Quantum Mechanics and The Last Days

For quite a while I've been noticing the ways different people look at the world and world events.

One group is asleep. They focus on the small matters of life like what programs to watch on TV. They look at life through the lens of their own priorities.

Another group is aware of what is happening geo-politically in the world. They see their liberties being siphoned away. Some of these people may even be up in arms about it.

Where then do Christians stand?

Here's one way we may look at things.

It should be first accepted that two opposing things can exist at the same time. This is easy to support. One may be experiencing financial hardship while another enjoys financial blessing. 

We can also accept that we as Christians living by faith are not called to know every rise of evil that is happening in the world. 

Related to that, believers obedient to the voice of Jesus are not called to bury their heads under the sand in pretense.

Here is the crux of the matter. Believers are to be being transformed through the renewing of our minds to have our lives shaped after the Messiah whom we serve.  This means we do what Jesus wants and we walk pleasing to God in all things apart from our residual sinful condition. We approve His will. Through overcoming, or having overcome, we can experience the great blessings of God in and through our lives.

Here is the irony. When we focus on what we know or don't know about what is good and what is evil, the whole thing collapses, just like what happens to waves when scientists observe electrons being fired in the two-slit quantum experiment. 

Faith, on the other hand, believes the word of God completely. The obedient live and walk by their faith not by what they see. In quantum terms, they don't focus in a way that collapses the wave by how they perceive. 

We may take this thinking one step further as believers in Jesus Messiah. We are being saved through water as Moses, Israel, and Noah were all delivered through water. The psalm teaches that the Lord has set the roads or paths through the sea. This is how it is possible for believers to be experiencing the blessings of God in life while the foundations of the world are crumbling and melting through intense heat. 

Those who dwell upon the earth, however, cannot perceive what is true because rather than living by faith in God whom they cannot see, they choose to live by matter, that is, what they can see. 

Someone might conclude that I believe there is no intersection of the two realities. I would just say that both realities may be perceived to exist at the same time. Furthermore, Christ is reigning until God puts everything under His feet, so that all that will be will be under or influenced by Christ's reign.

Here is the confirmation of Scripture.

Isaiah 60 describes darkness covering the earth and deep darkness covering the people. In stark contrast is the Lord shining upon Jerusalem who rises at God’s command. We rise at the voice and touch of Jesus our Savior.

Habakkuk 2 tells how the glory of the knowledge of the Lord will cover the earth, but it’s not a positive picture. This covering of the earth is how the roosters of the sinners come back to roost:

¹³ Lo, is it not from Jehovah of Hosts And peoples are fatigued for fire, And nations for vanity are weary?¹⁴ For full is the earth of the knowledge of the honour of Jehovah, As waters cover [the bottom of] a sea.

There is no satisfaction apart from Christ. In Him is our fortress. 

The Isaiah 11 description of the nature of the Messianic reign is consistent with Habakkuk’s prophecy. Under Christ, the innocent are not hurt by the poisonous creatures though the child puts her hand in the asps’ nest. Why is this? Because as Christ is, so we are in the world. He does not judge by what He sees or what He hears.

We, too, are called to be hearing His voice in our ears and focusing our sight on Him to be with Him in His revealing. This is how we live in the Messianic reign.