Your Eternal Assignment is More Certain Than Death and Taxes

© 2019 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

In 1789, Benjamin Franklin wrote to his friend, Jean-Baptiste Leroy, a French Scientist.  Describing his expected “durability” of the new U.S. constitution, he added, “but…nothing is certain except death and taxes.”

Jesus, however, revealed something even more certain.

“Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.” (Luke 21:33)

Jesus’ apostle Peter wrote,

“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.” (2 Peter 3:10)

This statement rebuked scoffers rejecting the truth of God’s creation and coming judgment.  He points out that these scoffers willingly ignore the evidence of God’s previous judgment by the worldwide flood.

“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.  For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:  Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:” (2 Peter 3:3-6)

These scoffers insist, “all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”  This tenuous assumption is called “uniformitarianism,” which is foundational to evolutionary dogma.  It denies God’s creation, insisting, rather, that everything came about through slow unchanging processes still in effect.

After man sinned by rejecting God in Eden, God revealed that “the seed of the woman” would come as the sacrificial redeemer. (see Genesis 3:15, 21)  This prophesy spoke of God the Son, Jesus Christ.

After Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection, His apostle Paul reminded fellow believers,

“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” (2 Corinthians 5:21)

Jesus said,

“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” (John 3:36)

Has Christ given you faith to be ready for what is certain?

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