The molecule of plant, animal, and human inheritance (DNA) cannot even be seen without a high-powered microscope. Yet if the DNA strands in all your cells were stretched out and laid end to end, they would stretch 110 billion miles! That’s 440,000 times the distance to the moon. 

June 5 was Pentecost Sunday, and 240 South Korean Christians believe it is time for them to pay back a spiritual debt to America. 

Matiate – a place of refuge for Christians?

Archaeologists have reported making an amazing discovery in southeastern Turkey. Under the current city of Midyat, they discovered a massive underground city which could be the largest such find in the world. 

Occupying seventy-four acres or more, researchers to date have explored forty-nine rooms, including tunnels, places of worship, artifacts, wells, artwork, and storage areas. Archaeologists believe they have only excavated three percent of the total size of the city. It is estimated that at least 60-70,000 people lived there. 

Cursed but with a Glorious Promise

The earth was cursed by God because of the disobedience of Adam and Eve (Genesis 3:17). The comprehensiveness of this curse is stated by the apostle Paul: 

For the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption… For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now (Romans 8:20-22).