin quotes Steven K. Lamoreaux whose words are sourced in Physical
Review Letters, Vol. 78, No.1, January 6, 1997, pp. 5-8.
[3]
Bernhard Haisch, “Brilliant Disguise: Light, Matter and the Zero-Point Field,” zpenergy:
new energy revolution, December 26, 2005 (http://www.zpenergy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1669).
In the science of quantum physics the zero-point energy field attempts to
account for on the energy side of things—as the God or Higgs Boson particle on
the matter side of things—why the universe coheres and does not disintegrate
(i.e., gravity). Both theories address the issue of light—mysteriously, is it
energy (a wave) or matter (a particle)? As to the energy side of things,
quantum physicists observe that though out the universe, even in a vacuums,
there resides an immense and ever oscillating energy field (like a perpetual
motion machine). Named after the Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir (1909-2000),
this infinite oscillating is also called the Casimir effect. The existence of
the zero-point energy field is science’s attempt to answer the question,
looking at the universe as a clock, “who wound it up?” The answer is, “Nobody,”
because energy is perpetual and eternal. “May... the Force be with
you!” The theory doesn’t need God so it becomes difficult to understand why
NAR’ers are trying empower the sound with the field.
[4]
The full text reads: “Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, ‘Why
could we not cast it out?’ So Jesus said to them, ‘Because of your unbelief;
for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say
to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing
will be impossible for you’.” (Matthew 17:19-20, NKJV) We would note that again
the words cited vary from the NKJV.
[5] Emphasis added, Kyle Mantyla, “Rick Joyner Says Some
Christians Can Cure Ebola Simply Through Their Presence,” Right Wing Watch,
September 12, 2014
(http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-joyner-says-some-christians-can-cure-ebola-simply-through-their-presence).
Joyner reportedly said this to his TV audience on the program “Prophetic
Perspective on Current Events” which aired on September 11, 2014. Also see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrLohL8PMtw and
[6]
Ibid.
[7]
“Some refer to a wave-particle ‘duality’, but it might be better to talk of a
wave-particle ‘ambiguity’. Light may be better described as neither energy nor
mass, but something in-between or encompassing both. How to deal with this
matter is a philosophical question as much as a scientific question.” Emphasis
added, G-zilla, “Is light matter or energy?” Yahoo! Answers: Science &
Mathematics, Astronomy & Space (https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AwrBT7adoQVUilEA8zBXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzODU0MGRrBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1ZJUDM3Nl8x?qid=20070307202253AAuEU3P).
[8]
Emphasis added, Matt Visser, “FOLLOW-UP: What is the ‘zero-point energy’ (or
‘vacuum energy’) in quantum physics? Is it really possible that we could
harness this energy?” Scientific American, August 18, 1997
(http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/follow-up-what-is-the-zer/).
[9]
Quoted in Visser article cited previously, “What is the ‘zero-point energy’ (or
‘vacuum energy’) in quantum physics?”
[10]
“Stephen Hawking says Higgs boson has potential to destroy entire universe,” News.Com.Au,
September 8, 2014 (http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/stephen-hawking-says-higgs-boson-has-potential-to-destroy-entire-universe/story-fn5fsgyc-1227050890169).
[11]
Ibid. The “nudge” causing the system of our universe to collapse in a vacuum
could be the building of a collider (a machine) that will create enough empty
space to begin the collapse of matter within it, which collapse would then
spontaneously spread throughout the universe (kind of like one atomic bomb
going off and triggering more and more subsequent explosions until our whole
planet is engulfed in a ball of fire and a cloud). As Hawking explains the
doomsday scenario he envisions, “This could mean that the universe could
undergo catastrophic vacuum decay, with a bubble of the true vacuum expanding
at the speed of light. This could happen at any time and we wouldn’t see it
coming.” Note his repeated use of the word “could.” Because it could
happen does not mean that it will happen, at least not yet. But who
really knows, other than God?
[12]
Ibid. Emphasis added.
[13]
Bruce comments that, “the life of believers is hidden ‘with Christ’ because
they died with him and have been raised with him [see Romans 6:1-11]; it is
hidden ‘in God’ because Christ himself has his being in God and therefore those
who belong to him [who are “with” or “in” him, see Ephesians 2:4-10, etc.] have
their being there too.” See F.F. Bruce, The Epistles to the Colossians, to
Philemon, and to the Ephesians (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans
Publishing Company, 1984): 135.
[14]
Ibid: 135-136.
[15]
Ibid: 136. The verb “shall appear” (KJV, Greek, phaneróō—“is revealed,”
NASB, NRSV; “appears,” NKJV) belongs to the family of Greek words (both verbs
and nouns) which in the New Testament can refer to Christ’s Second Coming (parousia,
James 5:7; epiphaneia, Titus 2:13; and apokalupsis, 1 Corinthians
1:7). Murray J. Harris, as do other commentator/scholars, notes that the
clause, “When Christ . . . appears”
(Colossians 3:4) refers to His Second Coming. See Colossians & Philemon
(Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1991): 139. When
combined with a verb in the subjunctive mood as in this verse, “when” (Greek, hotan)
means “whenever.” Thus, the timing for the revelation of the sons of God is
dependent upon the imminent (impending or any moment) return of the Lord Jesus
Christ.
[16]
Albert James Dager, Vengeance is Ours: The Church in Dominion (Redmond,
WA: Sword Publishers, 1990): 148.
[17]
Franklin uses the word “sound” at least twelve times in chapter 1 and “power”
at least eighteen, both of which relate to the energy, vibrations and light
which when soon activated, will be more greatly revealed to the world through
and by the “manifest sons of God.”