"I am become Death"

 

By Tom Baker

 

   

Last week I was reading an article written in October 1995 by Dr.David Reagan entitled “Nuclear Weapons in the End Times”, subtitled “Does the Bible predict a nuclear holocaust?”

        On August 6,1945 the Enola Gay,a B29 bomber, dropped a nuclear weapon,called “Little Boy”, upon a populated city—Hiroshima. Tail-gunner Bob Caron described what he saw:”It’s like bubbling molasses down there. The mushroom is spreading out.Fires are springing up everywhere—it’s like a peep into Hell!”

        To quote Reagan further:”The people of Hiroshima

within half a mile of the explosion were seared to bundles of smoking char in a fraction of a second.Thousands of these small black bundles could be seen stuck to streets,bridges and sidewalks.Birds ignited in midair and 70,00 buildings were obliterated.Mankind had entered the atomic age,the end of which was too terrifying to contemplate.

        A college professor wrote:”I climbed Hikiyama Hill and looked down.I saw Hiroshima had disappeared—Hiroshima didn’t exist.That was mainly what I saw—Hiroshima just didn’t exist!”

        Robert Oppenheimer, Director of the Los Alamos project which gave birth to this terrible weapon, quoted from

Bhagavad Gita :”I am become Death, the Destroyer of worlds.”

        Oppenheimer bet Enrico Fermi $5 that during fission the neutron flux would ignite hydrogen in our atmosphere and “take out” the world.The odds were 1 in 10.

        It should be evident that what we are talking about is a weapon unparalleled in human history. Modern bombs are now thousands of times as powerful as those dropped on Japan.

        Thoughout the Scriptures,in many passages, terrible times are forecast for the end of this present age. Here are just two examples:

Isa 24:3-6     New American Standard                          “3 The earth will be completely laid waste and completely despoiled, for the LORD has spoken this word. 4 The earth mourns and withers, the world fades and withers, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away. 5 The earth is also polluted [a]by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who live in it are held guilty. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.”

Also,read Zephaniah 1:2-3, 18:

 

2 “I will completely remove all things
From the face of the [a]earth,” declares the LORD.
3 “I will remove man and beast;
I will remove the birds of the sky
And the fish of the sea,
And the [b]ruins along with the wicked;
And I will cut off man from the face of the [c]earth,” declares the LORD.

 

Neither their silver nor their gold
Will be able to deliver them
On the day of the LORD’S wrath;
And all the earth will be devoured
In the fire of His jealousy,
For He will make a complete end,
Indeed a terrifying one,
Of all the inhabitants of the earth.”   ( Did you hear that?)

 

Dr.Reagan says,”The implications of these prophecies is not pretty—this earth has an appointment with a devastation which shall be horrible beyond imagination.There is no hope for this present evil age. It is under a death sentence from almighty God.God has decreed that this present evil age shall pass away in a flame of fire, death and judgment.

(Did you hear that?)

No amount of peace talks, goodwill conferences or think tanks will be able to change that.”

        In these last days God’s hiding place will be found only in the arms of the Lord Jesus Christ.     (IThes.5:9)