Joseph’s Alabaster Box

This account of the origin of life is true and to be accepted by all men. “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.”

The whole Bible concerns Christ,therefore, it all is reliable. Man’s ideas about the origin of life have no valid basis in science. Why should enlightened men believe myths? Any story that attempts to explain something that is unexplainable is only a myth. Modern myths are no more reliable than ancient myths. No man has ever put forth a reason to refuse to believe the Bible, except his own ideas. It requires a disarranged mind to reject reasonable explanations that are good and sound and beneficial, and then work feverishly to force his own pernicious views on other people.

 The earth had been prepared for animal life by making light; dividing the waters; draining an area of land to bring forth grass; and putting lights in the sky. Now the sea and land were ready for living inhabitants, and God made them in great abundance. Suddenly the ocean was teeming with every sort of creature you could imagine, and many you couldn’t. The pure, clean water was rich with tiny plants bursting with food value for the swimming, crawling, wiggling creatures. Invertebrates, vertebrates, and what ever else is in the seas, suddenly began going here and there in a burst of exuberant life.

Then the air was teeming with birds of every sort. There are some birds that are so delicate and beautiful that they are simply incredible. Only an artist with exquisite taste could design such feathers as some of the common humming birds around our bird feeders in the summer time. Bezaleel and Aholiab (read Exodus 31) combined could not have designed a gladiola or an ear of corn. It would require more than the most skilled seamstress to make the topknot of the common cardinal sitting on the porch rail. Nothing but the drafting table and looms of God’s creative mind could fashion the fabric of a peacock’s tail. Birds fly in tight formation and never touch wings. They could have such ability only by the divine engineering skills of their Creator.

 These creatures were alive. They were vibrant with life. Mud cannot come to life, even as a single cell; neither can the most complex compounds of elements. Lightning is a very thrilling thing, very powerful, but lightning has not the force to charge something to life like that product of Frankenstein’s nightmare. Life can come only from life; Darwin said so himself on the last page of his infamous book. Here in verse 20 we are introduced to this marvelous, unexplainable thing that is so common on this planet, and so absent everywhere else. The same Hebrew word, “nephesh” is used for both “life” and “soul.” Plants do not have this sort of life, but both animals and men have souls.

God created great whales. What massive things! What strange behavior they exhibit when approached by human beings. Great sea monsters, dragons, dinosaurs — all of these things God made for to inhabit the seas. All these creatures were brought forth abundantly. It is amazing to think of how many different creatures Christ may have created on that fifth day.

And then God saw that it was good. There was not a human eye to gaze upon this glorious scene. God alone beheld His work. He needed not the approval of man. I am sure the angels must be looking on from above, and still making beautiful creation music, but God and His animals were alone. The sea animals had a whole day before God created man. God’s creation pleased Him, and even today, after the flood and 6000 years of entropy (the measure of decomposition caused by the Second Law of Thermodynamics), the earth is still a beautiful place to those who see it as the handiwork of God. It was good then for there was no taint of sin. Sin had to rise from the pit of the soul of Lucifer, and be transplanted into the soul of man. Sin was the antithesis of all the beauty that Christ saw on that fifth day. Beauty has fallen into disrepute. People don’t care for beauty today.

The world loves reds and blacks and sharp teeth and fearsome eyes and spiked hair. The world loves dead things and putrefaction. Ugliness sells potato chips, and all the rich luxuries of the world.

Note that in verse 22 we are told that God blessed hiscreatures. No land animals yet, but God pronounces a blessing upon the creatures of the sea. I love this. I have caught many a bass and bream, but I never hated one. I have caught a few turtles and lizards, but I never hated one. God wanted his creatures, even the lowly water creatures, and birds to be happy. God wanted them to produce their own kind. Even the buzzards, hawks, falcons, and carp were blessed by their Creator.

I would rather be a good man, though poor, than to be the richest man on the globe, and mean. I want my children to think of me as a good man. I have made a great many dumb blunders as a dad raising little boys, but I never intended to be mean to them or bad.

With grinding heart, I remember my little boys’ tears.. I am glad they are good men. Sometimes I hurt so badly because I am unable to send

gifts to my friends in Siberia. There are so many things they need that I could supply if only I were able. Things like tooth ache medicine and aspirin tablets would be like precious jewels to them. Sending stuff to Russia through the mail, though, is giving presents to thieves. God blessed His lowly creatures. “Bless” means “to give

good things.” Good people give good things. Good people wish good things for others. No one is so bad or wicked that we should not desire good things for them. The best thing that could be desired for aperson is the entrance of the Gospel of Jesus Christ into their soul.

Somebody said that the best things in life are free. Who can deny that? Nothing is freer than the Gospel of Jesus Christ. God blessed human beings by creating them. He blessed us by giving us air to breathe and water to drink. He blesses us with food to eat and work to do. God has blessed us with an earth full of natural resources and other riches. God has blessed us with sunlight and music; with laughter, and cats and dogs; with springtime and tree leaves; flower petals and clouds. God blessed us with His precious Word. How common it is to obtain. The Bible inhabits more houses than any other book, and probably any other thing except (in America) the modern appliances. God gave the Bible to be read and studied and obeyed, but man has made it an icon to lie on the coffee table. The Bible was given as an owner’s manual to tell us how to operate our bodies, and conduct our lives. The Bible was given as a road map to tell us how to get to the pearly gates. Man has invented a lot of roads that are supposed to take him to Heaven, but alas, like many of the roads I have been on that didn’t go where I thought they would go, man’s roads won’t end up at the Throne of God – at the throne of judgment — but not at the Throne of God.

God blessed us with His own precious Son. He entered the world as an innocent babe, and wound up on an execution cross. Jesus has been the object of worship and the object of scorn. He is accused today of crimes like being a liar or an impostor, though no one has ever shown a fault in His life. He made all things when He was with the Father in the beginning, but many of His own human creatures will not acknowledge that they were made by Him. Still today, after 2000 years of testimony to His divinity, He is still reviled and scorned.

God blessed man with the presence of the Holy Spirit Who stands alongside to help us understand about the LORD Jesus. Man insults the Holy Spirit by talking about Him more than they do the LORD Jesus, even though the Bible tells us that the Holy Spirit will not speak of Himself. The Holy Spirit births us spiritually when we trust Jesus Christ as our Saviour, but He cannot save us apart from the blood of the Lamb. He can teach us of Christ, but He is helpless to save us without the blood.

God blessed His fish and fowl, and in blessing them, He blessed us. The Creator did not use a single creature in a scheme called evolution which would have required it to die.

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For me, poems are hard to come by. An inspiration comes sailing into my brain like a big bird. Like a big bird, it flies right out again. If I’ve captured a feather, I consider myself much improved. If I can manage to put down the thought, I can usually, over the next weeks fill in the blanks. The thing is like a lump of mud on a potter’s wheel. Sometimes I can never shape anything of interest out of it. Once in a while it comes out looking pretty good. Other times, I have to throw the marred lump on the potsherd heap. Very discouraging. I’d like to be a poet, but it is very demanding – like trying to put smoke into a bottle. Anyway, I love to fool around with words. I hope you enjoy reading what I’ve done.

Publication Date: Jun 09 1999

Page Count: about 84

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Hebrews is an epistle written by somebody who understood perfectly the Law of Moses, and the cultural history of the Jews which was based on this Law. The epistle is rich in ancient things and people: the Ark of the covenant and the altar; Abraham and Joshua as examples. Another devotional study by the author, this book is also full of cracker barrel philosophy and wisdom, as well as scientific knowledge. This blend of scholarship, common sense, creation, and science makes for fascinating reading. As a Bible literalist the author holds the Bible in great reverence and awe as God’s preserved Word. The book has an index of important topics, as well as an index of scriptures used in the book. A complete table of contents lists the eighty-some essays. Each essay take less than fifteen minutes to read, each one having its own title and scripture reference. The price of this book, like all of Kennedy’s books, is priced at the cost os production.

Publication Date: Aug 14 2009

Page Count: 374

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This is the first of two books about the first twelve chapters of the Bible. Genesis explains the condition of man and his environment. God created a perfect Earth; man has perfectly corrupted it, including the skies. This book should be of interest to everybody who lives on this whirling globe. This book is a philosophical and scientific examination of the only honest and authoritative source for such information that exists – the Authorized Version of the King James Bible. Pseudo-science has completely ignored God’s account, and proceeded to develop its own system of mythical explanations that satisfies the inane element of the world’s population. God warned of these mythological tales when Paul wrote to Timothy, and said, “O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:” (I Timothy 6:20).

Human-kind has accumulated a vast store of knowledge with his brilliant, God-given brain. In accumulating knowledge, he has relinquished wisdom. The magnitude of man’s accomplishments is exceeded only by the damage he has done to the earth in the process. But God knew man would do all these things, and all the future things. God graciously made a perfect provision for man’s escape from this earth. This, too, man has labored to corrupt. Joseph Kennedy will help you see this.

Publication Date: Apr 19 2009 Page Count: 228

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