Skyfall 2024 - Biblical Cosmology by Matt Long

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   Well, I tell you what, I sometimes I cannot believe that it's been since 2018. We've been doing this stuff. Of course, we did take a couple of years. One year we did a deliverance seminar and then we missed one year altogether. But 2018, it's been a long time. But Matt and I met in Raleigh during the Flat Earth, the first Flat Earth International Conference in 2017, and Matt, it's just been a blessing in my life. He stood with me in all that battle during that time I was like, I knew I liked this guy. That was back when he was through. With the metal cards, anybody ever get, yeah, we had the metal card. But Matt, I love you brother and appreciate your stand for the Lord and the Word of God and we love having you. Thanks for coming. Well through him all things were made. Through who? I wonder. Well, according to John 1, Hebrews 1, and Colossians 1, Jesus is the Maker of all things, including that right there. And according to Romans 1, we can get to know the Creator through the creation. So if that's the case, if we can get to know the Creator through the creation, should we not study and appreciate what that creation is according to Scripture? And when Scripture and science diverge, should we embrace science and reject the Bible or should we embrace the Bible and reject science? Because you'll say, well Matt, the Bible's not a science book and that's true and it's actually a good thing because science books were written by men attempting to describe the things of God while at the same time removing God from the equation. And the Bible doesn't function on such illogic. The Bible has never issued a second, third, or fourth edition because the Bible is ultimate truth and ultimate truth cannot change. It doesn't bend. It doesn't flex based on scientific trends or theories of the day, right? So I guess I want to thank Dean and Nancy for having me back, okay? This is one of the only streaks I still have alive in my life as I get older, is that I've spoken at every single skyfall. And honestly, I have two goals in my life for the remainder of my life. One is I live in a neighborhood with no, they have no shoulders on the road, so the mailbox is like jump out at you as you're driving. And so I want to never hit a mailbox before I go to the grave and I never want to be the subject of a Dean Otol sermon.

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   That is my goal. So far so good. Now I like telling jokes to get started, kind of loosen me up, but I thought this time I would just show you guys a joke real quick, right there. Thanks. So I was trying to think what to speak about this time and I was speaking in Boston a couple weeks ago and I had an older lady look me in the eyes, point at me from the crowd and say, this is what you're supposed to talk about. Do not waver. And of course, the theme of skyfall was stay the course. So I thought it was fitting that I should speak on biblical cosmology and of course Dean was no help. He's just talk about what the Lord leads brother, you know, when I asked someone to speak on. So, so yeah, I just waited for the Lord to speak and here we are at biblical cosmology. So I obviously have a book on the subject. It's called The House That Jesus Built and that is about the biblical shape of the earth, an intelligent alternative design. If you guys have read my first version of that book, it's a lot of the same stuff is in here. This is a little bit reorganized in a way for someone who's never heard of the subject, like didn't even know it was a controversy, could take a look at it and really get something out of it. I had meant to bring some, but I mean, I only got here with like 25% of my children. So the idea to also bring books along was just a little bit too much for me to bear. In fact, I saw Kevin in the lobby this morning in the hotel. He's like, Hey, can I get a ride, you know, over to the place? I was like, look, we're being down here at nine. Make sure you get here at 857 so I don't accidentally leave without you. So it's just, you got to, you got to work those systems in and, but yeah, if you go to mattlongbook.com, that's where you can find that a couple of the things that we're working on that are really cool. If you guys have heard of dome shot, it's the official token of the flat earth and the official currency of the Fe clock app from Dave Weiss. We've done some really cool stuff. We air dropped like we actually did 33 million on 9 11 to like 1400 users and it's actually done about 100 X since the launch. So that's pretty exciting. Here's a, here's a chart of it versus NASA's last launch here. So you can see the charts going up and, and NASA is obviously coming, coming back down here, something that's really cool. I don't know if you're into crypto or not, but if you are, it's just something fun to get into. So the funny thing is we actually, we use it. So when people refer the app, we pay them in dome. It's called dome shot dome for short. And we're actually at the value that it is now. We're actually paying people every time they refer the app or paying them about

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   the $8 equivalent US dollars and the app costs three bucks. So it's kind of funny. We want to look back 10 years from now and realize we were paying people like a thousand bucks a referral for a $3 app. But it's the, it's the first crypto in the history of the world to monetize the spreading of God's true creation. So I think it's pretty cool. So if you go to dome shot.io, you can learn everything you need to learn about it there. I've also gotten into the pickle ball space again. Not that kind of space, but the pickle ball space. This is actually the only pickle ball pad on the history of the world that was designed with a non, a flat non-rotating earth in mind. So you got any pickle ball players out there? This is the only one out there, okay? So if you go to cleaver.pro and scroll all the way down to the bottom and click a little, there's a little FE button down there. And there's actually a flat earth version. That's it's got a flat earth map on it. And that's actually the official paddle of the flat earth. It's amazing what you can claim when no one else wants to claim it. So, but I also do like real estate development as my official like line of business. And if you go to sixture.com with an S, you can see all these things that I do. And if there are any synergies there, like anyone wants to, you know, do some business, I'd ret rather do with a Christian flat earther, of course. So you guys just let me know. So what is biblical cosmology or intelligent alternative design? Well, we've already kind of ripped the band-aid off, right? It's this topic of flat earth. That right there, that is an official NASA photo of what flat earthers believe right there, if you guys can believe that. Actually, that's a drawing from Robert Paint Tank Moore right there. It's from my book. Robert did the illustrations for me. But obviously, yes, nobody believes this. An actual flat earther or someone who believes in biblical cosmology does not believe this. In fact, we don't believe in a solar system at all, right? We believe in what's called an earth system, something a little bit more like this. So if you were to take the globe and squash it, basically stick your finger on the North Pole, squash it down to where the North Pole is now the center of our creation. Antarctica is no longer a continent at the bottom of the globe, but rather a continental ice shelf that holds the waters in and supports the dome above. So to us, this is all there is. This is the earth system. And so the sun, moon, and stars are not distant planets and galaxies far, far away. They're actually smaller, closer, and also located inside our system. I believe that this version is the only version that can fulfill all 200-plus verses in the Bible that speak of the Hebrew cosmology, what the Hebrews believed. So what I want to establish first is why this is important so that the Baptists

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   don't come after me for no reason here. But as Christians, I think we need to respect the fact that different things lead different people to Christ. For me, when, and I usually say, the only thing worse than Christians when trying to spread flat earth is pastors, right? Because they actually get in the way quite a bit of this movement that I believe is bringing people to Christ. And like I mentioned, different things bring different people to Christ. For me, when I was in my 20s, someone coming up to me and saying, hey, man, Jesus loves you, would not have done anything for me. In fact, I'm sure it happened. But to me, Jesus wasn't real. I had to come at it from a different viewpoint. And embarrassingly, I just needed a little bit more, like, I don't know, say, proof. But I did need to know that the Bible was something that you could believe without being an idiot. That's literally what I thought. I was like, oh, you believe the Bible? Oh, well, you need a mental crutch. That's what I thought. And after reading the case for Christ and studying many other things, I found out like, oh, like, if you know this stuff, you actually can't be a wise person and not believe the Bible is what I came to. Because my university-level physics, astronomy, and geology classes all told me how this place got here without the help of an all-loving, all-powerful creator. And I also didn't realize that there was a difference between evidence and worldview. Evidence is numbers, readings, measurements. It's unbiased information from which we can speculate and draw conclusions. And worldview is an interpretation of that evidence. And everything you hear from a college professor or see on the Discovery Channel is something that is an interpretation of evidence. A lot of people think they're listening to unbiasedness when they're watching those shows. But actually, they're listening to something that has a very purposeful worldview. And that worldview, it's the scientific worldview. And like I said, it's the worldview that nothing exploded, created everything without the help of an all-loving, all-powerful creator. I want to see if the volume works here. So if that's how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receiving pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on. So he's obviously not one of the 70 that we talked about earlier, right? But that is the worldview right there. The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics. You are all stardust. You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded, because the elements, the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron,

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