The Moon and Stars

The Moon and Stars - Psalm 8 : 3-5

This work has been rattling around on my hard drive for some time, and the ultimate form of it was finally catalyzed by a recent Press Announcement that scientists are back to the drawing board about where the earth’s atmosphere and oceans came from.

Well, well.

The theory always was that the earth’s oceans and atmosphere came from gases and minerals locked inside the earth’s crust and released through volcanic acitvity. The University of Manchester in Britain has now extracted a meteorite signature in volcanic gases that shows volcanic activity cannot have contributed to the earth’s atmosphere in any significant way.

The new scientific assumption is that the earth’s atmosphere and oceans “came from outer space.” Hallelujah.

In the words of the Psalmist:

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?
For You have made him a little lower than the angels,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

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Patricia

Here is some great news – the Full Armor of God wall posters are now available to buy, and they can be shipped either from the USA or from Australia.

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A small post to announce that I’ve started a gallery of family-friendly and Christian Desktop Wallpapers at Eagles Wings Wallpapers.info (banner in sidebar also).

Some of the Full Armor of God images are there already, plus some other Christian images – all my originals and unique to Eagles Wings Wallpapers.

I have plenty of artwork and will be continually adding more as I find time to prepare them.  Enjoy!

Patricia

Just a brief post to introduce another Warrior Poster.

Warrior 2 Poster

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Patricia

White-collar crime includes fraud, forgery, bribery, embezzlement, tax evasion on a large scale, companies swindling companies and people, companies defrauding governments funded by the taxpayer; cartels, monopolies, and so it goes on. All motivated by GREED.

We don’t bother about it too much until we see a real case reported in the press.  It’s easy for both onlookers and operators to forget this IS criminal activity, it IS sin, and its bottom line is usually pain and suffering for someone.

“He who oppresses the poor to make more for himself, or who gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.”
Proverbs 22:17

“The acquisition of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor, the pursuit of DEATH.”
Proverbs 21:6

My inspiration for this drawing came from a recent newspaper report about an elderly couple who were defrauded out of their life-savings and left in debt by the combined efforts of a shonky lawyer and a shady investment company.  I used the idea because it is here that we see the effect of white-collar crime on real people – a middle-aged, honest working couple who, trusting their “advisors”, have just unwittingly signed away their life savings on a crooked deal.

White-Collar Crime : Fraud

Here is a more recent report in the New Zealand Herald of the havoc caused in the lives of ordinary people by the actions of Blue Chip boss Mark Bryers, who has had a total of 73 charges laid against him.  Unfortunately, bringing these people to some form of justice does not mend the damage they have caused.

Right now the bugs are well and truly coming out of the woodwork.  Finance institutions and banks going to the wall, major players in the manufacturing industries going offshore and laying off staff while paying their top brass outrageous salaries, individuals burned by plummeting real estate prices after being encouraged to borrow with no equity – all of these things are symptomatic of greed operating unchecked in commerce.

Cunning as ever, the devil sows the seeds for this greed with the same stealth as with drugs and drink – small frauds to start with – “nice lttle successes”, then gradually getting bigger as the serpent’s grip tightens.  Someone somewhere said very truly:

“No-one goes off the rails overnight.  You get into these sins one small step at a time, and each time the process gets easier until you are well and truly enmeshed in wrongdoing.”

It is shocking how many high-flyers and CEOs in these companies lined their own pockets with shareholders’ and lenders’ money, knowing full well their companies were foundering. The sight of these people, rushing in private jets and limos to persuade government – the taxpayers like you and I who are struggling to make ends meet – to bail them out of their self-made difficulties is nauseating.

Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY,” says the Lord.

BUT IF YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY, FEED HIM, AND IF HE IS THIRSTY, GIVE HIM A DRINK; FOR IN SO DOING YOU WILL HEAP BURNING COALS ON HIS HEAD.”

Saint Paul in Romans 12:19-20, quoting Proverbs 25:22

None of us are in any doubt about the seriousness of the current financial situation. Take up a Bible, or go to BibleGateway.com and read Proverbs.  I believe there is a purpose behind all our current woes.

The Creator is starting to call in the cards.

Mentally, this was by far the hardest of this series of drawings to do.  I kept putting it off because even to think of it was so upsetting, let alone commit an image to paper.

Sadly, New Zealand – the country we used to fondly call “Godzone” – now has one of the highest rates of child abuse in the world.   Over the last few years we have seen a distressing number of appalling cases of infant and toddler death following often lengthy abuse, come before the courts.  In most cases parents and/or family members are found guilty.  I knew this image had to be done.

Child Abuse

It is unbelievable that individuals should contemplate, let alone carry out, these horrific criminal assaults. This is one of the ugliest examples of the devil’s work in this world.

The Lord loved children especially, and He didn’t mince words when describing their importance to Him:

He called a little child and had him stand among them. And he said: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

“And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.”

Matthew 18:2-6

If you feel you are on the edge of this stuff, get help immediately.  Wake up!   Realize that there is nothing remotely brave, smart or clever in it – you are being used like a puppet.

• Above all, it is cowardly.
• Secondly, evil is NOT a badge of honor, IT IS DEATH – YOUR DEATH.
• Thirdly, without a shadow of a doubt, you are going to roast for it – unless you

MAKE YOUR PEACE WITH THE POWER THAT HOLDS YOUR LIFE IN HIS HAND.  Before it’s too late.

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More to Come.