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This is a dangerous place. Some
say the most dangerous place in
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the world. Under the 35,000 ton
concrete box or sarcophagus lies
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a mass of radioactive nuclear
material that gave off enough
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radiation to kill a person
one meter away in less than two
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minutes. This is Chernobyl, a
nuclear power plant located in
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Ukraine. The worst manmade
disaster in history happened
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here on the 26th of April 1986.
And its effects are still being
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felt today. A routine test
at the power plan went horribly
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wrong and two massive explosions
blew the 1000 ton roof off one
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of the plant's reactors
releasing 400 times more
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radiation than the atomic bomb
dropped on Hiroshima in World
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War II. More than 50 tons
of radioactive material were
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released into the atmosphere
and carried by air currents
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across Europe contaminating
millions of acres of forest and
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farmland and even reaching as
far as the Eastern United States
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The explosions killed two
workers instantly and within
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days at least 28 more died
from acute radiation exposure.
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Ukraine's government declared
in 1995 that 125,000 people had
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died from the effects of
Chernobyl radiation. Eventually
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millions more would show signs
of health effects including
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cancer from the fallout. But its
not all doom, gloom, and kaboom
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here at Chernobyl. There is
hope Wildlife has already made a
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comeback. And they say that in
the distant future people will
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once again be able to live, work
and play in this regioin that
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has for the meantime been
rendered completely useless to
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the human race. So Chernobyl
carries a special message for us
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today. A message of hope. Stay
with us to hear all about it
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because it could bring you hope
and happiness and make a real
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difference to your life.
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Chernobyl is located in northern
Ukraine just over 100 km. north
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of Kiev the national capital.
A small town, Pripyat, was
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constructed a few kilometers
from the site of the nuclear
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plant to accommodate workers and
their families. Construction of
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the Chernobyl power plant began
in 1970 when the country was
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still part of the Soviet Union.
By 1983 four reactors had been
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completed, each capable of
producing 1000 megawatts of
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electric power. The addition
of two more reactors was planned
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in subsequent years. At 1:23
a.m. on the 26th of April 1986
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a group of engineers began a
routine exercise on the number
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four reactor to test whether an
emergency water cooling system
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would work during a power loss.
As part of their poorly designed
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experiment the engineers
disconnected the reactor's
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emergency sensing system and
its power regulating system even
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though this was a violation
of safety rules. As they were
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their activities the reactor's
power level suddenly plunged
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due to a mistake by a computer
operator. Now worried that the
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core might overheat because of
low output levels they removed
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two-thirds of the safety
rods from the core that were
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specifically designed to slow
down a nuclear reaction. Then
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when warning lights told
operators that the plant was
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overheating earlier mistakes
were compounded by others.
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Within seconds the power level
in the core skyrocketed to more
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than 100 times the normal level
causing pressure to build up
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in reactor number four. There
was a massive explosion that
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triggered a large fireball that
blasted the 1000 ton steel and
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concrete roof off the reactor
releasing streams of radiation
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and chucks of burning
radioactive debris. About two
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to three seconds later a second
explosion hurled out additional
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fuel. A fire started at the roof
of reactor number three risking
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a breach of that facility.
Automatic safety systems that
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would normally have kicked into
action did not because they had
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been shut down prior to the
test. Fire fighters arrived at
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the scene within minutes and
began to fight the blaze without
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gear to protect them from
radiation. Many of them would
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soon number among the 28 killed
by acute radiation exposure.
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It wasn't until five a.m.
the following day that reactor
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number three was shut down. Some
24 hours later reactors numbers
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one and two were also shut down.
By the afternoon of the 26th of
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April the Soviet government had
mobilized troops to help fight
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the blaze. Someone dropped
on the rooftop of the reactor
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to furiously shovel debris off
the facility and spray water on
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the exposed reactor to keep it
cool. The workers were picked up
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within in seconds to minimize
their radiation exposure. It
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would take nearly two weeks to
extinguish all the fires using
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sand, lead and nitrogen.
Meanwhile life went on as usual
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for almost a day in the
neighboring town of Pripyat.
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Aside from the sight of trucks
cleaning the streets with foam
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there were literally few signs
of the disaster unfolding just a
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few kilometers away. It wasn't
until the next day, April 27,
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that the government began
evacuation of Pripyat's 50,000
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residents. These residents were
told they would be away for just
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a few days so they took very
little with them. Most would
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never return to their
homes. All this because careless
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mistakes were made and warnings
ignored. It's not the first time
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that human beings have ignored
clear warnings or made a deadly
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mistake in the face of an
impending crisis. The Bible
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tells us that God carefully
warned our first parents about
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the consequences of stepping
outside of the safety boundaries
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he had provided. But they still
did it. They chose to ignore the
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warning light. The result
was disastrous. Like a terrible
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nuclear accident it left deadly
residues that the human race
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would suffer with for
generations to come. It
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literally unleashed the
phenomenon of death on the
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entire human race. Writing to
the early church in the city of
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Corinth the apostle Paul said
that in Adam all of us die. You
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see, when the human race chose
to rebel against the word of a
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loving heavenly Father
it separated itself from the
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creator and when you are cut off
from the creator and sustainer
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of life the end result is
sickness, suffering and death.
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That's the reason we life
with the pain and heartache that
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comes with life on a tired old
planet. In essence, we've told
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God that we don't want to live
life his way. We would rather
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take matters into our own hands
and try things our own way.
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That's a little like the
Chernobyl employees deciding
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that they would ignore clear
safety measures and try things
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their own way. The end result
was a nuclear disaster that
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spewed many times more lethal
radiation into the atmosphere
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than the atomic bomb that
was dropped on Hiroshima. Right
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after the explosion the reactor
was churning out between 30 and
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300 times as much radiation as
it takes to kill a man. It was a
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problem no human being could
possibly hope to fix. A strange
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eerie glow radiated from the
depths of the ruined core and
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scientists knew that they had a
massive problem on their hands.
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How do you put out a fire in
a nuclear reactor? Instead of
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abandoning the plant hundreds of
brave employees tried to fight
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the fire with common hoses,
but of course to no avail. Their
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equipment was woefully
inadequate and to make matters
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worse they didn't have
appropriate protective clothing
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to shield them from radiation
poisoning. They didn't even have
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basic firefighting equipment
like respirators. The fire was a
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much bigger problem than
anyone could hope to solve. The
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decision was made that
the problem had to be buried.
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Helicopters began to dump loads
of sand, clay, and lead into the
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reactors roof in a desperate
attempt to cover the fires with
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enough material to put them out.
The fire crews worked for two
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weeks and after 5000 tons of
debris had been dumped on the
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core the fire finally went out.
You know a lot of people have
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tried to deal with their own
spiritual problems in the same
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way. They try to drown them out
with a sea of drugs or alcohol
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inappropriate sexual
relationships or even never
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ending entertainment. They
reason that if they could only
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numb themselves of the realities
if life or forget their haunting
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past everything will get better.
But in the long run no matter
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how many loads of debris
they drop on the problem it just
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won't go away. They can't
silence the skeletons in the
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closet or cover up the lingering
guilt that plagues them day and
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night. They're like the man we
find in the Bible book of Isaiah
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who tried to find rest by
building himself a bed but when
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he finally climbed into the
solution of his own making he
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discovered he couldn't sleep
a wink. Here's what it says in
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Isaiah chapter 28 and verse 20.
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I don't know if you've ever been
forced to spend a night in a bed
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that doesn't fit, but it can be
a pretty frustrating experience.
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Maybe you know what it's like
to sleep on a couch that's a
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little too short for your body
with a blanket that just doesn't
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cover you up. Either your legs
hang out the one end or your
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head hangs off the other. And
no matter how you try to curl up
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inside a tiny blanket you just
can't get warm. And all night
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long even though you might drift
in and out of slumber you can't
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get the rest and peace you need.
Well that's exactly what we do
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when we try to provide manmade
solutions to a spiritual problem
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We fail to recognize how big the
crisis really is and no matter
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how hard we work at it we find
that our solution either comes
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up too short or too narrow
and the problem never goes away.
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Even after the core had been
covered by tons of debris the
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problem at Chernobyl was
far from over. A deadly cloud of
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radiation was unleashed above
clouds to be picked up by winds
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and delivered all over the
European continent. It wasn't
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until six days after the
accident that the village
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around Chernobyl itself were
finally evacuated. In the end
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over 160 communities had to be
abandoned forcing something like
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350,000 people out of their
homes. But homelessness was not
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the worst of the problem.
Thousands of people had been
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exposed to massive doses of
radiation and were at risk of
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contracting deadly diseases like
leukemia. Within a couple of
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years more than 30 people had
died and hundreds were seriously
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ill. Serious birth defects
became common place. Less than a
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decade after the disaster
the government of Ukraine stated
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that 125,000 had died as a
result of the Chernobyl disaster
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and to make matters worse
radiation from the catastrophe
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was discovered as far away
as the United States and the
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Philippines. In the end millions
of people might be affected by
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the mistakes of a handful
of people. Just like sin, the
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problem grew to be much
bigger than most people realized
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blasting its way into almost
every facet of life. Precious
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farm land had been contaminated
and a lot of traditional sources
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of food had been rendered
unsafe to eat. The level of
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contamination proved to be much
higher than anybody could ever
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guess. If you take a close look
at the Bible you'll discover
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that the same is true of the sin
problem. It has filtered down
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into almost every area of life
even affecting nature itself.
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At one time death was unheard of
and man lived in perfect harmony
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with his surroundings. But after
sin everything changed. Our life
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spans were dramatically
shortened in just a few
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generations. Where food had once
been easily accessible it was
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choked out by thorns and weeds
and man had to work very hard to
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put a meal on the table. The
animal kingdom became hostile
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and unsafe and a justifiable
fear of the human race spread
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through the natural world.
Disease became a problem and so
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did hatred, loneliness and
heartache. Every corner of human
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existence was tragically
affected. And we still live with
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the results today. And while
it may take decades for the
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problems of Chernobyl to subside
the problems of sin will never
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go away, at least not by
themselves. You see what our sin
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problem needs is more than a
pile of debris. It needs to be
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permanently buried. When the
fires went out in the reactor
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the final stage of the cleanup
process was a giant concrete box
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20 stories high that was built
over the entire nuclear reactor.
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To put a stop to the damage
the problem was covered with
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something much bigger than
debris. And then in 2010 an
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international consortium
organized the building of an
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even bigger more secure covering
or sarcophagus for the site.
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The 35,000 ton steel box was
built on tracks and then slid
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over the damaged reactor and
existing sarcophagus in November
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2016. It's designed to contain
the radioactive debris for over
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100 years. And when it comes to
the problems that seem to haunt
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us the solution is more than the
debris we've been throwing at it
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We need to cover it with
something much, much bigger. We
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have to find a solution that
puts a final stop to the lethal
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levels of radiation that keep
plaguing us. And that solution
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is found in the pages of
the Bible. Listen to what the
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apostle Paul wrote concerning
the plague of death brought on
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by Adam in 1 Corinthians
chapter 15 verses 21 and 22:
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Could it really be true?
Is it possible that there's a
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permanent solution to the
biggest problems that plague the
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human race? Well according to
God's promise the answer is yes.
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There is a solution. The guilt
that has been troubling us can
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become a thing of the past.
The loneliness that drives us to
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despair can be solved. The
rejection we feel at the hands
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of other people can be addressed
and finally even death itself
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can be defeated. So how does
this happen? Well the good news
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of the Bible is that God saw
what you did and out of pity he
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decided to take the consequences
upon himself. His own son
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volunteered to take our place.
It's almost as if he stepped
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into the nuclear blast zone
to cover the problem so that we
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wouldn't have to be exposed to
it. He took the full lethal dose
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of the consequences of your sins
so that you wouldn't have to be
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exposed to it. He suffered
complete and utter separation
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from his Father so that you
could be united with him. Today
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we can visit the Chernobyl
site in safety and without any
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serious risk to our
health because the source of the
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radiation has been buried in
a concrete tomb and the residual
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radiation is starting to die
away. You don't want to eat food
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grown in this area or step off
the road because the radiation
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is still pretty high. But
because asphalt doesn't retain
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very much radiation you can
travel through the area with
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relative safety. The 30
kilometers or so around the
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reactor is still pretty much
a ghost town and it may take
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decades before anyone can safely
live in the area again. But one
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day they say in the distant
future people will once again be
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able to live, work and play
in this region that has for the
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meantime been rendered
completely useless to the human
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race, which raises a really
important question. We all have
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this awful sense that life on
planet earth is not exactly what
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it was intended to be. When we
experience heartache, suffering
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and pain we instinctively know
it's not supposed to be like
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that. Tucked away in
our collective memory we
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remember a time and
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place when things weren't so
bad when we actually lived in
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harmony with our creator. The
question is, will this tired old
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planet ever recover from the
devastating effects of sin or
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will it always be a horrible
ghost town in God's universe,
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a place forever pock marked by
pain and suffering? Well let me
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give you the answer from
God's word the Bible. In 2 Peter
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chapter three and verse 13:
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One day the Bible says God
is going to set things right and
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he's not just going to slap
a few patches on this tired old
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planet like a cheap plug in a
bald tire. He's going to start
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all over from scratch and create
a new paradise home for us.
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Listen to what it says in the
closing chapters of the Bible
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over in the book of Revelation
chapter 21 verses 1-4:
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Try to imagine a world where we
won't have to suffer or endure
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pain anymore. Try to imagine a
place where we'll never have to
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go to a funeral or sit by the
bed of a dying relative, a place
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where we'll never have to pay
for the mistakes of others or
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worse yet watch other people pay
for the mistakes we've made. Can
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you imagine a place like that?
I know it's tough but the Bible
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says it's a reality and it's
just around the corner. And best
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of all Jesus Christ himself is
going to be there with us. All
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of the devastating effects of
sin will be wiped out forever.
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In the kingdom of heaven there
will be no more Chernobyl's, no
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leftover catastrophes we will
have to deal with for the rest
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of eternity. And so right now
if you're tired of living life
00:24:13.72\00:24:18.95
the way you've been living it
and if you want to grab hold of
00:24:18.99\00:24:22.26
a bright new future, a new
chance and a new world just
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accept God's offered
invitation as we pray.
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Dear heavenly Father, we
recognize that we live in a
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broken and sinful world. We see
and experience the results of
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sin. We are tired of this old
world and we want to be citizens
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in your kingdom where there will
be no more death nor sorrow nor
00:24:46.98\00:24:51.22
crying, where there will be
no more pain. Please remember us
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and grant us a place when you
make all things new. We ask this
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in Jesus' name, Amen.
00:25:01.00\00:25:04.43
The greatest nuclear disaster
in history took place here in
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Ukraine. The massive explosion
at Chernobyl reactor number four
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caused death and destruction.
The disaster provides insights
00:25:17.48\00:25:22.45
into the devastating effects of
sin. It also provides insights
00:25:22.48\00:25:27.22
into sin's cure and reminds us
that one day soon God is going
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to set things right and create
a new paradise home for us.
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If you're battling the trials
and temptations of life and are
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looking for support in your
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and our reflections on the
disastrous effects of sin and
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the better world that is coming
then be sure to join us again
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next week when we will
share another of life's journeys
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together. Until then remember
the ultimate destination of
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life's journey. Now I saw a new
heaven and a new earth. And God
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will wipe away every tear from
their eyes. There shall be no
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more death nor sorrow nor crying
There shall be no more pain for
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the former
things have passed away.
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