What Does it Matter?

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

God spoke creation into existence. And the first thing He manifested was light.
Is that the Big Bang?  I don't know, I wasn't there.

When I was young we were told that everything around us is composed of atoms, and these atoms were composed of electrons, protons and neutrons and that they were mostly empty.
It kind of boggled my mind that most of the "matter" that I saw and touched (and roughed me up sometimes) was mostly empty space occupied by these elements. 

Now, the latest theories posit that that was wrong.
Actually, what we see as "matter" is actually the influence of energy (and at that, light) that vibrates and produces effects that appear as solid (or gaseous or liquid, I hope you get my drift).

Everything is vibrating like a string on a guitar that God plucked.

Hebrews 1:3 notes that the Son “upholds the universe by the word of his power,” and Colossians 1:17 says that “in Him all things hold together”.

The Bible also goes on to say that all things were created in Christ.

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend (surround) it.

The same One who holds it all together with His word, perhaps His voice.

Now the concept of energy vibrating at different frequencies manifesting itself as matter makes perfect sense. It’s the resonant frequency of God’s voice that suspends the creation.

In Revelation, John speaks of hearing a voice as of many waters. Is that the sound, the source of the vibrations that define the universe?

Powerful imagery. 

In acoustics, there is a concept called "resonant frequency".

If you strike on a tuning fork and place it next to another of that frequency, the second one will begin vibrating also, the sound emanating from the first moving the second.

If you've ever been in a room with loud bass notes and you realize that one of those notes comes out louder than the rest or seems to vibrate the room, that is the "resonant" frequency of that room, that cavity.

Blaise Pascal said:
"There was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace. This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him... though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words, by God himself."

The God-sized hole has a resonant frequency that vibrates when exposed to the Word of God.

We have sayings: "that moved me" or "I really felt that" or "that really resonates with me".

The Word of God can cause a resonance in the cavity that He was meant to fill.

The Invisible Coup

My friend Mark Tapson interviews Peter Schweitzer about his book Invisible Coup.
And then I spoke with former Ambassador to the Vatican Francis Rooney about Trump's Foreign Policy.

Turns out Francis is a friend of the new pope Leo. I'll have to have him back.

John G West: Endowed by Our Creator.

Ed Bonderenka is joined by author and scholar John G. West to talk about his book, Endowed by Our Creator.

The book explores the basis for the Declaration of Independence, the attacks on it and it's defence.

The Declaration is antithetical to the humanist left.

4 18 2026 John G West

Then Gary Wellings and I talk with author Claudia Logan about Trump and his architectural activity. The Ballroom, The Arches, The Reflecting pool, etc.

4 18 2026 Claudia Logan Gary Wellings

Backlog

Constitutional Professor Will Wagner and I discuss the recent Supreme Court hearing on Birthright Citizenship and the 14th Amendment.

This is probably the clearest analysis you will hear of the issue.

4 4 2026 Professor Will Wagner

Then Will came back to continue a discussion of recent Supreme Court activity including some of the briefs he has filed.

4 11 2026 with Will Wagner pt2

Then longtime columnist and commentator Cal Thomas joins Will Wagner and I to talk about his career and his book A Watchman on the Wall, among other topics regarding our heritage.

4 11 2026 with Cal Thomas 

Ressurection!

 I spoke with William J. Federer about Resurrection Sunday, more familiarly known as Easter.

If you are familiar with Bill then you know this is good stuff.

Your American Heritage 4 4 2026 Bill Federer: the Resurrection

Birthright Citizenship and SCOTUS with Prof William Wagner

I had a conversation with Constitutional Professor William Wagner about the Supreme Court hearing on Birthright Citizenship.

This is one of the most cogent of analyses of the subject I've heard.

And easy to understand.

If you have any interest in the subject, this is for you. 

Your American Heritage 4 4 2026 Professor Will Wagner

Why It's Called Good Friday

 

When they take the Son of God and put Him to death, why is that considered good?

Because when He died that horrific tortured death on Calvary, He took the punishment due us for our rebellion against God.

It was good for us. Was it good for Him?

When He arose from the dead on Easter, He proved that what He said was true. He had been predicting these moments to His followers for a couple years and they did not believe Him.

Until He did it.

The Bible says, "… who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." (Heb 2:2).

So if Jesus came down from Glory, endured the cross, and went back to Glory, what was His net gain?

Us.
We were the joy set before Him.

We are the bride He travelled to a far land to obtain (like Jacob did, among other examples).
Granted we're not the finished product, yet, but if we cooperate with His plan, He sees something in us He wants to spend eternity with.
I'm good with that. That's good.

I want to share a cool thing with you.
If you're not a Christian, please read anyway, because it never hurts to have a little information about what those whackos around you believe.

A few people know that Psalm 22 is a description of the crucifixion of Jesus that was written hundreds of years before the event.
David saw it in a vision and it shakes him up so much that he starts out with:
My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
Many Christians have been taught that, as He was crucified, Jesus was crying this out to His Father in heaven, because the Father could not bear to look on Jesus, our scapegoat.
That He was separated from the Father.
That Jesus was accursed (and the Father could not be in fellowship with Jesus because it would violate His holiness) because Jesus was carrying the penalty of the sins of the world.

Give me a break.

<< 1 Corinthians 12:3 >> Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed.

Jesus and the Father had this worked out since before the universe was created, and at the last minute The All-Powerful Ruler of More than the Universe flinches?
No.
If the Father and the Son (who with the Spirit are referred to as the "Godhead" in perfect unity) ever separated, I believe the universe would crumble.

If the Father looked away from His Son in His greatest trial. how could you be sure He would stay with you in yours?

As you read the gospels, particularly John's, you see that the Pharisees (some of them, like Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea, were good guys, by the way) were asking Jesus for a sign that he was the Messiah. He continually answered them that when they saw Him lifted up, that would be their sign.
Here He is, lifted up in front of them. He's surrounded by "strong bulls" (prison slang for guards), and the crowd is taunting Him. It's the scene predicted in Psalm 22 .
Then He quotes the first verse of Psalm 22.

This is called a "Remez". It's a teaching tool Jesus had used for 3 years.

When they hear this verse, they remember the rest of the Psalm.
The Pharisees had asked Jesus for a sign.
He said that they would have it when the Son of Man was lifted up.
(Remember that joke, "Here's your sign."?)
Can you imagine the look on their face when they get it?
This death on this cross by this man was predicted hundreds of years ago.
Here was their sign.
The ramifications are huge.

Do you get it?

These people did:
https://stream.org/did-god-abandon-jesus-on-the-cross/