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What Does Ma`tsar Mean For DST & SpaceX?

What Does Ma`tsar Mean For DST & SpaceX?

Last updated on: March 8, 2025 at 8:22 pm by Martin Thomas Johnson

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What Does Ma`tsar Mean For DST & SpaceX? 2025-03-08T20:22:01-05:00 Martin Thomas Johnson

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This weekend many people are getting upset that DST (daylight saving time) begins. I have never understood why people get so upset about changing the time on the clocks twice a year. We have done this for almost a century and mature adults should know how to adjust their days accordingly.

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The practice officially began in the United States in 1942 to help conserve fuel by reducing the need for artificial light. It sounds like something Elon Musk and DODGE would approve of. However, many people are pushing for the elimination of daylight saving time to make their lives more comfortable despite the benefits of the long-practiced procedure.

More daylight in the evening
Lower crime rate
Minimizes energy bills
Reduces traffic incidents
Numerous health benefits

Regardless of whether we observe DST or not, we still get 24 hours a day and seven days every week. Because that is how God established time and His creation at the beginning of the world (Genesis 1:1-5.)

God placed the sun, moon, and stars in the heavens to help distinguish between day and night, not man (Genesis 1:14-19.) Sure planets, and stars and the sun have other purposes in the universe, but it is God who determines how and when we see them.

Nothing has changed since the beginning of time; whether we change clocks or not, God is still in control of everything, including time (Psalm 90:4, Hebrews 11:3.)

What Is Control

Control is something most of us desire in life. The world tells us we can be the authors of our own destiny, but that is not a biblical perspective. In college, I thought I had the freedom to do what I wanted and when I wanted, I had a bad understanding of control and time.control is defined as, “To exercise restraining or directing influence over; to have power over.”

Game control

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As we mature we understand that time is limited, we cannot recoup we have wasted because we are not God who controls time and space.

Fortunately, the Bible has a lot to say about control, and who really has it. Although we live in a world that is seemingly spinning out of control, we understand God is still in control (Proverbs 19:21, Romans 8:28.)

Despite living in a fallen world full of evil and temporary happiness, God is still in control of His creation (Ephesians 1:11-12, Colossians 1:16.) God’s authority over creation and time should give God’s people peace (Nehemiah 9:6, Romans 8:38-39, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Philippians 4:6-7, Ephesians 1:1-23, 1 Peter 5:7.) The apostles remembered their Jewish education about God’s control.

Ma`tsar

The ancient world was dark and full of chaos. People looked out for themselves and their selfish desires. Power-hungry rulers fought for control and thought of themselves as gods. God set His people apart and commanded them to submit to His control (Deuteronomy 10:12-13; 14:2, Psalm 119:1-3, Proverbs 3:5-6, Ecclesiastes 12:13, Isaiah 45:23.)

The Hebrew word in the Old Testament for control is ma`tsar and it can also mean, “Subjectively, distress or constraint,” depending on the context it is used in. The Torah explains how God created everything in the universe and He alone is in control (Genesis 1:1-31, Job 38:4-5, Psalm 102: number 25, Proverbs 8:29; 30:4, Isaiah 48:13.)

In Judaism, God’s divine control is part of His supreme nature.

Omnipotent
Omnibenevolent
Omniscient
Omnipresent
Transcendent
Immanent
Eternal
The Creator
The lawgiver
The judge
Merciful

When Jesus arrived, the known world was still a dark place, even for God’s people. Israel was under Roman rule. Herod was an earthly king of the Jews, but he was loyal to an earthly Empire that wanted to conquer and control the world.

God’s people were oppressed and crying out to God. Jesus came into the darkness of those days and reminded them that God was still in control and ?He would save them and give them peace (Matthew 6:25-34; 10:29-31; 28:18, John 16:33, Luke 12:22-31.)

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Despite living in a fallen world, Jesus encouraged His followers that His Kingdom is not of this world (Luke 17:21; 18:36.) That is why we are to store treasures in heaven, not on this temporary kingdom (Matthew 6:20, Luke 12:33.) God’s people need to remember that this temporary kingdom will be destroyed for good one day (1 Thessalonians 5:2, 2 Peter 3:10.)

Space X

Late this week, Elon Musk’s Space X suffered another setback as the taxpayer-funded starship was destroyed minutes after leaving the Earth. This is the second starship to make an unplanned reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere.”

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I suggest Elon Musk and his DODGE team begin to examine this wasteful spending of taxpayer money. I am old enough to remember the shuttle disasters of 1986 and 2003.

Like most boys my age I had the childhood dream of becoming an astronaut and going into space. Space screams adventure and possibilities as it is part of God’s creation (Genesis 1:1-28, Psalm 19:1; 50:6; 97:6, Romans 1:20.)

Weightlessness
New planets
Possibility of new life

However, now that I’m older, I desire to know and trust the Creator of everything in the universe. I worship the God Who created space and time instead of a man who is trying to escape space and time by going to Mars and beyond.

I believe space is God’s office, not man’s playground. As God’s people, we have an earthly mission to complete (Matthew 28:16-20.) One day time in this earthly kingdom will come to an end, that is why we must trust the God who has complete ma`tsar!

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