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Hi all,
as a Partial-Preterist Amil my attitude to the future is kind of agnostic. I only know that one day - however long away that is - the Lord has promised to return. In between now and then we have the sermon on suffering that we call Revelation - the revealing - and the fact that no 2 futurists appear to agree on what this future timetable actually 'reveals' means I'm even more inclined to go with Reformed Amil views. (I mean, why call it the "Revelation" when almost no-one that reads it as a future timetable can agree? Or even explain what it has revealed to the last 2000 years of church history if only the last generation gets to really understand it?)
Anyway, this next video comes from one of my favourite futurist channels. He covers everything from the rocket equation on fuel and more efficient rockets to Sci-Fi tropes like post-humanism singularity stuff and geeky junk like that.
Right now? What if we put a big powered up station at the Lagrange 1 point to ward off larger CME's from the sun, even to protect the Earth? He covers mainly Mars here - but does mention extra benefits the Earth might have from having a powersat magnet at L1. One of those benefits is predicting us from solar storms that might fry our grids, and according to some here - large parts of the middle east. (Although why it isn't the whole world I don't know.)
Also, who thinks the church will be sending missionaries to Mars one day? Hey, I really think the Lord could return in 5 seconds to judge the world and usher in Eternity. But I also think, given the Lord's abundant mercy to an awful grumpy selfish sinner like myself, maybe he's going to wait a while? Maybe the solar system's population will number in the multiple TENS OR HUNDREDS OF TRILLIONS by the time he returns? Who knows? What was that about uncountable numbers of people in the kingdom of God?
Over to Isaac Arthur.
as a Partial-Preterist Amil my attitude to the future is kind of agnostic. I only know that one day - however long away that is - the Lord has promised to return. In between now and then we have the sermon on suffering that we call Revelation - the revealing - and the fact that no 2 futurists appear to agree on what this future timetable actually 'reveals' means I'm even more inclined to go with Reformed Amil views. (I mean, why call it the "Revelation" when almost no-one that reads it as a future timetable can agree? Or even explain what it has revealed to the last 2000 years of church history if only the last generation gets to really understand it?)
Anyway, this next video comes from one of my favourite futurist channels. He covers everything from the rocket equation on fuel and more efficient rockets to Sci-Fi tropes like post-humanism singularity stuff and geeky junk like that.
Right now? What if we put a big powered up station at the Lagrange 1 point to ward off larger CME's from the sun, even to protect the Earth? He covers mainly Mars here - but does mention extra benefits the Earth might have from having a powersat magnet at L1. One of those benefits is predicting us from solar storms that might fry our grids, and according to some here - large parts of the middle east. (Although why it isn't the whole world I don't know.)
Also, who thinks the church will be sending missionaries to Mars one day? Hey, I really think the Lord could return in 5 seconds to judge the world and usher in Eternity. But I also think, given the Lord's abundant mercy to an awful grumpy selfish sinner like myself, maybe he's going to wait a while? Maybe the solar system's population will number in the multiple TENS OR HUNDREDS OF TRILLIONS by the time he returns? Who knows? What was that about uncountable numbers of people in the kingdom of God?
Over to Isaac Arthur.
