Yesterday, John Lennon’s wife, Yoko Ono, in urging for world peace, unveiled what’s being called the “Imagine Peace Tower” (Editor’s Note: Think Tower of Babel) in Iceland, the world’s northernmost country.

“The tower is a stories-tall beam of light that will radiate from a wishing well bearing the words ‘imagine peace’ in 24 languages,” reports the Associated Press.

Ono, who said she first came up with the idea for the light tower in 1965 and that Lennon was interested in it, is quoted saying, “There’s a certain strangeness to it. I would like to say it’s magical.”

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Last week, Britain’s leading atheist, Professor Richard Dawkins, author of the current best-seller The God Delusion, announced he’s spearheading a campaign in America to “challenge the dominance of religion in every day life and in politics, insisting that the millions of US godless deserve to be heard too.”

Dawkins reasons in an interview with London’s The Guardian, "When you think about how fantastically successful the Jewish lobby has been, though, in fact, they are less numerous I am told - religious Jews anyway - than atheists and [yet they] more or less monopolize American foreign policy as far as many people can see. So if atheists could achieve a small fraction of that influence, the world would be a better place . . . we want to encourage people to come out because there is a big closet population of atheists who need to come out."

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At a Bible conference the other week in Michigan it was reported that a man who was a grace believer decided he was an atheist. One of the reasons he gave was, “I just can’t believe a good God would allow evil in the world.”

Jordan explains, “That’s a common idea of people who don’t want to believe in God. The problem with that it is it assumes that a good God could have no reason for allowing evil to happen. People think, ‘Why, I wouldn’t!’ That’s the problem! It’s pride. It would assume you were omniscient and knew every possible reason for everything that happens.”

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In the Bible it's very clear people get eaten. A passage in Lamentations talks about a famine where women were eating their babies a span long, or 18 inches. During the tribulation, some believing Israelites are going to be eaten.

Jordan says, “Revelation 20 talks about those who wouldn't take ‘the mark of the beast.’ They were beheaded. Now when you make a sacrifice—a drink offering—how do you do it? One thing is they cut off their heads. You put a chalice under there and catch that blood, then hold that stuff up and you’ve got a drink offering.

“These folks in the tribulation are going to be facing some real persecution. Zechariah 11 talks about it. You read at the end of the chapter, “And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
[16] For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
[17] Woe to the idol shepherd (Editor’s Note: This is a reference to the Antichrist) that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.”

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After God worked for six days and finished Creation, He didn’t rest because He was too pooped to pop; He rested because the work was done.

“People like to argue about evolution; I tell people I’m a six-day evolutionist,” says Jordan. “When God, in Genesis 1, created in those six days, He had a plan. He did this first, and then based on that, He did that.

“In the Bible, He uses construction terms: He laid a foundation. He put a line on it. He puts it together and you watch Him build it. Well, it shouldn’t surprise you then if you look at creation and it gives evidence that there’s a plan involved. Because He had a plan! Some of the stuff people argue about, it just goes by me!

“He says, ‘I worked for six days so I could get to this day; this day is the reason I created all this stuff—to get to right here. This is the day of my rest. I got nothing else; I don’t need to do anymore. This is what I was doing it all for—I’ve arrived.’

“Psalm 132:13-14 will nail the board down for you, or tie the rag on the bush—

whatever you want to say. ‘For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation. This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.’

“In Job 38, God calls it ‘my decreed place; the place I’ve decreed I’m going to inhabit.’ He says, ‘This is my rest forever. Here will I dwell for I have desired it. I’ve got a plan. I’ve got a desire. I’ve got something I’m doing.’ And on that seventh day, He said, ‘I’m there!’

“So what was it that He set the seventh day apart for? For a day of rest. What does that mean? That’s the day He’s going to dwell on the earth. The purpose of Creation was so God could rest in it, and the resting in it is that He would dwell in it on a certain piece of real estate.”

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In Psalm 104, a psalm about the Millennium, Israel praises God for Christ’s coming and delivering them into the kingdom. It tells of how God “stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind.”

Jordan explains, “If He’s laid beams of His chambers down here on the earth, what are the beams of your chambers? That’s the foundation. That’s what you lay a house on.

“Now, notice His house isn’t there yet, but He’s got the beams of the chambers there. You see that?! He’s got plans to live on this earth!”