1. What if some 6000 years ago darkness was over the face of the deep and God said, Let there be light and it was so and it was good...what if?
2. What if 5 days later God created the first man, Adam, from the dust of this new earth and breathed into him the breath of life and that man actually became a living/eternal soul...what if?
3. What if God looked at this first man “Adam” and saw his loneliness and caused him to fall into a deep sleep while removing his rib and formed from that rib a helper and companion called “woman”, named Eve...what if?
4. What if they were forever creatures, living in a forever place, in forever wonder...what if?
5. What if their Creator gave them free will and told them about one thing that was out of bounds, one thing that would make their free will, “free will”...what if?
6. What if they disobeyed this Creator and did that one thing that He asked them not to do...what if?
7. What if this righteous, holy, Creator God was so righteous and holy that He could not, would not dwell in the presence of un-holiness and He had to separate Himself from His new creation...what if?
8. What if the separation from this holy, Creator God was more than distance, but also included time...forever time...what if?
9. What if God’s perfect creation had been corrupted and polluted by an enemy of God...what if?
10. What if that enemy, through the fall of man, had actually obtained dominion over God’s new creation...what if?
11. What if God’s love for these men and women of earth was so great that He would not yield to this enemy, but make a plan for a future man, a future seed of woman, to crush this enemy’s head...what if?
12. What if man was allowed to live, at least for a season with the corrupted seed of sin in his life...what if?
13. What if they lived and had children and they lived and had children...what would those children be like...what if?
14. What if the evil of Adam and the dominion of Satan actual became progressively worse in the heart of man...what if?
15. What if 9 generations from Adam that Creator God said He was sorry and grieved that He had created man at all...what if?
16. What if the Creator decided to start all over...to take the population of the earth down to 8 people...what if?
17. What if the Creator planned a great flood, a flood that would destroy all life on earth outside the boat that His man Noah would build...what if?
18. What if the promised seed of God was on that boat...a seed from Adam carefully protected and kept dry and safe through those 40 days and 40 nights of deadly rain...what if?
19. What if one of those men on the boat was named Shem and the Creator had determined to raise a miracle seed from this man’s children...what if?
20. What if 9 generations after Shem the Creator would raise up a righteous man of faith named Abram...what if?
21. What if this man named Abram would become the father of many nations, not just any nation, but a nation of children that would be called “God’s Children”...what if?
22. What if God initiated an everlasting covenant with this new friend called Abram...a covenant that would bless all the peoples of the earth...even to future generations...what if?
23. What if this man, Abram, would have a son, named Isaac, through miraculous means when he was 100 and his wife was 90...what if?
24. What if God came to Abraham one day and asked him to kill his son Isaac on an altar in a place called Moriah...what if?
25. What if Abraham actually took his son there to Mt. Moriah and what if Abraham actually took his knife in his hand to slay the boy as an act of total submission and obedience to his Creator God...what if?
26. What if this sacrifice called for by the Creator was actually a test to see if Abraham really loved God or just thought he did...what if?
27. What if God stopped Abraham’s knife, at the last moment, and provided a substitute Lamb as a blood offering that day...what if?
28. What if that boy Isaac grew up to be a fine young man like his daddy Abraham and followed in the faithful life of his father...what if?
29. What if that boy, Isaac, had a son named Jacob...what if?
30. What if the Creator came to Jacob one day and changed Jacob’s name to Israel...what if?
31. What if Jacob had 12 sons and what if those 12 sons became the 12 tribes of Israel...what if?
32. What if those 12 tribes grew from 12 to over 2 million...what if?
33. What if those 12 tribes of Israel find themselves slaves to an evil Egyptian Pharaoh...what if?
34. What if the Creator looks down from His glorious throne and sees the distress of His covenant children and decides to set them free...what if?
35. What if the Creator reveals Himself through a burning bush to a man from the Tribe of Levi called Moses...what if?
36. What if this man Moses had been born for this very purpose...A deliverer…to go to Egypt and set the Children of Israel free...what if?
37. What if this man of God, Moses, had been given power from God to turn wooden sticks into snakes...what if?
38. What if this man of God, Moses, was given power to call down plagues against Egypt to reveal the Creator to the people in Egypt...what if?
39. What if this man Moses, would enter Egypt as one man, but leave Egypt with more than 2 million sons of Abraham following him toward the Promised Land...what if?
40. What if Moses and the millions found themselves trapped at the edge of the Red Sea and what if the Creator of the Red Sea made the “wet”...”dry” that day...what if?
41. What if Moses and the millions find themselves at the mountain of God and what if Moses went up on that mountain...entering into the very presence of God...what if?
42. What if God made a new covenant and a new law with man that day...what if?
43. What if this new law had the ability to make men holy in the sight of God, once again...what if?
44. What if God used this law to create an environment and a people by which His Shekinah Glory would once again come and dwell in the presence of man...what if?
45. What if God gave these people, these sons of Abraham, a piece of land, called the Promised Land (Canaan) as an eternal possession...what if?
46. What if there were already people living in that land when they arrived...what if?
47. What if God actually fought for these covenant people of Israel...I mean to actually fight on their behalf against their enemies...what if?
48. What if these once enslaved people of Egypt now find themselves as possessors of a land that flows with milk and honey...what if?
49. What if God gave them a king...a real king, named David, chosen by God, whose kingdom would be established forever...what if?
50. What if this King David (14 generations from Abraham) was a shadow of the True King that would come crush the serpents head and regain the dominion of planet earth that Adam lost...what if?
51. What if 14 generations after King David these set free Children of Israel would become so rebellious that God would raise up a foreign kingdom in Babylon to take away all that God had given them...what if?
52. What if 14 generations from that exile, out of the seed of Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah and David a man and a woman appear by the names of Mary and Joseph...what if?
53. What if that woman, a virgin had a son...what if?
54. What if that virgin, visited by the angel Gabriel, bore the seed of a King, an eternal King...what if?
55. What if that King, was the One promised by the Father, which would reign with justice and righteousness in an eternal kingdom...what if?
56. What if this King, born of David, is actually the sacrificial Lamb of God, the payment for the sins of the world...what if?
57. What if this man child was born for the expressed purpose that He would die on a cross for the sins of all mankind...what if?
58. What if this sacrifice was actually the physical image of the invisible God...Immanuel...what if?
59. What if they, the sons of Abraham, didn’t believe Him and decided to kill Him instead of serving Him...what if?
60. What if they, in their zeal for God, killed the very One sent by God to save them...what if?
61. What if their crime was actually the fulfillment of God’s perfect plan of salvation all along...what if?
62. What if this Jesus was the seed of woman destined to crush the serpents head from the very beginning...what if?
63. What if He really died on that cross...what if?
64. What if they really did put his dead body in a tomb one evening 2000 years ago...what if?
65. What if Satan really did think he had won...what if?
66. What if there really is an Easter...a resurrection from the dead...what if?
67. What if Jesus really did rise from the tomb to walk among the living...what if?
68. What if that grave couldn’t hold this man...what if?
69. What if He really was of a new seed, a different seed, a seed not subject to the curse of death, but able to overcome the power of death...what if?
70. What if He really did appear to some 500 people in those 40 days after the resurrection and what if He really did tell us to go into the entire world and tell them the good news...what if?
71. What if He really has gone to heaven to prepare a place for us...what if?
72. What if He really is coming back to get us and take us that place to spend forever...what if?
73. What if we really will stand before Him and what if He really plans to judge us for what we have done with that which we have received...what if?
74. What if the day of His return has been prophesied and what if those signs in the Holy Scriptures are there to make us ready...what if?
75. What if Israel’s rebirth as a nation in 1948 was one of those signs...what if?
76. What if earthquakes, hurricanes, wars, sexual immorality, and lawlessness are signs of His coming...what if?
77. What if current world events, political unrest, riots and a pandemic are actually a warning signs of that which is coming...what if?
78. What if the current rebellion against Biblical Truth is the prelude to a worldwide spiritual battle that is headed for Armageddon...what if?
79. What if this looming worldwide economic crisis is a sign of His soon return...what if?
80. What if this movement away from national sovereignty and toward a new world order is the prelude for the coming of the antichrist...what if?
81. What if the rise in worldwide hatred of the Jewish people is a sign of His coming...what if?
82. What if all this Middle East turmoil between Israel, Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah is actually a spiritual battle between the seed of the serpent and the seed of God...what if?
83. What if there is a day, just like in the days of Noah when mankind will be eating, drinking and making merry and then the judgment of God comes suddenly...what if?
84. What if the Bible is the absolute perfect Word of God, absolute truth...all of it...what if?
85. What if there is really is going to be a rapture of the church...what if?
86. What if there is a coming day when the Lord Himself will come down from heaven with voice of the archangel, a commanding shout, and a trumpet call from God for all who have been redeemed...what if?
87. What if unbelievers really are left behind to endure a 7-year hell on earth...what if?
88. What if there really is a single day during those 7 years, so awful that one third of the earths remaining population will die in the wrath of God...what if?
89. What if there really is a wedding supper of the Lamb where believers will eat at the same table as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and of course...King Jesus...what if?
90. What if there really is a heaven...what if?
91. What if it’s really true that the streets are like gold and there will be no death there...never...what if?
92. What if Jesus really is the only way to have my old, dirty, sinful robe washed white as snow so that I may walk through the gates into the holy city and eat from the tree of life...what if?
93. What if believers really do get a glorified immortal body there and that perfect, glorified, immortal body will allow us to see His face...really see His face...what if?
94. What if there really is a place called hell...what if?
95. What if hell is really a place of everlasting fire, weeping, gnashing of teeth and torment...what if?
96. What if there are no second chances there...what if?
97. What if you can’t die there (in hell), even if you want to...what if?
98. What if Jesus really was right when He said that most people are headed there right now through a broad and wide road...what if?
99. What if you just heard these questions by the providence and mercy of an eternally loving,
gracious and Holy God...what if?
100. What now?
Acts 2:37-39 (NIV)
When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do [NOW]?"
38Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off--for all whom the Lord our God will call."
Maranatha, Hosanna, Hallelujah and Amen,
Terry Cooper