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HUMAN CLONING

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. (Ecclesiastes 7:29)

The verse that is mentioned here in Ecclesiastes can be traced back to the book of Genesis. This is due to the fact that it mentions about God making man upright, which goes back to Adam. Adam was made without sin and was placed in a sinless environment until he chose by his free will to sin against God along with his wife Eve. Their sin was eating from the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil" in Genesis 2:17. In other words, it was simply a tree that God told Adam and Eve not to eat and it teaches us that the basis of right and wrong is based on what God says is right or wrong.

Today there is no difference in how man still wants to cross over boundaries that God never intended man to do. One of those boundaries is the attempt of cloning humans. Satan's philosophy of man becoming a god (Genesis 3:5) is still being practiced throughout the world. We now have a certain cult known as the Raelians who claim that they have successfully cloned a human being. And to me I think these developments in our current events couldn't have come at a more defining moment in history. I will explain this later.

First, I would like to say that I believe the claim of the Raelians is a hoax. Their religion is based upon lies and it wouldn't surprise me if their human cloning story is a lie as well. But people look back to the successful cloning of a sheep named "Dolly." I believe I can explain why God allowed man to do this with an animal. (Interesting note: Dolly, the cloned sheep, has recently been put to death because of various health problems.) If you would recall in Genesis 1:26, God made man in His image and gave man dominion over every animal and creeping thing in the earth and also the fish in the sea. With this in mind we should not be surprised when man performs unique experiments on animals, such as cloning, without God's divine intervention to hinder it.

However, we are also reminded in Genesis 3:22 that it was when man decided to be "experimental" on himself by wanting to partake of the tree of life and live forever with his sinful nature, that God did intervene and block his efforts in verses 23 and 24. The lesson is that man is given a free will to perform God's will because he wants to and not mechanically like a robot. But not a free will to perform actions that are contrary to the Word of God. When man decides to do what is wrong, he suffers awful consequences. This is the reason why we have "safe sex." God never intended for it to be dangerous. It did become dangerous when man decided to "experiment" with it beyond the boundaries that God has placed (Hebrews 13:4).

Now after saying all of this, I think if man was ever allowed by God to successfully clone another human it would be for a purpose to possibly fulfill something prophetically. Before I go on to explain this, let me say that I do not claim to know the future, as well as everything. But I would like to share with you an assumption of mine based upon a news report I heard back in 1999 from an international source. It mentioned about one of the many Catholic monuments and statues (possibly at the Vatican itself if I remember correctly) that happens to miraculously "bleed" sometimes on occasion. It went on to say in this report about the next time this bleeding statue decides to bleed, that the DNA would be collected for the effort to try to "clone Jesus Christ."

So could cloning be the miraculous method used to help the Antichrist appear on the scene? We know from God's Word that everything supernatural is not of God according to 1 John 4:1-3. And we can definitely say that the "spirit of antichrist" is going rampant in these last days. But whether cloning will play a role in fulfilling prophecy or not, Bible prophecy will still come to pass regardless.

- James S. Hodges

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