Submission by Dan Martella

January 24, 2005

DAY 2 - YOU ARE NOT AN ACCIDENT

You are not an accident!

Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he expected it. God never does anything accidentally, and he never makes mistakes. He has a reason for everything he creates.

Submission by Dan Martella

January 23, 2005

DAY 1 – IT ALL STARTS WITH GOD

It’s not about you!

“For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, …everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him.” Colossians 1:16 (Msg)

“It is God who directs the lives of his creatures; everyone’s life is in his power.” Job 12:10 (TEV)

On the new earth, in which righteousness dwells,
God will provide an eternal home for the redeemed and a perfect environment
for everlasting life, love, joy, and learning in His presence. For here
God Himself will dwell with His people, and suffering and death will have
passed away. The great controversy will be ended, and sin will be no more.
All things, animate and inanimate, will declare that God is love; and He
shall reign forever. Amen. (
2 Peter 3:13;

The millennium is the
thousand-year reign of Christ with His saints in heaven between the first
and second resurrections. During this time the wicked dead will be judged;
the earth will be utterly desolate, without living human inhabitants, but
occupied by Satan and his angels. At its close Christ with His saints and
the Holy City will descend from heaven to earth. The unrighteous dead will
then be resurrected, and with Satan and his angels will surround the city;
but fire from God will consume them and cleanse the earth. The universe
will thus be freed of sin and sinners forever. (

The wages of sin is death. But God,
who alone is immortal, will grant eternal life to His redeemed. Until that
day death is an unconscious state for all people. When Christ, who is our
life, appears, the resurrected righteous and the living righteous will
be glorified and caught up to meet their Lord. The second resurrection,
the resurrection of the unrighteous, will take place a thousand years later.
(
Romans 6:23;
1 Timothy 6:15, 16;