"Yes! We've Walked on the Moon, BUT..."

We are now at the 50th anniversary of the first time a man, Neil Armstrong, walked on the surface of the moon.  Some say it was faked, but if it WAS, well that only buttresses the point I'm going to try to make, so read on!! But for the record, I believe the moon landing was LEGIT, a noble venture, an example of American excellence and most of all, of man being what God made him to be...one who has dominion over all the earth.  That God-pleasing instinct to reflect HIS image even drove man to conquer the MOON, once the EARTH was sufficiently "controlled," you see (I use the word "controlled" advisedly, Lol!!) 

To younger people, who ROUTINELY see movies now where men supposedly go "everywhere" in space, it probably doesn't seem like a big deal, but that first moon landing WAS big at the time (and still is.) "Star Wars" and "Guardians of the Galaxy" have made young folks even POO-POO the moon landing, but I heartily recommend the movie above to deepen appreciation for the difficulties involved in getting Armstrong there, 50 years ago.

And, fifty years ago YESTERDAY, something happened on EARTH which reminded those who "have eyes to see" and "ears to hear" that man, despite his courageous ascent to the MOON is still very much a fallen creature, a sinner to the core.

I wrote about it yesterday on my Facebook page...

50 years ago today, Sen. Edward Kennedy's car went off a bridge at a place called Chappaquiddick. His passenger, poor Mary Jo Kopechne of New Jersey, DROWNED and there was a lot of suspicion, and even EVIDENCE, that Kennedy could have saved her but was too drunk.

Ted eventually used the fact that his brothers (JFK and RFK) had been previously assassinated to actually garner SYMPATHY for himself!! He somehow changed the subject and made HIMSELF the victim of the "Kennedy Curse." Unbelievable!!

Yes, we've walked on the moon, BUT....even as Armstrong and others escaped earth's gravity, those two big concurrent news stories around that time 50 years ago proved we cannot escape man's depravity.  The fact that Kennedy never resigned from the Senate, but was re-elected constantly for the next 40 years till he died, CONFIRMS the depravity of man!!  So does the fact that Democrats HOUNDED a sitting President from office only 5 years after the moon landing, even though Nixon wasn't guilty of anything NEAR what Teddy did, and all the while they were enabling ol'  Teddy to keep his seat. In fact, towards the end they literally "lionized" Kennedy by nicknaming him "The Lion of the Senate" and "Liberal Lion"!! (He was a "lyin' Liberal" but NOT a "Liberal Lion," in MY opinion.)

This is Total Depravity at its "best," and I'm sure you can think of many other examples since men first landed on the moon, 50 years ago!!

This (the lies, the covering up of sin, etc.) is man reflecting SATAN, not GOD.

By the way, I highly recommend THIS movie for insight about Chappaquiddick, if you weren't alive 50 years ago like I was.  Interestingly, and ironically, the guy who plays Ted Kennedy in "Chappaquidick" ALSO plays an astronaut in "First Man," the movie at the TOP of this blog.  What an illustration of the GLORY of man, the noble part which reflects GOD'S image, and the BASE part, as the same actor played both sides of it in the very same year (2018.) 

So Yes, we've walked on the moon, BUT...sinful man, until he is reconciled to God and serving Him, is still bogged down by his car which went off of the bridge, and is upside down in the earth's water.  

And The Sea of Tranquility is far, far away.