Communion on the Moon.

In November 1998, Charles Colson wrote an article entitled “Astronauts Who Found God: A Spiritual View of Space.” In it, he said, “Astronaut John Glenn’s return to outer space 36 years after his awe-inspiring orbit around the earth is a reminder of the kind of heroism that makes space exploration possible. . . “ Glenn told reporters in 1998, just after returning, at age 77, from his final trip into space that, ‘To look out at this kind of creation and not believe in God is to me impossible. It just strengthens my faith.’ 

People may be unaware that many of the early astronaut heroes had a deep religious faith. Their view of infinite space only increased their faith. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are best known as two of the first astronauts to land on the moon and take that ‘giant leap for mankind.’ But you probably don’t know that before they emerged from the spaceship, Aldrin pulled out a Bible, a silver chalice, and sacramental bread and wine. There on the moon, his first act was to celebrate communion. Frank Borman was commander of the first space crew to travel beyond the Earth’s orbit. Looking down on the earth from 400,000 kms away, Borman radioed back a message, quoting Genesis 1: ‘In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.’ As he later explained, ‘I had an enormous feeling that there had to be a power greater than any of us—that there was a God, that there was indeed a beginning.’ Each of the astronauts discussed here sensed that this world was not the result of fortuitous chance. Nor was life a cosmic accident. The astronauts realized the truth of Genesis 1:1—that this world was created by an all-knowing, all-powerful God.

The book of Revelation talks of an end-time message called the three angels’ messages (Revelation 14:6-12). We are told that they will proclaim with a “loud voice” the message of Creation and of an omniscient God. God is never caught by surprise. He sees events yet to unfold before they ever occur. The message of the three angels is specifically designed by God to meet the humanistic, postmodern challenges of this generation. It is no accident that, at the same time that the theory of evolution was developed, God sent a message to the world to worship the Creator. Think, too, for a moment, if evolution were true, how many lies we have been told in the Bible. Just for starters, Genesis 2:1, 2 tell three. “Thus the heavens and earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done” (NKJV). Genesis 2:1, which says that the original work of creation was “finished,” would be a lie because science claims that the creative process, evolution, is still going on. (Google Is evolution still happening? or the like). If so, then the work of creation has not ended, even though Genesis 2:2 says that God “ended His work which He had done” (NKJV). Genesis 2:2 also says that God rested on the seventh day from all His work. The seventh day of what? Creation (we’re told) took billions of years, and counting, and so this verse about Him resting on the seventh day “from all His work which He had done” would be another lie. And tragically, these two fabrications would be only the start of the lies we have been told; that is, if evolution were true.