OK, back to matters at hand. Readers may look at the theme graphic here and think, "aren't we jumping the gun a little bit, getting into 'resurrection power' right now? Isn't that more of a Passover season message?" To that, I should say that 'resurrection power' is indeed a great Passover theme and a great start to the new year. However, the reason we start the year with that focus is because it is so foundational we need it all the time, from the start of the year to its finish. Really, for the Remnant, 'resurrection power' must be like breathing. To us, resurrection power is life itself!

Tonight at our live online meeting we will be looking into Luke 20, which includes the famous encounter Y'shua had with the Sadducees, "those who deny that there is a resurrection" (Luke 20:27). They had no hope in the resurrection - that's why they were sad you see. I know, you've probably heard that one before, but that little joke can help you to remember what that group was all about. Actually, sad to say, the priesthood was largely drawn from the Sadducees. Much like the modern religious system today, academics who fancied themselves too educated, erudite and sophisticated to take the Scriptures as literal truth - in other words, fools with no faith - were the ones who thought themselves to be in charge of the spiritual lives of the masses. No wonder it didn't work out any better back then than it is working out now. 

The Sadducees came to Messiah with a dumb story designed to make the resurrection seem like an ignorant superstition of the masses, a mere myth to make the peasants feel better about their worthless lives - that 'Richard Dawkins" sort of move. They thought they could embarrass Y'shua as He stammered to try and find an answer to the unanswerable. Of course, they were too puffed up and self-important to foresee how stupid He was about to make them look by giving them such a brilliant answer they never could have foreseen it. We will be considering that answer at the meeting tonight, so I hope you will be there to consider that with us.

What I'm seeing about this right now is how inconsistent these faithless pencil-head types can be. They often believe in concoctions of the human mind that require far more blind faith than anything the Scriptures ask of us. This is more true than ever today. Such people are perfectly willing to believe that life spontaneously sprang of its own from the primordial slime, even though no one has ever seen such a thing, and they cannot reproduce that event in the laboratory. Never the less, they assume it happened completely by chance millions of years ago. Somehow, the millions of years are supposed to make the impossible possible - another baseless assumption. After that absurd beginning the story makes one huge leap of fancy after another, with mere chance (given the scientific sounding name of "natural selection") somehow creating and dividing off every type of living thing known to man, all in an orderly manner that can be laid out with with precision by the same pencil-heads who tell us we are stupid because we profess acceptance of an intelligent Creator!

Like the Sadducees, today's pencil-heads think the resurrection is impossible, and is a myth to make the ignorant feel better when coping with death. Of course, they have their own version of the afterlife, with themselves as god. They call it "Transhumanism" - which means using technology to make those who can afford it something more than human, to extend their lives and power indefinitely. An article in the Daily Mail explains how this vision of the pencil-heads would impact the future. This is how the article begins:

The science of transhumanism: How technology will lead to a new race of super-intelligent immortal beings (IF you can afford it)

• The development of biotechnology could end disease, ageing and even death  

• Humans may take on new forms through prosthetics or genetic engineering

• 'Transhumanism' is the idea that humans should transcend their natural state and limitations through the use of technology

• But researchers caution that this could lead to a scenario where masses of people [would be] forced to serve the technologically superior 'Humanity 2.0'