DNRs on DNAs

In today’s Chicago Tribune was an op-ed piece about the potential ethical nightmares posed by a powerful new medical tool called CRISPR.

“In the simplest terms, it helps researchers (and, someday, will help doctors) edit human beings," explained the article. "With CRISPR, researchers can invade a person's DNA, snip out the bad bits and replace or repair what's left. CRISPR carries immense potential and, possibly, peril.

“The potential: For some people born with debilitating genetic diseases, scientists could give them relief from their symptoms — and maybe even cure them in the not-too-distant future.

“The peril: Scientists could also make permanent changes in the human germ line, the genes that parents pass on to their children. As those edited genes are passed from one generation to the next, the human race could be changed in ways that are not yet predictable. Or desirable.”

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My pastor, Richard Jordan (shorewoodbiblechurch.org), recently devoted a sermon to how DNA, or each individual’s unique genetic blueprint or code, was tampered with and demonically corrupted at the beginning of humanity with Satan’s fallen angels who came to earth to procreate with human women.

Specifically, Genesis 6: 1-4 explains, [1] And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
[2] That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
[3] And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
[4] There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Jordan began with, “You got to remember Satan had never seen a man before. Man was a new creature, and when God created Adam out of the dirt, Satan watched all that, but there was something he couldn’t see. Genesis 2:7 says, ‘And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.’

“Satan couldn’t see man’s soul that God created inside of him. He could observe the process, but he couldn’t see the spirit part going on.

“So Satan begins to study man and as he does . . . listen, when he talked to Eve and told her, ‘You’ll be like the gods,’ Eve knew they were there. She saw the angels on the earth. She knew the earth was populated by angelic creatures; she could see them! She knew they knew some things, else Genesis 3:5 (‘For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.’) wouldn’t have made any sense.

“These angels would come to man and say, ‘We’ve come down to help you. We’ve come down to help in the next step of societal evolution. We’ve come down to give you some advanced information.’

“They began to intermingle with man and the ultimate result of it, if you go back to Genesis 4: 20-23, you see the cultural development that takes place with agriculture, music, metallurgy, etc.

“They’d learned the ability to find elements in the earth and the catalyst of melting and producing chemical compounds. They were entering into creation; they weren’t a bunch of old cave men with big clubs trying to knock old Jane out in the head and drag her by her hair back to a cave.

“These people had an advanced technological culture and they could dig iron up out of the earth and make brass and enhance it, and the angels come along and say, ‘We’ll help!’

“Verse 4 says they were 'mighty men, men of renown.' They had intellectual capacity that they passed onto man to do things that people today still don’t know how to do!

“Our science technology today STILL can’t figure out how they built the pyramids, for example. They still can’t figure out how they can understand the astrological movements and instructions of planetary movement found in Easter Island. There’s all kinds of things left over that we don’t understand how they did it. The Great Pyramid; the great heavenly measurements and readings that it can do. You say, ‘How did they do that?!’ They had help!

“But that help focused on something; it focused on taking what verse 2 says: ‘They took them wives of all which they chose,’ and bare children to them.

“When you have a child, the dad has 23 chromosomes and the mom has 23 chromosomes. You put them together and you’ve got 46 chromosomes that make up your DNA and the nucleus of the gene that makes up the chromosome that makes up you. So if they were having children, what were they meddling with?

“Genesis 6:9 says, ‘These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.’ You see the first four letters of that word ‘generation’? Generations have to do with genetics. They have to do with a SEED line.

“Verses 11-12 say, [11] The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. [12] And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

“In Ezekiel 26 and 28 you read about Satan, and one of the things he did when he went out and populated and merchandised his Lie Program—what did it fill them all with? VIOLENCE. When he comes and merchandises his program with man, what does it fill the earth with? Violence. Why did God destroy man? Because the earth was corrupt and filled with violence.

“It wasn’t just that you couldn’t go down to the We-Sack-It on a Saturday night and buy a pack of Juicy Fruit without getting your head knocked off. The violence stemmed from something deeper than that.

“There was an attempt to corrupt the genetic code of mankind so that man could not be used the way God intended to use man, but that Satan could use man to join heaven and earth together and create a new species that would do exactly what he wanted done.

“You see, genetic engineering didn’t start in the 21^st Century. All this GMO stuff people think the scientists are so smart about, listen, that didn’t just all start right now. In Daniel 2, that image Daniel interprets the meaning of for Nebuchadnezzar, he tells Nebby about a fourth kingdom that’s going to come and it turns out to be the kingdom of the Antichrist.

“Daniel 2:42 says, ‘And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.’ Who would 'clay' be in the Bible? Man. The term ‘clay’ is used in the Bible to describe two things: Adam and Israel. Iron in the Bible is associated with Satan and the fallen angels.

“The next verse says, ‘And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.’ When you start messing with the seed, you’re messing with genetics. My point is it’s already happened, but it’s going to happen again.

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“In Daniel 7, it says the Antichrist is 'more stout' than any other person. His physical appearance was different than the normal man. He’s the ‘king of fierce countenance.’ He literally looks different, like a super version of a humanoid kind of a thing. Now it doesn’t work.

"In Psalm 139:15-16, David is describing the creation of man: [15] My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

[16] Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

“There was a point when David knew that when he was conceived (Psalm 51 says, [5] Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.) there was a book; God’s book in which everything David was going to be . . .

“Now we know that’s DNA today, but 50 years ago nobody knew what that was. When I was conceived in my mother’s womb, that first joining of those 46 chromosomes said I was going to have blue eyes, my daddy’s hands, my mother’s skull structure, on and on.

“When David says, ‘In thy book all my members were written which then just grew,’ he’s talking about the book of DNA that God wrote. Now, God wrote another Book and you’ve got it in your lap. What does Satan want to do with that Book? ‘We are not as many which corrupt the Word of God.’

“Jesus taught the parable in Luke 8 saying the ‘seed was the Word of God.’ You know what happens when you get saved? Jesus says the new birth is when God’s Spirit implants life into a dead spirit. Paul calls that 'regeneration'; when you were born of the Spirit of the God.

“James 1 says it was the ‘engrafted word.’ Literally, when you trusted Christ, God took His Spirit and engrafted Him into your, I’ll say it like this for an illustration, ‘spiritual DNA,’ and became one with you at a level that is comparable to becoming one with you in your DNA physically.

“Satan’s goal is to form a creation that unites HIM with creation—heaven and earth with HIM as the boss; with HIM on the throne, but it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work in Genesis and it doesn’t work in Revelation. It’s a failure. Just like you can’t corrupt that Book, he can’t successfully corrupt mankind. You know why?

“In Matthew 24, Jesus said, ‘And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.’

“So you know what He does? He shortens them. That’s why the tribulation’s 70^th week only lasts seven years and, in that part of it, only 1,240 days. Because if what Satan put into motion there were allowed to run its normal course, all of humanity’s flesh would be corrupted, but God won’t let that happen. He’ll stop it. And He stops it by the Word of God coming, the Lord Jesus Christ (Revelation 19) coming from heaven to destroy the Adversary.”

(new article tomorrow)