Message Notes

It's Not Supposed to be This Way: Sin is Why We are Broken

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For we know that up to this present time all of creation groans with pain like the pain of childbirth. Romans 8:22

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Our enemy the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. I Peter 5:8

…she was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.  Revelation 12:2

...an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his head. His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth so he might devour her child the moment it was born. She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule over the nations with an iron scepter. Revelation 12:3-5

It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour, for the sun stopped shining... Luke 23:44-45

"Either the God of nature is suffering, or the machine of the world is tumbling into ruin." Dionysius

On that day...I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight...I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day. Amos 8:9-10

The sun and the moon shall be darkened...The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem.
Joel 3:15-16
 
...And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Jesus called out with a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit". When He had said this, He breathed His last.
Luke 23:45-46

At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split.
Matthew 27:51

At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split. The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. They came out of the tombs and after Jesus’ resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many people.
Matthew 27:51-53

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