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Out of the Ashes
Excerpt from Introduction
Out of the Ashes carries a fourfold message: it’s a journey, a mission, a record of discourse and a path of discovery.
If memory serves me correctly, the World Wide Web (Internet) was just beginning to peak in 1996.
Although I was ignorant to the ins and outs of this technology, I remember one day something so startling crossing my mind that it made me sit up with a jolt.
The message was simple, but it continued to repeat itself with such force and weight that these many years later, I still remember the words,
“The Internet will grow in such a dynamic fashion, that people all over the world (businesses, blue and white collar workers, rich and poor, etc.,) will have a common meeting place to communicate, obtain information and shop online.”
Now mind you, I knew nothing of the ongoing research of David Filo and Jerry Yang, but the Lord did. He knew that their efforts would bring about the global Internet communications, commerce and Media Company that is now a household name to millions the world over, YAHOO!
However the focus of the times was the World-Wide-Web. This mammoth cybernetics giant was slowly gurgling the globe with its tentacles. Ironically, from its genesis this juggernaut would revolutionize the world’s concept of time.
Previously time was measured in three cycles, (1) part of a measuring system used to sequence events, (2) comparing durations of events and the intervals between them, and (3) quantifying motions of objects.
However, with the advent of the Internet, time has become quad-dimensional: (1 fluid (existing in a free-flowing electronic state), (2) transitional (movement from electronic state to character set), (3) evolving (encapsulating past, present and future events) or (4) abstract (impersonal in attitude or views, e.g., e-mail exchange).
In mere seconds, users can access information that 40 years ago would have stumped researchers for months or even years. You ask, “Why is this significant?”
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For starters, this fits right in with Daniel’s prophecy, “But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased” (Daniel 12:4).
In a Hebrew concordance, the word “increased” translates as râbâh (raw-baw’), “To become great, become many, become much, or become numerous.”
This prophecy is literally fulfilling itself right before our eyes!
Technological advances were so dynamic and revolutionary in the 20th century that many ideas were outdated only hours after they were removed from the drawing board!
Never in the history of the human race had we witnessed such an exponential expanse of technology. Yet, with this increase, we also saw record bankruptcies, more suicides, more nervous breakdowns, more divorces and a four-fold rise in crimes of the most unimaginable proportion.
Is there a correlation? Most definitely! In the book of Luke, we read, “. . . for unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more” (Luke 12:48).
I know many will disagree with my analysis, but I believe the Lord gave the Internet first and foremost as a medium to propitiate the Gospel to the world!
Is it working? Well, right now as you read these words, millions are hearing for the fist time the Gospel behind the “Iron” and “Bamboo” curtains!”
So, despite the arguments as to the Internet’s primary use, my Bible says,
“And this Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come” (Matthew 24:14).
In other words, we have much to look forward to in the not to distant future!
Pilgrim Outreach Ministries Bookstore
Excerpt from Introduction
Out of the Ashes carries a fourfold message: it’s a journey, a mission, a record of discourse and a path of discovery.
If memory serves me correctly, the World Wide Web (Internet) was just beginning to peak in 1996.
Although I was ignorant to the ins and outs of this technology, I remember one day something so startling crossing my mind that it made me sit up with a jolt.
The message was simple, but it continued to repeat itself with such force and weight that these many years later, I still remember the words,
“The Internet will grow in such a dynamic fashion, that people all over the world (businesses, blue and white collar workers, rich and poor, etc.,) will have a common meeting place to communicate, obtain information and shop online.”
Now mind you, I knew nothing of the ongoing research of David Filo and Jerry Yang, but the Lord did. He knew that their efforts would bring about the global Internet communications, commerce and Media Company that is now a household name to millions the world over, YAHOO!
However the focus of the times was the World-Wide-Web. This mammoth cybernetics giant was slowly gurgling the globe with its tentacles. Ironically, from its genesis this juggernaut would revolutionize the world’s concept of time.
Previously time was measured in three cycles, (1) part of a measuring system used to sequence events, (2) comparing durations of events and the intervals between them, and (3) quantifying motions of objects.
However, with the advent of the Internet, time has become quad-dimensional: (1 fluid (existing in a free-flowing electronic state), (2) transitional (movement from electronic state to character set), (3) evolving (encapsulating past, present and future events) or (4) abstract (impersonal in attitude or views, e.g., e-mail exchange).
In mere seconds, users can access information that 40 years ago would have stumped researchers for months or even years. You ask, “Why is this significant?”
[image error]
For starters, this fits right in with Daniel’s prophecy, “But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased” (Daniel 12:4).
In a Hebrew concordance, the word “increased” translates as râbâh (raw-baw’), “To become great, become many, become much, or become numerous.”
This prophecy is literally fulfilling itself right before our eyes!
Technological advances were so dynamic and revolutionary in the 20th century that many ideas were outdated only hours after they were removed from the drawing board!
Never in the history of the human race had we witnessed such an exponential expanse of technology. Yet, with this increase, we also saw record bankruptcies, more suicides, more nervous breakdowns, more divorces and a four-fold rise in crimes of the most unimaginable proportion.
Is there a correlation? Most definitely! In the book of Luke, we read, “. . . for unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more” (Luke 12:48).
I know many will disagree with my analysis, but I believe the Lord gave the Internet first and foremost as a medium to propitiate the Gospel to the world!
Is it working? Well, right now as you read these words, millions are hearing for the fist time the Gospel behind the “Iron” and “Bamboo” curtains!”
So, despite the arguments as to the Internet’s primary use, my Bible says,
“And this Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come” (Matthew 24:14).
In other words, we have much to look forward to in the not to distant future!
Pilgrim Outreach Ministries Bookstore
