Jesus has the whole world in His hands and the government of all things shall rest on His shoulders.
“By Him all things were made that are made, both visible and invisible things. He is before all things and by Him all things consist” (Colossians 1:16-17).
The CERN Large Hadron particle accelerator is trying to identify the elusive Higgs Bosun, a phenomenon that occurs at critical, high-energy moments of matter formation. It is surmised that it accounted for the evolution of the universe in the time immediately following the Big Bang, when the violent energy of that Genesis moment provided favorable conditions for the kind of physics that was required for the formation of matter.
Scientists recognize that non-mass particles (neutrinos) acquire mass somehow and that gives them the force or momentum to contribute to the formation of matter. Somewhere in all this thinking is another phenomenon, aptly called, “The God Particle”, which less reverent observers have called “Dark Matter”, but only by way of describing it as something that remains dark to our understanding.
Dark matter comprises 70% of the mass of our universe, so in effect our knowledge only embraces 30% of the scope of the universe.
The point I wish to make, however, is that there is an unknown context accounting for the substance of our universe. Because the basic energies of the universe are a function of mass, we must also conclude that the universe is held together or consists by the same, as yet undiscovered means. We also accept that another unknown phenomenon played and still plays a major role in the formation of matter.
Is it coincidence that Colossians captured the essence of forming and sustaining in one concept: namely in Paul’s assertion that Christ is the formative and sustaining force of the universe.
It is also interesting that the Higgs Bosun is effective only for a brief period, after which the resulting matter continues to evolve, behave and transform according to prevailing laws of physics.
In John 3:8, Jesus, again in that amazingly economical style that is so characteristic of supreme divinity, said: “The wind blows where it wants to”. Thus, consistent with what we are already concluding about Higgs Bosun, the brief period of matter formation yields to a world that is self-sustaining within the bounds of God’s rules and laws.
That actually provokes another thought. The current state of our earth’s climate is also “blowing where it wants to”, within the bounds of God’s laws (the physical constraints of the universe).
The problem is that such a closed system will and does respond to all stimuli. Thus, when we breach the laws of our world and mess around with the fine balances that sustain our beautiful heritage, the winds will counter-act to balance the system. So when it does all go wrong, we really will have no one else to blame but ourselves.
Yet, for all that, life will go on until Christ has subdued all His enemies and placed everything at the feet of His Father – only then will He withdraw His sustaining power, to dematerialize matter into its constituent particles: and then He will fold up the entire universe as a garment and time shall be no more.
Dust shall return to dust, matter shall return to its constituents and the universe will collapse into its infinitely massive, infinitely dense rest state, until, He literally and physically holds all in His right hand. Then He will lay it all at His Father’s feet.
(c) Peter Eleazar at www.bethelstone.com
“By Him all things were made that are made, both visible and invisible things. He is before all things and by Him all things consist” (Colossians 1:16-17).
The CERN Large Hadron particle accelerator is trying to identify the elusive Higgs Bosun, a phenomenon that occurs at critical, high-energy moments of matter formation. It is surmised that it accounted for the evolution of the universe in the time immediately following the Big Bang, when the violent energy of that Genesis moment provided favorable conditions for the kind of physics that was required for the formation of matter.
Scientists recognize that non-mass particles (neutrinos) acquire mass somehow and that gives them the force or momentum to contribute to the formation of matter. Somewhere in all this thinking is another phenomenon, aptly called, “The God Particle”, which less reverent observers have called “Dark Matter”, but only by way of describing it as something that remains dark to our understanding.
Dark matter comprises 70% of the mass of our universe, so in effect our knowledge only embraces 30% of the scope of the universe.
The point I wish to make, however, is that there is an unknown context accounting for the substance of our universe. Because the basic energies of the universe are a function of mass, we must also conclude that the universe is held together or consists by the same, as yet undiscovered means. We also accept that another unknown phenomenon played and still plays a major role in the formation of matter.
Is it coincidence that Colossians captured the essence of forming and sustaining in one concept: namely in Paul’s assertion that Christ is the formative and sustaining force of the universe.
It is also interesting that the Higgs Bosun is effective only for a brief period, after which the resulting matter continues to evolve, behave and transform according to prevailing laws of physics.
In John 3:8, Jesus, again in that amazingly economical style that is so characteristic of supreme divinity, said: “The wind blows where it wants to”. Thus, consistent with what we are already concluding about Higgs Bosun, the brief period of matter formation yields to a world that is self-sustaining within the bounds of God’s rules and laws.
That actually provokes another thought. The current state of our earth’s climate is also “blowing where it wants to”, within the bounds of God’s laws (the physical constraints of the universe).
The problem is that such a closed system will and does respond to all stimuli. Thus, when we breach the laws of our world and mess around with the fine balances that sustain our beautiful heritage, the winds will counter-act to balance the system. So when it does all go wrong, we really will have no one else to blame but ourselves.
Yet, for all that, life will go on until Christ has subdued all His enemies and placed everything at the feet of His Father – only then will He withdraw His sustaining power, to dematerialize matter into its constituent particles: and then He will fold up the entire universe as a garment and time shall be no more.
Dust shall return to dust, matter shall return to its constituents and the universe will collapse into its infinitely massive, infinitely dense rest state, until, He literally and physically holds all in His right hand. Then He will lay it all at His Father’s feet.
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