This present universe is under a curse!

It is because of sin, because of rebellion, against the Lord our God in our present universe. It appears that this rebellion started before before man was created, but it is not clear how long before man was created.

Even matter is temporary.

Now we come to a fundamental law of our universe. The actual “laws” of science are few and far between. Even so, some of what we sometimes call “laws” are only rules that only work within some pretty narrow limits, that is to say they are not really “laws.” But one of the fundamental laws of our universe is what is sometimes called “The Second law of Thermodynamics.” It is also called “Entropy,” or to state it another way: Things run down. In our universe things to go from order to disorder, and the amount of energy available to do any work is steadily diminishing.

One of the astonishing things which came out of the early nuclear work of Madam Curie and others is that sometimes even matter itself disintegrates The atoms themselves are unstable, they disintegrate.. The most unstable of our elements are called “radioactive,” and they steadily loose small particles as they disintegrate to other forms of matter.

Take your room, your house, or your
car or lawnmower.

You do not have to do something to them for them to disintegrate, for them to rundown, for them to slide into disorder and ruin. Just leaven them alone and they will do that on their own. Entropy, things run down.

Even our bodies, even when starting out correctly, over time disintegrate.

The sun, it turns out is a giant hydrogen bomb.

Now how fast does a hydrogen bomb convert matter into energy? I do not know how to express that mathematically, but it is very fast. Realizing that the Sun is such a giant bomb, it would be natural to expect that it is shrinking, and very fast, and it is!

The British Greenwich Observatory and the U. S. Naval Observatory did a 90 year study of the Sun’s diameter, and the result of that study is that the Sun is shrinking at an astonishing six feet per hour! (Eddy and Boornazian, 1979. “Secular decrease in the solar diameter, 1863-1953.” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 11:437.)

But if the earth was 4 or 5 billion years old, it would mean that the earth would have been inside the sun. We are about 93 million miles from the sun. Run the figures for yourself. This and much other evidence points to a relatively young solar system, and a young earth.

Scripture calls the Second Law of Thermodynamics
the law of sin and death.

And one day, a new universe, called “a new heavens and a new earth,” Isa 65:17, 2Pe 3:13, etc., will be created, which will not be subject to this law.

“that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.”
Rom 8:21 WEB

That will indeed be heaven.

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