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Optimum Living and Fullness of Joy

David Allan Time And EternityA Brief Introduction To The Book

We can think of the Earth being like a space-ship traveling through time and eternity, and we are now at a critical juncture in the sufferings and challenges of mortality–a juncture that will bring about the end of worldliness, as we enter into the glorious millennial epoch.  Most importantly, I share how the ideal society (Optimum living and fullness of joy) will come out of the denouement our Lord has prepared. It is a book of hope and manifests the infinite love our Heavenly Father in His perfect plan of happiness brought about by the infinite atonement of His Beloved Son, which has seven steps to it.

The Decline In Our Western Morality

Douglas Murray just wrote another bestseller, The War on the West, with 503 reviews on Amazon since 26 April 2022—82% five stars. Jordan Peterson just did a podcast with Douglas Murray about his new book. It is a very scholarly, but a godless perspective, on what is now causing the decline in our Western morality and why. Many of these same problems have already occurred throughout the world, as he points out in this new book as well as in his other books

Looking Through God’s Eyes

Within my mortal limitations, as a God-loving Christian, I choose to look through God’s eyes, as best I can, to know where we are in His timetable and the glorious future He has in store for the righteous who repent with full purpose of heart and come unto His Beloved Son. I share what we can best do now, and what the path forward looks like as our Savior leads us back to the Father in His “One-eternal-round” glorious chiasmus for His spaceship called Earth. The great suffering and enormous challenges we now see throughout the world will have an incomprehensible denouement for the end-times now unfolding and beyond.  This you will see described in the book.

Three Gospels

In Chapter Five, for example, I explain how the Lord has given us three gospels to best help us prepare for His glorious Second Coming. By the word “gospel,” I take the Greek meaning: “the good news.” I explain in detail how these three gospels are the most important things the Lord has given us to prepare for His coming.

1. The gospel of the good earth will help us overcome the pollution of the earth, and how to have maximum health in body, mind, and spirit.

2. The gospel of the Bible will help all who believe in our Lord and Savior make it into the millennium where He will gloriously reign for a thousand years as King of kings and Lord of lords.

3. Then all who accept and live the fullness of the gospel will be delivered by the Son to the Father at the end of the millennium into celestial realms of glory–and into optimum living and a fullness of joy.

Because of my work with atomic clocks, I see the optimum living opportunity in a Zion society as like an ensemble of such clocks. Like people, each clock is different. Each clock has different time and performance characteristics. I believe the Lord gave me the algorithm back in 1968 to optimally combine the readings of an ensemble of atomic clocks (like an ideal society) so that the characteristics of each is fully utilized. This optimally combined ensemble then generates a time that is better than the best-contributing clock, and even the least of the performing clocks enhances the output. Just like in a Zion society, the time and talents of each individual are optimally used to help in bringing perfection to the whole of that society. As we learn and grow, the whole becomes better, because everyone is motivated by the pure love of Christ.

With improvements by my outstanding colleagues, that algorithm (AT-1) is still ticking today to provide official time for the USA. It is continually getting better as the contributing clocks get better. Timing accuracy has improved a billionfold in my life. AMAZING!

So in contrast to the worldview, which sees the world spiraling down in moral decay, my book is filled with hope and divine resolution—denouement for the world play in Father’s perfect plan of happiness in spite of all our imperfections.  The infinite atonement of our loving Lord and Savior is open to all who repent with full purpose of heart and come unto Him. My book also helps those who have lost faith; we see atheism increasing, and my book is a counter to that.

C.S. Lewis

As I share in my previous book, It’s About Time, C. S. Lewis during his teenage and apostate years, felt that the strongest force for atheism was expressed in a poem by Lucretius:

Had God designed the world, it would not be A world so frail and faulty as we see.

After J. R. R. Tolkien and others of his friends, persuaded Lewis to deeply consider Christianity, it turned his life around. As he considered Christ, he came to the conclusion that “only two views of this man are possible.

“Either he was a raving lunatic of an unusually abominable type, or else He was, and is, precisely what He said. There is no middle way. If the records make the first hypothesis unacceptable, you must submit to the second. And if you do that, all else that is claimed by Christians becomes credible — that this Man, having been killed, was yet alive, and that His death [and His glorious resurrection], in some manner incomprehensible to human thought, has affected a real change. . . in our favor.”

After gaining his deep appreciation for Christianity, in regard to evil, pain, and the suffering that comes with life, Lewis poignantly states that if you “Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free will involve, . . .you find that you have excluded life itself.” He goes on to say, let us get on with living the two great commandments. (Matt. 22:36-40)  If all would do that, we would have the optimum living. It is my hope and prayer that my new book will do that–sharing the incredible promises the Lord has in store for the faithful and the righteous. His love is infinite.

David W. Allan

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Time and Eternity: The End-Times Revealed and Beyond, Digital Legend (digitalegend.com)

Why Pain and Suffering if God is Perfect?

 

Why does God allow all the evil in the world?  (Isaiah 45:7) 

Why all the pain and suffering?  None of the great thinkers of the ages have come up with the answers to these questions. C.S. Lewis, after going through his own apostasy from Christianity, may have come the closest — becoming one of Christianity’s most avid advocates.

As Lewis considered the Christ, he concluded that

only two views of this man are possible. Either he was a raving lunatic of an unusually abominable type, or else He was, and is, precisely what He said. There is no middle way. If the records make the first hypothesis unacceptable, you must submit to the second. And if you do that, all else that is claimed by Christians becomes credible — that this Man, having been killed, was yet alive, and that His death, in some manner incomprehensible to human thought, has effected a real change. . . in our favour.1

After gaining his deep appreciation for Christianity, in regard to evil, pain, and the suffering that come with life, Lewis poignantly states that if you “Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free wills involve, . . .you find that you have excluded life itself.”1

 

Albert Schweitzer — considered by some to be the greatest humanitarian and one of the greatest thinkers of the last century

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