“Then they carried the ark into Dagon’s temple and set it beside Dagon. When the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, there was Dagon, fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord! They took Dagon and put him back in his place. But the following morning when they rose, there was Dagon, fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord! His head and hands had been broken off and were lying on the threshold; only his body remained.…When the men of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the god of Israel must not stay here with us, because his hand is heavy upon us and upon Dagon our god.”” (1 Samuel 5:2-4,7, The Holy Bible : New International Version. electronic ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996, c1984.)
You know as I read this passage, I couldn’t help but think to myself, ‘what were they thinking?!’ I mean come on – their statue god Dagon falls face down in front of the Ark and they prop him back up – then it falls down and breaks. Don’t worry Dagon, we’ll get you fixed back up so you can, you know continue being our god. You would think the reaction would be to throw Dagon out with yesterdays trash and come to terms with the God of Israel! But no – what do they conclude – this God is picking on us and our god – we must send Him away! The status quo with its predictable, propped up god was preferred to acknowledging the living God. Can you believe that? Of course you can. Fast forward 3,000 years – Yeah, human behavior towards God hasn’t changed much. We still prefer that God not ‘mess’ with the status quo!
Evolution is one of the most ‘propped’ up ‘gods’ of our day. Evolutionists will cling to simply bizarre explanations to avoid the possibility that the world we experience may have actually been designed. In fact the holes in the theory are so weak that it must be protected from any and all opposing ideas. Even when shattered by the laws of probability, evidence, and just plain common sense, the status quo is preferred to acknowledging there is a divine being that not only might but WILL demand an account from us. Soo
n our motto will be ‘In Dagon We Trust’, we sent the Ark of the Living God away. I hear China has interest taking it off of our hands – over 150 million baptized followers of Christ (about half the U.S. population) and still baptizing! I once heard history goes where the gospel hasn’t (or is soon to go). Hmmm, makes you think doesn’t it.
Well, human behavior hasn’t ‘evolved’ much in the last 3,000 years. But neither has the Living God!
El Soñador 