Episode 15: The Death and Resurrection of Our World "The Source and Purpose of Life"

In this episode of Tectonic Ministries, Isaac and Dan Murphy explore one of the most profound truths in Scripture—the death and resurrection of our world. Just as Jesus died and rose again, the Bible reveals that creation itself will one day be renewed. What does this mean for believers today? How does this align with prophecy, purpose, and God's eternal plan?

We discuss how mankind constantly seeks to separate from its Creator, rejecting the very source of life. Yet despite humanity’s rebellion, Jesus remains the foundation of all things, the Rock on which we must build. The Bible is clear: the world as we know it will pass away, but God is making all things new.

🔹 Key Themes in This Episode:
✅ Jesus’ Presence Throughout History – From Genesis to Revelation, Christ is revealed.
✅ The Renewal of Creation – What does Scripture say about the new heavens and new earth?
✅ The Danger of a World Without God – How atheism, secularism, and false ideologies crumble without Christ.
✅ Our Hope in Christ – Why His resurrection is not just personal but cosmic in scope.

🔹 Bible Verses Discussed

📖 Genesis 1:1 – "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
📖 Genesis 3:19 – "For dust you are and to dust you will return."
📖 Isaiah 65:17 – "See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind."
📖 Romans 8:22-23 – "The whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time... as we wait eagerly for the redemption of our bodies."
📖 2 Peter 3:10-13 – "The day of the Lord will come like a thief... the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare."
📖 Revelation 21:1-4 – "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth... He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain."
📖 John 11:25-26 – "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die."
📖 Matthew 7:24-27 – "The wise man built his house on the rock... but the foolish man built his house on the sand."

Why This Matters Now

The world is searching for meaning, stability, and truth. Many have abandoned God, yet Scripture tells us that everything—from creation to salvation to eternity—flows from Him. Without Christ, life has no purpose.

If you've ever wondered:

• Why does suffering exist?
• What happens when the world ends?
• How can we find true stability?

This episode dives deep into these questions and more!

🎧 Listen now and discover how God’s plan of resurrection applies to you and the world we live in.

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Transcript

All righty, let's get started. Welcome back everyone. I'm Isaac Murphy and this is
Dan Murphy. We're from tectonic ministries if you didn't know already. Before we move
on to too much further from that though, I was actually going to say one of the
notes you have here regarding the book of Isaiah is that the verification of that
scripture was established when they discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls and just for
point of interest if anyone's actually wanting to because what we're saying here is
everything we're cross -referencing scripture with scripture essentially because we
believe that the Bible is truth. And so we're using that as our foundation. Now,
if there's anybody out there that goes, "Yeah, but I don't believe the Bible." So
why would I trust the Bible to verify the Bible? That's just,
it's, anyone of any scientific method wouldn't use the same source to verify a
source. So I was actually listening to a podcast, it was actually a fairly recent
episode on the Joe Rogan experience with, I believe his name was Wesley Huff,
and he goes into quite a lot of detail about the Dead Sea Scrolls and the
verification they've had on that. So this is within a couple of months now, so this
is not some antiquated discovery that people are going to write off because it
wasn't using the latest methodology, et cetera, et cetera. So if anyone is genuinely
interested in actually understanding the scientific
perspective, essentially on the verification of the book of Isaiah, which is a great
place to start, because it essentially is the Bible and miniature, and it contains
essentially the core truths. It's a really great place to start.
I'd highly recommend it. It's a phenomenal conversation. It goes for over three
hours, but if you put it on two times playback speed, if you want to just find
that particular thing, but I'd highly recommend anyone actually go and listen to it
because he's a very knowledgeable man and it goes into all of that. And it only
adds to essentially what we're saying here now 'cause we're not scientists and we'll
never proclaim to be that. And I don't know all the intricate details but it's just
really, it's a beautiful thing when your faith is backed up by essentially scientific
verification and truth. And as we've all heard, trust the science. Well, if you
wanna trust the science, go and actually listen to what they've actually proven. So
it's really exciting.
From here, you wanna go on to essentially more of a description of Jesus himself.
Talking about,
well, essentially, right from the very start. Because we're looking at now a whole
heap of references in Scripture referring to Jesus and essentially qualifying that he
is the whole way through Scripture and that he is the Word and therefore he is
everywhere to be found in Scripture and that it verifies itself.
Let's start in Genesis, read the scripture from Genesis and then we'll go from
there. So we've got here,
we've got Genesis chapter 3 and in verse,
what have we got here? Verse 8.
"They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the
day. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God
among the trees of the garden.
So what we've misunderstood, again misunderstanding Jesus and misunderstanding the
Elohim, the three persons of the Godhead, we read through the Bible and it says
God. So we always default to God the Father, God the Father,
God the Father, where Scripture clearly tells us, and Jesus told us,
God is a spirit. He doesn't have a body. So therefore, he doesn't walk around in
the Garden of Eden.
So right at the start of the Bible, Genesis one refers to God, Elohim.
When God said, let us, if it was wine,
he would have said, let me make man in my image. Let us, Father, Son, Holy Spirit,
make man in our image. Let us do this. Let us do that.
So who was it that was walking around in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve in
the cool of the evening? Jesus Christ. Jesus can have a body. we know that. He's
been here on this planet so many times. We think he's only been here once, the 33
years that he tabernacled among us. It's not true. The Bible clearly tells us who
he appeared to, when he appeared, what form he took, tells us right through
Scripture. So we'll look at a number of those events as we work our way through
this, again to substantiate Jesus Christ, and not that he's just been here once for
33 years and is coming back for a thousand years, he's been here many, many times.
Do you want to, we can quickly just cover off on them without having to turn to
every single scripture, we can basically just, we go through and again it goes
through, we've got here,
I met with Abraham. Adonai appeared to Abraham in the oaks of memory as he sat at
the entrance to the tent during the heat of the day. So that's Genesis 18. He was
in the burning bush calling to Moses in Exodus 3.
Exodus 33, so the Lord spoke to Moses face to face as a man speaks to his friend.
And then do you want to actually, because if it goes into, so that was verse 11
and in verse 20 you would actually think that it essentially contradicts itself.
So if you explain that. People, so here's a really good one for people say oh the
Bible contradicts itself, you know it's got this wrong and that wrong and that
wrong. These people simply don't know the Bible and don't know God. So we have one
chapter here Exodus 33 where you say look it says here That Moses met face to face
with God then it says down in verse 11 and then it says down in verse 20 and But
he said God said you cannot see my face for no man shall see my see me and live
So you go. Oh, there's a conflict in Scripture? No. Who did Moses meet with face
to face? Jesus Christ. In person. Whenever he went into the tabernacle and talked
face to face with God, he talked face to face with one of the persons of the
Godhead. You can't see the face of the Father as he says here, because man cannot
do that and live. In our human form we are incapable of doing that.
One day that won't be so. It says that God will dwell with us, so we will see
Him face to face. But to clarify again where people will try and pick the Bible to
pieces, you just don't know the Bible, nor do you know God.
So that's a really good one for people that don't understand that, you know.
Do you want to, Do you want me to read the rest of them as well? No, it's
probably, as you say, in Exodus, which is another great one, Exodus 24 in verse 9
to 11, it says that 74 elders, including Moses, Aaron,
went up and met with God and had a meal with him so you're going on if we look
on and well here's another conflict no it's not it's Jesus Christ God you know the
Son God the third person or the second person of the Godhead had a meal with these
74 elders and they didn't die it says they saw him face to face they had a meal
with him but they didn't have that meal with God the Father. So we go on and we
read he was the rock in the wilderness that of which the water flowed. The
scriptures tell us that. He was the fourth man in the fiery furnace with Shadrach,
Meshach and Abagnigo. He was with Joshua when he met the commandment of the Lord,
when Joshua met the commander of the Lord's army, Joshua 5. He went with many of
the prophets of God, and you could go on and on and on, and Jesus appeared many,
many times where we in religion have just been taught, "Oh, he come to earth for
33 years," and then we're all going to heaven, and the Scriptures don't tell us
that. Scriptures tell us Jesus is coming back to rule on this earth for a thousand
years. It's a convenient narrative too, because it distances us from God,
if that's the case. And so he's a distant being that created everything and kind of
just set it in motion and took his hands off.
Whereas here, we're looking in scripture and historically you look at the Old
Testament with more of that viewpoint that everything was done through sacrifice,
everything was done through the high priests and the priests and the lay people.
of his kingdom on earth and it's not just this distant thing and not just this
fleeting moment where he's come on earth and it's, oh that was for that then or
that was for, no it's the whole way through scripture, yeah.
What people fear greatly so if we acknowledge God and if we acknowledge Jesus Christ
and That's why it's really good to just oh yes He was just here for 33 years and
we can just believe that and we can just place him here and place him there
Requires no commitment As soon as you acknowledge and going This being is this being
You're committed You've got to commit You know and I've written here a a little
saying Man never ceases in his striving to sever his umbilical cord to the life.
Man never stops from what I'm trying to say is, we've got, we've got, our umbilical
cord is still attached, it's invisible, but we're still attached to the life,
otherwise we're dead. And we're forever going, no I don't want to believe in God?
No, he doesn't exist. I don't want him to be there. And I don't want this and
we're ever trying to cut this umbilical cord to life and go, "Are you stupid?" The
only reason you get to breathe is his ear. The only reason you get to eat food,
he produced it. The only reason you get to do whatever is because of this and
we're forever got this sore out or whatever and go, "Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah." So
It's just sort of a bit crazy that we do that. I mean, he is the life.
That's what Peter said when in Acts 3. He says, "You killed the author of a life."
You killed his body, but that didn't matter. Jesus went straight into Sheol and
preached to those that died and rose flood. You can't, you know. Okay,
he allowed a body. He lived in a body that they to do with what I like. That was
God's plan. But you can't kill Jesus. You can't, you know, kill God. I mean,
you kill God, nothing exists. So it's essentially what it's saying is that they're,
because of their pride and their self -righteousness, the net result of that pursuit
was to kill the author of life.
Because they couldn't humble themselves to recognise who he was and recognise
essentially what he was doing for them. And still going to do for them regardless
of what they did to him. Well people are scared of commitment. You even look at
our world now today. Like everyone used to drive, get married, whatever, everyone's
going on now. We don't want to get married, we'll just have kids and we'll just,
they don't want to commit. They don't want to commit to anything, you know, so
we've got this loose society and it's not good for us, it's really unhealthy for
us. You know, it's really good to commit to the truth, it's good to commit to good
things, you know, not just live this free range stuff,
just forever doing damage to ourselves. So, I always do or whenever you talk like
that in analogies, my first thoughts are as a carpenter by trade.
It's like if you didn't commit to where you were actually going to build your house
and didn't lay the foundation on that commitment, imagine trying to build,
where do you stand the frame? Like do you pour a little bit of concrete over there
and then we might have the walls, nah, I don't like where that bit of concrete is
now, go and put the walls up over there, but you know you've got no slab on the
ground and you've just got these random walls sitting on dirt. And we've got some
walls up, but yeah, I don't think the lights will look good where that is, so I'll
just go and hang some random lights in the tree over there. It's like, how do you
actually establish a life and anything of pursuit, like,
and we look at it now and everyone goes through it. You're talking about celebrating
your birthdays. I'm nearly 40, and so it's like, well, I don't really want to
celebrate my birthdays anymore, but I know what you mean about celebrating the author
of life, but particularly going through this period of life that I'm in now,
and I know a lot of men particularly because of the direction society has taken,
they're lacking purpose.
And you can't, I don't know if you can have authentic purpose unless you've actually
built your life on something that is of a solid foundation, because what at
Foundation, because what is the end goal if you actually haven't started from
something and actually have a worldview and a foundation to build from that directs
that purpose. So essentially what we've been just discussing here is that the
character of Jesus and the beauty of Scripture is that it provides us with all
those truths, all the knowledge that we need to build that foundation,
to have like you've said and what we've spoken about previously about those moments
in relationship when we get a glimpse of what it is that God has designed us for.
All of this is built on Jesus and his character and from that you can have
purpose, you can have direction, you can commit to that because it is unfailing and
never changing and from there move forward with hope. So there's another thing,
like without purpose, where is, what is hope? Without direction, what is the point?
And like we were talking about the other day, even in just listening to that
podcast that I was talking about previously with Leslie Hough, it's like.
You can move forward on a foundation on truth in Christ Jesus, and that's all you
need Maybe that's the point. That's all you need. I don't need to say anything else
Virtually every Christian that finds Christ They immediately say my life now has
purpose. Yes